On Aug 11, 7:25pm, Bruce Perens wrote:
Subject: installation boot fails with standard bootdisk on 486SX/33
: From: Christopher R. Hertel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
: On my system (brand-new AMD-486DX4-120), the error that I get tells
: me that the failure is occurring as the kernel is being
:
When I run less on a 0 byte file, it displays its help screen (same as
if you less a normal file and press 'h').
Example:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/worktouch foo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/workless foo
SUMMARY OF LESS COMMANDS
Commands marked with * may be preceded by a number, N.
What's this message? Do you have an idea? It happens with 2.0.12 when
I connect using UUCP, and I have the following messages logged too:
uucico fdn daemon (1996-08-12 19:05:15.82 569) ERROR: Line disconnected
uucico fdn - (1996-08-12 19:05:15.89 569) ERROR: write: I/O error
uucico fdn -
From: Christopher R. Hertel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I disabled the internal cache and--*poof*--the problem went away.
I will send a report to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have one other report matching this, and two anecdotes, all
reproduced below. I suspect that BIOS floppy I/O is breaking when the
cache is
I currently do not have an account on master.debian.org, but I have sent
Bruce Perens the files, and he has been kind enough to upload them for
me, so they should be appearing on the mirrors soon.
Shaya
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Date: 09 Aug 96 15:24 UT
Format: 1.6
Distribution:
Regarding why IPX gets loaded when configuring the loopback interface,
Please figure out its protocol number and add alias net-pf-N off to
/etc/conf.modules , where N is the protocol number.
I'm not clear what the real fix should be.
Thanks
Bruce
`dmesg' shows a lot of messages about two sectors on my disk. For
example
hda: read_intr: error=0x01 { AddrMarkNotFound }, LBAsect=1097170, sector=48787
hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
hda: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=1097170,
Does anyone know how to get diald to work? I'm almost there; I can get it to
do it's thing, dial, connect to my ISP, start sending data, but after about
30 seconds, diald kills pppd, and reports that it has timed out waiting for
ppp to connect. :/ Since I was in the middle of receiving an
I have installed fvwm95, and keep running into the same errors,
-lfvwm95-2 file or directory not found...
X11/xdm.h file or directory not found...
yes, I added . to my PATH, (why my base install did not add it,
I do not know...
I installed fvwm2 on my system and it works, and I have
This problem only exists on the boot floppies. That means if you can
install on any small partition (where anything under 1024MB is small)
you can then make the filesystem correctly once the system has been
installed on your hard disk.
I will try to get a new boot floppy set uploaded in the next
On Tue, 6 Aug 1996, David C Winters wrote:
I've got approximately 50 machines I need to build. My best option
for the initial system build, unless I've missed something, would be
to run deselect on one machine, then take a deselect-generated file
containing my selections and exporting that
Douglas Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
`dmesg' shows a lot of messages about two sectors on my disk.
Oh, thank God! I'm not the only one! I thought my disk was dying!
Hello All,
I want to thank you for the hand I got with my last adventure with
dpkg/dselect and it (the link to /bin/perl from /usr/bin/perl)
cleared up a lot of the problems.
However, the *entire* tex package won't install, telling me there are
dependency problems and dselect (although it
Hi,
I have an IDE and SCSI-2 Drives.
After a power failure. I cannot fsck one of my IDE partition
when I type:
fsck /dev/hda8
I get:
-- Parallelizing fsck version 1.02 (16-Jan-96)
e2fsck 1.02, 16-Jan-96 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
fsck.ext2: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short
Is there a way with a 2 floppy set, to get a basic linux kernel
booted up and to 'see' any of the compiled-in ether cards, and
detecting any PCMCIA cards? I think this is too big to fit on the
2nd floppy...
Tim
--
(work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps
I have been trying to get suck working and haven't had any luck.
Everything seems to work with no complaints and no error messages, but
it always reports that there is nothing to download. I can use the
testhost command to download the active file, and there is a suck.newrc
file left in the /tmp
Joel Zimba [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This is becoming a FAQ - why is this happening?
after running dselect and installing a bunch of stuff.
I finished install.
Now I can't find the ftp option when I go back into dselect.
why?
Not sure (it is included in the base set but seems to get
Greetings,
I'm brand new to Linux and was looking for recommendations for a choice
of file systems
Sincerely,
-William Riggs
I'm running OS/2 Warp with HPFS on several of my drives.
I noticed that Linux 1.1 fdisk reveals two different file system
identifiers for these
HPFS partitions:
/dev/sda5 id 7 OS/2 HPFS
/dev/hda2 id 17 Unknown
The Unknown partition type (id 17) was created by OS/2 Warp fdisk during
the
Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I need to do something similar.i asked Ian Jackson (dpkg's author) about
it but he seems quite disinterested in the idea.
