(Solved) Re: Live CD/DVD's Debian Wheezy
Thanks! That did it! I did sudo su at a terminal prompt and achieved the same result. Sincerely, (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless fairl...@ieee.org On Sat, 17 May 2014, David wrote: On 17 May 2014 11:28, Gayle Lee Fairless fairl...@hiwaay.net wrote: I downloaded some .iso's for Debian Wheezy live CD/DVD's and we could not find the superuser access since we were looking at them at night class. This is for a Linux system administration class. Please copy the Professor because he is not on the list. The Debian Wheezy Live environment is built with root login disabled, and with sudo configured for the live user. So any command can be run as root by prepending sudo, and a root password is not required. Here is an actual tested example that should work the same for you: $ ls -al /root ls: cannot open directory /root: Permission denied $ sudo ls -al /root total 2 drwx-- 2 root root 46 Apr 26 06:34 . drwxr-xr-x 29 root root 220 May 17 19:30 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 570 Jan 31 2010 .bashrc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 140 Nov 19 2007 .profile -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/alpine.lrh.2.03.1405170832170.16...@hiwaay.net
Live CD/DVD's Debian Wheezy
I downloaded some .iso's for Debian Wheezy live CD/DVD's and we could not find the superuser access since we were looking at them at night class. This is for a Linux system administration class. Please copy the Professor because he is not on the list. Thanks! Sincerely, (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless fairl...@ieee.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/alpine.lrh.2.03.1405162024130.21...@hiwaay.net
Mr. Mad Duck: about etch-stable fluxbox?
I looked on the maintainer webpage which seems to indicate that an IBM Thinkpad 390 Pentium MMX (233 MHZ) needs to have a patch installed for fluxbox to work. Since an MMX is somewhat slow, I was hoping to consider fluxbox or something like it instead of the heavy-duty GNOME or KDE. BTW, I do have a copy of Martin Kraft's book just in case I missed something in it. Please tell me. Thanks for your advice. I enjoy using Debian from time to time on my other systems. -- (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mr. Mad Duck: about etch-stable fluxbox?
Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon, 11 Jun 2007 asked: Who is Martin Kraft? Doug. Bob McGowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] has also replied in a previous email. Mr. Krafft also wrote the following book: (Sorry about the mispelling!) :-[ Martin F. Krafft, THE DEBIAN SYSTEM, Munich, Germany: Open Source Press GmbH (C) 2005 US Publisher: San Francisco, CA: No Starch Press, Inc. Here is the signature of one of his emails: Please do not send copies of list mail to me; I read the list! .''`. martin f. krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' : proud Debian developer, author, administrator, and user `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck - http://debiansystem.info `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems micro$oft windows psychic edition: we will tell you where you are going tomorrow. -- Mr. Gayle Lee Fairless -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Install which Linux? (or avoiding dirty birds)
Although I would have replied sooner; there was a death in the family. Hope you remember or kept the thread! Gayle Lee Fairless([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: Wayne Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED] replied: It's worth a try, but the bad 770 locks up when it get to the pcmcia section on bootup. :-( Hope you have better luck! --snip-- Not really. As I don't run Winbloz, I googled for Wireless adapters that ran on Linux, then if the drivers were running on Debian, then the driver info itself. I found that the Madwifi software worked on many many cards and seems to have the most versatile software, I went and picked a few from their Compatibility list http://madwifi.org/wiki/Compatability. They, as of now, do not http://madwifi.org/wiki/Compatibility. support any USB adapters. I have NetGear CardBus and PCI cards and a DLink PCI card running with MadWifi. I will definitely look into MadWifi! Check out the UserDocs on the madwifi wiki. Very informative! There is also a Newbie section. I have had some success running USB adapters on the 770's. By far the easiest, so far, was a real cheap ( $18) I found on Ebay. It is an Ashton Digital WRUB-2011i with a Prism2 chipset. It uses the linux-wlan-ng drivers, supported by Debian of course. --snip-- Then I hope the US Robotics card will work, or I get lucky with the Belkin adapter! You may be in luck after all. A google for US Robotics USR5410 Linux came up with a review that wasn't too good, but the second one you might like. The headline is US Robotics goes Linux and your 5410 in included in the writeup. http://www.ameinfo.com/32533.html I found it and the reference to Linuxant and their product, DriverLoader: (quote off www.Linuxant.com) DriverLoader is a revolutionary compatibility-wrapper allowing standard Windows NDIS (Network Driver Interface Specification) drivers shipped by hardware vendors to be used as-is on Linux x86 systems (end of quote) It appears that the program supports both the Belkin USB wireless device and the US Robotics USR5410 PCMIA card. I have to hook it up and find out under both Linux and Windows XP Pro. Both wmaker and fluxbox are nice WM's but wmaker has a lot more configuration options that I just did not need. All the eye candy that I used on wmaker, I use on fluxbox. So I just went minimalistic and kept fluxbox and purged the others. I have used icewm, fvwm, Xfce, twm , bbox, and a few more that my old brain has forgotten. The beauty of Debian is that you can install all that meet your fancy and switch between then, real time, and then purge/remove those you don't like. Heck, you could bring up a different one depending on the day of the week, if you want. Ain't Unix/Linux the cats meow! :-) There is, IMHO, only one mail client. It is mutt. A command line MUA that does it all. There is only one editor I use and that is Vim, a Vi lookalike. Have been using them on Linux since 1993 and they both just keep getting better. I learned enough vi to naviage through a text file and make simple changes. Although I have mutt on my Debian sarge box, I do not understand it as well as I do vi. The messages to root go through mutt. I also have seen and used a version of emacs on the Amiga. Anyway, I learned some vi because it is prevalent on a lot of Unix/Linux systems just as edlin was prevalent on DOS (pre-Windows 95) systems. It helped to be able to edit a script file or a batch file without the need to learn somebody's favorite word processor of the day. I was able to install a baic Debian GNU/Linux etch system on the Thinkpad with the official network installation CDROM. Since I was not connected to the Internet, I need to know how to get network setup working and start installing packages. I looked at Martin Kraft's Debian maintainer notes on fluxbox. Did you have to install a patch to get yours working? Regards Wayne Basic, n.: A programming language. Related to certain social diseases in that those who have it will not admit it in polite company. This sounds almost like a Wirth opinion of BASIC (Beginners' Allpurpose Symbolic Interface Code [WAG)). He thought that anyone learning it became brain-damaged. I saw this about the time that the Pascal language was the latest rage. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Install which Linux? (or avoiding dirty birds)
On 05/25/07 23:27, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri, 25 May 2007 12:15:17 -0500 On 05/25/07 11:32, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote (portions deleted): have installed Windows and booted live Linux CD's. Ubuntu Dapper Drake stalled with a KDE desk error. RJ What kind of error? It halted with the beige screen of death with a small box saying KDE Desk Error if I remember correctly. At the time I was just seeing which CDROM would be successful while waiting for the replacement drive. RJ Argh, I mis-read desk for disk**. RJ Never mind. Well now, I was hurrying because I was just experimenting with the bad harddrive in place while waiting for delivery of the replacement harddrive. Still, this IS Kubuntu, and we are now considering something lighter even than xfce. [snip] Two vital questions are: 1. How much RAM does the laptop have? Probably not much. 128 MB (Since it is probably not much, I did set aside a 2 GB partition for a swap partition.) RJ Figured. You'll need something lighter-weight than even Xfce RJ (which is based on getting-heavy GTK2 and leaks memory). There RJ have recently been a couple of threads regarding people's RJ preferences in light-weight WMs. If you recall those threads before I can get to them with a search engine, I would appreciate it. Since my wife has decreed a visit to the relatives this weekend, there is no great rush. RJ Also, I prefer swap files**, since they are more flexible. 2. How much experience do you have with Linux? I have Debian Sarge running on a Gateway 500 Pentium III 500 MHZ which also dual boots via LILO into Windows 98SE. I have Debian Etch which is sharing the box with Windows XP Pro dual booting under GRUB. RJ A little behind the times, no? That box has a Pentium 4 Prescott at 3.2 GHZ. RJ Ah, a space heater! I have enough experience to get good and lost! RJ Don't we all... BUT, we have fun!!! :-D RJ Xubuntu might be good choice to install, even though you might then RJ have to install a lighter-weight window manager. As old as this equipment is, a light weight window manager such as xfce on top of Debian or Xubuntu may indeed be the way to go. RJ Hardware detection will be the tricky part, I think. *buntu is RJ still better at it than straight Debian. That is probably why Knoppix 3.7 was able to boot. And if you noted my questions to Wayne Topa about wireless devices, I was hoping to find out which one is more easily detected, if at all! - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Install which Linux? (or avoiding dirty birds)
Hi, On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 11:32 -0500, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: I just installed Windows XP Professional on an IBM ThinkPad 390 with a Pentium MMX (233 MHZ) and a 60 GB harddrive. SS Since it is a ThinkPad, you should have a look at thinkwiki. [1] A SS good reference site for hardware problems and other howtos. I think the reference got lost in the transmission. Is thinkwiki the website name? SS For starters you should do a minimal installation and build it further. That should be about right. SS And I don't think xfce4 will be fast enough, done that befor on a SS 233mhz system with 64mb RAM. It was a bit _slow_. ;) Yes, the Windows installation was only just a little more exciting than watching paint dry! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Install which Linux? (or avoiding dirty birds)
Wayne Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED] replied: The pcmcia slots _did_ work for a week or two. Got it used from Ebay so I probably was luckey they worked for that long Mine is a discard from my son. So mine may be totally bad. :-( Every time I try a card, the cursor on the Windows screen freezes. However, Linux might work better? I have a U.S.Robotics 100 Mbps 802.11g Wireless Turbo PC Card --USR5410-- with an installation CDROM (probably intended mainly for Windows). I have a Belkin F5D7050 USB Wireless Adapter - 54 Mbps, 802.11g, USB 2.0 on order from Tigerdirect. Do you know which one would work? Or if both work, which one is better? Not really. As I don't run Winbloz, I googled for Wireless adapters that ran on Linux, then if the drivers were running on Debian, then the driver info itself. I found that the Madwifi software worked on many many cards and seems to have the most versitle software, I went and picked a few from their compatability list http://madwifi.org/wiki/Compatability. They, as of now, do not support any USB adapters. I have NetGear CardBus and PCI cards and a DLink PCI card running with MadWifi. I will definitely look into MadWifi! I have had some success running USB adapters on the 770's. By far the easiest, so far, was a real cheap ( $18) I found on Ebay. It is an Ashton Digital WRUB-2011i with a Prism2 chipset. It uses the linux-wlan-ng drivers, supported by Debian of course. Another is also working, but not with Kismet (darn it), is quite unique. It is a USB dongle or minicard mounted on the mast of a 17 element, +24dbi gain yagi antenna. It comes with a 15 foot cable terminated with a USB connector. The driver is zd2111 which is on Debian, of course. This is a nice setup as there is no lossy feedline to contend with. I have used it with USB Repeater cables 60 feet from the laptop and it works great. Two other USB adapters are somewhat working but not able to connect to an AP. The drivers are still being developed. So in short, other then the above 2 USB adapters, PCMCIA/CardBus seem to be the way to go the the 770's. Then I hope the US Robotics card will work, or I get lucky with the Belkin adapter! snip Right. The newest netinstall iso would be preferable. Not a problem for me! I just have to do it! snip I am a command line person. I don't need a lot of glitz in windows. I used wmaker for a while but have settled on fluxbox. Lightweight and it doesn't get in my way. I run some KDE and Gnome Apps but find it easier to get things running without X apps. The screens on the 770 will only do 1024x768 so the less clutter the better. JMHO. I would definitely be interested in your description of wmaker and fluxbox especially if they are Debian packages! Hope this helps you get Connected. snip The quoting style of this (your) message was, well, different to say the least. Ah, it was hand-cobbled. I composed it in a well-known Word Processor (We won't say which one!) and then pasted it into Thunderbird. I know how to eliminate the HTML and rtf stuff that some newbies inadvertently put into a message (simple choices under the Thunderbird Tools menu). I put the initials of the responder in the lines to allow readers to know who was 'speaking.' And I tried to eliminate redundant wording to cut down on the storage required for the thread. Oh well, here's your chance to recommend your favorite client along with fluxbox! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Install which Linux? (or avoiding dirty birds)
I just installed Windows XP Professional on an IBM ThinkPad 390 with a Pentium MMX (233 MHZ) and a 60 GB harddrive. (I have partioned it in anticipation of also installing Linux.) Knoppix 3.7 boots on the machine. (Would I be able to migrate to Debian or just stay with Knoppix if I go that way?) I also have woody and have seen the installation advice on the installation of woody on a ThinkPad (Yep, I used Google). I have booted the woody installation CDROM on the machine; however, it could not find the original harddrive (I was waiting for the replacement harddrive from Drive Solutions). Anyway I would prefer to install something more modern. The one USB 1.1 port works well. I'm not sure about the PCMIA slots. Obviously the CDROM drive works, or I could not have installed Windows and booted live Linux CD's. Ubuntu Dapper Drake stalled with a KDE desk error. I've ordered a Belkin wireless USB adapter (g protocol). I have not tested the internal modem yet but would want a faster connection. I have a home network connected by ethernet and a Belkin wireless g router. The network itself connects to the Internet through a Xoom DSL modem. I have done network install of Debian etch to a desktop over my network. Are there any special techniques or extra information that I have missed? I can download iso images to my desktop and create CDROM's. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Install which Linux? (or avoiding dirty birds)
