1.3 - 2.0. Am I okay to reboot?
WARNING If APT lists lib* in the list of essential packages to remove then it is very likely you will hose your system by continuing. -- This was quoted from the Debian 2.0 update README. I've logged my 1.3 - 2.0 update, and just noticed something. Is it a big deal? Is it safe to reboot? (my stuff) # apt-get dist-upgrade Updating package status cache...done Checking system integrity...ok The following packages will be REMOVED: libnet libreadline2-dev The following NEW packages will be installed: libmime-base64-perl libdb2 liblockfile0 libnet-perl libstdc++2.8 whiptail zlib1g pkg-order perl-base libgdbmg1 tcl7.6 libg++272 newt0.21 data-dumper libc6 ncurses3.4 libcompfaceg1 libreadlineg2 slang0.99.38 The following packages have been kept back util-linux 138 packages upgraded, 19 newly installed, 2 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Need to get 39.9M of archives. After unpacking 9057k will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y - Chris Wong | [EMAIL PROTECTED] AD Digital Media Inc. (c) 1999 http://addm.com/
mySQL.
Okay, I've installed mySQL using apt. Now, I'm wondering, it's running, but how do I do a crash-and-burn test with it? I'm also wondering if the version is the same as the one on www.mysql.org. Another funny thing, I'm not too sure on what this does. I mean, how does a user use it once it's working?.. Chris Wong | [EMAIL PROTECTED] AD Digital Media Inc. (c) 1999 http://addm.com/
Kernel 2.2.1.
Hmm, I'm having troubles. I've just compiled the 2.2.1 kernel, and everything seems to be okay when compiling. But, when I restart my machine, it complains when it loads my modules. It says that my /lib/modules/2.2.1/modules.dep is empty! That file should have info on my ip_alias, cdrom, and nic.. but, how do I get it to work?.. Why would this happen? Chris Wong | [EMAIL PROTECTED] AD Digital Media Inc. (c) 1999 http://addm.com/
User names.
Hmm, For Debian, user names are limited to 8 characters.. as well as the passwords. How can this be, lengthened? ... as well as long email addreses? ie: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks. Chris Wong | [EMAIL PROTECTED] AD Digital Media Inc. (c) 1999 http://addm.com/
MogoBIPS.
Hmm, Is there a certain # I should get from different CPUs? I mean, my P200MMX is getting like, 400 or so, and my dual P2-300 is getting a total of like 700 or so. Is this right? Chris Wong | [EMAIL PROTECTED] AD Digital Media Inc. (c) 1998 http://addm.com/
SMP.
Hmm, Does SMP work well with the 2.0.36 kernel? I heard that older kernels (2.0.35), froze when there was a high load. I just want to make sure that it's safe for me to run 2.0.36. Chris Wong | [EMAIL PROTECTED] AD Digital Media Inc. (c) 1998 http://addm.com/
Re: Problem.
At 06:00 PM 1/10/99 -0600, you wrote: On Sun, Jan 10, 1999 at 07:01:14AM -0800, Chris Wong wrote: Hello, I've got a problem with my Dual P2 system. I've done a fresh install, and everything works great! I then, wanted to recompile using SMP, so I uncommented the line, and then recompiled with the source the CD(2.0 hamm) installed in my /usr/src/linux. From there, it doesn't detect my SCSI HDD. And then it ends up not being able to mount the root fs. Please help. Chris Wong | [EMAIL PROTECTED] AD Digital Media Inc. (c) 1998 http://addm.com/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null What exact steps did you take? Here's what I did using the kernel-source-2.0.36 package that I have Change the version # to whatever you downloaded (I think hamm has 2.0.34) 1. Untar the tar file it puts in /usr/src 2. ln -s /usr/src/linux-2.0.36 /usr/src/linux 3. make menuconfig, or xconfig (did you do this, you didn't mention it) Make sure you compile SCSI, SCSI HD, and binfmt_elf support into the kernel. Personally, I disabled module support and compiled every driver/fs type that I use into the kernel. 4. Uncomment the line in the makefile (could be done before #3, but I'm not sure if make *config touches the Makefile) 5. If you use lilo, run make zlilo. To make a boot disk, run make zdisk. 6. If you chose modules, do make modules_install Any questions? Reply and I'll do my best to help. Yeah, I did those steps, but the fresh install saw all of my hardware, etc. But, it didn't detect my HDD. So I get a Kernel Panic: VFS: can't mount root fs. I mean, I'm pretty stuck, and this has never happened to me before. Chris Wong | [EMAIL PROTECTED] AD Digital Media Inc. (c) 1998 http://addm.com/
Problem.
Hello, I've got a problem with my Dual P2 system. I've done a fresh install, and everything works great! I then, wanted to recompile using SMP, so I uncommented the line, and then recompiled with the source the CD(2.0 hamm) installed in my /usr/src/linux. From there, it doesn't detect my SCSI HDD. And then it ends up not being able to mount the root fs. Please help. Chris Wong | [EMAIL PROTECTED] AD Digital Media Inc. (c) 1998 http://addm.com/
package system and custom programs (front page apache)
What's the best way to maintain using the debian package system (so I don't get errors when doing a dselect) when I want to have custom-compiled programs? This is what I want to do: Compile the apache frontpage server patch for apache 1.3.0. What's the best way to do this so I don't interfere with dselect dependency problems w/ like php3, mysql, cgiwrap, etc. I tried to add in the frontpage apache patch to the debian source files (.dsc, .orig, .diff, etc.), and create a new .deb but I had these problems: I downloaded the apache 1.3.0 source files from debian.org, but after I patched the source w/ the frontpage stuff and ran: dpkg-source -x .dsc I got errors about file sizes not matching. I could probably change the file sizes in .dsc but is this a safe way to do it (i.e., will the .diff file have problems)? Should I just abandon the debian package system and just install apache manually? But then I'll have to install php, etc. manually too right? Any thoughts appreciated on the best way to do this. Thanks, Chris
Trouble With Simple Thing.
Hello, I'm sorta new to Debian.. and I was wondering if anyone could help me with limiting users to their own directory. I've read docs about it, but still can't get it working. Anyone help? Thanks. Chris Wong | [EMAIL PROTECTED] AD Digital Media Inc. (c) 1998 http://addm.com/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Trouble With Simple Thing.
At 01:47 AM 7/30/98 -0400, you wrote: Chris Wong wrote: Hello, I'm sorta new to Debian.. and I was wondering if anyone could help me with limiting users to their own directory. I've read docs about it, but still can't get it working. Anyone help? Thanks. I don't understand what you want to do. I believe what he's looking for is a chroot type of thing, like anonymous ftp. Where a user gets assigned his home dir and they can't play anywhere else in the filesystem. I think there's something in the passwd file to set that up, if I'm not mistaken, but then again, I could be . . . That's exactly what I want.. in ftp, I'm stuck.. I thought it would be nice so users don't get lost in the filesystem if they changed to the root dir. Chris Wong | [EMAIL PROTECTED] AD Digital Media Inc. (c) 1998 http://addm.com/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
