Stephen Early writes (Re: upgrading from 0.93R6 to 1.1 beta):
On Thu, 2 May 1996, James D. Freels wrote:
Can I install v 1.1 over the existing v 0.93R6 installation as a usual
package (or whole sets of packages) upgrade? I could not find
instructions on how to do that.
Yes, you can. Two
Jason Eggleston writes:
Jason How does one get this to work? It's running but it won't let other
Jason hosts finger me. The man page says to add -f to the fingerd
Jason command, but where and how?
Quick shot from the hip: I bet you are looking at the wrong configuration
file. Check
Francisco Avelino da Silva writes (installing debian1.1 in a free partition ):
...
* using dselect: I am a newer debian user (3 weeks ago I installed the
0.93R6 version at the first time), so I began the installation
using the dselect program. It works fine, but I had the following obstacles:
The gs package is compiled to use svgalib and X. This is a nuisance, I
had to install svgalib only for gs. I propose to split it in one for
svgalib only and another for X only.
Carlos
hmmm... nope. I deleted those files, and still the same
$ finger @localhost
[localhost]
$
is all that happens... I think it has something to do with inetd.conf:
finger stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/sbin/tcpd
/usr/sbin/in.fingerd -w -f
it looks good to me, but it doesn't
I've just enabled anonymous ftp to my Debian 1.1 Linux box according
to the instructions in the ftpd manpage. All works fine, except that
it appears that an anonymous ftp user cannot use the command DIR and
ls -l doesn't work (both report no files). This works fine for
regular users. I simply
Is it possible to use an NIS-Server from a Client on a different subnet?
In the old NIS implementation there was a /etc/yp.conf in which I could
set ypserver nis-master. This is no longer used by the new ypbind. I
tried ypbind -S mydomain,nis-master but it still doesn't bind.
Harald Schueler
From: Luis F. Gonzalez [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
yesterday I installed 1.1 from scratch and it all went smoothly but for the
keyboard. I am using a spanish keyboard and altough I selected it in the re-
levant section of the installation, the keyboard table never gets loaded.
I also installed
what package does uugetty come with?
\\
Kishu
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The autumn sun goes down. Without a cry,
A crow has flown across the orange sky.
The gs package is compiled to use svgalib and X. This is a nuisance, I
had to install svgalib only for gs. I propose to split it in one for
svgalib only and another for X only.
Carlos
I'm sorry, but this is the way it has been decided to do it for all
packages that could use more libs:
Hi does any one out there use an Avance Logic Video Card. Please if you do
could you be in touch. I would like to discuss some of the problems that I am
having with my video card ..
--Thanks Jonathan Lawson
joost witteveen writes:
The gs package is compiled to use svgalib and X. This is a nuisance, I
had to install svgalib only for gs. I propose to split it in one for
svgalib only and another for X only.
Consider also the cases where the user wants svgalib but not X; and
also the case where they
I recieved the following message which got me thinking in a bit
different direction.
To: R Chris Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mr Chris Ross
Maybe the solution to your problem is that you should try the
installation in two steps:
repeat the normal installations as you followed last night
On Thu, 2 May 1996, Keith Beattie[SFSU Student] wrote:
I've been trying to make a boot disk using rawrite on either a Win 95
or NT machine and can't seem to get it to work. The running of rawrite
works just fine (no errors) but when I try to boot with the disk -
nothing. No complaining
On Fri, 3 May 1996, Jean-Marc Bourguet wrote:
By the way, is it possible to choose and load the keyboard table at the
start of the installation procedure? It is something annoying having to
correct everything you type... I scrambled my password because of this :(
May I add another 'yes'? I've
I've been trying to make a boot disk using rawrite on either a Win 95
or NT machine and can't seem to get it to work. The running of rawrite
works just fine (no errors) but when I try to boot with the disk -
nothing. No complaining about bad system disk or anything, the machine
just hangs.
On
I'm sorry if this is an FAQ - I couldn't find the answer
anywhere in the Archives.
Is PCMCIA support available in debian? I'm running off of a
laptop and I'd really like to see it. I grabbed the sources
for pcmcia-cs from Stanford and it compiles and installs
cleanly. Still, it'd be nice to
I recieved the following message which got me thinking in a bit
different direction.
To: R Chris Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mr Chris Ross
Maybe the solution to your problem is that you should try the
installation in two steps:
repeat the normal installations as you followed last night
On Sat, 4 May 1996, Fundamental wrote:
what package does uugetty come with?
I don't think that uugetty is available as a Debian package yet. I
installed mine after downloading it from sunsite.
Best regards,
Nick
I have uploaded a new root floppy that should help installations run
on systems with 4MB memory. It is in
ftp://ftp.i-connect.net/debian/unstable/disks-i386/root_floppy.gz .
It was built on May 2, and the file has a date of May 3.
Please try this floppy if you have a 4MB system that you have not
Bruce Perens wrote:
rawrite2 works fine on my wife's Windows 95 system. Perhaps it's a flaw
in my documentation. Did you uncompress the 1440_boot_floppy.gz file
using the gzip executable that will be self-extracted from gzip124.exe ?
You must uncompress the boot floppy, but need not
rawrite2 works fine on my wife's Windows 95 system. Perhaps it's a flaw
in my documentation. Did you uncompress the 1440_boot_floppy.gz file
using the gzip executable that will be self-extracted from gzip124.exe ?
You must uncompress the boot floppy, but need not uncompress the root floppy
or any
I didn't have any trouble finger-ing you either at chaph.usc.edu or at
castor.usc.edu. Perhaps you've solved the problem by now. If not,
what site did you have trouble with? Also, what versions of netbase
(which contains tcpd) and netstd (which contains in.fingerd) are you using?
I notice
With the complete set of proper base disks things work a bit
better but I'm currently hung at verify after formatting the boot
floppy. ( The saga continues.)
On Wed, 1 May 1996, Tim 'Death before Decaf' Sailer wrote:
The powers that be here at BNL just changed our dialin setup from a
NetBlazer, to a Cisco/USR managed modem bank, and it supports PAP.
Now, never having set Linux up as a client, just as a server, I've
stumbled my way around for a few
I've just enabled anonymous ftp to my Debian 1.1 Linux box according
to the instructions in the ftpd manpage. All works fine, except that
it appears that an anonymous ftp user cannot use the command DIR
and ls -l doesn't work (both report no files). This works fine for
regular users. I simply
This is probably the most frequently asked question over on the
wu-ftpd list :-)
Easy way: compile ls from sources, but use gcc -static at the end so
it doesn't need shared libs. Works on all systems.
Hard way: update a *lot* more of lib, you need ld.so and/or
ld-linux.so, and you need to run
I think I've got all the files now to upgrade to 1.1, but before I start
I have a couple of questions. When I initially installed the stable version
I managed to get it done, but I stumbled a bit with dselect. Does dselect
expect the Packages file to reflect what files are available, or should it
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