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If so, I'd appreciate a short note from you. I'd like to know if you
use SLIP because PPP is unavailable, more expensive, or otherwise
inconvenient.
Thanks
Mike
On Thu, 29 Aug 1996, Mike Candy List wrote:
can anyone advise a new debian user on a scenario in which a useable
system can be installed on a 120 meg hard drive with a 20 meg swap
If this were my system, I would install linux, but not X. You didn't
say, but I suspect that you are also low on
slip so I can't as specific as my request
for ppp - chat info, but I think you have the idea.
Please send your submissions to me by private e-mail. Thanks in
advance for your help.
Mike Taylor
On Mon, 26 Aug 1996, Miro Torrielli wrote:
Oh, and does anyone know how to establish a serial connection between
DOS and a debian box???
I think that you can do this with samba. I beleive that samba is
available as a Debain package.
Mike
On Mon, 26 Aug 1996, Robert Resendes wrote:
If I try to cat the file, though, I get the following error:
cat /dev/psaux
cat: /dev/psaux: No such device
I don't think cat works here because /dev/psaux is not a regular file.
I think I'm missing a driver, but I certainly don't see
I got essentialy the same message while preparing to compile a non-
Debian 2.08 kernel. I conclude from this that whatever the problem
is, it is not a Debian problem. I don't know if the resulting
config file is really broken or not, but I did not take any chances.
I used menuconfig. It is
On Thu, 15 Aug 1996, Mark Phillips wrote:
Hi,
Are there any spreadsheets packaged for Debian?
Also, how would I go about finding this information out for myself?
(I looked in /binary/misc and couldn't see anything likely.)
Thanks,
Mark Phillips. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
There used to be
I made the same mistake that Joshua and Hakan made. The READMEFIRST file
in /usr/doc/lilo gives two possible fixes:
- In linux you can remove lilo from the master boot record with:
lilo -U
- In MSDOS you can remove lilo by:
fdisk /mbr
The lilo -U fix did not work for me since
On Thu, 8 Aug 1996, Mark Edward Johnston wrote:
I have installed Linux (Debian 1.1) on a friend's computer,
but can't get X to work as it complains about not being able to
find the mouse.
The system is a Gateway 2000 DX2/66 with Cirrus Logic 5434
and what seems to be a PS/2 mouse.
I
Many thanks to Susan, Digge, Adrenolin, JinHo, and others who responded
to my call for help in getting my mouse set up.
I think that I have solved my problem with using my PS2 mouse with X.
My solution is to not use a PS2 mouse. Use a serial mouse instead.
My theory is that the base system for
I recently had a memory problem that I solved by reseating the SIMMs.
I didn't remove them. I just wiggled them. If you try it, be sure to
protect against static discarge.
Mike
On Sat, 3 Aug 1996, Christopher R. Hertel wrote:
I've written the boot, root, base floppies as prescribed, but every
time
I try to boot I get error messages as follows:
boot: cr
Loading...
Uncompressing Linux...
invalid compressed format (err=2)
-- System Halted
I've tried
Does anyone know if PS/2 mouse support is compiled into the kernel
supplied with Debian 1.1.2? If not, how can I get it? I don't
recall seeing a module that had it. I have installed
X, but not quite correctly yet. When I startx, I get a nice screen
with one xterm and a mouse cursor, but the
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