Re: ftp question
On Dec 3, 2004, at 11:34 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How do you transfer an entire directory using ftp? The directory that
I'm
trying to transfer has a lot of subdirectories in it.
If you are just talking about _retrieving_ a directory tree via ftp
I use wget ('man wget'). I don't know what packages drag it in, but
`sudo apt-get install wget` will get you it if you don't already have
it.
Example 1:
wget -r ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/misc/xbm
(Note that -r is short for --recursive.)
This will create:
ftp.perl.org
ftp.perl.org/pub
ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN
ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/misc
ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/misc/xbm
ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/misc/xbm/x.faces.camel.xbm
ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/misc/xbm/x.faces.perl.xbm
(If xbm had any subdirectories, those would also be included).
Example 2:
To avoid creating any directories other than the one you want, you need
to also use the --no-host-directories (-nH) and --cut-dirs (no short
switch):
wget -r -nH --cut-dirs=3 ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/misc/xbm
This command creates:
xbm
xbm/x.faces.camel.xbm
xbm/x.faces.perl.xbm
The --cut-dirs leaves off the specified number of directories, starting
with the topmost directory, so its argument is always dependent on the
number of directories between the one you want and the root directory.
Kevin Murphy
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Re: Linux on a Thinkbad T42
I bought a 1.7GHz IBM T42 (model 2374) at a special deal price with the intent to dual-boot Debian on it. It is a great sweet-spot laptop for me, but I must confess that I have mostly been using it under Windows, partly because I haven't got the display working properly yet under Debian. This is mainly due to my laziness. I installed the 2.6 kernel using the Sarge netinstall CD image, and the install worked well enough (the physical ethernet device was detected and configured properly), but I seem to be stuck using 800x600. I know that it's possible to get the display working properly, as well as other features like wireless and 'suspend', because I've read various accounts on the net. http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/ibm.html However, I suspect it's going to be an, er, emotional experience. It would make things a lot easier if IBM would sponsor some sort of Debian meta-packages for their machines. (I say this quite ignorantly without any real knowledge of what this would entail). -Kevin Murphy On Oct 16, 2004, at 10:21 AM, Jule Slootbeek wrote: Hey all, My trusty iBook's hinge snapped after 3.5 years of trusty service (RIP coltrane) and so now i'm in the market for a new laptop. My brother recently bought an IBM Thinkpad T42 and he is very happe with it (running Windows, and just using it for everyday college student work). The price he got it for is still available through a source, and it's a good deal. Now i was wondering if there were any problems installing debian in the Thinkpads, and if so anybody had a suggestion, or recommendation as to what kind of laptop to purchase. I know there are lots of threads on this subject, but since new models and technologies come out everyday, an update is of order once in a while. -JSS -- Jule Slootbeek [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.thesloot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kmail date
On Saturday 11 September 2004 05:19 pm, Adam Aube wrote: Date of arrival COMPLETELY EMPTY, no date in the field. Under Settings - Configure Kmail - Appearance - Headers tab, is Date Display set to Custom Format? If so, try changing it. I just popped in on this thread, so I may be off-topic here, but it really irritates me that the kmail date column corresponds to the 'Date' header field, and that there is apparently no way to make the Date column be the time of arrival. If there is a way to change this, let me know. Under some conditions, mail can be sent with no Date header, so these messages are out of order (and can't be ordered reasonably). Also, many people, even servers, have their clocks wrong, and this causes additional ordering problems. I'm using kmail 1.6.2 /debian testing. Kevin Murphy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kmail date
On Saturday 11 September 2004 06:57 pm, Wesley J Landaker wrote: I don't know if it was in KMail 1.6.7 or not, but in KMail 1.7 (part of KDE 3.3) you can click the date column a couple times to switch between: Ah, excellent; I'd never noticed. The default should really be an option in Settings, and/or present on the right-click menu for the Date column. Best yet, it could be an entirely different column, and have columns selectable. Ah, well. It doesn't change what it *shows* as the date, but it does sort things differently. Yes, that's kind of silly. Thanks, Kevin Murphy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
