XF86 Setup
I upgraded my video card from an S3Virge to a Matrox Millenium with 8meg. After running SF86Setup and vidtune I couldn't get a full width display. After some head scratching I copied the mode line from my old config file to the new one and was back in business. I guess the setup program attempts to use the highest dot clock for the card possible without exceeding the monitor's sync frequencies. (the mga tried to run at 135 mhz, I backed it down to 85). But some monitors cannot get full width at the highest sync so you must back off on the dot clock. Might be nice to have vidtune be able to tweek the dot clock freq as well. I'm not sure how to do it manually. My old card's mode lines work fine on the new one, so I solved my problem that way. Has anyone else run into this? == Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
PCI Linksys card in Hamm
It uses the NE2000 driver which requires the IO and IRQ parameters to be specified. From Windoze I've verified the IRQ is 9 and the IO is 6C00. After entering the values (io=0x6C00 irq=9) the system hangs. I'm not exactly sure what I'm doing wrong this time. Any suggestions? - I am using a ne2000 pci card in my system at home. It uses one of those real-tek chips. Anyway I think you need the ne2000-pci driver. In my case the driver can either probe the card for the io and irq, or it is getting it from the bios. I did not have to provide any parameters, and the card works fine. I have it installed as a module. You might have to play with the plug and play settings on your bios (if any, I had to turn this on and off before it worked the first time to avoid irq conflicts with other cards). == Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
2.2.1
I'm now using 2.2.1 on hamm, also with no problems apart from the need to change the port on /etc/printcap. What software did you upgrade before going to 2.2.1? Are you running anything as modules, and if so how did you configure this? I downloaded 2.2.1 and tried to install it. My ethernet, scsi, cd, and lp were not available (compiled as modules). My root filesystem is on an ide drive, but /usr is on a scsi. I thought this would work with scsi as a module. Are you using kmod? Thanks for any help. == Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: slashdot poll
Paul Seelig wrote: On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, M.C. Vernon wrote: RH is a commercially-based distro, so they can spend loads of cash on advertising etc, so they are the most popular, despite Debian's inherantly free-er nature, and techincal superiority Redhat is a distribution geared at ease of use. That's why Linus himself uses Redhat and not Debian. Debian with all it's technical superiority would definitely benefit from becoming a bit more user friendly as well. This should be possible without dumbing down or sacrificing technical advantages but might in the contrary actually add to it's overall quality. I my oppinion this would be hard to do (make Debian easier without sacrifices). To be technically superior demands certain sacrifices. This is why race cars do not have air-conditioners and cup-holders. You start worying about comfort and ease of use and you end up with a mini-van instead of an F1 car -- or in our case RH instead of Debian. I disagree. Actually it's not that Debian is built to be hard to use. It's just that many of the 'pretty' system control and configure applications supplied by RH are not in Debian. (Besides they only work in X) I understand that some work is being done toward this end. One of RH's application (Xconfigurator) is even being ported to Debian. Also what is needed is a good book of 'hints and kinks' for Debian. I am slowly buildning filling my own reference binder with stuff I have found useful when I was backed into a corner. If I see a good hint on this list I try to print it out and save it. Maybe if I get to the point where it's organized enough I'll e-publish it. I would invite others to do the same. == Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
RE: PCI Linksys card in Hamm
The ne2000 driver was split (sometime after 2.0.33 I think) into two, one for isa cards and one for pci. Before that a single driver handled both. There should be a selection in the kernel config scripts (make menuconfig or make xconfig) for a pci ne2000 card. That's what I am using now. The isa version would probably go nuts with an io address 3ffH! ---Cristov Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Kenneth Thanks for the reply. Which driver is the NE2000 PCII? I don't recall seeing anything described as that. Thanks. Cristov -Original Message- From: Kenneth Scharf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 1999 6:57 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: PCI Linksys card in Hamm It uses the NE2000 driver which requires the IO and IRQ parameters to be specified. From Windoze I've verified the IRQ is 9 and the IO is 6C00. After entering the values (io=0x6C00 irq=9) the system hangs. I'm not exactly sure what I'm doing wrong this time. Any suggestions? - I am using a ne2000 pci card in my system at home. It uses one of those real-tek chips. Anyway I think you need the ne2000-pci driver. In my case the driver can either probe the card for the io and irq, or it is getting it from the bios. I did not have to provide any parameters, and the card works fine. I have it installed as a module. You might have to play with the plug and play settings on your bios (if any, I had to turn this on and off before it worked the first time to avoid irq conflicts with other cards). == Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com == Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
RE: PCI Linksys card in Hamm
one more thing ...I think the module name was ne2kpci.o ---Cristov Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Kenneth Thanks for the reply. Which driver is the NE2000 PCII? I don't recall seeing anything described as that. Thanks. Cristov -Original Message- From: Kenneth Scharf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 1999 6:57 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: PCI Linksys card in Hamm It uses the NE2000 driver which requires the IO and IRQ parameters to be specified. From Windoze I've verified the IRQ is 9 and the IO is 6C00. After entering the values (io=0x6C00 irq=9) the system hangs. I'm not exactly sure what I'm doing wrong this time. Any suggestions? - I am using a ne2000 pci card in my system at home. It uses one of those real-tek chips. Anyway I think you need the ne2000-pci driver. In my case the driver can either probe the card for the io and irq, or it is getting it from the bios. I did not have to provide any parameters, and the card works fine. I have it installed as a module. You might have to play with the plug and play settings on your bios (if any, I had to turn this on and off before it worked the first time to avoid irq conflicts with other cards). == Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com == Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
upgrading to 2.0.35 or 2.0.36 under Hamm
--- One step at a time: anyone else moved to 2.0.35/36 while retaining the rest of Hamm? I don't really want to make the move to slink until a while after it moves to be stable but I do need to make this move. --- I am currently running 2.0.36 on a hamm machine. I got the slink kernel-package and kernel-source packages and installed them, then configured the kernel and built a new one using make-kpkg. (You might not need the slink kernel-package to build 2.0.36 I was just being prudent). If you want to keep the old kernel, make a symlink under /boot such as vmlinuz_old and a section in lilo.config with a label such as old_linux before you install the new kernel. See the man pages and /usr/doc pages for the kernel-package stuff. Kernel-package makes it real easy to build and install the new kernel, it also will set up lilo for you. == Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
what's 32 bpp?
I see that X servers can be set to run at 8,16,24, or 32 BPP. (also 2 and 4 but that's yuck!). I know that the 8 bpp mode uses a map table to select 256 out of 2**16 or 2**18 colors, assuming that the card has 3 6 bit dac's, one for each color. In 16 or 15 bit mode the access to the dac's is direct. 5 bits are used for each dac, with the lsb set to 0. In 16 bbp mode the extra bit is given to the green dac. In 24bpp mode 8 bit dac's are used, 8*3=24 bits. What happens in 32bpp?? I do not believe that video dac's are available wider than 8 bits. If they are, are 3 10 bit dac's used, with the extra 2 bits thrown away? Or is a 12 bit dac used for the green Or is this only a maping thing, 24 bits are used, and a whole byte is thrown away, but using 32bits per pixel cleans up the dma access some how? == Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
how to mount remote file system?
I have a linux box serving as a web server. This computer has no monitor on it and is stashed in a remote corner. I administor it via telnet. (Maybe the wrong way...). I'd like to mount part of it's filesystem on the linux box at my desk, so I can update the web pages. How can I do this? I have not played with network file systems under linux yet (except for samba, and there only being able to go from the windows machine to my linux box ... which is how I have to download stuff from the internet as I can't yet get the linux box to see the internet through the corporate firewall and network). == Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
ATAPI CDROM -- Aargh! Newbie problems
I've had some problems with cdroms too, but different. I have a cdrom made by Panasonic for IBM that is labeled as an 8X atapi. When it was connected as a master on a paddle card (aux ide card strapped as ide #2) the bios saw it correctly, but linux thought it was a tape drive! When strapped as a slave on the same interface as the hard disk it worked ok. With the same paddle card in a different computer it also worked as a master. Your mother board should have two ide interfaces. Try the cdrom as a master on the second (/dev/hdc). Try it as a slave on the second with no master (/dev/hdd) (hey this has been known to work with cd rom drives!) I suspect that some cd rom drives that claim to be atapi compliant are not fully so, and the MS driver is aware of the pitfalls, while the linux driver only works 'by the book'. With 20X cd roms now selling for $20 or so (after rebate) from compusa maybe a way out would be to buy a new, slowest one you can find, cdrom. == Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
printers
Is there a way to get my LaserJet 6L to work? APSfilter and magicfilter do not have modules/drivers that work. The most they have is LaserJet 4L. The problem with this printer is that it is in sleep mode all the time, and the driver must wake it up. Are there any plans for this printer driver wise? --- I just installed a LJ5 on my system. I used the LJ4 magic filter. This printer also goes into power down mode. I seems to wake up just fine whenever a file is sent across. If you switch to LPRng there is a LJ5 filter for this that may work with the 6L. == Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
ATAPI CDROM problem (NEC-260)
Try linux /dev/hdb = cdrom at the lilo prompt. == Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: Problem with intallation on a wierd PC/MAC combo
Hmmm...What type of processor does the mac side have? Couldn't you install debian for m68k or linuxppc on it? Supposedly the m68k port of linux does not support macintoshes because Apple is being rather uninformative about the hardware specs. There was an article about this in the linux journal last month. == http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Downloading Installing WP8....
