Re: installation problems

2000-03-13 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
> "Massimo" == Massimo Dal Zotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Massimo> having a free day and a spare harddisk today I tried to install a frozen Massimo> potato. I installed via nfs from a mirror of ftp.debian.org on a local server Massimo> done yesterday. I found a number of probe

installation problems

2000-03-10 Thread Massimo Dal Zotto
Hi, having a free day and a spare harddisk today I tried to install a frozen potato. I installed via nfs from a mirror of ftp.debian.org on a local server done yesterday. I found a number of probems which I'm now reporting: 1) the first two installation attempts failed with the following err

Re: Installation problems

1998-06-08 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Mon, Jun 08, 1998 at 11:49:42AM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > 2) qftp needs libstd 2.7.2.* but the libstdc is 2.8.* A NMU of me sits in incoming on master. Nils -- *-* | Quotes from the net: L> Linus Torvalds, W> Win

Installation problems

1998-06-08 Thread Michael Meskes
I tried to install debian on my laptop over the weekend and ran into several problems, some of which I haven't seen mentioned here before: 1) PCMCIA support is broke. No, I do not mean the incorrect kernel symbols, but the 3.0.3-1 pcmcia packages in slink that I used as a next step. They don't eve

Bug#2033: efax installation problems

1995-12-28 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Hi, this comes belated as I was away for Xmas... Carl Streeter writes: Carl> >> No! It is a conffile because /usr/bin/fax, a bash script, was the only >> place to set your local fax settings as serial port, modem capabilities, >> INIT strings, phone number, prinyer what have you. Carl

Bug#2033: efax installation problems

1995-12-18 Thread Carl Streeter
> No! It is a conffile because /usr/bin/fax, a bash script, was the > only place to set your local fax settings as serial port, modem capabilities, > INIT strings, phone number, prinyer what have you. If this is still the case, then /usr/bin/fax should be a symlink into /etc, and the script should

Bug#2033: efax installation problems

1995-12-15 Thread Robert Leslie
> Robert> 2. /usr/bin/fax should probably no longer be listed in conffiles. > > No! It is a conffile because /usr/bin/fax, a bash script, was the > only place to set your local fax settings as serial port, modem capabilities, > INIT strings, phone number, prinyer what have you. While /usr/bin/fa

Bug#2033: efax installation problems

1995-12-15 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Robert Leslie writes: Robert> Package: efax Robert> Version: 07a-2 Robert> Robert> 1. The postinst script says to modify /usr/bin/fax, but it should Robert> probably now say /etc/efax.rc instead. Thanks, I will modify that for the next release. Robert> 2. /usr/bin/fax should prob

Bug#2033: efax installation problems

1995-12-15 Thread Robert Leslie
Package: efax Version: 07a-2 1. The postinst script says to modify /usr/bin/fax, but it should probably now say /etc/efax.rc instead. 2. /usr/bin/fax should probably no longer be listed in conffiles. 3. The software looks for spool files in /usr/spool/fax, but: a. It should probably look i

small installation problems

1995-10-02 Thread Bruce Perens
Just before it rebooted from the RAM disk to the newly-installed system, I saw the error message "/etc/mtab.tmp": no space left on device. It's not fatal, but it's disconcerting to the new user, and could perhaps cause some un-mounts to fail. If I use the "shell" menu item, the hard disk bin direc