debian on IBM T42
I have seen evidence on the web that the IBM T42 notebook has excellent Linux-compatibility, but I was wondering if someone has had experience installing debian testing on this computer. Do the power management features work? Thanks, Kevin Murphy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
freeswan installation errors
On Sarge, I just used 'apt-get install freeswan' (shortly after upgrading all existing packages), and the apt-get is hanging at this step: Unpacking freeswan (from .../freeswan_2.04-11_i386.deb) ... (has been doing nothing for about 30 minutes). Here is the apt-get output. Note the errors in /usr/share/perl5/Debconf modules. Get:1 http://debian.mirror.cygnal.ca testing/main libopenct0 0.5.0-9 [61.1kB] Get:2 http://debian.mirror.cygnal.ca testing/main libpcsclite1 1.2.9-beta6-1 [51.5kB] Get:3 http://debian.mirror.cygnal.ca testing/main libopensc0 0.8.1-7 [218kB] Get:4 http://debian.mirror.cygnal.ca testing/main openssl 0.9.7d-4 [903kB] Get:5 http://debian.mirror.cygnal.ca testing/main gawk 1:3.1.4-1 [993kB] Get:6 http://debian.mirror.cygnal.ca testing/main libatm1 2.4.1-16 [69.0kB] Get:7 http://debian.mirror.cygnal.ca testing/main iproute 20010824-13.1 [523kB] Get:8 http://debian.mirror.cygnal.ca testing/main freeswan 2.04-11 [1736kB] Fetched 4555kB in 30s (150kB/s) Preconfiguring packages ... Use of uninitialized value in join or string at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/Stack.pm line 83. Use of uninitialized value in substitution (s///) at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Format/822.pm line 72. Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Format/822.pm line 73. Selecting previously deselected package libopenct0. (Reading database ... 161718 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking libopenct0 (from .../libopenct0_0.5.0-9_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package libpcsclite1. Unpacking libpcsclite1 (from .../libpcsclite1_1.2.9-beta6-1_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package libopensc0. Unpacking libopensc0 (from .../libopensc0_0.8.1-7_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package openssl. Unpacking openssl (from .../openssl_0.9.7d-4_i386.deb) ... Creating directory /etc/ssl Selecting previously deselected package gawk. Unpacking gawk (from .../gawk_1%3a3.1.4-1_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package libatm1. Unpacking libatm1 (from .../libatm1_2.4.1-16_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package iproute. Unpacking iproute (from .../iproute_20010824-13.1_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package freeswan. Unpacking freeswan (from .../freeswan_2.04-11_i386.deb) ... Does this seem like a reportable problem, and ... remind me the easiest way to do that. Thanks, Kevin Murphy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
freeswan installation errors
On Sarge, I just used 'apt-get install freeswan' (shortly after upgrading all existing packages), and the apt-get is hanging at this step: Unpacking freeswan (from .../freeswan_2.04-11_i386.deb) ... (has been doing nothing for about 30 minutes). Here is the apt-get output. Note the errors in /usr/share/perl5/Debconf modules. Get:1 http://debian.mirror.cygnal.ca testing/main libopenct0 0.5.0-9 [61.1kB] Get:2 http://debian.mirror.cygnal.ca testing/main libpcsclite1 1.2.9-beta6-1 [51.5kB] Get:3 http://debian.mirror.cygnal.ca testing/main libopensc0 0.8.1-7 [218kB] Get:4 http://debian.mirror.cygnal.ca testing/main openssl 0.9.7d-4 [903kB] Get:5 http://debian.mirror.cygnal.ca testing/main gawk 1:3.1.4-1 [993kB] Get:6 http://debian.mirror.cygnal.ca testing/main libatm1 2.4.1-16 [69.0kB] Get:7 http://debian.mirror.cygnal.ca testing/main iproute 20010824-13.1 [523kB] Get:8 http://debian.mirror.cygnal.ca testing/main freeswan 2.04-11 [1736kB] Fetched 4555kB in 30s (150kB/s) Preconfiguring packages ... Use of uninitialized value in join or string at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/Stack.pm line 83. Use of uninitialized value in substitution (s///) at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Format/822.pm line 72. Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Format/822.pm line 73. Selecting previously deselected package libopenct0. (Reading database ... 161718 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking libopenct0 (from .../libopenct0_0.5.0-9_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package libpcsclite1. Unpacking libpcsclite1 (from .../libpcsclite1_1.2.9-beta6-1_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package libopensc0. Unpacking libopensc0 (from .../libopensc0_0.8.1-7_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package openssl. Unpacking openssl (from .../openssl_0.9.7d-4_i386.deb) ... Creating directory /etc/ssl Selecting previously deselected package gawk. Unpacking gawk (from .../gawk_1%3a3.1.4-1_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package libatm1. Unpacking libatm1 (from .../libatm1_2.4.1-16_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package iproute. Unpacking iproute (from .../iproute_20010824-13.1_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package freeswan. Unpacking freeswan (from .../freeswan_2.04-11_i386.deb) ... Does this seem like a reportable problem, and ... remind me the easiest way to do that. Thanks, Kevin Murphy
networking stopped working on sarge
I'm probably missing something obvious here, but my sarge box suddenly became unable to access the internet (and vice versa) the other day. There were two unusal events that day, and unfortunately, many ill-advised experiments in mixing coffee and beer later, I don't remember the order of the events and the onset of my problems ;-) 1)I updated via synaptic-- however, nothing should have been updated, if I understand how synaptic works, because one package failed to install correctly (due to dependency problems introduced by a non-testing package). 2) Also on the same day, power was cut from the box (kicked power cable). The fsck made about a dozen repairs upon startup. Most of the time, I can't ping anything from the box, even by IP address, and I can't ping the box from the outside. When I ping from the box, it says "Destination Host Unreachable". Bizarrely, there was a stretch for a few minutes at one point when networking was working. Anyway, I'm not sure what to look for. Here's what I've done so far: * I checked the cable, and that is OK. As a check, I unplugged a working cable from the back of another computer and plugged it into my sarge box, to no avail. * I rebooted the computer. * I did /sbin/ifconfig -a, which shows the machine's correct IP address under eth0 (I'm typing the following, so excuse any typos): eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr blah inet addr:192.168.0.2 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: blah UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets: 3507 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets: 2789 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:801243 (782 KiB) TX bytes:262918 (256.7 KiB) Interrupt: 11 blah * I did /sbin/route, and it spits out: 192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 00 0 eth0 immediately, but 30 or so seconds later (!?), it spits out: default 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 Is that delay unusual behavior? * I looked at /var/log/syslog, and while I don't understand very much that I see there, the only strange thing (to me) were a few messages about certain UDP packets that appear somewhat sporadically every once in a while, usually in bursts of one message every couple minutes. These message occur even while I can't get anything else to work, btw. * Top shows low CPU usage, 46M memory free. * df -k shows plenty of space. * I updated (via manual download on another machine, copy to CDROM, and dpkg) from kernel-image-2.6.3-1 to kernel-image-2.6.7-1-k, just for the hell of it. * I have an AMD K7 system with a Kingston KNE100TX NIC. I'm using a DLink DI-514 router, and other machines on that router are working fine. Sorry for the long message. What should I do next? Thanks,Kevin Murphy
Re: networking stopped working on sarge
From: Miguel Griffa I'm probably missing something obvious here, but my sarge box suddenly became unable to access the internet (and vice versa) the other day. the same here, make sure you have your net module loaded, then try to configure manyually (ifconfg eth0 10.1.2.2 up ie) that should give you an idea if the conf was messed or something more serious I ifdowned eth0 and then brought it up manually as Miguel suggested (thanks for the reply, M). There was then no route out of the box (as expected, I guess), so I manually added the route with 'sudo /sbin/route add default gw 192.168.0.1'. At this point, things started working again. Yay! The previous behavior, where /sbin/route would only report the default route after a 30-second delay, seems indicative of a problem, since it's not doing that now. I still could use some advice trouble-shooting this, since something in the automatic network setup seems broken. Is there something I should dpkg-reconfigure, or would that not be helpful? After enjoying the internet for a bit, I will reboot the box to see if things are still broken. -Kevin Murphy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Software to create 3D buttons for use on web pages, etc
Joost, Thanks a lot for pointing out that aqua-style button script! I have it working now (luckily for me, I'm using Debian 'testing', unlike Joerg). I don't know the Gimp very well, but this is how I got it to work: 1) In Gimp, select Xtns/Perl/Server 2) Run 'perl aqua.pl' from the command line -Kevin Murphy P.S. Re: your response to Joerg's problem: This maybe against debian philosophy (help me out here list) but why not install Gimp.pm from cpan? It may or may not be that simple. First I tried installing Gimp.pm from CPAN, and it wouldn't install for a trivial reason that I could have fixed, except that I said, Screw it, I'm using Gimp1.2; I'll just install the debian package (gimp1.2-perl). Which I did, and you'd be amazed at the long list of stuff that got installed. I'm not sure if they are all needed or which components (Gimp or Gimp.pm) need them. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Software to create 3D buttons for use on web pages, etc
