[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I installed a copy of debian from the netinstall cd about 2 weeks ago. the
installation works fine but once I get the base system on and try to do
any apt-get commands every packet I try to download gives the error
segmentation fault and then goes back to prompt. I've
Daniel D Jones wrote:
Right now, I'm using SecureCRT on a company supplied Windows laptop. I'd
prefer to use my own, Linux laptop. SecureCRT handles everything I've talked
about easily. I was looking for something which could do the same thing in
Linux. Evidently, it doesn't exist. Yes,
an immediate msg bad command or file name followed by the 4 booter
install options. I choose [4] the vanilla one and get bad command or file
name as a response.
The computer doesn't seem hosed, since it runs w95 ok. How do I get the
Debian install to start for me?
Thanks in advance,
Marty
the cdrom as installation media.
So my question is, when installation's done how do I incorporate the old
windows D:\ partition into my Debian system? Not dual boot fwiw, just Debian.
Marty
At 08:58 AM 7/27/2005, Marty Landman wrote:
I've just gotten an old Aptiva with W95 on it. Even though I
What does ls /proc/ide say? Look for a drive there that's not hdb. The
kernel sees your drive iff it's listed in /proc/ide.
$ ls /proc/ide
drivers hdb ide0 sis
Doesn't look hopeful...
$ cat /proc/ide/sis
SiS 5513 Ultra 133 chipset
--- Primary Channel
Cecil wrote:
I am working on an IBM Aptiva and getting the error message that no
screen is found when I start XFree86.
Sorry if I missed it but I've skimmed this thread and saw no mention
of checking /var/log/XFree86.0.log. No screens found seems to be
a pretty common catch-all error message,
Steve Lamb wrote:
I just did a search for debian sata dvd burner.
Here's the link:
snip
You're right. Apparently I didn't do enough testing, or the problem was
temporary,
and now seems to be limited to the sourceforge lists or at least backuppc-user,
and google is vindicated for how.
Matthijs wrote:
I've followed the Debian harddisk-upgrade HowTo, changed fstab
according to the above, installed grub on the new harddisk according
to a posting here by Mitchell Laks (thanks for that!).
Then I switched the machine off, removed the old harddisk, switched
the new harddisk from
Note: This message is being posted to two mailing lists. Please
edit your headers accordingly.
A few months ago there was a long and interesting thread on the
backuppc-users list entitled replicating backup servers offsite,
but all I could remember of the thread were some possible search
Stephen Tait wrote:
I've just been rejigging my file server following the upgrade to Sarge and
have finally tried to sort out some niggling problems.
Mainly, lockd doesn't seem to be running - I see the following entries all
the time in my client machines (all gentoo):
nfs warning: mount
(reply posted to backuppc-users)
Michael Marsh wrote:
I can find debian-user postings on google pretty easily by specifying
site:lists.debian.org in my search. Trying a couple of keywords
that I'd seen recently picked up a posting from last week.
Thanks, and now I remember reading about
Steve Lamb wrote:
Marty wrote:
I don't see what legitimate purpose it might serve, and I wonder if the
posters' wishes or search engine users' interests, or even public
interests, enter into consideration? I suppose not.
The public has no interest.
But google shareholders do? I hope
Steve Lamb wrote:
Marty wrote:
Steve Lamb wrote:
The public has no interest.
But google shareholders do? I hope that's not what you mean.
Nope. Simply pointing out that the public is an entity which in and of
itself has no interests. The public is a collection of individuals
Steve Lamb wrote:
Again, Google obscures nothing. Just
because Google doesn't return the hits you're expecting doesn't mean they're
obscured, either. Just means your search is not specific enough. No more, no
less. Hardly anything insidious in that.
I seem to recall previously getting
Uwe Dippel wrote:
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 01:04:43 -0400, Marty wrote:
A likely fix is to purge and reinstall the affected python packages.
How !?!
The circular effect sets in.
Somehow I must consider this a bug in the whole concept of Debian !?
By running dpkg manually, i.e: dpkg -P pkgname
Hendrik Boom wrote:
On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 10:47:54PM -0500, Aaron Hall wrote:
On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Ibrahim Mubarak wrote:
with all three of them at the same time (apt, aptitude, and synaptic).
