Re: Help! - DEC Alpha install
Warning: Unable to open initial console /dev/console Kernel Panic: cannot open initial console /dev/console And then she sinks. The boot command I have been using is as follows: MILO boot fd0:linux root=/dev/fd0 panic=30 This is the rescue floppy? IIRC, you need: boot fd0:linux root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=1 You need to make the root.bin floppy also. I believe you are correct on this. You will need both floppies, and the MILO command here looks right, to me. -- dave wiard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
IP without host
is there any way i can set up my machine to use IP but NOT go looking for a host, anywhere? i have 2 machines completely isolated and i'd like to let them talk (ipx would be fine also, but i can't seem to get that compiled in correctly). i've got an AMD (nt, right now) and an sx164. the sx uses the tulip driver for the NIC and it works great with IP. i tried to compile IPX and the tulip.c fails to compile. any help getting this to work would be great. TIA -- dave wiard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: (off topic) WindowMaker Themes
On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 07:26:07PM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote: Hey Everybody, I just started using Window Maker, and I was wondering if anyone knew where (or how) I could find out how to make Themes for WindowMaker. Thanks, Start out at http://www.themes.org They've got themes for pretty much every window manager out there. I believe he was looking at how to make them, not where to get them. I wouldn't mind know how to make them, myself. -- dave wiard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: umount - URGENT
A better instruction would be to umount /dev/cdrom, since this will almost always be a symlink pointing to your cdrom device. Far more systems use /dev/cdrom for their cdrom devices than use /dev/hdd, because this includes nearly everybody with /dev/hdd, /dev/sdd, /dev/hdsomeotherletter and /dev/sdsomeotherletter as the cdrom device. that's great, but what if the problematic cd happens to be the second cd device? /dev/cdrom won't help if that's the case, so using /dev/thedevice is a better choice, IMHO, if you know the device you want to umount. -- dave wiard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: umount - URGENT
while it's a good habit to deman successful umounts before removing media, remember that it IS a cdROM after all. You're certainly not going to damage it by just pushing the button and taking the thing out. Sure the os will complain, but you'll have the disk in your hand. thous this isn't always an option. my cd drive, when mounted, is hardware locked so the tray won't open until the OS unlocks it. simply pushing the button won't do anything. -- dave wiard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
gnome-terminal error
i just re-initialized my system today, and upgraded to potato in the process. this time around, gnome-terminal is giving me an error as a normal user, but works fine as root: If you are using Linux 2.2.x with glibc 2.1.x, this is probably due to incorrectly setup Unix98 ptys. has anyone else had this problem before? don't know what i could have done to screw it up. i'm using 2.2.13 kernel and haven't changed any configurations from my previous installation, which worked fine. -- dave wiard computer science [EMAIL PROTECTED]western washington university http://www.wcug.wwu.ed/~davew
dhcp
i just moved to a new place today where i no longer have a static ip, but will be given a dynamic ip. could somebody clue me in on what needs to be changed or where to look? -- dave wiard computer science [EMAIL PROTECTED]western washington university http://www.wcug.wwu.ed/~davew
ipmasqadm
could somebody help me out with this one. i'm trying to masq my amd behind my alpha, but i only get the following error reported back upon trying to exec ipmasqadm: /usr/sbin/ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L $SEEN_IP 4000 -R $HIDE_IP 4000 portfw: setsockopt failed: Invalid argument i'm running potato with kernel 2.2.13. any help getting this to run would be much appreciated. -- dave wiard computer scienc [EMAIL PROTECTED] western washington university http://www.wcug.wwu.edu/~davew
ipmasqadm
could somebody give me some pointers on how to use ipmasqadm? i don't seem to have a man page for it and 'usage: ipmasqadm MODULE [opts] ' doesn't help me much. i don't have a lot of experience with loadable modules and such. -- dave wiard computer science [EMAIL PROTECTED]western washington university http://www.wcug.wwu.ed/~davew
who broken?
