Re: qt1g_1.42-1.deb
On Sat, Apr 17, 1999 at 04:39:26AM +0200, Daniel González Gasull wrote: On Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 02:16:06PM +0200, Ivan Litovski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there, and where can I download stable qt1g_1.42-1.deb. I had the same problem. I found it with http://ftpsearch.ntnu.no --- Tattoo this URL in your arm ;-) I compiled from the potato sources (as to avoid glibc2.1). If you can't do the same (disk space issues or something) I'll put it up on a public ftp server. Email me privately if you'd like me to do this. I've found very good luck with compiling potato sources in slink. HTH -Dano
SOLVED: x11amp problems
Thanks to the person who was helping me get x11amp 0.9-beta1.1 working on my slink machine. I just got it working today. I had to compile my own gtk1.2 and gdk1.2 from the sources in potato (debian/rules binary is so nice!) and I removed all other versions of gtk, glib, and gdk which meant recompiling gimp from said potato sources (something I was meaning to do anyway). After that, I just compiled x11amp as per usual and all was fine. For those not up on the discussion, ldd on the x11amp binary did not report linking libgtk-1.2.so.0 and its friends and x11amp was having problems running that would be expected from problems like that. Thanks for the help! -Dano
Re: x11amp 0.9-beta1.1
On Wed, 14 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm guessing you are running potato, so if not this may not apply: Actually, I'm basically running a glibc2 version of potato. :) (I compiled many of the potato stuff using the glibc2 in slink on a slink system). I'm still a little squeamish about glibc2.1 and I'm running potato at work where ddd has just stopped working since upgrading from slink. I need ddd at home, so I'm not willing to take that step yet. I've compiled every prerelease version of x11amp, up to and including beta1.1, without problems. You have the gtk and glib stuff, but do you have the gdk stuff too? For me, x11amp needs these libraries: tomorrow:~ ldd /usr/local/bin/x11amp libgtk-1.2.so.0 = /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0 (0x40015000) libgdk-1.2.so.0 = /usr/lib/libgdk-1.2.so.0 (0x40138000) libgmodule-1.2.so.0 = /usr/lib/libgmodule-1.2.so.0 (0x4016c000) libglib-1.2.so.0 = /usr/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0 (0x4016f000) libdl.so.2 = /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x40191000) libXi.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXi.so.6 (0x40199000) libXext.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x401a2000) libX11.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x401ae000) libm.so.6 = /lib/libm.so.6 (0x40251000) libpthread.so.0 = /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x4026e000) libx11amp.so.0 = /usr/local/lib/libx11amp.so.0 (0x4027f000) libc.so.6 = /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40284000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 = /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x4000) tomorrow:~ Thanks for posting that... made me look at mine which is almost the same... except for a few key differences: The first 4 libraries are missing! Well, that'll cause the errors I was getting, unfortunately, I haven't the foggiest idea how to correct that. You may want to do a dpkg -S on the libgdk library... I can't really think of anything else. I do have it installed. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[/home/odin]# dpkg -l|grep gdk ii gdk-imlib-dev 1.9.4-1Header files needed for Gdk-Imlib developmen ii gdk-imlib1 1.9.4-1Gdk-Imlib is an imaging library for use with ii libgtk-imlib-pe 0.5000-1 Perl module for the gtk+ and gdkimlib librar You wouldn't have more than one gtk/gdk/glib packages installed, would you? Could that be also the problem? I got rid of the old versions, so I didn't have to worry about that. I do, though it hasn't caused a problem in the past (even with x11amp-0.9a[123]) I have libgtk1 installed for the version of gimp I run (I've been meaning to upgrade, maybe this is an excuse) but not libgtk1-dev, so I don't see how stuff like this could be happening. Hope that helps (although it probably doesn't), Actually, it helped me find the problem! Now for a solution... :) Here's a typical link it together gcc line during 'make': gcc -O2 -I.. -I.. -DDATADIR=\/usr/local/share/x11amp\ -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/lib/glib/include -o .libs/wmx11amp getopt.o getopt1.o wmx11amp.o -L/usr/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lgtk -lgdk -rdynamic -lgmodule -lglib -ldl -lXi -lXext -lX11 -lm ../libx11amp/.libs/libx11amp.so -lglib -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/usr/local/lib So I definately am linking in gtk, gdk, and glib! hmm... now that I think of it, should this say something like '-lgtk-1.2'? After all, the .so file is /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0. I'm trying it now. If it doesn't work, I'll send this message. :) hmm... maybe not: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[~/x11amp-0.9-beta1.1]$ gtk-config --version 1.2.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[~/x11amp-0.9-beta1.1]$ gtk-config --libs -L/usr/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lgtk -lgdk -rdynamic -lgmodule -lglib -ldl -lXi -lXext -lX11 -lm well... I'm at a loss. Thanks for the tips, do you or anyone else have any further ideas? Thanks! -Dano
Re: x11amp 0.9-beta1.1
On Wed, Apr 14, 1999 at 10:29:32PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, I'm basically running a glibc2 version of potato. :) (I compiled many of the potato stuff using the glibc2 in slink on a slink system). I'm still a little squeamish about glibc2.1 and I'm running potato at work where ddd has just stopped working since upgrading from slink. I need ddd at home, so I'm not willing to take that step yet. Ah well, back in the day I was running a mostly slink system with a few potato libraries force-installed, so I see where you're coming from. :) Actually, I didn't force-install anything. What I've been doing is getting the .dsc, .diff, and orig.tar.gz files for what I need from potato and compiling a glibc2 version. I'm a little scared of mixing the two even though from what I've read, it should work. Thanks for posting that... made me look at mine which is almost the same... except for a few key differences: The first 4 libraries are missing! Well, that'll cause the errors I was getting, unfortunately, I haven't the foggiest idea how to correct that. I do, though it hasn't caused a problem in the past (even with x11amp-0.9a[123]) I have libgtk1 installed for the version of gimp I run (I've been meaning to upgrade, maybe this is an excuse) but not libgtk1-dev, so I don't see how stuff like this could be happening. I had a problem with the old slink packages of the libraries, so gtk-config was giving me the wrong one. So instead of compiling the new libraries in /usr/local I just replaced them with potato ones (pre-glibc2.1 days). Ok, I'll go compile the potato versions of gtk and glib. Does your gtk-config --libs return '-lgtk' or '-lgtk1.2'? I suppose if you just have one version of gtk installed, this is a non-issue. I'm at a loss as to why x11amp can't find those files. Maybe you need to explicitly put /usr/lib in your $LD_LIBRARY_PATH? I unset it but it didn't affect my x11amp. Yeah, I tried that one. It looked like that might be the problem since none of the libs it pulls in are in /usr/lib, but the gcc line I quoted has '-L/usr/lib' in it which should eliminate this need (if I'm right about what LD_LIBRARY_PATH does). [snippage]
Re: libc6 2.1 on slink
On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Christian Dysthe wrote: Didn't get much coffee! :) Got this now: checking for gmake... no checking for gtk-config... no checking for GTK - version = 1.2.0... no *** The gtk-config script installed by GTK could not be found *** If GTK was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in *** your path, or set the GTK_CONFIG environment variable to the *** full path to gtk-config. configure: error: Cannot find GTK: Is gtk-config in path? make: *** [build-stamp] Error 1 I did install GTK 1.2 from unstable before I started this.should I give up? :) you could... depending on how much work you want to do. try getting libgtk1.2-dev. you'll probably need libglib1.2-dev as well... I'd look at the dependencies for the precompiled chat program and get -dev versions of all those libraries that it depends on. If you _do_ have libgtk1.2-dev installed, I suggest you follow the instructions in the error message. if you use bash, you can do this with: export GTK_CONFIG=`which gtk-config` HTH -Dano
x11amp 0.9-beta1.1
