Re: ext2 ext3 ?
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 08:03:16AM -0500, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > "Gerard" == Gerard Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Gerard> tune2fs -j /dev/hdb3 worked fine for me (I use > Gerard> kernel-2.4.18...deb) but after that, I stopped badly my > Gerard> machine and when I rebooted, the time to clean /dev/hdb3 > Gerard> is about the same as before. Thanks to all who responded > Gerard> to me. > > Besides the tune2fs command you need to update /etc/fstab and change > ext2 to ext3 at the appropriate places. If you are using the stock > 2.4.18 that should be all, but verify with 'cat /proc/mounts' that you > really do have ext3. 'cat /proc/mounts' : /dev/root.old /initrd cramfs rw 0 0 /dev/root / ext2 rw 0 0 proc /proc proc rw 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0 /dev/hdb1 /boot ext2 rw 0 0 /dev/hda4 /mnt ext2 rw 0 0 'cat /etc/fstab' : # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # /dev/hdb3 / ext2defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/hdb2 noneswapsw 0 0 proc/proc procdefaults0 0 /dev/fd0/floppy autodefaults,user,noauto0 0 # /dev/cdrom/cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 0 0 /dev/scd0 /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 0 0 # /dev/cdrw /cdrw iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 0 0 /dev/scd1 /cdrw iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 0 0 /dev/hdb1 /boot ext2 rw 0 2 there is not ext3 ? in "/boot/config-2.4.18-386" there is : CONFIG_EXT3_FS=m and 'modconf' gives : ext3 + but perhaps I have to recompile the kernel whith CONFIG_EXT3-FS=y ? -- Gerard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ext2 ext3 ?
On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 12:48:49AM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Gerard Robin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020929 00:44]: > > but how can I change from ext2 to ext3 without breaking my actual > > installation and how to do this ? > > tune2fs -j /dev/hda1 (for example.) tune2fs -j /dev/hdb3 worked fine for me (I use kernel-2.4.18...deb) but after that, I stopped badly my machine and when I rebooted, the time to clean /dev/hdb3 is about the same as before. Thanks to all who responded to me. -- Gerard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ext2 ext3 ?
Hello, I find that the thread of ext2, ext3, reiserf etc...,is interesting, but how can I change from ext2 to ext3 without breaking my actual installation and how to do this ? tia. -- Gerard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cdrecord -scanbus examples, please.
On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 02:30:20PM +0200, Jesus Climent wrote: ... > Thus I would like some people to send me some "cdrecord -scanbus" ... Linux sg driver version: 3.1.22 Cdrecord 1.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling Using libscg version 'schily-0.5' scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) 'ASUS' 'DVD-ROM E616' 'Z.0 ' Removable CD-ROM 0,1,0 1) 'CD-RW ' 'CDR-2440MB ' '5SGA' Removable CD-ROM 0,2,0 2) * 0,3,0 3) * 0,4,0 4) * 0,5,0 5) * 0,6,0 6) * 0,7,0 7) * -- Gerard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
autoscan
Hello, can someone explain to me why autoscan (version 2.53) sends this message: use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/autoscan line 195 ? TIA. -- Gerard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X hangs when trying to configure
On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 08:01:54PM -0400, Paul Galbraith wrote: > I've tried running xfree86cfg, and XFree86 -configure. Both cause my > screen to go blank, and after several minutes wait, nothing else > happens. I've tried hitting CTRL-ALT-F2 (F3/F4, etc), as well as > CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE and CTRL-ALT-ESC to try to get to a terminal where I > can kill the configure process, but nothing seems to work. Things are > still running, because CTRL-ALT-DEL cleanly shuts down and restarts the > system. > > Is there some magic key combination I can use to kill the configuration > program so that I don't have to reboot my system every time this > happens? I had the same problem and "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86" solved my problem. -- Gerard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
USB gamepads
I was wondering how I'd go about setting up a gravis gamepad to work with snes9x or xmame (or for controlling the cursor on screen...) the device is recognized and all, the following is the kern.log messages when disconnecting/reconnecting the pad: -- Sep 5 21:16:02 helios kernel: usb.c: USB disconnect on device 6 Sep 5 21:16:09 helios kernel: hub.c: USB new device connect on bus2/1/2/1, assigned device number 8 Sep 5 21:16:09 helios kernel: input2,hiddev0: USB HID v0.01 Gamepad [Gravis GamePad Pro USB ] on usb2:8.0 -- I see the input2, and there's a /dev/input/js0 (using devfs), but I don't see how to make anything work. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: real transparency (under X11)
if I recall correctly, the window manager in OSX uses double-buffering, and 10.2 uses GL to speed the transparancies. however, it's not as fast... Nicos Gollan wrote: >On Sunday 01 September 2002 16:35, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > >>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >> >>Christian Schoenebeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>>I'm still waiting for the ability to use real transparency. What's >>>the deal with this anyway? I mean, what is the problem that there's >>>still only pseudo transparency? >>> >>> >>Someone has to design how this fits in with the existing X11 >>protocol, probably develop an extension, then write the code, >>and invent and document an API for this. >> >> > >I think that's exactly what the XRender extension is supposed to do. It >works fairly well, but it does apparently still work with a snapshot to >create transparency. I don't know enough about the X11 protocol to say >anything definitive, but I think, part of the problem is that hidden >parts of the desktop are just not transmitted for a redraw which would >be necessary for true transparency to work. > >Another problem that's rather serious is the question "what for". IMHO, >that's the real problem hampering the development of such gimmicks. > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GCC 3.1 depends and BinUtils - safe to updrade?
On Mon, 2002-06-10 at 19:45, Balazs Javor wrote: > So my questions would be: > Is this true? > If yes, where could I learn about the reasons for this and similar issues? > Finally, in this particular case, would it be safe to upgrade binutils? > I'm having no problems running SID for over a year now (except for the nasty libpam problem which wouldn't let me log in)... But there's a reason it's called unstable.. In unstable things *can* (and sometimes *will*) break... Ah well.. You've probably heard that story over and over again.. The binutils version in unstable isn't causing me any problems, but, because it's unstable, it might cause you problems :). Robin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Log message: dditional sense indicates Tracking servo failure
On Fri, 2002-06-07 at 18:09, Thorsten Manegold wrote: > I found the following message in the kern.log. What does it mean? If it > means that my HD is about to quit on me, how do I find out which > harddisk is affected? > Yes, one of your disks is dying.. Check the ide-smart package, it should tell you which HD is dying (never had the need to figure out how it works, but you should be able to tell which disk is failing with it)... Robin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why does Mozilla modify /etc/alternatives/netscape?
On Fri, 2002-06-07 at 16:46, Bruce wrote: > > Given the fact that, unfortunately, there are still many sites that do not > work with mozilla, but do work with Netscape 4.77, is this a wise behaviour? > Did you install mozilla-psm for accessing thos sites? You need it if they do https... Robin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: /usr/sbin/mkinitrd: ldd: command not found when installin
On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 21:08, Charlie Grosvenor wrote: > I have the package libc6 installed but don't have the file /usr/bin/ldd > How can I solve this problem? > apt-get install --reinstall libc6 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IMAP + fetchmail + procmail
On Tue, 2002-06-04 at 19:20, prover wrote: > I'M NOT MEMER OF YOUR MAILING LISTS. MY MAIL IS : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ([EMAIL PROTECTED] IS ONLY FORWARD FROM [EMAIL PROTECTED]). > > WHY THIS MAILS COME TO ME? > EVERY DAY COME TO ME 200 MAILS FROM YOUR MAILING LISTS. > > CAN YOU DO SOMETHING WITH IT? > > THANK YOU. Come on... There's unsubscribe information at the bottom of each message.. Do something with it! > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > You see? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: word to the wise about Netscape 7/Mozilla
On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 23:31, Quenten Griffith wrote: > Now if someone knows a better GUI MUA for Debian that supports spelling > checking/ > GPG/LDAP/ and IMAP I am all ears to try it out. > Evolution? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
libgtk1.2 & libgtkxmhtml1
Hello, After getting this message : express: Depends: libgtk1.2 (>= 1.2.6-1) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libgtkxmhtml1 (>= 1.0.54-1) but it is not going to be installed I don't find this packages in testing. Can someone give me a clue to find them ? TIA - Gerard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debconf problems
On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 07:41, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > > I gotta wonder what happened to being able to choose the priority and > display type for debconf in sid...I have a feeling I have the priority > cranked too high, but if I reinstall debconf, I don't get a menu asking > me what I want debconf to do... > 'dpkg-reconfigure debconf' doesn't help either? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how does root run a graphical prog
On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 18:45, Willy S wrote: > hi, > > How come root can not run a graphical program under other user > session. Let say, I do 'su' and I try to launch gkrellm. Xterm will > produce this message: > > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server > > Everything fine if I run a console program under root. This problem > only occurs if I run a program as a root under other people session. > Use sudo (apt-get install sudo), it will take care of this for you... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GRUB question
On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 06:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Here's a related question: does anyone know if there is a grub graphic > available for Debian? Redhat's looks pretty cool, and Debian just has > the text menu. > The image goes in /boot/grub and is a ".xpm.gz" file. > Look for a thread about that on debianplanet a couple of weeks ago (should still be on the frontpage though).. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xfree redux
On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 05:35, Tom Cook wrote: > > 3) how do I delete the self-installed version and not hurt the debianized > > one? > > I wouldn't worry. > Use cruft (apt-get install cruft) to find out which files don't belong on your system... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: upgrade to ext3 ?
