Re: [LILO / NT Bootmanager]
At 03:17 PM 5/3/97 +0200, Thomas Aardal Hanssen wrote: Hello, I have a few q's about booting: 1)I have NT4.0 on my pc (sorry to say, but I need it...), and I would like to be able to boot both of my OS'es from a single bootmanager. I haven't found any docs or faqs about whether or not LILO or bootmanager/NT support eachother, only OS/2. Is there anyone who could tell my how to boot from /dev/hda to my NT partition /dev/hda3 as well as my Linux drive, /dev/hdb ?? (My swap is on /dev/hdb5) Hi Thomas, I do it like this: /dev/hda1 - win95 (for games, also contains NT boot loader) /dev/hda3 - linux (set to active, lilo is installed here - not the mbr) /dev/hsa1 - NT 4.0 The BIOS automatically boots off /dev/hda3, since it is active, and thus into lilo. From the lilo prompt I type 'win' if I want to start NT loader. This is set up in lilo.conf as type 'other' and just points to /dev/hda. This fires up the NT bootloader which presents me with the menu from boot.ini on /dev/hda1 (or C: from windows point of view), I then pick which windows I want and way it goes. Note: lilo is not installed on the mbr. I don't think this works if it is. Mail me back if you need to see my lilo.conf and boot.ini and I will mail them to you. Cheers, Shawn -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
DIETY: Automagically enhanced.
I was thinking about maybe an argument for diety so it can be added to cron.weekly to check for updated packages and *optionally* automatically download it with an email to root about the update including the description and dependancies. In addition add the ability to mark *specific* packages for always auto or always manual download. Maybe further complicate it :) with auto-install (a stretch maybe?), maybe for only specially marked packages that won't cause problems if installed in the background. --Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: [LILO / NT Bootmanager] - correction
A correction to my previous post: /dev/hda1 - win95 (for games, also contains NT boot loader) /dev/hda3 - linux (set to active, lilo is installed here - not the mbr) /dev/hsa1 - NT 4.0 /dev/sda1 - NT 4.0 (referenced in boot.ini) whoops! Cheers, Shawn -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Question: how to switch from an OLD Slackware system to GNU/Debian?
We have an ancient Slackware system: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /felix/brannon/pkg/glibc-2.0.3 : ./configure creating cache ./config.cache checking host system type... i586-pc-linux-gnu running configure fragment for ./sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux checking installed Linux kernel header files... TOO OLD! configure: error: GNU libc requires kernel header files from Linux 2.0.10 or later to be installed before configuring. The kernel header files are found usually in /usr/include/asm and /usr/include/linux; make sure these directories use files from Linux 2.0.10 or later. This check uses linux/version.h, so make sure that file was built correctly when installing the kernel header files. [EMAIL PROTECTED] /felix/brannon/pkg/glibc-2.0.3 : that we want to completely replace with Debian in an NFS environment. Are there any HOWTOs on this? Or could someone please instruct on the process? -- oo Sending unsolicited commercial e-mail (UCE) to this address Legal Notice is indication of your consent to pay me $120/hour for 1 hour oo minimum for professional proofreading technical assessment. terrence brannon * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://rana.usc.edu:8376/~brannon -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Question: how to switch from an OLD Slackware system to GNU/Debian?
The only good way of doing this is back up as much stuff as you think you absolutely need and a little bit more. Reformat the hard disks and reinstall debian from scratch. Slackware is not upgrade friendly, particularly the older version. George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Question: how to switch from an OLD Slackware system to GNU/Debian?
The only good way of doing this is back up as much stuff as you think you absolutely need and a little bit more. Reformat the hard disks and reinstall debian from scratch. Slackware is not upgrade friendly, particularly the older version. I should have given a bit more information. Since the user disk space is mounted on other machines, the situation is not very bad. We probably just need to save /etc/passwd, /etc/printcap, and our X11 configuration files. [EMAIL PROTECTED] /felix/terry/pkg : uname -a Linux palm 2.0.0 #1 Mon Sep 9 19:25:59 GMT 1996 i586 [EMAIL PROTECTED] /felix/terry/pkg : cat /etc/fstab /dev/hda2 swapswapdefaults 1 1 /dev/hda1 /ext2defaults 1 1 none /procprocdefaults 1 1 quake:/var/mail /usr/mail nfs hard quake:/export/freeway /export/freeway nfs hard quake:/export/dumbo /export/dumbo nfs hard seal:/felix /felix nfs hard seal:/oscar /oscar nfs hard /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 ro [EMAIL PROTECTED] /felix/terry/pkg : -- terrence brannon * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://rana.usc.edu:8376/~brannon -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: DIETY: Automagically enhanced.
