Re: 1.2 release?
On Sat, 14 Dec 1996, Daniel Stringfield wrote: On Sat, 14 Dec 1996, J. Ramos Goncalves wrote: What's the size of the CD (is it 650MB?). I have a mirror of bo, rex, contrib and non-free and they take just over 300MB. Am I missing something? Thats not including everything that must go on the CD though.. is it not, Dale? My archive includes contrib (no non-free) and rex; binary-all, binary-i386, disks-i386, msdos-i386, and source. Currently my archive is hovering at just under 600 meg. Luck, Dwarf -- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 877-0257 Flexible Software Fax: NONE Black Creek Critters e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you don't see what you want, just ask -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Postscript printing to a Deskjet printer
I'm just getting started in use Ghostview to check out .ps files, and VIEWING them has been ok. But when I print them they turn out less than perfect.. It looks like the text was printed, and then someone went over it and printed nonsense with the microsoft's wingding fonts. I'm running magicfilter with a generic deskjet selected. (I have a Deskjet 310, capable of COLOR or B/W with cart swap)... printing in b/w. Am I just out of luck printing .ps files on this printer? -- Daniel Stringfield mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jax-inter.net/users/servo Send email for more information on the Jacksonville Linux Users Group! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Grab updates from a non-Debian machine ?
I read that there is a 'dftp' C-shell-script in the 'contrib/tool' directory in the ftp site but I couldn't find it !! Does anyone know where it is ?? This is copied out of the package description: Dftp can also be run on a non-Debian machine in the case where the Debian machine does not have FTP access. For this, stand-alone versions of dftp, in both csh and perl source, are available under /debian/project/misc. I also have difficulties in finding out more info about how to use this script, if it ever exists, to grab the updates. Pointers to these questions would be much appreciated. Unfortunately I can't help with pointers to documentation because I use only dpkg-ftp. Perhaps somebody else who uses dftp ? Greetings, Christian -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
nfs: error, debian-user list not responding, still trying :-)
Would some kind soul be willing to offer suggestions re. an nfs problem? I posted this on 3 Dec. and have not received any replies: I'm using the Debian 1.1 release, 2.0.6 kernel. I'm accessing an nfs mounted drive on my desktop from my notebook over a serial cable (thanks all!). Sometimes it works great, sometimes (especially when copying a long list of files using 'git') I get error, server not responding, still trying. The man page on the timeout sequence doesn't seem to match what's happening: I get the error message once, and the session locks up forever. Will adjusting the timeout fix this? What's the *right* thing to do? Both serial ports are 16550A's. Muchas gracias for any pointers or suggestions. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: two net Q's: (1) serial nfs/ppp, (2) dropped gateway route
...I've set up an ethernet connection which generally is working well (after about a week now), but twice today I've lost my gateway route without any notice or warning. Surely this isn't normal (right?) but what can I do? Why does this happen, and what's the best fix? (My network and loopback routes are intact, but I lose my gateway. I have to restart to get it back.) The problem: routed is running, occasionally replacing the static gateway route. The fix: disable routed. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Virtual Terminals Greater Than tty8.
What was the command line for your mknod for each one? mknod tty9 c 4 9 mknod tty10 c 4 10 mknod tty11 c 4 11 etc. Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mgetty minicom port locking conflict
How do I get mgetty and minicom to share a port? I want mgetty to sit around normally to receive calls and faxes, but I want to dialout on this line too. Running minicom tells me that the port (/dev/cuax) is busy, either as root or not. ppp seems to have no problem getting past mgetty. As I understand it, cuax are the dialout devices, so telling minicom to use /dev/cuax should be correct. Any thoughts? thanks, Hamish -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mgetty minicom port locking conflict
On Sun, 15 Dec 1996, Hamish Moffatt wrote: How do I get mgetty and minicom to share a port? I want mgetty to sit around normally to receive calls and faxes, but I want to dialout on this line too. Running minicom tells me that the port (/dev/cuax) is busy, either as root or not. ppp seems to have no problem getting past mgetty. Use /dev/ttyS? for ALL programs sharing the line. As I understand it, cuax are the dialout devices, so telling minicom to use /dev/cuax should be correct. Nope. /dev/cua? is obsolete. I run diald, mgetty, and still can use minicom. All ports are set to /dev/ttyS3 though. -- Daniel Stringfield mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jax-inter.net/users/servo Send email for more information on the Jacksonville Linux Users Group! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dot-matrix printers
Hello, ALL! I've an old dot-matrix printer, a Citizen 200GX, and I'm at a *great* distance from purchasing any postscript printer. There is some way of print .ps files in this printer? It's epsons and/or ibm-proprinter compatible. Thanks. Alexander Gieg =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= By: Alexander Gieg E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/3222 IRC: AlexG =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PCB, Abuse, Xaw* etc.
