Re: boot and shutown both suddenly getting delayed

1999-10-28 Thread Andrew Hately
Anthony Campbell wrote: I've suddenly started experiencing long delays in both boot and shutdown. If accompanied by ide reset messages your hard disk could be dying. Andrew mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://counter.li.org/cgi-bin/runscript/display-person.cgi?user=45690

RE: Compact version for running on 486/33 or /66 with 8-32 Mb ram

1999-10-27 Thread Andrew Hately
While worming through the pages I found a reference to a compact verison of Debian installation that was designed to work on a 486. Slink works on a 486. I'm running it on two 486 DX2 at home. One with 8MB of ram, which is too little, one with 20MB which is plenty. The 20MB ram machine has a

Re: Linux/X and LCD projectors (sort of video beamer)

1999-10-27 Thread Andrew Hately
Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: Now I'm looking for a possibility to set down the monitor frequency without losing to much of the picture quality. Any ideas? Change your mode lines. If there are not a hundred well commented mode lines alread in you XF86Config then read the video timings faq. If

Re: small dselect question

1999-10-21 Thread Andrew Hately
jh wrote: Hi. If I just want to install 1 program from dselect, would I want to go through and put an = sign by the programs that are currently installed so it doesn't have to go through all the files when installing? I hope this question makes sense. Thanks, Jeff -- Unsubscribe?

Re: SED question RESOLVED

1999-10-21 Thread Andrew Hately
Ben Lutgens wrote: I had to use the back quotes`` Back quotes can't be nested, while $( ) does the same job and can be nested -- http://counter.li.org/cgi-bin/runscript/display-person.cgi?user=45690

Re: seg faults while building kernel

1999-10-19 Thread Andrew Hately
Jacob Schmude Hello When I try to build a kernel the debian way, I get a seg fault. On my previous linux system this never happened. Was the previou s linux system on this or other hardware? If other, then I suspect your current hardware. Read the Sig11 faq. Often a go-faster option that

RE: [Linux: SCSI-Controller] LILO with aha152x

1999-10-19 Thread Andrew Hately
... If I start with my Rescue-Disk and I use the following parameter linux aha152x=0x340,11 Are you using a VLbus card with one of these built in? A something-or-other VL300? If so what is the ide controller chipset? (other than hopeless) But if I boot from harddisk the aha152x is

Re: HELP: Free space zero no matter what

1999-10-18 Thread Andrew Hately
Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote: Okay, I'm back and running, and I figured out my problem. ext2 filesystems have reserved blocks, though I don't know what they're for. It seems only root can access them, although I haven't really checked this. tune2fs can lower the number of reserved blocks,

Re: hdparm - hard disk tuning

1999-10-18 Thread Andrew Hately
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Has anyone had any experience using hdparm to increase the performance of your ide hard drives? Does it work and are there any drawbacks? Is there any software which can measure hard drive performance? Me Yes, not that I noticed hdparm itself and (more

2.0.38 make install - unable to find lilo footprint

1999-10-15 Thread Andrew Hately
When I make install for the kernel 2.0.38 - which I didn't get from a .deb, I just downloaded from Finland - when it comes to the part where every other kernel says shall I run lilo? this one says it can't find a lilo footprint. What is it looking for? Andrew --

Re: Creating/Moving a partition

1999-10-15 Thread Andrew Hately
David J. Kanter wrote: I'd like to make a new partition for /var because I don't have enough drive space where /var is currently mounted (/) to run apt-get dist-upgrade. What's the best way of doing this? I can create a new /var partition because I've got plenty of available drive space, but

Re: Creating/Moving a partition

1999-10-15 Thread Andrew Hately
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # mv /var /old_var ; mv /new_var /var NO, NO, NO, NO, NO! Do NOT use mv! This will change the ownership and protection rights of the files. That could be very, very bad and will most certainly break something. Oops. I missed out: First make a

RE: Three questions

1999-10-11 Thread Andrew Hately
The poor quality of documentation, such as these how tos is one of the reasons why I recommend when ever I am asked whether a site should move to linux to recommend that they don't. Although I didn't agree with the tone of this message, I definitely think something needs to be done

Re: Sun classic

1999-10-11 Thread Andrew Hately
Oki DZ wrote: Andrew Hately wrote: ... I had intended to use it as an xserver for the rest of the machines on my network but the screen is so dim and unsharp I'm going off the idea. How do you set up xservers? I think I read a note about this on the sparc linux page; something like 1