If you downloaded the file using netscape then it may already have been run through gunzip! Check the size of the file! I have seen this behavior from netscape, where it detects the file type, and saves it using gunzip as a filter! Sometimes though it keeps the file name the same. Try renaming the file to WP8.tar and then run it though tar. -- From: Brant Wells [EMAIL PROTECTED] Howdy Y'all I just downloaded the WordPerfect 8 GZ file from the Corel Ftp site... I downloaded the single part version (I saved the file as WordP8.gz) When I go to unzip it (using gzip -d), I get an error saying that the file is not a GZipped file...I downloaded it with Netscape 4.5 (which thank God installed flawlessly...) What should I do? Thanks, Brant _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [Fwd: Installing debian with Win98]
There is a .bmp file named something like windowslogo.bmp in the windows directory that has the windows bootup display. It can be edited with the paint program. I modified the one on my kid's computer so It comes up with their names, Emily and Reva's computer. You could copy the file to linux, edit it with the gimp (actually replace everything with tux) and then export it back to windows. The file MUST be of an exact pixel size (640xsomething) so it will be correctly displayed. (Win95 usese the bottom of the bitmap to display the moving bar as it boots). --- From: Ed Cogburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: Hi Tim, I have Window$98 and Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 running on a IBM ThinkPad 385XD laptop without any trouble (sofar?). I've kept a detailed log of all the things I did and can mail it if your interested. You'll have to wait till tomorrow though, 'cause I don't have it here. Basically, I repartitioned the 4GB internal hard disk, did a recovery installation of Window$ on the C: drive and then put Linux on the rest. From what you say (having things already partitioned), you can skip most of that and just jump in at the Linux installation. I had the same problem as you mentioned: linux just won't boot. The reason is that LILO can not boot Linux if the root partition is not in the first 1024 cylinders of the boot disk. My first work-around was a DOS boot-floppy that auto-execs loadlin to boot Linux. Worked like a charm, but I found the floppy boot a little clumsy. Following the loadlin docs, I modified the Window$ boot to give me a choice (much like LILO would have done if it worked). So, I boot Linux through M$-DOS, but, hey, if it works, who cares? Now, if I could only get that silly Window$ logo at boot time replaced with something more Linux, like a penguin ... Just in case you don't know: You can disable that Windows boot logo with an entry in msdos.sys (a text file now) of Logo=0 in the Options section. Works for W95. Replacing it with a penguin is an entirely different matter, though. :-) _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
SoundBlaster Vibra 16 jumperless card under Linux
If this is an isa card, then use the isapnp package to set up the card. See the sound how_to. --- From: Damon Muller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi folks, This one has got me beat, and I'm hoping someone in debian-land might be able to help me out. I got a vibra 16 card (soundblaster) from a friend, but it didn't come with any driver disks or anything like that. Unfortunately it is a jumperless card, and I have no way of setting the IRQs and DMAs under linux (or even finding out what they are) so I can set it up to run under Linux. I went to the creative web site and downloaded the dos/win31 drivers, thinking this would solve my problem. Not so! It refuses to install the dos configuration programs under win98 dos... My linux box only has linux on it, so I can't just boot it to dos, and the install program doesn't like working under DOSEmu. So, at the moment, I seem to be a little stuck. I'm thinking maybe if I can get hold of the program to set up the board under DOS, I can boot linux with a dos boot disk, and set it up from there. The zip from creative contains it, but it's compressed, and only the install program can uninstall it. If anyone can help, I'd greatly appreciate it. Any suggestions are more than welcome. thanks, damon _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: Modem stopped working when I upgraded to hamm
Install isapnp package, and run pnpdump. If the output detected your modem, then you may be in good shape! Make sure that the serial ports are NOT built into your kernel, but are modules (I think that's what's in the default kernel). Then edit the isipnp.conf file to look like the settings seen by windows95. Make sure that the conf file is in the correct directory (think thats /etc). Hopefully init will then run isapnp on bootup, your modem will come alive, and then the kernel will load the serial modules. _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: Winmodem?
You would think that now that US Robotics is owned by 3com this would change, as they seem to be open about the spec's on their ethernet lan cards. === As evil as MS are, they are not responsible for all of the world's problems. Blame US Robotics for this one; they have resisted repeated pleas for open WinModem specifications. Send them a (polite) note if you have one of their WinModems and don't like their policy. miket _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
slink
From time to time I have been directed to use a package from slink because the corresponding version from hamm is 'broken', an example is xfstt. However I can't install *ANYTHING* from slink because I get a dependacy error due to lib6c being updated in slink (hamm has an older version). It seems that in order to use anything from slink, I must really update the core of the distribution to slink, just like I did to get from bo to hamm. Guess I'll wait until slink is released on CD. (Too bad southernbell was unable to install ASDN to my location due to equipment in-compatability with my phone line. At 1.5MBS download I could do this on line in an afternoon!) Can I get the source packages from slink and rebuild under hamm using the existing lib6c lib's in the interm? _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
xfstt
I installed the xfstt package, copied about 500 ttfonts from a collection I had on CD to /var/ttfonts, ran xfstt --sync, edited /etc/X11/XF86Config to include the line FontPath = unix/:7101 (did all this as root) Then I went back to my xsession, did ctrlaltBS. Now how can I test for access to these fonts? Which apps can grab them (WP8 for linux seems to only use it's own fonts). Any thing else I forgot to set up? Thanks. _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: WP 8 problem
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In reply to:Dave Swegen Quoting Dave Swegen([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 11:21 +0100, Riccardo Tommasini wrote: I think there is a very big difference between StarDivision, who released a real Fully Functional version of StarOffice, and Corel, who simply made us lost our time to download a useless SW. What do you mean useless? If you want a fully functional word processor with all the extra bells and whistles go download bloaty-hog staroffice. I find it rather amazing that people complain about something they paid nothing for. Granted they might have made it clearer that those functions are only available in the paid-for version. So don't be so bloody ungrateful and cheap - go and buy the full version (which doesn't cost an extortionate amount of money) if you want those features. Useless my arse... Dave Well I agree with Riccardo! It took me 18 hours to _finally_ get all 7 parts of the software. I found that there readme was written by someone that didn't even try to load the 7 parts. I then found that the Runme file didn't do anything (useful) so I had to figure out why .gz files were not, if fact, gzipped but tarred. Then, after looking at the Runme script, saw that it expected lowercase file names, so changed them. Ok, now to get the Runme to run. Forget it. It is looking for files that aren't there. A check of the ./linux/bin file shows that they are not executeable, in fact 'file ./linux/bin' says they are data files. OK, look on the list to see what others are finding. OK, now look for xwp. I am still looking. It isn't in the packages that I have. Look for _any_ executeables. Found Runme, which doesn't do anything but ask me if I have 'unzip'ed un-tared the files'. I find it a total waste of time and effort. I would not bother to even download it now _even_ if they said it was totally FREE. --- My REPLY: I had no problem at all in installing wp8. I didnot have to rename any files or anything. I tried it from the console, and under X windows (the install looks real nice under X). I was logged in as root during the install in all cases. I think the reason I had no problems was that I used the HUGE 24M download, and not the seven small files. The problem may be in the piecing the 7 files together. I think you must do the following on all files: tar -zxf 'filename' first. What confuses is the extension is .gz, not .tar.gz. The files are tar.gz's in anycase. Do this for all the 7 files in the same directory. Then type ./Runme Anyway it worked for me with the One large file. And make sure that you have most of the old lib5c and Xlib lib's installed or it won't work. _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: Corel WordPerfect 8 for Linux ishere! (fwd)
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 13:09:36 -0600 From: Richard E. Hawkins Esq. Only problem now is that both the sites are full, 1000 user on Download.com and 3600 on ftp.cdrom. You may want to wait a few hours (weeks) until the rush quitens down... If anyone manages to get it I would be interested (along with a number of other debian users) as to how good it is. I've got it, but I haven't figured out quite how to install it. un-tgz'ing produces a handful of directories, a Readme, and a Runme. The Readme says to untar and ungzip everything, then run the Runme The runme asks if you've untarred things, and decides there's nothign new to do if you say yes. If you say no, it untars, but still doesn't do anything. The executables end up in ./linux/bin I assume there's some option i'm missing to figure out to tell it to use /usr/local or some such, but it beats me as to where . . . -- Ok I'm trying it now. Answering YES to the question. I get EXTRACTING FILES . Now I have a screen with instructions, Have to answer OK to that license agreement again. Now am being asked which directory to put everything. I will choose /usr/local/bin/wp (hope it creates it) Now being asked for FULL/MEDIUM/OR MIN installation (61-70mb, 44-50, or 36-40) What the hell lets go for the max! Some other questions, asking for printer drivers Ok now installing. Well looks like it works I downloaded the one big hugh file, not the 7 little ones. Hope that helps _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: Corel WordPerfect 8 for Linux ishere!
Now what we need is a debian installer package for this just like the one for netscape or star office. Something that will set up the menu system, environmental variables, paths etc (I ended up with /usr/local/bin/wpbin/) _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
8G ide harddrive limit?
From: David Puryear [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi all, I just brought 17.2G ide harddrive, and when I try to use cfdisk to partition it, it only sees 8G. FWIW, I updated cfdisk to ones in frozen. Bios and Linux bootup sees it as 17.2G, so I don't know why cfdisk will not.:( Running 2.0.36(my own roll) and mostly Debian 2.0 with few updates. Thanks for any information, David try fdisk. Also you may have to enter the drive parameters (heads, tracks, sectors). See man page for fdisk. _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
P/S 2 Mice
From: Jeff Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hey all, My friend has installed Debian on his computer. He has a P/S 2 mouse. It wont work in X or in the normal shell with GPM. How would you get a P/S 2 mouse working in Linux? Are there any packages we need to install? TIA! First of all try making a sim link ln -s /dev/psaux /dev/mouse Run the XF86Setup or XF86Config programs again and specify /dev/psaux as the mouse device. May have to load a module or recompile the kernel if you don't have ps2 mouse support built in. Finally ... maybe the port on your motherboard is broken. I had one computer with a busted ps2 mouse port, ended up pluging in an old logitek bus mouse card. _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: bitchy 486
Sounds familiar. I have installed Debian 3 different times and have seen that error message each time. I solved it by re-making the rescue disk. Got so that I made 2-3 of _each_ disk, just in case. I don't think is is Debian, just crappy disks! HTH REPLY: I thought about the disk being bad, but that same disk boots ok on another computer. I'll try a few others anyway. Also I understand there are several boot images available, each slightly different for problem hardware. Hey I also might try swapping out the floppy disk drive as I have a few extras! _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Horrid question: ssh or ssl-telnet for Windoze(95)/Doz
From: Chris Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ugh, this is a horrid question to ask but I'll risk it. I am happily moving all my heavy internet stuff to Debian (three machines: home, old office, new ISP hosted machine). Very, very impressed with Debian. The trouble is that I can't ditch Windoze from my portable for some time yet nor do I have space on it for the doze things I need (mostly SAS SPSS) and to put Debian on it too. I'll get space some day but . 'til then I want some secure way to get into my Debian machines from that machine when I'm away from home. Does anyone else face this? Is there a free or cheap ssh or ssl-telnet for this horrid platform or are there other ways of ensuring confidential transfers and use of the debian machines? TIA and seasonal greetings! Chris Chris Evans, RD Consultant, Tavistock Portman NHS Trust MY REPLY: I have a debian box in my office on the same lan as my windowsNT 4.0 machine. I can use the telnet program that comes with windows to log into my debian machine. It works ok, except that windows telnet does a poor job of emulating a linux terminal so come control key sequences won't work (IE: don't bother trying to run vi or emacs or even 'less' sometimes!). I suspect this could be fixed on one end or the other. Now if you are not on a hard wire between the machines some other scheme is necessary. Are we talking a dialup connection, or an internet based one? The dialup is easy, the windows dialup terminal (forget the name) should work fine, just configure the mgetty on the serial line at you linux box to look like a vt100 (probably is the default). _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
