Re: LI when booting

1998-05-29 Thread Bonard B. Timmons III
Michael Roark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I know this topic is hardly fresh, but I can't find the solution anywhere. You know the case -- installing to a large disk -- reboot and freeze at LI. What how-to do I read to find the fix? I once had this problem. Here is my (now working)

Re: I need an HTML Editor

1998-05-29 Thread Bonard B. Timmons III
Bob Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is the name of the .deb file that provides the PSGMLK package? I can not find it in hamm or slink, and can't find a reference in the emacs info file. It sounds like a package I want to have available. psgml is yet another reason why emacs

Re: Installing 1.3 on IBM PS/1

1998-05-28 Thread Bonard B. Timmons III
Jonathan Hester [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hda: status timeout: status=0xff { Busy } hda: drive not ready for command ide0: reset timeout, status=0xff (...repeat of these three messages...) end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00, sector 0 hda: drive not ready

Re: Again: Mouse problem running 'xbase-configure'

1998-05-28 Thread Bonard B. Timmons III
Tomas Petersson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, when I try to configure X I get the errormsg below as soon as I move the mouse. I have a standard Microsoft mouse connected to COM1 Any ideas? I don't know what the error message really means, but I know what I would do here. I would just run

Re: Where can i get this

1998-05-28 Thread Bonard B. Timmons III
Mario Filipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You need a newer version of makeinfo; or more to the point a newer texinfo.tex (which comes with makeinfo). I had thought that distributing a texinfo.tex which matches texi files in the same directory would be enough here... but gtk+ does supply a good

Re: pon

1998-05-28 Thread Bonard B. Timmons III
(1) Check your /etc/ppp/peers/provider file for this line: connect /usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/chatscripts/provider Make sure to put the -v in there if it is not there. (2) After you run pon and it fails, examine the /var/log/syslog file. At the end of it you should see a record of the chat with

Re: after upgrading to hamm, ppp problems

1998-05-28 Thread Bonard B. Timmons III
Make sure that your /etc/ppp/peers/provider file contains: noauth This option tells pppd not to expect your ISP to authenticate itself to you. Bake -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Where can i get this

1998-05-28 Thread Bonard B. Timmons III
Acording to my system it's in the package textinfo. Wich means i have to upgrade my tex packages, wich brings another question. Dselect says that the tex packages i have are obsolete. should i deinstall them and install the new ones or is there another way to do it? And

Re: Cut and paste question

1998-05-28 Thread Bonard B. Timmons III
Tim O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've been using Debian for quite a while now, and was wondering what sort of support Linux/X has for cut and paste? Sure, there's the stuff with GPM where things can be cut and pasted, but it's not very universal. Could you be more specific? It always

Re: How to upgrade from smail to exim?

1998-05-27 Thread Bonard B. Timmons III
Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hallo, Why do you call that an upgrade? I have tried out exim several times without success. In my opinion smail is much easier to install and works with a lot less problems than exim. Johann. Yes, that was my experience also, but I did not give

Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-05-27 Thread Bonard B. Timmons III
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonathan Hester) writes: displayed by pressing F4 at the boot: prompt, the following special parameter is recommended for IBM PS/1's with IDE hard drives: hd=cylinders,heads,sectors Thus, I tried booting by typing the following at the boot: prompt - linux

Re: XDM autostart question

1998-05-26 Thread Bonard B. Timmons III
Doug Thistlethwaite [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks for the tip. My /etc/X11/config files ihas the following two lines in it... xdm-start-server start-xdm My guess is that the problem is in a system init file somewhere. Any idea what file calls the xdm stuff at boot time? As root,

Re: HELP! Installing Packages From Another Drive...

1998-05-26 Thread Bonard B. Timmons III
James A. Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a 4.0 GB drive running Windows95 and a 514 MB drive with = Debian (no packages installed yet, just the base). The 514 MB is a slave = to the 4 GB. I downloaded several packages onto my Windows drive = (C:\Debian), but I haven't a clue how to

Re: gcc broken?

1998-05-23 Thread Bonard B. Timmons III
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was trying to compile tk3play just now and make exits with: gcc: installation problem, cannot exec 'cc1plus': No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED] dpkg -S cc1plus g++: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/egcs-2.90.28/cc1plus altgcc:

Re: gcc broken?

