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I'm using the InfoMagic CDrom set (Dec 96) to upgrade. Here are some notes:
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3) several packages have 2 versions and dselect happily installs both
versions without trying to distinguish between them. And because of the
directory order (checked with 'ls -U'),
On Mon, 30 Dec 1996, Remco van de Meent wrote:
At 01:22 PM 12/30/96 -0600, Roy C Bixler wrote:
On Mon, 30 Dec 1996, Remco van de Meent wrote:
Maybe zmailer is another option? Seems to be very fast also...
Yes, this works well, but unfortunately there is no Debian package
available for it.
Xinbing Liu wrote:
Well, I sort of stumbled through the two problems I reported earlier (see
the included message below). To solve the unable to open initial
console problem with the created boot floppy, I found out that I had to
press ENTER twice at the boot: prompt. (If I don't it will
On Fri, 27 Dec 1996, Ricardo Kleemann wrote:
Dec 27 09:17:00 irvine kernel: st0: Error with sense data: extra data not
valid Current error st09:00: sns = 70 3
Dec 27 09:17:00 irvine kernel: ASC= 3 ASCQ= 2
Dec 27 09:17:00 irvine kernel: Raw sense data:0x70 0x00 0x03 0x00 0x00
0x00 0x00 0x0a
Hi - OK, I give up. I've spent over a day trying to get my
root partition to mount.
The stupid move - I tried to upgrade to 1.2 selecting multiple
items in deselect. Yes, stupid, do it incrementally.
The result - lilo loads the kernel, kernel does initial checks,
checks partitions, the
my video card spec : chipset-trident 9660, videoram - 2048k,
ramdec-sierra sc1148
my monitor spec : vendor- samsung electronics, model - sycnmaster 15 gle
For 2 weeks, I tried to setup X window. But I failed.
Common error maeesge is SVGA : Too little memory for virtual resolution
1600 1200
But my
Dear Debian users,
I am using Debian 1.2. I set up my box to connect to an ISP using PPP, I
invoke the connection by the script pon, it all work out fine. Now I want
to join another ISP. How do I set up my box, to connect to two ISP, one
at a time? Please help.
Godfrey
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I'm fighting a few problems tonight with my boxes:
1. Network - I can only talk on my network from my machine named dst, IF
I am connected to the Internet... which makes no sense, since this network
is LOCAL... (dst is 192.168.1.1) and the machine I am trying to talk to is
192.168.1.2 (named
Hello all.
I'm getting those beloved errors from cfengine on a cron job. What's the
fix to get rid of the errors?
error message:
cfengine:/etc/cfengine/cfengine.conf:23: parse error
cfengine::23: Warning: actionsequence is empty
cfengine::Execution terminated after parsing due to errors in
Mike,
Thanks for the explanation. I have installed the new version with
no problems. I think the setup is just fine.
Happy new year,
Jim
On 30 Dec 1996, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
It's not just a recompile for ELF. It has some extra utilities in it,
and more
Im currently using shadow password, and was wondering if there was anyway i
could convert my groups into one group, like users, instead of a group per user.
thanks
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I was able to solve my problem with booting, concerning my machine named
spacewalker.
It was because WatchDogTimer was enabled. It was configuring itself to
use io=240,irq=14. I have no watchdog hardware board installed on this
computer.
Once I compiled with WDT support, everything works ok...
On Tue, 31 Dec 1996, HongYun Kim wrote:
my video card spec : chipset-trident 9660, videoram - 2048k,
ramdec-sierra sc1148
my monitor spec : vendor- samsung electronics, model - sycnmaster 15 gle
For 2 weeks, I tried to setup X window. But I failed.
Common error maeesge is SVGA : Too
My kludgy, but servicable and robust approach to this is to keep two
sets of files. Mine are named *.isp1 and *.isp2. I then have two
connect pre-scripts that simple copy all the correct files and then
call the ppp-on script or whatever you use to start up ppp. The
files of interest are:
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 17:51:31 -0500
From: Daniel S. Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The following list was composed from reports of those who have
already installed Debian GNU/Linux 1.2. If you are having any
trouble with your installation, consult this
At 05:04 PM 12/30/96 +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
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At 04:53 PM 12/29/96 +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
any sign of a modules 2.1.13 package?
It's in unstable
Not in the base directory on either {ftp,master}.debian.org
nor debian.crosslink.net ...
All I
I have a dumb question... why is there a need for two ISP dialins? If
they are in the same calling area, you don't need to log into both, just
one, and you can grab all your email, etc, from both.
A need for a second isp is understandable if you are traveling elsewhere,
though.
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Look in /etc/syslogd.conf, and make sure all of the log files are there.
It's generally a missing news log file.
It was the syslogd.conf. I deinstalled inn, these lines weren't taken
out. Thanks.
Mark
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On Sun, 29 Dec 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
Look in /etc/syslogd.conf, and make sure all of the log files are there.
It's generally a missing news log file.
When innd was deinstalled, it must have left some news lines in
/etc/syslog.conf. Took them out and it worked.
