Re: Dead list?

1997-06-05 Thread Brian N. Borg
If the server is running Majordomo, send which as the text of an e-mail message to majordomo@server in question. You can also send help to get more info. --Brian Borg Todd Harper wrote: Has this list died? I've received 0 messages all day and little more in the previous 2 days.

Re: 486SX33 -- 486DX2-66

1997-05-28 Thread Brian N. Borg
Cyrix does in fact make (or used to) make a 5 volt 486dx2. I have two of them, 66 and 80 mhz. As a bonus, they have a bonded heat- sink and do not require a fan. The SX to DX upgrade will probably be as simple as plug it in and turn it on, only if the existing SX is a pin grid array package.

Re: kerneld

1997-05-28 Thread Brian N. Borg
I don't know that any low level drivers need to explicitly specified in /etc/modules. My ethernet card, scsi hostadapter, filesystems, etc. all load and unload on demand, as long as the right aliases are set in /etc/conf.modules. --Brian Borg Dale Scheetz wrote: On Tue, 27 May 1997,

Re: Primary vs. Extended partitions

1997-05-19 Thread Brian N. Borg
partitions on the same drive using dos 3.3 and up, OS/2, Win95, NT or Linux. --Brian N. Borg Eloy A. Paris wrote: Hi, the docs. in /usr/doc/lilo are very good to understand the concept of primary and extended partitions (and the logical partitions contained in these extended partitions

Re: stable or not stable?

1997-05-10 Thread Brian N. Borg
I am in fact using 2.1.36 and it seems pretty stable, a lot more so than 2.1.31 or 2.0.30. All my modules load without complaining about missing symbols. The only problem is that kerneld won't load them on demand. --Brian Rick Jones wrote: I agree. I thought I'd seen someone using

Re: X configuration

1997-05-10 Thread Brian N. Borg
If your monitor is as old as the rest or your equipment, it could be the result of a long persistence phosphor. --Brian Kyriakos Nikos E. Gorogiannis wrote: Hi. I have an EISA 486, with an ISA 16-bit TIGA gr. card, with and onboard Tseng ET4000 SVGA chip. I have configured XF86_SVGA,

Re: ideas about moving Debian to another hard drive

1997-05-07 Thread Brian N. Borg
find . -mount -depth -print|cpio -pdmv /newtempmount I have used this under Dgux, Sunos, Solaris and Hpux, and it has always worked correctly (although under Sunos and Hpux the switches are slightly different). I have used it to move root /usr and Oracle database volumes under Solaris. Time

Re: nfs error

1997-05-07 Thread Brian N. Borg
It could be a lot of traffic on the network or it could be a hardware problem. I have seen both cause that kind of response. --Brian Jesse Goldman wrote: Hi, One of the debian PC's in a cluster here is having some minor nfs problems which, while not catastrophic, tend to slow down the

Re: Where would I submit a new feature for the kernel?

1997-05-06 Thread Brian N. Borg
in the same place. I recall that the drive reference is somewhat flexible and can refer to the serial number. Dave Cinege wrote: On Fri, 02 May 1997 22:35:41 -0500, Brian N. Borg wrote: Take a look at documentation in the the hdutils package. I believe the developer has done something very similar

Re: Where would I submit a new feature for the kernel?

1997-05-06 Thread Brian N. Borg
Solaris uses a numbering scheme based on the scsi controller, target, disk (in case of bridge boards that may have more than one disk on the same target, or scsi id) and partition (or slice). Specifically, /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 refers to the first partition on the first disk on the first target on

Re: hot-change disk arrays...can I do it on Linux?

1997-05-06 Thread Brian N. Borg
The drives themselves are not any different. The hot swap trays have the functionality to power the drives down before removal or up after insertion. Such trays and drives could be used with the md utilities under Linux to provide striped (raid 0), mirrored (raid 1), or striped and mirrored

Re: starting/stoping program on boot/shutdown

1997-05-06 Thread Brian N. Borg
What is start-stop-daemon ? The problem I have is that I can find absolutely no documentation on start-stop-daemon. There is a useless stub of a man page that directs one to the --help output or the source code. /sbin/start-stop-daemon is apparently a perl script, but I do not know perl nor

Re: Shadow installation.