That's what I am doing now. I started off with apt-get, then I got to
know aptitude, which adds a
John Hasler wrote:
Marty writes:
Aptitude is an apt front-end...
Apt-get is also an apt front-end. Apt is a library.
I meant apt the debian package and the tools therein, including
apt-get, but the hair-splitters will probably take issue with
that statement as well
I found that I couldn't log into X and /tmp permissions
were set to 755 instead of 1777. Then I turned up this
message in a list archive:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/xfree86/msg09446.html
Quote: Thanks! I've no idea why the default permissions
weren't right.
It's possible I did it by
Update: I just saw this on one of my other sarge systems,
so it looks like a systematic problem, and not a random
error on my part.
Marty wrote:
I found that I couldn't log into X and /tmp permissions
were set to 755 instead of 1777. Then I turned up this
message in a list archive:
http
I'm getting intermittent errors on my DSL connection, which
I think is a telephone line issue that I've seen before.
It seems that each time my connection drops, I lose my NFS
connections. In /var/log/messages I find many repetitions of:
kernel: RPC: sendmsg returned error 1
kernel: nfs:
Uwe Dippel wrote:
I cannot; meaning that ? what ? Is python broken ?
If yes, how to reinstall it without using apt / dpkg (which cannot be
used, because debconf is broken - the circular effect ! ) ??
FWIW I found where dpkg is calling the python scripts:
# find /var/lib/dpkg/info/ |xargs
Beretta wrote:
The easy solution is just to ditch CUPS for my printing, but I really like being
able to go back and restart jobs regardless of which machine I'm currently
using.
Did you try CUPS with IPP instead of the SMB protocol? That won't address
the samba problem, but may enable you to
Erdi Balint wrote:
Hi,
I want to configure my eth1 interface to use ppp to the dsl provider on
startup, so I wrote this in the /etc/network/interfaces file:
auto eth1
iface eth1 inet ppp
provider dsl-provider
Here's what I use:
auto ppp0
iface ppp0 inet ppp
pre-up ip link set
Uwe Dippel wrote:
It seems as of now and for me, that debconf is the problem. Once it is
screwed, there seems to be no way out; you can't install / upgrade
anything without; you can't reinstall it; a circular problem ?
But the upside (if there is one) is that may be the only package you
have
[KS] wrote:
I checked from another machine on my network, and it looks fine as its
loading all the websites. This is strange!
Would that machine be your firewall by any chance? If so, you may have
MMS clamping issues. One possible cause is manaully restarting your
firewall, which bypasses
Joe Grace wrote:
Ok, I am going crazy because I have not been able to figure this out.
I have googled this like crazy. I have a dsl modem that is connected
directly to an ethernet card. I can not figure out how to manually
set the duplex and speed. In the past I have used mii-tool, but when
Uwe Dippel wrote:
Setting up debconf (1.4.30.13) ...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File /usr/lib/python2.3/compileall.py, line 156, in ?
exit_status = not main()
File /usr/lib/python2.3/compileall.py, line 146, in main
force, rx, quiet):
File /usr/lib/python2.3/compileall.py,
Marty wrote:
Here's what I get on my sarge system:
$ apt-cache rdepends debconf |grep python
python2.3-popy
python2.2-popy
python2.1-popy
libapache2-mod-python2.3
libapache2-mod-python2.2
Sorry, that should be depends, and python doesn't
appear, so I don't know where python
Josh Battles wrote:
obey pam restrictions = yes
Is PAM correctly configured? Have you tried it without PAM?
I don't use it myself, so I won't be of much help if you need
that option.
As for setup tips, from the looks of your smb.conf it seems
you are not using SWAT, and have started from
This is for readers who are unfortunate enough to have
more Windows administration knowledge than I. The sole
Windoze XP box on my LAN is sending http requests to
a site named movies.go.com, although there is no web
client running on the XP box (at least none obvious).
I am analyzing the LAN
Carl Fink wrote:
On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 08:52:55PM -0400, Marty wrote:
Windoze XP box on my LAN is sending http requests to
a site named movies.go.com, although there is no web
client running on the XP box (at least none obvious).