Hello, ALL! 1) When I attempt to use PCB it doesn't work, saying that there is no libXaw.so.6. They look in /usr/lib and /lib, so I tried to put a symlink in one of these directories to the real libXaw file, and runned ldconfig, but didn't work. 2) I'm trying to use the game Abuse (contrib) without X, but it seems to don't recognize the mouse. Other softwares works with mouse without problem. It's a bug in Abuse? 3) I've installed the Xaw3d and Xaw95 packages, and now I'm with three 'libXaw.so.?' files, but the softwares don't seem to work with 3d decorations. I need to delete, move, copy, symlink or another thing any of these libraries? There is the need for recompiling some programs? I've read the documentation but, with sicerity, I don't understood anything. :-( 4) Where is the fdos package that dosemu needs? I didn't find it. 5) There are some packages required or suggested by another with aren't classified in any Package file of either rex, contrib or non-free, like xcompat and xcontrib. There is some problem if I'll do a manual installation? 6) Wath I do when a package needs another package that don't exists, like xbmbrowser, who needs pbmplus? I know that netpbm have pbmplus, but dselect don't, and give me some error messages. Some solution for one or more of these problems? Thanks. Alexander Gieg =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= By: Alexander Gieg E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/3222 IRC: AlexG =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
findns error
I attached my /var/log/debug file. Any time I send email on my network, like [EMAIL PROTECTED] i get this message. the actuall destination host is dst.dsnc.net and this is also where I run BIND. (this is a private network. all addresses resolve to 192.168.1.0 network, and the names don't exist on the internet) I don't even KNOW what this error message means. If someone could at least tell me what it means, it would be appreciated. -- Daniel Stringfield mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jax-inter.net/users/servo Send email for more information on the Jacksonville Linux Users Group! Dec 15 09:56:46 dst named[14430]: sysquery: findns error (3) on dsnc.net?
loadlin bootable CD
OK, in theory, one should be able to make a CD bootable with LILO. I can't figure out how. If someone has an idea how to do this, I'll try to burn some CDs and try it out. Thanks, Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are Crunchy, and good with Catsup! ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Why does stable point to rex?
I'm a new Debian user (but my Linux usage goes back to 0.93), and seem to have entered the picture just as 1.2 is being refined. What follows is a question asked out of ignorance on my part! According to the FAQ, the rex directory is for unstable and development distributions, and the README at ftp.debian.org:debian/ says bo is for unstable software. Then, I see that rex is supposedly the stable distribution of Debian 1.2. Am I missing something? According to the FAQ, buzz is supposed to be the latest stable release, so why doesn't stable point to that rather than rex? Ultimately, my question is, is rex considered a stable release of Debian 1.2? My guess is yes, it's just that I'm getting confused (and it ain't hard to confuse me!). -- Don Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Math Sciences Voice (405) 581-2396 Cameron University Fax (405) 581-2616 Lawton, OK 73505http://www.cameron.edu/~morton -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why does stable point to rex?
On Sun, 15 Dec 1996, Don Morton wrote: According to the FAQ, the rex directory is for unstable and development distributions, and the README at ftp.debian.org:debian/ says bo is for unstable software. Then, I see that rex is supposedly the stable distribution of Debian 1.2. Am I missing something? According to the FAQ, buzz is supposed to be the latest stable release, so why doesn't stable point to that rather than rex? Ultimately, my question is, is rex considered a stable release of Debian 1.2? My guess is yes, it's just that I'm getting confused (and it ain't hard to confuse me!). Rex IS version 1.2 and buzz is the 1.1 version. Bo is the current unstable work in progress. -- Daniel Stringfield mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jax-inter.net/users/servo Send email for more information on the Jacksonville Linux Users Group! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PATH in /root/.bash_profile
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Why /usr/local/sbin and /usr/local/bin have been removed from PATH in /root/.bash_profile? (from Debian 1.1 to Debian 1.2). Is this a bug to be fixed, or just that now we have to manually include that in the path if we want to have that in the path? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: latin1 iQCVAwUBMrQgCSqK7IlOjMLFAQEMMwQAhIWpKaaQYb1tRnBS2Z1ErK9WId9414A+ l173e8Z1vVOaLAtC6BB6HVNWIBszhFQdBYPZQaNiD+MPFeKq5glYBo2JAIdi4NZT Yq1odbjzN9AlguoUn/mWWqYTwizwWasFfqHMX4L8+fKlIqG7+Y3RsoMbzh8eVlRg 2WDS8DchTh0= =iTOg -END PGP SIGNATURE- Santiago Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why does stable point to rex?
