On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, Kevin J Poorman wrote:
Got 2 questions ... When I start a Rxvt in my .xinitrc file like this:
rxvt -fg grey -bg black
it will come up fine but it will not run pico or clear the screen
'clear'. when I try and run pico I get the following error: Terminals
database in
On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, Kevin J Poorman wrote:
On Sun, 4 Jan 1998 10:11:37 -0500 (EST) Jean Pierre LeJacq
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, Kevin J Poorman wrote:
rxvt -fg grey -bg black
it will come up fine but it will not run pico or clear the screen
'clear'. when I try
On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Catalin Popescu wrote:
I have another one: How can I install and setup Magicfilter under debian?
I have a HPLJ4L printer which worked fine under Slackware having the
Magicfilter installed by hand. Which package should I install now (I did
not find one called Magicfilter,
On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Damir J. Naden wrote:
When installing smail package, the only remaining package in hamm dist
was 3.2.0.100-1, so I installed thinking it had solved previous problems
with /etc/inetd.conf file. Well, the smtp line in /etc/inetd.conf is
*not* commented out, and I still get
On Sat, 10 Jan 1998, Michael [badpixel/bad sector] wrote:
Which package do i install know? :)
You need to install one of the tcl packages.
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On Sun, 11 Jan 1998, Rob wrote:
I have just tried adding a second network card to my linux machine, and am
having a few problems.
Can you ping both IP interfaces?
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On Sun, 11 Jan 1998, Gregory Guthrie wrote:
I have a Microsoft PS/2 mouse, with a seperate port, not one of my serial
ports.
I use the following in my /etc/X11/XF8gConfig:
Section Pointer
Protocol PS/2
Device/dev/psaux
Emulate3Buttons
EndSection
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On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote:
I want to run a nameserver on my Linux box on the 192.168.0.0
network. I want to set it up with a couple of features:
1. It should cache 'real' addresses from outside.
2. It should forward unknown queries about 'real' addresses to a
On Sun, 18 Jan 1998, Christopher Jason Morrone wrote:
That was annoying...so I removed that package. I think that inetd should
be reinstated at this point, but the package doesn't do that. So now I'm
without an inetd. So I use dpkg -S one inetd and see its in the netbase
package. So I
On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Ian Perry wrote:
What is required to allow the installation of libc6 either with the safe
removal of libc5, without crashing the system, or having the two co-exist
on the same system, or cant the two be mixed ? How is it done ?
Look at:
On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Jeffrey Velez wrote:
I installed LPRng on my linux machine using dselect. How do I set this
program to print to my Remote HP LaserJet 4 using a JetDirect Box?
It's on a Novell Server 4.1.
Take a look at the documentation:
http://www.astart.com/lprng/LPRng.html
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I've attempt to use the documented feature of super to direct its
logging information to the syslog daemon without success. Logging to
a file works. Here's an extract from /etc/super.tab:
:global \
gethostbyname=n \
logfile=/var/log/super.log \
rlog_host=localhost \
syslog=y
On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, Craig Sanders wrote:
On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote:
I've attempt to use the documented feature of super to direct its
logging information to the syslog daemon without success. Logging to
a file works. Here's an extract from /etc/super.tab
On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, Uros Platise wrote:
The only work marvin will do is routing between
Packet Radio network and home (local) network.
After setting the network configuration files I can
ping my working machine (called ide) from marvin.
And I can also ping marvin from ide. NFS is also
Sudhakar Chandrasekharan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| I am curious to find out what folks in the Debian community think of
| this.
|
| What are the changes that you would make to the source code to make
| the browser better?
|
| 2. What features would you add to the browser?
I'd like the
On Fri, 23 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Everytime I try to run Netscape I get a color map error followed by
a bus error.
It will run with the -mono option but I still get errors and a bunch of
the buttons don't have images.
Which X server are you running? I had problems running the
On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, Daniel Martin at cush wrote:
Gerald Wann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If find particularly interesting any lines in the file where a
timeout occurs. I have attached a snippet below, which is repeated
many times in the load process. Could anyone shed light on just what
is
On Mon, 09 Feb 1998 10:40:18 EST, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote:
On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, Daniel Martin at cush wrote:
Hmm... - it appears that xemacs is attempting to do a dns lookup, and
that's the connection that's taking so long. If you had a bo machine,
I'd ask you what your /etc
On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Scott Ellis wrote:
On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Matej Grasic wrote:
Hello. I have aquestion about CDE.