bitchy 486
I have put together a 486DX2-66 machine from old parts. It's a vers-local bus machine with 8M of dram, 200mb disk drive (I have a 2g I can swap in), an 8x ide cdrom drive, and a cirrus based vesa local bus video card (boca) with 1m on it (add two chips for 2m). I have tried to boot slackware and debian on it (so far havn't tried red hat). Initially the cdrom was on a second ide card as it's own master, now its a slave to the hd on the pri ide. Reason was that slackware reported the cd as an IDE TAPE when on the second card! It reports correctly when it's on the pri card Slackware installed ok, except for it would not activate a swap partition. I tried to boot the debian rescue disk and got about halfway there when it failed with 'boot failed' Any ideas what 'boot failed' means? (I can boot slackware 3.4 'bare' and 'color' disks ok, also windoz 95 boot disk boots ok). _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
re UPS recommendation
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi all, I am in the market for a UPS to use with my PC that will provide power just enough power to get a shutdown finished in case of total power lost. I have looked at the Hardware Compatibility HOWTO and the UPS HOWTO but I wanted to first hand experience from members of this list. My hardware is a P266, 6.1G eide HD, 1.2G eide HD, 1.2G eide HD, cdrom, scsi tape, 17 monitor, el-cheapo speakers, HP 660C deskjet. I know I don't have to put the printer and monitor ont the UPS so that could reduce the size of the thing. What brand/model works best with the linux daemons and provides shutdown notification? How easy is the hook up? I saw a lot of talk about custom cables, etc. Thanks, -- APC up's (also trip lite) interface well with the upsd package. The monitor port is generally only available with the 350va and up ups'. I have used a mere 200va ups with similar equipment (no monitor port). You only need enough run time to trip the shutdown and avoid a power crash. If the ups will hold for 2 or 3 minutes you have it. BTW If you find a cheap ups with no power fail port, you can use the old trick of just monitoring the dsd signal of an old modem powered by the same line that the ups is plugged into. Any old modem will do, even that old 300pbs boat anchor. _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
adsl
I just found out that ADSL service may be available in my area. Does anyone have ADSL internet service and how hard was it to get Linux to use it? I live in south florida and Bellsouth is now offering ADSL for $50-60 a month unlimited ($100 one time installation fee and $200 to buy the modem - nic). After paying for the equipment, it looks like $30 more a month then my not-quite unlimited dialup service with ATT. They say you need a computer with at least 100mhz Pentium, 50mb free on hd, 16mb ram, running windows 95/98 or NT. (Or a Mac) No mention of linux thou I know that does not mean it ain't possible. _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
re Just My 2 Cents
From: Person, Roderick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hey All, Just venting. Recently I check out the Linux apps wish list web page! I though that it was mighty funny that the software that most people want to see ported to Linux is made by the big nasty Microsoft clan. Personally, I hate M$ and was glade to find Linux. If it wasn't for Linux I probably would have only used my PC for games, which is about the only thing I WindBlows is go for (IMHO)! It seems to me that most Linux user feel the same way. I always read threads on the evil M$ or how bad Windblows is etc! So can someone tell me why the Hell everyone wants M$ apps ported to Linux - Doesn't that defeat the purpose!!! Well to me it does. Just ranting. Thanks Linus. Rod. -- my two cents: Sometimes you have to give the devil his due. While the operating system arm of Microsoft is under attack (and rightly so) the company does seem to have some good consumer products. Especially the stuff for kids, like Encarta, Magic School Bus, etc... If Microsoft's consumer (application) efforts competed on an equal footing with everyone else (instead of having the unfair advantage of inside knowledge and control of the platform) there would be a lot less bad blood about Microsoft. If Microsoft ever did release Linux versions of some of its comsumer Windows applications (they would then HAVE to compete on an equal footing with everyone else because the platform is PUBLIC DOMAIN) the question would be free (open source) vs non-free software based on quality of the product and your own morals. I personally would buy commerical software that I found to meet my needs, at a price that was fair knowing that it was being sold into a market place open to all vendors without unfair practices. I would prefer to use open source software when I would need the ability to modify it for my own needs, or to obtain support beyond the ability of the vender to supply (without holding me for ransom). Now as for my wish list of aps to be ported to linux, If only Quicken and TurboTax (or clones) were available my wife wouldn't need to use windows. (she's also addicted to freecell but that runs fine under wine). (GnuCash is not yet ready for prime time, and I know of no open source tax preparation programs available for any current tax year that I would trust) _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
PPP and kernel 2.0.36
I remember getting that error message. The problem was not related to the kernel. 1: make sure that you are a member of the group owning rights to execute ppp. (I think it was dial) 2: make sure you are using the right serial device. such as /dev/ttyS1 (the S is in CAPS!!!) I got that exact error when I was using the wrong serial device to dial out on. (cryptic stupid error message...some program must be trapping all errors at one point). 3: script starting pppd must be suid (I think) -- From: Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have just installed the lastest stable kernel 2.0.36 and PPP does not work for me. I have compiled it into the kernel. The version is the 2.2.0 version of PPP. I have tried patching the kernel to PPP v2.3.3 to no avail. I am using the Debian PPP package 2.3.5-2. I am running the Hamm version of Debian. Upon attempting to run pppd I get the following: This system lacks kernel support for PPP. This could be because the PPP kernel module is not loaded, or because the kernel is not configured for PPP. See the README.linux file in the ppp-2.3.5 distribution. I do see PPP in the boot up text, so the kernel does appear to be loading PPP PPP: version 2.2.0 (dynamic channel allocation) TCP compression code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California PPP Dynamic channel allocation code copyright 1995 Caldera, Inc. PPP line discipline registered. Any thoughts on this one? Thanx in advance. _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Seagate DAT drive
From: Chris Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have just installed a Seagate STD28000N (aka ARCHIVE Python 04687-XXX Rev: 6580 according to dmesg). I only had 90m tapes to hand and wanted to try it out, tar cvf on a handful of files claimed to work but nothing else did generally returning error messages about sequential position. I am off to get some 120m tapes and have been through the man pages etc. for dds2tar, dds2index etc. but feel a bit out of my depth here. Is there a really simple idiots' guide to using DDS/DAT tape drives, something like the wonderfully clear HOWTO for jaztool? TIA Chris - Reply: I have a similar dat drive. It is an IBM DDS2 made by Archive (later Conner, now Seagate). I have used both 90 and 120 mm tapes without any problems. There are two device signatures for these /dev/stX and /dev/nstX where the /dev/nst devices do not rewind the tape before or after use. There are commands that control the tape movement (mt I belive) to forward or back space past records, and to the logical end of the tape. This lets you put several 'tar' images on a single tape and postion the tape to write the next, or read a desired one. But you have to do this manually, keeping track of the number of tar images on the tape. This drive is really slow, backing up my system (over 1GB at the momment) takes the better part of an hour (or so it seems). Still the cost of storage was right. (I lucked out, I got the tape drive for $10 US and a box of 2 dozen tapes for another $10 US ... is that about 14 pounds UK? And the cost/GB of this medium for new tapes is much better than travan tapes) So I'll live with the slow speed. Can always just sked the backup with at, shove a tape in the drive and go to bed. _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: Finished with Linux
thread: In linux.debian.user, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you had shared the stupid messages with us here, perhaps somebody could have told you what they mean and how to fix the problem. Strange.. I don't recall you posting once. You seem easy to convince. So go on back to your Happy Meal OS. If you can't bother asking for help with a problem, or bother reading the documentation, don't blame the OS for what you couldn't figure out on your own. Be fair about this: Edouard posted something controversial and angry: so did I, when I tried to get printing working on this system. Printing on single-user machines is a *nightmare* to set up, the docs range from nearly useless to utterly useless, and while I did get printing working even I don't really know what I did to fix the problem. And I'm no newbie: this system had been running Linux for over a year at that point, and I've managed LANs and such for years before that. I'm not a good enough programmer, but someone needs to generate a simple printing package for single-user systems that doesn't require insanely complex installation and configuration to use a Deskjet 500. Sort of a leafnode to inn relationship with the various lpds we have now. -- response: There are a lot of things in linux that seem to bog people down. Setting up X, ppp (connecting to your ISP), printing, or just installing the damm thing (dselect UGHH). Once you get it working you sometimes forget what the problem was. I did not do anything fancy to get printing to work. I am using whatever default spooler was set up when I installed hamm, installed magicfilter, ran the magicfilter config program, (specified the filter for my HPLJIII) and it worked. Knowing what LP number you actually have was the major problem, had a 33% chance to guess right. Since my bios lets me change the lp port address I could pull a 'don't raise the bridge lower the river' approach to fix this. Otherwise just run the config program again, or edit printcap. Almost all the HP inkjet printers will work work with the basic '500' series drivers. I have one of these also (dj560) but it mostly lives on my windows machine. The windows machine can print on the laser jet via the lan (and Samba). My biggest problems with debian occur where my slackware oriented doc's (most of the howto's on the net!) disagree with debian. When in doubt look for a README.Debian for the problem package in /usr/doc/..package..! _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
installing onto a LS-120
From: Marc Ahrens [EMAIL PROTECTED] I bought a LS-120 and want to install Linux onto it. It wouldn't let me mount or partition it. Please Help. I really don't want to install Linux onto my hard drive. Thanks for whatever suggestions that you might have. --- On dos or windows your ls120 is drive A: or B: Under linux it's /dev/hdX (where hd is b,c, or d) I installed my ls120 as a slave on the second cable, so it is my /dev/hdd. I have not tried to run fdisk on it so I don't know if it CAN be partitioned but I suspect so. If you do this you will probably ruin the diskette for dos use. I havn't tried putting a linux system on an ls120, but it can't think of a reason why it won't work. NOTE that the kernel MUST have ide floppy support in it, which the default boot kernel on the install/rescue disk DOES NOT. That's probably your problem. You must make a special boot disk on another machine to be able to install onto an LS120. Can't be a module if you want to BOOT of the ls120. _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: ctx monitors
Date: From: Richard E. Hawkins Esq. I'm thinking of buying a CTX PL9 monitor (19, [EMAIL PROTECTED]), what are people's feelings towards ctx or this monitor in paticular? I'm a student on a budget and this will be my monitor for the next 4/5 years so I just wanted to make sure I was making a good decision before I bought one. In a word: don't. The downstairs lab here used to have 48 apex machines with ctx monitors. Gues which component failed on half of them within the first year or two :) Also, don't buy a monitor you haven't seen unless it's labeled sony or apple. Oh, and see the *exact* model; some manufacturors have two different neearly identical models sith a couple of hundred dollars difference in price. With both on, you can tell them apart at a glance. I'd actually take a smaller monitor with better quality over the larger monitor every time. If you have to buy cheap to get the size you're looking at, I'd go for the next size down rick - response: As with everything else, if you ask for an opinion on a brand of hardware some people will complain how they got burned, and some will rave about how great it is. The last computer I had here at work was a Dell with a CTX 17 monitor. Had it for over two years and the monitor worked fine. It even had better focus than the compaq 17 I'm looking at now (which is a much later model). On the other hand the IS dept reports they returned a lot of monitors. So I must have gotten a good one. At home I now have a Digital Research 19 monitor that was bought when computer city went out of business. There was also a $100 rebate on the monitor. The store sample looked good (they had all the monitors hooked up to a dvd movie) but it turned out to be an older version of the same model (I got the newer version. Difference was in the use of push button controls instead of a rotor knob to select functions.) I've had the monitor for a few months now and would recommend it. It's supposed to go upto 1600x1200, but I am running it at 1200x1024. I would have used the 1x8?? setting, but my video card only gives 256 colors there. The monitor knows all the standard settings and can setup 10 user defined settings. Syncs from 50hz-160hz vert, and 30khz-86khz hor. I've seen better monitors, but not at the price ($386 after rebate and discount). My next monitor will be a 17 LCD when the price drops to around $500 (Yes it WILL!) _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Dual Booting w/Lilo ?