1998-05-23 Thread Bonard B. Timmons III
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi. My dpkg -S cc1plus returns that it is owned by g++, (Of which I have version 2.90.28-0.1. ), and that it lives in /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/egcs-2.90.28/ I don't have any of the others though. (apt-get install g++272 says it can't find a package with

Re: Debian from the Stampede's POV

1998-05-23 Thread Bonard B. Timmons III
Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Here is why a lot of people are looking at SLP and liking it. tar xzf blah.slp There ya go, that's it, end of story. No cpio, no ar, nothing but tar which has been the standard for years and years, esp. in the Linux community as a whole. SLP

Re: newsgroup, instead of mail list?

1998-05-23 Thread Bonard B. Timmons III
new to Debian and probably Linux as well. A 'real' newsgroup would be better than a simulated one for those of us who can't/won't use something like emacs with gnus. I used to run gnus on a 486 with 8MB, so I can sympathize. And it's understandable for those you just don't like emacs. I have

Re: gcc broken?

1998-05-23 Thread Bonard B. Timmons III
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sigh. All these multitudes of compilers and such are quite confusing. :). I got g++272 from slink, after which my compile worked. Thanks!. But g++272 says its for backward compatability only. Why should the newest gcc be trying to use a version of g++ which claims

Re: XDM autostart question

1998-05-23 Thread Bonard B. Timmons III
Doug Thistlethwaite [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Quick question I hope... How do I get XDM to autostart. I selected to not have it autostart during install because I was having problems with X11 in general. Please read /usr/doc/X11/README.Debian. It will tell you about what to edit in the

Re: Debian from the Stampede's POV

1998-05-23 Thread Bonard B. Timmons III
Rev. Joseph Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: --oC1+HKm2/end4ao3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, May 23, 1998 at 12:14:34AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: The other data in Debian's case is stuff like dependency information,

Re: newsgroup, instead of mail list?

1998-05-22 Thread Bonard B. Timmons III
Given the volume of traffic on this list, I would certainly find a newsgroup more convenient. 1) it maintains threads, and thus has MUCH better organization and access. Try a threading mail reader: mutt or gnus. I use gnus and I cannot imagine anything better. Bake -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Installation

1998-05-22 Thread Bonard B. Timmons III
It's not for everyone, but if you do not mind using a command line, you can try dpkg -i package-name.deb where package-name.deb is the file of stuff that you want to install. Look for a file called Packages.gz that contains the standard descriptions of all the .deb files you may want to

Re: dselect oddities

1998-05-17 Thread Bonard B. Timmons III
No autoupdating? I don't see what the problem is here: why not use dpkg? I upgrade all the time with only dpkg and I cannot imagine how it could be improved. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help with X and signal 11

1998-05-17 Thread Bonard B. Timmons III
I have a feeling that it's your RAM. Have you tried the memtest program? I myself have been running the latest slink xfree86 with no problems whatsoever. If I were you I would try out memtest on different combinations of your SIMMs. Bake -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: ATAPI Tape Drives

1998-05-14 Thread Bonard B. Timmons III
I've been using that exact model with no problems at all. Bake -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: exim mutt, weird

1998-04-18 Thread Bonard B. Timmons III
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have exim (1.90-3) and mutt (non-i, 0.91.1-1) installed here; when I send a message, mutt sets the from address to just hamish@@. [snip] I think a better way to handle this is to let exim rewrite your headers. The following is at the end of my

Re: Qddb or other databases

1998-02-10 Thread Bonard B. Timmons III
I struggled with this question for quite a while. What I wanted had to satisfy the following criteria: 1. A decent license such as GPL or BSD-style. 2. Flexible and powerful. 3. Actively developed. Only a handful of databases satisfy these criteria. IMHO, Postgresql seems to be the easiest and

Need reasons to GPL Haskell implementation

1997-11-14 Thread Bonard B. Timmons III
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to gnu.misc.discuss,comp.os.linux.advocacy as well. Hi, This is a long post, so I've divided it into sections---Preface, Request for Feedback, Consideration, Conclusion, Appendix---to help you figure out whether it's

Re: diald / ppp routing problems on hamm system

1997-11-06 Thread Bonard B. Timmons III
Philippe Troin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 04 Nov 1997 10:45:10 CST Ken Lauffenburger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hello, I very recently upgraded my home system from bo to hamm. As soon as I installed the netbase package, diald stopped working. The PPP link would connect, but

Re: diald / ppp routing problems on hamm system

1997-11-06 Thread Bonard B. Timmons III
Oops! My so-called solution has a symptom looking for a problem. From the syslog: kernel: sl0: transmit timed out, bad line quality? kernel: sl0: transmit timed out, bad line quality? last message repeated 2 times [EMAIL PROTECTED] route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask