Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk writes:
Once you have got that far, switch to /dev/tty2 (Alt + F2) and do this
# cd /target(or maybe /mnt -- i can't check that at the moment)
# ls should show you the contents of your root partition on the hard disk
# sbin/lilo -r /target
I am running testing, my system is up-to-date, except that I haven't
let apt-get remove the 102 packages it recently wants to remove.
I believe I saw lilo get updated this weekend, during 'apt-get update
apt-get upgrade'. This morning I rebooted and got LI. (Lilo
normally let's me boot into
I am running testing, my system is up-to-date, except that I haven't
let apt-get remove the 102 packages it recently wants to remove.
I believe I saw lilo get updated this weekend, during 'apt-get update
apt-get upgrade'. This morning I rebooted and got LI. (Lilo
normally let's me boot into
kmself@ix.netcom.com writes:
Boot a standalone floppy or CDR GNU/Linux system and examine your HD.
I'd recommend Tom's Root Boot if you're running a 2.1.x kernel (TRB
doesn't handle some instances of 2.2.x ext2 filesystems), or the
LinuxCare Bootable Business Card (BBC), which uses a 2.2.x
Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk writes:
The root partition is mounted read-only to start with. You need to
load a kernel module to finish booting, but it looks as though the
rescue kernel doesn't match the modules on your hard disk.
It looks as if you may have overwritten your kernel-image
I feed off a solaris NIS server for users/groups, except root. There's
a GID=100 conflict, where NIS server says it's 'devel' and
(linux):/etc/group says it's 'users'. Can I safely groupdel users?
I'm running current potato x86 debian.
TIA!
morgan
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I'm trying to utilize my IDE CD-R drive (HP CD-Writer 8100) via scsi
emulation to burn discs with cdrecord. I've been reading
http://www.guug.de/~winni/linux/cdr/html/CD-Writing.html#toc1 for the
last couple of days, and have done a few things listed there, but now
I'm stuck.
Here's my setup:
Winfried Truemper [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Quick first answer:
(1) What happens when you load the ide-scsi module?
modprobe ide-scsi
(2) If the above works, cdrecord -scanbus would
show scsibus1 in addition to your real scsibus.
That was embarassingly
David Blackman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Okay, listen here's the deal: you need to take OUT ide-cd support
Done.
leave in scsi-emulation, scsi-generic, scsi-cdrom..
now ./MAKDEV sg
Done. I now have /dev/sg[0-16].
I'm pretty sure that the /dev/scd* come pre-made
the important thing is
David Blackman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Do you have scsi cd support?
Yes, as a module. I have a scsi adapter (aha2940), scsi cd, scsi hd
and one ide cd-r. So the scsi cd devices were already there and scd0
has been working. Please look at the kernel config snipped I posted.
Make those, keep
I posted previously about slow rdump times from linux to solaris. I
later tried dumping a local partition to another partition on the same
linux box, and it was blazing fast with no errors. So then I just
tried sending packets from linux to (a pipe to rsh to) solaris and
timing it. In this
George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
so my guess is that whatever the problem is, it is fixed in a newer
version of one of the following:
linux kernel
netstd package
One thing I forgot to mention is that the machine is running slink
2.0.36. I was considering an upgrade to potato, and
My worksite has a backup system where a central solaris 2.5.1 server
rsh-es into various other UNIX boxes (Solaris, HPUX and AIX) and does
an rdump similar to this:
/sbin/rdump -0 -u -b 32 -s 100 -f ale:/dev/rmt/1hn /scm
I recently added a linux box to the network (debian 2.1, kernel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hey guys, I really need some help solving this.. Should I back out
libc6.2.0.7.19981211-2 and reinstall libc6.2.0.7t-1? Or is there a way
to use the new version of libc6 but get rid of the errors? I have
several packages on hold pending resolution of this.
I had
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Thanks a bunch for the reply - but not sure if I understood you. I
downloaded the libc6 package from slink - it gave me version
2.0.7.981211-2. The version in hamm is 2.0.7t. Are you saying I should
use the hamm version instead of the slink version?
First off, let
Brant Wells [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is there an X-based programming environment like Visual Basic, or Visual
C++??? Any help woule be appreciated.
Dunno if it's true, but I heard that Metrowerks is planning on porting
their IDE to linux/X11.
morgan
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Lance Hoffmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What is the easiest way to locates files (say HTML) by text in their
documents?
find ~/somedir -iname *\.htm* -exec grep -i some text {} \; -print
morgan
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VVV
M o r g a n F l e t c
Joo Hwan Jang [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am interest in Linux, but I don't decide yet if I choose it or not. So
I'd like to install Linux and Windows NT 4.0 together. That means I want
to make my computer dual bootable. Is it possible? If so, how? Please
let me know. After considering
Andrew Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Just those disks you have are scsi disks, more generalized form of
lilo.conf would be with IDE ones. sd? should just be replaced with hd?
Yeh. Also, dropping the vga=ask part and the prompt part would
make it even more generic.
morgan
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Brian Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I know this is going to sound cheesy to all you hardcore guys out
there, but is there a way to bring back the install script that
comes with slink at the beginning of the install process?
I believe booting from the rescue disk you installed with will get
Remco van de Meent [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'd say reinstall the package, maybe went wrong during installation ? This
is really strange..
Debian doesn't let you uninstall base packages like libc6 or ldso, and
I don't see a way to force a re-installation of an installed
package. I wonder if
I have no ldd executable.
I installed slink onto a tabula rasa i386 PC a few days ago, using
3.5 floppies for the base system. Once I'd installed the base, I did
an `apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade`. What I didn't realize, or think
to look for, is that the slink base install included an
Remco van de Meent [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
That's kinda strange. I assume, you mean with `current' the current slink
distribution.
Yeah.
astroman:/etc# cat /etc/debian_version
2.1
astroman:/etc# (apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade) 21 | grep upgrade
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly
Ed Cogburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Not sure what you are asking here.
The question: If a debian system records package information about a
down-rev (later) distribution in its package database, is it possible
to exclude packages existing solely in that down-rev distribution from
the package
I installed debian from stable hamm, via CD-ROM. Then I upgraded to
unstable. I grabbed apt, and pointed /etc/apt/sources.list at
unstable. Then I figured out the diff between slink/potato
(frozen/unstable) and pointed /etc/apt/sources.list at slink.
So now dselect shows a bunch of packages that
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The subject says it all.
Try the -x flag to bash - it's quite useful. Strace is also good, if you
don't mind sifting through a lot of information.
$ bash -x myscript.sh
[...]
$ strace myscript.sh | less
[...]
The above advice is based on the
OK, I think I missed something. I installed 2.0 from CD after it was
released. I watched the progress of slink and then decided to upgrade to
it, but I think I went past it. I had already gotten some unstable stuff
from the debian web site, including apt. (The #debian crowd is cutting
edge, and I
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