After upgrading to potato, it appears as though who may be broken: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/home/dave] who --count # users=0 Any idea why this might have happened or how I can fix it? Dave Wiard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: who broken?
dave After upgrading to potato, it appears as though who may be broken: dave dave [EMAIL PROTECTED]/home/dave] who --count are you running that command from inside screen ? I get teh same but only when im inside a screen .. yea. i hadn't thought to try it on some other tty, and it works elsewhere, just not in XWin. Dave Wiard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
gdb and potato
I recently updated fully to potato and am having a slight annoyance with GDB. Giving an 'n' command acts with the exact behavior of 's'. Does anyone else have this problem? This is a real annoyance when attempting to perform a strncpy() call where GDB steps me through the ASM files: (gdb) 199 strncpy( cmd-args[k++], command[j], ( j - i ) ); (gdb) strncpy () at ../sysdeps/alpha/strncpy.S:32 32 ../sysdeps/alpha/strncpy.S: No such file or directory. Current language: auto; currently asm (gdb) 39 in ../sysdeps/alpha/strncpy.S or something of that nature. Could somebody help me out with this? TIA Dave Wiard
natd package
Could somebody tell me what package natd is in? Is it broken with potato? Dave Wiard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
/include help
At some point, somehow my /include lost a great deal of the system headers disappeared (possibly while updating some stuff to potato). Now that I have those back in place, I still can't compile since gcc and g++ can't seem to find them. Is this a problem with gcc or what? How do I re-register their existance and location so I can compile? Dave Wiard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
umount
is there any way to force umount to unconditionally unmount a drive? one of my cd drives is constantly touted as 'busy' when i know there's zero activity, so it refuses to unmount and hence i cannot eject. any help would be apreciated. Dave Wiard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
NS/potato
I just installed NS4.7 under potato. I've got the problem of start NS once and it works fine, start it up a second time and it halts before I can do anything. Removing the ~/.netscape lets met start it up again, but we all know what's in that dir. What's wrong with this picture? Dave Wiard [EMAIL PROTECTED] CS - Western Washington University
/var/log/messages
could somebody clue me in to what this is? it's all over in my /var/log/messages.. Oct 26 23:59:37 morpheus kernel: sc 0(84,3e8,11d50)sc 53(8,3e8,11d50) sc 0(17,3e8,11d50)sc 53(8,3e8,11d50)set_program_attributes(1200 d8a000 1400 466740) Dave Wiard
xdm/shell login
i've been running potato and want to give gnome a shot. since i have xdm running, if i screw anything up, i'll need to fix my problems. with xdm running, is there a way to get a shell login so i can fix the file locally? Dave Wiard [EMAIL PROTECTED] CS - Western Washington University
c++ messed up
I've got a messed up c++: /usr/bin/ld: cannot open -lstdc++: No such file or directory anybody know how to fix this? i'm running potato.. Dave Wiard
Re: xdm/shell login
Thanks guys. I knew there was a way to switch consoles, but I couldn't remember how to make it happen. That worked great! btw: enlightenment 0.16.0 is broken with potato. it hangs it loads completely. i could just have a completely messed up potato, too. i've never done this before. Dave Wiard On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, Jonathan Heaney wrote: Dave Wiard wrote: i've been running potato and want to give gnome a shot. since i have xdm running, if i screw anything up, i'll need to fix my problems. with xdm running, is there a way to get a shell login so i can fix the file locally? Dave Wiard [EMAIL PROTECTED] CS - Western Washington University -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
TNT2
are there any drivers for the TNT2 AGP (not the new ultra) available? Dave Wiard
Linux/NT dual booting
i want to boot both NT and Linux directly from the hard disk (dual boot).. is this even possible with an x86 machine? i want the x86 machine to somewhat match my Alpha, but i've never been successful in getting this to work.. NT always f*%@(^ up my boot sector.. could someone help me out with how to make this work? DOS boot partition on hda1 Linux on hda2 NT on hdb1 Dave Wiard [EMAIL PROTECTED] CS - Western Washington University