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri, 25 May 2007 12:15:17 -0500 On 05/25/07 11:32, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote (portions deleted): have installed Windows and booted live Linux CD's. Ubuntu Dapper Drake stalled with a KDE desk error. RJ What kind of error? It halted with the beige screen of death with a small box saying KDE Desk Error if I remember correctly. At the time I was just seeing which CDROM would be successful while waiting for the replacement drive. RJ Have you correctly installed the replacement drive? When I got the drive, I had to take it out of the caddy and flip it. Since Windows installed correctly without a problem, the physical drive installation is fine. I've ordered a Belkin wireless USB adapter (g protocol). I have not tested the internal modem yet but would want a faster connection. I have a home network connected by ethernet and a Belkin wireless g router. The network itself connects to the Internet through a Xoom DSL modem. I have done network install of Debian etch to a desktop over my network. Are there any special techniques or extra information that I have missed? I can download iso images to my desktop and create CDROM's. Two vital questions are: 1. How much RAM does the laptop have? Probably not much. 128 MB (Since it is probably not much, I did set aside a 2 GB partition for a swap partition.) 2. How much experience do you have with Linux? I have Debian Sarge running on a Gateway 500 Pentium III 500 MHZ which also dual boots via LILO into Windows 98SE. I have Debian Etch which is sharing the box with Windows XP Pro dual booting under GRUB. That box has a Pentium 4 Prescott at 3.2 GHZ. I have enough experience to get good and lost! RJ Xubuntu might be good choice to install, even though you might then RJ have to install a lighter-weight window manager. As old as this equipment is, a light weight window manager such as xfce on top of Debian or Xubuntu may indeed be the way to go. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Johannes Wiedersich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri, 25 May 2007 19:56:18 +0200 JW Debian woody 3.0 was released in 2002. It became obsolete by the release JW of 'sarge'. Now we have debian etch 4.0. Try to install etch. JW Your hardware probably is too old (ie. not powerful enough) to run KDE JW or gnome. Start out with a minimal install and add xfce4 or another JW light-weight window manager. (duplicate paragraph deleted) JW I don't know if the installer for etch supports your modem. You might be JW better off to either download the first CD with another computer or buy JW a set of CDs from a vendor. JW HTH, Johannes Wayne Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri, 25 May 2007 18: Gayle Lee Fairless([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: I just installed Windows XP Professional on an IBM ThinkPad 390 with a Pentium MMX (233 MHZ) and a 60 GB harddrive. (I have partioned it in anticipation of also installing Linux.) Knoppix 3.7 boots on the machine. (Would I be able to migrate to Debian or just stay with Knoppix if I go that way?) WT I have Debian Testing running on 2 Thinkpad 770's one 60Gb HD and one WT with a 10 Gb HD. The 233 Mhz 770 is running as an Access point, with WT a NeatGear WG511U PCMCIA card, serving up the net to wireless and WT wired Lan. If you are up for a good distro, Debian is the way to go WT IMHO. You could always use the Knoppix Live CD to get a handle on WT Linux. My 770's will not run any Knoppix but the 3.7 you tried. None WT of the (k)ubuntu CD's I tried have worked. The Debian netinstall iso WT was the only 2.6 kernel that I have not had a problem with on the WT 770's. :-) (portion deleted) Anyway I would prefer to install something more modern. The one USB 1.1 port works well. I'm not sure about the PCMIA slots. Obviously the CDROM drive works, or I could not have installed Windows and booted live Linux CD's …. (portion deleted) WT The 1.1 USB slot on the 200Mhz 770 has worked with 2 different USB WT Wireless dongles. The pcmcia slots on that one are NG. I also found WT a Belkin USB- Ethernet dongle that works also. NG = No Good? Are you saying that yours happened to be No Good, or, in general, are these PCMIA slots so old as to be useless altogether? (same duplicate paragraph deleted) WT From the above I would suggest you take the jump to Lenny/Testing on the WT 390. I have not found anything that doesn't work, yet, on the 200Mhz WT box and it only has a 8.8Gb partition and its using only 29% of that. I WT loaded up a bunch of drivers on it to test all the USB stuff. You may WT have enough room for a Knoppix partition as well. A 3 dist boot job. WT Good luck! WT Wayne I have a U.S.Robotics 100 Mbps 802.11g Wireless Turbo PC Card —USR5410-- with an installation CDROM (probably intended mainly for Windows). I have a Belkin F5D7050 USB
Re: upgrade of etch from beta2 net install to current level
see bottom for update: one thing at a time... I can mount my Windows XP partition which also won't boot so I can recover data. Grub seems to work fine. I'm just not proficient in it yet. we can fix that. what partition is xp on? mine is on hdb1 or in grub speak (hd1,0) so I have in my menu.lst title MS Windows XP root (hd1,0) savedefault makeactive chainloader +1 and that worked fine for me until i killed windows. However, I did get aptitude to upgrade to its latest version 0.4.4 that Joey Hess mentioned in a previous post. I'm getting there but can still use helpful comments. sometimes for big upgrades you have to run it multiple times to get it through all the way. what exactly have you run so far? and did it run to completion? A My system has exhibited weird behavior. It now boots into Windows. I can get to the Linux partition with the rescue mode of the original network installation CDROM for etch with kernel 2.6.15. Also, the boot priority suddenly changed to the harddrive. I had to change the boot priority in the BIOS to boot from CDROM. I had also looked at the system with the installation CDROM's for Windows XP Professional. I'm not aware that I told it to change anything; however, it may have 'volunteered quietly.' Also, the ASUS CPU Parameter Recall (ASUS CPR), a feature of their AI motherboards, may have activated. Oh well, I'm going to back up my Windows data and then be ready to repair the Debian GNU/Linux etch installation still on /dev/hda6. I'm swearing off eggnog (except at Mother's) and grub-install to avoid ruining the MBR. What can we do with the rescue mode of the installation beta2 CDROM? I got an external harddrive to back up my data. The latest etch network install file (debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso) was downloaded and created. I booted off it and had it to erase the contents of /dev/hda6 when the basic system install aborted. Fortunately I had no data worth keeping, just a few game scores. It was necessary to use adduser as root to get an ordinary user account. The installer also reinstalled grub correctly and updated it correctly when the system downloaded updates. The update also gave me the 2.6.18 kernel in addition to the 2.6.17 kernel on the installation CDROM. (I got the smp kernel I wanted to make use of the Pentium 4 Prescott hyperthreading.) The desktop is GNOME. The network install CDROM seems to set that up by default. I may get KDE when it seems safe. So the worse problem was solved by 'cutting the Gordian knot' with a reinstallation. My thanks to Sackville and others that responded! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: upgrade of etch from beta2 net install to current level
I have a dual-booting box with an ASUS P4P800e Deluxe motherboard (socket 478) with a Radeon ATI 9550 graphics card. Etch using grub was installed this past spring 2006 with a 2.6.12 kernel from the beta2 network installation CDROM. Since I now have ADSL (the motherboard has built-in IEEE 1394 WAN), I tried to upgrade etch with aptitude update and aptitude upgrade. It attempted to remove my only running kernel. I declined that option. It has hosed my display after reboot. I scripted the upgrade and believe that I can retrieve the text file if that is needed. I was also foolhardy enough to attempt linux-image-2.6.18-3-686, but it also wanted to remove 2.6.12 which is my only kernel. Once I get Windows XP Professional configured correctly, I suppose I could download a current iso image and reinstall or just use Kubuntu. Mainly I want to know if I can use aptitude to finish the upgrade properly and then I would like to know the way to upgrade from 2.6.12 to 2.6.18 so that I can use a smp kernel with the Pentium 4 Prescott. Thanks for any help on the Debian recommended way to proceed. I tried Sackville's suggestion to mark the 2.6.12, but aptitude had already purged dependent packages and was dead set on removing it. Fortunately or unfortunately, it seems that aptitude (0.4.1, I think) was intent on downloading the whole mirror or so it seemed. It downloaded and installed about ten of the *86 kernels of version 2.6.18. I have to boot into a recovery kernel and enter root password to get into maintenance mode. The normal login won't show a password prompt to let me get in. Also, the graphics system is not displaying. I can mount my Windows XP partition which also won't boot so I can recover data. Grub seems to work fine. I'm just not proficient in it yet. However, I did get aptitude to upgrade to its latest version 0.4.4 that Joey Hess mentioned in a previous post. I'm getting there but can still use helpful comments. I had missed the obvious auto/manual install toggle in aptitude. This time I will use it on the 2.6.18 kernels (normal and recovery). I also have the vserver and k7 kernels. I guess I can purge or eliminate some of those once I get the system back into shape. Anyway, further suggestions and guidance are certainly appreciated. It's nearly 4 AM for me. Tomorrow is going to be an exquisite pleasure!%-} -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: upgrade of etch from beta2 net install to current level
On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 03:50:55AM -0600, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: I have a dual-booting box with an ASUS P4P800e Deluxe motherboard (socket 478) with a Radeon ATI 9550 graphics card. Etch using grub was installed this past spring 2006 with a 2.6.12 kernel from the beta2 network installation CDROM. Since I now have ADSL (the motherboard has built-in IEEE 1394 WAN), I tried to upgrade etch with aptitude update and aptitude upgrade. It attempted to remove my only running kernel. I declined that option. It has hosed my display after reboot. I scripted the upgrade and believe that I can retrieve the text file if that is needed. I was also foolhardy enough to attempt linux-image-2.6.18-3-686, but it also wanted to remove 2.6.12 which is my only kernel. Once I get Windows XP Professional configured correctly, I suppose I could download a current iso image and reinstall or just use Kubuntu. Mainly I want to know if I can use aptitude to finish the upgrade properly and then I would like to know the way to upgrade from 2.6.12 to 2.6.18 so that I can use a smp kernel with the Pentium 4 Prescott. Thanks for any help on the Debian recommended way to proceed. I tried Sackville's suggestion to mark the 2.6.12, but aptitude had already purged dependent packages and was dead set on removing it. Fortunately or unfortunately, it seems that aptitude (0.4.1, I think) was intent on downloading the whole mirror or so it seemed. It downloaded and installed about ten of the *86 kernels of version 2.6.18. I have to boot into a recovery kernel and enter root password to get into maintenance mode. can you issue `init 2` from the maintenance mode? what does it do? I don't know. I shall try it this weekend and report back. The normal login won't show a password prompt to let me get in. what does it do then? It skips the password prompt and goes immediately to the login prompt. Every 5th time it tells me that I've tried 5 times. Also, the graphics system is not displaying. one thing at a time... The repeated upgrades might fix that, too. The basic system is running fine in spite of having the running 2.6.12 'shot out' from under me! As I said, I have been choosing the 2.6.18 ... 686 recovery mode kernel since that would appear to match my system. I don't know that I need the vserver and xen flavors. Do I? (It might be interesting to keep them for later, perhaps.) I can mount my Windows XP partition which also won't boot so I can recover data. Grub seems to work fine. I'm just not proficient in it yet. we can fix that. what partition is xp on? mine is on hdb1 or in grub speak (hd1,0) so I have in my menu.lst title MS Windows XP root (hd1,0) savedefault makeactive chainloader +1 and that worked fine for me until i killed windows. /dev/hda1 is Windows XP Professional. /dev/hda6 is the Debian partition. I was able to use cfdisk to reveal the partition table. I am going to set /dev/hda1 to ntfs (because that is what it is supposed to be). I suspect that it still won't boot. Before I do that, I shall save off the data files to my Jaz drive and to my ordinary account in the Linux partition. Then I would have the data files in two locations. Everything else can be re-installed, if necessary. (That'll take 2 or 3 pots of coffee!) I think I did a grub-install into hd0,1 and trashed the Windows partition. Fortunately, the partition is mountable from Linux and so is my Jaz drive. I suspect that I'll have to retrieve the data files, do a Quick Format on /dev/hda1 with the Windows installation CDROM's and re-install. However, I did get aptitude to upgrade to its latest version 0.4.4 that Joey Hess mentioned in a previous post. I'm getting there but can still use helpful comments. sometimes for big upgrades you have to run it multiple times to get it through all the way. what exactly have you run so far? and did it run to completion? I suspected that I would have to update and upgrade several times. However, I think I'm in a loop, or I'm just seeing various packages use the same common packages such as python2.3. Before I let aptitude remove the 2.6.12 kernel, it would only show a red highlight with BB for the Broken Broken flags or purple highlight with Bd for the Broken and delete flags. It had already killed the initrd-tools package on which the 2.6.12 kernel package depended. A I shall try the init 2 command from the prompt in maintenance mode this weekend. Should I do it from the root prompt (#) or the user prompt ($)? I did try startx from the root prompt. No joy. Thank you for your comments. I appreciate the insight because I sometimes get lost in the details! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
upgrade of etch from beta2 net install to current level
I have a dual-booting box with an ASUS P4P800e Deluxe motherboard (socket 478) with a Radeon ATI 9550 graphics card. Etch using grub was installed this past spring 2006 with a 2.6.12 kernel from the beta2 network installation CDROM. Since I now have ADSL (the motherboard has built-in IEEE 1394 WAN), I tried to upgrade etch with aptitude update and aptitude upgrade. It attempted to remove my only running kernel. I declined that option. It has hosed my display after reboot. I scripted the upgrade and believe that I can retrieve the text file if that is needed. I was also foolhardy enough to attempt linux-image-2.6.18-3-686, but it also wanted to remove 2.6.12 which is my only kernel. Once I get Windows XP Professional configured correctly, I suppose I could download a current iso image and reinstall or just use Kubuntu. Mainly I want to know if I can use aptitude to finish the upgrade properly and then I would like to know the way to upgrade from 2.6.12 to 2.6.18 so that I can use a smp kernel with the Pentium 4 Prescott. Thanks for any help on the Debian recommended way to proceed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Where is the Email file?