Is there a version of CDE for Debian (can I hope that it will be).
CDE is commercial software. You can buy a Linux version from RedHat
On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Alex Yukhimets wrote:
I just tried installing the RedHat CDE package into a Debian unstable
system. It was compiled with an oldish version of libc5 and not libc6
which the unstable release is based on. I was successful in
converting the rpm files to deb files using
On 11 Feb 1998, Pedro Quaresma de Almeida wrote:
Dou you know how to update the menus in fvwm2 in order to
incorporate Star Office 4?
If you're using the menu package (see /usr/doc/menu), simply add an
entry for staroffice in /etc/menu. If you don't have a Debian
package, you may need
On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Pedro Quaresma de Almeida wrote:
On 11 Feb 1998, Pedro Quaresma de Almeida wrote:
Dou you know how to update the menus in fvwm2 in order to
incorporate Star Office 4?
If you're using the menu package (see /usr/doc/menu), simply add an
entry for staroffice in
On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Joergen Haegg wrote:
We are trying to get a working 100 Mbit card to a Debian system.
None of the cards we have tried will listen to the net,
ifconfig says 'SIOCSIFFLAGS Try again'.
This happens with Intel Etherexpress 100 and 3COM 3c905.
We've been using the 3c905 at
On 20 Feb 1998, William R. Ward wrote:
I have a motherboard that has a PS/2 mouse port. It's *not* an ATX
motherboard, though - the PS/2 port and the parallel port are together
on a metal insert that goes in one of the card slot holes in the
case. I have a TrackMan that has a PS/2 port:
Take a look at the Firewall-HOWTO. It does a very good job of
explaining the basics.
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On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, matthew tebbens wrote:
To just filter packets for my own machine I would have to add ?:
Network firewalls
IP: forwarding/gatewaying ??
IP:
On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Sen Nagata wrote:
to make a long story short, i've removed (not purged) my
pcmcia-cs (also pcmcia-source and pcmcia-modules) package and tried
to reinstall it. when i try to reinstall pcmcia-cs, i get:
/lib/modules/2.0.32/misc/scc.o unresolved symbol
i don't
On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Gary Kline wrote:
However, after installing Debian on my first and third SCSI
drives and *not* using LILO as the boot manager, I found that
I __always__ boot into Debian, into a RAM file system.
After re-installing both OS's from scratch several times I've
come to
On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Luis Francisco Gonzalez wrote:
Hi, I have been getting this error and I don't really know what's going on.
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 06:47:33 + (GMT)
From: root (Cron Daemon)
To: root
Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] run-parts /etc/cron.daily
Mime type
On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Jonas Bofjall wrote:
Now I can't get networking to actually work. I can't ping anything except
the loopback (127.0.0.1) and my own IP address. Does the latter mean that
my network card works or does the packet never leave the machine?
`ifconfig eth0' has the right IP,
On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Gary Kline wrote:
According to Jean Pierre LeJacq:
On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Gary Kline wrote:
However, after installing Debian on my first and third SCSI
drives and *not* using LILO as the boot manager, I found that
I __always__ boot into Debian, into a RAM file
On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, David Stern wrote:
This is a slightly shorter version of some questions I asked earlier
regarding smail configuration. I've read all the smail docs available
and there is no definitive smail resource, so I'd really appreciate it
if someone would *PLease* take a few
On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Daniel Mashao wrote:
I just installed a new Debian system. I had to copy the base1 disk X times
on Y disks to get Debian to install. But now I get a LI instead of the
expected LILO:
What can I do without having to do a complete reinstall?
This is the boot loader providing
On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, C.J.LAWSON wrote:
... Its one problem after another ... When I try to run the script
program I get a message saying out of PTTY's and the program aborts.
Does anyone have a clue as to what on earth brings this about ..
You may be using all your available pseudo-tty
On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Nelson Posse Lago wrote:
On the same line, I think the new (2.1.x) kernel-supported NFS server is
supposed to have the hooks necessary to implement a really cool lockd for
linux which would solve this kind of problem and allow for reliable NFS
locking among linux and other
On Thu, 5 Mar 1998, Richard Sevenich wrote:
Bravely upgrading to hamm via ftp, I find my machine unbootable - complaining
about a missing 'libext2fs.so.2'. In which package might i find this.
e2fslibsg
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On Sun, 8 Mar 1998, Ian Perry wrote:
I have recompiled the kernel to 2.0.32 and disabled these modules as they
were not needed.
