On Fri, 13 Jun 1997, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:
fit in the kernel. If you can tell me about the I/O ports of your network
card we can give you magic words to put on the boot command line for that
device that reserve its ports and prevent other
On Mon, 9 Jun 1997, Alex Yukhimets wrote:
I'v got a strange phenomenon: sometimes when I close the rlogin
connection started from console (not xterm), the console appeared to be
broken - all the output is confined in the last line of the screen.
I've encountered the same problem.
Name resolving works again on my machines!
Still don't know what exactly happened though.
It seems that the reason for bind not working out of the 1.3-box for me,
is that I answered 'cr' where I should have answered 'nonecr' to
bindconfig (at least that is the only difference that I can
On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Curt Howland wrote:
I have shadow passwords turned on, under Debian 1.3. However,
the X login started automatically at boot does not recognize
any of the valid userID/password combinations.
You're probably referring to the xdm login.
My assumption is that X does not
On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, Rick Morrison wrote:
2. Any tips as to how to start NFS services for mounting from my PC /Win95
client?
If you want to interface linux with MouseDriver95 then forget NFS and
install the samba suite; it does SMB aka MS LanManager aka Microsoft
Networking over TCP/IP.
On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Nathan E Norman wrote:
For what it's worth, I upgraded from 1.2 to 1.3 about a week ago on a
server that is authoritative for a few zones ... no problems at all.
I forgot to mention the following: I let the install script change my
existing setup, did you do this too?
To me it looks like nameserving doesn't quite work out-of-the-box in
upcoming debian 1.3.
I've upgraded a box to frozen and that broke a working bind
configuration, I don't know how badly because I haven't really had the
time to look into it.
On fresh installations, nslookup can't find even
On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Jason wrote:
I just install Debian 1.3 on a fresh system and set XDM to load on startup
like I have done before. But XDM isn't allowing me to logon using root or
my normal account. It just tells me that the password is incorrect. Does
this have something to do with
On Wed, 4 Jun 1997, Fredrik Ax wrote:
On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Syd Alsobrook wrote:
Hello,
I have a machine that i just upgraded to v1.3 (that went perfectly). My
question is this I want to upgrade the kernel (now v2.0.27) the easiest way
possible can I copy the kernel from the install
On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Eliezer Figueroa Puello wrote:
I want to build a small network using Linux as the fileserver and
windows 95 computers as the clients. What I have in mind is something
similar to what novell network do, but using Linux in the place of the
novell server. I want to
On Sun, 1 Jun 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am trying to connect my compute to a LAN in the lab.
The network card (NE2000 IRQ 03 0x300) works fine and is detecked by the
kernel. After setting up all the stuff (/etc/hosts, /etc/resolv.conf,
/etc/sysconf/network, ...), it still cann't
On Mon, 19 May 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote:
On Mon, 19 May 1997, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote:
I'd recommend creating a partition for MS-DOS right away.
No need to actually install it till required.
Agreed. Dos/Win/NT want the first partition of the first drive to be
their boot file system.
Hi,
On my home lan I have a couple of machines that I am currently using to
test the new frozen distribution on.
Because I don't want to have to download all the packages that I want to
test each time I try a new machine or method, I have made a little mirror
of part of the distribution.
On Wed, 30 Apr 1997, Daniel Karlsson wrote:
3) How can I make my middle mouse button work. I've tried all options in the
configuration, but none of them works.
If you have read the appropriate MINI-HOWTO and tried all possible
combinations of mouse type * {gpm,XF86Config} options, killed
On Sat, 3 May 1997, Brian Freeze wrote:
I am trying to install the latest debian release onto a system that had
slackware running on it. It has a dlink 220 ethernet card in it and was
running fine with the slackware system and also with win95. I have tried
every module that was installed
On Mon, 31 Mar 1997, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
Gertjan == Gertjan Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Gertjan Karl M. Hegbloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Open up your info reader;
Gertjan Don't get me started on info!
Why not? Elucidate.
I think info sucks. It is obsoleted
On Sun, 30 Mar 1997, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
The developers have realized more and better documentation is needed. Did
you know there is now a mailing list for discussing this type of thing?