I am running the Linux version of Netscape 7.2 on Debian GNU/Linux sarge. When my message box hit 100,000, the messages disappeared. Before they disappeared, only one message would appear in the window. I tried to delete some old messages at the beginning of the index thinking that would restore the proper indexing. Where do I find the missing messages? It appears that Netscape 'took over' the Mozilla stuff way back when I first installed Netscape 7.2. I looked in lost+found. That was empty. I looked in /usr/local/netscape but couldn't find anything resembling a message file. The README file that I found seemed to indicate that I should look in my own home directory. I found .mozilla and .netscape and .netscape6 directories. I also noted the mbox file that mutt appears to use. Thanks for any clues. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: package chkrootkit
Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: I got the following message from the chkrootkit package. I'm quite new at this and don't know what to do. /etc/cron.daily/chkrootkit: /usr/bin/strings: Warning: '/' is not an ordinary file INFECTED (PORTS: 600) Now that I've had more time to use Google (Dear Googlemaster, I'm using Google to search, not google!), I found a number of suggestive articles at http://bluequartz.org/ml/archive/coba-e/3600/3689.html http://bluequartz.org/ml/archive/coba-e/3600/3688.html http://bluequartz.org/ml/archive/coba-e/3600/3687.html http://bluequartz.org/ml/archive/coba-e/3600/3686.html This will tell you if the cupsd has been modified or not from the rpm install. check the man page for rpm for all the details. Also, unless you are printing from your web server (which I think would be quite odd), you could un-install cups all together. Same goes fro the rpc.statd. Unless you are running nfs, you can disable and un-install this program as well. This is some information about my system: Gcomm:/home/gayle/docs/wrk/wonk# lsof -i:600 Gcomm:/home/gayle/docs/wrk/wonk# netstat -naptu | grep :6 tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:631 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 7568/cupsd udp0 0 0.0.0.0:631 0.0.0.0:* 7568/cupsd Gcomm:/home/gayle/docs/wrk/wonk# exit [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/docs/wrk/wonk$ dpkg -l | grep cups ii cupsomatic-ppd 20050430-1 linuxprinting.org printer support - transiti ii cupsys 1.1.23-10sarge Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - server ii cupsys-bsd 1.1.23-10sarge Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - BSD comman ii cupsys-client 1.1.23-10sarge Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - client pro ii cupsys-driver- 4.2.7-10 Gimp-Print printer drivers for CUPS ii cupsys-driver- 4.2.7-10 Gimp-Print printer drivers for CUPS rc kdelibs3-cups 2.2.2-13.woody KDE print system (CUPS support) ii libcupsimage2 1.1.23-10sarge Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - image libs ii libcupsys2 1.1.23-10sarge Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - dummy libs ii libcupsys2-dev 1.1.23-10sarge Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - developmen ii libcupsys2-gnu 1.1.23-10sarge Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - libs ii libgnomecups1. 0.1.14-1 GNOME library for CUPS interaction ii libqtcups2 2.0-4 Qt interface library for CUPS ii qtcups 2.0-4 Qt front-end for CUPS. The article mentions rpm, but we Debian people use packages. I guess I need to test the integrity of some packages or just disable stuff. However, I hate to do that unless I know I won't crash my system. Hints and tips are appreciated! Btw, this is a sarge system running kernel 2.6.12 with ide=nodma. -- (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless, http://counter.li.org/, No. 365760. Linux Gcomm 2.6.12-1-686 #1 Fri Jun 24 12:17:14 CEST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
package chkrootkit
I got the following message from the chkrootkit package. I'm quite new at this and don't know what to do. /etc/cron.daily/chkrootkit: /usr/bin/strings: Warning: '/' is not an ordinary file INFECTED (PORTS: 600) -- (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless, http://counter.li.org/, No. 365760. Linux Gcomm 2.6.12-1-686 #1 Fri Jun 24 12:17:14 CEST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: etch network install iso images with latest kernel version 2.6.x
On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 17:18 -0500, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: At the beginning of the year there was a 150 MB file on Debian.org to create a network installation CDROM for etch. I can't find that anymore although I did find the multiple iso images. I was interested in the etch network CDROM because it contained one of the latest kernels at the time, 2.6.12. Perhaps an update would have an even later version? A hint at getting thru the maze would be helpful. BTW, has a Greg Folkert replied on Fri, 12 May 2006 00:26:37 -0400: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ daily-builds weekly-builds Or even etch_di_beta2 Just follow down. I wouldn't use the sid_di I managed to find the etch 2 beta net installation iso file and created a CDROM which would have the 2.6.15 kernel. Would this 'update' my new box if I install over the first beta? Since I don't have any data on the new box that I need to keep. (I'm doing my email, etc. on this old box, Gcomm.), I thought that this would be a quick and dirty way to upgrade the kernel without bothering with how to go from a mkinitrd kernel to one using either yaird or intraramfs(sp?) tools or whatever magic is currently being used. -- (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless, http://counter.li.org/, No. 365760. Linux Gcomm 2.6.12-1-686 #1 Fri Jun 24 12:17:14 CEST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux CC's are okay; I subscribe to the digest. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
etch network install iso images with latest kernel version 2.6.x
At the beginning of the year there was a 150 MB file on Debian.org to create a network installation CDROM for etch. I can't find that anymore although I did find the multiple iso images. I was interested in the etch network CDROM because it contained one of the latest kernels at the time, 2.6.12. Perhaps an update would have an even later version? A hint at getting thru the maze would be helpful. BTW, has a complete KDE version migrated to etch? -- CC's to [EMAIL PROTECTED] are OK. But I subscribe to the digest. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: scanner hp psc1402
Ernst-Magne Vindal wrote: On Sat, March 25, 2006 13:19, steef said: hello folks, samebody out there who can tell me how to get the scanner of a hp psc1402 working? (tried out sane, xsane and the like already: without success and googling was of no help. printer etc. works excellent with hplip) I have sane, xsane working with my HP psc 1210xi but have the following packages: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -l | grep hp ii foomatic-db-hp 1.5-20050420-1 linuxprinting.org printer support - database ii hp-ppd 0.5HP Postscript Printer Definition (PPD) files ii hp2xx 3.4.4-2A HPGL converter into some vector- and raste ii hp48cc 1.3-3.1C-like compiler which produces HP48 RPN ii hpijs 2.1.2+0.9.2-2 HP Linux Printing and Imaging - gs IJS drive ii hplip 0.9.2-2HP Linux Printing and Imaging System (hplip) ii hplip-data 0.9.2-2HP Linux Printing and Imaging - data files rc hpoj 0.91-4 HP OfficeJet Linux driver (hpoj) ii hpscanpbm 0.3a-11HP ScanJet scanning utility [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -l | grep sane ii libsane1.0.15-9 API library for scanners ii libsane-extras 1.0.15.9 API library for scanners -- extra backends ii sane-utils 1.0.15-9 API library for scanners -- utilities ii xsane 0.97-3 GTK+-based X11 frontend for SANE (Scanner Ac ii xsane-common 0.97-3 GTK+-based X11 frontend for SANE (Scanner Ac Perhaps you didn't get all the needed packages? I think the hpijs package was more useful to me. YMMV. regards, steef -- Hi, not sure about psc1402, but for my psc2175 I use vuescan, very nice and many options for scanning and output format. hi, got the last package of vuescan from a hamrick-site (.tgz). (thanks!!) put it in my home_file and *untarred* it. it should work for the 1400 hp series ( i controlled that), but on my machine (sarge, 2.6.8-2-386 standard kernel) it says :there is no scan-device on this machine i am confused. anybody knows how this can happen? No, I was following the advice in Hill, Harris, and Vyas, Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 Bible, (Indianapolis, Indiana), (c) 2005, pp. 236-238. I don't know if my later kernel is a factor or not. thanks, steef -- (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless, http://counter.li.org/, No. 365760. (cc's are fine; I may not see a list reply since I read some of the digests.) Linux Gcomm 2.6.12-1-686 #1 Fri Jun 24 12:17:14 CEST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dual boot comoputer
On xx, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting cody chamberlain [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 11:04 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi to all, I had a dual boot computer, Debian and Windows XP. The motherboard in the computer failed, the motherboard was replaced( I wasn't present when the mb was replaced) since then I can not acces debian. what exactly is meant that you cannot access debian? is grub/lilo still available? On , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, lilo is not available, the computer boots into windows. I can see the partitions by using knoppix and partition magic (one hard drive with two partitions) Quoting cody chamberlain [EMAIL PROTECTED]: are you able to boot into your windows xp? at what point are you not able to boot debian? On , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I can boot into windows. The menu option to choose windows or debian is gone. How can I restore the options to choose windows or debian? thanks again Fernando From: Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2006 22:54:53 +0200 On Sun, 5 Mar 2006 04:56:59 -0800 (PST) Willie Wonka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sat, 4 Mar 2006 00:33:39 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see you have knoppix. Boot with it. Find out what your / partition is. I will assume it is /dev/hda2. Open a root console and type these commands: umount /dev/hda2 mount -o rw /dev/hda2 /mnt/hda2 mount -o bind /dev /mnt/hda2/dev chroot /mnt/hda2 mount /proc grub-install exit reboot This should do the trick ;) Andrei P.S. I think some steps can be ommitted, but it won't hurt if you do them :) Above is pretty nice - however I'm notsure how some of those command lines help ad do whatever they do -- but just wanted to say Actually that sequence is needed with lilo. And if you do the grub-install in the abreviated form it will install the grub present on knoppix and not the one on the system. It should work fine in most cases, but you never know ... Fairless: After you do the chroot, use the absolute pathname of lilo which should be /sbin/lilo You want to use the lilo on your system to install the MBR. But more important, I forgot grub-install needs the install device, so it should be grub-install /dev/hda This will put it on the MBR of the hdd. Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) Fairless: I also have a dual boot computer. It was necessary to get into root from Knoppix. Once I write-enabled the drive, I used the chroot command and then the full pathname of /sbin/lilo to install the MBR. If you have trouble with the MBR being changed, you should know how to redo the MBR from Windows for another try. Since I have Windows 98SE, I can't help you with Windows XP. HTH's :-) -- (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless, http://counter.li.org/, No. 365760. Linux Gcomm 2.6.12-1-686 #1 Fri Jun 24 12:17:14 CEST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux CC's are fine with me although I am subscribed to the digest. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kde status in Etch
On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 21:46:59 Ryan Nowakowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 08:58:47PM -0500, H.S. wrote: H.S. wrote: I apologize if this is a vague query. I have been patiently waiting for more than a couple of months now (I believe) to update KDE in Etch. However, apt-get is still wanting to uninstall quite a bit of packages, almost whole of KDE. Dselect also wants to uninstall quite a few KDE packages. What is the status of this whole KDE update stuff in Etch? It appears that kdelibs4 and k3b are some sort of 'culprits'? Can somebody shed some light on this whole issue? I just did a full upgrade 3 days ago and kde 3.5 works fine. Back in the first part of January I used the beta network installation CDROM to start etch on my new box. I ended up with the GNOME desktop and gdm. I used aptitude install kde to get what I could of KDE but evidently aptitude is holding some packages because they're not yet in testing. Like H. S., I also posted a general query but didn't get any replies. In February I'll try to get to another DSL connection and see if any more packages come down. I used a Debian mirror in Georgia, USA. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian-User in Digest form?
From: Joseph Smidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is there any way to get the debian-user mailing list in digest form? Yes, your message appeared in debian-user-digest Digest V2006 #195. Go to Debian.org and look at the web subscription area. Read the instructions at http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/ You can place your subscription at http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/subscribe Happy Reading! There's a lot! -- (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless, (CC's and BCC's are okay.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
X-system X.org Ctrl-Alt-Func key terminal switching
One of the things I liked about woody and sarge was the Ctrl-Alt-Func keys that could get me to a text prompt. When I used the the etch beta installation CDROM on a new box, X.org (and kernel 2.6.12) got installed. The Ctrl-Alt-Backspace works just fine! But the Ctrl-Alt-Func Keys don't get me to a text terminal. I looked in a book by Aron Hsiao entitled XFREE86 for Linux in hopes of finding a configuration file that would enable them. I also hunted through the system and succeeded in finding how to invoke openoffice but couldn't find the Ctrl-Alt-Func Key stuff. Thanks for any clues or Easter Eggs! And happy hunting to y'all, too! -- (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless, http://counter.li.org/, No. 365760. Linux Gcomm 2.6.12-1-686 #1 Fri Jun 24 12:17:14 CEST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Resuming interrupted etch beta Installation over Internet
On 1/12/06, Gayle Lee Fairless [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wish to thank the two individuals who answered my previous question about the time needed to install Debian etch onto an ASUS P4P800E deluxe motherboard with a 250 GB Seagate drive. On 12/15/2005 Adam James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Installation method is another factor. If I were you I'd download the 100Mb netinst CD image for Etch [1]. If you're anything like me, you'll spend more time configuring the system than installing it! [1] Available from: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer On 12/16/2005 Dexter [EMAIL PROTECTED] I gess it should take less than hour for standard desktop instalation. Testing version is bether if you install desktop station. Stable is good for server. On 1/12/2006 Brian Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It sounds like you at least have the base system installed since you mentioned you rebooted the machine. In order to continue on with the installation of the selected packages, simply bring the system back up and log in with the credentials you set up for the root user and type base-config without the quotes and hit enter, that will rerun the configure script where you can select the packages again to download. Regards, Brian The system came back up into aptitude where I added a few of the recommends and completed the download. The base system does indeed have the 2.6.12 kernel that I wanted. Later I hope to pull the smp kernel for the hyperthreaded Pentium 4 Prescott. I have indeed spent more time changing the configuration here and there such as changing /etc/papersize from a4 to letter, downloading one of the CUPS files, and getting the resolution to something readable. I also learned how to get gdm to let me shutdown the system cleanly so that fsck doesn't have to clean up at boot and reboot. Ctrl-Alt-Backspace is handy for making the X-system give me a decent view of gdm for login and shutdown. However, I cannot use Ctrl-Alt-function key [F1 -- F6] to get into the text terminals. How do I restore these keys? I also tried to download KDE, but it doesn't appear to be available. Is that because the KDE packages for etch are not quite complete? I noticed that a number of packages were being held back. I hope to 'borrow' the DSL at my club but here at the house I have dialup. I could 'rob' an external modem for the serial port from one of my other computers if I have to. Nonetheless, I also have an external USB modem. Is there a way to use eth1 for either of the two possible modems? (I'm saving eth0 for the occasional DSL.) Thanks for all the new information and the reminders! -- (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless, Although I am subscribed to the digest, CC's to [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] are fine for quicker interaction. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Easy question for new user regarding sources.list
Andrew Donnellan wrote: Please post this to -user. (For the record, I support the -testing name change proposal.) Andrew On 1/15/06, resonant evil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all.. I just installed Debian from a TESTING net install image I downloaded, and just have 1 or 2 easy questions that I can hopefully get answered and save in my inbox so I never have to ask again :) 1st question: I seem to be missing alot of packages that I can't get through aptitude. From memory, I remember there is a key step in adding some additional lines to my /etc/apt/sources.list . Also, I want to use current-version software if that is possible.. My /etc/apt/sources.list is as follows: --- # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Snapshot i386 Binary-1 (20060114)]/ etch main deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Snapshot i386 Binary-1 (20060114)]/ etch main deb http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/debian/ etch main deb-src http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/debian/ etch main deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main --- I thought I remembered having many more lines than that, but am sorry that I have forgotten what they are.. I tried googling around 'debian etch sources.list' and things like that, but nothing that I could find that explained the process :( The reason I think I am missing key packages is because basic things like 'ncurses' or 'ncurses-devel' for me to even do a 'make menuconfig' for my kernel are missing and can't be obtained through aptitude :-( And I suppose the second question is, this version I am using is ETCH, which is one version behind SID right? Fairless replies: Unstable is always SID because he is the boy in Toy Story that breaks all the toys. Is SID too unstable for me to use? Fairless replies: That depends on whether broken or incomplete packages bother you. If you like testing for bugs and getting them fixed, then SID may be right for you. Stable, presently sarge, is for those people who want stability for production machines like servers. Most people go for testing which is currently etch since the packages are usually working especially as a release date approaches. Right now since sarge only went stable this past June 2005, etch or testing is still somewhat raw. I'd really like to try things like the new Gnome or the newest versions of KDE, and programs like gaim beta 2.0+ which require the newest versions of GTK and such.. Sorry for the newbie questions but I'm just a new user still trying to learn the ropes :( Thanks in advance all, and any help would be greatly appreciated :-) -Ryan -- Andrew Donnellan http://andrewdonnellan.com http://ajdlinux.blogspot.com Jabber - [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Member of Linux Australia - http://linux.org.au Debian user - http://debian.org Get free rewards - http://ezyrewards.com/?id=23484 OpenNIC user - http://www.opennic.unrated.net Fairless replies: Dear 'resonant evil:' Here is a portion of the the sources.list that I use: deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian sarge main contrib deb-src ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian sarge main contrib #deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main #deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ stable main deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ sarge main deb http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/debian sarge main deb-src http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/debian sarge main #deb http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/debian woody main #deb-src http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/debian woody main deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main deb-src http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main You'll probably want to replace stable with either testing or etch or even perhaps unstable for your purposes. HTH! -- (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless, Although I am subscribed to the digest, CC's to [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] are fine for quicker interaction. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Resuming interrupted etch beta Installation over Internet
I wish to thank the two individuals who answered my previous question about the time needed to install Debian etch onto an ASUS P4P800E deluxe motherboard with a 250 GB Seagate drive. Assembling the new system at the hardware Special Interest Group (SIG) took little time since the teacher is quite experienced. We partitioned the Seagate into 3 main areas with a swap partition for Linux as a fourth partition: future Windows XP, swap, Linux ext2, and common data area FAT32. The system also has a floppy drive, CD-RW (used as a CDROM booter), and ATI Radeon 9550 graphics card. The keyboard and mouse are PS/2. The microprocessor is a Pentium 4 Prescott with hyperthreading at 3.2 GHZ. The installation proceeded quite well until we ran out of time and had to abort the downloading of the packages from a local mirror in Georgia. How do I resume the download? I may be able to use eth0 which looks at the motherboard's onboard ethernet capabilities, or I may have to setup eth1 to a serial port or USB modem to continue the download for several nights over my dialup connection (Ugh!). How do I get a list of the packages if a friend is willing to download the packages for me and cut/press/burn them to a CDROM? The list of packages would be the ones that the installation procedure has 'decided' to download based on our answers. I am pleased with the way the installation started up. The basic system got installed. Then the installer kicked out the network installation CDROM and had us to reboot into the newly installed system which now has hernel 2.6.12 since we chose the standard install command provided on the installation CDROM burned from the 150 MB iso for Debian etch. eth0 will be the name for the GiaLan ethernet built into the motherboard. eth1 is free, I guess. (As an aside, I noted that shpchp got installed correctly on this system (redetch) whereas it didn't on another box. I googled for this and found that shpchp didn't install elsewhere but haven't a clue what this does or means, if anything.) Thanks for any basic guidelines, insights, etc. I have read the installation manual online and looked over the network CDROM. It has a few reference hURL's that need fixing. Online you just erase the last part of the path, and it works! I also read the errata. Fortunately the extra size is not an issue for this particular installation. I have some experience with Debian GNU/Linux woody upgraded to sarge on another box. -- (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless, Although I am subscribed to the digest, CC's to [EMAIL PROTECTED] are fine for quicker interaction. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
installation time for a Debian distribution
With a speed of between 1.0 and 1.5 mbs on DSL, how long would it take to install a Debian distribution onto a computer with a 3.2GHZ Pentium 4 Prescott (800 FSB), and ASUS P4P800e Deluxe motherboard? I would have a 250 GB Seagate hard drive. I was thinking of either sarge or etch, especially etch since I understand that the beta installer would have the 2.6.12 kernel. Thank you for your speculation! I am subscribed to the digest, but CC's are fine! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: update kernel
On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, SuperrrLeha wrote: How i can update kernel? Please post your request on the Debian User mailing list and give us the version that you're using, the type of computer, your kernel version, and what you have already learned from googling for the answer. Then there may be enough information to help you complete the procedure. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: why upgrade kernel?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a couple of machines which I'm in the process of upgrading to Sarge. I'm wondering about whether to upgrade the kernels. They're all running some version of 2.4, which I've built for the particular machines. If I don't get new hardware which need newer drivers, and I don't care about any of the fancy new features of 2.6 (whatever those are), is there any benefit in upgrading the kernel? Will newer versions of some packages eventually need a newer kernel? There are some changes from 2.4 to 2.6. I haven't been able to sort out all the changes on my machine yet. However, I'm at the point where a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. I would advise you to stay with the 2.4 kernel since it is already working for you. If later you want something like ALSA or udev, then consider a 2.6 kernel. By that time the ongoing development of the 2.6 kernel should be in better shape. You might want to install the packages apt-listbugs and apt-listchanges, if you can use them, to tell you if an upgrade of one of your installed packages actually needs or requires a 2.6 kernel. (I've just installed them myself since I saw them recommended in another thread.) -- (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless, http://counter.li.org/, No. 365760. Linux Gcomm 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 GNU/Linux Linux Gcomm 2.6.11-1-686 #1 Mon Jun 20 22:00:38 MDT 2005 i686 GNU/Linux Linux Gcomm 2.6.12-1-686 #1 Fri Jun 24 12:17:14 CEST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cups+printer install? (fwd)
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 12:03:18 +0100 From: Andrzej Doyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 06:18:47 -0500 (CDT) Resent-From: debian-kde@lists.debian.org Andrzej Doyle wrote: On 08/03/2005 08:02 pm, Ishwar Rattan wrote: Is there a way to install a printer using cups without a browser (no capability for http://localhost:631/)? I want to access remote printers alos on a cups server in the dept but have no interest in installing X-windows. Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] replied: Are you using KDE? ... The Add Printer option in the KDE Control Center... Given that X windows is a prerequisite for KDE, it's safe to assume someone who doesn't want to install the former won't have the latter installed. The CUPS Software Adminstrators Manual has the answer. Depending on what you have installed, it may be available locally at /usr/share/cups/doc-root/sam.html and if not, it's always available at http://www.cups.org/doc-1.1/sam.html (both in a lynx-friendly format). A relevant excerpt: Adding your first printer from the command line Run the lpadmin command with the -p option to add a printer to CUPS: /usr/sbin/lpadmin -p /printer/ -E -v /device/ -m /ppd/ ENTER I would highly recommend you read through the entire document if you're going to be using/changing CUPS settings. There's also a Software Users Manual available, focussing on the end-users' viewpoint, available at the same URIs but as sum.html. HTH, Andrzej -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cups+printer install? (fwd)
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 13:44:19 +0200 From: cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Cups+printer install? On Thursday 04 August 2005 06:35, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: On 08/03/2005 08:02 pm, Ishwar Rattan wrote: Is there a way to install a printer using cups without a browser (no capability for http://localhost:631/)? I want to access remote printers alos on a cups server in the dept but have no interest in installing X-windows. so use links, or w3m, or some other text-browser to access http;//localhost:631, there isn't any need to install X-windows just to be able to use CUPS's web-interface -- Cheers, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) 1. Encrypted mail preferred (GPG KeyID: 0x86624ABB) 2. Plain-text mail recommended since I move html and double format mails to a low priority folder (they're mainly spam) I added this reply to the lists for the benefit of the OP, et. al. -- (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cups+printer install?
On 08/03/2005 08:02 pm, Ishwar Rattan wrote: Is there a way to install a printer using cups without a browser (no capability for http://localhost:631/)? I want to access remote printers alos on a cups server in the dept but have no interest in installing X-windows. Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] replied: Are you using KDE? If so, I believe you can use the KDE Control Center (under Peripheral Devices Printers). You should also be able to edit the files in /etc/cups/ directly to add a printer. I rarely use a browser for it now, I most often use KDE (on Xandros). I have one laptop running Debian Sarge and I am almost sure that KDE has a wizard for adding printers (in the Control Center of KDE). 8) The Add Printer option in the KDE Control Center activates a printer wizard. I found it more intuitively easy to use than the http://localhost:631/ option in the browser. Now I haven't used it to install a remote printer. The Debian KDE list might also have some good suggestions for you. -- (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless, http://counter.li.org/, No. 365760. Linux Gcomm 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 GNU/Linux Linux Gcomm 2.6.11-1-686 #1 Mon Jun 20 22:00:38 MDT 2005 i686 GNU/Linux Linux Gcomm 2.6.12-1-686 #1 Fri Jun 24 12:17:14 CEST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel-source-... renamed for .12 ???
Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Anyone know why kernel-source-2.6.x was renamed to linux-source-2.6.x for 2.6.12? If I had to hazard a guess it is because Debian has other projects (Hurd, BSD) which have kernels which are not the Linux kernel. Yep! In the thread entitled 'Re: Debian kernel source and compiler' here (dated Sat 23 Jul 2005) on this list: There is a longish thread on the debian-kernel list entitled '2.6.12 upload' which seems to contain the answers to most of your questions. If you are an expert google searcher, I guess you should be able to retrieve this thread and others. The linux-source-* is the new convention because hurd will be a future choice for those who want to run hurd instead of/(in addition to?) linux. I guess hurd-source-* will let the user know what is actually there. I'll forward the 2 pertinent messages to you offlist if it suits your pleasure. But they're on the Debian Kernel mailing list. I wasn't able to make Google retrieve them neatly so I suppose a better Googler will have to volunteer. -- (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless, http://counter.li.org/, No. 365760. Linux Gcomm 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 GNU/Linux Linux Gcomm 2.6.11-1-686 #1 Mon Jun 20 22:00:38 MDT 2005 i686 GNU/Linux Linux Gcomm 2.6.12-1-686 #1 Fri Jun 24 12:17:14 CEST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux offlist messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you wish, but I'm subscribed to the Digest. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [solved] 2.6 kernel beating up the IDE controller on DMA test and requests.
debian-user-digest Digest V2005 #1827 thread entitled ' 2.6 kernel beating up the IDE ... on DMA test ' The 2.6 kernel seems to be testing the DMA option on bootup so severely that fsck finds errors and requests a reboot. This is a Gateway 500 with a Pentium III (500 MHZ). (stuff deleted) On bootup of the 2.6.12 kernel there is a lot of dma testing on the IDE interface. Responses of 0x41, 0x61 keep getting reported. (stuff deleted) I downloaded the source code for kernel 2.6.12 and found my solution in the Documentation directory. The kernel-parameters.txt and ide.txt showed me that I could put 'ide=nodma' on the menu line from the lilo menu and get a nicer bootup. -- (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless, http://counter.li.org/, No. 365760. Linux Gcomm 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 GNU/Linux Linux Gcomm 2.6.11-1-686 #1 Mon Jun 20 22:00:38 MDT 2005 i686 GNU/Linux Linux Gcomm 2.6.12-1-686 #1 Fri Jun 24 12:17:14 CEST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian kernel source and compiler
Jules Dubois [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running Sid -- up-to-date except for a small number of held and broken packages -- and have two questions about kernel source and compiling. 1) I have previously gotten, built, and used Debian's kernel source packages, such as kernel-source-2.6.10 and kernel-source-2.6.11. In the last few days, aptitude shows a new source package, linux-source-2.6.12. It is the only (non-virtual) package whose name begins with 'linux-source'. Do the Debian kernel source packages use a new naming convention or is this new package a vanilla kernel (or something else)? There is a longish thread on the debian-kernel list entitled '2.6.12 upload' which seems to contain the answers to most of your questions. I'm going to forward two of the messages to your private email account. If you are an expert google searcher, I guess you should be able to retrieve this thread and others. The linux-source-* is the new convention because hurd will be a future choice for those who want to run hurd instead of/(in addition to?) linux. I guess hurd-source-* will let the user know what is actually there. 2) GCC 4.0 is now the default compiler series. When I run 'make menuconfig' or 'make-kpkg kernel_image', I get a large number of warnings -- these warnings are not generated by GCC 3.3, so I have modified the top-level kernel Makefile to use gcc-3.3 and g++-3.3. Should I use GCC 4.0 for compiling the kernel (and ignore the warnings) or continue to use GCC 3.3? It appears that you should use gcc 3.3 for 2.6.12. If I understood the comments, gcc 4.0 will be used for later versions (probably starting with 2.6.13). -- (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless, http://counter.li.org/, No. 365760. Linux Gcomm 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 GNU/Linux Linux Gcomm 2.6.11-1-686 #1 Mon Jun 20 22:00:38 MDT 2005 i686 GNU/Linux Linux Gcomm 2.6.12-1-686 #1 Fri Jun 24 12:17:14 CEST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No Screens Found
Cecil wrote: I am working on an IBM Aptiva and getting the error message that no screen is found when I start XFree86. HP 845c USB on Usb0; Gayle wrote: I successfully used suggestions to me on the Debian KDE list to get my USB HP printer working. ii hpijs 2.1.2+0.9.2-2 HP Linux Printing and Imaging - gs IJS drive ii hplip 0.9.2-2HP Linux Printing and Imaging System (hplip) ii hplip-data 0.9.2-2HP Linux Printing and Imaging - data files I also have cups and xprt installed. I definitely think cups is needed but don't know about xprt or xprint. The subject was Re: In search of the 'Perfect' URI for usb printers on the Debian KDE list Debian Woody 3.0 ... using the bf24 boot option (kernel 2.4), Ext3 fs. Gayle wrote: I run that on a Gateway 500 using Ext2 fs. chomp chomp I also need help with setting up printers Gayle wrote: See above for one down; one to go. and sound, somaybe after X starts, we can go into those. Thanks. Cecil Did you try the generic setting? (IIRC, either vga or vesa?) Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how about including your XF86Config-4, and the tail of /var/log/kdm.log (just enough to see one instance of X failing to start. should be from some lines about Debian heavily modified... blah blah blah to the end) A -- (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless, http://counter.li.org/, No. 365760. Linux Gcomm 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 GNU/Linux Linux Gcomm 2.6.11-1-686 #1 Mon Jun 20 22:00:38 MDT 2005 i686 GNU/Linux Linux Gcomm 2.6.12-1-686 #1 Fri Jun 24 12:17:14 CEST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
sarge + 2.6.12 kernel panic
I have a box upgraded from woody to sarge. Are you using grub or lilo? (Although I didn't do a fresh install, I suspect grub. Posting the differences in your config file might help. Also lspci results. I'm probably as clueless as you, but the extra information might help. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sarge + 2.6.12 kernel panic
original post: Just installed sarge, got fresh kernel sources for 2.6.12, used an oldconfig from a previously successful 2.6.11 kernel, and compiled. Unfortunately when I tried to boot that kernel I got this: attempt to access beyond end of device hda2: rw=16, want=8, limit=2 kernel panic - not syncing: I/O error reading memory image I accepted the default sarge partitioning scheme for a desktop machine, so / is on hda1, and hda2 is an extended partition containing logical partitions hda5 and hda6 (I wonder why those numbers?). I have found some references to this issue but they're a little over my head. The default kernel boots fine, and there are few significant differences in the configs., that I can see anyway. Does anyone know about this issue, or how to fix it? Please CC me. Thanks, John request for more information: I have a box upgraded from woody to sarge. Are you using grub or lilo? (Although I didn't do a fresh install as you did, I suspect that you are using grub. Posting the differences in your config file might help. Also lspci results. I'm probably as clueless as you, but the extra information might help. Dennis Carr wrote: (stuff deleted) At any rate, this has been popping up on the IRC channel as well - people upgrading kernel from 2.6.8 to beyond on sarge have invariably experienced problems and I suspect that this is the reason that the current kernel image source and tree are still at 2.6.8, backports notwithstanding. Just my $.42. -Dennis Carr I am also subscribed to the Debian kernel list where they seem to be discussing 2.6.12 for Debian. The config file from that package might be helpful! The subject title is Re: goals for 2.6.12-2 (and beyond) I lifted this from the following bug report which has the location of 2.6.12 that I used: Bug#317787: kernel-source-2.6.10: md memory leak maximilian attems [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/11/05 13:38 no 2.6.10 is unsupported, we are switching to 2.6.12 atm there is some delay due to the new unified packaging, but if you just need x86 version you can test those out: http://charm.itp.tuwien.ac.at/~mattems/ Anyway, John, (the original poster), is having trouble going from 2.6.11 to 2.6.12. If he will post more information about his bootup environment such as whether he's using grub or lilo and some details about his hard drive configuration, types, etc. then someone on the list may have the specific information that he needs. -- (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless, http://counter.li.org/, No. 365760. Linux Gcomm 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 GNU/Linux Linux Gcomm 2.6.11-1-686 #1 Mon Jun 20 22:00:38 MDT 2005 i686 GNU/Linux Linux Gcomm 2.6.12-1-686 #1 Fri Jun 24 12:17:14 CEST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
2.6 kernel beating up the IDE controller on DMA test and requests.
