Linux-Hardware Digest #340, Volume #12 Fri, 25 Feb 00 08:13:09 EST
Contents:
Re: question on ethernet card + how to stop from booting into xwindows on startup
(Werner Hein)
UDMA 66 - cmd 648 ("Tomasz Brzezina")
Re: Sun HD on Linux ("Paul F. Meyer")
Re: SB PCI128 and Red Hat Linux - Problems ("Steffen Jost")
Newbie needs help with Redhat 60 ("Morten F. Andersen")
Re: 2 days on cdrw, still nothing - please help (Werner Hein)
Reading raw data from a Sony SDT-9000 (Bryan Wallis)
Re: Win2000/Corel Linux Boot Problem (Martin Adler)
Re: Win2000/Corel Linux Boot Problem (Martin Adler)
scsi drivers (Spot)
Re: Update on Linux + OS/2 + Win2k system ("William L. Hartzell")
Re: Newbie needs help with Redhat 60 (Martin Adler)
Re: scsi drivers (Martin Adler)
Epson Stylus Color 760 and SuSE 6.3 (Stephan Schaefer)
Please advice: unable to create file/directory (H K Chan)
ATAPI CD-RW and SCSI Card prob ("Andreas Hallstein")
Re: 3-button serial mouse ("Paul Grayson")
cheap hardware! ("darren moore")
Re: Win2000/Corel Linux Boot Problem ("funtybugwana")
Re: SiS 6326 and SiS 5597 driver problems with X ("Fabio Papa (MCE)")
Re: Parallel port not recognised (G Hargreaves)
Re: Intel CC820 Motherboard (CharlieB)
Re: "Need Exactly One Arguement"?? (Carl Fink)
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From: Werner Hein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: question on ethernet card + how to stop from booting into xwindows on
startup
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 10:06:34 +0100
Hi Norman,
not to startup directly into GUI:
1)login as root
2)edit in file /etc/inittab the default runlevel
at the moment it should be set to 5
-> set it to value 3
-> at next boottime the GUI should not start automatically any more
(only via command: startx)
3)to avoid rebooting directly after editing inittab use the command: telinit 3
4)logout as root
best regards
Werner
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Infineon technologies
Werner Hein Firmware Cellular Radio
email:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone: +49-89-234-82104 Fax: +49-89-234-81066
P.O.Box 80 09 49
81609 Munich/Germany
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norman wrote:
>
> I was wondering how to prevent Caldera OpenLinux 2.something, from going
> directly to the graphical interface (xwindows?) on startup. Also I am having
> trouble getting an HP EN 1207D ethernet card to work. It is supposedly made
> by Accton and not HP and supported by two different drivers (tulip.c and
> dex345?), however
> linux recognizes it a a Realtek RTL8139 card and succesfully loads the
> appropriate driver, however the card still will not work. Finally how can I
> access what is called linuxconfig or netconfig in OpenLinux? Thanks a lot in
> advance and i appreciate any help whatsoever.
>
> norman chihwaro
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Tomasz Brzezina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: UDMA 66 - cmd 648
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 09:18:12 GMT
I've got off-board UDMA controller with chipset cmd 648. Linux (RedHat 6.1)
can't see it. Patch doesn't work also. On board controller doesn't support
HDD over 8GB. what to do?
--
Tomasz Brzezina
FidoNet Node 2:484/21
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Paul F. Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sun HD on Linux
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 09:21:19 GMT
The Sparc and Intel processors have different byte ordering and padding
requirements. You'll probably never get this to work. You can put a new
filesystem on it and use it just fine but you can't get the old data off
without
putting the disk in another sparc.
"Don't mess with those defaults, they're mandatory..."
Southeast Georgia Regional Development Center wrote:
> My Sun Spark2 died and I want to move the hard drive to my linux box.
> But I am finding that linux does not support the 4.2 filesystem.
> Are there any known work-arounds?
>
> Ron
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From: "Steffen Jost" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SB PCI128 and Red Hat Linux - Problems
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 10:22:14 +0100
Hi manuif! (is that your real name?)