On Sun, 2002-04-14 at 11:38, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, David Wright wrote: > > > > My woody system has the pre-compiled debian kernel-image 2.4.17-k7. > > > Is support for ext3 compiled into this kernel? > > > > I know it is compiled into 2.4.18-k7. To see for your kernel, look for > > the module: /lib/modules/2.4.17-k7/kernel/fs/ext3/ext3.o > > I think ext3 *must* be compiled into the kernel, not as a module, if you > want / to be ext3 > That's incorrect. It works as a module as long as you place the module on the initrd (like the stock debian 2.4.* kernels do). Robin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian reinstallation
On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 16:29, Vivek G. Bharathan wrote: > So I installed Debian in February and I've just discovered that my /usr > partition is much too small. I'd like to somehow set apt and dselect to > reload the packages I already have - is there any way to do this without > plugging through all the millions of Debian packages that show up on > dselect? > There's currently a discussion about that at www.debianplanet.org ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xterm defaults
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 07:01:52PM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hello, > > how can I change the default colors for xterm?. I need that the command > "xterm" open a xterminal with the desired colors, instead using "xterm -bg > color", for example. I didn't find this information in the man pages. /usr/share/doc/xterm/xterm.faq.html hth. -- Gerard
Re:rw
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 12:20:50PM -0500, jeff wrote: > hello folks... > > i'm trying to get my cdwriter to be recognized under > debian... > seems like i can mount the /cdrom no prob... > any pointers on how to create a device for the writer? it > seems to detect it ok at boot but i can't mount the > sucker... if your CD-writer is ide you need: 1. the modules sg and ide-scsi installed in the kernel (with modconf or insmod) 2. the packages: cdrecord mkisofs for the CD-audio cdda2wav or cdparanoia 3. into lilo add this line: append = "apm=on apm=power-of idebas=33 hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi max_scsi_luns=1" don't forget to do /sbin/lilo 4. create the directory /cdrw 5. into the file fstab: /dev/scd0 /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 0 0 /dev/scd1 /cdrw iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 0 0 6.create the synbolic link: ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom ln -s /dev/hdd /dev/cdrw 7. do cdrecord -scanbus to verify ... man cdrecord mkisofs cdda2wav cdparanoia hth. -- Gerard
cdda2wav or cdparanoia ?
Hello, cdda2wav and cdparanoia both run fine to extract the tracks of a CD-audio what is the advantage to use one rather than another ? TIA for an advice. -- Gerard
xpm4g
hello, dpkg -i libforms0_89.deb give me the message: libforms0_89 depends on xpm4g can someone tell me where I can download xpm4g (I try to install the package lyxdeb) TIA -- Gerard
Re: /etc/issue
On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 16:43, Michael Kines wrote: > I accidentally erased my /etc/issue . > Now, when I switch alt-ctrl f1, there is no > indication of what tty I am on. Where can > I get that back again? Thanks. > bash-2.05a$ dpkg -S /etc/issue base-files: /etc/issue So an apt-get install --reinstall base-files probably would be the best way to get the file back. Robin
Re: kernel-2.4.17
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 06:17:46PM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: > High, > > On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Gerard Robin wrote: > > > hello, > > I have a problem with the kernel 2.4.17: > > My machine: HDD1 in hda > > HDD2 in hdb > > > > The machine boots with lilo on hda. > > I boot with a disket 1.44 Mb for hdb. > > > > After the compile, my machine booted correctly with the > > kernel 2.4.17 on the disket 1.44 Mb, but I forgot to > > include a module in the kernel and I recompiled the > > kernel 2.4.17 and now when I boot the machine with the > > boot disket I get : > > > > NET4:unix domain socket 1.0/SMP for LINUX NET4.0. > > request_module[ide-disk]:Rot fs not mounted > > hdb:driver not present > > VFS:Cannot open root device "343" or 03:43 > > Please apend a correct "root=" boot option > > Kernel panic:VFS:Unable to mount root fs on 03:43 > > > Ok, I do not really see how your system is configured. On which harddisk > is Linux installed? Why do you use a floppy to boot when you have LILO > installed too? > > The problem is that the ide driver is not loaded (that's what the kernel > says). You have to recompile the kernel and test it first. Thanks for your reply. I solved my problem: when I ran xconfig I set by mistake "include IDE/ATAPI-2 DISK support" to "m" instead to "y" ;-) I rerecompiled the kernel and now it's ok. About lilo : I use lilo to boot on HDD1 on which win98 and potato 2.2r2 are installed. And on HDD2 "potato -> woody" is installed.(I experiment ) I don't know if lilo can accommodate the three systems ? off topic: I put the module udf in the kernel 2.4.17 and now I can read my CDRW (burned with udf fs) with linux. Thanks again. -- Gerard
kernel-2.4.17
hello, I have a problem with the kernel 2.4.17: My machine: HDD1 in hda HDD2 in hdb The machine boots with lilo on hda. I boot with a disket 1.44 Mb for hdb. After the compile, my machine booted correctly with the kernel 2.4.17 on the disket 1.44 Mb, but I forgot to include a module in the kernel and I recompiled the kernel 2.4.17 and now when I boot the machine with the boot disket I get : NET4:unix domain socket 1.0/SMP for LINUX NET4.0. request_module[ide-disk]:Rot fs not mounted hdb:driver not present VFS:Cannot open root device "343" or 03:43 Please apend a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic:VFS:Unable to mount root fs on 03:43 Can someone help me to solve this problem, please. TIA -- Gerard
mutt_1.3.27
Hello, I installed mutt_1.3.27 with succes and everything is ok except when I send a post to an user of my ISP. i.e. I send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], a copy of this message goes in outbox but the spool /var/spool/exim/input/ is empty What I am missing ? TIA -- Gerard
libc6 > 2.2.3
hello, can someone point me where I can find the package libc6_2.2.4-4.deb ? TIA -- Gerard
Re: Traxdata CDRW241040 plus
On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 09:40:42PM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: > High, > > On Sun, 3 Mar 2002, Gerard Robin wrote: > > > On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 11:38:12PM +, Gerard Robin wrote: . > > and now, cdcd don't work, play give me : No disc in drive. > I think you are still trying to acces the ide drive. Now that you use > ide-scsi, the drive is not seen by the ide drivers anymore. So, if not > loaded already, you have to load the sr_mod.o module. Then your drive is > under /dev/scd0 or something. To make this your default, run as root: > > cd /dev > ln -s scd0 cdrom Many thanks cdcd works fine now. -- Gerard
Re: configuring smtp
On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 11:25:50AM -0800, Xucaen wrote: > Where do I > set up smtp information? and how? I changed > exim.conf but still not able to send e-mail. perhaps you have to run eximconfig to change exim.conf ? edit the file /etc/email_addresses. and run pppconfig. good luck. -- Gerard
Re: Traxdata CDRW241040 plus
On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 11:38:12PM +, Gerard Robin wrote: > > P1: > I changed my files lilo.conf and fstab as recommended and I > installed the modules sg and ide-scsi, but I dont't know which driver > to choose with modconf in the part cdrom and when I launch xcdroast > everything is ok except CD-Writer-Device is absent. Sorry for this stupid post I forgot to run lilo. I burned a CD-R correctly with xcdroast. I run potato 2.2r2 kernel 2.2.18pre21 and I didn't need to compile again my kernel. but I can't burn a CD-RW ? and now, cdcd don't work, play give me : No disc in drive. mount always complains : fs type udf not supported by kernel. I'll be grateful for your light of these 3 last points. -- Gerard
Traxdata CDRW241040 plus
Hello, I put a Traxdata CDRW241040 plus in my box and I have 2 problems ( I read the CD writing HOWTO and the interesting posts of the list on the topic + the readme of xcdroast) (my box is ide not scsi) P1: I changed my files lilo.conf and fstab as recommended and I installed the modules sg and ide-scsi, but I dont't know which driver to choose with modconf in the part cdrom and when I launch xcdroast everything is ok except CD-Writer-Device is absent. P2: If I mount a CD containing the debian dist it's ok but with a CDRW (burn under windoze), mount give me: mount fs type udf not supported by kernel Can someone help me with this 2 problems. TIA -- Gerard
Traxdata CDRW241040 plus
Hello, I put a Traxdata CDRW241040 plus in my box and I have 2 problems ( I read the CD writing HOWTO and the interesting posts of the list on the topic + the readme of xcdroast) (my box is ide not scsi) P1: I changed my files lilo.conf and fstab as recommended and I installed the modules sg and ide-scsi, but I dont't know which driver to choose with modconf in the part cdrom and when I launch xcdroast everything is ok except CD-Writer-Device is absent. P2: If I mount a CD containing the debian dist it's ok but with a CDRW (burn under windoze), mount give me: mount fs type udf not supported by kernel Can someone help me with this 2 problems. TIA -- Gerard
ethernet
Hello, Sorry for this silly question, but I am newbie with the ethernet. I plan to make a network local with three machines: M1:pentium 166 with potato, M2: 486SX with slink, M3: 486SX with slink I have read the Howto Ethernet and the NET4-HOWTO and I installed a (old) card accton (ISA) and the drivers 8390 + ne on the machine M1. modprobe ne io=0x300 gives me: ne.c:v1-10 9/23/94 Donald Becker eth0:NE2000 found at 0x300, using IRQ 3 Now Y can't use my modem because it uses ttyS1 with IRQ 3. (ttyS0 with IRQ 4 is for my mouse) How can I use my modem now for that the three machines be connected to the internet ? TIA -- Gerard
Re: Blank Messages To Mailing List With Attachments Containing Message
On Wed, 2002-02-20 at 21:27, Charlie Grosvenor wrote: > I have noticed that a number of people who post to this list post blank > messages, with the actual message attached. Why is this? > Use a normal email reader, not dinky-toys look-out express, which handles email correctly (and doesn't execute random attachments as a bonus).