I'm too impatient to wait for a deb of x11amp 0.9-beta1.1, so I tried to compile it myself having had great success with the alpha versons. It compiled without issue, but I've got some strange problems with the binary. Here's a cut paste job. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[~]$ x11amp -version /usr/local/lib/x11amp/Output/libOSS.so: undefined symbol: gtk_spin_button_new /usr/local/lib/x11amp/Input/libmpg123.so: undefined symbol: gtk_list_select_item /usr/local/lib/x11amp/Input/libmikmod.so: undefined symbol: gtk_pixmap_new /usr/local/lib/x11amp/General/libir.so: undefined symbol: gtk_spin_button_set_numeric x11amp 0.9-beta1.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[~]$ dpkg -l libgtk1.2-dev libglib1.2-dev Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ NameVersionDescription +++-===-==- ii libgtk1.2-dev 1.2.0-1Development files for the GIMP Toolkit ii libglib1.2-dev 1.2.0-1Development files for GLib library ii libgtk1.2 1.2.1-1The GIMP Toolkit set of widgets for X ii libglib1.2 1.2.1-1The GLib library of C routines so I have what the README claims to need. Has anyone had any success compiling this version of x11amp? TIA -Dano
Re: question regarding hardware conflict and linux
On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Ferathonur Luthienell wrote: Hello After recently downloading Linux from the Debian website and installing it on my machine, I had trouble connecting to my ISP through Linux. After a little reading I realized my UsRobotics Winmodem is not compatible with it. Can you suggest and inexpensive modem that is compatible with both MsDos/windows and Linux? I'd appreciate any advice you could share. Basically any external modem satisfies these requirements. Make sure you have 16550 UARTs on your serial ports, though, if you get an external modem. Chances are, with any newer computer, you will, but to be safe, the DOS utility MSD.EXE which comes with MSDOS 6.22 and(I think) Windows95 will tell you, just boot into DOS to use it. Other than that, stay away from internal modems that say Winmodem or HSP as these are software modems that will only work with windows. The above is the purely technical info, below are my personal opinions. I have had extremely bad luck with USR modems. I have had nothing but excellent luck with Zoom modems. Zoom are also very cheap modems, so you might want to look into that. Good luck, hope this helps. -Dano
Re: System time is broken
On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Dave Swegen wrote: Ever since we went over to summer time here in the UK my system has been broken. It started with the extra hour not being added after the change. I then tried to correct it using the date command, and have then tried the hwclock command (which worked). My problem is that whenever I use standby on my machine the kernel time isn't updated, which it used to (it was a standard hamm setup). I would really appreciate it if someone could help me get out of this mess. Any help much appreciated. Btw, I read the clock mini-HOWTO, but it only works as long as I don't standby the system. Also, I seem to recall there was a thread here about how to set clocks, but I couldn't find anything in the mailing list archives, so any pointers would be useful. This has never failed me when my clock gets messed up (has the added effect of making your clock super accurate). rdate time.nist.gov hwclock --systohc HTH -Dano
Re: Samba question
On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Peter Iannarelli wrote: Hello all: Does anyone know if there is a way to pull the password used to connect/logon to a samba share ? I know that the user ID can be acquired via %U. Shouldn't be possible... passwords are passed as hashes from the client and hashed again by the server and compared against a hash that it keeps... yes, a hash of a hash, kinda strange, but... anyway, most of the time the server is not given a plaintext password, so in short, no. HTH -Dano
Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???
On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Steve Beitzel wrote: Hey all, Just had to jump in with my $0.02 here -- Winamp is _not_ well written - it is a complete resource cow! It has many features that are just plain extraneous and introduce unnecessary overhead. I have trouble even *playing* mp3s on my family's Win98 box, a P133 with 32MB of RAM, let alone running something else while listening. X11amp uses less CPU time, it plays well, and it runs on GNU/Linux systems. Now if it was just open source... I believe it is as of 0.9a it is open source (if not free). www.x11amp.org has downloadable source which I grabbed and compiled... worked nicely. It's even closer to winamp than the version before it (even supports winamp 2.0 skins). However I can't get it to work with ESD... but that's ok, I got gqmpeg (which I think is even nicer!). There's such an abundance of mp3 players for linux that I don't think we need to worry about this for a while, I'm quite pleased! -Dano
enlightenment locks system
On the advice of friends I decided to give enlightenment a go. (and I must say, from what I saw, it's beautiful!) A strange thing happened, though. I started netscape to browse the package list at www.debian.org to look for esd (the sound thing that it complained about not having at startup) and things were working well, I went to the full package list, it got about 25% loaded, and I hit Alt-F to do a search. I typed enlightenment figuring I might find some other fun stuff for it too. Well, I clicked find and my system came to a screeching halt (mouse wouldn't even move) for about 60sec. Then it went and found the first thing with enlightenment in the description... odd... ok, move the find window from over the description so I can see what it was... window moves about 20pixels... screeching halt... I gave this one 5 minutes and it still didn't come back. ERG! So, I did a hard reset... fsck whined, made me boot single user to fix a partition, then I rebooted again... tried E once more only this time not loading netscape... things were fine for about 1/2 hour. Killed X, changed my wm back to wmaker, fired up X, started netscape... things fine for about 1/2 hour... killed X, changed wm back to E, fired up X, started netscape, 5 minutes, grinding halt... hard reset... fsck whines... now I'm not bothering with X. So something weird is going on with E and netscape... any ideas? I'm liking the look of E, I think if I can get it working I'll keep it! TIA! -Dano -- As long as each individual is facing the TV tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege. --Noam Chomsky
Re: XFree86 dselect questions
On Sat, 27 Mar 1999, Lev Lvovsky wrote: I'm new to the Debian distro, and relatively new to Linux in general (was using Red Hat until its security issues began to bother me). Go easy on me :) several questions: 1. I can only run 'xinit' or 'startx' as root, running it from my regular acct says that I don't have permissions to use it. Any suggestions? I'm using xf86config to set it up Check what files are suid and sgid... just an idea, I've never seen this before. -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 4912 Nov 16 03:26 X* at very least... hmm, permissions on your mouse? Try ls -l 'ing everything you think might affect this. 2. I'm really confused when it comes to the packaging system for debian. Although RPM was a big reason for *leaving* Red Hat, I'm kind of put off by 'dselect', and even more by 'dpkg'. I bought the CD's from cheapbytes.com, it's a 4 CD set, 2 binary, and 2 source...perhaps I'm doing soemthing wrong, but was something as simple as Pine left out of the distro? Anywho, basically, I guess dselect is the easier way to do things, but I can't even find Netscape in there. Is there a page onthe web or perhaps a HOWTO that describes these two things? PINE and Netscape both are part of non-free because of licensing issues. A person on this list (Sorry, don't remember the email, search the archives for I have PINE DEBS or something like that... maybe just look for pine) got permission from UW to distribute the modified binaries, redhat just bends over and accepts the silly filesystem layout (kinda works with their own silly filesystem layout. :) Netscape does not meet the DFSG, and so is in non-free, AFAIK mozilla will have no trouble meeting these guidelines, but I see that even in potato, there's a really old version, any newer versions debianized? Solution: Use dselect to change your access method to ftp and update, you should see netscape and the two important pine packages now, select 'em, now go to /usr/src/pine and follow the instructions for building a debianized pine. It's real simple, and the debianized pine is nicer anyway, IMO. 3. In RedHat, the 'su' command allowed and '-l' switch, which would take the path settings of user to be su'ed to (ususally root in my case)...any way to do that with the debian 'su'? su - [user] [user] is optional if su'ing to root. HTH. -Dano -- As long as each individual is facing the TV tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege. --Noam Chomsky
Network connections weirdness.