[major snippage]
FWIW, go.com is a real, non-scam site run
Paul Smith wrote:
So, since I upgraded my system to Sarge+Linux 2.6, I'm using udev to
manage /dev. It's great, BUT I have some non-free software (required
so I can log into work from home, unfortunately) which is not
udev-knowledgeable.
When I install the software it creates a device in /dev.
If /dev is empty in a cloned root filesystem (since udev is its
own filesystem and /dev files are not copied) it does not boot up
but hangs with an error message similar to can't open initial
console. I've not narrowed down which console device the kernel
is looking for, nor determined whether
Rudi Starcevic wrote:
kernel: tuner 0-0060: chip found @ 0xc0 (bt878 #0 [sw])
That's not the output 2.6.8 tuner gives, so I grepped through
old kernels and I can't find anything matching that output,
although 2.4 comes close. What distro are you using?
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Rudi Starcevic wrote:
kernel: tuner 0-0060: chip found @ 0xc0 (bt878 #0 [sw])
That's not the output 2.6.8 tuner gives, so I grepped through old
kernels and I can't find anything matching that output, although
2.4 comes close. What distro are you using?
I'm using Debian. I installed with
I (Marty) wrote:
I have an HP PSC 2110 working locally with foomatic and CUPS back end.
When I try to print remotely the CUPS web interface returns with:
Print file was not accepted (client-error-bad-request)!
I find these entries in /var/log/cups/error_log:
E [01/Jul/2005:00:13:09 -0400
Alvin Oga wrote:
On Sat, 2 Jul 2005, Paul Johnson wrote:
I wish HDD LEDs were multicolored so you could tell if it's writing,
reading or whatever. Even if it changes too fast to be practical, it
would still be nifty. Sort of like the load average speedometer on
the BeBox.
ez enuff too...
Alvin Oga wrote:
hi ya marty
On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Marty wrote:
Alvin Oga wrote:
...
Warning: /dev/hda is not on the first disk
if yoou can boot from /dev/hda ... lilo is working
- pull out the scsi disk to make sure you are booting off /dev/hda
This requires the user
Alvin Oga wrote:
lilo puts the MBR where you told it ...
vi /etc/lilo.conf
boot=/dev/
that is where it isntalls it
Again, it does not on my systems, under the conditions I described.
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Alvin Oga wrote:
On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Marty wrote:
Alvin Oga wrote:
lilo puts the MBR where you told it ...
vi /etc/lilo.conf
boot=/dev/
that is where it isntalls it
Again, it does not on my systems, under the conditions I described.
- and what do your boot= line say
Alvin Oga wrote:
On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Marty wrote:
- how do you know that it is doing the right thing or not??
I verified the LILO update to the wrong (SCSI) disk, beyond just
observing that it had been rendered unbootable, if that's what you mean.
how did you verify that lilo wrote
Alvin Oga wrote:
On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Marty wrote:
In addition to the SCSI disk becoming unbootable -- the SCSI drive LED
flashed when LILO wrote to it; and pulling the SCSI cable (not recommended)
just because the light flashed doesnt mean it was written
True, but in combination
s. keeling wrote:
RMS seems to have disagreements with just about everyone but himself.
RMS more than any public figure I know of, seems to generate these ad
hominem attacks against himself. He's also the most intelligent and
relentlessly logical writer and speaker of any public figure I know
Whenever I try to install lilo to an IDE drive other than the one
one which I booted, and the later drive is SCSI, I get the following
warning message from LILO:
Warning: /dev/hda is not on the first disk
(e.g., if the target partition is on /dev/hda)
LILO documentation explains this warning
Alvin Oga wrote:
On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Marty wrote:
Whenever I try to install lilo to an IDE drive other than the one
one which I booted, and the later drive is SCSI, I get the following
warning message from LILO:
Warning: /dev/hda is not on the first disk
if yoou can boot from /dev/hda
I have an HP PSC 2110 working locally with foomatic and CUPS back end.
When I try to print remotely the CUPS web interface returns with:
Print file was not accepted (client-error-bad-request)!
I find these entries in /var/log/cups/error_log:
E [01/Jul/2005:00:13:09 -0400] print_job: No file!?!
Guillaume TESSIER wrote:
But patents aren't really about software? Uh?
I guess there is some european debian users here : you're concerned more
than ever. Your favorite system, your favorite apps, your skills and
future jobs are in danger.
