Re: Debian on CD.
On Wed, Dec 31, 1997 at 12:12:32AM -0500, Tim Sailer wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tim, your comments are inappropriate. Let me assure you that there is no fraud at all here. I never claimed there was. I was just stating that it was a way to get a response. Obviously, it worked. Sounds to me like there _was_ fraud. Perhaps not on the part of Greenbush's principles, but definitely on the part of the (ex) employee. Of course, to the customer who sent money and received nothing, there's no difference. jason -- The man who marries a modern woman marries a woman who expects to vote like a man, smoke like a man, have her hair cut like a man, and go without restrictions and without chaperones and obey nobody. BOBBED HAIR - John R. Rice, 1941 http://www.primenet.com/~steiners/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Telnet translation modes...
I'm not sure if this is a Linux problem, or common to telnet in general. I haven't run into it until installing Debian though, so here it is: Telnet has two modes, linemode, and charactermode. It defaults to linemode if the other side will handle it. This cooks some characters and does some extra signalling. It appears that in this mode, hitting the Return key sends a ^M. That's normally not a problem, but I've found that some programs (mutt, and trn in the article selector) don't recognize this key, preferring ^J instead. I have found two workarounds for this: - Change the bindings on the software to recognize ^M as a synonym for ^J. - Manually escape to a telnet prompt after connecting and do a 'mode char'. In this mode, hitting return sends a ^J. I can't put it into the .telnetrc though, since that's read up front, and the linemode is negotiated afterward. I'd like to just tell telnet to use ^J all the time. jason -- The man who marries a modern woman marries a woman who expects to vote like a man, smoke like a man, have her hair cut like a man, and go without restrictions and without chaperones and obey nobody. BOBBED HAIR - John R. Rice, 1941 http://www.primenet.com/~steiners/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: hang on bootup
Here's the latest... On Sun, Dec 28, 1997 at 03:06:59PM -0700, Jason and Heather wrote: On Sun, Dec 28, 1997 at 10:26:13AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On my system, this line results in a 10 second freeze up, and then Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card! Thanks for the info. I don't have a SCSI card in my computer, so I'm not too surprised it isn't working. That appears to be it. Someone compiled a bare-bones kernel for me that managed to get past this problem. I don't think some of the other options were the same though, because after booting, it gave me: RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 VFS: Mounted root (minix filesystem). VFS: Cannot open root device 03:41 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:41 It looks like it might be trying to mount the root on , but how it got that, I don't know. Any suggestions? If possible, I'd like to keep the standard kernel and just tell it to skip probing for SCSI devices, since I know that's the problem now. jason -- The man who marries a modern woman marries a woman who expects to vote like a man, smoke like a man, have her hair cut like a man, and go without restrictions and without chaperones and obey nobody. BOBBED HAIR - John R. Rice, 1941 http://www.primenet.com/~steiners/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
hang on bootup
I'm trying to install Debian on my Digital P166, but it's hanging hard right after the line: md driver 0.35 MAX_MD_DEV=4 MAX_REAL=8 I've found a couple other reports of this in Dejanews, but no answers to the problem... jason -- The man who marries a modern woman marries a woman who expects to vote like a man, smoke like a man, have her hair cut like a man, and go without restrictions and without chaperones and obey nobody. BOBBED HAIR - John R. Rice, 1941 http://www.primenet.com/~steiners/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: hang on bootup
On Mon, Dec 29, 1997 at 01:18:41AM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Sun, Dec 28, 1997 at 03:15:38AM -0700, Jason and Heather wrote: I'm trying to install Debian on my Digital P166, but it's hanging hard right after the line: md driver 0.35 MAX_MD_DEV=4 MAX_REAL=8 I've found a couple other reports of this in Dejanews, but no answers to the problem... It's probably not the md driver which is hanging (it's fairly harmless hardware wise) but whatever comes after it. I don't know exactly what that may be, but it could be a SCSI adapter, network card, .. Which of these do you have? You might need to give parameters to the kernel to tell it their addresses etc to avoid hangs. The stupid thing is, I have neither. (Even my CDROM is IDE, and now that's not working under Windows, either.) I let it sit for half an hour to see if it'd finally wake up, and nothing. Is there any way to tell loadlin to throw linux into a verbose mode that might tell me _what_ it's scanning? This is really annoying. jason -- The man who marries a modern woman marries a woman who expects to vote like a man, smoke like a man, have her hair cut like a man, and go without restrictions and without chaperones and obey nobody. BOBBED HAIR - John R. Rice, 1941 http://www.primenet.com/~steiners/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: hang on bootup
On Sun, Dec 28, 1997 at 10:26:13AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On my system, this line results in a 10 second freeze up, and then Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card! Thanks for the info. I don't have a SCSI card in my computer, so I'm not too surprised it isn't working. It then continues to boot normally. Perhaps you didn't wait long enough. I waited half an hour... :) Or, maybe you have a device that doesn't want to be probed (I solve this by opening the case, unplugging all the cards except for the video card, and then putting them back one by one until I run into the same problem). Tried that earlier this morning, with no success. But at least now I know. Someone has offered to compile a kernel for me that has no SCSI drivers, and hopefully that will take care of the problem. jason -- The man who marries a modern woman marries a woman who expects to vote like a man, smoke like a man, have her hair cut like a man, and go without restrictions and without chaperones and obey nobody. BOBBED HAIR - John R. Rice, 1941 http://www.primenet.com/~steiners/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