Sorry if you got two of
On Fri, 27 Dec 1996, Ricardo Kleemann wrote:
Dec 27 09:17:00 irvine kernel: st0: Error with sense data: extra data not
valid Current error st09:00: sns = 70 3
Dec 27 09:17:00 irvine kernel: ASC= 3 ASCQ= 2
Dec 27 09:17:00 irvine kernel: Raw sense data:0x70 0x00 0x03 0x00 0x00
0x00 0x00 0x0a
I'll try to get a 1200K rescue disk built - I'm still working on the install
set for 1.2.1 .
Bruce
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Well, to make a long story short. I am going to switch ISP. There may
have other reasons why some folks need two or more different ISP, may be
one of them is for work etc.
On Mon, 30 Dec 1996, Daniel Stringfield wrote:
I have a dumb question... why is there a need for two ISP dialins? If
Hi,
Video Card: Diamond Stealth Video Vram (3200)
When Switching from Xfree to SVGATextMode, the monitor (S3 Card)
become out of sync.
I have to run the command SVGATextMode to resync the monitor.
Is there a way to fix that
-Oz
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I am looking for Marsala [EMAIL PROTECTED]. The Debian user sent
me a message after I post a question here.
I replied your mail but it was bounced. If you see this, please sent me
your scripts example, and your correct address, please.
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On Mon, 30 Dec 1996, Oz Dror wrote:
Hi there,
Video Card: Diamond Stealth Video Vram (3200)
When Switching from Xfree to SVGATextMode, the monitor (S3 Card)
become out of sync.
I have to run the command SVGATextMode to resync the monitor.
Is there a way to fix that
You already applied the
I'm installing Debian 1.2 from the December InfoMagic LINUX Developers
Resource. I thought I had it made, until now. I've installed xlib6 and
texbin. However, even though I can find /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6, mf
can't so 'dpkg --configure texbin' fails. What did I miss?
Thanks,
Frank
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My approach to two ISP's is a little different than the one David
described. One of my ISP's is my employer (so I don't want my kids
connecting there by mistake), the other is Together Networks (a
Burlington, Vermont based ISP).
I have duplicate sets of files for each ISP:
/etc/sendmail.cf
I'm installing Debian 1.2 from the December InfoMagic LINUX Developers
Resource. I thought I had it made, until now. I've installed xlib6 and
texbin. However, even though I can find /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6, mf
can't so 'dpkg --configure texbin' fails. What did I miss?
Thanks,
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
James D. Freels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In upgrading machine #2 (see earlier post on problems with machine #1)
from debian 1.1 to 1.2, and rebooting. I got an error on reboot
something about unable to initialize console and the machine hung.
I thought it may have
Continuing with my saga of little problems, my machine spacewalker isn
't letting anyone log in. not through telnet, or console mingetty.
its like its allowing it to log in. but then logs you back out.
i was on it last night, and all was well. now this morning.. uh. nope!
BTW, if I do a three
Hi all,
and thanks to all, which have answered to my question.
Following your hints, I have set my debian box to speak French(only to verify
the correct working of nls) and it work.
Now I know that the nls support in debian 1.2 is working.
Thanks again!
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On Tue, 31 Dec 1996, Daniel Stringfield wrote:
Continuing with my saga of little problems, my machine spacewalker isn
't letting anyone log in. not through telnet, or console mingetty.
its like its allowing it to log in. but then logs you back out.
i was on it last night, and all was well.
Martin Konold writes:
[snip]
Thank heavens! 1.1 had terrible memory management. 1.2 (REX) is _much_
better.
The memory management issue mentioned here with 1.1 may explain some
slowness with my (1.1) machines.
I do not get the point! Memory management is the job of the kernel.
On Tue, 31 Dec 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thank heavens! 1.1 had terrible memory management. 1.2 (REX) is _much_
better.
The memory management issue mentioned here with 1.1 may explain some
slowness with my (1.1) machines.
I do not get the point! Memory management is the job
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I just built a distribution tree from a CD on my hard disk. I tried to
remove all the TRANS.TBL files from the tree by using:
rm -r TRANS.TBL
If I do this in a directory that has a TRANS.TBL it, and only it, gets
removed. If I do this in an upper directory without a TRANS.TBL file, I
get the error
On Tue, 31 Dec 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:
Hi Zwerg,
I just built a distribution tree from a CD on my hard disk. I tried to
remove all the TRANS.TBL files from the tree by using:
rm -r TRANS.TBL
Am I doing something wrong, or is this a bug in rm?
TIA,
Dwarf
You missunderstodd the purpose
I just built a distribution tree from a CD on my hard disk. I tried to
remove all the TRANS.TBL files from the tree by using:
rm -r TRANS.TBL
If I do this in a directory that has a TRANS.TBL it, and only it, gets
removed. If I do this in an upper directory without a TRANS.TBL file, I
get the
On Tue, 31 Dec 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:
I just built a distribution tree from a CD on my hard disk. I tried to
remove all the TRANS.TBL files from the tree by using:
rm -r TRANS.TBL
If I do this in a directory that has a TRANS.TBL it, and only it, gets
removed. If I do this in an upper
Them rm -R command does do what you want. I have used it to delete an entire
^^
subdirectory structure as in: rm -Rf subdir. Here, everything under subdir
gets deleted, including the directory subdir itself.