The symbolic links tell what is stable or unstable, not the dir names. When debian_1.2 was released few days ago, it was time to change the links to point at the right direction. So, the faq is now incorrect. Ioannis Tambouras [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP 512/D042DD45, West Palm Beach, Florida -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Install problem with WD 7197 SCSI controller
I can't get the install to detect my Western Digital 7197 SCSI controller. I keep getting the message that I don't have any hard drives. Is there an option that I didn't see that can help me with this? I have 1G partitioned for Win 95/ Win NT and 3G unpartitioned. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 1.2 release?
On Sat, 14 Dec 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: The distribution has gotten so large that 1.2 barely fits on a CD, How can you say that? I downloaded the whole rex (1.2) yesterday, including contrib, non-free, and non-us. Also all the disk images. This was in total just above 300 MB. Did I miss something? // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 1.2 release?
On Sun, 15 Dec 1996, Jonas Bofjall wrote: How can you say that? I downloaded the whole rex (1.2) yesterday, including contrib, non-free, and non-us. Also all the disk images. This was in total just above 300 MB. Did I miss something? Source. -- Daniel Stringfield mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jax-inter.net/users/servo Send email for more information on the Jacksonville Linux Users Group! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrade from 1.1 to 1.2
Further info on my upgrade: I just noticed that some daemons were not re-started during the upgrade, notably cron. I believe lpr and ypbind were also not restarted. -- Scott Barker Linux Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cuug.ab.ca:8001/~barkers/ (under construction) [ I try to reply to all e-mail within 3 days. If you don't ] [ get a response by then, I probably didn't get your e-mail. ] [ Unsolicited commercial and junk e-mail will be proof-read for US$100 ] When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist. - Dom Helder Camara -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[no subject]
Scott Barker wrote: Further info on my upgrade: I just noticed that some daemons were not re-started during the upgrade, notably cron. I believe lpr and ypbind were also not restarted. Yes, quite a nuisance, happened here just as well. And as expected it whipped out the Accelerated X installation, but a quick Xinstall from this products subdirectory fixed that. What is really annoying and downright dangerous though is the fact that like with another update in past the system forgot it's runlevel during this session. So a reboot resulted in a hard one, with a long time fsck'ing 13GB of HDs and INN (where's 1.5? ;-) nor Squid (where's 1.10? ;-) where too happy either and did spend some more time doing a renumber and slow restore respectively... This will teach me to do a manual shutdown of major subsystems the next time. Mata ne, CB -- // CB aka Christian Balzer, Tannenstr. 23c, D-64342 Seeheim, Germany \X/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Voice: +49 6257 83036, Fax/Data: +49 6257 83037 SWB - The Software Brewery - | Team H, Germany HQ | Anime no Otaku -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Package: Base
I'm trying to upgrade a package that requires base (= 1.2.0-3) and says I have an older version. (1.1 something) but I can not find a package named base anywhere. Any clues to what happened to this package? -- Daniel Stringfield mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jax-inter.net/users/servo Send email for more information on the Jacksonville Linux Users Group! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Base package
In regards to my last message, I see that package base has been replaced with base-files. and that Base-files replaces base but shouldn't it not provide base? -- Daniel Stringfield mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jax-inter.net/users/servo Send email for more information on the Jacksonville Linux Users Group! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: package creation, basics
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 14 Dec 1996, Ioannis Tambouras wrote: After reading the debian-faq, I am having trouble creating a debian package for local use. One day it will reach debian.org too, I hope! % ls control.tar.gz data.tar.gz debian-binary control/ data/ % /usr/bin/ar -rc ascii-1.2_1.deb control.tar.gz data.tar.gz debian-binary This ascii-1.2_1.deb (my unofficial debian package) is not recognized by dpkg as a valid .deb package. What should I have done instead? Ioannis Tambouras [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP 512/D042DD45, West Palm Beach, Florida The best way to learn who to do it is to take a simple package (such as hello) and use dpkg-deb to extract both the contains (-x) and the control files (-e) in a directory... After that, you can look at some of the src files. And please, use dpkg-deb -b to build you're package. It's really mush easier and could avoid some errors. Good luck! - --- Our policy is, when in doubt, do the right thing. -- Roy L Ash - --- Fabien Ninoles aka le Veneur|| Running Debian-Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED]|| Lover of MOO, mountains, http://www-edu.gel.usherb.ca/ninf01 || poetry and Freedom. - --- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMrSFwlX6fc7jcjhFAQF8OQP+PeEuoEEuPAJyv0C9vBxBE3IP1lfen+Aw J4PTKMkoF5IwLmD7fg9YNmTWKSTJDDUqYCcBFI0rBzqYt4RH+vQSg49s0dvAHQLu rlE3hyUZemvBIX7HdEZ+4NU8zqK8u5i4Ab8AW5XuMxJwFhmwTDebLYpu39+oE1PN imd/k/2rdbI= =iC7i -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CD rom kernel support