I recently installed (well, 4 months ago anyway) a debian machine (intel) at work, and had problems connecting to it from outside the building, but only sometimes (telnet, ftp, ssh, whatever). I attributed that to firewall weirdness as there are definately weird things going on on that firewall. A couple of weeks ago, I installed slink on a sparc (on a seperate, unfirewalled segment) and I'm getting the same problems. It's this sort of thing: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[~]$ telnet penguin1 Trying 198.103.92.132... Connected to penguin1.glfc.forestry.ca. Escape character is '^]'. and not even after an hour or two does it come back... but it connects, weird! However, I can telnet to the solaris machines on the same subnet no problems, ftp, whatever I please. Does anyone have any ideas? This is an intermittent problem (Sometimes network connections work without a hitch). TIA -Dano
Re: Printer Setup through SAMBA
On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Petru NOTINGHER wrote: Hello. I've installed Linux 2.2.1 on my machine, but I have no printer connected via LPT. The printer (HPOffice JetPro 1150) is installed on another machine running Bill's stuff. It seems it is possible to access the printer via NetBios. I read the doc comming with Samba and tried to configure smb.conf. I always get the following answer to my command smb.conf is for (mostly) the server end (linux). I wouldn't mess with the printers in here, as the way I understand it, this is not what you are trying to do. smbclient -L \\Serge (Serge is the Win95 machine): getting there. Basically what you want to do is pipe your document through the command smbclient //server/printer -c 'print -' assuming you have no password on that share. More complicated if you do but not impossible, read the smbclient man page. One method for making this use the lpr spooler is described in the SMB-HowTo at http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP and it's the method I use. I hope to eventually incorporate this into my Samba-Beginners-HOWTO at http://wilbur.ozsome.com/~samba/Samba-Beginners-HOWTO.html * Added interface ip=162.38.204.8 bcast=162.38.204.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 Server time is Tue Mar 23 13:46:02 1999 Timezone is UTC+1.0 security=share SMBtconX failed. ERRSRV - ERRinvnetname (Invalid network name in tree connect.) Perhaps you are using the wrong sharename, username or password? Some servers insist that these be in uppercase * yes, you are using \\ which won't work. Either use or // as \\ translates to a single \. I have two questions : 1. Is it necessary to run a Samba Client for Windows on the machine with the printer, or the Windows95 software is enough ? Enable File and Print sharing and if you're not too worried about security, use share level access control to make your life easier. 2. How must I configure my machine to access the other's printer ? SMB-Howto. HTH. -Dano
Samba-Beginners-HOWTO
I have posted the first alpha version of the Samba-Beginners-HOWTO, a number of you requested an url, so I am posting it as it may be more-or less useful as of today. I would really appreciate any feedback that people have to offer. I can be reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED] (as it says in the document many times.) Thanks for taking the time to look at it. HTML can be obtained at: http://www.undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca/~djbrosem/sambahowto/Samba-Beginners-HOWTO.html It's a long URL, but it works. the SGML source is at: http://www.undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca/~djbrosem/sambahowto/Samba-Beginners-HOWTO.sgml ASCII Text: http://www.undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca/~djbrosem/sambahowto/Samba-Beginners-HOWTO.txt Latex document: http://www.undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca/~djbrosem/sambahowto/Samba-Beginners-HOWTO.tex DVI: http://www.undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca/~djbrosem/sambahowto/Samba-Beginners-HOWTO.dvi Postscript: http://www.undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca/~djbrosem/sambahowto/Samba-Beginners-HOWTO.ps That ought to be enough formats to hold people over for a while. I'll try to get a shorter URL later. I really reccomend the latex, dvi or postscript as they look really good. The formating engine is excellent. -Dano
(no problems) Re: X, new video card, and servers.
When you say that it's a 3.3.3.1 server, I assume this means it won't work with 3.3.2, and I've heard that compiling xfree is a pain (though haven't tried it). Is there an experimental version somewhere (I've looked in /debian/project/experimental -- is there another repository of experimental packages?) It's working without a hint of trouble on my system. I'm currently running the most current X packages out of slink (3.3.2.3), plus the pre-compiled 3DLabs server (glibc2, 3.3.3.1) from the XFree86 site. Now whether it's by chance or design that the two versions co-exist peacefully, I really can't say... This is excellent news! I heard on debian-devel a week or so ago that someone had some experimental 3.3.3.1 packages available, though I don't have the address handy. A quick search through the mailing-list archives ought to turn it up, tho. I'll have a look. Thanks for the info, I'll report back when I pop the card in. -Dano
X, new video card, and servers.
I recently bought a new 2D/3D video card based on the 3DLabs chipset, and the www.xfree86.org serverlist tells me to use the XF86_3DLabs server. This isn't included in the debian distrobution. I'm not sure if that server is only for 3.3.3 and I'm not quite sure how to find out. My question is a) is it for 3.3.3 only and if so, are there any 3.3.3 debs? If not, are there docs on compiling my own X server and inserting it into debian's list? I would want to remove my old xserver-mach64, but AFAIK dpkg would complain about dependencies. Just a few frantic questions before the card makes it to my door. Thanks a lot! -Dano
Re: Undersanding bootable media
On Sun, 7 Mar 1999, Marlon Urias wrote: In my quest to understand booting/LILO/MBR's I've come a cross a phenomenon I dont understand. Friend of mine (linux guru-ish) said that to make a linux bootable floppy you had to use a lowlevel tool like dd as opposed to just copying the files over to the floppy. But dos floppies boot just fine by making copies of other dos boot disks. BUT I tried to copy the files from a dos boot disk onto an CDR, and guess what? It wont boot. Despite the fact that it contains the exact same files as the floppy. I understand that in order for media to be bootable it's MBR needs to contain a program to point to the OS, so how does a copied dos-boot disk work? Thanks, marlon Long answer: cp and even the DOS COPY look for a filesystem on the disk that they are copying from. Their arguments are files. The MBR and the Boot Sector are not files, and as such are not visible when you are looking at the disk as a filesystem. When you say that you can copy DOS disks and they are bootable, I would assume you are using a lowlevel tool like DISKCOPY. AFAIK this just does the equivalent of a dd into RAM, pauses for you to change floppies and dd's the image back onto the other floppy. In order to make a bootable CD-R, you need to have an image of a boot floppy (one file) which contains an MBR(maybe) and a boot sector (I'm not real clear on whether floppies have an MBR or just Hard Disks do). Short answer: There are non-files which are important and I would guess that you are using a lowlevel tool in DOS without knowing it. Your friend is correct when he says you must use a lowlevel tool. HTH. -Dano
Re: X, new video card, and servers.