486SX success whit slink.
Hello, Slink runs fine now on my old 486SX :hdd=89 Mb; CPU=25 Mz; RAM=16Mb I try to post this mail with it. Thanks. But I have a question off topic: Is it possible to clean the MBR of my hard disk after that I have put lilo into ? (I read that it was impossible but perhaps there is a trick ...?) TIA -- Gerard
Re: 486 SX
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 02:54:47PM +, Gerard Robin wrote: > On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 06:45:59PM +0100, Johannes Franken wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 06:16:18PM +, Gerard Robin wrote: ... > > and so I must install linux with diskets 1.44, but I have two > > questions: is it possible to do it ? > Installing debian from floppy disks is no problem at all. > > And if it's possible how can I do this. > Get the 6 disk-images from your local debian mirror, e.g. > ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/*.bin > dd if=file.bin of=/dev/fd0 > smack the one that got rescue.bin into drive A:, reboot, and there you go. > -- > Johannes Franken > > Professional unix/network development > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.jfranken.de/ Thanks to all those who give me some advices. I downloaded the 6 diskets 1.44 driver1 2 and all worked fine until I get Next: install base system. I put driver1-bin in the floppy but I got this anser: wrong disk you need disk1 of series the base series. Where are the disks of the base series ? I have another question: I had created 3 partition : hda1: boot, 4 Mb hda2: swap, 4 Mb hda3: 81 Mb Confirme is what I have done is relatively suitable. I can put hda1=40 Mb and hda2=8 Mb for my disk is too small. -- Gerard PS. 4 Mb of RAM is not enough I had to put 8 Mb to make it work. Perhaps it's possible with slink but not with potato. (on my machine 486 SX daewoo) -- Gerard
486 SX
hello, I have the oppotunity to get hold of few omputers 486 SX (33Mz, 25Mz, hard disk = 89 Mb or 127 Mb) before they go to the rubbish. I wanted install the minimum of linux for the mail (exim, mutt, fetchmail, procmail, etc..) but my CD-ROM drive is ignored by the bios of these machines and so I must install linux with diskets 1.44, but I have two questions: is it possible to do it ? And if it's possible how can I do this. Can someone help me or point the documentation in this matter. TIA -- Gerard
LILO other=/dev/hda6 (boot logical partition)
Hi. I need to install Win2k on a PC that has only logical partitions available. /dev/hda1 Linux /dev/hda2 Swap /dev/hda3 Win2k /dev/hda4 Extended /dev/hda5 Linux /dev/hda6 Win2k (new) I can't get LILO to boot the second Win2k partition. It just hangs there with no error message. If I use table=/dev/hda in my lilo.conf 'other' spec then lilo objects "Fatal: Partition entry not found." It seems that LILO doesn't like to boot Win2k from logical partitions, although ntldr, reportedly xosl, and maybe grub will. Is there a fix to make LILO do this? I couldn't find a LILO mailing list to ask this question. Is there one? Thanks! Robin
Re: video card
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 11:46:34PM -0600, Adam Majer wrote: > On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 10:56:52PM +, Gerard Robin wrote: .. > > My vendor suggest me to use the video card ATI expert 2000 > > with linux (my dist is potato 2.2r2 with xfree 3 ) .. > I found ATI to be the best supported cards in X (for open source drivers > that is). I have ATI Radeon 64M DDR and I have great 3D performance. Better > than under Windows 2000 and onward. At work, I have 2 Debian workstations > with older ATI cards. One is Winboard and the other Rage 64 or something. > Both work great but no 3D accel. of course :) > > A friend of mine has NVideo GeForce 2 MX card and it seems to run fine with > NVidia's drivers. But the performance is a bit slower than with Radeon. But > NVidia seems to be a good choice for. Thanks all for your advices. I find that it is important to choose the best card, but if I want run linux, I have to choose the best card which have a good driver for linux and also its price don't exceed my purse :-) -- Gerard
video card
Hello, I plan to buy a computer equipped with a processor AMD Athlon xp 1600+. My vendor suggest me to use the video card ATI expert 2000 with linux (my dist is potato 2.2r2 with xfree 3 ) There is a lot of drivers ATI in the list. Is it possible that one of these drivers matches the ATI expert 2000 card ? Can someone give me some advices. TIA -- Gerard
Re: passwd
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 01:56:37AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Gerard Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.24.0138 +0100]: > > I have written a script perl(not very perlich ;-)) which install > > n accounts but I have encountered few problems: > > /usr/bin/newusers > > don't reinvent the wheel... > > > A question: what is the use of "mkpasswd" in debian (potato-woody) ? > > makepasswd | mkpasswd -H md5 --stdin > > that's compatible with /etc/shadow if you use md5 passwords, which i > think you are... Many thanks for your advices. "newusers" is very fast but we should write a script to put the file of data in the form of passwd otherwise write a file of data in the suitable form for 300 users(or +) may take a lot of time. "newusers" is not the entire whel :-) -- Gerard
passwd
Hello, I have written a script perl(not very perlich ;-)) which install n accounts but I have encountered few problems: 1 "useradd" works fine except for the password (not encrypted) 2 "mkpasswd" look nice but /etc/shadow doesn't like it's encrypted passwords ? 3 "makepasswd" create passwords accepted by /etc/shadow. Ouf!. I have spent a lot of time with this matter, can this message avoid others to spend time as well. A question: what is the use of "mkpasswd" in debian (potato-woody) ? -- Gerard
vim
Hello, By default, vim converts a file in html with white text and black background. Where can I find (in the doc) the way to change the color of the text and of the background when I convert a file in html ? tia. -- Gerard
Re: Sterling pound symbol
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Colin Watson writes: > On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 08:50:28AM +0000, Robin Cosby wrote: > > As a newcomer to Debian (I've just installed Version 2.2r4), I'm having > > difficulty in getting the system to produce the Sterling pound symbol when > > [SHIFT] 3 is pressed. Instead, I get a hash (octothorp) symbol plus a > > new line. > > If you're talking about typing it at a shell prompt, the problem is that > the pound sterling symbol has its top (eighth) bit set, which bash > doesn't like in its default configuration. I put the following line in > ~/.inputrc: > > Meta-#: "\C-v" > > Of course, you still have a problem with getting the into that file, > but it's generally easier in editors than at the shell. > > There's almost certainly a better way to do this, probably involving > input-meta or similar, but the above works for me. > > -- > Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Colin, Many thanks for your prompt response to my plea for help! Your suggestion works for me, too. Best wishes, -- Robin Cosby
Sterling pound symbol
Good morning! As a newcomer to Debian (I've just installed Version 2.2r4), I'm having difficulty in getting the system to produce the Sterling pound symbol when [SHIFT] 3 is pressed. Instead, I get a hash (octothorp) symbol plus a new line. When trying "kbdconfig" and selecting "/i386/qwerty/uk", the symbol appears during the testing procedure, but not thereafter. In all other aspects the UK keymap is OK. I've trawled through the "bug" archives (and Google.com), where I have found one article in which it is stated that this problem has been resolved in the "Woody" boot floppies. Is there some way in which this symbol can be activated by editing a file or files in the current Potato version? Any help will be greatly appreciated. TIA -- Robin Cosby
gs testing on stable
I need to install gs from testing on my stable system. So I tried:- apt-get source gs --compile This retrieved the files and tried to comiple them but ended with an error on dh_clean. The error I get is:- dh_clean: Sorry, but 2 is the highest compatability level of debhelper currently supported. I searched the internet and found the same problem for another app and the suggested solution is to set DH_COMPAT=2, this doesn't fix it. How do I get gs ( or any other app ) to build neatly from source using apt-get source? Thanks in advance Robin
login + passwd for 30 users
Hello, does any script exist, which creates 30 users automaticaly, with the list of 30 persons containing their name, christian name, etc... instead of using 30 times "adduser" ? tia -- Gerard
perl gnuplot
Hello,
I want to run a script perl which use gnuplot.