Hi I am attempting to install from a iConnect CD circa September 12 1996. After gross problems with changing a controller and a slightly defective CD ROM, I am almost ready to run dselect. BUT when the boot up occurs there is a message that I have not provided any parameters for the cdrom module, so the module doesn't get loaded. If I use insmod path-to-module/sr_mod.o the module is loaded and I can mount the CD ROM. What must I tell the module install routine to make it fix things so it will actually load the cd module? David - LINUX: the FREE 32 bit OS for [345]86 PC's available NOW! David B Teague | User interface copyrights software patents make [EMAIL PROTECTED] | programing a dangerous business. Ask me or [EMAIL PROTECTED] counter-intelligence wild porno sex gold bullion National Security terrorist bomb Iran encryption munitions hydrazine ammonium nitrate fuel oil bomb -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Package: Base
Some of base is renamed base-files. Other parts have split up further. You should file a bug against the package which you are downloading which still depends upon base, if one hasn't already been filed against it. -- Kevin Dalley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: loadlin bootable CD
On Sun, 15 Dec 1996, Tim Sailer wrote: OK, in theory, one should be able to make a CD bootable with LILO. I can't figure out how. If someone has an idea how to do this, I'll try to burn some CDs and try it out. I am aware of how to do this with loadlin and initrd, however, the only reason for using initrd is to configure mount points on the CD to r/w disk for the portions of the system that needs to be changed from time to time. I don't think that initrd can be run from lilo (but I could be mistaken), but if you are willing to configure the system (fstab for instance) completely before comitting it to CD you should be able to boot the CD from a small partition with lilo and a kernel that has built in drivers for the cd drive. However, this is a lot of work to get a system that will, by virtue of CD access speeds be brutally slow. The main reason for my interst in this path is that it provides a path for bringing up a system (larger than base) without boot, root, and base disketts, from which a real system can be installed with all the networking tools needed to perform this installation in whatever method the installer desires. I have been hearing on Linux-Kernel that there is work being done to patch the kernel so that it will boot with a loop device, thus allowing an ext2 file system to be built as a file image that can be copied to any partition (either dos or linux) and be booted using the loop device to mount root. This would be a read/write filesystem without the limitations on umsdos file systems. This configuration can be booted from either lilo or loadlin. Luck, Dwarf -- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 877-0257 Flexible Software Fax: NONE Black Creek Critters e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you don't see what you want, just ask -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dot-matrix printers
Hello, ALL! I've an old dot-matrix printer, a Citizen 200GX, and I'm at a *great* distance from purchasing any postscript printer. There is some way of print .ps files in this printer? It's epsons and/or ibm-proprinter compatible. Install apsfilter or magicfilter. I use apsfilter and print to an HP laser printer without postscript. (You will also want the lpr and gs (ghostscript) packages.) -- Stellar Orbits Technology Systems ``Custom and Internet programming to fit your needs.'' Visit: http://www.orbits.com/ Or Call: (301) 230-2659 David H. Silber / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://www.orbits.com/~dhs/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: loadlin bootable CD
On Sun, 15 Dec 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: I am aware of how to do this with loadlin and initrd, however, the only reason for using initrd is to configure mount points on the CD to r/w disk for the portions of the system that needs to be changed from time to time. I don't think that initrd can be run from lilo (but I could be mistaken), but if you are willing to configure the system (fstab for instance) completely before comitting it to CD you should be able to boot the CD from a small partition with lilo and a kernel that has built in drivers for the cd drive. However, this is a lot of work to get a system that will, by virtue of CD access speeds be brutally slow. The main reason for my interst in this path is that it provides a path for bringing up a system (larger than base) without boot, root, and base disketts, from which a real system can be installed with all the networking tools needed to perform this installation in whatever method the installer desires. I have been hearing on Linux-Kernel that there is work being done to patch the kernel so that it will boot with a loop device, thus allowing an ext2 file system to be built as a file image that can be copied to any partition (either dos or linux) and be booted using the loop device to mount root. This would be a read/write filesystem without the limitations on umsdos file systems. This configuration can be booted from either lilo or loadlin. I see alot of BIOS's that have Boot Device: A:, C:, or CD-ROM. I believe SCO OpenServer is able to boot off of CD-ROM (but not the prefered method, if you use BTLD's).. I wonder how they do it? There has got to be a way... just that several CD-R disks are going to get wasted in the process.. I think.. :) -- Daniel Stringfield mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jax-inter.net/users/servo Send email for more information on the Jacksonville Linux Users Group! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FWD: problem with sound module in custom kernel