I think you used to wrong parameters to get your sound card working, my card
uses the same values, but only in DOS mode!
For linux (and Winblows) it uses i/o 0xec00 and irq 10. I´m not quite sure
what the other parameters should be for the sound as a module, since I use
it as biult-into-kernel, but these seem to be the standard values, because
there was nothing to be changed in the config, at least for kernel 2.2.10.
hope this helps
Steffen
Manuif schrieb in Nachricht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I have installed Red Hat Linux with the kernel version 2.2.14.
>Everything seems to work fine, except my Soundblaster PCI128.
>During the boot procedure the system prints the following error:
>Sound device or resource busy.
>
>I have already used the tool "sndconfig" which selected the
>"es1371"-module automatically. But the error remains. If I select
>a SB Pro or SB the program sndconfig aborts with the message
>"segmentation fault".
>So I edited the file modules.config as printed below:
>
>..
>alias sound es1371
>options es1371 io=0x220 irq=7 dma=1 dma16=9 mpu_io=0x330
>..
>
>I used the settings of my autoexec.bat SB PCI entry. After
>editing the file modules.config the error message has changed to:
>invalid paramter io
>
>If I delete the part "irq=7" of the line in my modules.config I
>get another message:
>invalid parameter dma.
>
>Does anyone know how to get my SB PCI128 run under Linux?
>
>Thank you in advance for your answer,
>Manuel.
>
>PS: I have an ASUS P3B-F motherboard.
>
>
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From: "Morten F. Andersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Newbie needs help with Redhat 60
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 10:20:11 +0100
Yesterday i installed Redhat..works fine, but it will not use my Creative
Riva TNT2 Ultra card. I have only been working with Linux for a couple of
hour so I am completely in the dark on how to obtain drivers and installing
them. I have a "guidebook" but it does not help...can you!
Morten Andersen
Denmark
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From: Werner Hein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 2 days on cdrw, still nothing - please help
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 10:24:24 +0100
it might be that you have forgotten to put this line
options ide-cd ignore=hdd
into your /etc/conf.modules files.
(but this only helps if you compiled it at least ide-cd as a module!!!
ide-scsi should be a module too)
best regards
Werner
=====================================================
Infineon technologies
Werner Hein Firmware Cellular Radio
email:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone: +49-89-234-82104 Fax: +49-89-234-81066
P.O.Box 80 09 49
81609 Munich/Germany
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Tom Manning wrote:
>
> Please help me with this, I've really been working on it for quite a
> while!
>
[...]
>
> hdb: MATSHITA CR-587, ATAPI CDROM DRIVE
> hdd: Hewlett-Packard CD-Writer Plus 8200, ATAPI CDROM drive
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> hdb: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
> Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.56
> hdd: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM CD-R/RQ drive, 2048kB Cache
> scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
> scsi : 1 host.
> scsi : detected total.
> VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,64)
> VFS: Disk change detected on device ide0(3,64) <repeated several dozen
> times>
> cdrom: open failed. <repeated only twice>
>
> PLEASE can someone shed some light on this?? I've been doing everything
> right, as far as I know, and this is a last resort :(
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tom
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From: Bryan Wallis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Reading raw data from a Sony SDT-9000
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 09:30:30 GMT
There seems to be a problem with the device driver (/dev/st0, /dev/nst0)
reading raw data from the DAT tape drive. It will read the first 80 bytes
off the tape correctly. After that it will only adjust the file pointer up
9 characters and start to read again, not the 80 characters it's supposed
to. This happens when the DD command is invoked and when a program opens a
stream to the driver.
Any suggestions? Thanks!
--
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http://www.help.com/
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Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 10:36:14 +0100
Subject: Re: Win2000/Corel Linux Boot Problem
From: Martin Adler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Thats a general problem with Windows 2000. Everytime W2K boots, it overwr=
ites
the boot sec. Your going to have to fall back to a boot disk.