I was thinking about maybe an argument for diety so it can be added to cron.weekly to check for updated packages and *optionally* automatically download it with an email to root about the update including the description and dependancies. In addition add the ability to mark *specific* packages for always auto or always manual download. Maybe further complicate it :) with auto-install (a stretch maybe?), maybe for only specially marked packages that won't cause problems if installed in the background. Maybe an extension/modification of the perl CPAN module would work for this (it downloads/builds/tests/installs perl modules from the distributed CPAN archives and can tell you what modules have been updated beyond your installed versions). Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Question: how to switch from an OLD Slackware system to GNU/Debian?
On 3 May 1997, Terrence M. Brannon wrote: The only good way of doing this is back up as much stuff as you think you absolutely need and a little bit more. Reformat the hard disks and reinstall debian from scratch. Slackware is not upgrade friendly, particularly the older version. I should have given a bit more information. Since the user disk space Especially since I'm in the middle of doing a successful upgrade on a slackware 2.x system to Debian right now, and I'm going to do a Redhat 3.0.3 system later. Phillip Hands [EMAIL PROTECTED] has also done this before with an in-place system, and has started on a HOWTO started on how to do it. Sometimes a complete reinstall isn't possible. After all, I'm in California and the machines I'm upgrading are in Mississippi. -douglas -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Help: eth0 is not being found
I just downloaded the stable Debian (Jan 1997) release and installed it. I told the install program I was connected to a network and gave it the proper IPADDR, NETMASK, NETWORK, and BROADCAST values --- I checked them in /etc/init.d/network. However, upon reboot or manual running of the network file, I get the errors: SIOCSIFADDR: No such device SIOCSNETMASK: No such device SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable We *do* have an ethernet card and it worked fine under Slackware, but for some reason I cannot get GNU/Debian Linux to recognize it. -- oo Sending unsolicited commercial e-mail (UCE) to this address Legal Notice is indication of your consent to pay me $120/hour for 1 hour oo minimum for professional proofreading technical assessment. terrence brannon * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://rana.usc.edu:8376/~brannon -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Help: eth0 is not being found
Brian Freeze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Join the club. What is the ethernet card you are using and what module are you calling up? I dont know what ethernet card we have. Were we supposed to call up a module? Our /etc/modules file just has #auto nfs serial in it. I will be more than happy to add lines to this one-at-a-time if there is a list of them somewhere. I have a dlink 220 that is giving me the same problems and I have had problems with 3com in the past but debian seems to have that one fixed now for new installes. -- oo Sending unsolicited commercial e-mail (UCE) to this address Legal Notice is indication of your consent to pay me $120/hour for 1 hour oo minimum for professional proofreading technical assessment. terrence brannon * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://rana.usc.edu:8376/~brannon -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: hot-change disk arrays...can I do it on Linux?