Victor Torrico has been having problems getting this message to the list, so I offered to forward it, as I am not very familiar with the sound module. Can someone give him a hand? - From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Dec 15 20:08:04 1996 Date: Sun, 15 Dec 1996 19:04:11 -0500 From: Victor Torrico [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cannot make zImage that includes sound in kernel Hello, I can compile a zImage fine without sound options enabled in xconfig. As soon as the proper sound options for my sound card (SoundBlaster 16) are enabled in xconfig the zImage compile stops as follows. Also what is CONFIG_AUDIO option? I can't find it in xconfig or in makefile. Using latest .deb kernel-source and kernel-headers (2.0.27). Would someone really be kind and give me a hand? Thanks bunches, Victor Torrico * here's where compile fails * make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.27/drivers/scsi' make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.27/drivers/sound' gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.27/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strength-reduce -pipe -m486 -malign-loops=2 -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2 -DCPU=586 -c -o patmgr.o patmgr.c gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.27/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strength-reduce -pipe -m486 -malign-loops=2 -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2 -DCPU=586 -c -o sb_card.o sb_card.c gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.27/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strength-reduce -pipe -m486 -malign-loops=2 -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2 -DCPU=586 -c -o sb_common.o sb_common.c sb_common.c:21: #error You will need to configure the sound driver with CONFIG_AUDIO option. sb_common.c:266: warning: `sb16_set_mpu_port' defined but not used make[2]: *** [sb_common.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.27/drivers/sound' make[1]: *** [sub_dirs] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.27/drivers' make: *** [linuxsubdirs] Error 2 ^ | ** Here's where compile stops --- Thanks, Dwarf -- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 877-0257 Flexible Software Fax: NONE Black Creek Critters e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you don't see what you want, just ask -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FWD: FVWM95 Configuration File Wanted
Here's another problem from Victor. Can someone give him a hand? From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Dec 15 20:14:12 1996 Date: Sun, 15 Dec 1996 19:12:44 -0500 From: Victor Torrico [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FVWM95 Configuration File Wanted Hi, Would someone be really kind and eMail me a copy that works well of their FVWM95 Window Manager file fvwm2rc95 aka system.fvwm2rc95. Mine is all dorked up and half the stuff doesn't work. The screen stuff is fine except many of the selections don't work. I am using all the latest .deb versions of fvwm, fvwm2, fvwm-common and fvwm95. Thanks bunches. Cheers, Victor Torrico [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, Dwarf -- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 877-0257 Flexible Software Fax: NONE Black Creek Critters e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you don't see what you want, just ask -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Package: Base
On Sun, 15 Dec 1996, Daniel Stringfield wrote: I'm trying to upgrade a package that requires base (= 1.2.0-3) and says I have an older version. (1.1 something) but I can not find a package named base anywhere. Any clues to what happened to this package? Which package? The 1.2 system has replaced base with base-files. However base-files doesn't remove base during an upgrade, but doesn't provide base either, so a new installation will appear to have no base support. Don't know what Bruce plans to do to fix this. Luck, Dwarf -- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 877-0257 Flexible Software Fax: NONE Black Creek Critters e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you don't see what you want, just ask -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Package: Base
On Sun, 15 Dec 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: Which package? Smartlist. The 1.2 system has replaced base with base-files. However base-files doesn't remove base during an upgrade, but doesn't provide base either, so a new installation will appear to have no base support. Don't know what Bruce plans to do to fix this. I guess this could be a bug for the base/base-files. Hmm.. how does one file a bug report debian style? (Never done it before) -- Daniel Stringfield mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jax-inter.net/users/servo Send email for more information on the Jacksonville Linux Users Group! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