From: AJ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, im a sort of *new* debian user (used it like 3 years on shells.. installed it like 3 weeks ago). anyway heres my question: Right now im booting from a linux bootdisk which a) takes a few minutes and b) is a pain in th ass... Now i know if i use lilo linux will boot only but i also have a windows95 partition that i need to use for some stuff like games and junk that i cant do in linux. Is it possible that when i turn on my computer i get a 'BOOT:' prompt and i can type either: 'win' for windows or 'linux' for linux using Lilo? if i can.. can someone give me an example of there lilo.conf file thanx (sorry if this sounds confusing i didnt know how to write it any other way), AJ - Sure...just ad the following two lines to your /etc/lilo.conf: other = /dev/hda1 label = windows then run /sbin/lilo to write to disk. This assumes that your windows partition is the first on your hard disk, with linux being the second and third (for swap and os) Now at the boot prompt (or at the lilo prompt hit left space to get the boot prompt) type linux or windows. If you forget what labels you have, then hit tab at the boot prompt. Do nothing (if lilo is configured not to prompt, with a timeout) and you get linux by default. You can of course make windows the default if you want by specifing windows as the first thing lilo tries to boot. See man pages for lilo.conf and lilo. _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: Understanding /root Re: My solution
to add to the mess: I have three smaller disks, a 320mb, and two 500mb's, one of which is scsi. The 320mb is /dev/hda and is partitioned as 32mb swap, rest is /. The 500mb scsi is mounted as /usr, and the 500mb /dev/hdb is mounted as /usr/local. Weird maybe, but I had some special needs. df shows / at 9%, /usr at 52%, /usr/local at 24%. System is being used as a development / server. _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: Kernel compile problem
On Sun, Nov 29, 1998 at 07:06:29PM +, Roger Franz wrote: gcc: Internal compiler error: Program cc1 got fatal signal 11. Ohh, nasty. AFAIR this means you have some bad mem or cpu (more likely memory). I could be wrong. --- I once got some messages like the above. I re-loaded the kernel sources, re-configured and tried again -- and the problem went away. Maybe a 'make clean' would have helped, then again maybe my kernel sources really did get corrupted somehow. I think this did happen the first time I tried to compile sound. I did happen on after the 3rd or 4th compile of the kernel however. This was under debian 1.3.1 and I seem to remember that the sound configuration option was sortof broken under 1.3.1 (not all of the options could be selected. did not have the problem under slackware, or debian 2.0). _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
About cdrom
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Is debian supposed to have a /dev/cdrom Because when I install debian I do mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /cdrom and I get /dev/cdrom file or Dir not found I thought you can only mount a cdrom drive with /dev/cdrom -- /dev/cdrom is a possible sudoname for your cdrom. Unless you have a simlink between the real device and /dev/cdrom it won't work. For example, if your cdrom is on /dev/hdc (master on IDE cable #2) then make the link: ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom. Or just mount it as mount /dev/hdc -t iso9660 /cdrom. All dev 'short cuts' must be set up by the user. (such as /dev/mouse, /dev/modem, etc) _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Sony CDU33A
// from :Anders a.k.a Caine I just installed Debian on an old 486, which has a old sony cdu33a cdrom connected to a soundblaster 16. The problem is that the soundcard only has jumper settings for the cdroms irq, not for the base adress, and stupid as I am, I didn't have those written down somewhere since I haven't used this comp for some 2-3 years. After having tried all possible irq and base adresses combination with the sony cdu31a module (which I have a vauge memory of working when I first installed linux on this computer), I was wondering if there is any nice way to determine irq base adress and therefore being able to use it. Or if there is any other nice method to get it to work I don't know of ;) --- go to the soundblaster (creative labs) web site and you will find the jumper settings for your soundblaster 16 card. I got a similar card (without cd interface) from a used computer store with no documentation and was able to find what I needed from their web site. _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
An alternative to glint (reading rpm's)
I made an interesting purchase just recently of Red Hat 5.1, thinking I would try it out and see if it was any better. It had some advantages and disadvantages, but in the end I decided to come back to debian. The situation I am in now however, is that I have an applications CD (the third Cd in the set) from redhat 5.1, but I have no idea what these applications are. I would like to try these out but want to know what is what. Is there a way to see what these applications are, without re-installing redhat??? I believe that redhat uses a program called glide to read this application CD, is there an equivalent for debian ?? or should I try installing glide (which I doubt would work as I would need to include other parts of redhat) ?? Install the alien package which includes RPM. You can now use the query command of rpm to get the descriptions of the packages on that redhat cd. You could also convert all the packages to .deb's and put them in their own directory on your hd, and then examine them with deselect. Any one have comments on this... Thanks _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: upsd
---Mitch Blevins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kenneth Scharf wrote: [snipped long and interesting tale of ups woes..] Have you tried redirecting the output of shutdown or backgrounding it? Do something like shutdown -c /dev/null 21 or shutdown -h +2 message The second idea works. Now All I need to do is to get upsd to also kill the power just before the 'system halted' messge gets printed. _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: upsd
---Mitch Blevins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kenneth Scharf wrote: [snipped long and interesting tale of ups woes..] Have you tried redirecting the output of shutdown or backgrounding it? Do something like shutdown -c /dev/null 21 or shutdown -h +2 message The second idea works. Now All I need to do is to get upsd to also kill the power just before the 'system halted' messge gets printed. _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
upsd
I installed upsd and made up a cable as per the README.gz file. (I have an APC Back-UPS 400VA). I commented out the required line in /etc/init.d/ups and added the line '/dev/ttyS1' where my ups is plugged in. After rebooting the computer I decided to test it. (Only had the monitor plugged into the ups at this point). So I yanked the plug. In about 30 seconds got the messaged INIT: cannot execute init.d/powerfail. Sure enough inittab contained three lines calling a non-existant powerfail script. This was not mentioned in the documentation. Guess it's a bug against upsd. Anyway I created a powerfail script somthing like this: case $1 in start) echo self destruct ordered by Captain Kirk ;; stop) echo self destruct cancelled by Mr. Spock ;; *) ;; esac Now when I yank the plug I get the first message. When I replace the plug I get the second message. I can repeat this an always get the same results. God! Now add the line shutdown -h +2 to the start case and the line shutdown -c to the stop case. I try it again. This time when I yank the plug I get the first message, and a message from shutdown. I then replace the plug and wait. I never got the second message and the system halts. H it seems that executing the shutdown command stopped the upsd dameon from detecting that power came back. So I try it again but I type the command shutdown -c myself before the system does halt. I get the second message from the powerfail script and the shutdown -c command is executed by the script! My shutdown -c command errors out because there is no shutdown command running to cancel at this point! Any ideas what is going on here? PS. Running debian 2.0 on a Gateway 486-66 if this matters. Thanks in advance! PPS. Tried issuing the upsd -k command with the ups plug yanked. In about 30 seconds the monitor died from lack of juice and the ups was yailling. Well the kill power bit worked. But this command was NEVER issued when the system went down after yanking the plug. _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
partition table on dos zip disks
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 15:57:44 -0600 From: Richard E. Hawkins Esq. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: partition table on dos zip disks this may seem like an odd question, but could someone send me the partition table for a dos zip, as shipped by iomega? my backup of windows dos for my laptop was on one when my zip drive died, killing the partition table. Now it seems that the ibm audio stuff doesn't like drdos, so i need to restore msdos (ugh) to the disk . . . rick - Try to re-partition that zip disk again, but ONLY make a partition number 4. All zip disks are partitioned with one partition 4 and no partitions numbered 3,2, or 1. Why? This is a Mac thing. (Same for Bernoulli's too BTW). _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: Stable GUI Web Browser
** Reply to message from Martin Bialasinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 17 Nov 1998 23:57:15 +0100 Let's not talk about the food :-) I quite agree, we have far too many Macdonalds and Burger King. -- There was this scene in the movie 'time after time' where the H G Wells character in the 20th century said he had eaten at a Scottish resturant (he was refering to McDonalds). BTW we used to have some Arthur Treacher's fish and chips places here, but I couldn't figure out if they were 'real' or an American knock off of the real thing. Closest thing to 'real' British food that I think I ever tried was at Walt Disney World's Epcot. (I still want to visit London some day, if for no other reason than to walk down Baker St.) _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: Stable GUI Web Browser
Maybe you should call Microsoft and see if they're porting InternetExplorer to Linux anytime soon! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA Gee thanks. Dave PS I am British and I am always sarcastic, I have been warned that US citizens are unable to recognise sarcasm - I guess thats why so many Americans use M$ software. After watching Monty Python's Flying Circus and Benny Hill thoughout my college years, I have gotten used to British humor, it even makes sense now. _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
AMD K6-2 kernel compile ?