OOPPP!!! I really meant: the rm -Rf command DOES NOT
On Mon, 30 Dec 1996, James D. Freels wrote:
In upgrading machine #2 (see earlier post on problems with machine #1)
from debian 1.1 to 1.2, and rebooting. I got an error on reboot
something about unable to initialize console and the machine hung.
I thought it may have been a problem with my
On Mon, 30 Dec 1996, James W. Benson wrote:
I have the basic disks installed.1.2 and the new-resq144. I added the
module for sbpcd. When I boot from Lilo I can't find the CDROM anywhere.
There is no sbpcd in /dev and when I try to run MAKEDEV it won't run from
root and from a login in
On Mon, 30 Dec 1996, Daniel S. Barclay wrote:
From: Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The following list was composed from reports of those who have already
installed Debian GNU/Linux 1.2. If you are having any trouble with your
installation, consult this list for possible solutions.
On Mon, 30 Dec 1996, Daniel S. Barclay wrote:
If you return to dselect to install other things, will it leave these
packages alone, or will it try to upgrade/downgrade these?
You can insure that dselect leaves them alone, by marking them with an
H. This will hold off any action on those
Hello Mailing List!,
I seem to be having a problem linking with the Termcap library
when specifying -ltermcap on the gcc command line.
Explicitly specifying libtermcap works fine (i.e. gcc -o program
program.o module1.o /lib/libtermcap.so.2.0.8). But doing a -ltermcap
results in
I've looked all over and can't seem to find the pgp packages.
Where might I find them?
See at ftp://ftp.lh.umu.se/pub/linux/debian-non-US
Alexander Gieg
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Is there any reason I should set the ramdisk size to 0 ?
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On Tue, 31 Dec 1996, Frank Swasey wrote:
I'm installing Debian 1.2 from the December InfoMagic LINUX Developers
Resource. I thought I had it made, until now. I've installed xlib6 and
texbin. However, even though I can find /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6, mf
can't so 'dpkg --configure texbin'
* == Alexander Gieg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've looked all over and can't seem to find the pgp packages.
Where might I find them?
* See at ftp://ftp.lh.umu.se/pub/linux/debian-non-US
I found them at ftp.pgp.net. There's no .deb package there, but there
is an RPM, which I
Hi,
I remember someone was working on a hylafax pkg for debian... What's the
status?
AFAIK no distributions for linux have a hylafax pkg... (does redhat?)
but freebsd does have one...
Ricardo
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On Tue, 31 Dec 1996, Don Prezioso wrote:
all of the contents of bad.dir. From your description, I think you want
to do something like this:
find . -name TRANS.TBL -exec rm {} \;
Thanks to all who replied to my stupidity. This list is the greatest!
I use rm -r all the time, for it's proper
Don Prezioso [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
find . -name TRANS.TBL -exec rm {} \;
find . -name TRANS.TBL -print0 | xargs -0 rm
is better as it starts many fewer processes.
Guy
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Ouch! Still same problem.
Tried to upgrade from 1.1 to 1.2 (selecting multiple items in
deselect). The install bombed, kernel panic, (probably disk space?).
I had to use the reset switch. Now no boot. The partition containing
only /var (with deb files of course) was corrupted. All other
This is the current list of known problems with the 1.2 installation.
1. Already reported as a bug: Can't find xlib6 so file.
Add /usr/X11R6/lib to ld.so.conf and run ldconfig.
2. Dselect fails to satisfy pre-depends for perl (libdl1)
Installing ldso by hand solves the
Okay...
I have made 3 different sets of diskettes with 3 different machines
and 3 different copies of the .bin files, but I can't get past the base 1
diskette encountering an end of file at about 1.2MB. This is *really*
starting to annoy me :( Anybody care to share a sure-fire way to get
Put a link in libtermcap.so to the version you want (Note the ending is
`so'. I guessing the binutils new default behaviour accounts for
this.
-Walter
On Tue, 31 Dec 1996, Carnage wrote:
Hello Mailing List!,
I seem to be having a problem linking with the Termcap library
when
gli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am using Debian 1.2. I set up my box to connect to an ISP using PPP, I
invoke the connection by the script pon, it all work out fine. Now I want
to join another ISP. How do I set up my box, to connect to two ISP, one
at a time? Please help.
What I did was
I've started upgrading to Debian 1.2 from Slackware Pro 2.1 (yes, very old).
Given the difference in distributions and other changes in Linux, I feel
quite blind. I don't where everything is and how things work now. Also,
I'm not clear on how to configure and customize things without screwing
Hi there.
I have a linux box running Debian pre-1.3 distibution, kernel version
2.0.27, and installed xntpd. The latter doesn't seem to prevent the
system time from veering off wildly. As a band-aid solution I have
netdate running every 12 hours. Each time it runs it has to correct by
300 to 500
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