Pete Templin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hot-swap drives: this is a functionality of the drives, right? I'd have to have disk drives that were manufactured to stand up to that, correct? The hardware (and maybe the software too) must support hot-swap. Assuming that I have a hot-swap disk in my machine and a spare disk on my shelf, and that I was not using RAID or anything special on that disk, would I need a special controller or customizations to the OS to use it (i.e. be able to take out the failed drive and stick in the new (formatted) drive)? Is hot-swap only for RAID arrays? Hot-swap is most useful when the missing data that was located on the failed disk can be auto-regenerated, either from a mirror disk or using a parity disk. Hardware RAID: Hardware RAID is independent of the operating system, right? Aside from software to control/tweak the array parameters, I need only to have driver support for the controller, right? Ideally, yes, although the OS could possibly need to control some functions. It depends on the hardware. Hot-growth arrays: Our NT servers have the ability to add a disk to the RAID array live on the fly. All the administrator has to do is tell the controller to add the new disk to the array and BINGO! bigger array. Is that a functionality of the controller? What other parts of the computing system need to be modified to support that (i.e. can I do that with my Debian systems)? The filesystem needs to be expanded. I believe Theodore Ts'o is working on writing (or is planning to write) a filesystem expansion program for ext2. Dan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Help installing dosemu
I'd like to get dosemu up and running, but it says I need to get FreeDOS first. What is FreeDOS? Where can I get it? When I get it, what do I do with it? Thanks. Adam Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Help installing dosemu
I'd like to get dosemu up and running, but it says I need to get FreeDOS first. What is FreeDOS? Where can I get it? When I get it, what do I do with it? Thanks. Adam Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Help: eth0 is not being found
On 3 May 1997, Terrence M. Brannon wrote: [CUT] I will be more than happy to add lines to this one-at-a-time if there is a list of them somewhere. Heres your list: ls /lib/modules/kernelversion/net/*.o | cut -d. -f1 where kernelversion is something like 2.0.27 you can try running insmod on them one and one to see if they works you might even try something like this :-) ls /lib/modules/kernelversion/net/*.o | cut -d. -f1 | xargs -n1 insmod I'm not sitting at my linux system right now so I have some reservations for inccorrect path?! ... but I'm almost certain that it's right! /fax -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
kernel build (fwd)
Some messages get rejected by Smartlist (our list handler) because they appear to be coming from a daemon (root in this case). Here's a message from Ralph Winslow. -- Forwarded message -- Date: 3 May 1997 17:34:55 - From: Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian Users debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: kernel build Since upgrading many packages in the frozen distribution, I'm unable to re-build a new kernel (I need to add modules support for the OSS sound package). When I cd to /usr/src/linux (kernel-source-2.0.27) and try make mrproper (or make menuconfig or make config or make all), I get make: *** No rule to make target 'mrproper'. Stop. I tried un - re -installing make as well as the kernel-source package for 2.0.27 but no joy. Could this relate to having inadvertantly started an install of 2.0.29 at some point in the past? Some traces of 2.0.29 remain, BTW. Any help on this would be deeply appreciated. -- - Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Someday soon I really MUST find a way to piss away a LOT of bandwidth on this .sig -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
now what?
I installed the debian disks that i made from the ftp site, now what should i do to install PPP? Thanks, Drew -- Written by Drew Nichols, Plusweb Communications. Personal Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit Plusweb Communications - http://www.n-i.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Frozen - couple of gotchas
I just did an install of frozen/bo the other day, and noticed a couple of small gotchas ... The disk images still aren't on the mirror (debian.crosslink.net) so I had to use the ones from greenbush. The packages list under bo/binary-i386 has an entry for : unstable/binary-i386/interpreters/cpp_2.7.2.1-7.deb which doesn't exist. Taking a look in the packages list under unstable/hamm I see an entry for : unstable/binary-i386/interpreters/cpp_2.7.2.1-8.deb which also doesn't exist. In fact, the only cpp package I can find : rex-updates/binary-i386/cpp_2.7.2.1-4.deb The crux of all this is that the install fails because netstd can't configure without the cpp package. Once I manually installed the -4.deb version, it was able to finish. I have the sneaking suspicion I'm missing something here, not doing the right thing for the frozen install. -- Dean Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] 94TT :) Areyes, Inc. No matter where you go, there you are sayeth Buckaroo across the Eighth Dimension -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
postgres95 / libbsd.so
'lo I tried to install the package postgres95 but it needs the shared library libbsd.so. libbsd.so should be in the package libc5 but there is only libbsd.a :-( So how can I install the package postgres95 ? (I use Debian 1.2) -- David E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.mygale.org/06/nowak/
Re: Where would I submit a new feature for the kernel?