Hi group readers, I was wondering what CPU I should select for compiling the kernel. I have a AMD K6-2 300MHz. Should I compile for a regular pentium, or do the newer kernels have K6 as a selectable CPU ? The K6 should work fine on a kernel compiled as pentium Pro. This implies the level of pipelining for instruction ordering. Wowie, just a bit of time and my PC won't have any Intel, nor Microshit on it. ;-))) I don't think we should consider Intel as being a 'Bad-Guy'. Intel is now supporting Linux, they want their cpu's to run other OS's besides those from MS. Some time ago it appears that MS was blackmailing Intel not to support other software or they would shift to Motorola (or something). Now Intel is telling MS where to go. I personally think that MS OS has it's place. For many ap's MS is the right choice. BUT WE MUST HAVE THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE! (My computer is dual boot to run those apps that currently only run under Dos or Windows. And the list of such apps is getting smaller) My computer runs a K6-233. Because it cost less than an equal with an Intel cpu. But if the price were right, I'd go with the P2. (Actually I'd like to find an Alpha cheap so I can move to 64 bits.) _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Moving Files from Windows
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just installed LINUX on another machine in my office. The powers that be are reluctant at this moment to let me put in on the network. I have loaded some items down to my NT machine and now need to ship them to my LINUX box. However they are too big to fit on a floppy. Anyone got any ideas of a utility I can use to compress on NT and uncompress on LINUX? --- Pc magazine has a utility called 'slice' which will split a file between multiple floppies. It creates a utility on the first diskette of the set called 'splice' which re-creates the file. You can use the tail command, along with the '' operator to concatinate the pieces together into one file. The trick is that the first 16 bytes of the file are used to keep track of putting the diskettes back together into one file, the rest of the file is the data. Both the source and binary are available from pcmagazine's web site and, I think, the license on this may be 'free' enough to port and package this program for debian. _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
dpkg-multicd
I installed the dpkg-multicd package, but I don't see how to use it to install from multiple cd's. I have the cheap bytes cd set with main, contrib, and non-free on separate disks. Is dpkg-multicd supposed to let me flip disks as required, or does it assume that I have 3 cdrom drives? In the access section of dselect I can't specify the same drive three times with different paths so this won't solve the problem. In fact the operation seems the same as the cd access method. Please explain. Thanks. _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Mounting problem on cdrom
Wes Jennings wrote: Hope someone can determine what this problem is. Outlined below is information about my system, observations and error messages. 1. I have had a Slackware Linux system, kernel 2.0.27, running for about 1 year. All my hardware functions fine. I decided to upgrade my system and wanted to try the Debian 2.0 release, kernel 2.0.34. Instead of upgrading my Slackware system, disk partition sdb1, I decided to split my dos disk in half and use sda1 for dos and sda2 for a Debian partition. I want to play around with a KISS Linux setup (non-windows) for command line applications and emergency use. I figured I could learn the Debian install routine on this new partition before tackling the conversion of my main Linux partition from Slackware to Debian. Here is some additional info that may be needed. Amd 5x86, 133 processor AMIBIOS, release 5/16/1996 Adaptec 1520 SCSI card Hitachi CDR-1750S external SCSI cdrom 2. After backup my existing partitions and reading the install documentation I started the Debian install using the floppy disks for boot/rescue, drivers, and the basic disk sets base144-1 thru 5. The install seemed to go alright. I was able to setup LILO to boot from the hard drive. I also setup a boot floppy. The system boots properly from both the hard drive and boot floppy. 3. I did some more reading about dselect to be able to install more of the Debian system. I then fired up dselect. Here, however, I run into a serious problem getting dselect to mount my SCSI cdrom. From dselect I choose Access, cdrom source, and then filled out the device as /dev/scd0. The result was an endless series of lines with the following message. Aiee scheduling in interrupt 001260b1 I could not find a way to escape out of this endless message. 4. I next hit the reset button, Ctrl-Alt-Del did nothing, and got the system back up. I next tried to manually mount the SCSI cdrom in the Debian partition with the following command. mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /mnt The result was the same as in 3. 5. I then used a Slackware floppy to boot up the Slackware partition. I tried to mount the cdrom with the exact same command as in 4. and the cdrom mounted properly. 6. Next I wondered if the Debian distribution was using some other system to refer to cdrom drives: like using /dev/scd1 instead of /dev/scd0. I tried all 7 files /dev/scd1-7 with the manual mount command. None mounted, but there was no endless messages as when I tried to manually mount /dev/scd0. So I conclude that /dev/scd0 is the proper device file. Now I'm getting desperate, and I tried some wild stuff to see if I could shed some light on my problem and find a way to fix things. 7. Next I copied a Slackware kernel image that I knew would mount the cdrom drive over to the Debian partition and made a changed in a symbolic link as follows. /vmlinuz /boot/vmlinuz-slackware I then booted the Debian partition, and things went along just fine. Well until I tried to manually mount the cdrom. The result was exactly the same as point 3. Oh well, I now know, from experience, we can mix and match kernels if need be. 8. Please don't ask why, but I next tried to see if I could copy device files. Could I possible copy the /dev/scd0 from Slackware to my Debian partition? Well, I learned some crazy stuff can happen. The following command cp /dev/sda1 /dev/sda1.0 copied the contents of my dos partition to file /dev/sda1.0. And this command cp /dev/scd1 /dev/scd1.0 returned the message cp: scd1: Device not configured. But, cp /dev/scd0 dev/scd0.0 did the unexpected. It sent the system into the same endless loop of lines and message as when I attempted to mount the cdrom drive! CONCLUSION - Well, my conclusion from all this, is something must be wrong with file /dev/scd0. Well, it seems that this is the case to this novice-intermediate Linux user. QUESTION: If I have identified the problem correctly, what should I do to get a good copy of the /dev/scd0 file onto my Debian partition? And if I have mis-identified the problem, or need to do some further testing (hacking?), please advise what else I should do or consider. A bit discouraged, but learning from this experience, --- I too have had problems installing debian on a system with scsi. My computer has an adaptec 2840 scsi controller. But I could not even boot the kernel without disabling the scsi controller. Problem is that the stock kernel has EVERY scsi controller known built in. And the adaptec doesn't like it. So I had to install a base system, rebuild the kernel for ONLY the 2840, then configure in the scsi devices. I have a SCSI CD rom in this computer, and one at home (using a 2920 controller) and both work fine, with custom kernels. I had to install onto an ide disk from an ide cd. Hmm got a thought, can you install slackware then install debian on TOP of that using dselect?
Re: SCSI problem, can't instal Debian
On Sat, 31 Oct 1998, Reagan Doose wrote: I am trying to install Debian 2.0 from a Bootable, SCSI CD. I have a Dell Dimension XPS H266 computer with an Adaptec 2940UW SCSI adapter and a 2GB UW hard drive. All starts off well, I get the boot prompt, and the system looks like it is coming up, then I get this: (scsi0:-1:-1:-1) Bad scbptr 16 during SELTO. (scsi0:-1:-1:-1) Referenced SCB 225 not valid during SELTO. SCSISEQ = 0x5a SEQADDR = 0xh SSTATO = 0x15 SSTAT1 = 0x8a This is repeated forever. This problem did not occur two days ago when I installed RedHat 4.2, so I don't think it is a hardware problem. I have a computer with an adaptec 2840 controler, and had the same problems. The only way I was able to get the SCSI on line was to install a custom kernel with support for ONLY the adaptec controller built in. Trouble is that the stock kernel supports MANY different kinds of scsi controllers and probes for the one you have. This probing screws up some adaptec models into FUBAR. Also you MUST enable the bios on the scsi card or linux won't be able to use it. I ended up puting an IDE cd rom in the computer to load a base system, then re-built the kernel. Now I can use the scsi cd. If you have a second computer, or have access to another debian system you can replace the stock kernel on the boot floppy with one having only the adaptec (or what ever) driver. In my case adding lilo parameters did not help. _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
RE: Any help on X86Config file
I need a sample X86Config file for my system any one can mail theirs ? I can edit it for my purpose. I could not locate it on XFree86.org site. thanks --- Here is mine. There are two easy ways to configure X. 1: use XF86Select 2: use XF86config The first is a graphical program that runs under X. It uses a canned config under the VGA16 server, which ANY monitor/card combo will accept. (Like how windows comes up in 640x480 mode). The only tricky part here is configuring your mouse. How can you click on the boxes if the mouse is not configured yet? Use the TAB key to go from box to box untill you get to the one you want. When the program starts just hit CR twice to get to the mouse menu. Then tab until you get to select where your mouse is (ie: /dev/ttySx for serial mice, /dev/psaux for ps2 mice, or busmouse or whatever. Tab over to the accept box (is that what it's called? in the lower right corner) and BANG! your mouse should come alive! It's all downhill from there. You need to know what make/model video card you have (or what chipset it has, usually the part number is stamped right on 'em). Also your monitor's hor/vert freq range (you read the manual right?). The second program is an interactive text mode job. Not as friendly to use as XF86Setup, but sometimes it will produce a working config, where the 'Setup failed. I've had this happen to me on other computers and got X working using XF86config. BTW my Config file was produced by the 'Setup program. _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com XF86Config Description: XF86Config
Re: Catch-22 - Help!
You can always (under win95) go to the debian ftp site and download any .deb package, then boot linux and mount the windows partition. Then cd to the directory with the .deb and do a dpkg -i filename.deb. My system has a windows partition, and I have that listed in my /etc/fstab so it is mounted at bootup (I called that directory mount point /C:). If I do a full backup under linux, I also back up windows! = Oh. I had assumed that it had to be installed via the package route. Silly me. _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Modem connection speed
Windows is doing something extra with modems. I upgraded from a motorola 28.8 to a hayes 56k v.90 (externals). Now I would expect that any two external modems would look about the same to the computer. Infact I had to do NOTHING to get linux to dial out and connect to my ISP with the new modem. But my windows machine (two computers sharing a modem with a switch box. But when linux uses the modem, the windows machine has access via the lan) detected that there was a new modem attached (had the modem powered up before the computer), and asked to install the new drivers. Then when I tried to dial out to my ISP it gave the error message (can't find the modem). H, I found the dialup network properties for my ISP connection and changed the setting from motorola modemsurfer to hayes and then it worked. So windows must query the modem first to find out what it is, and then do some special stuff. Maybe I should borrow a line montitor from work and see what the two of them are talking about! == Just recently there was a posting here that said they got better connection speed in Win95 than in Linux. A couple of days ago I heard another Linux say the same thing. And so far, on a hamm box, I can only get 19200 out of my 28800 pc card modem. Is this typical of Linux, or is it just an improper init string or etc? Th _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: conflicts in Debian Distributions
Hello, Antti-Juhani wrote on debian-user: On Mon, Oct 26, 1998 at 11:05:42AM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote: ... I would agree however, that a good description of each package would help you decide what to install. Please tell me, what you would consider a good description! Feel free to pick some packages and rewrite their descriptions; you can post the results here (or to debian-devel, if you prefer) for public scrutiny. I can't speak for Kenneth, but one thing I find is that there are very little comparative descriptions (or else I haven't found them). This makes it a bit hard to decide, say, which news transport I want. Each of them says basically this is a better news transport program, replaces c-news. But which one should I get for my system? (Home computer, regularly dials into two ISPs, doesn't feed anyone.) Is that roughly what you were complaining about? === Exactly. The descriptions are not really that bad, but not good enough for a new user to pick what he needs. I thought that the debian website had a better package list with a searchable database, which is the tool that the new user could really use. Also when I try to install some package obtained by ftp (using dpkg -i) and it complains of a missing lib or other file I need to know what package provides the missing file(s). _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: how do I extract a 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz file ?