I'm interested in creating 3D-buttons, ideally with a rounded, ray-traced look. Anybody have any advice? I am hoping that someone has scripted one of the major graphics programs to help automate this process. I.e. it seems that it should not be too difficult to have a front-end script offer relatively simple choices for shape, surface texture, transparency, size, color, font, text, lighting sources and then feed commands to a ray-tracing program. Thanks, Kevin Murphy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
debian on ppc with apple flat screen
Has anyone successfully installed debian testing on something like this: Apple G4 Apple Cinema Display (22 in this case, I think) NVidia GeForce2 In particular, I'm looking for a working XF86Config file. The PPC beta4 net-install nominally worked, once I had used YellowDog Linux to get the partitioning right. Unfortunately, I didn't save the YellowDog X config, since I didn't anticipate these problems. First off, X was broken (startx reported 'no devices found') after the install. I then used dpkg-reconfigure on the xserver package, which didn't work out all that well (the default values for video driver, mouse device, and pci video device numbers were wrong, and I had to figure those out). I now have it producing a messed up display (you know: all fuzzy, looks several times too big, lots of horizontal lines, can vaguely recognize parts of the display). Thanks, Kevin Murphy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BT Voyager 1010 (or Linksys WUSB11)
Has anybody succeeded in getting either of the above devices (apparently they use the same chipset) to work under Debian? I'm going to be trying this out tomorrow (I have a Linksys WUSB11). I _have_ succeeded in compiling the Atmel driver at BerliOS (v 0.11, http://download.berlios.de/at76c503a/at76c503-0.11.tar.gz) for the 2.4.25-1-i386 kernel, but I have not tried it yet. I did 'sudo apt-get install kernel-build-2.4.25-1' to install the kernel headers, then untarred the driver source, and it built without errors, not that this means much ;-) Kevin Murphy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to install Debian via net-install using Linksys WUSB11 v2.8 USB network adapter
I am trying install Debian via net-install using a Linksys WUSB11 v2.8 USB network adapter. I'm using the beta-4 Sarge installer. This network card is not recognized (by linux24 or linux26), and the drivers listed on the network hardware detection screen do not seem to include one of the various available Atmel AT76C503A drivers, which appear to be the relevant ones, based on some googling. How can I use the installer with a network driver that's not included? I'm guessing that this is what I need to do: Get the sources for the kernel used by the sarge installer; compile an appropriate driver, following instructions at, e.g. http://at76c503a.berlios.de/; copy the driver onto a floppy; navigate to the (well-hidden) screen in the installer allowing loading of modules from floppy; and hope the sarge installer will know what to do with it. Sound OK? (Doing 'uname -a' at the shell prompt in the installer indicates it is using 2.4.25 and 2.6.5). Let me know if this is not a good idea. BTW, here were my experiences with the installer (I also submitted these as an installation report): At the top of the Detect network hardware screen, it says, If the correct module is not listed, you may need to load additional modules from a driver floppy. In that case, choose the option which indicates that your module is not listed. I chose none of the above, at which point I get a warning dialog that precipitates me to the Debian installer main menu, which says nothing about loading additional modules from a driver floppy. *** This warning dialog should give pretty specific instructions about how to load drivers from floppy (including kernel version?), but it doesn't. *** The closest option is Load installer components from CD. (*** Note: this should probably say ... from CD or floppy. ***) This produces a menu of interesting but (to me) irrelevant components. I choose Go back, and to my surprise, instead of going back to the main menu, it goes to the Load installer components from CD menu (which has not appeared before), which gives me the choice of cdrom- or floppy-retriever. *** There should be two buttons, one saying Go back, and one saying, Load from floppy instead *** Anyway, I can now see how I might be able to load Atmel AT76C503A module. Thanks, Kevin Murphy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sarge?