On Sat, 3 May 1997, Dave Cinege wrote: This is what caused me to finally break linux. I moved OpenDOS from a primary (sda2) to a logical (sda5). I know Solaris numbers disks differently, I think it is based on the disks serial number. A very good solution, however, you get away from this sort of problems. This is a good reason the Linux kernel should have a dev-filesystem, much like the proc-filesystem is implemented in the kernel. I've seen it has been on the 'Linux Kernel Wishlist' for a while, and I have heard that its being worked on FreeBSD. So, start kernelhacking :) ! // 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] .
Special chars disappear
Hi, I use Umlauts and other special characters quite frequently. Those characters which are not directly available on my german keyboard can be produced under X11 by typing AltGr (right Alt key) and a letter, like AltGr-q for `@', AltGr-a for `æ' of AltGr-m for `µ' (I assume you can read these MIME-encoded characters). However, when I fail to hit the correct key and hit a non-AltGr-able letter key, e.g. AltGr-w instead of AltGr-q, these special chars are no longer available in the current window, e.g. xterm, emacs etc. This includes Umlauts (äöü), which are directly available on my keyboard. Thus I would have to kill emacs every time this happens and restart it in order to be able produce Umlauts again. Is there a way to prevent this? Thanks, Heiko - Heiko Selber (Fritz-Haber-Institut Berlin) | I condem'n the abuse of| http://www.fhi-berlin.mpg.de/~selber | apostrophe's. | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] || Phone:+49-30-8413-4574, Fax:+49-30-8413-4686 || -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: .fvwm2/ hook problems
On Thu, 1 May 1997, Colin Telmer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I decided to finally make use of the debian menu system by converting my old .fvwm2rc into the various hook files that live in .fvwm2/ but I seem to be missing something - I added the line + I Module FvwmButtons to .fvwm2/init-restart.hook and then started fvwm2 and the hook wasn't parsed. I eventually just added the following 4 lines (marked by CRT) to /etc/X11/fvwm2/system.fvwm2rc as a temporary fix: DestroyMenu InitFunction AddToFunc InitFunction + I Exec setup-background + I Read /etc/X11/fvwm2/init.hook + I Read /etc/X11/fvwm2/init-restart.hook + I Read .fvwm2/init.hook + I Read .fvwm2/init-restart.hook # CRT Read .fvwm2/init.hook Read .fvwm2/init-restart.hook DestroyMenu RestartFunction AddToFunc RestartFunction + I Read /etc/X11/fvwm2/restart.hook + I Read /etc/X11/fvwm2/init-restart.hook + I Read .fvwm2/restart.hook + I Read .fvwm2/init-restart.hook # CRT Read .fvwm2/restart.hook Read .fvwm2/init-restart.hook What am I missing or is this a bug? Nope - you're quite right, this is a bug (reported twice, in fact: once as number 8338 and again as 9153, if you really want to know). I'm putting together fvwm-2.0.45-BETA-4, which should fix this (and some other) bugs. By the way, you don't say which version of fvwm2 you were using, but in this case it wasn't crucially important. Can I urge people to please include the version number of packages they are talking about! (You can find out information about packages using dpkg -s fvwm2 or similar). Austin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Unidentified subject!