On Sun, 7 Mar 1999, Gregory T. Norris wrote: Thanks very much. I was actually kind of hoping for an RTFM answer too so that I could find this stuff out in the future without posting questions to the list that I could probably find out by reading some manual. the XFree howto doesn't have specific info on 3.3.2 vs 3.3.3, and I find the xfree86.org site difficult to navigate. the /etc/X11/Xserver tip is exactly what I needed, thanks a million! I've banged my head on aliening RPMs before, do Xservers typically alien well? When you say that it's a 3.3.3.1 server, I assume this means it won't work with 3.3.2, and I've heard that compiling xfree is a pain (though haven't tried it). Is there an experimental version somewhere (I've looked in /debian/project/experimental -- is there another repository of experimental packages?) Thanks again for your help. -Dano It is indeed a 3.3.3.1 server. Essentially, you can just download the pre-compiled binary from your favorite XFree86 mirror-site, and extract it under /usr/local somewhere. Then edit the first line of /etc/X11/Xserver to specify the new server. Of course, once 3.3.3.1 has been packaged (probably won't be much longer, now that slink is [again] almost out the door), you won't need to worry about all of the above. If you'd prefer, I can send you a .deb package for that server which was converted from the tarball via alien (it's not particularly large). You'd still need to edit /etc/X11/Xserver manually. I recently bought a new 2D/3D video card based on the 3DLabs chipset, and the www.xfree86.org serverlist tells me to use the XF86_3DLabs server. This isn't included in the debian distrobution. I'm not sure if that server is only for 3.3.3 and I'm not quite sure how to find out. My question is a) is it for 3.3.3 only and if so, are there any 3.3.3 debs? If not, are there docs on compiling my own X server and inserting it into debian's list? I would want to remove my old xserver-mach64, but AFAIK dpkg would complain about dependencies. Just a few frantic questions before the card makes it to my door. Thanks a lot! -Dano
Re: a howto of samba for beginers?
On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Eliezer Figueroa wrote: I want a easy to undertand howto of samba. I plan to connect 25 win95 to debian-samba but I am new using linux and samba. PLESE HELP!!! I am just starting work on such a beast. I should have some form of rough draft by tuesday. I'll point you at a URL when I have something substantial, and I'd appreciate your input if you don't mind taking the time. -Dano
Re: User Directories
On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: What do I have to do to move my user directories to a different partition/drive? I have looked around but I can not find what file (?) that user info like home directory is stored. The home directory of a user is written in /etc/passwd. In that file you can change the directory, then copy the stuff with cp -a, and remove the old one with rm -rf. You may want to check man cp man 5 passwd you'd also need a -p to keep permissions. AFAIK, though, cp -p doesn't respect symlinks and just makes duplicates, in this case you'd want to use tar basically a 'tar -cpf - -C homedirlocation|tar -xvpf -' but as I haven't just tested that, you should man tar to make sure I'm right. and you may want to make backups. In any case, I would not remove the old directory before verifying that the new setup worked. Excellent piece of advice! Also I was wonder what the most dependable way to mount a drive on boot was? Can you do this with in a standard '/etc/rcX.d' file or with the kernel or something? When my machine boots one of the messages that comes up is 'not mounting anthing . . . ' (or something like that). I know I could do it by putting a mount /dev/hdXX in my /etc/profile file but I get a feeling there is a more system smart method of doing this. There definitely is. Drives that are mounted are specified in /etc/fstab (File System TABle). This file too has a man page, so try man fstab If anything remains unclear, do post on this list again. If you want to know more about basic unix administration tasks, you may want to read (buy) a book like `Running Linux' by Matt Welsh (sp?). Or Essential System Administration by O'Reilly and Associates (my personal favorite) HTH -Dano
Re: SOLVED: samba 2.0 troubles (mostly)
On Mon, 1 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In reply to:Daniel J. Brosemer Quoting Daniel J. Brosemer([EMAIL PROTECTED]): This looks useful, I'll spend the time to find out how it wants to be compiled sometime. Shhh, boy did I screw up! It was supposed to say DIAGNOSE.TXT! Sorry!!! LOL, it's okay, have a look at what I just found has been staring me in the face! man smbclient SYNOPSIS smbclient servicename ... [-L NetBIOS name] ... ^ Hmm... maybe I need to keep my eyes open more. Why is my samba box not the master? (I've got my smb.conf attached later) btw, FRIGG isn't a printer, but I would like to have it serve a printer which explains the Comment field. This is all explained in the docs! To have your Linux box be the master put this in [ global ] os level = 33 The docs say that an os level of 33 forces the Linux box to be the master. Well that USED to be the case anyway. I am using my old smb.conf. from 1.9.10 and it works the same in 2.0.2. Maybe I should RTFM on 2.0.2 myself. Well, the docs still claim that this is the case, though from personal experience I can tell you that it's obviously not that simple. I'll be sure and post when I figure out exactly the problem. Maybe we could benefit from a Samba Quick-Start and FAQ if there isn't one. I'll look, and if not, I'll start one when I figure this thing out. Still does not work, I eventually got it to be master, but not with this line which appeared to have no effect. I had been going through the BROWSING.txt file and removing and adding many things from smb.conf as experiments but to no avail, it just so happened that my os level = line was commented out when I pasted non-comment lines into the message. I always read docs before posting questions, and have been trying to figure this out for over a week. Please give people the benefit of the doubt before exclaiming that everything they need is in the docs. Sorry but it seems like a lot of people don't. I have never seen the smbclient done like you had it thought THAT was the real problem. As it was so different, I thought you might not have read the docs. Well, it _was_ a little different. I'll clean the dust off my glasses next time. After reading the doc's let us know what you had to do to get it up, OK. I gave it one last stab after the small success with your /etc/hosts suggestion I figured there were more resolution problems, and so I bit the bullet and enabled the builtin WINS server in samba, pointed the win95 box at it, and all appears to work. I don't like this because I think there should be a better way, but in the meantime, I'll use this as it appears to work. Yes that would bother me to. It looks like you are close now tho. A few more tweaks and you will have it. Good luck! Thanks for reporting back. And I apologize for the tone of my first reply. No harm done, sorry if I misunderstood. Thanks again. -Dano
Re: problem sending mail...