this script gives statistics to a game named "loto", it consists
to choose seven numbers among 49 [1 .. 49]. (seven balls among 49 balls)
The script "loto2.pl", it works on the file of results named "loto15".
( in fact loto15 contains 3430 results not 15)
The script is launched by : cat loto15 | ./loto2.pl
The script loto2.pl runs almost fine as root but as user there is a
problem of permission and the script doesn't work.
Can someone help me to solve this problem ?
I join the files that I used :
loto2.pl
loto15
and the errors :
loto_root.log
loto_user.log
T.I.A.
--
Gerard
P.S.1 print PLOT qq{set term png color\n} (L42) don't works fine it
change all the usual characters in strange characters.
P.S.2 Without perl gnuplot works fine as user.
No problem of permission, not error.
However I don't think it is a problem with perl.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# loto2.pl
use strict;
use vars qw/@boule $i/;
for($i=1;$i<=49;$i++) {
$boule[$i]=0;
}
while(<>) {
my $line=$_;
my ($date,$tirage,$b1,$b2,$b3,$b4,$b5,$b6,$bc)=split(';',$line);
chomp($b1,$b2,$b3,$b4,$b5,$b6,$bc);
$boule[$b1]=$boule[$b1]+1;
$boule[$b2]=$boule[$b2]+1;
$boule[$b3]=$boule[$b3]+1;
$boule[$b4]=$boule[$b4]+1;
$boule[$b5]=$boule[$b5]+1;
$boule[$b6]=$boule[$b6]+1;
}
# for($i=1;$i<=49;$i++){
# print "$boule[$i]:$i\n"
# print "$i $boule[$i]\n"
open(OUTPUT, ">/tmp/$$.loto")
or die "impossible to create the file tmp";
for($i=1;$i<=49;$i++){
print OUTPUT "$i $boule[$i]\n";
}
close(OUTPUT)
or die "impossible to close the file tmp";
open(PLOT, "| gnuplot")
or die "inpossible to launch gnuplot\n";
# print PLOT qq{set term png color\n};
print PLOT qq{set term linux\n};
print PLOT qq{set title "distribution of the balls"\n};
print PLOT qq{set xrange[-2:52]\n};
print PLOT qq{set xlabel "number of the balls"\n};
# print PLOT qq{set yrange[360:460]\n};
print PLOT qq{set yrange[0:10]\n};
print PLOT qq{set ylabel "number"\n};
print PLOT qq{plot "/tmp/$$.loto" with boxes 3\n};
close(PLOT)
or die "impossible to close the pipe -> gnuplot";
2001095;20011128;23;21;7;11;31;27;29;4;1432880.0;20;
2001095;20011128;36;25;31;29;32;37;17;2;6124665.0;4;
2001094;20011124;41;27;9;8;32;10;39;2;3851990.0;3;
2001094;20011124;24;16;27;1;37;25;13;0;0.0;9;
2001093;20011121;33;47;16;42;37;35;41;0;0.0;5;
2001093;20011121;35;4;5;49;3;2;46;2;2870735.0;1;
2001092;2007;28;36;31;34;7;2;40;4;3461440.0;7;
2001092;2007;4;6;10;39;31;21;23;2;3214700.0;6;
2001091;2004;6;44;9;45;37;41;27;2;13137290.0;10;
2001091;2004;5;45;34;31;28;37;3;0;0.0;5;
2001090;2000;34;41;11;44;5;47;28;1;
2001090;2000;1;27;18;26;16;14;24;1;
2001089;20011107;19;32;40;20;37;28;9;0;0.0;9;
2001089;20011107;31;24;22;46;35;37;29;4;
2001088;20011103;8;25;36;12;22;6;42;1;
line 0: Linux terminal driver not available
svgalib: S3: Unknown chip id 13e1
c20e2
int 0x10 is not in ram (:)
No VESA bios detected!
Try using vga_reset
Using VGA driver.
impossible to close the pipe -> gnuplot at ./loto2.pl line 45, <> chunk 3430.
line 0: Linux terminal driver not available
svgalib: Cannot get I/O permissions.
inpossible to close the pipe -> gnuplot at ./loto2.pl line 45, <> chunk 3430.
libgtk1.2 & libgtkxmhtml1
Hello, After getting this message : express: Depends: libgtk1.2 (>= 1.2.6-1) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libgtkxmhtml1 (>= 1.0.54-1) but it is not going to be installed I don't find this packages in testing. Can someone give me a clue to find them ? TIA - Gerard
nslookup firewall config problem
My Linux box is behind an NT firewall. The Linux box is 192.168.1.2. The NT box is 192.168.1.1. I want to access CVS on SourceForge, but cvs reports "Unknown host" when I attempt pserver login. Using nslookup also fails, on sourceforge.net or any name: *** Can't find server name for address 192.168.1.1: No information *** Default servers are not available However, dig works without problem. Likewise, apt and my web browser (opera) work fine. What could be wrong with my Debian configuration that cvs and nslookup can't resolve anything? Thanks, Robin
modconf
Hello, I ran modconf, I gave it a non valid option and the installation of the module (sb) failed. How can I delete the previous option with modconf ? i.e. without editing /etc/modutils/sb and /etc/modules.conf ? TIA -- Gerard
Re: video card detection
On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 04:32:34AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 11:26:11PM -0700, Cary Cherng ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > These are my first attempt at installing Debian. Both my laptop and pc > > seem to have video cards that cannot be identified. Is this normal or > > am I missing something? > > Install lspci: > > $ apt-get install lspci it doesn't work for me. you meant to say : apt-get install pciutils ? > Run it: > > $ /sbin/lspci it'works fine. Thanks for the tip. -- Gerard
Re: video card detection
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 11:26:11PM -0700, Cary Cherng wrote: > These are my first attempt at installing Debian. Both my laptop and pc seem > to have video cards that cannot be identified. Is this normal or am I missing > something? I guess that you have potato. do (as root): 1 apt-get install xserver-svga 2 XF86Setup 3 if your mouse doesn't work use tab to select the suitable device : ttyS0, ttyS1 if you see your video card in the list for example w32 : apt-get install xserver-w32 many card work fine (by default) with xserver-svga. hth -- Gerard
lpr and pdf
Is there a HOWTO or other guide on how to setup lpr/lpd to be able to print PDF files? Robin
logout icewm
hello, I have a simple question to ask : my current xwindow manager is icewm, when I select Logout->Logout->ok which files are used to leave icewm ? I submit this question because I have upgraded potato2.2r2 ->woody. (partialy) All works fine except if I add in my .bashrc: export LANG=fr_FR.ISO--8859-1 in this case, startx launch icewm but it aborts at once. The problem doesn't arise with twm. TIA. -- Gerard
Re: apt-get source
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 03:34:10PM -0300, Alejandro Diego Garin wrote: > > hello! > > Could you tell me what is the deb-src link to download de source packages in > potato? deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US hth -- Gerard
assembler and linux
hello, In the package "binutils" there are : "as" and "ld". I did man as, man ld, info as, info ld, but I need a tutorial or a book which contain examples of programs... (the programs write with tasm of borland don't works with as an ld) Can someone give me a link to find useful documentations. TIA. -- Gerard
Fwd: FW:look at the date it was first sent