Hope i could help,
Martin
"funtybugwana" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have just loaded Corel Linux from PC World Magazine onto a seperate Dr=
ive
>partitioned on my Windows 2000 .. ok .. Loaded the Operating system with=
no
>problems..
>Windows does not give me the option of Dual Booting, which I dont want
>anyway as I want to Boot Linux from a Floppy Disk. From reading thru
>newsgroups I understand that this is a pretty good option.. I have made =
a
>boot disk from the CD and changed Bios settings on Motherboard to boot f=
rom
>A drive then (Win2000)C-Drive. Lilo initialises and Linux begins loading=
,
>then locks up and is waiting for me to insert CD again which starts setu=
p..
>How can I make a boot Disk that will just boot the Operating system????
>
>Thanks Mark
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Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 10:37:55 +0100
Subject: Re: Win2000/Corel Linux Boot Problem
From: Martin Adler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Ups .... to make a floppy... just compile the kernel with the option zdis=
k or
bzdisk (depending on the size of the kernel)
"funtybugwana" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have just loaded Corel Linux from PC World Magazine onto a seperate Dr=
ive
>partitioned on my Windows 2000 .. ok .. Loaded the Operating system with=
no
>problems..
>Windows does not give me the option of Dual Booting, which I dont want
>anyway as I want to Boot Linux from a Floppy Disk. From reading thru
>newsgroups I understand that this is a pretty good option.. I have made =
a
>boot disk from the CD and changed Bios settings on Motherboard to boot f=
rom
>A drive then (Win2000)C-Drive. Lilo initialises and Linux begins loading=
,
>then locks up and is waiting for me to insert CD again which starts setu=
p..
>How can I make a boot Disk that will just boot the Operating system????
>
>Thanks Mark
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From: Spot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: scsi drivers
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 09:34:13 GMT
Having a little trouble locating a Linux Driver. It's for a CD-ROM
controller (MKEPanasonic controller, Matsushita CR-563b drive). I've
tried every web site I can find, including Panasonic's (pfffft), and
message boards. I was hoping someone might know of a resource that I
don't. It's an older 2x SCSI drive, but I can't even install until I
get the driver, and none of the drivers available on the boot disk
(Redhat 6.1) will run it, so I'm kinda stuck :(
...Spot
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From: "William L. Hartzell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.setup.storage
Subject: Re: Update on Linux + OS/2 + Win2k system
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 09:47:14 GMT
> Kenneth R. Crudup Sr. SW Engineer, Scott County Consulting, Washington, D.C.
> Home1: PO Box 914 Silver Spring, MD 20910-0914
> Home2: 38010 Village Cmn. #217 Fremont, CA 94536-7525 (510) 745-8181
> Work: 19420 Homestead Road Cupertino, CA 95014-0606 (408) 447-6654
Ken:
May I ask but isn't this VMware stuff just another name for sessions-screen groups
that OS/2 uses to run Netware?? We all know that there are about a million
different sessions address spaceses available under OS/2--all 32bit
addressable/executable. After all, operating systems are limited by the hardware.
Bill
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Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 11:03:18 +0100
Subject: Re: Newbie needs help with Redhat 60
From: Martin Adler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"Morten F. Andersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Yesterday i installed Redhat..works fine, but it will not use my Creativ=
e
>Riva TNT2 Ultra card. I have only been working with Linux for a couple o=
f
>hour so I am completely in the dark on how to obtain drivers and install=
ing
>them. I have a "guidebook" but it does not help...can you!
>
>Morten Andersen
>Denmark
Make sure you have Xfree 86 3.3.5 or above (current is 3.3.6) or get it f=
or you
system at www.xfree86.org (or check the redhat www or ftp sites for an up=
date).
Once you have those, go over to www.nvidia.com and get yourself the lates=
t linux
drivers for the TNT2 Ultra. Read the readme and install first the xfree86
system then the TNT2 drivers. Should work immidiatly.