([EMAIL PROTECTED] the subscription address is
[EMAIL PROTECTED]) This might be a better place to
On Sun, 30 Mar 1997, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
I am terribly sorry, the subscribe address I gave was debian-doc-request
(no s) @lists.debian.org. The address to post to was correct. So once
again it is:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - subscribe/unsubscribe address
debian-doc@lists.debian.org - address
On Tue, 18 Mar 1997, Laurent PICOULEAU wrote:
I bought InfoMagic Linux Developper's Ressource 6 CD set od december 1996.
..
So what should I download to fix this apparently bad organised CD.
This is unfortunately a FAQ. Someone was kind enough to write a little
document about it. Point
There's a somewhat short mention of cluefull disk partitioning in the
debian-faq, but I found much better discussion of it in the
Multiple-disks-HOWTO
I have two machines. I dislike extended/logical partitions. I like
performance tuning. My machines have at least two drives in them.
On Mon, 10 Mar 1997, Mikael Hallendal wrote:
Hi!
I try to get the sound working i linux and when I do make config in th
kernel-source I'm aksed
to enter the I/O-base but the only thing that happens is that it says
'no help is available.
Can anyone help me, please!
I find your
On Sat, 8 Mar 1997, Bjoern Starke wrote:
Hello,
today i tried to install a new kernel. After making xconfig, make
zImage and running lilo
Did you issue make mrproper before make dep and make zImage?
Your output indicates a problem with modules. After makeing a new kernel
image, you
On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Chad Zimmerman wrote:
.. You go to any book store you see 7 or 8
books that deal with slackware and redhat, why not Debian?
Maybe because debian isn't known widely enough. Maybe that is because too
many books don't mention it at all. The Infomagic booklet in the cd-set I
(sorry for the bad cc: people, debian-admintool@lists.debian.org doesn't
exist, I just found out)
On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, William Chow wrote:
On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, J.P.D. Kooij wrote:
Like, dselect is a great and easy tool, but there is no manpage for it...
Dselect is pretty intuitive once
On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, William Chow wrote:
On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, Terry Martin wrote:
Could not find config file!
- Tried:
/etc/XF86Config
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config.neverland
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config
Fatal server error:
No config file found!
Note, the
I've seen people write some nice scripts to do the job for mortal users.
As already noted though:
The setuid shell script can be run by any user logged in on your system,
either on the console or over the network.
As not already stated:
Shell scripts that are setuid to root are generally
On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Pete Poff wrote:
Hi,
on what ftp site can I get the csh shell and what file name is it
called.
At ftp.debian.org of course, you silly ;-)
Better still, use a mirror of ftp.debian.org that's nearby to you.
If you have a cd with debian, that's even faster.
Try
On Thu, 20 Feb 1997 Bruce Perens CC'd a press release to this list;
Between Thu, 20 and Fri, 21 Feb 1997, some people responded:
arguing snipped by me
more arguing snipped
arguing snipped
sigh..
Thank you, Bruce. You made a very good press release. I
Regarding the debian system Willie Daniel thought out loud:
I've been watching the debates about Cds, dividing up non-free, and etc..
And I had a few thoughts I wanted to throw out at everyone.
I think if debian is going to succeed, it's going to have to be reduced
to a standard set of core
Regarding compiling and installing new kernels,
On 17 Jan 1997, Guy Maor wrote:
Victor Torrico [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What exactly does make install do?
See installkernel(8) and mkboot(8).
Hey, this is not a very elaborate answer.
I would like to know more about details of
On Mon, 23 Dec 1996, Don Prezioso wrote:
On Mon, 23 Dec 1996, Ed Down wrote:
OK, I instaled Debian 1.1 a while ago and it all went fine. Now I want to
add a couple more packages, so I ftp'd to my local mirror. I went to the
I have Debian 1.1.4 and it came with kernel 2.0.6. Now I want to
On Sat, 21 Dec 1996, H. Manas wrote:
A work-around would be to:
- install gpm.
I have done that
- Make sure that In your '/etc/gpm.conf'
device=/dev/xxx (xxx is the device name of your mouse I believe psmouse)
responsiveness=
type=ps2
append='-R'
Hey, I don't have
Uhh.., I am a relative newcomer myself, but I already learned something
from this list: don't use /dev/cua*, it's sort of obsolete. I had some
minor problems as well but they disappeared when I converted all cua*
occurrances in configuration files to ttyS*'s.
Upon booting up X with startx,
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