From: "linda hyry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fwd: FW:look at the date it was first sent Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 00:30:20 From: "Kent, Tammy R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: FW: PLEASE READ THIS! Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 13:39:35 -0500 -Original Message- From: Medlin, Dana C. To: Jackson, Sandra L.; Dillard, Mary J.; Kent, Tammy R. Sent: 10/12/01 12:06 PM Subject: FW: PLEASE READ THIS! -Original Message- From: Clay, Wanda B. Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 8:40 AM To: Medlin, Dana C. Subject: FW: PLEASE READ THIS! -Original Message- From: Sledge, Julia A. Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 10:35 AM To: Myrland, Robert D.; Spain, Lucy; Clay, Wanda B.; Davis, Margaret M.; Kinney, Lillian C.; Jackson, Mary E.; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: FW: PLEASE READ THIS! -Original Message- From: Joan Topp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 10:34 AM To: Alisa Phillips; Anne Young; Bryan & Marie Ogle; Bruce D. Topp; Charlie & Sharon; Camille; Deborah Carter; Donna Russell; Donna Winters; FAWNIE; Ginnie Bernhardt-King; Chris Scaggs; Helen O'Daniel; Debbie Knapp; Jimmie E. Ingram; Jack Nagle; Joseph T. Kirkland; Sabrina Wheeler; Randy Stockton; Julia H. Sledge; Maryann Pedroli; Kathleen Pedroli; MARY BETH HARJA; Kristie A. Morris; Martha & Jan; Nancy Hill; Rochelle Mistretta; Mary Fehse; Palmertree, Regina; Sherry Clothier; Shelley E. Rothman-Branning; Renee Simmerman; Susan Cranford; Suzanne Newman-Reese; Virginia Appling Subject: Fw: PLEASE READ THIS! I know were this came from and this guy checks everything out before he sends this like this, so just be careful Joan - Original Message - From: "Denise Berry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Joan Topp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 9:57 AM Subject: Fw: PLEASE READ THIS! > > - Original Message - > From: "Rebekah Hurst" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 9:11 AM > Subject: PLEASE READ THIS! > > > > Hi Everyone! > > I received this from Lenny this morning, and he would not have sent it out > > unless he thought it was true. The person who told him this has contacted > > the FBI, but I wanted to pass it on to you guys to be safe. > > > > Rebekah > > > > > > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED], > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >Subject: (no subject) > > >Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 20:45:41 EDT > > > > > > > > > > > > > >Hi All - > > > >I think you all know that I don't send out hoaxes and don't do the > > > >reactionary thing and send out anything that crosses my path. This one, > > > >however, is a friend of a friend and I've > > > >given it enough credibility in my mind that I'm writing it up and > > >sending > > > >it out to > > > >all of you. My friend's friend was dating a guy from Afghanistan up > until > > >a > > > >month ago. She had a date with him around 9/6 and was stood up. She was > > > >understandably upset and went to his home to find it completely > emptied. > > > >On > > > >9/10, she received a letter from her bo
vcd player
hiya, did any one ever tell you where to get that vcd player?` Could you please send me a note back and let me know where you got yours. Thank you for any help you may give. Rockin. _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
Re: INIT:Entering runlevel:2 failed
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 04:55:13PM -0500, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > On Sat, 2001-09-22 at 18:37, Robin Gerard wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 10:18:27PM -0500, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > > > On Thu, 2001-09-20 at 20:09, Robin Gerard wrote: > > > > hello, > > > > I run potato 2.2r2 and have upgraded partially > > > > with woody. > > > > All ran fine, but after my system crashed, linux > > > > boot correctly until: > > > > ttyS00 . > > > > ttyS01 > > > > Desactiving swap...VM:do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd > > > > VM:do_try_to_free_pages failed for swapoff > > > > swapoff: /dev/hda2: cannot allocate memory > > .. > > > > is it possible that i repair my system ? > > > > > > I'd run memtest on that sytem ASAP. It sounds to me like you're running > > > > out of memory at boot. > > > > memtest gives : > > array a starts at 1075040264 > > found a total of 0 error > > > > but when I use my rescue diskett "rescue" gives : > > kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root from 01:00 > > transaction block size = 512 > > > > rescue root=/dev/hda4 gives the previous result > > > > How can I solve this problem ? (i.e. mount root at the correct point) > > > > free gives : > > total > > Mem: 46192 (16+16+8+8) > > swap: 88352 (~= 2xMem) > > > > but swap is unable for swapon. > > > > What can I do except reinstall potato ? > > Try getting the system booted and make sure fdisk reports the swap disk > as a swap disk partition type and then mkswap the correct device. Then > try swapon -a assuming the swap partition is listed in fstab. > > That may allow swap to get running and therefore the rest of the system > normally once you reboot or change runlevel to 2. cfdisk: hda1 boot primary WIN95 FAT32 1159.77 hda2 primary linux swap 90.48 hda3 primary linux ext2 41.13 hda4 primary linux exte2 3085.13 mkswap /dev/hda2 : Setting up swap version1, size=90472448 bytes swapon -s : filename type size used priority /dev/hda2partition88348 59388 -1 swapon -a : swapon : /dec/hda2 : Device or resource busy swapoff -a : VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for swapoff swapoff : /dev/hda2 : Cannot allocate memory Apparently the swap partition is used (59388) but swapon and swapoff cannot use it. I don't find kswapd in my system. I run dumpe2fs and I get : file system not clean. My system seemed not completly broken but if there is not solution never mind. I thank you for your help. -- Gerard
Re: INIT:Entering runlevel:2 failed
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 10:18:27PM -0500, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > On Thu, 2001-09-20 at 20:09, Robin Gerard wrote: > > hello, > > I run potato 2.2r2 and have upgraded partially > > with woody. > > All ran fine, but after my system crashed, linux > > boot correctly until: > > ttyS00 . > > ttyS01 > > after a while > > > > /dev/ttyS00 .. > > /dev/ttyS01 .. . > > Deconfiguring network interfaces:done > > Desactiving swap...VM:do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd > > VM:do_try_to_free_pages failed for swapoff > > swapoff: /dev/hda2: cannot allocate memory .. > > is it possible that i repair my system ? > > I'd run memtest on that sytem ASAP. It sounds to me like you're running > > out of memory at boot. memtest gives : array a starts at 1075040264 found a total of 0 error but when I use my rescue diskett "rescue" gives : kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root from 01:00 transaction block size = 512 rescue root=/dev/hda4 gives the previous result How can I solve this problem ? (i.e. mount root at the correct point) free gives : total Mem: 46192 (16+16+8+8) swap: 88352 (~= 2xMem) but swap is unable for swapon. What can I do except reinstall potato ? I saw in a previous post that apt-get dist-uprade load 300 Mb and can solve the problem but with a modem it's better for me to buy the six CD woody in USA ! TIA. gerard.
INIT:Entering runlevel:2 failed
hello, I run potato 2.2r2 and have upgraded partially with woody. All ran fine, but after my system crashed, linux boot correctly until: ttyS00 . ttyS01 after a while /dev/ttyS00 .. /dev/ttyS01 .. . Cleaning /tmp /var/lock /var/run after a while INIT: Entering runlevel:2 after a while ... starting internet superserver:inet/etc/rc2.d/S20inetd: xmalloc: cannot allocate 428 bytes unable to load interpreter /lib/ld-linux.so.2 ... Finaly i can work as root but not as user. when I do shutdown i get : . Deconfiguring network interfaces:done Desactiving swap...VM:do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd VM:do_try_to_free_pages failed for swapoff swapoff: /dev/hda2: cannot allocate memory .. is it possible that i repair my system ? TIA Gerard. PS. thanks for the replies about "pon"
pon
hello,
sorry for this silly question,
"pon" is a very simple script:
exec /usr/sbin/pppd call ${1;-provider}
I think that the script :
exec /usr/sbin/pppd call provider
would work too.
can someone explain me the meaning of ${1;-provider}
--
Gerard
Re: Lyx and ispell problems.