The 2.6 kernel seems to be testing the DMA option on bootup so severely that fsck finds errors and requests a reboot. This is a Gateway 500 with a Pentium III (500 MHZ). This is my lspci output: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/docs/wrk/wonk$ lspci :00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03) :00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03) :00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02) :00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) :00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01) :00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02) :00:0e.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97] (rev 06) :00:0f.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20262(FastTrak66/Ultra66) (rev 01) :00:10.0 Communication controller: 5610 56K FaxModem WinModem :00:11.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8029(AS) :01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: 3Dfx Interactive, Inc. Voodoo 3 (rev 01) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/docs/wrk/wonk$ On bootup of the 2.6.12 kernel there is a lot of dma testing on the IDE interface. Responses of 0x41, 0x61 keep getting reported. I googled for kernel bootup problems and found quite an assortment including my own post about how to set up an initrd kernel in lilo. I looked at hdparm ii hdparm 6.1-2 tune hard disk parameters for high performan but the man page doesn't give instructions on how to do a simple read. I would like to read the setup of the hard drives that the 2.4.18-bf2.4 makes and set the bootup options for the 2.6.12 kernel to duplicate the setup. The bootup under the 2.6.12 kernel has caused fsck to find errors and request a reboot. I am currently using lilo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/docs/wrk/wonk$ dpkg -l | grep lilo ii lilo 22.6.1-6.2 LInux LOader - The Classic OS loader can loa ii lilo-config3.3.2-1KDE Frontend for lilo configuration ii lilo-doc 22.6.1-6.2 Documentation for LILO (LInux LOader) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/docs/wrk/wonk$ I also have the doc debian policy package. Trying to find the information is a bit daunting. I didn't want to experiment with hdparm since I don't care to mess up my hard drive beyond recovery. I just want to set the 2.6 kernel boot optons to make it boot reliably w/o corrupting the filesystem. Thank you for your help, pointers, and where to find the correct documentation! -- (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless, http://counter.li.org/, No. 365760. Linux Gcomm 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 GNU/Linux Linux Gcomm 2.6.11-1-686 #1 Mon Jun 20 22:00:38 MDT 2005 i686 GNU/Linux Linux Gcomm 2.6.12-1-686 #1 Fri Jun 24 12:17:14 CEST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hewlett-Packard package conflicts
From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 15:04:37 -0300 On Tue, 05 Jul 2005, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: I posted a question to Debian User about package conflicts between hpoj(sp?) and hplip(sp?) that are for parallel HP printers and usb HP printers. My HP 697C is parallel, and my HP psc1210 is usb. The conflicts will be removed in etch. hplip has already removed them in sid, after I manage to make sure things do work alright, I will ask the hpoj mainainter to do so as well. hplip does NOT connect to any printer unless you configure it to do so, so it is safe. HPOJ, you will have to use some sort of command (I don't know which) to tell it to stay away from the USB ports, and then configure HPLIP to use them. I wonder if it is possible to force aptitude to install those 2 conflicting packages and somehow match them to the appropriate printer? You will need to use a backport of the sid hplip package (not yet uploaded, maybe when 0.9.4 shows up), and to modify hpoj to stop conflicting with hplip. A gentleman on the Debian KDE list told me how to install the conflicting package: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/docs/wrk/wonk$ dpkg -l | grep hp ii foomatic-db-hp 1.5-20050420-1 linuxprinting.org printer support - database ii hp-ppd 0.5HP Postscript Printer Definition (PPD) files ii hp2xx 3.4.4-2A HPGL converter into some vector- and raste ii hp48cc 1.3-3.1C-like compiler which produces HP48 RPN ii hpijs 2.1.2+0.9.2-2 HP Linux Printing and Imaging - gs IJS drive ii hplip 0.9.2-2HP Linux Printing and Imaging System (hplip) ii hplip-data 0.9.2-2HP Linux Printing and Imaging - data files ii hpoj 0.91-4 HP OfficeJet Linux driver (hpoj) ii hpscanpbm 0.3a-11HP ScanJet scanning utility [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/docs/wrk/wonk$ I got it installed by almost following his instructions. Finding out how to follow your general advice about configuration is my 'next adventure!' I have CUPS and the foomatic packages and will be looking at the docs, etc. I can already use localhost:631 to get into CUPS. I also understand that the KDE printer wizard should be helpful. I'm a little fuzzy about putting in the URI's. The test page for the parallel printer works. I can dump dostext to the parallel printer with 'lpr -l dostext file' which is simply the raw text bypassing the filters. I have yet to activate the usb printer (usblp0). As this is a sarge box upgraded from woody, hotplug is installed among other things. -- One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie. -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh (I've read the books and seen the movies. Loved'em!) Thank you for your information. Any other general or specific help is welcome. CC's or direct email is fine. However, I am subscribed to the digest so replying to the list is certainly okay! -- (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless, http://counter.li.org/, No. 365760. Linux Gcomm 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 GNU/Linux Linux Gcomm 2.6.11-1-686 #1 Mon Jun 20 22:00:38 MDT 2005 i686 GNU/Linux Linux Gcomm 2.6.12-1-686 #1 Fri Jun 24 12:17:14 CEST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hewlett-Packard package conflicts
I posted a question to Debian User about package conflicts between hpoj(sp?) and hplip(sp?) that are for parallel HP printers and usb HP printers. My HP 697C is parallel, and my HP psc1210 is usb. Perhaps this question should also be posed to Debian KDE since one of their hints in version 3.3 recommends CUPS which I have. I also have Xprint stuff installed which was recommended for removal in a message posted on Debian User. When I went into aptitude to do that, it seems that aptitupde wanted to remove about half the packages. Since that looked like wholesale destruction of the system, I was quite leery of doing that! I'm somewhat confused about what to do next about the printer conflicts. I am able to use localhost:631 to get into CUPS administration. The hpoj package created an entry in ptal something about mlc:usb: etc. I was wondering if this is the famous URI (Uniform Resource Indicator?) that is supposed to find the usb printer which I think the system picks up as usblp0. (That '0' is a zero.) As you know, I'm running a sarge system upgraded from woody with a choice of 2.4.18-bf2.4, 2.6.11. i686, and 2.6.12 i686 kernels. This is on a Gateway 500 with a Pentium III (Katmai). I wonder if it is possible to force aptitude to install those 2 conflicting packages and somehow match them to the appropriate printer? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
package conflict using both parallel and usb Hewlett-Packard printers
I have both a parallel HP 697 C printer and an usb HP psc 1210 on my sarge system using CUPS. Apparently, I need two conflicting packages to use both printers. How do I resolve the conflict? The following packages have unmet dependencies: hplip: Conflicts: hpoj but 0.91-4 is installed. hpoj: Conflicts: hplip but 0.9.2-2 is to be installed. -- (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless, http://counter.li.org/, user no. 365760 Linux Gcomm 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 GNU/Linux Linux Gcomm 2.6.11-1-686 #1 Mon Jun 20 22:00:38 MDT 2005 i686 GNU/Linux Linux Gcomm 2.6.12-1-686 #1 Fri Jun 24 12:17:14 CEST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dialer Problems-Only Pon Works
I'm having some of the same issues that Leonard has. The wvdial doesn't appear to work on 2.6 kernels. I've scripted the tests as high as kernel 2.6.12. It seems that the connection is immediately lost with only 0.0 or 0.1 minutes connection time reported. I am going to use scanModem as he did to see if changing modems from my external Hayes to the internal one will work. Also, the pppd (I think) seems to randomly dial up the ISP. I've gotten errors 1 and 16 on different occasions from the pppd daemon as documented in man pppd. The program wvdial (and version, 54 something, I'm doing this off the top of the head from work.), same version as Len's, works just fine on kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4 (the one available in woody). My box is a Gateway 500 upgraded from woody to sarge. I'll try to post more information when I get home especially in response to questions. Some of this is a 'work in progrss' so I don't have some of the answers (actually many!). I have yet to try out a script in kppp to see if that works. Both Len and I probably run KDE 3.3 from sarge. -- (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless direct email or CC's are fine, but I am subscribed to the digest. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Fwd: Re: VFS: Cannot open root device 2141 ... Kernelpanic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unk-blk(33,65)]
On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Debian User Leonard Chatagnier wrote: Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: Original Message Subject: Re: VFS: Cannot open root device 2141 ... Kernelpanic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unk-blk(33,65) Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 22:26:08 -0500 (CDT) From: Gayle Lee Fairless [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Edward Dunagin [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Debian User Leonard Chatagnier [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Edward Dunagin wrote: let me see if i can help. i am assuming you downloaded kernel-image-2.6.8-686. --- stuff deleted)--- Peaceed --- Debian User Leonard Chatagnier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: I am subscribed to the list, but CC's are fine. Thank you for any help giving or pointing me to the correct information! --(stuff deleted) Edward M dunagin 714 sanders ave Bozeman, MN 59718 406.555-7282 __ Yahoo! Mail Mobile Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Check email on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/learn/mail (stuff deleted) line 'initrd=/initrd.img' after the read-only line in the Linux label stanza. Now the 2.6 kernel (you guessed or read correctly) boots. It appears to be a little fussier than the bf2.4 kernel which still works fine. I kept it under the LinuxOld label where the package put it in lilo.conf. After I fixed the lilo.conf with the initrd=/initrd.img, I got the 2.6.8 kernel to run but ran into what appeared to be Bug #276020 filed against that kernel so I went to unstable and got the 2.6.11 kernel. It seems to manifest the same bug with wvdial. I now have package ii kernel-image-2 2.6.11-7 Linux kernel image for version 2.6.11 on PPr from unstable on a sarge upgraded from woody. I managed to use pon somehow to connect to the Internet, but it seems to cut on and off periodically. Is there a better workaround? Hey Gayle, exactly what is your wvdial problem? With my wvdial 1.54 I can use it as root with no problem but can't change owner to user and I have user added to dialout, dip and every other related group. Is that your problem or something else. BTW, --(stuff deleted)--- I used sudo wvdial under 2.4.18-bf2.4 from woody for the longest time. If you check Bug #276020 filed against the 2.6.8 kernel on debian.org, I appear to have the same problem. The darn thing just won't stay connected! Under the 2.6.11 686 7 kernel from unstable, I got intermittent connection under pon, the connection would hold long enough to be usuable but would periodically drop and have to reconnect. I'm not sure that is a solution. I read your thread with perhaps a similar problem when I googled for it. I probably have it in my email in the digest but am behind on my reading the digests. Even the digests for Debian User are high Volume! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Fwd: Re: VFS: Cannot open root device 2141 ... Kernelpanic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unk-blk(33,65)]
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: VFS: Cannot open root device 2141 ... Kernelpanic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unk-blk(33,65)] From: Marty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 16:06:29 -0400 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: line 'initrd=/initrd.img' after the read-only line in the Linux label stanza. Now the 2.6 kernel (you guessed or read correctly) boots. It appears to be a little fussier than the bf2.4 kernel which still works fine. I kept it under the LinuxOld label where the package put it in lilo.conf. After I fixed the lilo.conf with the initrd=/initrd.img, I got the 2.6.8 kernel to run but ran into what appeared to be Bug #276020 filed against that kernel so I went to unstable and got the 2.6.11 kernel. It seems to manifest the same bug with wvdial. Marty [EMAIL PROTECTED] asked: I just read it. Just to clarify, are you saying that you too have a 500MHz Celeron in a Dell Optiplex GX-100? Gayle's reply: I have a Gateway 500 with a Pentium III at 500 MHZ that bootup identifies as Katmai. That speed is approximately close enough to the speed of a Celeron at 500 MHZ, or so it would seem. It is possible that I skimmed over the Bugreport a little too lightly, but the general description seems pertinent. I now have package ii kernel-image-2 2.6.11-7 Linux kernel image for version 2.6.11 on PPr from unstable on a sarge upgraded from woody. I managed to use pon somehow to connect to the Internet, but it seems to cut on and off periodically. Is there a better workaround? Marty [EMAIL PROTECTED] asked: Did you try an internal modem? How about recompiling the kernel with a 100Hz tick (instead of the default 1KHz)? These are the first troubleshooting steps I would take based on the bug description. Gayle's reply: I am using the standard Debian kernel-images at present and have yet to attempt compiling a kernel. Although the Gateway 500 does have an internal modem that Windows 98SE can use, Linux appears to be able to use only the Hayes external modem. I got the following comment from Len Chatagnier: Hello Gayle, The problem with wvdial on sarge stable is with the wvdialconf and pppconfig. Yes, this is a newbie making that statement. My last reply about wvdial v1.54 was incorrect. I was using pon to keep from using su and when I tried wvdial it didn' work; only pon on woody works. I discovered that there is no ATDT command in the configurations and recall that sarge testing had it. I've run wvdialconf and pppconfig and it wasn't added. Of course, there may have been a change I'm not aware of that made it unnecessary; but highly unlikely. There are 3 wvdial configuration files in sarge and on mine they were all different; the one in /home/usr had the dialer info commented out. I changed all 3 to agree with /etc/wvdial.conf as it was the most complete but no ATDT entry in any. I remember gettting a lot of help from Marv S. at Linuxant.com on sarge testing and vaguely recall him having me add init3=ATDT to wvdial.conf. If you still can't get wvdial to work check for the ATDT entry; I'm sure its required. Got your message before adding it to my conf, but will try it as soon as I send this. Leonard Gayle's current status and possible lines of development: I intend to look at Leonard's suggestion to see if that works. If it doesn't, then I recall that in a previous thread that there is a 'Debian way' to compile a kernel. I have already downloaded some of the packages necessary to do that such as [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/docs/wrk/wonk$ dpkg -l | grep kernel ii iptables 1.2.11-10 Linux kernel 2.4+ iptables administration to ii kcmlinuz 3.3.2-1KDE Frontend for the Linux kernel configurat ii kernel-doc-2.6 2.6.8-16 Linux kernel specific documentation for vers ii kernel-headers 101Linux kernel headers 2.6 on PPro/Celeron/PII ii kernel-headers 2.6.8-16 Header files related to Linux kernel version ii kernel-headers 2.6.8-16 Linux kernel headers 2.6.8 on PPro/Celeron/P ii kernel-image-2 2.4.16-1 Linux kernel image for version 2.4.16 on PPr ii kernel-image-2 2.6.11-7 Linux kernel image for version 2.6.11 on PPr ii kernel-image-2 2.6.8-16 Linux kernel image for version 2.6.8 on PPro ii kernel-kbuild- 2.6.8-2Linux kernel 2.6 kbuild tools ii kernel-package 8.135 A utility for building Linux kernel related ii kernel-source- 2.6.8-16 Linux kernel source for version 2.6.8 with D ii ksymoops 2.4.9-1Linux kernel oops and error message decoder ii linux-kernel-h 2.5.999-test7- Linux Kernel Headers for development ii module-init-to 3.2-pre1-2 tools for managing Linux kernel modules ii nfs-kernel-ser 1.0.6-3.1 Kernel NFS server support ii r-cran-kernsmo 2.22.15-1 GNU R package for kernel smoothing and densi [EMAIL PROTECTED