Perhaps it's still ON the fat32 file system. Mind you, it's a bit of a worry we are being outdone by Windows. A 2Gb limit is almost unreasonable these days; I have some 400-500Mb MPEG video files here, so a 2Gb one isn't out of the question, especially with DVD. - Pehaps it's time for the ex3fs? Hmmm, might look at the source for ex2fs (and all utilities) for file pointers and change the type to long int (64 bit int anyway). Probably not as simple as that, but it sure needs to be done. I wonder what happens now if I try to create a tar image over 2gb (on my tape drive, that is). Probably will work since the image is never really a file as long as it stays on the tape. _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
dselect Woes
Dselect is indeed not a begineer's best friend. (Been there, done that!) There are several ways to tackle using it (or not) in installing debian. What worked for me was to enter allow the install script to drop me into dselect after the reboot and let it install the basic packages. The first phase is the access method. Just say CD, give the access path to your cdrom (/dev/hdc if you cd rom is the master on the second ide interface), take the default directory for main, and say 'none' for each of the other sections. Then hit CR for the 'Update' phase, CR again to enter the 'Select' phase. space bar to exit the help screen, and CR to accept the default packages. Now just hit CR for the 'configure', 'remove' and 'exit' phases. Deselect has just installed the usual bunch of packages. To add packages, re-run deselect as before but DON'T hit cr on the 'update' phase. Arrow down to the 'select' phase because you have already done the update before. Arrow down to look at each package. The descriptions are on the bottom of the screen. Use the '+' key (on your keypad) to select a package to install. If the package depends on others a second screen pops up with the selections that you need. Recommended or suggested packages are also shown but selection is not forced. Use the '+' key to accept them if you want. Then hit cr to get back to the main screen to select more packages. Hit cr in the main screen to start installing. Proceed as in the first case. Oh yeahRTFM!! Don't try to install X until the usual packages are installed first. Trying to get the whole system installed and configured in one sitting is too much for the beginner. One thing at a time. In fact, don't even try getting X up until you have your PPP connection, printer, networking, user accounts etc up. (Save the hard part for last!) Good luck and have fun! - Hello, I am trying to install the Debian Release 2.0 (CheapBytes) and am having trouble with the dselect utility. If I am reading the help file correctly one can highlight all packages, press return, and then proceed to installation. When I do that there are an enormous number of packages that are not installed. (I would think all packages would mean exactly that but it apparently does not.) I have also tried selecting the packages of interest only to result in an installation that ls X* would show X86Config under /etc but ls -l would not. More could also not find the X86Config file. Rather than puzzle out why this was happening on a new install I am simply reinstalling the entire system. Comments or suggestions for dealing with dselect? _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
tar and the braindead man
Close, but no cigar. syntax is: tar -cvf /dev/tapedevice /usr/thedirectory. To make a full backup I did: tar -cvf /dev/st0 / --exclude /dev --exclude /proc (my tape drive is a scsi rdat on /dev/st0) This command backed up everything, except the dev and proc directories. (I had some BAD things happen trying to access the devices as files, and you don't need to backup the /proc directory as it does NOT exist on the disk.) Don't leave your cd rom mounted for this or it will get backed up also, why waste 650MB of tape for something that can't be trashed?! - Greetings, Got what I thought was a simple problem. I have a 2GB DAT tape drive, a directory that I want to backup to that tape drive. Seems simple enough, but I can't seem to get it to work. I thought the command was: tar -cvf thetarfile.tar /usr/thedirectory But it isn't working. Now I have created a tar file on the hard drive, and thought it would be just as easy to move the file to tape, but I can't figure that out either. Tried mounting the tape drive and the machine mocks me openly. Any and all help would be apprciated! _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: tar and the braindead man
---Anthony Landreneau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok Kenneth, I must be missing something here, other than my mind of course. This is the requirment: I have a tape with a tar file on it, lets call it thefile.tar . I need to make two copies of that file, back on two other tapes. So I will have three tapes with three identical copies of this tar file. I got thefile.tar off of the original tape using tar -xv ./thefile.tar -C /usr/thedirectorystore Ok your tape has a tar image on it. NOT a file. Tar files are a collection of files (sortof like a .zip file is, only not compressed). A tar file is an arcive. Now streaming tapes don't have file systems on them (ususally). So when you use tar to archive a collection of files (say the contents of a given directory) you can create a tar image IN A FILE on your disk, or you can write the image to the tape. Now when you want to extract the image from the tape (thereby re-creating the directory on the disk) the command is tar -xvf /dev/st0 which will extract the directory and all files to the disk. You must give an arguement to tell tar where on the disk to place the files. It can place them at the original locations (which you don't want), into the current directory, or a specific directory. I don't have the tar manual in front of me so I can't help here. The tar file is now on the hard drive. Now I want to put it back onto tape, gee, simple minded me thought tar -cv ./thefile.tar -C /usr/thedirectorystore Once you have extracted the directory back to the disk, to write it out to a new tape just tar -cvf /dev/st0 /the_extracted_directory The -xf option specifies the SOURCE for extraction the -cf option specifies the DESTINATION for creation. Note that if you really had a tar file on your disk, then to extract the directory (into the current directory where the .tar file is) the command is tar -xvf tarfile.tar which assumes that the current directory has a file named tarfile.tar and the extracted directory structure will be created in the current directory. and bingo, but that doesn't seems to be happening. Any ideas on how I can complete this task? Thanks again, Anthony Close, but no cigar. syntax is: tar -cvf /dev/tapedevice /usr/thedirectory. To make a full backup I did: tar -cvf /dev/st0 / --exclude /dev --exclude /proc (my tape drive is a scsi rdat on /dev/st0) This command backed up everything, except the dev and proc directories. (I had some BAD things happen trying to access the devices as files, and you don't need to backup the /proc directory as it does NOT exist on the disk.) Don't leave your cd rom mounted for this or it will get backed up also, why waste 650MB of tape for something that can't be trashed?! - Greetings, Got what I thought was a simple problem. I have a 2GB DAT tape drive, a directory that I want to backup to that tape drive. Seems simple enough, but I can't seem to get it to work. I thought the command was: tar -cvf thetarfile.tar /usr/thedirectory But it isn't working. Now I have created a tar file on the hard drive, and thought it would be just as easy to move the file to tape, but I can't figure that out either. Tried mounting the tape drive and the machine mocks me openly. Any and all help would be apprciated! _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
conflicts in Debian Distributions
Simple answer... You CANNOT install everything on the CD. But this is not a bug. Debian provides you with at least two ways (maybe more) of doing everything. Many of these packages cannot co-exist. You can't have two (or more) mail clients installed at the same time, kaos would result! But debain provides several of them so you can pick the one that suits your needs best. There are at least half a dozen window managers in X for example, you can only use one. Here though all may be copied to the disk, but only one may be 'installed'. There is a difference between being copied to disk, and installed to run. I would agree however, that a good description of each package would help you decide what to install. --- I just would like to know if Debian 2.0 has conflicting software in it like Debian 1.3.1 . Background: Debian 1.3.1 would not let you install all the software in the release. Installing all the software in the release saves a lot of time, and hard drive space is cheeper than time. I have used Debian 1.3.1 in the past but I think that having packages that confict is a bad thing. I think that making all the packages in Debian compatable would be a big plus. In Debian 1.3.1 this is not the cast. For example you cannot install emacs and xemacs in Debian 1.3.1 . I'm guessing some of the filenames in these two packages are the same. To get rid of this confict you can just install them in different directories or something like that. It's a pain to have to pick through 1000 + packages to install. I prefer to just install all of them without picking through them. Hard disk space is now cheep, and _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: staroffice .. libXpm.so.4 missing
I was told that the correct lib could be found in the xpm4.7 package under oldlibs. I installed this and it worked! ---Kirston Akos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! Please check the /usr/X11R6/lib directory. May be the version number is diferent. I have the same problem in spite of that I have these libs (only different version number) in the directory above. So when I make sym. links with the correct name the netscape and lot of program exit with segmentation fault. What do I make wrong? By krisah On Sat, 24 Oct 1998, Kenneth Scharf wrote: I downloaded staroffice from their ftp site. I tried to install it (put the files into /usr/local/staroffice and got the message 'can't load library libXpm.so.4' I looked in the oldlibs section of the cd but there is no such package. What package provides libXpm.so.4 or where can I find it? Has anyone installed staroffice, and if so how did you do it? _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
staroffice .. libXpm.so.4 missing
I downloaded staroffice from their ftp site. I tried to install it (put the files into /usr/local/staroffice and got the message 'can't load library libXpm.so.4' I looked in the oldlibs section of the cd but there is no such package. What package provides libXpm.so.4 or where can I find it? Has anyone installed staroffice, and if so how did you do it? _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: aha2840 aiee shuting down interrupts
I thought that might be the answer. If I build a custom kernel (no modules, everthing built in) for the gateway machine on another computer how can I replace the kernel on the boot/rescue disk that I tried to use? Will the install then procede as normal, or is there anything else that I need to do (If the install tries to use the kernel from the CD to install as the boot kernel on the HD, then it won't boot but will panic as before, so the kernel that I build and place on the boot/rescue floppy MUST be installed on the HD as the boot kernel.) ---Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Kenneth Scharf wrote: : I tried to install debian on a computer with an adaptec 2840 scsi : controller. (gateway 2000 486dx2-66, 16m dram) At first I had the 2840 : bios disabled and the controller with 3 drives attached was not : detected. Then I enabled the bios on the 2840 and the controller was : detected. A message 'resetting channel' appeared, then a pause, then : a screen dump 'oops . : ending with . aiee shuting down interrupts' : : What parameters do I need to add at the boot prompt? : I tried boot: aic7xxx=no_reset and got : 'no image aic7xxx=no_reset'. So i tried : 'linux aic7xxx=no_reset' and 'linux aic7xxx=1' and got the same screen : dump. What gives, I thought this controller was supported. This : computer's cd rom is scsi so I need the controller to install. (it's : set at irq 15 instead of the default value of 11). Can anyone help : here? It's supported fine. However, the other SCSI drivers in the default kernel send the 2840 over the edge. Compile a kernel with ONLY the device support you need, being particularly careful about SCSI drivers you choose. Unless you have more than one SCSI adaptor you should only choose AIC_7XXX support. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9) _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: apt-get still won't work with local cdrom
Actually I was able to figure out enough of deselect to be able to install debian 1.3.1 (after two attempts). To be fair, my first attempt at using deselect was on a low memory (8mb) slow (386) machine with a monochrome monitor (vga). When I tried using apt under dselect for 2.0 I couldn't get the paths right either (using the cheap bytes cd). I think by using simlinks I could fool apt into beliving the path is correct but havn't tried it yet. I have NOT tired to use deselect to install packages from contrib or non-free since I am afread that by saying 'NONE' to the base path (which I have to if I use the cd) and update the available packages for contrib or nonfree it will 86 the database for base Anyway after trying to install redhat at work and ending up with a non-working ftp server, I am tring debian here. It's the best linux distribution IMHO. ---Pann McCuaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 22, 1998 at 12:32:03PM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: Pann McCuiag has a debian web page (i don't have the url in front of see the sig below me, but search for Our Man Pann. He shows the /etc/apt/sources.list file as deb file:/cdrom/debian stable main But I don't think he was using the cheap bytes cd. His page WAS for hamm (2.0). No, but I was using a CD from Johnie Ingram ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) that I'm sure was burned from the official CD image. He was NOT using apt under dselect. He was using apt-get install packagenames to install individual packages. I haven't tried this myself (yet). Oh yeah you have to mount the cdrom first, besure to set the user flag in /etc/fstab. Once apt is installed you can use the apt method in dselect, but I recommend newbies avoid dselect like the plague. YMMV Luck, Pann -- What's All the Buzz About Linux? http://www.rdrop.com/users/pann/ _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
aha2840 aiee shuting down interrupts
I tried to install debian on a computer with an adaptec 2840 scsi controller. (gateway 2000 486dx2-66, 16m dram) At first I had the 2840 bios disabled and the controller with 3 drives attached was not detected. Then I enabled the bios on the 2840 and the controller was detected. A message 'resetting channel' appeared, then a pause, then a screen dump 'oops . ending with . aiee shuting down interrupts' What parameters do I need to add at the boot prompt? I tried boot: aic7xxx=no_reset and got 'no image aic7xxx=no_reset'. So i tried 'linux aic7xxx=no_reset' and 'linux aic7xxx=1' and got the same screen dump. What gives, I thought this controller was supported. This computer's cd rom is scsi so I need the controller to install. (it's set at irq 15 instead of the default value of 11). Can anyone help here? _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: Install question
Hello! Hi :) I have a friend that wants to install in his new 6GB HD Win98, WinNT and Linux. In which order must he do the process? I suppose that Win98 will try to own the whole computer when installing, and I don't know what kind of partitioning is the best. He will use System Commande r to select the OS to boot. Hmm.. no idea about getting W98 and NT to co-exist. I would suggest getting that sorted first, then using fips to shrink the W* partitions to the size you want, then install debian on the remainder. = Install windows 98 first. Use the boot disk and first run ms fdisk to create a win98 partition (less than the whole drive), then run win98 setup. Next install NT. Nt will dual boot with 98 automagicly. Use Nt's fdisk to add a partition for nt. Then install linux. I've heard that lilo can be setup to boot the nt bootloader which will then choose between nt and win98. _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: linux first boot
On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, Paloschi Diego Esteban (ceb1_98) wrote: When I boot my pc with the debian first install I get to the boot: prompt ok. When I press enter, a quick page of info passes by to quick to read and then my pc re-boots itself. There are 4 different boot images on the cheap bytes cd, I think all four are found on the debian ftp site. Try one of the 'slower' boot disk images. _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: need help getting X server running...