I tried to post this to the newsgroup, as I no longer subscribe to the list, but our server isn't properly configured: Your article's newsgroup: linux.debian.user User input on the Debian Linux distribution Check spelling, Send, Abort, Edit, or List? s The linux.debian.user newsgroup is moderated, but has no address; ask your news administrator to fix this. (Article not posted.) Newsgroups: linux.debian.user Subject: Re: (another) Problem w/ dselect Summary: Expires: References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: Followup-To: Reply-To: Distribution: inet Organization: MindSpring Enterprises, Inc. Keywords: I've also managed to hose the FTP functionality of dselect, but I know how it happened, I just don't know the best way to fix it. I had upgraded several packages in the process, filled up the partition, primarly with .deb files. In a flash of late-night insight, I decided to just 'rm -rf' everything below /var/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/debian. That's where all those space-taking .deb files were, right? Well, now trying to use the FTP option of dselect gives me: Can't locate Net/Config.pm in @INC at /usr/lib/perl5/Net/FTP.pm line 21. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/Net/FTP.pm line 21. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/setup line 7. query/setup script returned error exit status 2. So, I locate a Config.pm in /usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.00307, but that's not the right one. I looked at a working Debian system there's not a Config.pm in /usr/lib/perl5/Net/. I tried re-installing dpkg dpkg-ftp, but no luck. I'm pretty much of a newbie (evidenced by the 'rm -rf') my programming knowledge is almost nil, though I could probably compile a new version of dpkg, if that's what needs doing. Thanks for any assisstance, please cc: me on responses. Tom TaTom I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror like his passengers. -- Jim Harkins -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Posting IP
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: I'll be damned. If it was a snake it would have bit the shit out of me. I have skipped over that file I don't know how many times, thinking it was another connect script. It's a great place to run stuff like netdate and fetchmail/popclient from (ip-down is a good place to kill fetchmail BTW.) Dimitri -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
SVGATextMode
Since upgrading to frozen SVGATextMode doesn't work correctly any more. If I type stm I get this error Cannot open font file /usr/lib/kbd/consolefonts/gr8x16.psf /usr/bin/setfont /usr/lib/kbd/consolefonts/gr8x16.psf: No such file or directory stm: ERROR: '/usr/bin/setfont /usr/lib/kbd/consolefonts/gr8x16.psf' failed with error code 256 All of the consolefonts have been removed from the above directory. I also was able to reset my display, which gets garbled severely when I use X with bpp 16. It no longer resets the video for the console when I leave X and use stm. Why are the consolefonts removed in the upgrade and not replaced? Does this have to do with installing tetex? What is the fix? Does anybody know how I can have my console reset correctly when leaving X? I have a TGUI9680XGI Trident card. --Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: now what?
When you select the modules to install make sure you put in ppp and TCP/IP modules. Then edit the ppp.chatscript in the /etc directory to dial up you ISP. Also edit the ppp.options_out file to reflect the correct serial device. /dev/ttyS0 = com1 /dev/ttyS1 = com2 etc... Then use pon to dial your provider. Examples: ppp.options_out: defaultroute bsdcomp 15,15 /dev/ttyS1 115200 persist ppp.chatscript: ABORTBUSY ABORTNO CARRIER ABORTVOICE ABORTNO DIALTONE ATDT*67,1561627-9881 ogin your_user_name word \qsecret NOTE: Only one \q to replace password with ??. If you use one at the end it will display in your log files for the world to read. I think that covers it. Have a good one. On Sun, 4 May 1997, Plusweb - Drew wrote: I installed the debian disks that i made from the ftp site, now what should i do to install PPP? Thanks, Drew -- Written by Drew Nichols, Plusweb Communications. Personal Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit Plusweb Communications - http://www.n-i.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . --Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Frozen - couple of gotchas
I've noticed that when packages are missing like that the version number is actually off. Like perhaps the list was constructed just before an update arived. The update replaces the package but the package list still reflects the older version. I have just ftp'd manually to get the package. I have yet to find a package actually missing. On Sun, 4 May 1997, Dean Carpenter wrote: I just did an install of frozen/bo the other day, and noticed a couple of small gotchas ... The disk images still aren't on the mirror (debian.crosslink.net) so I had to use the ones from greenbush. The packages list under bo/binary-i386 has an entry for : unstable/binary-i386/interpreters/cpp_2.7.2.1-7.deb which doesn't exist. Taking a look in the packages list under unstable/hamm I see an entry for : unstable/binary-i386/interpreters/cpp_2.7.2.1-8.deb which also doesn't exist. In fact, the only cpp package I can find : rex-updates/binary-i386/cpp_2.7.2.1-4.deb The crux of all this is that the install fails because netstd can't configure without the cpp package. Once I manually installed the -4.deb version, it was able to finish. I have the sneaking suspicion I'm missing something here, not doing the right thing for the frozen install. -- Dean Carpenter[EMAIL PROTECTED] 94TT :) Areyes, Inc. No matter where you go, there you are sayeth Buckaroo across the Eighth Dimension -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . --Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Help installing dosemu