Re: [Fwd: Re: VFS: Cannot open root device 2141 ... Kernelpanic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unk-blk(33,65)]
Gayle's current wvdial problem: After I fixed the lilo.conf with the initrd=/initrd.img, I got the 2.6.8 kernel to run but ran into what appeared to be Bug #276020 filed against that kernel so I went to unstable and got the 2.6.11 kernel. It seems to manifest the same bug with wvdial. Marty [EMAIL PROTECTED] asked: I just read it. Just to clarify, are you saying that you too have a 500MHz Celeron in a Dell Optiplex GX-100? I scripted the wvdial output with the 2.6.11 kernel: -- Looks like a welcome message. -- Starting pppd at Fri Jun 24 16:57:55 2005 -- pid of pppd: 10581 -- Using interface ppp0 -- local IP address 216.180.4.129 -- remote IP address 216.180.14.99 -- primary DNS address 216.180.99.2 -- secondary DNS address 216.180.122.2 -- Connect time 0.1 minutes. Note that the total connect time indicates an immediate disconnect! -- Disconnecting at Fri Jun 24 16:58:05 2005 -- The PPP daemon has died: A modem hung up the phone (exit code = 16) This error code is documented in the man pppd page. -- man pppd explains pppd error codes in more detail. -- Try again and look into /var/log/messages and the wvdial and pppd man pages for more information. -- Auto Reconnect will be attempted in 5 seconds -- (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless, http://counter.li.org/ Linux Gcomm 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 unknown Linux Gcomm 2.6.11-1-686 #1 Mon Jun 20 22:00:38 MDT 2005 i686 GNU/Linux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Fwd: Re: VFS: Cannot open root device 2141 ... Kernelpanic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unk-blk(33,65)]
Original Message Subject: Re: VFS: Cannot open root device 2141 ... Kernelpanic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unk-blk(33,65) Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 22:26:08 -0500 (CDT) From: Gayle Lee Fairless [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Edward Dunagin [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Debian User Leonard Chatagnier [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Edward Dunagin wrote: let me see if i can help. i am assuming you downloaded kernel-image-2.6.8-686. if that is right, the download would have included initrd.image-2.6.8.686 and it would be in your /boot directory. is it there ? we will go from here. you can reply to me privatly if you like for it seems that someone was bothered that you did not use the user-debian list. Peaceed --- Debian User Leonard Chatagnier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: I am subscribed to the list, but CC's are fine. What options or docs did I miss? Hopefully, it's just a change to my lilo.conf file? Although my boot drive is /dev/hde, my root for Linux is on /dev/hdf1 as you can see from the lilo.conf file. This it. Thank you for any help giving or pointing me to the correct information! Edward M dunagin 714 sanders ave Bozeman, MN 59718 406.555-7282 __ Yahoo! Mail Mobile Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Check email on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/learn/mail (stuff deleted) line 'initrd=/initrd.img' after the read-only line in the Linux label stanza. Now the 2.6 kernel (you guessed or read correctly) boots. It appears to be a little fussier than the bf2.4 kernel which still works fine. I kept it under the LinuxOld label where the package put it in lilo.conf. After I fixed the lilo.conf with the initrd=/initrd.img, I got the 2.6.8 kernel to run but ran into what appeared to be Bug #276020 filed against that kernel so I went to unstable and got the 2.6.11 kernel. It seems to manifest the same bug with wvdial. I now have package ii kernel-image-2 2.6.11-7 Linux kernel image for version 2.6.11 on PPr from unstable on a sarge upgraded from woody. I managed to use pon somehow to connect to the Internet, but it seems to cut on and off periodically. Is there a better workaround? -- (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless, http://counter.li.org/ Linux Gcomm 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 unknown Linux Gcomm 2.6.11-1-686 #1 Mon Jun 20 22:00:38 MDT 2005 i686 GNU/Linux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VFS: Cannot open root device 2141 ... Kernelpanic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unk-blk(33,65)
On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Debian User Leonard Chatagnier wrote: Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: I just upgraded from the 2.4.18bf2.4 kernel, now LinuxOLD on my LILO menu, to the 2.6.8 686 kernel available from sarge. Unfortunately the 2.6 kernel gives me the following panic: VFS: Cannot open root device 2141 or unknown-block(33,65) Please append a correct root= boot option Kernelpanic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(33,65) The computer is a Gateway 500 with a Pentium III at 500 MHZ. I looked through the man pages for lilo.conf, syslog, and a few others. I also looked at the source, somewhat briefly, of course, for any special options for 2.6 kernels that I needed to put into the lilo.conf file. (I've also downloaded the source code for the 2.6.8 kernel.) The bf2.4 kernel works fine. However, both the 2.4.16-686 and the 2.6.8-2-686 kernels will panic. I'm only concerned about booting and using the 2.6 kernel, of course. I am subscribed to the list, but CC's are fine. What options or docs did I miss? Hopefully, it's just a change to my lilo.conf file? Although my boot drive is /dev/hde, my root for Linux is on /dev/hdf1 as you can see from the lilo.conf file. This Gateway 500 also has Window 98SE on it. I added a second hard drive and decided to put Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody) on it. Thank you for any help giving or pointing me to the correct information! This is my /boot directory: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/docs$ cat bootdir.txt total 12620 drwxr-xr-x 2 root4096 Jun 23 10:03 . drwxr-xr-x 24 root4096 Jun 23 10:00 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root 398501 Nov 27 2001 System.map-2.4.16-686 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 559088 May 14 2004 System.map-2.4.18-bf2.4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 843026 May 19 04:27 System.map-2.6.8-2-686 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 512 May 14 2004 boot.2100 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 512 Jun 19 15:39 boot.2140 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 11 May 14 2004 boot.b - boot-menu.b -rw-r--r-- 1 root 308326 Jun 19 15:13 coffee.bmp -rw-r--r-- 1 root 34159 Nov 27 2001 config-2.4.16-686 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 16984 May 14 2004 config-2.4.18-bf2.4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 55399 May 19 03:51 config-2.6.8-2-686 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 15 Jun 19 15:13 debian.bmp - /boot/sarge.bmp -rw-r--r-- 1 root 153720 Jun 19 15:13 debianlilo.bmp -rw-r--r-- 1 root 2682880 Apr 20 00:46 initrd.img-2.4.16-686 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 4636672 Jun 23 10:00 initrd.img-2.6.8-2-686 -rw--- 1 root 42496 Jun 23 10:03 map -rw-r--r-- 1 root 23662 Jun 19 15:13 sarge.bmp -rw-r--r-- 1 root 24116 Jun 19 15:13 sid.bmp -rw-r--r-- 1 root 611285 Nov 27 2001 vmlinuz-2.4.16-686 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 1263339 May 14 2004 vmlinuz-2.4.18-bf2.4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 1170965 May 19 04:27 vmlinuz-2.6.8-2-686 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/docs$ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/drivers$ cat lilo.conf # /etc/lilo.conf - See: `lilo(8)' and `lilo.conf(5)', # --- `install-mbr(8)', `/usr/share/doc/lilo/', # and `/usr/share/doc/mbr/'. # +---+ # |!! Reminder !! | # | | # | Don't forget to run `lilo' after you make changes to this | # | conffile, `/boot/bootmess.txt', or install a new kernel. The | # | computer will most likely fail to boot if a kernel-image | # | post-install script or you don't remember to run `lilo'. | # | | # +---+ # Support LBA for large hard disks. # lba32 # Overrides the default mapping between harddisk names and the BIOS' # harddisk order. Use with caution. disk=/dev/hde bios=0x80 disk=/dev/hdf bios=0x81 # Specifies the boot device. This is where Lilo installs its boot # block. It can be either a partition, or the raw device, in which # case it installs in the MBR, and will overwrite the current MBR. # boot=/dev/hde # Specifies the device that should be mounted as root. (`/') # root=/dev/hdf1 # Enable map compaction: # Tries to merge read requests for adjacent sectors into a single # read request. This drastically reduces load time and keeps the # map smaller. Using `compact' is especially recommended when # booting from a floppy disk. It is disabled here by default # because it doesn't always work. # # compact # Installs the specified file as the new boot sector # You have the choice between: bmp, compat, menu and text # Look in /boot/ and in lilo.conf(5) manpage for details # install=/boot/boot-menu.b # Specifies the location of the map file # map=/boot/map # You can set a password here, and uncomment the `restricted' lines
Re: Woody-No Mouse, Sarge-OK
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cd /dev [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev$ ll mouse lrwxrwxrwx1 root root5 May 17 2004 mouse - psaux [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev$ ll psaux crw---1 root root 10, 1 Jun 4 20:28 psaux [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev$ I got the same results as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Now I'm still running just woody and will probably upgrade the week of 13 June 2005. I guess I had better save a bunch of stuff. I'm confused by your command ll. It wont run on bash for me. Is this an akias for ls -l? Also don't see and /dev in your output. Would you explain? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cd / [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/$ ls XF86Config.new cdrom dvd homelib opt sbin var bin cdrom0 etc initrd lost+found proc tmp vmlinuz bootdev floppy initrd.img mnt root usr [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/$ ll dev/mo* lrwxrwxrwx1 root dialout10 May 30 2004 dev/modem - /dev/ttyS0 lrwxrwxrwx1 root root5 May 17 2004 dev/mouse - psaux [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/$ ll dev/ps* crw---1 root root 10, 1 Jun 5 17:26 dev/psaux [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/$ From my home directory, I just cd'ed to the root directory. Since dev is itself a directory, I can cd to it as I did in the previous example or use the local path as I did in the second example. As you guessed, 'll' is indeed an alias that uses the 'ls' command in the '.bashrc' file that should be in your user home directory. I'm sending my .bashrc file in a separate message for the benefit of those who prefer to skip it. -- (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless, http://counter.li.org/ Linux Gcomm 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 unknown (I am subscribed to the digest; nonetheless, CC's and private replies are OK.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Woody-No Mouse, Sarge-OK (tangent to show example .bashrc file in Woody)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat .bashrc
# ~/.bashrc: executed by bash(1) for non-login shells.
# see /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files (in the package bash-doc)
# for examples
# If running interactively, then:
if [ $PS1 ]; then
# don't put duplicate lines in the history. See bash(1) for more options
# export HISTCONTROL=ignoredups
# enable color support of ls and also add handy aliases
eval `dircolors -b`
alias ls='ls --color=auto'
alias dir='ls --color=auto --format=vertical'
alias vdir='ls --color=auto --format=long'
alias lall='ls -agl'
# some more ls aliases
alias lt='ls --color=auto -aglt'
alias ll='ls --color=auto -agl'
alias lg='ls --color=auto -gl'
alias la='ls -A'
#alias l='ls -CF'
alias llm='ls --color=auto -agl | less'
# set a fancy prompt
PS1='[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w\$ '
# If this is an xterm set the title to [EMAIL PROTECTED]:dir
#case $TERM in
#xterm*)
#PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne \033]0;[EMAIL PROTECTED]: ${PWD}\007'
#;;
#*)
#;;
#esac
# enable programmable completion features (you don't need to enable
# this, if it's already enabled in /etc/bash.bashrc).
#if [ -f /etc/bash_completion ]; then
# . /etc/bash_completion
#fi
fi
# by Sun Microsystems setup
DBROOT=/home/gayle/adabas
DBWORK=/home/gayle/adabas/sql
DBCONFIG=/home/gayle/adabas/sql
PATH=$DBROOT/bin:$DBROOT/pgm:$PATH
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$DBROOT/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export DBROOT DBWORK DBCONFIG PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
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Re: Woody-No Mouse, Sarge-OK
On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 02:01:38PM +, Leonard Chatagnier wrote: This problem started after removing devfsd on Sarge to overcome a conflict between udev and devfs. It just took a while to realize it as woody is not booted very often. So, I reinstalled devfsd and recreated the symlink ln -s /dev/mouse /dev/psaux. Although this hasn't changed anything when That's backward, it should be ln -s /dev/psaux /dev/mouse. Now you probably have two symlinks pointing at each other. ls -l /dev/psaux /dev/mouse If psaux is a symlink: rm /dev/psaux mknod /dev/psaux c 10 1 I'm doing this under woody without mouse working so it wont get mixed up with sarge. Thanks very much for the info about the backward symlink and mknod which I've never used. I asked a friend to send me his copy of the above psaux link, because I've got them backward before but he has been out of the pocket so I tried it myself and naturall got it wrong. However, mouse still not working under woody. Here's what I did following your instruction as I understood them: # rm /dev/psaux Rm: cannot remove `/dev/psaux/: no such file or directory(note:done after already rm when kbd screwed up doing mknod) # mknod /dev/psaux c 10 1 # ls -l /dev/psaux /dev/mouse lwrxwrxwrx 1 root root 10 June 4 08:20 /dev/mouse - /dev/psaux crw-r--r-- 1 root root 10, 1 June 4 10:03 /dev/psaux # The above copied by hand as I don't know how to copy and paste without mouse and gpm working. However, its basically what the terminal results were, but still no working mouse. At least the symlink is there now and I've rebooted but no mouse. Hope you have more things to try and thanks for your help. I thought surely the mouse would come back after getting the symlink down correctly. Leonard C [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cd /dev [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev$ ll mouse lrwxrwxrwx1 root root5 May 17 2004 mouse - psaux [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev$ ll psaux crw---1 root root 10, 1 Jun 4 20:28 psaux [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev$ I got the same results as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Now I'm still running just woody and will probably upgrade the week of 13 June 2005. I guess I had better save a bunch of stuff. -- (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless, http://counter.li.org/ Linux Gcomm 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 unknown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Unidentified subject!