On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Jesse Evans wrote: Folks, Something chokes when I try to send mail, but only certain addresses. For example, I can send a message to myself via my ISP and it get's retrieved just fine using fetchmail. Likewise, I can send mail to a web-based addresse, i.e. netscape.net and it shows up there, so I know I'm able to get out of my ISP's domain. However, other addresses get bounced back almost immediately with the follow header: mail failed, returning to sender From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: jesse |- Failed addresses follow: -| [To: address snipped] ... transport smtp: 501 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Sender domain must exist |- Message text follows: | Received: by debian [rest of headers snipped, this is the good part] You are connecting to the SMTP daemon on the remote machine which is attempting to do a DNS lookup on your domain. Seeing that it doesn't exist, it just denies your attempt to send. I gather you are on a dialup, so my reccomendation would be to edit your conf files to send mail through a smarthost. If you're running smail, you can do this easily by running smailconfig which will prompt you through the whole process. (I've snipped out the address of the person I'm mailing to for the sake of maintaining their privacy). My own machine is named 'debian' and I'm 'jesse' on that machine. I connect to the Internet via Earthlink. I can mail this message ok, so what's up? Their domain might have helped so that I could test my theory, but then I probably would have been too lazy to do so, so it probably doesn't matter. :) HTH -Dano
Re: SOLVED: samba 2.0 troubles (mostly)
On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Ben Messinger wrote: Daniel J. Brosemer wrote: I gave it one last stab after the small success with your /etc/hosts suggestion I figured there were more resolution problems, and so I bit the bullet and enabled the builtin WINS server in samba, pointed the win95 box at it, and all appears to work. I don't like this because I think there should be a better way, but in the meantime, I'll use this as it appears to work. Enabling WINS in Samba solved my problems as well. Win95 is broken -- It will not reference lmhosts if DNS is enabled. Because of this all my windoze clients were polling like crazy. Enabling WINS on the Samba server eliminated all polling traffic and really sped things up. YMMV. Thank you very much for this suggestion. Disabling DNS isn't desirable either, but I tried it and it worked. I will continue to search for a workaround if such exists and will be sure to post if I come up with a solution. Thanks to all for your help. -Dano
SOLVED: samba 2.0 troubles (mostly)
I'm having problems with samba 2.0 (the .deb in potato) that I was hoping someone could help me with. My win95 box cannot be seen by smbclient, and my linux box cannot be seen by my win95 box. Both can ping each other, however, so I don't think it's an ether problem. #1 RTFM samba-2.0.2/source/web/diagnose.c !!! This looks useful, I'll spend the time to find out how it wants to be compiled sometime. Cay you ping the Linux box from Win95 using both the IP address and the machine name? If not check win95 hosts lmhosts. Check Linux /etc/hosts. I did not have entries in the hosts/lmhosts for the respective machines, and adding them fixed the problem of 'smbclient -L 192.168.1.30' dieing, though I still don't understand why, since I was using an IP address, but no matter as it works now. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[~]$ smbclient -N -L localhost I connect with smbclient '\\win\WINC' -N Yes, what I was attempting to do was list shares on the win95 box. The similar command did not work before, either, though. Why is my samba box not the master? (I've got my smb.conf attached later) btw, FRIGG isn't a printer, but I would like to have it serve a printer which explains the Comment field. This is all explained in the docs! To have your Linux box be the master put this in [ global ] os level = 33 Still does not work, I eventually got it to be master, but not with this line which appeared to have no effect. I had been going through the BROWSING.txt file and removing and adding many things from smb.conf as experiments but to no avail, it just so happened that my os level = line was commented out when I pasted non-comment lines into the message. I always read docs before posting questions, and have been trying to figure this out for over a week. Please give people the benefit of the doubt before exclaiming that everything they need is in the docs. After reading the doc's let us know what you had to do to get it up, OK. I gave it one last stab after the small success with your /etc/hosts suggestion I figured there were more resolution problems, and so I bit the bullet and enabled the builtin WINS server in samba, pointed the win95 box at it, and all appears to work. I don't like this because I think there should be a better way, but in the meantime, I'll use this as it appears to work. Thank you both very much. Your help is appreciated. -Dano
Re: cdrecord errors...
On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, Steve Beitzel wrote: Hello all, I have been trying to burn a particular image to CD for the last 4 hours now. In the process, I have killed 5 CD's from the same bundle. cdrecord gets about 25-30% done with the burn, and then it gives output like this: [errors snipped] ... I doubt that the drive is damaged, because I wrote a CD earlier today and it worked perfectly. I also doubt that it is the fault of Linux, because when I tried to burn the same CD from Windows, it hung after getting through about 30% of the burn. The CD-RW is a Memorex CRW-1622 using IDE-SCSI on Kernel 2.2.2. Any ideas, or do I have a bad batch of CD's here? Have you tried recreating the image? What program are you using under windoze? I had one image once that would refuse to burn with cdrecord, but burned fine with cdrwin--go figure. I've also had probably about five images that went the other way (cdrecord was fine, but cdrwin had problems). Chances are you don't have a bad batch of CD's. If they're AZO (blue back) take a look for imperfections on the bottom, but this doesn't sound like a CD problem. Another suggestions is -dummy is your friend. When testing this (Especially after you have toasted one disc, do test-burns to make sure you don't toast any more!) Good Luck! -Dano
samba 2.0 troubles
I'm having problems with samba 2.0 (the .deb in potato) that I was hoping someone could help me with. My win95 box cannot be seen by smbclient, and my linux box cannot be seen by my win95 box. Both can ping each other, however, so I don't think it's an ether problem. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[~]$ smbclient -N -L localhost Added interface ip=0.0.0.0 bcast=0.255.255.255 nmask=255.0.0.0 Domain=[ASGARD] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 2.0.2] Sharename Type Comment - --- tmpDisk Temporary file space IPC$ IPC IPC Service (Samba Server) lp Printer Generic dot-matrix printer entry Server Comment ---- BOLVERK Samba Server FRIGGPrinter WorkgroupMaster ---- ASGARD FRIGG Why is my samba box not the master? (I've got my smb.conf attached later) btw, FRIGG isn't a printer, but I would like to have it serve a printer which explains the Comment field. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[~]$ smbclient -N -L 192.168.1.30 Added interface ip=0.0.0.0 bcast=0.255.255.255 nmask=255.0.0.0 session request to 192.168.1.30 failed session request to *SMBSERVER failed [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[~]$ ping 192.168.1.30 PING 192.168.1.30 (192.168.1.30): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 192.168.1.30: icmp_seq=0 ttl=32 time=4.0 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.30: icmp_seq=1 ttl=32 time=3.1 ms my linux box (192.168.1.1) does not show up in the win95 browse window. Here's the non-comment parts of my smb.conf: [global] workgroup = ASGARD server string = Samba Server load printers = yes guest account = nobody log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 50 security = user socket options = TCP_NODELAY local master = yes preferred master = yes domain logons = yes dns proxy = no [homes] comment = Home Directories browseable = no writable = yes [printers] comment = All Printers path = /usr/spool/samba browseable = no guest ok = no writable = no printable = yes [tmp] comment = Temporary file space broseable = yes path = /tmp read only = no public = yes So in an smbclient -N -L localhost, I should see tmp shared as well as some printers, and shouldn't my servername come up and workgroup name? In my /usr/src/linux/.config: CONFIG_SMB_FS=y CONFIG_SMB_WIN95=y [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[/usr/src/linux]# uname -a Linux bolverk 2.2.1 #3 Sun Feb 7 13:52:40 EST 1999 i586 unknown In Windoze, neither StartRun\\bolverk or StartRun\\192.168.1.1 work, but Network Neighborhood lists FRIGG and only FRIGG. I think this has something to do with my samba server not being the master browser, but why is it not? Shouldn't those lines in the smb.conf ensure the samba server being master browser? When I set LM Announce = Yes and Browse Master = Disabled in Win95, the smbclient output looks the same, but FRIGG no-longer shows up in the network neighborhood window. (From the default Browse Master = Automatic) Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in Advance. -Dano
