Re: Can I "downgrade" from unstable to woody?

2002-06-10 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 9 Jun 2002, Dale Hair wrote: > On Sat, 2002-06-08 at 10:19, I wrote: > > > > I needed to upgrade from potato, having need of a more recent lib. So I > > replaced 'stable' with 'unstable' in sources.list and upgraded. I really > > don't need to be on the bleeding edge (although I've had no di

Re: Thanks and > questions Was: Upgrade to Woody

2002-06-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 01:58:26PM +0100, Paladin wrote: > "dh_installchangelogs: Cannot specify an upstream changelog for a > native debian package." If you didn't intend the package to be native, ensure that you have the upstream source tarball as foo_1.0.orig.tar.gz in the parent directory, whe

Re: SMP working

2002-06-10 Thread Andreas Eichner
Am Freitag, 7. Juni 2002 16:50 schrieb Robert Webb: > check for this . I looked in the /proc directory and did a cat of cpu > but it only showed one processor at 500MHZ. > > Am I looking in the wrong place??? No, this is right. A cat /proc/cpuinfo should list "processor 0" and "processor 1" Seem

Re: fsck bus error: 'attempt to access beyond end of device' during boot

2002-06-10 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Sunday 09 June 2002 22:36, Joost van Baal wrote: > Hi, > > [Please Cc me on replies, I'm not subscribed.] > > The short summary: When booting, my box gives up, stating: > > NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0. > attempt to access beyond end of device > 03:02: rw=0, want=1023464393

Re: Thanks and > questions Was: Upgrade to Woody

2002-06-10 Thread Paladin
Now the error is: "dh_installchangelogs: Cannot specify an upstream changelog for a native debian package." Before it was something complaining about the docs being included. I have a directory named faq in the home of source directory that was being included, so I changed from: faq: to only

Re: Software work-around for broken BIOS clock?

2002-06-10 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 12:35:56PM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: | On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 03:07:01AM -0700, ben wrote: | > next time you get to pulling a battery, swab the area around the | > contacts with alcohol and let it evaporate before you replace the it. | > those batteries should last

Re: Software work-around for broken BIOS clock?

2002-06-10 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Monday 10 June 2002 13:21, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > I have to admit that I haven't measured the resistance (although I > have a multimeter lying around somewhere). What amount of resistance > should I expect on a good system? Don't know exactly, but if res is low between battery + contact an

Re: Software work-around for broken BIOS clock?

2002-06-10 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 03:07:01AM -0700, ben wrote: > On Friday 07 June 2002 01:55 am, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 06:28:27PM -0700, Cam Ellison wrote (slightly > > > > reformatted): > > > * Karl E. Jorgensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > Problem: I have a machine tha

Re: Gentoo ...

2002-06-10 Thread Jeremiah Mahler
On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 10:11:55AM -0700, robert jorgenson wrote: > Was wondering if someone would be willing to burn me a gentoo cd and bring it > to the meeting on thursday, will reimburse for cd's :) Gentoo is something > i've been reading up on and been wanting to try out for a bit now > >

Re: Software work-around for broken BIOS clock?

2002-06-10 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 11:39:46AM +0200, Nicos Gollan wrote: > On Friday 07 June 2002 10:55, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > >[...] > > I doubt whether the dust could have caused it though - it still has > > the problem after a bit of cleaning. > > Don't say such things. A friend of mine had a failing

Re: Non-Browser Compliance

2002-06-10 Thread Helgi Örn
On Sun, 2002-06-09 at 02:00, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > > Yep. I remember a while back, there was a big stink because the UK had > developed an e-gov gateway that only worked with MSIE running on > certain versions of Windows. I also remember that case from media and a lot of angry voices on the w

Re: Thanks and > questions Was: Upgrade to Woody

2002-06-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 03:47:22AM +0100, Paladin wrote: > On Sat, 8 Jun 2002 01:28:52 +0100 > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > First off, deb-make has been obsolete for years. If you want a modern > > set of package building helpers, use dh-make and debhelper instead. > > Modern!? We

Re: HDD vs. RAID (was Re: Lilo Q)

2002-06-10 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Mon, 2002-06-10 at 03:46, Alvin Oga wrote: > > - and if the drives gonna fail... i say its more likely to die > within the first 30 days ... Yes. MTBF only measures how likely it is to fail during the middle of its life. A good number die early (defective) and late (worn out). Not many die

Re: HDD vs. RAID (was Re: Lilo Q)

2002-06-10 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya anthony yes... good point on MTBF... - and if the drives gonna fail... i say its more likely to die within the first 30 days ... ( some disks more likely to die than others irrespective of the MTBF and name-brands.. - i have a pile of "bad/flaky IBM disks" ... about 1-

Re: Make eth0 be eth1, something like eth0=eth1?

2002-06-10 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Sun, 2002-06-09 at 09:46, AE Roy wrote: > I'm looking for a way in which I can turn my eth0 into eth1. I've been > thru all the files in /etc/network but I didn't find what I'm looking for. I've never used it, but according to the manpage, nameif can do this. see man 8 nameif. signature.asc

Re: HDD vs. RAID (was Re: Lilo Q)

2002-06-10 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Sun, 2002-06-09 at 20:33, Alvin Oga wrote: > if you have a nearly full 80GB disks ... it wont matter > if you have 1x 80GB or 4x 20GB( stripping ) No, it does matter. You can expect at least one of four 20GB drives to fail much sooner than one 80GB drive, assuming same MTBF numbers on all driv

Re: fast way to make bootable cd ?

2002-06-10 Thread Tobias Jahn
On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 11:09:58AM -0700, nate wrote: > > One way is bblcd: http://www.bablokb.de/bblcd/ > > cool! that worked! ... > > thanks!! that program will be very useful i plan to make a bunch > of bootable cds for servers now that i know how Great ;-) It seems that this mailing list is

Re: OT network hardware related questions ?

2002-06-10 Thread Shaul Karl
> can you guys plz tell me any site where i can ask > network hardware related questions ? questions about > data transmission lenth, diff network devices ? > > thanks > > > = > *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤ Allah-hu-Akber*º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨*¤ > You might want to try the old news system. If you can't te

DHCP for PCMCIA interface: Being Canonical

2002-06-10 Thread Bruce
I have a wireless (SMC 2632W) PCMCIA network card on my laptop which runs Debian/Sid. Works great, once up. However, I do have to manually "pump -i wlan0" for it to get its address from the friendly neighbourhood DHCP server. I realize this is a function of the whole PCMCIA/Network issue covere

Re: HD dead with /usr

2002-06-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, May 11, 2002, Ricardo Fitzgerald ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Fix your system clock. > Hi, > > One of my Hds went dead, along with my /usr, I still have the apps in > /var/cache/apt/available, is there a way to recover that /usr or I > have to reinstall and configure wo

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