1997-05-06 Thread Brian N. Borg
If you really need shadow, you could conceivably edit the files yourself. I have done it sucessfully under Solaris after ftping a working passwd file from a Dgux system. I was naieve and did not know that Sun provided a utility to do this. Read the man pages to get the syntax right, but

Re: Where would I submit a new feature for the kernel?

1997-05-03 Thread Brian N. Borg
Take a look at documentation in the the hdutils package. I believe the developer has done something very similar. --Brian Dave Cinege wrote: I know this isn't a Debian question, but I have to start some place. What list/NG would be *best* to submit a new idea for the kernel? (actually

Re: dosemu and win95

1997-05-03 Thread Brian N. Borg
I have been using vfat to mount my win95 and nt(fat) partitions for several weeks with no problems. Once Norton Disk Doctor found an orphaned long file name entry in the directory that I routinely use to copy test kernels to for booting using loadlin. This is not a serious error and would

Re: Can't login to bo

1997-04-27 Thread Brian N. Borg
I had the same problem. I could only log in if I booted single, eg. loadlin zImage root=/dev/hda3 ro single. After a lot of trial and error, I determined that nis was the culprit. If you delete all start links to /etc/init.d/nis in your default runlevel, and any others that you use, and

Re: Adaptec AHA1522B plus AHA2940UW

1997-04-24 Thread Brian N. Borg
You can connect all your devices to the 2940. If you use the 50 pin internal connector for the narrow devices you need to disable onboard termination of the low 8 bits and enable onboard termination of the high 8 bits. You can still connect them externally if you get the appropriate internal

Re: kernel 2.1.3x?

1997-04-23 Thread Brian N. Borg
I have a working 2.1.31 kernel that I compiled. Some of the modules, such as vfat and serial, load ok but scsi_mod has missing symbols that prevent my aic7xxx from loading. --Brian. Hamish Moffatt wrote: Anyone having much luck with 2.1.3x? I'm running 2.1.29 and it's fine, except that

Re: pcmcia support, debian 1.2, NEC versa 6030H

1997-04-23 Thread Brian N. Borg
The error message is misleading, to say the least. The problem is most likely that between the kernel and the modules, one is compiled with CONFIG_MOD_VERSIONS set and the other is not. To fix it you could install the kernel sources, run make menuconfig, and compile the kernel and modules:

Re: Adaptec 2940 and 3940 PCI/SCSI adapters

1997-04-22 Thread Brian N. Borg
The driver, or module you need is aic7xxx. My 2940 works fine, under 2.0.29, 2.0.27 and previous kernels. Under a 2.1.31 kernel that I compiled, I have an un-referenced symbol that I haven't tracked down yet. -- Brian Pedro I. Sanchez wrote: I need to know if these two adapters are

Re: Differences between run levels 2-5?

1997-04-20 Thread Brian N. Borg
Putting the nfs server in runlevels 3 and higher is something of an industry standard. To be more precise, rl 2 is intended to be for network client applications and rl 3 and higher for network server apps. I think it would be appropriate for Debian to follow suite. Brian. Sam Ockman

Re: init level

1997-04-19 Thread Brian N. Borg
Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Linh Dang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got some diskcorruptions on my root partition. After some dpkg --install, my system is now running fine. But I can't change run-level anymore... $ telinit 1 No more

netscape

1997-04-19 Thread Brian N. Borg
This seems to be of general interest. __Make-A-Difference KEEP THE INTERNET WHOLE: THE EASIEST WAY EVER TO MAKE MICROSOFT AND NETSCAPE DO THE RIGHT THING http://www.anchordesk.com/story/story_844.html The Internet is at risk of being splintered by

Re: whatis kernel: eth0: bogus packet size: ... ?

1997-04-10 Thread Brian N. Borg
Eugene Sevinian wrote: Sometimes I see these messages on my screen: Apr 8 11:44:41 crdlx2 kernel: eth0: bogus packet size: 0, status=0x21 nxpg=0x3c. Apr 8 12:49:06 crdlx2 kernel: eth0: bogus packet size: 0, status=0x21 nxpg=0x32. Apr 8 14:17:38 crdlx2 kernel: eth0: bogus packet size:

Re: What is the standard ethernet frame type?

1997-04-10 Thread Brian N. Borg
Chris Brown wrote: I will be connecting several different types of systems to an ethernet network that is currently running only Netware on ipx. On the Netware server and workstations it is necessary to specify the Ethernet frame type. IPX is running either Ethernet_802.2 or