Why spend time getting more skills on a system
Guillaume TESSIER wrote:
Marty wrote:
Therefore the obvious answer I think, is to
set up servers in locations that are free of such laws. And even in
the unlikely event that all countries outlaw some kinds of software
(e.g. via treaties) there have been proposals for dealing with that
as well
Philip Christian wrote:
I still cannot watch DVD movies. I can hear the audio
but I get xvideo errors and a blank screen.
I can watch divx movies fine.
Have other people got DVD playback working with Rage
128 based cards ?
It works for me with ogle, on stock sarge.
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Debian User Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
Discovered wvdial and pon not working after finally getting the
2.4.27-2-386 KI to boot. Ran wvdialconf and
pppconfig which didn't change anything. Chmod a+rwx on all wvdial and
wvdial.conf files. Some Debians may
say that's not the way, but I don't want
Lee Braiden wrote:
On Sunday 26 Jun 2005 08:42, Andy Streich wrote:
One might hope so, but many things will have to change. Today, Debian as a
desktop is only practical where there is strong, nearby, technical support.
Clearly you don't like MS Windows (I don't like MS in general) but it works
Debian User Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
Hi Marty,
Took out init3=ATDT, logged out KDE and back in and still getting same
wvdial error message, ie., no dialer
defaults.
This doesn't seem to appear in Bug #276020, so it looks like a different
problem.
So, shut down and rebooted and runing
Debian User Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
You can, if you will, tell me just how you remove a kernel(outline the
process).
Like any other package: apt-get remove pkgname or use aptitude, dselect,
etc.
I don't use the packaged kernels so I don't know but if it tries to re-install
LILO, I would
Gayle Lee Fairless wrote:
line 'initrd=/initrd.img' after the read-only line in the Linux label
stanza. Now the 2.6 kernel (you guessed or read correctly) boots. It
appears to be a little fussier than the bf2.4 kernel which still works
fine. I kept it under the LinuxOld label where the
Gayle Lee Fairless wrote:
Although the Gateway 500 does have an
internal modem that Windows 98SE can use, Linux appears to be able to
use only the Hayes external modem.
Then can you try a PCI modem instead? This is a critical troubleshooting step.
Possibly off-topic, but does a custom
Marty wrote:
Gayle Lee Fairless wrote:
Although the Gateway 500 does have an
internal modem that Windows 98SE can use, Linux appears to be able to
use only the Hayes external modem.
Then can you try a PCI modem instead? This is a critical troubleshooting step.
Possibly off-topic
Debian User Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
The output of cat /etc/fstab, cfdisk and lilo.conf are shown at the end
of this message.
Hi Leonard,
I looked over your files. First did you verify the links /vmlinuz
and /vmlinuz.old? Second, what happens when you boot using LinuxOLD?
(Lacking an
Debian User Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
See below for links. Not sure what you mean by what happens when you boot
using LinuxOLD. It boots normally as it did since first installed. I do see
that
Output module failed to load as was the case on my old sarge. If your refering
to my notes about
Joe McCool wrote:
Sorry I can't answer the first questions.
I have upgraded from woody to sarge and everything is fine, but when I
try to upgrade from 2.2.20 to 2.4.27, compiling and installing the new
kernel as per the instruction manual, I cannot boot. (40 40 40 40 or
just Li and never a
I (Marty) wrote:
Joe McCool wrote:
Sorry I can't answer the first questions.
I have upgraded from woody to sarge and everything is fine, but when I
try to upgrade from 2.2.20 to 2.4.27, compiling and installing the new
kernel as per the instruction manual, I cannot boot. (40 40 40 40
Steven J. Murdoch wrote:
In this particular example, it's not that much of a problem since they
both came from the Debian project, but say a third-party APT
repository publishes a package with the same version number as an
official Debian package. If that repository goes offline, how can I
find
Martin McCormick wrote:
In the spirit of helpfulness on this list, I want to repay
some of the assistance I have gotten from others, here. This message
is a warning, not a gripe. I think Linux software is astoundingly
robust. Like anything, there are gotchas. I am not sure exactly
John Anderson wrote:
Hello,
I have just upgraded my server PC which is a Pentium
III 1 ghz to Sarge. The machine is used as a
router/firewall for 2 other computers. The problem
that I'm having is I installed etherconf to configure
eth0 used for the router and now it changes the name
to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
You have to have something for the shell to run. Try setting a new
variable to
1 or some such silly-ness and it will work. Or else you have to comment out
the entire if statement.