I did the usual make dep, make clean, make zImage, make modules, make
modules_install, and copied the zImage file to /boot and created a symbolic
pointer /vmlinuz
On Sun, 8 Mar 1998, Ian Perry wrote:
Thanks,
It was in the modules file.
I had not noticed that file, and I just checked, it is nowhwere in the docs
I have.
There was also a lot of unused stuff in the /lib/modules/2.0.3? directory.
I am beginning to realise that debian linux is not
On 6 Sep 1997, Carey Evans wrote:
Paul Ryan Kuykendall [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I just installed Debian 1.3.1 on my machine, but for some strange reason I
can't get my net card out of promiscuous mode. Would anyone know where
I might configure promisc mode off? Thank you.
%
On Sat, 6 Sep 1997, Heiko Heijenga wrote:
I've recently installed debian on my computer (1) and connected it with
another
computer (2) (also debian) in the house with ethernet. But when I try to
telnet
from 1 to 2, I get the message: Connection refused. The other way (2 to 1)
works fine.
On Sat, 6 Sep 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have the samba package installed but want to remove it, everytime i try I
get the following:
Shadow:~# dpkg --remove samba
(Reading database ... 14226 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing samba ...
dpkg: error processing
On Sat, 6 Sep 1997, Paul J. Thompson wrote:
i know of only one file specifically that is written to on those two
partitions: /etc/mtab. is this the only one? if not, what are the
others? if so, where is the proper place to repartition it so i can
mount root and usr read-only?
I'm going
No. The FSSTND was designed to support a read-only /usr.
The FHS is the next iteration of FSSTND, the Linux file system
standard.
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On Sat, 6 Sep 1997, Paul J. Thompson wrote:
thanks for the response. it seems like quite an undertaking, however
-- a lot more files then i
On Sun, 7 Sep 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:
It's best for now to mount root for write and /usr read-only. Under
normal operations I think the files in /etc are only written at
system start-up and shut-down (and during backups) and it might be
possible to have root read-only at other times. The
On Sun, 7 Sep 1997, David Morris wrote:
get xemacs 19 running on the console I hit this error. I remember seeing
someone write about it earlier before I lost all my email in the crash.
The error:
xemacs: can't resolve symbol '__sigsetjmp'
The problem is with the latest release of
On Fri, 12 Sep 1997, Leszek Gerwatowski wrote:
Can anyone tell me which 100MB Ethernet Card is best for Debian (driver
quality, stability, support and also performance)? I'm planning to switch
to 100MB Ethernet Network and want to be shure that my new network card
will work without any
On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote:
has anyone converted the mit kerberos packages to debian? I've taken a
couple
of not-so successful stabs (actually, for afs, but they're interwtined).
Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED] is continuing the packaging started by
another maintainer. I may be
On Wed, 17 Sep 1997, Marc Fleureck wrote:
I have installed a package kernel-image-2.0.30deb to upgrade
from 2.0.27. I used dpkg -i packname.deb. All went well. After a
reboot, the system still says it has the old kernel (uname -r).
Did you run lilo?
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On 16 Sep 1997, Torsten Hilbrich wrote:
I just detected the MD5_CRYPT_ENAB option in /etc/login.defs and
enabled it. Login works fine with the new passwords but su seems to
have no idea of MD5.
Is there a working version of su for MD5 passwords?
su also seems to ignore ENV_SUPATH and
On Wed, 17 Sep 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How dangerous is it to remove rpc.portmap, rpc.bwnfsd, rpc.mountd,
rpc.nfsd, rpc.pcnfsd, rpc.rstatd, rpc.rusersd, rpc.rwalld, and rpc.ugidd?
I'm trying to setup a semi-closed box running nothing but a few terminal
server utilities and want
On Wed, 17 Sep 1997, Galen Hazelwood wrote:
The version of su you're using (from shellutils) isn't part of the
shadow password suite. It's smart enough to use shadow password
functions if it finds them in the library, which it does, but other
shadow features (ENV_SUPATH, SU_WHEEL, MD5
On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Paul Miller wrote:
I used to have a program called 'clock' which updated by CMOS clock to the
system time every night, for some reason or another dselect removed it..
what package is this program in?