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 09:27:46 -0500From: Icebiker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: wget times out - but ftp works OK (stuff deleted) ... for your ethernet controller ... (got a DI 604 too, wonderful little box). /icebiker I saw a Dlink DI-604 in a local store. How well does it work as a cable modem/router? I'm running woody with a 2.4.18bf2.4 kernel. -- (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re can't the shell do a better job
From: Maurits van Rees [EMAIL PROTECTED] Somewhat related: with CONTROL-R you can search backwards in your history when on the command line. It can be quite a time saver. I think that's only when you're in emacs-compatible mode. This is a feature of bash. Someone with more knowledge of the various shells could probably elaborate more on this topic. -- (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless Linux Gcomm 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 unknown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: netenv boot popup
From: Vineet Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] * jose isaias cabrera ([EMAIL PROTECTED])[20041231 10:57]: Hi. Let me get into this one, because I want to also get rid of it... I can't really take a screen shot, because the system is booting, but maybe I can take a picture of it. Anyway, it comes up and ask you if you want to setup the network again or if you want to use the previous settings. It just installed Debian yesterday and it came after I had setup and downloaded all the files from the network. I rebooted and there it was... if you don't choose something, it just hangs there and does nothing... sudo dpkg --remove netenv good times, Vineet I also have this window or menu coming up at boot. I have just been hitting return and letting the bootup finish. The menu appeared after I had tried to reconfigure the system to get out. Since I'm now able to use dialup to my ISP, I have just worked around it until I learned more. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ netstat -r Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Windowirtt Iface tnt6.hiwaay.net * 255.255.255.255 UH 40 0 0 ppp0 localnet* 255.255.255.0 U40 0 0 dummy0 default tnt6.hiwaay.net 0.0.0.0 UG 40 0 0 ppp0 Gcomm:/home/gayle# iptables -L Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination Do I need to make any simple entries into the iptables just to tidy things up? (I have shorewall installed, but something claims I have no ppp support and shoudl configure ppp0.) What do I need to save whenever sarge goes stable? Gcomm:/home/gayle# ifconfig dummy0Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00 inet addr:192.168.128.1 Bcast:192.168.128.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING NOARP MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:249 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:61210 (59.7 KiB) loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:969 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:969 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:67651 (66.0 KiB) TX bytes:67651 (66.0 KiB) ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol inet addr:216.180.4.118 P-t-P:216.180.14.99 Mask:255.255.255.255 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1524 Metric:1 RX packets:7177 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:7456 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:3 RX bytes:3824431 (3.6 MiB) TX bytes:625468 (610.8 KiB) Gcomm:/home/gayle# The dummy0 interface is supposed to be part of my home ethernet. The ppp0 interface is obviously my dialup. In the future I would like to be able sway the ppp0 interface with a DSL provider while keeping the old configuration. Len, I shall be eagerly anticipating your post about how you shape up your system since I appear to have similar concerns. Now that I'm able to dialup and use things, I've been reluctant to make big changes. If I do nothing else, let me wish all here a Happy and prosperous New Year! And thanks for the continuing discussion on the details and general philosophy of using Debian systems! -- (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless Linux Gcomm 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 unknown PS: I am subscribed to the digest, and CC'ing is fine with me. I'll take whatever is useful! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ncftp versus ncftp2 -- Debian packages for woody
From: Alex Malinovic ncftp2 is the old ncftp client which many people really liked to use in scripts (a la wget). ncftp (3.x+) is a rewrite which focuses on using ncftp as a client application, not an automated scripting tool. If you prefer a CLI ftp client to a GUI like I do, ncftp (3.x+) is about the best program out there. It does local and remote directory completion, it has a great bookmark system, tons of options, and is very well laid out. And best of all, while it uses ncurses it manages to do so without those garish red on blue menus. Everything is in black and white but just laid out in an easy to read graphical layout. If, on the other hand, you need a cron job to do lots of ftp transfers and wget can't handle it for some reason, ncftp2 might be what you need. That's just my opinion though. I wouldn't be a bit surprised to find quite a few die hard ncftp2 users who actually use it as their client day to day. Ok, I got both packages. The man pages are identical. I used ncftp to download some files off my shell account on my ISP just to free up some space. It does give a nice running download summary similar to apt-get update apt-get upgrade. Just the plain old ftp by itself just sits there and looks at you silently while doing its business. I have yet to see the difference. I guess I'll explore further. I may have missed the obvious difference(s) or just haven't used it enough yet. Thanks for the information! -- (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless Linux Gcomm 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 unknown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ncftp versus ncftp2 -- Debian packages for woody
I note that ncftp is perhaps ten times bigger than ncftp2 and is a rewrite of it with ncurses being in it. And ncftp2 has no SOCKS in it. (It's barefoot?) What is the difference between the two? Or rather, what does it mean? It appears that ncftp is more of a GUI application since ncurses seems to be necessary for terminal graphics. IIRC I've been shopping the packages list for woody on www.Debian.org. Thank y'all for the background information in advance! -- PS I subscribe to the digest, but I don't mind being CC'ed if a faster reply is wanted. (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: On your upgrade from woody to sarge
On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 23:27:46 -0600 (CST), Gayle Lee Fairless [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I was wondering if the apt-get dist-upgrade would also upgrade the kernel, too. Sourceforge makes it sound easy. Only if there are updated Debian revision of your kernel version. Andrea Does that mean that a change from a 2.4 kernel to a 2.6 kernel has to be a separate operation? (In which case, I guess I had better really study that Sourceforge document very seriously!) -- (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: On your upgrade from woody to sarge
On Sun, 12 Dec 2004, Leonard Chatagnier wrote: Not sure what you mean. I put testing in the sources.list which I thought would get the Sarge. Running upgrade several times never got away from 2.4.18-bf2.4 Woody. Now trying using pkg-upgrade as apt conditioner but my /var directory isn't large enough to contain the download. Attempting to use a symlnk to a partition with enough free space but its not working either. Leonard Chatagnier - Original Message - From: Gayle Lee Fairless [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2004 5:57 PM Subject: On your upgrade from woody to sarge Did you change your kernel version? I'm asking because I'll probably upgrade from woody to sarge when sarge finally goes stable. I guess that upgrading the kernel to a 2.6 might also be an improvement. Right now I tend to use KDE with gdm. I hope that the resolution can be more easily managed, too. And I hope to use my usb HP psc1210 better as well as the HP 697C on my parallel port. -- (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless Linux Gcomm 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 unknown PS. I am subscribed to the digest but not the list. I was wondering if the apt-get dist-upgrade would also upgrade the kernel, too. Sourceforge makes it sound easy. -- Gayle Lee Fairless -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On your upgrade from woody to sarge
Did you change your kernel version? I'm asking because I'll probably upgrade from woody to sarge when sarge finally goes stable. I guess that upgrading the kernel to a 2.6 might also be an improvement. Right now I tend to use KDE with gdm. I hope that the resolution can be more easily managed, too. And I hope to use my usb HP psc1210 better as well as the HP 697C on my parallel port. -- (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless Linux Gcomm 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 unknown PS. I am subscribed to the digest but not the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie Having Much Trouble Getting Deb 2.4.18-bf2.4 To Work
reply below On Fri, 3 Dec 2004, Leonard Chatagnier wrote: Hey, Thanks for the reference. I'm lurking the group emails and have read some manuals on board. Problem is some are too geeky for me to understand although I've picked up a lot since installing linux about 2 months ago. I have set outlook express to all text mode as a result of using another discussion group for modem drivers. Since my problems includes a malfunctioning Mozilla mail client, I copy anything I want to email to my zip drive and paste it into OE, maybe that's how it got coded. I'm getting that cookbook hoping its more user friendly. Len Chatagnier lots of stuff deleted also still learning my Linux. Look in the books section of Debian.org and get one called a Cookbook. It is Debian specific and gives you better insight into the Debian GNU/Linux system. Of course, browsing through stuff deleted Enjoy your system and Season's Greetings! (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless The book is by Michael Stutz THE LINUX COOKBOOK published by Linux Journal Press copyright 2001 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie Having Much Trouble Getting Deb 2.4.18-bf2.4 To Work
Leonard Chatagnier wrote: Since my problems includes a malfunctioning Mozilla mail client, Len Chatagnier One non-Debian way to get a late model browser and mailer for woody is to download the tarball file for Linux from netscape.com. The downloader can download a small downloader that then downloads the pieces or download a larger tarball file that can install itself without a modem connection. I had the program to install itself to /usr/local/netscape after enabling write permissions for my user account. The program copies with it the libraries necessary for it to run. That is not in the default command path so it takes a different syntax to start it. Of course you may prefer to be a purist and run what woody already has. You should be able to get that working. -- (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless Linux Gcomm 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 unknown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie Having Much Trouble Getting Deb 2.4.18-bf2.4 To Work
(reply below) On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, Leonard Chatagnier wrote: I didn't realize that sending the attachment raw over Outlook Express would cause this confusion. I read it with notepad before sending to be sure it was readable. I guess everone on the list is using linux software to send mail and I would have but it's not working right. Sometimes I can receive and send, many times not. I'll be using a dual boot system for a long time, until I know a lot more about linux. Len Chatagnier - Original Message - From: Gayle Fairless [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 1:54 PM Subject: Re: Newbie Having Much Trouble Getting Deb 2.4.18-bf2.4 To Work Steve Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 04:38:19PM -0600, Leonard Chatagnier wrote: On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 04:38:19PM -0600, Leonard Chatagnier wrote: are not syntax issues. I have attached the sources.list if someone wants to look. Pleasee note that any thing above the ftp: listings were done by the system. I put every thing else in with nano. I hope someone can help me fix this so I can update and upgrade. Patrick Albuquerque wrote: You have encrypted your /etc/apt/sources.list file? Also, what version of Debian are you installing? Patrick, end of Patrick Albuquierque quote The file is plain text, just typed as binary in the attachment for some reason. end of Steve Block quote The kernel is the same as mine in woody. (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm using Pine off my ISP's server so I know this message is text. Your mail agent apparently uunencoded the text attachment and made it unreadable as raw text. You may want to paste text inline and turn off any HTML encoding. I know that Netscape offers you a choice of both or either text or HTML. Choose text only! :-) My system is also dual boot into either Woody (Debian GNU/Linux) or Windows 98SE. LILO gives me the choice. I'm also running the bf2.4 or 2.4.18 kernel. I plan to upgrade to Sarge when it goes stable. I'm hoping that the 2.6 kernel and upgrade of Gnome and KDE will give me better service. And I also hope to get DSL in my area else that upgrade will have to run all night or all day over my dialup connection! I am also still learning my Linux. Look in the books section of Debian.org and get one called a Cookbook. It is Debian specific and gives you better insight into the Debian GNU/Linux system. Of course, browsing through your man and info pages will help with the technical details (and lurking on this list will also help). Enjoy your system and Season's Greetings! (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Full replacement of MS
ken keanon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the folowing: Hi, I'm still toying with the idea of fully replacing Windows w Debian GNU/Linux. The doubt I am still having is this: will I be able to use all the data that I had created under Windows, those documents, emails, images, audios and videos? Anyone has done a complete and successful conversion? Will I have to start-off with a dual-OS system and do the conversion via the HD? Or should I carry out a MS Backup of all these data to a CD-RW and use it for the conversion under LInux? Would like to hear from you. Cheers Ken -- end of quote --- I have a dual OS system with Windows 98SE and Debian GNU/Linux. I put woody on a second hard drive. Since woody can mount a FAT32 filesystem, getting to the Windows hard drive is convenient. Others on the list have Windows XP with the NTFS system. Since Linux does not yet appear to have reliable access to that system, a number of them appear to have created an FAT32 partition on their system that lets Linux and Windows have a common access area. I use LILO to give me a menu at boot to select either OS. For the convenience of my wife, it defaults to Windows at present. But that may change as she gets used to Linux! B-) HTH, (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dual-OS system
I found this package in stable: Package: libntfs3 (1.6.0-1) Library that provides common NTFS access functions. The Linux-NTFS project (http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/) aims to bring full support for the NTFS filesystem to the Linux operating system. libntfs provides common NTFS access functions for the ntfstools and other foreign open source applications. Please note that the library is still under heavy development and doesn't include the majority of functionality yet. It only is capable of just about supporting the current ntfstools, so we wouldn't recommend using it for your own applications at this stage. == Although I haven't looked in the other branches or done any googling or looking at backports.org, it looks as if you'll eventually be able to write the NTFS on your Windows XP system. At least you'll be able to read it. I'm running a dual system on a Gateway 500 using Windows 98SE and Debian GNU/Linux woody. The windows partition can be mounted rw under /mnt. The Windows OS cannot see the Linux partitions. Sincerely, (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: LILO menu wiped off MBR
That should not have been affected. Just edit /etc/lilo.conf to include a suitable stanza pointing at your windows partition and re-run lilo before rebooting. If it was only a re-install in the same place, I'd expect your old lilo.conf to still work. -- richard Booting into Windows was not a problem. It's re-establing all the programs that have to be in the registry. I had installed conflicting programs and finally had to go the recovery CDROM and blow away the Windows directory. The fix also restored the MBR which wiped out LILO. Restoring LILO to the MBR (since /etc/lilo.conf was already edited) was all that was necessary. Windows was and is the problem. As I learn to use Debian GNU/Linux, I'll use Windows less and less. For example, I'm learning how to use KMail under woody. Thanks anyway. The rest of my questions, being all Windows mess, will be directed at the local PC Users Group which run mainly Windows. Sincerely, (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
LILO menu wiped off MBR
I just had to reinstall Windows 98 on my Gateway 500 and wiped out the LILO alteration to the MBR that lets me also boot into Debian GNU/Linux. I have the Knoppix 3.4 CDROM that would let me get to both hard drives. I'm running woody and just need to rerun LILO to reinstate the menu. I subscribe to the digest but you'll reach me quicker if also emailed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks for the quick advice! Sincerely, (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: LILO menu wiped off MBR
(reply bottom-posted) On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Alexander Schmehl wrote: Hi there! * Gayle Lee Fairless [EMAIL PROTECTED] [041112 00:02]: I just had to reinstall Windows 98 on my Gateway 500 and wiped out the LILO alteration to the MBR that lets me also boot into Debian GNU/Linux. I have the Knoppix 3.4 CDROM that would let me get to both hard drives. I'm running woody and just need to rerun LILO to reinstate the menu. I subscribe to the digest but you'll reach me quicker if also emailed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boot your knoppix. Mount your / partition. IIRC knoppix mount's partiotions with the nodev flag. If it does, remount your / partition without the dev flag (e.g. umount /dev/hda3 ; mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3 should do the job). Now you can run chroot /mnt/hda3 (or whereever you mountet your root partition, and now /sbin/lilo. Problem solved. Oh, you might want to check /etc/lilo.conf (after you run chroot), if there is a working other-entry for your Windows. Yours sincerely, Alexander I had to do the following: #mount -t ext2 /dev/hdf1 /mnt Of course I had to be root to do it. Now the hard part is cleaning up the Windows side! Oh well, at least Linux is again accessible! Thank you for your quick response! Sincerely, (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: ZIP drive question
(reply at bottom) On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, Forinash, Kyle wrote: Thanks! I have not yet resolved the issue because I haven't been able to work on it (I've been out of town for two weeks). I'll check out the link next week and see if that helps. I'll post to the listserv if I figure it out. kyle -Original Message- From: Gayle Lee Fairless [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sat 7/24/2004 4:23 PM To: Forinash, Kyle; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ZIP drive question Kyle, Did you ever solve your ZIP drive problem? I have a USB ZIP 250 drive on /dev /sda4. Since I am subscribling only to the digest to cut down on volume, I may have missed the resolution. I downloaded iwlcontainer-lnx-x86-10.tgz from Iomega. It appears to work for me. I have not finished working with it, though. http://www.iomega.com/software/ http://www.iomega.com/datahandler/servlet I included the URL's with Iomega that I used. It is possible to go to www.iomega.com and drill down to the download menu. Hope this helps! (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless Linux Gcomm 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 unknown iwclcontainer-lnx-x86-10.tgz Kyle, I also set up sudo to let users on my system use the iw command to mount and umount the Zip cartridge. I'm using this with a USB Zip250 drive. There is a jazip package on woody stable that is supposed to work with other Zip drives, but it requires libform0.89 which is distributed only in binary form (since the source is not released to the public). I've downloaded the libform0.89 tarball file from Debian.org but haven't installed it. Even if I download the package I can't test since I don't have a SCSI connection on the Gateway 500 (I have a SCSI Zip 100 on my Amiga) and don't have ATAPI Zip drive. Sincerely, (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless Linux Gcomm 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 unknown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian Install with Parellel Support
On my woody system (bf2.4.18) using modconf as root to load the parallel port stuff helped. I also went through the packages list for stable on debian.org and downloaded cups, foosamatic, and a few other things that looked like they would work with my parallel printer, a HP 697C. The thing that got it working was using the add printer wizard on KDE. Now I just need to tweak the right margin to avoid losing the leftmost printed column. (BTW, how do I do that?) I have not yet been able to get the HP psc1210 on an USB port working yet. Anyway, at least I now have the parallel printer responding to lp commands. I wonder if I need to do anything with lpadmin or lpoptions? I downloaded a PPD file from a website specifically for the HP 697C. Also, there are 2 files for the parallel printer. I chose the cdj67 something or other (I can't look because I'm doing this from work.) file that the KDE printer wizard found. (The wizard gave me a choice of 2 files to use with the HP 697C parallel printer.) Sincerely, (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless Linux Gcomm 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 unknown PS Please CC since I subscribe to the digest and not the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ZIP drive question
Kyle, Did you ever solve your ZIP drive problem? I have a USB ZIP 250 drive on /dev /sda4. Since I am subscribling only to the digest to cut down on volume, I may have missed the resolution. I downloaded iwlcontainer-lnx-x86-10.tgz from Iomega. It appears to work for me. I have not finished working with it, though. http://www.iomega.com/software/ http://www.iomega.com/datahandler/servlet I included the URL's with Iomega that I used. It is possible to go to www.iomega.com and drill down to the download menu. Hope this helps! (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless Linux Gcomm 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 unknown iwclcontainer-lnx-x86-10.tgz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: optimizing X configuration
On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I have a Toshiba PII Equium 7000S desktop with 256mb of Ram and an inboard ATI 3D Rage Pro AGP that has 32mb shared memory configured to it. The monitor is a Gateway EV910 and is properly configured in my XF86Config-4. However I can only do 800x600 with either 16 or 24 bits of depth. I would like to do more. Do I have to buy another video card or is there any way to improve this configuration? PS: I am not attaching the XF86Config-4 file not to send a bigger email. Thanks for the help. __ Switch to the New Netscape Internet Service. As low as $9.95 a month -- Sign up today at http://isp.netscape.com/register Netscape. Just the Net You Need. New! Netscape Toolbar for Internet Explorer Search from anywhere on the Web and block those annoying pop-ups. Download now at http://channels.netscape.com/ns/search/install.jsp I have an EV910 monitor on my Gateway 500 running Debian GNU/Linux 2.4.18-bf2.4 etc. Would posting my Xfree file help you? Sincerely, (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie installation
On Sat, 26 Jun 2004, Martin Dowie wrote: Hi all! I'm a first-time GNU/Linux (wanna-be) User although I have some Un*x experience. I've downloaded all 14 Sarge .iso CDs and have happily managed to get a system that will now boot to a command line after installing from CD1. I used the default partitioning for multi-users. I notice that while booting there are several failures - but the screen is flying by at this point and I can't see what they are. Is there a 'boot log' I can 'cat|more' though? I'm also now at a lose as to how to install stuff from the other CD's - in particular I would like GNOME as my desktop environmnet and to be able to use my Alcatel SpeedTouch USB ADSL modem. I've searched high and low for a Debian installation guide for dummies but I either find stuff that is more ... for Experts or I find 1,000's of hits that don't really seem to cover what I want. Can someone recommend a link for me as to what to do now? TIA -- Martin Did you try the command dmesg? Also, look in and roam around /var to look into the log directory. The /etc directory, as you should know, is also interested to explore. Have fun! Sincerely, (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hard Drive Limitations
On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Marco Paganini wrote: Hi Gayle, I did not run into the 128 GB limitation because I partitioned the drive into 6 partitions, none bigger than 40 GB. My smallest partition is 2 GB as permitted by the Western Digital Data Lifeguard utility available off their website. I got it because I was aware of the 64 GB limitation on fdisk in Windows 98SE. My success is partly due to divine providence and to some research. I may be wrong, but IIRC, it's not a partition limitation, but rather the geometry of the whole HD! Regards, Paga The last partition on the drive is 40 GB in size and formatted as a Windows 98SE partition because one of the reasons for getting the second drive was that I had run out of room on the 12 GB drive. I have not seen any problems yet. So I can't say for sure, then. Sincerely, (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: no hard disk drives detected ?!?