I guess I could just add an
Simon wrote:
Hi There,
I have a debian sarge box that i have just installed into our rack
space, networking is currently OFF (so no ssh access). It is controlled
by an IP KVM switch, so i have direct access to the screen and keyboard.
The problem i have is that the scroll-lock is on so i
Hendrik Boom wrote:
Upon booting a reiserfs copy of my woody system, I am told,
Can't find a Minix of Minix v2 filesystem on device 03:46
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev2/root
or too many mounted file systems
Did you remember to make the partition bootable? Is
Hendrik Boom wrote:
The actual MBR used for both the failing boot and the successful boot
are on /dev/fd0. LILO was told boot=/dev/fd0. It's remarkably safe
to play with a floppy's MBRs, because you can have so many of them.
There is a feature (bug?) in LILO that I've never quite understood
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
8
#!/bin/sh
EMAIL=[EMAIL PROTECTED]
lynx -dump http://checkip.dyndns.org |sed -n '/Current/s/.*:
\([0-9]*\.[0-9]*\.[0-9]*\.[0-9]*\)/\1/p' | /usr/bin/Mail -s IP address as of
`date` $EMAIL
8
HTH,
-Roberto
FWIW this site
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
If the job can be done with Priority `required' or `important' tools,
there is a much better chance of the script being portable.
Good point although it seems both lynx and wget are also optional,
and I don't know of any required package that reads web sites.
Are
Angus Leeming wrote:
dpkg-divert: `diversion of /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/cursor.pcf.gz
to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/cursor.pcf.gz-artwiz by artwiz-cursor'
clashes with `diversion of /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/cursor.pcf.gz
to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/cursor.pcf.gz-base by
Xeno Campanoli wrote:
I got a real whacky one. This old machine I've got has two NICs, and during
install I assign eth1 to be the one used, and it gets the ip address from
DHCP. Well, after the reboot, that same IP address is assigned to eth0, and
I get no network. I've solved this by
Hendrik Boom wrote:
The original system can read and write the reiserfs, so I presume the
copy would have the same drivers.
Unless, of course, some boot process needs to read the root partition
before it has discovered the reiser kernel modules. Is that likely?
Just when *does* the boot
Kevin Mark wrote:
I used Knoppix as a debian install and have a reiserfs /. I have to have
'reiserfs' in /etc/modules and then make an initrd with this
modules(man mkinitrd ).
You have to use initrd? Why not just compile it into the kernel?
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Dan R. Hunt wrote:
From dmesg:
de2104x PCI Ethernet driver v0.7 (Mar 17, 2004)
eth1: 21041 at 0xd085b000, 00:c0:f0:03:31:76, IRQ 169
According to how I read the 2.6.8 configuration option description, this is
an experimental, new driver. That means it's supposed to hang your
system.
Marc Jackson wrote:
To Marty: Yes, I did trouble shoot. I tried to test the network via PING.
Ping reports 100% packet loss, but I'm no longer getting error messages
about data bytes and wrong size. The latter happened when we had a
Linksys card with the Tulip driver.
The network guy, when
Marc Jackson wrote:
Hi Marty and others,
troubleshooting the network *is* part of his job description. I just
like to make sure I've done my part. :) I've used a lot of systems
over the years. I'm trying to make sure that this variant of
linux/unix doesn't require that I do something else
Alan Chandler wrote:
inet addr:169.254.50.3 Bcast:0.0.0.0 Mask:255.255.0.0
For 169.254.50.3 whois returns ERROR: IP Range Reserved by IANA.org
The table at http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space lists
the purpose of this address range as Various Registries.
I don't
Morten Gulbrandsen wrote:
Hello,
I have decided to return back to debian sarge,
I reported this :
http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2005/04/msg00127.html
Specify the ZIP drive filesystem type (ext3, msdos, etc). It's probably
not ext2 because I think that's the default and it would have
Kent West wrote:
Here's another that might be useful (it will list all installed modules):
lsmod
I'm unsure what he's trying to accomplish with the zcat command; I find
no config.gz file in my /proc directory.