Seems to have been replaced by hwclock in from the util-linux package.
On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Paul Miller wrote:
is there a text-based spreadsheet program available? Similar to Symphony?
Don't know Symphony but there is oleo in the oleo package.
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On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
I'm interested in packaging PVM for Debian. First, let me say that
snip
* Directory structure
This thing wants to be installed with a tree structure like this:
$PVM_ROOT
+- bin/LINUX
+- console/LINUX
+-
On Sat, 4 Oct 1997, Lucas wrote:
during boot:
/dev/hda3 (my Linux part.) has reached maximal mount count ... forced
check
This is normal. After a certain time interval has passed, the disks
are check by /sbin/fsck during boot.
$man [whatever]
(the man page does display, but with a
Miscellaneous char devices. See
/usr/src/kernel-source-*/Documantation/devices.txt.
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On Sat, 4 Oct 1997, Mike Patterson wrote:
When trying to connect to the server via telnet, it takes a horrendous time
(in the order of minutes) between where it says Escape character is '^]' and
Debian GNU/Linux 1.3 shadowglen.ml.org
This sounds like in may be a DNS problem. The latest
On 6 Oct 1997, Tibor Simko wrote:
when upgrading package wn from stable (1.17.0-5) to unstable
(1.18.3-1), i experienced this problem:
Debian WN configuration (std, old, new, show, save, exit) [show] save
/usr/sbin/wnconfig: tempfile: command not found
/usr/sbin/wnconfig:
On Tue, 7 Oct 1997, Lawrence wrote:
I dont' know why it displays the following errors message when I reboot
my computer. It worked before and I didn't change/install anything.
Some of the programs, e.g. ICQ, also not running now. After I restarted
the X server, things changed.
Cannot
On Tue, 7 Oct 1997, Paul wrote:
Hi everybody, I was wondering if there was a way to configure pine not to
show all the header information. The debian maillist's header has 8
lines. Can we cut that down to about 3 ie date, from, subject. Let me
know, I would really appreciate it.
There's
On Tue, 7 Oct 1997, David Stern wrote:
I'm looking for the place in /etc/rc ?? just after all the filesystems
get mounted and I don't seem to be able to find it. In another common
linux distro, I put my isapnp/awe soundcard initialization in
/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit, but there seem to be a few
On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, Richard A. Guay wrote:
I am trying to install Debian 1.3.1 for the first time on a system that has
a 3Comm 3c905 100Base-T card. I set it up using the vortex driver.
Everytime it reboots and loads the 3c59x module, it spams the net with
continuous collisions until I
On Wed, 15 Oct 1997, Susan G. Kleinmann wrote:
Using the latest versions of libc6, netbase and netstd 2.17-1,
and dnsutils 8.1.1-2, I can't seem to get nslookup working.
The error message is
*** Can't find server name for address 127.0.0.1: Server failed
I've been using this set of
On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Ossama Othman wrote:
I am exporting some ext2 filesystems from my Debian box to a Solaris
machine. While the export works, the Solaris automounter complains about
network locking not being available on my Debian box. Is network locking
supported in hamm? If so, how do
On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, George Bonser wrote:
I have been digging around and it looks like lockd is not supported in
linux until 2.1.5?
Can anyone verify this? A friend has a Linux filesystem that he wants to
mount from another OS and it seems to really want to see lockd on the
linux box. Is
On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Eric House wrote:
I'm trying to set up NFS on my 1.3.1 systems in order to share files
with a couple of Solaris machines and more. An article in the June '98
_Linux Journal_ describes the procedure for Slackware, but since that
distribution has the rpc.* daemons on by
On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
Torsten Hilbrich wrote:
You can try the aic-driver which is available at
ftp://ftp.dialnet.net/pub/linux/aic7xxx/
I made some good experience, this driver seems to be more stable than
the one included in 2.0.33 (which I currently
I recently upgraded to the new imap package (thanks for
maintaining it Jaldhar!) and noticed a significant change in
lockfile management.