Mmm, no I think he's just got plenty of other things to worry about at the
moment. He seemed to give you the information you
There's a preliminary packaging of fvwm95 in
ftp.sedona.com:/pub/linux/debian.
It works fine, but currently conflicts with the standard fvwm and
fvwm2. Perhaps you'd be willing to download my copy as a starting
point and take over maintenance of the package? You can find
information on
However, with longer documents which I used to be able
to compile cleanly under Slackware things are not that
rosy. Previewing dvi files, I get misaligned page numbers
in table of contents, screwed up tables and documents
look a mess.
You have to run latex two, three and sometimes even four
Hi,
I'm not clear what the real fix should be.
its kind of a bug in ifconfig an will be fixed in a future release of
ifconfig by me.
Greetings
Bernd
net-tools upstream maintainer
Are there any other mirrors of ftp.debian.org in Australia besides
sunsite.anu.edu.au and ftp.debian.org.au? Both of these two seem to
be a bit behind with their mirroring, but the link to the US
is very very slow lately; looks like it's going to take hours
to get the updated manual pages .. :-(
BTW only unasked questions are stupid.
3. How would I specify to use -o (--colors) as a default option for
color-ls? (I also
wish to use color-ls when I use the 'ls' command. So, I would assume I
would
do an
mv /bin/ls /usr/lib
ln -sf /usr/bin/color-ls /usr/bin/ls
ln -sf /usr/lib/ls
The distribution is from the middle of July, an i-connect CD. The
problem stated by dpgk/dselect has something to do with texbin
installation postinst script not being able to find what its looking
for, I get an errormessage, and the remaining packages (latex, etc)
remain unconfigured If
Hello,
bored of the rubbish that slackware blows on my disk, I looked for an
alternative - and found debian.
Yesterday I tried to install the base-disks from buzz-fixed/binary-i386/disks
(feivel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de).
I ran into some problems which are not mentioned in the FAQs I found...
On Mon, 12 Aug 1996 14:20:06 -0500, Christopher R. Hertel wrote:
most cases hardware will be blamed, even though the problem appears on
a variety of memory/CPU/motherboard/add-on configurations, and the same
configurations can run other OSs (*including* older versions of Linux)
The external
At 04:15 PM 8/13/96 +1000, you wrote:
Are there any other mirrors of ftp.debian.org in Australia besides
sunsite.anu.edu.au and ftp.debian.org.au? Both of these two seem to
be a bit behind with their mirroring, but the link to the US
is very very slow lately; looks like it's going to take hours
I posted earlier about this, but I have more info and it
seems to be specific to this module and not lilo. I had to
change my base_io from 330 to 234 to accomodate my MPU-401
interface on the Audiotrix Pro card. This works fine under
DOS/WIN with a /P234 switch at load time for the driver.
The
Hi Daniel --
You asked:
3. How would I specify to use -o (--colors) as a default option for
color-ls? (I also
wish to use color-ls when I use the 'ls' command. So, I would assume I
would
do an
mv /bin/ls /usr/lib
ln -sf /usr/bin/color-ls /usr/bin/ls
ln -sf /usr/lib/ls /usr/bin/old-ls
In your email to me, Carl Johnson, you wrote:
I have been trying to get suck working and haven't had any luck.
Everything seems to work with no complaints and no error messages, but
it always reports that there is nothing to download. I can use the
testhost command to download the active
Hi,
Has anyone else experienced complete lockups of the system?
It has happened a few times to me, and it doesn't even let me
telnet or rlogin to the machine. So far this has happened
only under X and when using mailtool over remote connection.
Other info:
Using fvwm2
ne2000
On Aug 12, 8:24pm, Carl Johnson wrote:
Subject: Suck doesn't download news
I have been trying to get suck working and haven't had any luck.
Everything seems to work with no complaints and no error messages, but
it always reports that there is nothing to download. I can use the
testhost
On Tue, 13 Aug 1996, Jim Worthington wrote:
I'm running OS/2 Warp with HPFS on several of my drives.
I noticed that Linux 1.1 fdisk reveals two different file system
identifiers for these
HPFS partitions:
/dev/sda5 id 7 OS/2 HPFS
/dev/hda2 id 17 Unknown
This a little bit of a
Hmm I have stumbled on a new problem...
I used to have a 1280x1024 virtual screen but now I only use
a screen the same size as my viewport(1024x768) so whenever I start
Netscape3.0b6 Mail program it's window is too large.. Where is this
window size info stored??.. I've looked allover but no
There was some kind of a bug in 2.0.7, so 2.0.8 was released; similarly
for 2.0.8-2.0.9 and 2.0.9-2.0.10. 2.0.8 is however, stable. This is
the kernel
which the current Debian installation uses.
the message Can't resolve symbol llseek.
