Re: Memory Gobbler

1997-04-22 Thread Matt Lawrence
At 09:20 AM 4/21/97 +1200, Richard L Shepherd wrote: >Yes I have read that too. However it does see the memory (when I put >"mem=128M" on the boot line). I'm not sure that cache isn't the problem, >though. It went so well for 3 weeks, then started to go downhill. This >w/e it killed itself comp

Re: IBM PS/2 computer

1997-04-07 Thread Matt Lawrence
At 10:43 PM 4/6/97 -0400, System Account wrote: > i have just recieved an old IBM PS/2 Model 80 computer (8580). > I would like to install debian on it but when i boot with the rescue disk > for the install it starts loading then uncompresses to this point: The mod 80 is a microchannel mach

disk problems

1997-04-06 Thread Matt Lawrence
Ok, I've run out of places to look. I'm getting occasional "hda:timeout" messages and my system is locking up with a disk error after anywhere from a few hours to a couple of days. When it locks up, I can still change virtual consoles, but I can't run anything and ctrl-alt-del doesn't work. Since

Re: g++ file doesn't run

1997-03-22 Thread Matt Lawrence
At 10:23 PM 3/21/97 -0500, Jeff Shilt wrote: >Thanks for the help - it does compile with g++ instead of gcc, but the executable produced isn't doing anything. Here's what i'm doing: > >//test.c Don't call it "test". -- Matt

Re: Chmodding a whole directory tree

1997-03-20 Thread Matt Lawrence
At 11:11 PM 3/19/97 -0800, Philippe Troin wrote: >Either: > find -type d | xargs chmod a+rx I'd use "find -type d -exec chmod a+rx {} \;" -- Matt (I've had problems with xargs)

Re: Sony cdu31a problem

1997-01-14 Thread Matt Lawrence
At 05:08 PM 1/13/97 -0500, Don Prezioso wrote: >I think the /dev entry you want is /dev/sonycd I have the same kind of >drive, and I didn't need to create the device. Off the wall wild guess, I >think the major number was 15. I can't be sure right now since my Debian >machine is down with a dea

Sony cdu31a problem

1997-01-13 Thread Matt Lawrence
I'm trying to install Debian 1.2 off of the Dec. InfoMagic CDs. After typing in "cdu31a=0x340" at the boot prompt, the kernel recognizes the CD drive, but there isn't an entry in /dev. It's easy enough to create one, but I don't know the appropriate major and minor device numbers. Any suggestion