Good luck,
Martin
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Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 11:06:45 +0100
Subject: Re: scsi drivers
From: Martin Adler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Spot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Having a little trouble locating a Linux Driver. It's for a CD-ROM
>controller (MKEPanasonic controller, Matsushita CR-563b drive). I've
>tried every web site I can find, including Panasonic's (pfffft), and
>message boards. I was hoping someone might know of a resource that I
>don't. It's an older 2x SCSI drive, but I can't even install until I
>get the driver, and none of the drivers available on the boot disk
>(Redhat 6.1) will run it, so I'm kinda stuck :(
>
>...Spot
>.
As of my knowledge, you don't need any drivers for SCSI CD-ROM drives. Al=
l you
the drivers you need are for the SCSI host adapter. After that Linux will
access the SCSI CD-ROM....
Try loading a boot disk module for you scsi host adapter.=20
Good luck,
Martin
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From: Stephan Schaefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Epson Stylus Color 760 and SuSE 6.3
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 11:11:34 +0100
1) is Epson 760 supportet?
2) If yes - how to let it print? So far I can just print ascii files.
Stephan
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From: H K Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Please advice: unable to create file/directory
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 18:44:34 +0800
Hi,
I am running RedHat Linux release 6.1, I have encountered a wierd
problem that is I, as root, unable to create file or directory in a
partition which has plentiful of disk space. Below is the situation:
[root@it /home1]# touch temp
touch: temp: No space left on device
[root@it /home1]# mkdir temp
mkdir: cannot make directory `temp': No space left on device
[root@it /home1]# df
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 5447436 913304 4257416 18% /
/dev/sdb1 6048500 513904 5227348 9% /home
/dev/sda5 3099260 300176 2767600 10% /home1
[root@it /home1]#
Thanks in advance.
Gerald
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From: "Andreas Hallstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ATAPI CD-RW and SCSI Card prob
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 12:27:57 +0100
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I have a proprietary SCSI controller card provided with my scanner
(Umax Astra). Works fine with kernel 2.2.14.
In addition I'd like to get my ATAPI CD-RW to work. I installed the
SCSI emulation for IDE and all SCSI cdrom drivers, but I cannot
address the cdrw using /dev/sgcdxx
neither does cdrecord -scanbus report anything different than the
controller card ansd the scanner.
help is very much appreciated - to get rid of this buggy win98!!
cheers
Andreas
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From: "Paul Grayson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: 3-button serial mouse
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 11:04:47 -0000
> The optical mice which require a special cross-hatched pad are much
> better in dirty situations. A quick wipeover of the pad with a screen
> wipe usually solves the problem.
>
> Unfortunately such critters are somewhat scarce nowadays, although
> they are still an option for Sun kit.
>
I was in a branch of Software Warehouse last week, and it appears that a
certain company from Redmond has re-invented the optical mouse.
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From: "darren moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: cheap hardware!
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 11:55:55 -0000
check out www.exquip.com for cheap network solutions.
We also sell SUN/HP workstations and servers at low prices!
Check out the special offers page for new and upto date information.
Darren.
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From: "funtybugwana" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Win2000/Corel Linux Boot Problem
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 12:04:29 GMT
Sorry for my ignorance Martin, but I am new to Unix and while I know how to
make a boot disk under windows have no idea where to start with this system,
especially given the fact that I cannot boot into the operating system,, Can
you please point me in the direvction I should look as I have done a search
to find a FAQ for this but so far unsuccessful..
Thanks Mark
"Martin Adler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
Ups .... to make a floppy... just compile the kernel with the option zdisk
or
bzdisk (depending on the size of the kernel)
"funtybugwana" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have just loaded Corel Linux from PC World Magazine onto a seperate Drive
>partitioned on my Windows 2000 .. ok .. Loaded the Operating system with no
>problems..
>Windows does not give me the option of Dual Booting, which I dont want
>anyway as I want to Boot Linux from a Floppy Disk. From reading thru
>newsgroups I understand that this is a pretty good option.. I have made a
>boot disk from the CD and changed Bios settings on Motherboard to boot from
>A drive then (Win2000)C-Drive. Lilo initialises and Linux begins loading,
>then locks up and is waiting for me to insert CD again which starts setup..