> I have recently installed the Lyx 1.1.6fix3 package from Debian/Unstable and > I am having some problems using the spellchecker feature. Whenever I try to > use the spellchecker from the "edit" menu I get an error message saying the > ispell-process has died and that I probably do not have the dictionary > installed. However, I do have the english ispell dictionary installed, and > the program works fine from the terminal. I have the most recent ispell > 3.1.20-15 packages from Debian/Unstable installed. Any help with this > problem > would be greatly appreciated. 1 apt-get install ibritish (or your language) 2 edit -> preferences(customize) -> Lang Opts -> Spell Checker Spell command: ispell use alternative language: british use personal dictionary : /usr/lib/ispell/british.hash 3 edit -> spellchecker -> Spellchecker Options use alternate language: british use alternate personal dictionary : /usr/lib/ispell/british.hash hth -- Gerard
Re: Accented characters
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 03:27:32PM -0500, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: > How do I go about enabling accented characters in a terminal window? I'm a > member of an > Irish speaking mailing list and all emails come in with accented characters. > However, > when I read them via Mutt I only see ? where an accented character is in the > messages. > I though 8859-1 could handle extended characters... I use accents too and in ~/.bashrc I added : export LANG=fr_FR.ISO-8859-1 (with xfree4 ...) or export LANG=fr_FR.ISO-8859.1 (with xfree3...) replace fr_FR by your own locale. run : locale -a (and man locale) hth -- Gerard
Solidarity
Excuse me ,I am of topic with linux but all my thoughts are with the americains, specially the innocent victims. -- Gerard
Re: xserver-S3
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 06:46:44PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 05:53:45PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 01:46:41AM +, gerard robin wrote: > > > hello, > > > I have a video-card S3 Trio 3D/2X. ... > > >From the www.xfree.org documentation for version 4.1.0 (which made into > > woody with today's update): > > > > Support (accelerated) for the ViRGE, ViRGE/VX, ViRGE/DX, > > ViRGE/GX, ViRGE/GX2, ViRGE/MX, ViRGE/MX+, Trio3D and Trio3D/2X > > is provided by the "s3virge" driver. Support (accelerated) for > > the Savage3D, Savage3D/MV, Savage4, and Savage2000, is provided > > by the "savage" driver. Support for the other S3 chipsets has > > not yet been ported. > > > > The same page mentions that xserver-svga in 3.3.6 also supports this > card. Many thanks for everybody's help. It's ok with the server-svga in 3.3.6. it's a good thing to know that. -- Gerard
xserver-S3
hello, I have a video-card S3 Trio 3D/2X. It is in the card list and the package xserver-S3 exist in potato, but when I install this package I can set up correctly xwindow except the form of the pointer of the mouse. In the section Chipset I find s3virge but not s3trio 3D/2X. Can someone tell me if the package xserver-S3 of woody does have a chipset for s3trio 3D/2X. Or if I can find it anywhere. TIA -- Gerard
Re: woody
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 05:57:06PM +0100, Brian Potkin wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 05:13:20PM +, gerard robin wrote:
>
> > hello,
> > I am connected to internet with a modem and to download
> > a distribution potato or woody spents 130 hours !
> > In France potato exists on CD but woody not.
>
> This looks like you are downloading the whole distribution. If you have
> potato already on your machine you could simply move to woody with
> apt-get. Unless you have an existing large installation the time
> involved should be a good deal less than 130 hours and it may end up a
> cheaper method than buying CD's.
>
> > Does woody exist on CD in a european country ?
> > If yes, can someone give me the link.
>
> Try Steve McIntyre in the UK. Follow the `Debian on CD' link on your
> usual Debian site.
>
> Brian.
Thanks, I have followed your advice and so I have upgraded the soft
which I needed.
However now (after upgrade) when I run a perl script I get this warning:
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "fr_FR.ISO-8859.1"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
xemacs give the message:
(1) (xim-xlib/warning) Can't set locale.
Using C locale instead.
With potato LC_ALL is unset but I don't have trouble.
How can I set locale ?
TIA.
Thanks to you all who have helped me.
--
Gerard
woody
hello, I am connected to internet with a modem and to download a distribution potato or woody spents 130 hours ! In France potato exists on CD but woody not. Does woody exist on CD in a european country ? If yes, can someone give me the link. TIA -- Gerard
menu_update vs. .twmrc
Hi. If I don't have a .twmrc file then the menus I find in twm are the ones provided by debian menu_update. That's almost what I want, but that doesn't give me the standard twm choices for raising and lowering windows, etc. If I provide the standard .twmrc file then I don't have any debian menus. It's an either/or proposition. I could, I suppose, add the .twmrc items as choices through menu update, but wouldn't that mean that when I switch to an alternate window manager it would be wrong again? I think I'm confused what my strategy should be to configure twm, and multiple window managers generally. How do I set up the menus so I can switch between window managers on the fly by picking a menu choice? Should I have .twmrc file? What approach do I take? Thanks! Cheers, Robin
Re: easy twm question
Karsten, Thanks for the tips, but it's not the root menu or window minimize that is the problem. Those I can do. It is the raise-lower-kill-whatever menu that is supposed to pop up somehow off the titlebar of each individual window that I can't find. Having the icon manager as a second method of minimizing and restoring windows doesn't seem to help. With twm I can activate the desktop menu, launch, minimize, and restore. What I can't seem to do is to close (kill) any windows I launch! How do I scrape all these minimized twm xterm windows off my desktop? And, no smart remarks that killing X would do it! Cheers, Robin P.S. Nice online resume. - Original Message - From: "Karsten M. Self" To: "Debian Users" Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 4:35 PM Subject: Re: easy twm question First, it's easy to test a window manager within another graphical environment by launching Xnest: $ Xnest :1 & $ twm -display :1 & The default Debian twm configuration binds the root window menu to left mouse. "Show Icon Manager" will show the icon manager. I like to add the following to my twmrc: IconifyByUnmapping # don't show windowicons, just use icon manager. RandomPlacement # opening windows isn't a drag. ShowIconManager # show icon manager at startup. To minimize a window, click the "circle in a square" icon, usually at top left of a window.