FreeDOS is the fdos package. It's in dselect under fdos. Incase you aren't aware of it the package list in dselect is searchable (using a / character). Hope this helps. On Sun, 4 May 1997, Adam Klein wrote: I'd like to get dosemu up and running, but it says I need to get FreeDOS first. What is FreeDOS? Where can I get it? When I get it, what do I do with it? Thanks. Adam Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . --Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: SVGATextMode
Rick Jones wrote: [/usr/lib/kbd/consolefonts] All of the consolefonts have been removed from the above directory. [...] Why are the consolefonts removed in the upgrade and not replaced? Does this have to do with installing tetex? What is the fix? The offender seems to be the kbd package, which moved all of the stuff that used to live in /usr/lib/kbd to /usr/share. I´ve added links from /usr/lib/kbd to the appropriate new directories. This fixed the stm problem for me. Does anybody know how I can have my console reset correctly when leaving X? I have a TGUI9680XGI Trident card. Once you get stm to work again, the console will reset just fine. Ciao, -- Thomas Baetzler, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] A HREF=http://home.pages.de/~thb/;thb's Homepage/A -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Help: eth0 is not being found
Actually, Brian Freeze told me something that worked: modprobe -t net \* Fredrik Ax [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 3 May 1997, Terrence M. Brannon wrote: [CUT] I will be more than happy to add lines to this one-at-a-time if there is a list of them somewhere. Heres your list: ls /lib/modules/kernelversion/net/*.o | cut -d. -f1 where kernelversion is something like 2.0.27 you can try running insmod on them one and one to see if they works you might even try something like this :-) ls /lib/modules/kernelversion/net/*.o | cut -d. -f1 | xargs -n1 insmod I'm not sitting at my linux system right now so I have some reservations for inccorrect path?! ... but I'm almost certain that it's right! /fax -- oo Sending unsolicited commercial e-mail (UCE) to this address Legal Notice is indication of your consent to pay me $120/hour for 1 hour oo minimum for professional proofreading technical assessment. terrence brannon * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://rana.usc.edu:8376/~brannon -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: now what?
On Sun, 4 May 1997, Plusweb - Drew wrote: I installed the debian disks that i made from the ftp site, now what should i do to install PPP? PPP is now part of the base system. Go to /etc/ppp and use ae to edit the options file to suit your ISPs conditions. Then as root execute pppd and you should be up and running. Luck, Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_-_- _-_-_-_-_-_-_- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 656-9769 Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 _-_-_-_-_-_- 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] .
Broadway
What's the scoop on broadway? Is it going to be deb'd soon? Is it all the x.org web page makes it out to be, fast remote execution etc...? Broadway is version 6.3 and we seem to still be using 6.2 from what I see reported when I start X. Is there a reason for this? Is Broadway still unstable? I'm curious because I'm thinking of getting the broadway release from x.org but I'd rather stick to a deb'd package. --Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
How do I install a rpm-package?
I want to install essentia-doc-3.3.2-0.i386.rpm. According to the debmake and alien documentation I should type alien essentia-doc-3.3.2-0.i386.rpm. Then alien is looking for a diff file and aborts. alien -n essentia-doc-3.3.2-0.i386.rpm does nothing (not even error messages) and so does alien -g essentia-doc-3.3.2-0.i386.rpm What should I do? Johann. Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsorlaan 19 Pietermaritzburg 3201 Suid Afrika (South Africa) Tel. Nr. 0331-46-1310 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
starting/stoping program on boot/shutdown