Re: CD recorder problem
On 23 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cdwrite is not as full-featured as cdrecord. Unless you have a special reason to use cdwrite, I suggest cdrecord -v -dummy -xa2 dev=3,0 speed=2 cdimage.raw ^ for testing so you don't kill a disc. if that doesn't work, try as root, are you a member of the group that owns /dev/sr0? Have you logged out and back in since becoming a member of the group? If it works as root, you have permission problems, if not, post again, and I will try and suggest other things. I have a CD recorder (Philips 2x2x6) and when I try to write a CD with cdwrite -v -D /dev/sr0 cdimage.raw I get cdwrite 2.0 Track 01: data7 Mb opening scsi device: Read-only file system At boot the CD recorder is detected: Vendor: SCSI-CD Model: ReWritable-2x2x6 Rev: 2.00 Type: CD-ROMNSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0 (scsi0:0:3:0) Synchronous at 10.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15. I have changed the permissions of /dev/scd0 (to which sr0 is symlinked) to 770; I get the same result; I have surely missed something but what? (I dont think it's a hardware problem because the recorder works under Windows)
keboaard prooblems :)
Hi, I've been having some keyboard problems on a newly installed hamm system. Often when typing some characters are repeated twice as in the subject heading. Also sometime the shift key will act as if it's held down even though it is physically up. I was wondering if anyone has had any experience with this? thanks in advance -Dano (the subject problems were actually completely accidental.) (the other typos were just typos)
Re: keboaard prooblems :)
On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Robert V. MacQuarrie wrote: Hi there Daniel, How much do you use your computer? I find i go through a new keyboard at least once a year and this is a regular symptom of it going. I often find my Shift and Ctrl keys going and they are simply worn out. Test this by pluging in a new/borrowed keyboard into your system. BTW.. I find this happens to both 9.99 and 79.99 keyboards so i tend to stay with the cheaper ones :-) Hope this helps. Thanks for the suggestion, but I don't think that is the problem. This machine is dual-booting win95, and I hate to say it, but the keyboard works fine there. I was thinking the typomatic rate settings might need to be tweaked? But then, I've never messed with a keyboard before, no need. And I don't know where to look for such things. -Dano
Re: CD recorder problem
On 24 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel J. Brosemer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 23 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cdwrite is not as full-featured as cdrecord. Unless you have a special reason to use cdwrite, I suggest cdrecord -v -dummy -xa2 dev=3,0 speed=2 cdimage.raw ^ for testing so you don't kill a disc. thanks for your answer, which has helped me to find the problem: cdrecord sent the message debian modprobe: can't locate module char-major-21 and I have found that I had forgotten to configure the scsi generic driver in kernel conf; now it works. I am nom looking for technical info about CD writing, do you know where I could find it? Well, there's always the red book, orange book, white book, etc. but that can get expensive. Are you looking for info on the hardware side (ie how the data gets on there) or data on the iso9660 filesystem? An old book Mastering CD-ROM Technology has answered all the questions I had. Mastering CD-ROM Technology by Larry Boden ISBN 0-471-12174-6 publisher: John Wiley Sons, Inc. 1995 I especially found the info on the iso9600 filesystem useful. HTH -Dano
PPP from install disks.
I remember someone mentioning that PPP support was on the install disks. I am about to install debian on a machine via PPP/ftp if possible. The ISP that my friend is with uses PAP, and I have had no luck setting up PAP in the past (though I have never used pppconfig) so I have two questions. 1) is pppconfig on the install disks? (the base system) 2) does it simplify setup for PAP dialup? Thanks in advance. -Dano
Re: Win32 utilities for Debian
On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Randy Edwards wrote: #1 A decent telnet program that handles screen redraws properly. It seems that Windows' native telnet program doesn't do such a great job, and I'm looking for something that will handle keyboard sequences nicely and will redraw my NetHack screens properly. :-) Search on your favorite engine for a program called ewan There's a win16 version anyway, I believe a win32 as well... I use it because it sends keystrokes properly! A big plus. #2 A ssh client for Windows. I'd be interested to hear if anyone knows of one. #3 An X server for Windows. Right now I'm using the MI/X server, which is okay, but it does seem to die on some programs and can be a little cumbersome to use. That's what I used for a while. I think it's the best free one. There was another but I can't remember the name. Now I have inherrited an old version of eXceed which is nice... there's my advice. Get someone to donate eXceed to your cause. Good luck, though. Good luck! -Dano
Re: boot parameters
On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Phil Reardon wrote: Hello: I would like to go to debian from my present redhat 5.1 system. I have an Adaptec 2920 controller and a Seagate ST-34555N disk. Both of these may require some parameters at the boot prompt . My question is, given that I am now using linux, how can I find out what those parameters should be? For the controller I think I need iobase(?), irq(?), scsi-id (=0), and reconnect (?). For the disk I need mbm-base(?) and irq(?). So I now only know one out of the six parameters. Can you help, please? cat /etc/lilo.conf I'm not sure what the exact line is, I think it's append= or something, but it'll be pretty obvious if you already know what to look for, and it sounds like you do. good luck -Dano
Re: boot parameters
On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Phil Reardon wrote: Daniel J. Brosemer wrote: cat /etc/lilo.conf I'm not sure what the exact line is, I think it's append= or something, but it'll be pretty obvious if you already know what to look for, and it sounds like you do. This is what I got from cat /etc/lilo.conf: boot=/dev/sda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b prompt timeout=50 image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.34-1 label=linux root=/dev/sda2 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.0.34-1.img read-only Still need help I guess. Phil Reardon Ok, I'm not sure what that initrd line is. I've never seen it before, and it's not in the lilo.conf(5) manpage. Strings it, and see if it has the parameters you're looking for, though I doubt it. More likely would be that you're not actually passing the parameters to the kernel, but to modules. I'm not sure if redhat uses an /etc/modules like debian, and I don't have a redhat system anymore to check for you. Look for this, though, it's just a list of modules the kernel loads at boot time and their parameters. Hope this helps. -Dano
Re: Segmentation fault installing Debian