On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Andreas Janssen wrote: Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm trying to install Debian 3.0r2 on a Dell PowerEdge 1750 with a SCSI HDD (IBM/HITACHI 73GB U320). I get the message No hard disk drives were detected. You either need to load special drivers ... Maybe the installation kernel does not have a driver for your SCSI controller. Try the 2.4.18 installation kernel. At the boot prompt, type bf24 instead of simply pressing ENTER. Read the instructions displayed at the boot prompt to learn more about the various installation kernels. If 2.4.18 does not support your controller as well, try to get boot floppies with a newer kernel, e.g. from http://people.debian.org/~taggart/ best regards Andreas Janssen I ran into a similar problem with the 2.2 kernels. Only the bf2.4 kernel detected my hard drives. (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless Linux Gcomm 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 unknown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hard Drive Limitations
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Andreas Janssen wrote: Hello Gayle Lee Fairless ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm using a Western Digital 160GB drive as a slave. The master is an IBM 14 GB that holds Windnows 98SE. I put Debian GNU/Linux woody 2.4.18 on the WD drive. And that works? As far as I know 2.4.18 does not support LBA48, which means that with the Woody kernels you cannot use the full size of that disk, because you are limited to 128 GB. best regards Andreas Janssen I did not run into the 128 GB limitation because I partitioned the drive into 6 partitions, none bigger than 40 GB. My smallest partition is 2 GB as permitted by the Western Digital Data Lifeguard utility available off their website. I got it because I was aware of the 64 GB limitation on fdisk in Windows 98SE. My success is partly due to divine providence and to some research. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: wd - Re: Hard Drive Limitations
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Alvin Oga wrote: On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: a. Drive is master, no slave that requires a jumper change on the disk -- or -- the disk is on the master connector of the ide cable cable select might be an issue as you noted b. Drive is master, slave present keeps wd disks happpy, as long as the master disk is on the end of the ide cable c. Drive is slave. bad idea if it is the only disk, some bios' won't like you It will not work (on many systems) if you have it configured as a. when there's a slave present. It will not work (on many systems) if you have it configured as b. when there is no slave. There is info about this on WD's website. c ya akvin My master drive is on the end of the cable, but that is not the WD drive. When installing, the ribbon was clearly marked on the connectors for master and slave. This is a Gateway 500 running a Pentium III at 500 MHZ. The other drives are a CDROM mapped to /dev/hdc and an LS120 mapped to /dev/hdd which imposes curious limitations on my use of the LS120 as a floppy drive in that I cannot format diskettes on it from the Debian Linux woody bf2.4 system. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Another testing vs unstable question
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, David Fokkema wrote: On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 04:01:20PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: Monique Y. Mudama wrote: Indeed. I actually meant my statement to be in support of the stable distribution. I guess I should have made that clearer. Still, no one benefits from having blinders over their eyes. Stable is the most stable, and it's also the least current. I don't see how it could be any other way. They're on opposite ends of the same spectrum. For me its lack of currency is becoming a serious problem. I'm deploying new systems: do I really want to deploy software that's not going to be supported much beyond a year? Do I really want to go through migration to new releases just after I've got it bedded down? That's the beauty of stable. It _is_ supported for well over a year. Actually, make that two years. The only problem _right now_ is that if you go with stable _now_, there is sarge coming. But apart from that, stable is supported for years. No I don't. My choices are going with testing: what then about security patches? or unstable? From my reading it's not unknown for unstable to be seriously borked for a time: I think new glibc did it a while ago, and gcc was forecast to do it shortly after. If I want to support a USB Laserjet 1200, then I really need the latest hpoj stuff: Woody is far too old. Woody is old, but have you looked at www.backports.org? A list of well-supported backports is available there. Security updates will be a tad slower than unstable, which is behind stable. But then, you're not backporting glibc, but imap servers or whatever. What I find myself doing increasingly is building the occasional package from Sid for Woody: sometimes it's easy, sometimes it's too much trouble (think xfree where I think I found circular dependancies). Also, see www.apt-get.org for various backports, including xfree. But then, www.backports.org also has an xfree backport. Check it out. David How hard will it be to switch or upgrade to sarge from woody when sarge becomes stable? I'm hoping that CUPS and other stuff in sarge will let me use my parallel port HP 697C printer and my HP psc1210 printer/scanner/copier on an USB port. I also hope to have support for my Ethernet card which is a Linksys listed in lspci since I have a local home network. Sincerely, (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless Linux Gcomm 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 unknown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ls120 Re: wd - Re: Hard Drive Limitations
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Alvin Oga wrote: On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: My master drive is on the end of the cable, but that is not the WD drive. When installing, the ribbon was clearly marked on the connectors for master and slave. This is a Gateway 500 running a Pentium III at 500 MHZ. The other drives are a CDROM mapped to /dev/hdc and an LS120 mapped to /dev/hdd which imposes curious limitations on my use of the LS120 as a floppy drive in that I cannot format diskettes on it from the Debian Linux woody bf2.4 system. that is a different problem than master/slave issue .. ls120 is ez or hairpulling ... make sure your lilo/grub config doesnt specify anything about /dev/hdd and i would NOT mix ls120 on the same cable as the cdrom - best way to avoid problems .. 1 widget per ide cable - if you insist on using master and slave devices, make sure its from the same manufacturer and same model# - otherwise, the scsi-folks will be happily smiling :-) - but now with 10K and 15K rpm ide disks, it should remove one more barrier that ide might be able to keep up with scsi for a fraction of the costs c ya alvin Actually, I was mixing topics in the same post rather than devices on the same cable. The two hard drives are on one ribbon cable. The LS120 is the floppy drive for the Gateway 500. It can handle the standard 3.5 inch hard floppies and Imation 120 MB SuperDisk. I doubt that it's available anymore. Because of its difference, it apparently was not identified as a floppy drive. Using makedev (sp?) to roll my own device may be another skill that I'll have to acquire! Sincerely, (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hard Drive Limitations
John Summerfield wrote: Ryan Nielsen wrote: I would like to use a couple of 250GB Western Digitals to backup data. I set up a Debian machine (I have 4 others for other purposes), to use as a backup server. I am having difficulties with the drives. I tried two Maxtors previous and have swapped them out thinking it was a bad set of drives. I get various different errors copying files to these hard drives. I have tried different partitioning schemes, rsync instead of cp, and a few other methods, but I still get some form of error when I get into the process of copying. My only success has been with Knoppix. I used Knoppix and was able to copy and rsync just fine to these disks. I would like to use Debian, and not have to install another version of Debian or Linux. What I am getting at is, is there any problem with having a big partition or HD on a Debian system, or anything else someone might know? Any help would be greatly appreciated. You didn't say what hardware you are running on. I hate WD drives because there are (ignoring CS) three configuration settings you _will_ want. a. Drive is master, no slave b. Drive is master, slave present c. Drive is slave. It will not work (on many systems) if you have it configured as a. when there's a slave present. It will not work (on many systems) if you have it configured as b. when there is no slave. There is info about this on WD's website. I will confess I've not tried c. with no master. Some time ago I had a 120 Gbyte WD that I discovered was LBA48. My Athlon system (1.4 Ghz CPU) needed a BIOS upgrade to support this drive. I don't recall trying it on an older system: I don't think I'd bother plugging in a 250 Gb drive in an older system. What does work for me is an external USB enclosure. They are hot-pluggable and so ideal for backup devices. They're outside the case and so don't contribute to case-warming. They have an external power supply and so don't add to the drain on the system's ps. btw I have a USB2 enclosure with a 40 Gbyte laptop drive in it. Two of them fit comfortably in my shirt pocket. Very handy for a portable Debian mirror. Should be good for installing off too. I'm using a Western Digital 160GB drive as a slave. The master is an IBM 14 GB that holds Windnows 98SE. I put Debian GNU/Linux woody 2.4.18 on the WD drive. The LILO menu lets me choose between the 2 OS's. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which version?
When I ordered Debian woody i686 CDROM's from a vendor listed on Debian.org, I got a set of seven. The first one gave me a list of kernels to try. I wound up using the 2.4 kernel. I am now running Windows 98SE and Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 woody 2.4.18 on this Gateway 500. Ethan Vos wrote: Good afternoon all. The mirrors that I have looked at have binary-1 through binary-7. Which is the correct one to use? Also, I am using a second HDD for the install. Will the CD ask which HDD to use? Will the install give me way to chose which OS to boot? Thanks in advance for the help. Dropout -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which version?
have to ask the others here about those choices. I just chose the first one off the list. Then I was ready to install Linux. The boot CDROM gave me a choice of kernels. I had to choose bf2.4 because that was the only option that could see my hard drives. The program cfdisk was used only to initialize those partitions on the second drive that I had decided would be Linux. Those partitions will 'disappear' from your Windows Explorer or whatever you use for a file manager. The installation CDROMs let me put LILO onto the MBR. Now when I boot, I have a choice between Windows 98SE and Linux. You can customize the LILO menu, but you can save that question until after installation. I needed to 'wife-proof' my menu to let the machine boot automatically into Windows after a delay. (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless Linux Gcomm 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 unknown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Linux Gcomm 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 unknown
I have two HP computers on my Gateway 500 system: HP 697C (parallel port) and HP psc 1210 on a USB port. I found a CUPs and a Ghostscript tarball files, and printer-magicfilter.tgz.tar during my browsing since it might be better to use the Debian packaging to track this stuff. The Linux definitely assigns the HP 697C to lp0. It seems only to detect the USB printer. I also have gotten the HP-DeskJet_697C-hpijs.ppd file from the Internet where I browsed through Sourceforge and Debian.org. I need to finish setting up the printers and the scanners. Is the use of magicfilter entirely different from CUPS and Ghostscript? I also need to get my USB Zip 250 drive recognized. My floppy drive is an LS120 which is assigned to /dev/hdd so I cannot format any floppies. However, I can mount an already formatted floppy. I would also like to access Amiga DOS floppies; however, the kernel gives an error that says it doesn't recognize it. I tried to choose vfat, msdos, afs, the Mac filesystem during setup. It would be nice to be able to use superformat. Perhaps a script to use dd? Or a custom block device? I also want to set up my home Intranet on the Linux system where the addresses are as follows: 192.168.128.1 Gcomm 192.168.128.2 Windows 98SE machine 192.168.128.3 Commodore Amiga 2000HD 192.168.128.4 Windows XP The system doesn't seem to recognize my Ethernet card. 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX - 82443BX/ZX Host bridge (rev 03) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX - 82443BX/ZX AGP bridge (rev 03) 00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02) 00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) 00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB PIIX4 USB (rev 01) 00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02) 00:0e.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97] (rev 06) 00:0f.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. 20262 (rev 01) 00:10.0 Communication controller: US Robotics/3Com WinModem 00:11.0 Ethernet controller: Linksys Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet 10/100 model NC100 (rev 11) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: 3Dfx Interactive, Inc. Voodoo 3 (rev 01) I appear to have the following modules: Module Size Used byTainted: P ppp_deflate38944 0 (autoclean) bsd_comp3936 0 (autoclean) ppp_async 6464 0 (autoclean) tdfx 35064 1 evdev 4544 0 (unused) mousedev3776 0 parport_pc 25704 1 (autoclean) lp 6912 0 ppdev 7908 0 (unused) sg 24452 0 (unused) msr 1376 0 (unused) cpuid 1184 0 (unused) apm 9148 1 dummy960 1 affs 27360 0 (unused) msdos 4668 0 (unused) scanner 8480 0 (unused) printer 5632 0 (unused) parport21728 1 [parport_pc lp ppdev] ppp_generic18728 0 [ppp_deflate bsd_comp ppp_async] slhc4432 0 [ppp_generic] soundcore 3236 0 (unused) agpgart29824 0 (unused) keybdev 1664 0 (unused) usbkbd 2848 0 (unused) input 3072 0 [evdev mousedev keybdev usbkbd] usb-uhci 20708 0 (unused) usbcore48032 0 [scanner printer usbkbd usb-uhci] I haven't tried to use the fax on the Hayes external fax modem on COM1. I installed it since Linux doesn't seem able to use the US Robotics internal Win voice modem on COM2. I can get to my ISP on the Hayes external modem. I am enjoying this new Linux system. I got tired of the inexplicable pauses on Windows. I missed Unix at work since they switched from Unix to Windows. I purchased the woody CDROMs from Abexia which is one of the vendors listed on Debian.org. Sincerely, (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: charset of ext3 drives
The FS is the last thing I dont understand: if the file name is a double wide charset, how can the file name be stored without loosing information? Do you know what I mean? It would appear to me that the charset selection only determines how the characters will be displayed, wouldn't it? The filename would be only a stream of characters that would not vary although the appearance would perhaps change as different charset's were selected. Or did I miss something about the way filenames are stored? Sincerely, (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, J. Preiss wrote: X, DM, KDE: needs proper fonts KDE: needs locale set mount: as mentioned, the FS doesn't care what encoding you're using :-) console: good luck Seems that I found a bit more infos on my system: I cannot enter cyrillic chars neither in konqi nor in kate. So I installed xfree-cyrillic (a really good idea, but I bet I selected this by first install... anyway). But if it is a problem of the fonts... why can juk display the song infos correctly The FS is the last thing I dont understand: if the file name is a double wide charset, how can the file name be stored without loosing information? Do you know what I mean? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