Re: fax page size

1999-10-06 Thread Andrew Hately
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi i am using mgetty/sendfax to send faxes but unfortunately it sends the faxes in a stretched format... Where abouts can i change it so that it faxes as A5? I think there's a howto somewhere that explains the tif format used for faxes has a different scales in x

Re: Sun classic

1999-10-05 Thread Andrew Hately
Oki DZ wrote: Andrew Hately wrote: I tried both the 2.2.1 kernel rescue disc and the 2.0.36 on my sparcstation2; the newer one didn't seem to be able to eject the floppy when the next one was needed. Interesting... then how did you proceed? ctrl-alt-del is understood by linux

RE: Sun classic

1999-10-05 Thread Andrew Hately
Mine, as I may have said, is a wee bit slow - the 40MHz prcoessor gives 40 bogomips. That that being the slowness, not the 40 bogomips. is probably down to the 1992 vintage hard disk

Re: Sun classic

1999-09-30 Thread Andrew Hately
Ben Collins wrote: On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 12:35:40PM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: Hi, I'm interested in installing Debian Linux on a Sun Classic. Any pointers will be appreciated. Thanks in advance, Oki There is an install text in /debian/dists/slink/main/disks-sparc. Most likely you

Re: DriveReady SeekComplete Error and DriveStatusError

1999-09-29 Thread Andrew Hately
B. Szyszka wrote: Like I said, I can't afford to OK, but for me it remains the only convincing test. As it happens I have a couple of old pentium 75 motherboards at home and I just imagined that maybe you or somebody you knew also had stuff like that that you could use for a test, temporarily.

Re: DriveReady SeekComplete Error and DriveStatusError

1999-09-28 Thread Andrew Hately
B. Szyszka wrote: Well I can't afford to just go out and get a new harddrive, especially since the two that I have no have more than enough space. Is there a way to run a check on the harddrive that could prove whether or not the harddrive itself is the problem? The surest test would be to

Re: hd to hd copy?

1999-09-28 Thread Andrew Hately
Seth R Arnold wrote: On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 10:27:31AM +0200, Andrew Hately wrote: # ( cd / ; tar cf - bin boot dev lib sbin usr var ) | tar xf - xfp - I forgot etc in the list. Andrew -- http://counter.li.org/cgi-bin/runscript

Re: Serial connection to windoze box

1999-09-28 Thread Andrew Hately
Phil Brutsche wrote: The best way of doing things, I think, is ethernet. I don't know how much things cost in Germany, but here in the US you can get a home networking kit for about US$70. It includes two PCI cards, a hub, and two ethernet cables. Used ethernet cards cost pennies and

Re: hd to hd copy?

1999-09-27 Thread Andrew Hately
tf wrote: hey guys, I might put in a 6 gig drive in place of the 1.6 gig drive I'm using now. My current installation works fine (its me thats broken!). is there a way that I can copy this hd to the new one? I only have a swap and a root partition on this drive, and will probably want

Re: awk or sed?

1999-09-23 Thread Andrew Hately
Tim Thomson wrote: Hi, ... Was it awk or sed, or am I going along the wrong track? ... Linx Focus this month has an awk tutorial http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/September1999/article103.html Andrew -- http://counter.li.org/cgi-bin/runscript/display-person.cgi?user=45690

Re: page layout app

1999-09-22 Thread Andrew Hately
Seth R Arnold wrote: On Tue, Sep 21, 1999 at 10:52:50PM -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote: On Wed 09/22/99 01:39AM, Peter Mickle wrote: does anyone have any recommendations for a page layout/type formatting, ... How about TeX/LaTeX? ... *maybe* lyx, ... LyX is kind of wysiwig - and is happy to

Re: dselect error

1999-09-20 Thread Andrew Hately
Andrew Hately wrote: Kenneth Litko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I keep getting this error from dselect and it is driving me nuts. Here's the error: internal error - no filename at -e line 12, P chunk 13 installation script returned error status 1. Press RETURN to continue

metafont

1999-09-20 Thread Andrew Hately
Is there a debian metafont distribution? Andrew

Re: Sound Apps only work as root??

1999-09-20 Thread Andrew Hately
John Foster wrote: Sorry folks I mean the apps do not work. Sound is fine. The applications do not work either from xterm or from Ice-wm running Gnome. They are on the menus but nothing happens when I click on them. Did you make /dev/dsp* /dev/sequencer* /dev/mixer* /dev/midi* etc all usable

dselect error

1999-09-18 Thread Andrew Hately
Kenneth Litko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I keep getting this error from dselect and it is driving me nuts. Here's the error: internal error - no filename at -e line 12, P chunk 13 installation script returned error status 1. Press RETURN to continue. Me too, except I get it at