On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Tony wrote: Hi, I have a Compaq Contura 3/25 notebook, 386SL, 6mb RAM, 115mb HD. I am trying to install Debian on a second partition created by FIPS. The first partition is a 60mb for Dos/Win3.1, the rest for Linux. However, in the install routine for Debian, when I try to partition the hard disk, the choice is /dev/hda. When I hit OK on that, the screen flashes segmentationfault in the lower left and then goes back to the setup prog like nothing happened. so I can't install Debian! =( How can I get around this? I can't wait to try it. This isn't a great workaround, not even a good one, but I'd go to a prompt and run fdisk (instead of cfdisk which the install starts for you). Press m for help, it's more primitive than cfdisk, but that's why I like it. Depending on where cfdisk is segfaulting, fdisk could do the same thing. Anyway, after you get a running system, you could try to figure out what's going on (ie strace cfdisk) or that sort of thing. good luck -dan
Re: Segmentation fault installing Debian
On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Tony wrote: This isn't a great workaround, not even a good one, but I'd go to a prompt and run fdisk (instead of cfdisk which the install starts for you). Press m for help, it's more primitive than cfdisk, but that's why I like it. Depending on where cfdisk is segfaulting, fdisk could do the same thing. Anyway, after you get a running system, you could try to figure out what's going on (ie strace cfdisk) or that sort of thing. hehehe, thing is, how do I do that? I am a total newbie to this. I only know my stuff about DOS/Win. How would I get to a prompt? All I have on the HD right now is one DOS partition and the other blank one. I see your logic perfectly, it is the way I want to do it but I don't know enough to get it done. =) Can you fill me in some more? Sure, hit Alt+F2 and it'll tell you to hit enter for a prompt. there's also a menu option in the main install menu go to prompt or something like that... haven't installed in a while, I'm not sure the exact text. you'll have to type fdisk /dev/hda or whatever... hda is your first ide drive, hdb your second, etc... So this segmentation fault must be some kind of incompatibility, no? Well, it's commonly caused by a memory leak in the application in question. Sometimes it's a hardware problem, it's about as general as a GPF only it's not the same thing. Unlike GPF's though, a segfault just brings down the application in question and not the whole machine! In something as tested as cfdisk, I doubt it's a memory leak, but you never know, that's why I suggested strace... if you've done C programming, maybe you could narrow down the place where it segfaults and file a bugreport. good luck -Dan
Re: [Revert to dos]
On Sat, 13 Feb 1999, Nils Lorvick wrote: Well...as usual it didn't work. I tried the fdisk /mbr command. And it didn't do ANYTHING to my computer. I still can't change my partition information at ALL. So the Fdisk /mbr option didn't fix it. My computer still locks up at the beginning. I don't even get any error messages like missing o/s. Plus the fact I have to hard boot the system everytime it does that. Anyone else can help? What I would do is boot the linux rescue floppy and get to a shell and fdisk from there to set up your partitions. Once you've done that, do a dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hd?? bs=1024 count=1 then reboot, with a dos boot floppy, execute fdisk /mbr, format each dos partition with the /s option (format c: /s). The reason for the dd line is dos for some reason requires 5?? bytes of zeros at the beginning of its partition. Rather than look up the number (I'm pretty sure it's not something sensible like 512) I just suggested 1024 bytes of zeros. It wants this before it will recognize the partition as it's own and sys it. good luck. -Dan Brosemer
wu-ftpd-academ
The Debian Weekly News had an announcement that fixes are already out for wu-ftpd-academ but are in /incoming. I seem to remember something about that being accessable only to developers. Is there a place where we can get at it? -Dan
Re: workman and sound
On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Dave Swegen wrote: [snip] It has to be said that I can only play CDs as root, despite chgrping /dev/cdrom to audio, and adding myself to /dev/cdrom Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you are using shadow passwords just adding a user to /etc/group manually is not enough, you have to use adduser or some other method to set it in /etc/group-. I'm not an expert by any means, but I think you can just add users to groups in /etc/group (though I don't know if you can add whole groups like that). I have done that quite often and it seems to work (I'm using shadow). -Dan
x11amp, lsof kernels
I recently made the upgrade (a few hours ago) to kernel 2.2.1 from 2.0.34 and really like it! I have only two questions that I would be grateful if someone more knowledgable could answer. 1. x11amp (v 0.9) used to take about 13% CPU according to top... now it's sitting steadfast at 35.3% Is it really taking more processor, or is this due to some kernel option I might have chosen? Should I recompile x11amp under kernel 2.2.1? 2. lsof won't do anything anymore (not that I expected it to). Are there any new binaries for kernel 2.2.1 in .deb form, or should I compile my own, if so, where can I get either .debs or source? Thanks in advance. -Dan ... Any resemblance between the above views and those of my employer, my terminal, or the view out my window are purely coincidental. Any resemblance between the above and my own views is non-deterministic. The question of the existence of views in the absence of anyone to hold them is left as an exercise for the reader. The question of the existence of the reader is left as an exercise for the second god coefficient. (A discussion of non-orthogonal, non-integral polytheism is beyond the scope of this message.)
Re: CD image: *.raw -- *.cif?
On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Michael Phillips wrote: Try it if you like, if I remember CD Copier right, it will just tell you invalid format if it doesn't check out. (but don't blame me if it isn't). GoldenHawk CDR-WIN will write .iso files very nicely and is available for shareware demo (long enough you can get debian on your system and burn isos all you want). Someone on this list also said WinOnCD will allow you to burn .iso files. My advice is just get cdrwin (www.goldenhawk.com). Hope this helps -Dan I've decided, against my better judgement, to do a download of the debian-i368.raw thing and just press my own CD. I have a small question, though: I'm a Win32 junkie, and the program I use to cut discs is Adobe CD Copier. The image files it accepts are .CIF files; in the FAQ portion of http://cdimage.debian.org it says that to get Windows apps to recognize the image, change the file name from *.raw to *.iso. Well, that's not gonna work, but as long as my thinking is correct, I can just rename it to *.cif and be all very well. Yes, I'm being exceedingly overcautious and perhaps that was a stupid question, but I'd rather not download 550+ megs of useless filespace, you understand.
Silly question
I'm sorry if this is a really silly question, but I was wondering where one goes to get apt-get and the necessary utilities to upgrade a hamm system to slink via ftp? Thanks for the help -Dan
Re: CD Burning
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I am very new Linux user. I have taken the time to download the raw files from the debian-cd mirror site closest to me. I wanted to master my own CD that way. I unfortuneatly only have a DOS/Windows95 machine to work with. Does anyone know of a dos or windows cd-writer that will accept raw formatted files. I have Adaptec CD Creator for win95 and it doesn't like them. Any thoughts would be very helpful. I am looking forward to getting my feet wet with Linux. What I used to use before I was enlightened and started to use linux for writing, was a package called cdr-win available from www.goldenhawk.com. If these raw files are just a direct data dump from /dev/cdwhatever then they're iso format. Cdrwin can write iso formatted files (in fact, I did that all the time) I believe there is a shareware version of it with either a small cripple (maybe only 1x writes) or an expiry (should be long enough to get you running debian). But my advice would be to download the base system on floppies, install it, download the cdrecord package, and burn the cd's in linux. ps. if the commandline to burn them is something like # cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=2,0 cdimage.raw then they're iso format and cdrwin can write them. hope this helps. -Dan
SCSI Reset.
I've just aquired a new external scsi hard drive, and I was wondering if there is any way I can add it to my chain w/o losing my uptime? Is there some utility to reset the bus or to re-poll the ID's? thanks in advance. -Dan
Re: SCSI Reset.
