floppy problems?

1996-10-13 Thread Robert Nicholson
Anybody seen this in 2.0.6? floppy0: disk absent or changed during operation end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 1 bread in fat_access failed cat: list: I/O error I wrote to this disk after I mounted it under Solaris x86 using vol management and when I attempt to read from it under debian

xinetd

1996-10-13 Thread Boris D. Beletsky
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hello Since i've noticed that there is no xinetd pkg for debian, i thought that i can maintain it. Plz tell me what you think of the idea borik ___ Boris D. Beletsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nicaragua st. 3/15 Jerusalem Israel 96586 For pgp public key,

pcmcia ethernet cont'd

1996-10-13 Thread Robert Nicholson
OK here's what I did. I've installed the buzz-updates disks and I have a 2.0.6 kernel now and I've added the pcmcia_cs package and the modules that go with it and my system recognises the 3c589c at boot time. However, it doesn't setup the interface for some reason and my strobe light is hard on

Re: 2 versions of some packages

1996-10-13 Thread Christian Hudon
On 12 Oct 1996, Rob Browning wrote: Christian Hudon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Then I say it's a bug in dftp. So what's the right way to handle this? Hmm. I don't really know much about dftp, but when dpkg-ftp sees that two of the files it has downloaded are different versions of the same

Re: xinetd

1996-10-13 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Sun, 13 Oct 1996, Boris D. Beletsky wrote: borik Since i've noticed that there is no xinetd pkg for debian, i thought borik that i can maintain it. I really like to have it. But I wonder how the debian scripts for the maintenance (update-inetd) of inetd.conf will fare with the

Re: mailbox locking in debian

1996-10-13 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Guy Maor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 12 Oct 1996, Loic Prylli wrote: So what is the proper way to lock a user mailbox ? The proper way is with the user.lock file. Policy manual 4.3 documents this. You should file bug reports against any programs that use a

Re: inews package conflicts with domestic convention

1996-10-13 Thread Kazuhiro Sasayama
MvS == Miquel van Smoorenburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I found Debian inews package conflicts with Japanese domestic convention about news articles. We have embedded raw ESCs without any special encodings into articles to write Japanese, and the inews package is programmed

Boot disk SCSI kernel panic

1996-10-13 Thread Lindsay Haisley
Package: boot1440.bin / aic7xxx Version: Debian 1.1 I get a kernel panic on SCSI probing on attempting to boot from the standard Debian boot disk and can go no further. My system is a 486 DX2/80 with an Adaptec AHA2842 VL Bus SCSI card. boot1440.bin was obtained from \buzz\disks-i3\current on

How to interrupt the boot process?

1996-10-13 Thread Toni Mueller
Hello all, I just made a *BIG* mistake on my Debian Linux box resulting in not being able to boot that machine anymore... Some problems with lilo and a custom kernel not finding his modules (that also claim to have unresolved symbols). The machine boots until it hangs when trying to access

Re: How to interrupt the boot process?

1996-10-13 Thread Stoyan Kenderov
Hi Toni, there may have been much more profound answers to your questions, bu t in case, there were none, here is what I do when in trouble: Now I have some questions: - How can I stop the boot process half-way to get a single-user root shell? At the beginning, just after your POST

Re: pcmcia ethernet cont'd

1996-10-13 Thread Robert Nicholson
I've sinced learned that I should be looking at /etc/pcmcia/network and since I changed that things started work. However, it would seem that the patch cable I'm using is incorrect because I pulled out another much shorter cable that worked but is too small for me to do anything. Does anybody

Re: floppy problems?

1996-10-13 Thread Robert Nicholson
Robert Nicholson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anybody seen this in 2.0.6? floppy0: disk absent or changed during operation end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 1 bread in fat_access failed cat: list: I/O error I wrote to this disk after I mounted it under Solaris x86 using vol

Re: 2 versions of some packages

1996-10-13 Thread Rob Browning
Christian Hudon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hmm. I don't really know much about dftp, but when dpkg-ftp sees that two of the files it has downloaded are different versions of the same package, it installs the more recent version and discards the older one. Can't dftp do something like that? Or

PGP and ELM

1996-10-13 Thread Erik van der Meulen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I have noticed that my elm package has some support for PGP, that is it recognizes it at least. I have been searching the FTP site for a package, but without success. The ELM documentation does not even mention PGP, so I am a bit lost. Can anyone give me a

Re: 2 versions of some packages

1996-10-13 Thread Christian Hudon
On 13 Oct 1996, Rob Browning wrote: Christian Hudon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, I'm not sure that installing the most recent one is the right answer. Take ghostscript for example. There's the GNU version in .../text and the Aladdin version in .../non-free. Now the GNU version should

Re: 2 versions of some packages

1996-10-13 Thread Rob Browning
Christian Hudon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I still don't see a problem... Unless the problem is that dftp makes no distinction between the different sections (i.e. doesn't allow people to distinguish between non-free, unstable and contrib)... but that would be a problem with dftp, IMO. Ah,

Re: How to interrupt the boot process?

1996-10-13 Thread Dominik Kubla
If you are using a boot loader like lilo/syslinux that is simple: just pass the '-b' switch to the kernel. Eg: LILO: vmlinux -b -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- The text above represents my personal opinion and does not represent the official

Re: How to interrupt the boot process?

1996-10-13 Thread Philippe Troin
On Sun, 13 Oct 1996 11:23:52 +0200 Toni Mueller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: - How can I stop the boot process half-way to get a single-user root shell? All I did in terms of ^C, ^Q@(#*$ and Alt-any-key didn't help, regardless of where in the boot process I press them. Go to the lilo

Device does not exist

1996-10-13 Thread Vern Hamberg
I'm having problems with devices. I put on a clean install of the latest Debian stable release. Then I downloaded and installed mdutils.deb, since I want to have /usr span a couple partitions on 2 drives. When I use mdadd /dev/md0 /dev/hdb4 /dev/hdd3 I get a message Device

Re: How to interrupt the boot process?

1996-10-13 Thread Vadik Vygonets
On Sun, 13 Oct 1996, Toni Mueller wrote: - How can I stop the boot process half-way to get a single-user root shell? There was a key which I don't remember. You may type linux single from lilo prompt. Vadik. ++_ Vadik V. (_`[EMAIL PROTECTED] alias: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vygonets