easy twm question
Here's an easy one, I think. In playing with twm all I seem to be able to do consistently is minimize or resize. How do I close a twm window, and how do I get the window's menu to appear? I've tried every mouse combination I can think of, the man page is no help, and I can't find a helpful Web site. I even got a window's menu to appear without figuring out how I did it. Using stock Debian configuration. What's the trick? Thanks, Robin
how to advise dselect of X 4.1.0
I've installed XFree86 4.1.0 from source. (The latest deb seems to be 4.0.3.) How do I tell dselect that I've done that? I want it to leave XFree86 4.1.0 alone, not try to bring in an updated 4.0.x. Thanks! Robin
not enough partitions
Hi. I have a hard drive with ext2 (primary), swap (logical), and NTFS (primary) partitions. It's a large drive with a lot of unused space. I want to carve up the remaining space into several partititions, but cfdisk only offers to make one last primary partition, then there are no more partitions available. Why can't I make the fourth partition an extended partition and put as many logical partitions there as I want? Should the NTFS partition have been created as a logical partition rather than as a primary? I don't want to delete that partition and reinstall Windows. Can I convert it into a logical partition without destroying it? Thanks, Robin
alien rpm trouble
Hi. I'm converting a commercial rpm using alien so I can install it in Debian (kernel 2.4.7). During the conversion alien reports warnings but does make a deb. When I go to load the installed program it loads the splash screen but eventually croaks, apparently because not all the shared libs were installed. Using ldd on the program I see I'm missing a bunch of shared libs. When alien runs against the rpm it generates a bunch of warnings of this form: "dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: format of lib_name.so is not recognized" where lib_name.so seems to be each of a bunch of proprietary libs that rpm -qlp says are in the rpm file. What's alien trying to tell me, and where do I go from here? I can't find the libs named on my system. Is there another way to force the install of the rpm? I tried using rpm instead of dpkg, but it objects that I have no db3 Packages database that it can open. I've never used rpm before, or alien either. I discovered a link on the Internet to a utility called rpm2tar, which seemed like it might be another route. But, I can't find the actual program. Ideas? Cheers, Robin
Re: alien dpkg-shlibdeps errors (solved)
YES! Thank you! Running ldconfig manually cleaned it up. Cheers, Robin - Original Message - From: "Joey Hess" Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2001 9:56 AM Subject: Re: alien dpkg-shlibdeps errors > Robin Rowe wrote: > > where some_lib_name.so seems to be each of a bunch of proprietary libs that > > I suspect are included in the rpm. What's alien trying to tell me, and where > > do I go from here? I can't find the libs named on my system. > > If the libraries are present in the rpm, then you can ignore the > message. > > Maybe they're put in a directory that is not present in your > /etc/ld.so.conf, and so when you try to run the program, it cannot find > them? If so you can try adding the paths there and running LDCONFIG. > > It's also possible that the libraries are installed, but the necessary > symlinks to let ldconfig find them are not installed. Manually running > ldconfig would clear that up. > > -- > see shy jo
Re: Unable to upgrade libc6 (solution)
Upgrade to 'testing' first, then 'unstable'. You can't make it directly from potato to unstable. (The testing version has the cp version with -L, but potato cp does not.) Below is the procedure that worked for me when I got hung up by the same problem. 1. Set /etc/apt/sources.list to point instead to testing, comment out unstable 2. apt-get update 3. apt-get -f install 4. apt-get upgrade 5. Now that testing is installed, point sources.list to unstable 6. apt-get update 7. apt-get upgrade Cheers, Robin - Original Message - From: "J.F.Gratton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2001 7:00 AM Subject: Unable to upgrade libc6, cannot find why > > Hi, I just tried to install Deb on a new PC, but I can't complete the > install, somehow. Here's what happens. > > - I started the install with Deb 2.2r3's boot floppy (well actually the > first cd) and then changed my /etc/apt/sources.list to point to an ftp > server with unstable instead of stable. > > - It downloads the packages OK. Now the fun starts... > > One the first packages it tries to install is libc6_2.2.3-7_i386.deb, to > replace the one from the CD (which is 2.1.3-18). > > Here's what I get: > > --- > Preparing to replace libc6 2.1.3-18 (using .../libc6_2.2.3-7_i386.deb) ... > cp: invalid option -- L > Try 'cp --help' for more information. > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.2.3-7_i386.deb > (--unpack): > subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1 > --- > > Sorry if this seems long, I thought that putting the whole message might > help people. > > I went throught the /var/lib/dpkg/info/libc6.* to find any mentions of > cp -L without finding anything. > > My system is now stuck half-installed as I cannot continue (libc6 being > important as it is for other packages). > > Anyone knows where to go from there ? Thanks > > Jeff > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
Re: X11 config - no VGA16 found
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 04:05:46PM +1000, Ian Perry wrote: > I hjave no doubt that I did something stupid somewhere along the line. > > I have used anXious to configure X and am getting an error message. > It seems that X thinks it needs a vga16 card (I have a Tseng Labs ET4000 > W32P card) > Does anyone know where that setting of vga16 might be coming from ? > I there a second config prog that I should be running ? > > If I set the svga to vga16 and the depth to 4 it works albeit at the wrong > resolution. > > Configs are attached > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Ian 1: apt-get install xserver-w32 (also apt-get install xserver-common xserver-svga) 2: run XF86Setup . hth -- Gerard
RE:search provider in france.
Sorry I lost the mail of the linuxer who is searching a provider in france. I reply on the all list. I don't know many providers but mine is free.fr siteservice communication phonelinux free.fr http://www.free.fr free payingnational yes libertysurf.fr? free free ? yes club-internet.fr ? paying payingnational yes wanadoo.fr? paying payin national yes I guess ? = http://www.provider I had problem with wanadoo,(france telecom) even after I had stopped my subscription with them, they continued to draw on my credit card. For further informations please contact the mailing list: debian-french@lists.debian.org Most of the members of this list understand the english language. h t h and happy vacation. -- Gerard
kernel panic:attempt to kill the idle task!
Hello, since a while my hard disk works without any task be launched and afterward my computer crashes with the message that I put in attached document. When I reboot, fsck check and repairs the file system and finally all seem correct. How can I know if this problem result from my computer or other causes, and how can remediate this problem. TIA -- Gerard Kernel panic :attempt to kill the idle task! In swapper task -not syncing Unable to handle Kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual addresse current -> tss;cr3=00101000, %cr3=00101000 *pde= Oops: CPU:0 EIP:0010:[<>] EFLAGS:00010046 eax: ebx: ecx:0005 edx:c2bb6000 esi:c02d4000 edi:c02b5f58 ebp: esp:c02d5ee0 ds:0018 es:0018 so:0018 Process swapper (pid:0,process nr:0, stackpage=c02d5000 stack: 0246 c02d5f58 c0119108 c0266688 c02d5f58 c02d4000 c02d5f58 c02fdd06 c02d4000 c010a6a5 c02d4000 c02d4000 c2bb call Trace:[] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] Code Bad EIP Value
Re: Newbie question - XFree86 configuration - (not sure if this is the right list)g
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 02:21:10PM -0700, Alexandre Dornback wrote: > > Newbie alert. I'm new to linux and am having issues. > _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 > > Please HELP... What am I missing? > This is during initial configuration after installation reboot. > I clicked YES to "Do you want to create the XFree86 configuration file?" man XF86Setup In a terminal, under root - launch XF86Setup, - read information to configuration with XF86Setup. If your mouse doesn't work press enter, read the informations, press enter and use the key TAB to select: 1: mouse --- configure your mouse now with your mouse: 2: keyboard configure your ... 3: card- configure your ... 4: monitor - configure your ... 5: modeselection --- configure your ... repeat this until X works fine be patient ... hth -- Gerard
Re: sound card not working properly
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 11:05:57PM -0400, D-Man wrote: > On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 12:28:21AM +0000, Robin Gerard wrote: . > I think you missed my mention of this in the last post. modprobe is > probably reading this as decimal (base 10) but it should be > hexadecimal (base 16). Change it to "io=0x220" and see if it helps at > all. IIRC, but I'm not completely sure, 'cat /proc/pci' will give > info about PCI cards. It may help some. > > | gives no change for irq > | what is the good way to change realy my irq ? > > Not sure. I thought the modprobe command would let you set it. I do not know how I did it, but now my IRQ=5 and xmms runs fine the *.wave's files and the sound with gnome-session is all right too. Thanks to whose who helped me. xmms does not like the cats because all the wave files in /usr/share/xemacs21/packages/etc/sounds/ work fine except catmeow.wav which drop definitely xmms. -- Gerard
Re: Audio CD Problems with Potato
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 10:47:24PM -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote: > On 07/16/01 07:20:47 +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: > > > > Better is: add your user to the cdrom group and chmod the device to that > > group instead of disk. > > Thanks for the heads up. I know how to add a user to a group, but how > does one remove a user from a group? I'm looking at the man page for > usermod right now, and not really feeling too confident that it's > going to do what I want. I don't want to remove myself from other > groups, especially my default group. Have a look at the attached mail that I send you. HTH -- Gerard >From robi Mon Jun 18 22:33:14 2001 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from pop.free.fr by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.3.3) for [EMAIL PROTECTED] (single-drop); Mon, 18 Jun 2001 22:33:14 + (GMT) Received: (qmail 16449 invoked from network); 17 Jun 2001 23:50:37 - Received: from murphy.debian.org (216.234.231.6) by mrelay2-2.free.fr with SMTP; 17 Jun 2001 23:50:37 - Received: (qmail 23773 invoked by uid 38); 17 Jun 2001 23:50:11 - X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 23722 invoked from network); 17 Jun 2001 23:50:09 - Received: from studsv07.studserv.uni-stuttgart.de (129.69.21.37) by murphy.debian.org with SMTP; 17 Jun 2001 23:50:09 - Received: from c5lx [129.69.192.25] by studsv07.studserv.uni-stuttgart.de with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.06) id A22E3262004A; Mon, 18 Jun 2001 01:50:06 +0200 Received: from tma by c5lx with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 15BmKH-5y-00 for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2001 01:51:29 +0200 Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 01:51:29 +0200 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: XMMS: root can / user can not listen Audio CDs Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; from [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 06:39:07PM -0400 From: Thomas Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Resent-Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/153582 X-Loop: debian-user@lists.debian.org Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Status: RO X-Status: A Content-Length: 1395 Lines: 40 On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 06:39:07PM -0400, David Z Maze wrote: > Thomas Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > TM> Adding user to group DISK solved my problem. > > You almost definitely don't want to add users to group disk, since > that gives them read/write access to raw devices for all of your disks > (meaning that they can directly read the bits off the hard disk, > meaning that they can effectively ignore filesystem permissions). > Better to change the group owner of your cdrom device to 'cdrom' with > chgrp, and then add users to group 'cdrom'. > > -- > David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ > O.k. Gerard -- glad to help also a bit: I removed user "tma" from group "disk" by gpasswd -d tma disk and I changed the owner of my cdrom-drive "/hdc" (until now owner being "disk") by chgrp -c cdrom /dev/hdc to "cdrom" (adding -c for getting informed what happens) User tma has been a member of group "cdrom" before so after these changes XMMS now may be enjoyed by tma too without letting him destroy important data. Thanks also to you David for your valuable advice. This was my first time on this list and I am impressed by speed and quality of answers. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sound card not working properly
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 03:02:12PM -0400, D-Man wrote: > On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 08:36:22PM +0200, Philipp wrote: > huh. (email doesn't display the tone, this is a thoughtful "huh", > not a confused "huh") > > > One time I decided it was time to solve this problem so I booted > windows and recorded every single option and setting in its config. > Then I went back to linux and found that I was using the wrong DMA > channel. I corrected it and the sound was beautiful after that. > That's about the extent of my sound card experience, but make sure you > aren't using an already used DMA channel and IRQ. > > -D okay, windoz give me : sound card: sb irq :05 dma :01 io : 220 linux give me :sound card sb irq: 07 (and irq conflict) dma: 01 io: 220 and modprobe sb irq=05 dma=01 io=220 gives no change for irq what is the good way to change realy my irq ? TIA -- Gerard
Re: exim ?
