Re: ppp mystery

2001-03-15 Thread Thomas Delany
Gil, I had a very similar problem with my US Robotics V.Everything external modem. This may sound insane, but my problem seemed to be related to modem initialization strings. There is a setting someplace in Windows for its dialer that makes it create a log file when it dials the modem. One of

Re: compiling the kernel

2001-03-09 Thread Thomas Delany
Re: 1) The file System.map is created in the /usr/src/linux subdirectory. 2) Looks like you have a hard disk that has 1024 cylinders. Go to the /etc subdirectory. Edit the file lilo.conf and add the line: lba32 to the file somewhere. (You'll need to be logged in as root, or use the su

Re: compiling the kernel

2001-03-09 Thread Thomas Delany
not at all qualified to answer 4) for you. Sorry. I have also entered the Linux world from the Windows world, as I suspect you have, and can sympathize with you as far as the learning curve goes. Hang in there. Tom Delany - Original Message - From: Thomas Delany [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: problem with perl in unstable

2000-12-29 Thread Thomas Delany
That looks almost identical to a problem that I have been having with a number of packages in unstable. Unfortunately, no one has been able to help me either. I wish Iknew what was going on.If I get any answer, or figure anything out, I'll let you know. I'd appreciate it if youwould do the same

Sid dselect Woes

2000-12-27 Thread Thomas Delany
Oops! I guess I'm really running Sid. I didn't realize that unstable had been changed to Sid. Duh! What rock have I been hiding under? Anyways, my problem still stands. Could some kind soul please shed a little light on it for me? Please? Tom - Original Message - From: Thomas

Woody dselect Woes

2000-12-22 Thread Thomas Delany
Hi, I have a Debian system running Woody that I am having big problems with re: dselect and updating it. I was in the middle of updating the system with dselect when I attempted to background the dselect process in order to do something that was suggested by the output from one of the