This is exactly what I posted about before: the make the user do the work and defeat the purpose of a unified distribution non-solution. I'm a newbie to debian (although not to unix or programming). I'm sorry to see the debian world seems to be in such crisis. What would be a practical approach to making things better? More people working on bugs in 'testing'? If so, how best to achieve that: active solicitation during install? periodic exhortations on debian-user? make the 'Help Debian' link a more obvious on the front page of debian.org? put a bulletized list of ways to help at the top of the main 'Help Debian' page? etc, ... Kevin Murphy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: installing J2SE SDK 1.4.2 on testing
I'm having a problem getting Sun's J2SE 1.4.2 SDK installed on an updated testing. You have /usr/local/lib/jdk pointing to j2sdk1_4_1_02 where as you java is actually located in j2sdk1.4.2_04 Yargh. Thanks for the gentle enlightenment. The perils of copy-and-paste. I shouldn't work past my bedtime. Is this the sort of thing that could be packaged in non-free? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
tweak to java faq
I got J2SE SDK working, thanks to my bone-headedness being pointed out on the list. For posterity, I thought I would point out some possible amendments to the debian java faq for those trying to get java working with mozilla. In order to get java working with mozilla, I followed the instructions in the debian java faq (http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-java-faq/), but they were slightly wrong, at least for v. 1.4.2 and sarge. *) The suggested link for the mozilla plugin is incompatible with the installation procedure described in section 11.2 How can I integrate Sun's J2SE SDK with Debian Testing? The link target should be /usr/local/lib/..., not /usr/local/... in the following link: libjavaplugin_oji.so - /usr/local/j2sdk1.4.2/jre/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so *) Even with the preceding change, the above link did not work for me until I changed 'ns610' to 'ns610-gcc32' I have sent these comments to the email address given in the faq. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Using Linksys WUSB11 USB ethernet adapter
I have a recent sarge network install cd that I would like to use to install debian on a laptop that has a Linksys 802.11b USB network adapter (model no. WUSB11 v 2.8). What are the prospects of using the net install on this machine? In the network hardware detection phase, the adapter is not detected. Can I get through the initial install and then somehow install a driver for it (via floppy, e.g.) before trying to download packages? I found evidence that the atmel driver works with this adapter, as shown in the post below from Nov 2003. Thanks Kevin Murphy There is a really east way to get it to work . I also have the wusb11 ver 2.6 [author later corrected and said 2.8] and i used the atmel driver with it . Get the driver go to the comand line and expand the file the cd to atmelwlandriver do a make config and the answers are almost all no.Say yes to the build usb drivers and the first usb driver it list is the correct one so say yes to it then its no to everything else.I forgot to mention before all of this edit your modules.conf it need to have a line in it that alias usbcontroller uhci then compile the driver alias eth0 sis900 alias usb-controller usb-ohci alias usb-controller1 ehci-hcd alias usb-controller2 uhci alias sound-slot-0 es1371 post-install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L /dev/null 21 || : pre-remove sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S /dev/null 21 || : post-install usbvnetr /bin/fastvnet.sh after you compile the driver modprobe it modprobe usbvnetr then reset your computer i have never had any problems with it so if it doesnt work i apologize but email me and i will try to help you with it /Last edited by jnx138 on 12-02-2003 at 09:52 AM/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
1.1 Install problem
Hello, all,
I thought I would give Debian a spin, so I downloaded the 1.1 (kernel
2.0.0) disk images and rawrite2.exe. (I checked all my floppies for bad
blocks.)
I got to the point where the final base disk had just been read. At this
juncture I got the lovely message:
hda: read_intr: status = 0x59 {DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error}
hda: read_intr: error = 0x40 {UncorrectableError}, LBAsect = 2247884,
sector = 131084
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:04, sector 131084 Kernel
panic: EXT2-fs panic (device 03:04): read_inode_bitmap: Cannot read inode
bitmap_block_group = 8 inode_bitmap = 65542
Hmmm, I am trying this on my new (and amazingly cheap) 133MHz PCI 586
motherboard with 8M RAM and L1/L2 cache. My disk is a Maxtor 71626A IDE
with 1.6Gig (C/H/S 3158/16/63). I already had dos, etc installed on half
the disk in one primary and one extended partition. I created two new
primary partitions for Linux in the course of the installation process. (I
did NOT check them for bad blocks, as presumably this is unnecessary for
these modern disks.)
The motherboard is very new and has a fancy AMI BIOS. It has a built-in
PCI IDE controller, and the BIOS setup allows you to tweak settings for the
IDE, like LBA mode, block mode, 32-bit mode, and PIO mode. During the
installation, LBA mode was on, block mode was on at 8 sectors, 32-bit mode
was on, PIO mode was auto, which meant the machine was coming up with PIO
4. I don't know if this has anything to do with it.
The installation also failed with all the fancy IDE stuff turned off
(except LBA).
I noticed that when the kernel was spewing out its various hardware
identification messages, it acknowledged my IDE and noted that the controller
was using LBA. However, it displayed cylinder/head/sectors of 789/64/63,
not the real 3158/16/63.
I tried booting with linux hd=3158,16,63 at the boot: prompt. This
didn't seem to help. The kernel startup messages generated seemed to be
identical, and subsequent attempts to access the disk failed in the same
way. I also looked for CHS-mapping-related options in
cfdisk, but there didn't seem to be any.
I will now try some more experiments on my own, but ...
Oh mighty gurus, please shower this unworthy mortal with advice!
Thanks,
Kevin Murphy
P.S. The only other blip I experienced during installation was the fact
that the debian install.txt file misstated the usage of rawrite2.
P.P.S. The only other annoying thing during installation was that sometimes
the spawned programs would generate messages which were immediately obscured
by the installation window's reappearance. In some cases I could catch a
brief glimpse of words like 'error', but the installation program didn't seem
to find anything to get upset about. It would be nice if there were an
obvious way of reviewing the actual output of these programs, if necessary.