This sounds like a programming error. The symbol
On Mon, 12 Aug 1996 17:10:24 +0200, Dominik Kubla wrote:
1. The Bourne Again SHell seems to require a '.\' before the
|
I guess you mean ./, don't you? ---+
Oops. :(
Check your PATH setting: is . part of the search path?
Yes.
On Mon, 12 Aug 1996 12:48:47 +, Karsten Mueller wrote:
I tried to install Debian 1.1 on a 4GB Partition using the kernel 2.07
There was some kind of a bug in 2.0.7, so 2.0.8 was released; similarly
for 2.0.8-2.0.9 and 2.0.9-2.0.10. 2.0.8 is however, stable. This is
the kernel
which the
Douglas Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
`dmesg' shows a lot of messages about two sectors on my disk.
From: Michael Harnois [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Oh, thank God! I'm not the only one! I thought my disk was dying!
Maybe it is. Read the man page for e2fsck, and look for the -c
flag. Read the man page
From: Jens Peter Lindemann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The $TERM Environment-Variable is set to con80x25 on my system
This is a symptom of an antique kernel. Are you running Debian 0.93? Debian
1.1.4 is on our FTP site ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/stable . Did you change
the kernel in some other way?
I am getting lots of messages about the key symbols
not being right. I remember from BSDI that you had
to have the nls directory set up in a special place.
Tried to hack this but still not getting the desired
result (i.e. no more messages about missing keysyms).
The docs say that a suitable
Last night I tried and tried to get my system to come up in
single user mode (so I could do some major filesystem changes).
I couldn't get it to come up single-user. I tried booting from
the original install boot floppy, and to my surprise it booted
up my kernel on the hard disk?!?!?!
I couldn't
On Mon, 12 Aug 1996, Douglas Bates wrote:
`dmesg' shows a lot of messages about two sectors on my disk. For
example
hda: read_intr: error=0x01 { AddrMarkNotFound }, LBAsect=1097170,
sector=48787
hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
...
Should this
My experience is that there are a couple of good hardware reasons for
getting serial mice instead of PS/2 mice:
-- we accidentally fried a BIOS chip by delivering a static charge through
a PS/2 mouse. This has never happened with a serial mouse,
and leads me to suspect that the PS/2
This is becoming a FAQ - why is this happening?
I presume that a lot of people are installing some cdrom version or the
released version of Debian. The changes were in the unstable version.
How many weeks to go for the next release?
Erick
In your email to me, Carl Johnson, you wrote:
I have been trying to get suck working and haven't had any luck.
Everything seems to work with no complaints and no error messages, but
it always reports that there is nothing to download. I can use the
testhost command to download the
Klee Dienes wrote:
There's a preliminary packaging of fvwm95 in
ftp.sedona.com:/pub/linux/debian.
It works fine, but currently conflicts with the standard fvwm and
fvwm2. Perhaps you'd be willing to download my copy as a starting
fvwm95 shares many files with fvwm2 (all of the modules).
Hello Pablo,
Why does kerneld load the IPX module while the localhost's loopback
interface is being set up? (ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1)
I see no need to it... stracing ifconfig shows that it makes an IPX call
(and also an AX.25 and some other calls). This didn't happened with and
old Slackware
Hi all,
I follow the links from the Debian org homepage to:
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/Debian-1.1/disks-i386/current
here I try to download root.bin, boot1440.bin etc. and I get
a error from my browser saying the links are bad and it can't
find the files!
Could someone point me the the base
I'm brand new to Linux and was looking for recommendations for a choice
of file systems
local filesystem? : ext2fs
Erick
On Mon, 12 Aug 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Greetings,
I'm brand new to Linux and was looking for recommendations for a choice
of file systems
You mean Do I go with xiafs or extfs or what else?
Easy. Go with 'ext2fs'. The other Linux-specific ones arent' being used
very much nowadays.
On Fri, 9 Aug 1996, Wayne Schlitt wrote:
On Thu, 8 Aug 1996, Douglas Bates wrote:
the combination of the IDE controller in the Triton chipset with an
EIDE drive is as fast as fast, wide SCSI.
SCSI's advantage is that it can handle multiple outstanding requests at
the same time,
On Tue, 13 Aug 1996 13:54:49 +0100, Jeppe Sigbrandt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
Has anyone else experienced complete lockups of the system?
It has happened a few times to me, and it doesn't even let me
telnet or rlogin to the machine. So far this has happened
only under X and when using
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