On Sat, 23 Jan 1999, Richard Kaszeta wrote: Daniel J. Brosemer writes (SCSI Reset.): I've just aquired a new external scsi hard drive, and I was wondering if there is any way I can add it to my chain w/o losing my uptime? Is there some utility to reset the bus or to re-poll the ID's? What is your SCSI adapter? With Adaptec 2940U2W's I've had good luck at this, *provided* that I pre-partition it on another machine, and I add it at a higher ID than the stuff that's running already... the adapter detects the change and the kernel rescans for devices. Other adapters may require you to echo something to /proc/scsi/(whatever-- not standardized) to cause a bus reset. Thanks for the suggestions. I have an old Adaptec 1452CP. The driver doesn't seem to support the proc-fs: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[/proc/scsi/aha1542]$ ls 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[/proc/scsi/aha1542]$ cat 0 The driver does not yet support the proc-fs Also, by than stuff that's running already do you include the host adapter? If so, I'm SOL because my host is on ID 7. I've tried adding the new drive on ID 6 and mounting it, and it doesn't seem to work. It is formatted fat16 already. My only experience with this is on solaris where there was a command to poll the SCSI id's (I think solaris 2.5) that could be called by root at any time. -Dan
Re: what cd-writer ?
On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 04:57:08PM -0500, Odin wrote: snipped for obfuscation Can you recommend an inexpensive PCI SCSI card to go with a Yamaha? Right now, I have two ATAPI hard drives and an ATAPI DVD drive connected to a motherboard IDE controller. I was planning on purchasing a HP ATAPI drive, but after hearing about several bad experiences with ATAPI drives, I'm interested in a SCSI-based external one. Well, I can't in good conscience reccommend anything but an adaptec. I've heard (but not experienced) that a zip-plus will erase data on a scsi hdd when not connected to an adaptec. There are other reasons, though, like support, speed, _very_ nice bios, etc. You'll pay for the niceness, but in my opinion, well worth it. If you're planning on just using your CD-R on your SCSI chain, then you don't need Ultra Wide or even SCSI-3, just get yourself a good SCSI-2 (you don't even need that, but room to expand is good, and good luck finding a Narrow SCSI-1 anymore.) If you're not buying for a corporation, my suggestion would be to watch the online auctions, sometimes they have adaptec cards. -Dan
Re: what cd-writer ?
On 21 Jan 1999, Pierfrancesco Caci wrote: If you found a yamaha model that's affordable, _Get_it!_ Those are oh, by affordable I mean it's under 600 EUR... maybe I've seen also non-rewritable models under 400 EUR, VAT included Sorry, I don't know the conversion factor yet, I paid 215$US for my CDD-2600, so pretty darn cheap. (2X6 read/write) excellent machines. They are closely followed in quality by Philips and I've had bad experience with philips crap in the past... Check goldenhawk, they list good/bad philips drives. The CDD-2600 beyond firmware 1.07 they say is a good drive (and that's what I based my decision on). So far, no problems and I've sent about 300 discs through this thing. (probably made about 10 coasters). But if you've got a bad taste in your mouth WRT philips, stay away from HP too. HP's drives are slightly disabled philips models (usually don't support all the modes). Also, IMHO, a SCSI writer is vastly superior to an IDE. In general, they support more modes, can be external (so if for some reason it refuses to eject a disc--I've had that happen--you can power-cycle the driver w/o losing your uptime). There are many other reasons such as stability, but since I don't fully understand those reasons, I won't pretent to talk about them. I didn't ever even thought of wasting my money on an IDE writer :-) The suggestion about external ones is interesting, though. Good luck! (subliminal message --- psst.. buy the yamaha) aren't you satisfied with your Philips ? The philips is nice, but I'd trade for a yamaha for two reasons: 1. CD+G (not that I'd ever use it, I'd just like to be able to), 2. yamaha usually does caddy systems while philips only does tray. (a 10$ caddy is a lot nicer to replace than a 200$ writer). -Dan
Re: what cd-writer ?
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am currently using an IDE CDR's with no problem. The main point is to buy a CDR with as more as possible memory in it ! franck SNIP that only matters on IDE. With SCSI models, I've used drives w/ anywhere from 501k to 2MB(my own) and never once had a buffer underrun. I think the only time I've ever seen the buffer drop below 85% full was while playing Quake and loading netscape (and I don't have that fast of a machine). IDE can't handle data going both ways that fast, but SCSI can. Yet another reason to go SCSI! -Dan
Re: what cd-writer ?
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Tim T. wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)) writes: [ about choosing a cd-writer ] Stay away from IDE CDR's... I recommend Yamaha SCSI or Trax-Data SCSI units etc.. The names that seem to be in the fore front on Technology Hmm, I know several people who are using a Philips 3610 rewriter with IDE interface that have good experiences with that. If you are going to use scsi, you will need to be sure to get a good scsi interface, I have seen lots of trouble with somewhat cheaper models. I have one of these beasts, and it works reasonably well. Mind you reasonably: there are some things which it apparently cannot do: I have problems ripping audio of a copied CD: for some reason, I get scsi (I use scsi emulation) timeouts. I can copy copied CD-roms just fine.. Anybody know of a fix for this ? Am I looking at dying drive or is this normal ? TimT. Anyone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that drive suffers from a weak spring. I found a web page (maybe from tomshardware--maybe not) that gave detailed instructions on how to install a new spring. It's only the spring that moves the read-head, so you shouldn't have troubles writing. (I believe--There's a few philips that suffer from this, I believe this is one of them). -Dan
Re: AMD K6-2 / Bogomips problem
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Peter Bartosch wrote: On 19-Jan-99, Peter Bartosch took time to write : bogomips should only depend on hardware no ? only on cpu (and clock) that's what i thought too, but it doesn't seem true in my case as with exactly the same hardware and no change in bios i have 700 bogomips with kernel 2.2.0pre7 and 350bogomips with kernel 2.0.36 compiled either as 586 or as 686 they are all compiled with same options (as much as possible) i've read somewhere, that this lies on the size of the cpu's cache (1st level) this is IIRC in K6-chips twice as big as in pentiums, but if i think over it this couldn't be true/realistic Actually, the main critique of the real MIPS calculation is that it is cache-dependent because it is a small loop. While I know nothing of the bogomips calculation, I assume it's similar. The problem is that the entire piece of code that calculates this fits inside the cache. Pentiums (and MMX) came standard w/ 512k, so I doubt the loop would be bigger than that, so I don't think doubling the cache size would help any. (Just celerons would really get bad numbers) :) -Dan
IP Masquerading Netscape
I am looking for some help on IP Masquerading. I'm running mostly slink with some hamm left over that I haven't gotten around to upgrading. I went through the mini-HOWTO and configured my kernel all fine, when I go to use a winsock application on my win3.1 machine (connected by ether), I have no problems except in netscape 3.01gold and ie 3.02 (though I don't care at all about ie). This is running the MSLanman 2.2c winsock (for samba). For some reason, netscape can resolve DNS names, but not connect to the hosts (FTP or HTTP) while opera can do both, and WS_FTP has no problems. When I installed SOCKS4 for debugging purposes, and configured netscape, suddenly it could contact hosts and bring back sites and dir listings, but with some problems. if I give it an IP then it has no problems unless there is an inline to another domain in the html document, in which case it doesn't bring back that image (registers as broken), when I give it a domain name, it resolves, contacts the server, then stops at waiting for reply. I'm not too sure what could cause that. I would prefer not to use SOCKS and only have the IP-Masquerading doing my forwarding, but if I require SOCKS, I'm more than ready to use it. any ideas? I can't use opera forever as it times out in a few days. -Dan Brosemer btw, I am loading the ftp_ipmasq_mod.o or whatever the name is (along with all the others like it I could find. thanks in advance!