The imap daemon runs as the user/group of the person executing
the daemon instead of the group mail. This causes a problem
since I currently have the spool
I'm running into problems with installing Debian 1.2 on a
new laptop. I've created the various floppy disks, start
the installation and get the following errors when I insert
base14-1.bin:
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0
floppy0: probe failed...
The problem occurs when the
On Thu, 13 Mar 1997, val.tamarov wrote:
[clip]
currently using System Commander to separate operating systems. I had
win95, DOS 6.22 as my boot options before installing Linux. Then I
installed Linux on drive D (452Mb), and everything was fine. After
rebooting I got new boot option : Linux
On Sat, 15 Mar 1997, Yi-Jie LI wrote:
I am a new comer of Unix/Linux. I am trying to install Debian Linux on
my portable, HP OmniBook 5000CTS. I have downloaded the base disks, and
have successfully installed the base system. My questions are:
1) I am using a PCMCIA Xircom CE-IIps network
On Wed, 19 Mar 1997, Karsten Bolding wrote:
On a Toshiba Satellite 110CS I would like to be able to use the
pointing deviec situated on the keyboard instead of an external
mouse attached to the serial port, which I want that to use for
a modem. The info I'm after is the device and protocol
pine
On Fri, 21 Mar 1997, J.H.M.Dassen wrote:
Can one of our non-X newsreaders deal reasonably with MIME messages?
(by reasonably I mean along the way mutt works for mail: decode
base64/quoted-printable messages and headers, handle text/* itself, and
offer to run metamail for non-text parts
On Sat, 22 Mar 1997, Alexander Lazarevic wrote:
- In a tcsh I can do $var:r, which gives me 'name' if $var contaned
'name.ext'. How can I do this with bash?
This will strip the shortest suffix that matches .*
${var%.*}
This will strip the longest suffix that matches .*
The normal debian installation automatically searches the
correct directory so I'm not sure why you're having
problems. To get around the problem, simply direct g++ to
search in that directory:
g++ -I /usr/include/g++
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On Fri, 21 Mar 1997, Jeff Shilt wrote:
I recently
Most laptops have a key that toggles between the normal
keyboard and a virtual keypad. Look for a key named Fn.
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On Mon, 24 Mar 1997, Stan Brown wrote:
When runnig X on a desktop, you can swithc between various modes
(resolutions) using the + and - keys on the
This isn't a direct answer to your question but you may still find is
useful.
I've been using cvs with the pserve authentication. Several problems
presented themselves:
* I could not use the system /etc/passwd file for authentication as
is supposedly possible per the documentation.
I'm not sure if this has been reported as a bug yet.
wish4.2 has been linked against /lib/ld-linux.so.2 which
hasn't been released yet as a debian package. You can see
this by using strings on the wish4.2 executable.
A quick solution, that so far is working for me, is to
create a symbolic link
I have both working fine on my system which is based on the
unstable branch. Didn't have to do anything special.
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On Mon, 7 Apr 1997, Steve Hsieh wrote:
Can someone explain why the xemacs and emacs packages can't coexist on the
same Debian system? (What would it take to make
I'm just about finished with the repackaging of wn and have two
questions on dwww:
* Does it support compressed files, especially man pages?
It doesn't appear to. Is there a special configuration
option to set?
* Is there any support for cgi programs?
Again, doesn't
On Sat, 12 Apr 1997, Ralf Comtesse wrote:
Setting up guavac (0.2.6p1-1) ...
No `START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY' and no `This file documents'.
install-info: unable to determine description for `dir' entry - giving up
Any workarounds there?
This is telling you it failed to install the emacs info
Not a complete answer but ...
I wouldn't recommend using /dev/modem link. This makes it
more difficult to gurantee the uucp locking protocol. Use
the actual device name instead.
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On Sat, 12 Apr 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi again,
It seems that the following devices
/var/catman
On 17 Apr 1997, R. Chris Ross wrote:
I tried to look at the man page for FTP using xman and the
format got all blown out of shape. I think that it happened when the
page was formatted the first time and now I keep looking at an
incorrectly formatted page. If the
I just noticed this in the context of mounting a vfat
partition. I didn't notice any problems here but I did find
a solution.
The order of entries in /etc/fstab is important. Make sure
that the proc filesystem is first. This eliminated the
problem for me.
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On Wed, 30 Apr
I usually have to rebuild the modules myself. Simple to do.