What I don't really understand is why XF86Setup was able to function just fine with the S3 setup, but the actual S3 X server package failed... But I'm just trying not to think about it too much. = That's because XF86Setup doesn't use the S3 X server. It uses the VGA16 server. That's why that package depends on XVGA16. _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: floppy0: Unable to allocate DMA memory
Well there is something you can do... 1: 86 your floppy and get an LS120 drive. If your computer has it's IDE interface on the PCI side it will have access to all of memory space. 2: 86 your ISA sound card and buy a PCI sound card. Same story as above. Now we know why intel and ms want isa to die off. ISA is a PITA. Only non bus masters belong on isa. _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: apt-get still won't work with local cdrom
Pann McCuiag has a debian web page (i don't have the url in front of me, but search for Our Man Pann. He shows the /etc/apt/sources.list file as deb file:/cdrom/debian stable main But I don't think he was using the cheap bytes cd. His page WAS for hamm (2.0). He was NOT using apt under dselect. He was using apt-get install packagenames to install individual packages. I haven't tried this myself (yet). Oh yeah you have to mount the cdrom first, besure to set the user flag in /etc/fstab. _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Debian Hamm Installation Questions
The questions: 1. My bios (Award 4.51pg if I'm reading the version info right) supports LBA. The motherboard (Tyan Trinity AT) and hd (Quantum 3.2G) manuals seem to indicate that this will allow the system to access partitions larger than 1024 cylinders at boot time. Does this sound correct? If so, then shouldn't I be able to use a bootable partition of greater than 1024 cyls? Older computers could not boot from partitions that were larger than 1024 cylinders. Atleast the boot loader and software being loaded had to reside within the first 1024 cylinders of a partition. LILO is loaded by the bios and resides in the MBR of the disk, or the boot sector of the bootable partition. Assuming that your linux partition STARTS within the first 1024 cylinders you can make the partition ANY size. Some people will make two partitions (p1 = swap, p2 = linux /), others might make a separate partition for /boot, keeping it small to overcome the 1024 limit. You bios allows LBA so you should have no problems at all with partition size. Make a swap partition as partition #1, size of 16-128MB depending on your ram size (say twice as much swap as ram). Make partition #2 the rest of the disk. This will work without head scratching (My computer has partition #1 for windows 95, #2 for linux swap, #3 for linux /, as I needed dual boot. Install windows first, but only partion the first partition using windows fdisk leaving the lions share of the disk for linux. My 5.4GB drive has a 1g windows partition, 128M swap, and the rest is linux /. YMMV) _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: Debian's recommendation for the size of the swap.
For now I probably don't need that much. But my plans include setting my system up as a server for two windows machines, that should increase the demands on virtual memory. Attached is a free run. (with X, Netscape (reported to need 64M available), xterm fvwm95, xconsole running. ---shaul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If anyone is taking a survery... My machine also has 64M or ram, and I am using 128M of swap space (I figured with a 5.4GB drive I'd max out the swap partition.) I am curious if that size of swap is realy needed: could you email the results of a free command ? Thank you. _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com foofree Description: foofree
ppp vs windows dialup networking
when I connect to my isp in windows I get a dialog box showing the progress of the connection. It finally reports the connection speed that the modem achieved. Is there any way to get this information when connecting via ppp? Also, I have had a problem where the first time I ran pon it would fail to dial out and connect, If I kill the first pppd and then restart pon it always connects on the second try. Now some insight. I bought a new modem and (hayes v.90 to replace my motorola modem surfer 28.8 ... both external) and installed it under windows. Until I changed my dialup network properties to use the new modem it refused to dial out. But both modems were on the same port, and both obey the same hayes AT command set. So what gives? Windows must be first checking that the make and model of modem specified are connected to the port. So windows goes through some pre-dial handshaking with the modem before dialing. Can this be added to ppp (probably sets some S register values and reads them?). BTW on linux all I had to do was just plug in the new modem and it worked. (So who has the REAL plug and play?). _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
netscape
I have read many posts to this list about netscape not working, what version to use, etc. Not knowing any better I loaded the '.rpm' from redhat 5.1 figuring that it was a libc6 version (I converted the rpm to a deb using alien and then just dpkg -i on the deb.) I did not use the debian netscape installer, so I had to edit the fvwm95 'rc file to point the menu to the exact path that netscape got installed into. This seems to work fine, except once in a rare while it complains about ilegal fonts or colors. Once this happens I have to kill netscape and re-start it. Looks like some web sites can cause this. _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Need a HOT system. K7 and Linux?
9) Please don't shoot me, but is anything bigger than a 17 monitor worth it? - Depends on how myopic you are. X seems to eat more resolution than windows. (XMille needs 1024x768 to fit on the screen!!!) I am interested in running cad/eda type stuff so I needed more than 1024x768 (which is about the limit for a 17 unless you have real good eyes and a dot pitch of .24). I just got a 19 monitor (Digital Research Tech.) from a computer city store that was going under. (they were taken over by comp usa). The current street price for this was $499, but it was reduced to $468, and D.R.T. had a $100 mail in rebate. So $368 ain't bad for a 19. BTW this is a .26 dot pitch, looks great in 1280x1024 will do 1600x1200 (but my video card won't---don't push it that far thou it will hurt your eyes!) _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: Debian's recommendation for the size of the swap.
If anyone is taking a survery... My machine also has 64M or ram, and I am using 128M of swap space (I figured with a 5.4GB drive I'd max out the swap partition.) _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: ? WinModem
Look at the modem. If you see a UART, you don't have a winmodem. ie 16550 or 8250 for old equipment. This is not enough. Some Non-Winmodems may have the uart embedded in an ASIC or custom IC. If you can issue the Hayes AT command to the port that the modem is mapped to and get a response (using say miniterm) then it is not a winmodem. _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: FYI: DMA/33 and kernels
just a few ideas. is your hd the slave or master, and if the master is there a slave connected to the same cable? Is the ide interface connected to the ISA or PCI bus? Belive it or not some pci motherboards still have the ide interface connected to the ISA side! (some have only the secondary interface connected to the ISA for use with slower CD rom drives). My pc has the TX chipset and both interfaces are pci. The hd is the only device on interface 1, interface 2 has my CD and LS120 drives. What speed is your cpu? How much cache and dram. I have 64MB dram and 512K cache with a K6-233. I would think that the ide interface has a ready/busy status and the driver would wait for the drive, but maybe the drive is giving an advanced ready signal? ---George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have managed to significantly reduce the error rate by turning OFF everything in the bios settings that might improve the performacne of IDE. This includes read-ahead, multi, IDE-PCI bursting, etc. Then I turned the items back on in hdparms. Now down to a half-dozen errors per day with 2.0.35. I think some things were done after 2.0.32 to improve performance of the IDE but I am going to have to diff the two drivers to make sure. Something DEFINATELY changed between 2.0.32 and 2.0.33+. I suspect that a delay between operations was shortened since most of my errors appear to be that the drive is busy when a command to it is issued meaning either that the ide driver does not wait long enough for a command to complete or that it times out too quickly waiting for a command to complete. Might be time to do some hacking on ide.c On Tue, 13 Oct 1998, Kenneth Scharf wrote: I am using a maxtor udma 5.4GB drive on an intel TX (triton II) mb with a K6-233 cpu. I have run 2.0.33 and now are using 2.0.34 with no problems. Previously used a maxtor 2.0 gb udma drive, again no problems. -- I get the same exact results with my PPro system (Intel 440FX chipset) and Maxtor 7.2GB UDMA drive. This even happens under the developmental kernel 2.1.122 which I use for the better SMP handling. I've asked questions before on newsgroups and such as to what could be causing this behavior, or if anybody else had even seen this kind of behavior, but never got any response. Sean _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com George Bonser The Linux We're never going out of business sale at an FTP site near you! _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: ls-120 drives
It IS possible to format a 1.44m floppy in an LS120. The compaq machine I have at work does this all the time under windows NT. What is needed is a program to do this under linux! ---David B. Teague [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 13 Oct 1998, Kenneth Scharf wrote: On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 05:32 -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: Stuff deleted But dos and windows can low level format 1.44m floppies IN AN LS120. If I could get linux to do that I could 86 my floppy drive an use it's interrupt for something else. Kenneth If you find out how to do format a dos floppy in an LS 120 drives, that would settle my impending purchase on an LS 120 for the new machine in my life. It seems to me that formatting a floppy should be do-able by any drive that can write to the floppy disk. Or does the floppy drive do something that the LS 120 cannot? (and that I don't know about? ;) --David _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
debian network workstation
I have an old 386-25 computer with 8m of memory, a 100mb hd, et4000 based video card with 1m of display memory. The mb has no cache, and only ISA slots. I would like to use this machine as a networked station tied to my k6-233 acting as a server. I have an acton ne2000 clone I can put in the 386. Can I boot linux off the network? Can I put most of the file system on the network (IE the workstation would mount /bin, /usr, /etc from the network and maybe even /host/. What would be then minimun filesystem that would have to be on the local drive? _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: FYI: DMA/33 and kernels
I am using a maxtor udma 5.4GB drive on an intel TX (triton II) mb with a K6-233 cpu. I have run 2.0.33 and now are using 2.0.34 with no problems. Previously used a maxtor 2.0 gb udma drive, again no problems. -- I get the same exact results with my PPro system (Intel 440FX chipset) and Maxtor 7.2GB UDMA drive. This even happens under the developmental kernel 2.1.122 which I use for the better SMP handling. I've asked questions before on newsgroups and such as to what could be causing this behavior, or if anybody else had even seen this kind of behavior, but never got any response. Sean _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: ls-120 drives
On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 05:32 -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: Stuff deleted havn't done so yet). I also have yet to find a way to format floppies on the ls120 under linux (works under windows). I am using the ls120 Umm, wouldn't a simple '/sbin/mkfs.ext2 /dev/hdc' do the trick (works for floppies under /dev/fd0 as I recall)? Or does that just assume it's a 120M disc? Oh, I don't know... - Thats a 'high level' format. LS120 disks come preformatted (low level) and you can't re-lowlevel them because that is done with a laser (they use a laser hole servo). But dos and windows can low level format 1.44m floppies IN AN LS120. If I could get linux to do that I could 86 my floppy drive an use it's interrupt for something else. Note that for floppies, linux has two format operations, on for low level , and one to create the filesystem. On dos or windows the two operations are combined into one step. Cheers Dave _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
CD ROM BURNER
CompUSA has an Acer 2x6 CD-RW drive on sale for $199.99 after mail in rebate. If you buy this drive you can get an Acer 40X cd rom reader for FREE (after mail in rebate). Is there any possibility that this drive (probably ide, model number not given) supported by Linux? _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
***HUGE*** security hole??!! (Re: Lost root passwd)
This is a security hole ONLY if someone has access to the machine itself. I bet many UNIX machines have a similar problem. Thats why I've seen PDP mini computers where the power switch was under lock and key, and the front panel on these machines was also lockable. Most PC's used to have a keyboard lock switch on the box which will render the machine safe from such an attack (but unless the power switch is locked someone could at least bring the thing down!) Don't bother trying to fix this in software, to be secure from such an attack you must secure the HARDWARE! --- On Sat, 10 Oct 1998 10:42:52 +0100, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: On Sat, 10 Oct 1998 00:52:49 -0700 (PDT), George Bonser wrote: [...] ALlow me to translate. Boot the rescue disk as if you are installing, [whole story deleted] Hey guys, why so complicated??? What's wrong with giving LILO a kernel command line of init=/bin/sh? This way you boot straight into sh, and you can then change the root password. This is how I usually do it under Slackware, and even tho Debian uses shadow passwords it should work the same way. Ouch, I tried it, it really works That means on a standard Linux-machine, everybody could just switch off the power, give the LILO-kernel option on reboot and be root??!! Why not simply drop the need of a login password? _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
ls-120 drives
Anyboy had any success installing an ls-120 drive into a debian system? --- YES I have an ls-120. Compile 'ide floppy support' into your kernel. My LS120 is the slave on the second IDE interface, so it is /dev/hdc. I can boot from the LS120 (my bios is new enough) but only using the debian boot/resuce disks. I have not yet got my own kernel onto a floppy and booted it from the ls120 (i have been told to try syslinux, havn't done so yet). I also have yet to find a way to format floppies on the ls120 under linux (works under windows). I am using the ls120 to sneaker net files from work to home. _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
turnkey debian?