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 05:03:22PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: > On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 04:36:38PM +0000, Robin Gerard wrote: > > I can send mails to all users except > > to those who are the same domaine that > > me i.e.: > > my addresse : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I send a mail to : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > mailq indicates that nothing it's > > in the queue. . > Then configure fetchmail and tell it that "user robin.jag is user foo > here", or something along those lines (rtfm - my memory is weak here). > > > mutt an balsa gives the same result. > > Fix your personal configuration to set a custom "From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]" > header on any mails you write. That is only a message header and will > not confuse any mta's, but will hint people's mua's where to reply to. > > The only disadvantage is having to do this for all mua's independently. > But then fixing it in exim is slightly more than a trivial excercise. > Try it the simple way first. Sorry for the trouble Joost, the msg I sent and the subject, unfortunately, does not match with my problems. My mta and mua were not at the origin of my problems. After I have reinstalled (twice on this week) my potato my msg reach correctly their destinations. (with the same files exim.conf and .muttrc that previously) But I will be happy to understand what hapened to my potato to avoid the same annoyance again. Thanking you for your kind help. Best wishes. Gerard.
Re: mount (2.4.4)
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 08:04:21PM +, Robin Gerard wrote: On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 01:38:44PM -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 07:43:20PM +0000, Robin Gerard wrote: ... > :fatfs : bogus cluster size > :VFS:can't find a valide MSDOS filesystem on dev 02:00 > :mount:you must specify the filesystem type . > You probably have a raw kernel image on the floppy (no filesystem at > all). Try "rdev /dev/fd0" you should get back something like "Root > device /dev/hda1" if you have a kernel image there. ok but I can write my boot diskette of the kernel 2.2.17 > You're probably better off using lilo or another boot loader to boot > of the HD, boot ing from floppy is Soo tedious :) I agree with you but I have potato 2.2r2 and an other OS on one hdd second master (hdc) and potato 2.2r0 on an other hdd first master (hda). Lilo boot linux and the other OS on hdc and I boot linux with a boot diskette on hda. Can I boot the three systems with lilo ? I guess that I must use grub to do this. > -Jon > -- Gerard
Re: mount (2.4.4)
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 01:38:44PM -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 07:43:20PM +0000, Robin Gerard wrote: ... > :fatfs : bogus cluster size > :VFS:can't find a valide MSDOS filesystem on dev 02:00 > :mount:you must specify the filesystem type . > You probably have a raw kernel image on the floppy (no filesystem at > all). Try "rdev /dev/fd0" you should get back something like "Root > device /dev/hda1" if you have a kernel image there. ok but I can write my boot diskette of the kernel 2.2.17 > You're probably better off using lilo or another boot loader to boot > of the HD, boot ing from floppy is Soo tedious :) I agree with you but I have potato 2.2r2 and an other OS on one hdd second master (hdc) and potato 2.2r0 on an other hdd first master (hda). Lilo boot linux and the other OS on hdc and I boot linux with a boot diskette on hda. Can I boot the three systems with lilo ? I guess that I must use grub to do this. > -Jon > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Gerard
exim ?
hello, Sorry for this problem of newbie but I can send mails to all users except to those who are the same domaine that me i.e.: my addresse : [EMAIL PROTECTED] I send a mail to : [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailq indicates that nothing it's in the queue. mutt an balsa gives the same result. I never had encounter this problem. TIA for advices. -- Gerard
mount (2.4.4)
hello, I have succeded compile kernel-2.4.4, but Y have yet a problem : I want read my boot diskette, I do : mount /floppy and I get the msg : fatfs : bogus cluster size VFS:can't find a valide MSDOS filesystem on dev 02:00 ( I am rather happy of this ) mount:you must specify the filesystem type Can someone gives me advices or tells me wehere is the doc of this mater. I search too the doc about the file /etc/mtab. TIA -- Gerard
Re: exim mutt ?
On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 09:57:42AM +1000, Joel Mayes wrote: . > Have you put the correct e-mail address in /etc/email-addresses ? problem solved : when I installed potato, exim asked me to set exim.conf and I chose the option 5. Afterwards, I put my file exim.conf of my previous installation in /etc. I have run eximconfig and set again exim.conf and now it's ok. Tanks for your advices. -- Gerard
exim mutt ?
Hello, Y had to reinstall my potato 2.2r2 (I had tried to compile kernel 2.4.5 ) and there is a change : (exim & mutt) before : (complite failure...) if user1 send a msg (local) to user2 i.e. : From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] to :[EMAIL PROTECTED] (or localhost) the msg goes directly in /var/spool/mail/user2. after: the msg goes in /var/spool/exim/input and goes to my provider and come back with error, because [EMAIL PROTECTED] is unknown for my provider. J don't know how to put things back in order. Thanks in advance for advices. -- Gerard
Re: % with perl
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 12:56:11PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 01:24:28AM +0000, Robin Gerard wrote: > > this script runs fine: > > > try > > perldoc -f each > perldoc -f keys ok it's just what I need. > the camel book and the llama book are both wonderful resources > (for perl and for programming in general) at www.oreilly.com > Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ... Many thanks to those who give me advices, perl is still mysterious for me it's a subtle language not so easy as it is said. -- Gerard
Re: Installing Debian From a Floppy
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 01:44:45AM +0300, Nagib Abi Fadel wrote: > How can i Install Debian2.2 ? > Can i download any files that will help me booting from a floppy disk ?? 1 add on your boot dikette for win95 the file mscdex.exe and the device driver of your CD-ROM drive. in my autoexec.bat I have written : A:\MSCDEX.EXE /D:MSCD000 and in my config.sys : DEVICE=A:\SJCDAPI.SYS /D:MSCD000 (SJCDAPI.SYS is my device driver) 2 start your machine with the boot diskette and put the cdrom debian 1 in the CD-ROM drive : E: (or D or F ) cd INSTALL BOOT.BAT enterstarts the installation of linux hope this help. -- Gerard
Re: XMMS: root can / user can not listen Audio CDs
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 01:51:29AM +0200, Thomas Martin wrote: > On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 06:39:07PM -0400, David Z Maze wrote: . > I removed user "tma" from group "disk" by > >gpasswd -d tma disk This is the good advice. > This was my first time on this list and I am impressed by speed and quality of > answers. Thanks to those who gives me advices.( good or not ) -- Gerard
% with perl
hello,
this script runs fine:
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
print "\n\n";
%loginpsswd=("gerard","12345678","jaimie","78945612","andy","45632178");
print $loginpsswd{"gerard"};
print "\n\n";
print $loginpsswd{"jaimie"};
print "\n\n";
print $loginpsswd{"toto"};
print "\n\n";
but when instead of the six last lines I write:
$i=0;
while ($i<3)
{
print $loginpsswd{"$loginpasswd[2*$i]"};
print "\n\n";
}
I get error ...
can someone whose knows perl explain me how to write
this loop correctly.
TIA
--
Gerard
Re: XMMS: root can / user can not listen Audio CDs
On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 08:02:13PM +0200, Robert Voigt wrote: > On Sunday 17 June 2001 18:12, Thomas Martin wrote: > Add your users to the groups audio and disk so they have permission to access > the devices. > addgroup user group Sorry for this supid question : How to remove a user of a group ? i.e. do the contrary of addgroup. TIA -- Gerard