>How can I make a boot Disk that will just boot the Operating system????
>
>Thanks Mark
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From: "Fabio Papa (MCE)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: SiS 6326 and SiS 5597 driver problems with X
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 13:22:04 +0100
Try using XFree86 rel 3.3.6 (latest): functioned for me!
Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8925ar$qg9$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Are you using the latest version of XF86Config? I've got an integrated
> SIS5597. I'm not on Linux now, but the SVGA part of XF86Config did not
work
> in any versions after the one that came with RH 6.1 (black boxes instead
of
> text). So even though I updated the other portions of X, I kept the
> original video. Then I tried the latest version that just came out, and
it
> worked, even with the newest video components. I got it off that
> freshmeat.net (I think that's the name).
>
> Sorry my message isn't very specific , but I don't remember the exact
names
> of everything.
>
> Scott
>
>
>
> "zuggzugg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Yes. I had the same problems. My solution on the 6326 was to change
> > the 8MB video ram to 4MB in XF86Config. I can't explain why it didn't
> > work with 8, but it does work now with 4.
> >
> > On Tue, 15 Feb 2000 10:25:08 +0000, G Hargreaves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > >Sorry for posting to more than one group.
> > >
> > >I have installed RedHat 6.1 and Correl Linux on two machines,
> > >with a SiS 5597 and SiS 6326 video card respectively. Both machines
> > >have encountered the same problem. The card is detected OK but during
> > >the test phase (RedHat Xconfigurator) the background is great but the
> > >text is displayed as black blocks - totally unreadable. Correl Linux
> > >does the same thing, but it has more problems. When trying to run
> > >XF86Config, the display shows black and white vertical stripes and then
> > >hangs.
> > >
> > >With RedHat 6.1, I have tried editing XF86Config file and using
> > >vga16 driver and 640x480 resolution, but the problem remains.
> > >
> > >Has anyone else encountered this problem with SiS drivers?
> > >
> > >Thanks
> > >Geoff
> >
>
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Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 12:23:58 +0000
From: G Hargreaves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Parallel port not recognised
Type make menuconfig in /usr/src/linux and have a look
under 'general setup' and 'parallel port support' this should be
either selected or have an M for loadable module. Also look under
'character devices' and 'parallel printer support'. Again, this should
be selected or a module.
If neither of the above was true, you will have to compile a new
kernel to include printer and parallel printer support.
Geoff
-
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From: CharlieB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.abit
Subject: Re: Intel CC820 Motherboard
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 06:24:08 -0600
If you really need help getting DIMMs that work and are thoroughly confused, I
finally found a friend in Crucial Technology. They seemed to know what went with
what and they bailed me out.
"M. Maioriello" wrote:
> CC820: PC-100 SDRAM, DIMMs must 3.3v, unbuffered, 4-clock, 64-bit
> (non-EEC).
> dont know about Abit BE-6II .
>
> Hope this helps
> "Sara" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:88s2gc$ghr$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Is it true that Intel's CC820 motherboard will not work with PC100 ECC
> Ram?
> > How about the Abit BE-6II ?
> >
> >
--
Thinking of running your critical apps on NT?
Isn't there enough world suffering?
Remove N O S P A M to reply
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl Fink)
Subject: Re: "Need Exactly One Arguement"??
Date: 25 Feb 2000 11:54:34 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 24 Feb 2000 19:41:13 -0800 Lucky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>" Readlink needs exactly one arguement" "try access --help"
Did you try "access --help"?
>After that line it says "error in var/cache/apt/archives
>"libc6_2.1.3.4 { --install ] How do I fix this or force it?
You could delete the file libc6_2.1.3.4 from /var/cache/archives,
since there's apparently an error there, and then just apt-get
upgrade again. If that doesn't work, you could either use dpkg to
install that one file (and see what errors you get) or try a
different version of glibc 2.1.
You can get more Debian-specific help from the Debian mailing lists.
--
Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I-Con's Science and Technology Guest of Honor in 2000 will be Geoffrey
A. Landis. See <http://www.iconsf.org> for I-Con information.
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