I had this idea of basing a turnkey end user system on debian linux. In order to pull this off, a login prompt is NOT WANTED. I want the system to come up running the end application. (some backdoor method of logging in as root would be provided for system maintance). The default application would have limited system access (only what it neeeds). An example: The company I work for makes medical diagnostic equipment (blood cell counters). The user currently interfaces to the system via a computer running a turnkey application (under dos or windows). There is no user login, the machine hits the floor running the user application. (back doors to get to dos prompt with a password). How can debian linux be set up to do something similar? (I wouldn't bet that I would be allowed to suggest linux now for such a system, but maybe in a few years?) _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
meskes@usa.net
I don't know how much you want to spend, so I can't give you an exact idea but... I was just doing some looking for my father who wanted to buy a new computer for about $1500. You can get more computer for less money in this ball park from the K6-2 processors. The K6-2-350 benchmarks about the same as a PII-400, and cost a lot less. BUT the PII will offer a longer upgrade path. For a modest machine the Celeron 333 cpu is a good buy. If you buy a Celeron cpu based computer with a BX chipset motherboard, then you have an upgrade path to the PII-450 cpu (If you have the 100mhz memory installed anyway). Dell offers such a configuration (about $1500 with a 17 monitor). This is what my OM will probably get. This machine comes with windows 98 and microsoft home office software and a winmodem. If you only want to install linux call them and ask for a quote with NO software, and a REAL modem. The Dell dimension 333v (celeron) was rated a best buy by PC magazine. I'm about to buy a new machine and wonder for which hardware to go. It won't be an expensive machine so I consider a cheap 3D AGP graphics card but wonder which one can be used under X. Also what's the better buy for the money, Pentium II or K6 II? Michael P.S.: Please CC me as I'm not subsribed here. _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
cable modem
You have comcast right? I am also on comcast, but they just took over jones intercable and have yet to 'upgrade their system' sometime next year before they will offer us the service. Anyway I looked on the comcast web site and found out some details on the service. There was a line that said something like 'If you already have a network card, you don't need to get one from us' Sounds like, 'It's ok to hook the cable modem into your existing lan'. I think they will be suppling a static ip address, so all you have to do is configure your gateway and ns addresses in routing info. They didn't mention linux but from what I read it sounded very linux friendly. I can't wait till they get here with the service. (Some cable modems are really modified lan cards for which NO linux drivers are available, since comcast uses ANY lan card ie: the modem looks like a hub, linux is in like flint!) -- My local cable company is now offering high-speed cable modem service. The following excerpt is from their web page QA section. I am running Slink with IPV4 (I believe). from Cable web page Can I use any TCP/IP stack with @Home? At this time, @Home supports the following: Windows 95, NT workstations, and MacOS 7.5.3 with open Transport v. 1.1 or greater TCP/IP stacks. from Cable web page Does anyone think I would have an insurmountable problem using this service? Thanks, Russ Russell Cook, Engineering Branch WSR-88D Operational Support Facility (405)366-6520 x4237 [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Graphics card Matrox Productiva AGP
Hi, my new PC has a Matrox Productiva AGP graphics card, and I'm installing Debian on it. There doesn't seem to be a xserver in hamm or slink by now -- or is anybody running X-win on such a beast? I know that SuSe has developped a special server for the Productiva, but how to install this one in a Debian system? - The SuSe server would be compiled against libc5, while debian is libc6 so the SuSe server might not work. You could get the source and rebuild it locally on your system to install it. Just put the resulting binary in the same directory as the debian supplied servers and modify ../X11/Xserver (I think). -- I would even be satisfied with an existing server with fewer capabilities, it's only important that I can work in X-win with Xemacs and some tcl-apps. I've tried with the VGA16-server, but it only showed a black monitor. Any help appreciated, thanks, joachim _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: cable modem
It really depends on what setup they are using for the service. Here in Baltimore, we have the Motorola modems that uses the cable for the back channel, but I have heard that in some markets they are using a version that requires a separate phone line for the back channel. If they have the same setup where you live as I've got here, it should be great. I just plugged the modem into my network hub and bought an extra IP for my wife's system. Steve Rothanburg -- You probably didn't need to buy an extra IP (unless you really wanted another email address). You could have used IP Masquerading to connect the extra computer. _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
scsi emulation
I have a scsi controler card in my computer (adaptec 2920 aka future-data) already compiled into the kernel (module actually). It is connected to my scsi 4mm dat tape drive (works great, but slw tape). Can I enable scsi emulation as well to drive an IDE CD-ROM burner? Or will the REAL scsi driver and the scsi emulation code duke it out leaving fubar behind? _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
LS-120
Are there any utilities for formatting 1.44m floppies in an LS-120 (on /dev/hdd)? Also I have a custom kernel, how can I create a boot diskette which will boot in the LS-120 drive? (my bios WILL boot a floppy in the LS-120 drive, the debian 2.0 boot/rescue disks do work in the LS-120...but how were these images created??) If I can get these two questions answered I can 86 my floppy drive and use it's interrupt for something usefull (like a second network card, or a third serial port) _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
RE: X server problems
I have always been able to get a virtural terminal by typing ctrlaltf1 once the xdm process started. --- Braden N. McDaniel writes: Now when I boot the machine, my monitor goes to sleep as soon as the boot sequence has completed. I *think* this is because I elected to being xdm up at bootup when I initially installed everything, and now that setting is kicking in. I suspect the problem may be that the X server has not yet been properly configured. How can I get to a prompt so I can run xf86config? _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Moniter screen is wavy.
Stupid answer try moving the monitor and see if anything changes. You can get a video cable extension cord if necessary. Try plugging the monitor into a different outlet, could be a power problem (like having the monitor on the same line as a motorized appliance for example). If there is a degauss button on the monitor try that. I doubt you damaged your monitor, it sounds like magnetic field interferance, or powerline crud. My moniter screen has become wavy. When you look at it it seems to move. I have a 21 inch dell moniter and a stb nvidia video card. My moniter used to be fine but I recently moved it and now it is wavy like a day after I moved it. Has perment damage been done? -jeff _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: printer advice
I am using an HP laser jet III that I got from a used computer store for $225. It was a reconditioned unit. Works great with ghostscript and magicfilter. For about $100 more I could have got the IIID version which prints on both sides of the paper (too bad, I wish I got a IIID before the last batch disapeared). The toner for the HP ljII, IID, III, and IIID (same one for all) is cheap ($40 for a repack, $60-80 for a new one) and they last for about 3-4 k pages). These printers run about 8 ppm and are real work horses. - On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Greg Norris wrote: Of course, any suggestions for alternate laser-printers which work well under Linux would also be greatly appreciated. The HP LaserJet 4M+ is a good printer with a lot of features. With magicfilter installed, it works like a charm. It's an older model, but you might be able to find someone who sell them. (Corporate Raider and A Matter of Fax are two companies that sell them; they advertise in _Computer Shopper_. I bought mine as new from Corporate Raider a few years ago for around $600.) _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: chown for the floppy group
You can also add a line to /etc/fstab for /dev/fd0 with options to set to user access without mounting the disk. That way anyone may mount a floppy. - I noticed when I'm logged in as a normal user (not root) I cannot write to the floppy drive. I checked out the permissions, I'm in the floppy group but /floppy belongs to root and is of the group root. While I was root user I tried to chown .floppy /floppy but it says, root is not a member of the group floppy. Which is probably true. :) What about this: # chgrp floppy /floppy _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
fs type iso9660 not supported by kernel
You need to load the isofs module. Add the line 'isofscr' (without ''s) to /etc/modules. Make sure that usr/lib/modules/fs actually has this module file in there! (It should, it comes with the default setup). I installed Debian 2.0 from a bootable cd. Everythinng went fine until I rebooted and began deselect. I received the message fs type iso9660 not supported by kernal. I did not see any option to enable NLS or anything that mention iso9660 file system. What do I need to do. If you can help please give detailed info. _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: Iomega Zip
I certainly wish to use Zip, and eventually Jaz with Linux, and in my extreme desire to completely seperate myself from the Microsoft dictatorship, I also wish to toss the Fat16 format these disks have in favor of the far superior ext2. --- You can (or should be able to) make an ext2 filesystem on a zip or jazz drive using the mkfs command. (I have done this with floppies). Again, this is not low level formating (the sector address marks are not touched). The operation is still a raw write to physical sectors without any fs operations. That's what I mean by a highlevel format. Some hard disks cannot be low level formated (I think the ls120 super disks cannot) because they use laser holes for clock marks. The jazz and zip drives maynot expose this to the interface ie: the drive is not capable of doing a low level format, so you must by pre-formatted media. I was not sure if the low -level format for the zips were different between the pc and mac flavors, I guess only the high level file system stuff is different. _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