Hi! I'm taking part in the DES Challenge coordinated effort, which means running their client and calculating keys. Now this thing is easy to use and stays in the background, but every time I reboot I have to restart the program. Now my aproach was to write a little script put it into /etc/init.d/desclient . I used as a sample the script for the cron daemon, but the desclient doesn't behave like a daemon and so the script didn't work. So how do I start/stop a plain program during boot/shutdown? Is it safe, that root runs this thing? Should I run it under another account? Which one and do I have to create a homedir for that? This program should only be started once and not by normal users. How do I achieve this? Where would such a program be located (based on debian philosophy)? Since [EMAIL PROTECTED] is number 5 of the email top-20 of the DES Challenge coordinated effort there must be some answers out there :) Alex. PS: More information on the DES Challenge coordinated effort http://www.des.sollentuna.se -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: starting/stoping program on boot/shutdown
So how do I start/stop a plain program during boot/shutdown? Is it safe, that root runs this thing? Should I run it under another account? Which one and do I have to create a homedir for that? This program should only be started once and not by normal users. How do I achieve this? Where would such a program be located (based on debian philosophy)? I'd run it as another user - definitely not as root. Especially when you are running a binary file where you can't inspect the source. Just create another user, ie. des, and give it a home directory. Here's a rather long-winded example of using start-stop-daemon to run a process as another user. (This is for a postgresql server I have installed in /usr/local) start-stop-daemon --start --verbose --exec /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster --startas /bin/sh -- -c 'echo /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -D/var/pgdata /var/log/postgresql/server.log 21 | su postgres' There's probably an easier way to do this... I was participating too, until they changed the programs around and I didn't have enough time to re-setup everything. They've completed 2.6753% of the keyspace - wow. :-) Cheers, - Jim pgpdGHSmKDZ9u.pgp Description: PGP signature
SCSII card question
I just purchased a HP 4C scanner. I really bought it tohook up to a system that already has a SCSI interface. So I am left with a card supplied with the HP that I don't need in that syste, So I was wondering if I could use this card in a Debian box to support SCS disks? he card is realy stnge looking it's triangular. With 1 2 postiotion switch assembly on it. This may be to set the SCSI ID, but if so wouldn;t it need 3 postions to get 0 - 7? Perhaps it's to set the intrupt. I'm not sure. It has s Symbios Logic chip on it. Needless to say all the docs talk about is Windoze. Is anyone familiar with this card? Can I use it with debian? I supect it may be a PlugnPlay card. Thanks. -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]404-996-6955 Factory Automation Systems Atlanta Ga. -- Look, look, see Windows 95. Buy, lemmings, buy! Pay no attention to that cliff ahead...Henry Spencer (c) 1997 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: [LILO / NT Bootmanager]
On 3 May 97 at 15:17, debian-user@lists.debian.org wrote: Hello, I have a few q's about booting: 1)I have NT4.0 on my pc (sorry to say, but I need it...), and I would like to be able to boot both of my OS'es from a single bootmanager. I haven't found any docs or faqs about whether or not LILO or bootmanager/NT support eachother, only OS/2. Is there anyone who could tell my how to boot from /dev/hda to my NT partition /dev/hda3 as well as my Linux drive, /dev/hdb ?? (My swap is on /dev/hdb5) Check out http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/gvollant/bootpart.htm. He has written program that will create a boot sector file for your Linux parition. I use NT 4.0 and Debian 1.2, abnd I boot from the NT Loader ... It works like a charm ... He has directions for Linux, as well as, DOS ... Thanx. See ya round. -jOHN --- John Burwell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Transylvania University, Computer Science Division The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn't exist. - Verbal Kent (The Usual Suspects) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: SCSII card question
I just purchased a HP 4C scanner. I really bought it tohook up to a system that already has a SCSI interface. So I am left with a card supplied with the HP that I don't need in that syste, So I was wondering if I could use this card in a Debian box to support SCS disks? he card is realy stnge looking it's triangular. With 1 2 postiotion switch assembly on it. This may be to set the SCSI ID, but if so wouldn;t it need 3 postions to get 0 - 7? Perhaps it's to set the intrupt. I'm not sure. It has s Symbios Logic chip on it. Needless to say all the docs talk about is Windoze. Is anyone familiar with this card? Can I use it with debian? I supect it may be a PlugnPlay card. Last I heard, it's not supported by Linux. But I got that from the Hardware-HOWTO which is dreadfully out-of-date. I've got a Win95 box and Linux box here. I have a regular SCSI card in the Linux box, and the HP/Symbios Logic card in the Win95 box. I used two SCSI cables to connect the HP 4C scanner to both machines at the same time. Of course, I had to set the host adapters to different addresses. It actually worked! Sometimes, I have to reset one computer to use the scanner after using the scanner from the other computer, but overall, it's sort of neat. :-) Cheers, - Jim pgpojLSk6fdBY.pgp Description: PGP signature