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On Wed, 30 Apr 1997, Jason Killen wrote:
I hope this hasn't already been talked about.
I installed the sources and modules for kernel 2.0.30 from the unstable
directory and when I boot I get this message :
You'll need the kernel-source and pcmcia-source packages.
Configure the kernel by running make config in
/usr/src/linux. Then build the modules by executing debian/rules
binary-modules in the /usr/src/modules/pcmcia-cs directory.
Finally, install the resulting package using dpkg --install
I've used the Linksys EC2T successfully.
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On Thu, 1 May 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am looking for recommendations for a
PCMCIA ethernet card with both thinnet and
10bt and a modest price tag.
This only need work with linux.
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I'd recommend creating a partition for MS-DOS right away.
No need to actually install it till required.
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On Mon, 19 May 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm waiting for parts to arrive for a new system. I can probably get a copy
of MSDOG, but I'd like to avoid this. Eventually
It is in package kernel-package under section misc. Very
nice.
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On 20 May 1997, Bjoern-Bernhard Schad wrote:
I could not find make-kpkg. So my question is: where is it?
As nobody seems to do it as described in the documentation,
maybe there is a different way to compile a new
Yes
On Tue, 20 May 1997, Timothy Phan wrote:
Hi,
I'd like to know how to upgrade the dpkg 1.4.0.5 to 1.4.0.7?
Would be be the same as upgrade the other packages?
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Not that I know of.
There is a commercial product for Linux from Chorous Systems
called COOL. I've just downloaded it for evaluation but
haven't had time to actual use it yet.
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On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Timothy Phan wrote:
I' d like to know if there is GNU version of the IDL
I've recently installed the 3Com 3C595-TX Fast EtherLink PCI
10/100baseT card. Its known as Vortex under Linux. I did
have some trouble with IRQ conflicts on the PCI bus.
Otherwise no problems in installing or running.
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On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, Linux dist. research wrote:
Does
On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, Nebu John Mathai wrote:
I just purchased an IBM Home and Away PCMCIA/14.4 combo pcmcia card.
I downloaded the pcmcia-cs and pcmcia-modules Debian packages and
installed them. My kernel is compiled for networking and loadable modules
however if I insmod the precompiled
On Sun, 15 Mar 1998, Tristan Day that's you! wrote:
1) Would you recommend a distribution disk for a newbie?
Yes.
2) Are there different ones to get? what are the differences?
Quite a few: RedHat, SUSE, Debian, Slackware, ...
3) I know this is a Debian list, but do you recommend Debian
On Mon, 16 Mar 1998, Lee Bradshaw wrote:
Can anyone recommend a good small server to use with dwww for viewing
the debian documentation?
I'm the maintainer of wn so ... I would recommend wn. Small,
efficient, can be run from inetd. Only issue is that it is
significantly more security minded
On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Ossama Othman wrote:
Since pstree exits as soon as it has printed the process tree, is there
any point to having fvwm* start up an xterm that will close very soon
after it is opened? For example, I can never see the outout of pstree
when running it from the fvwm* menus
On Sun, 5 Apr 1998, Chris wrote:
I tried to install the package pinepgp from my local debain mirror, but it
complains that it can't find the package pgp.
Any ideas how I can set this stuff up?
You need to download the pgp package which is in a non-US based
distribution. Go to
Does anyone know of an object-oriented database that uses the odmg c++
bindings and run under Linux. I have been using poet and o2, but from
what I can tell they have no Linux version available.
I only know of texas. It is an oo database but uses a model similar
to ObjectStore and not the
On Fri, 8 May 1998, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote:
Which is just the same as manually editing them. Is there a good
reason to use vipw, instead of just vi /etc/passwd?
only if something goes wrong :) I forget exactly what it is, but vipw does
some checking before saving the file,
On Sat, 9 May 1998, jscogin wrote:
I use the install program to install my Ethernet card. It finds the address
and IRQ. I then configure the name and IP address. It says it is configuring
the driver eth0. I then install the kernal, but when I reboot, the eth0
driver is not loaded and it says
On Sun, 10 May 1998, Randy Edwards wrote:
I've looked and apropros'ed myself to near death, but nowhere can I
find out what that command is to automagically set up a program in
/etc/init.d to run properly at the various run levels. Last time I
set one up I did it manually and would like
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