That shows the kernel configuration in recent kernels using that option.
If that
Mr Mike wrote:
Thanks Ryan, I wasnt' sure if i was using binary driver for video card or not.. took a look at xconfig and this is it..
Section Monitor
Identifier GATEWAY VX900
HorizSync 30-95
VertRefresh 50-160
Option DPMS
Marty (I) wrote:
Even in a new default kernel, make [x/menu]config disables
the Advansys SCSI option from selection and omits its
label CONFIG_SCSI_ADVANSYS from the .config file. Thanks
for any help turning on this driver option.
On a hunch, I deselected the Select only cleanly compiling
Mr Mike wrote:
A while back I was running a pure sarge system with several upgrades from the
sid branch.. At some point my X Server began to 'restart' on it's own for no
real apparent rhyme or reason. ie, the action that triggered the restart one
session could not always be duplicated in
Even in a new default kernel, make [x/menu]config disables
the Advansys SCSI option from selection and omits its
label CONFIG_SCSI_ADVANSYS from the .config file. Thanks
for any help turning on this driver option.
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Marc Jackson wrote:
I'm running 2.4. Using the alternate intel driver. The becker driver
didn't seem to work.
You don't mention any trouble shooting. Where's this network guy
you speak of (that is, when he's not putting blocks on wall jacks?)
Does the behavior I wrote about, seem
Tom Allison wrote:
Brian Kimsey-Hickman wrote:
Help me please!
I don't know why you used dselect to do this.
I am pretty certain that you really don't want to use dselect when doing
a distribution upgrade.
I think you are wrong about that.
Did you read the very fine manual before
Chris Bannister wrote:
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 02:39:02PM -0400, Marty wrote:
Clive Menzies wrote:
On (10/06/05 13:13), Marty wrote:
This is all very mysterious to me, all these people lacking an apt.conf
file.
I wonder how apt can function without it? In particular, how do you
specify
Craig Russell wrote:
It was recommended that I *NOT* use initrd unless I absolutely had a
reason (booting from LVM or raid, etc) but all of the debian images come
in this manner and I have been unable to compile a kernel and get it to
boot without initrd. Am I missing something?
I could be
Craig Russell wrote:
In terms of mirroring the boot disk I was referring to an LVM or
raidtools setup with a raid1 mirror. If it is done, I'd like to be able
to boot off of either disk in the event of a failure.
Unless I'm missing something, LILO or grub already allow that without
the need
Guillaume TESSIER wrote:
It seems that the BIG SWITCH let my system a kind of orphelin
I think you are massively overcomplicating the problem...
You wrote ealier that your last upgrade was on the 2nd of june (FYI
here in the US 02/06/2005 is usually interpreted as Feb 6 2005) and
you
Jerome BENOIT wrote:
Hello All,
I have just migrate to Etch, and I have a naive question.
My current /etc/debian_version file still contains 3.1,
which is valid release for Sarge:
1] what must /etc/debian_version contain for an Etch box ?
2] does it really matter ?
If you check out on-going
Joe Potter wrote:
He may be close to trolling, but I am glad they all got those posts out
of you.
I'm not trolling nor did I make up idea of the debian version. I just
asked a few questions about it, seeking clarification. Thanks to all
who responded, and thanks for your patience too.
Dan R. Hunt wrote:
I installed Sarge on a HP Evectra.
http://images.google.ca/images?q=evectra
When I did this I used a Logitech USB / Optical Wheel Mouse.
Took the little fellow downstairs and changed the mouse to a Logitech
two button serial mouse, D-shaped 9 pin.
Been running:
Strake wrote:
I just booted my debian system for the first time and it automatically
ran /usr/sbin/base-config . It went fine until tasksel. I chose yes
when asked whether to run tasksel, but nothing happened and it skipped
to the part where it asks me if i want to run dselect. I selected no,
Strake wrote:
I just installed sarge but it always boots into a graphical
environment and even when I kill it with ctrl+meta+backspace it starts
again. How do I boot into console mode?
Remove your session manager (gdm, kdm, xdm etc.) or temporarily
disable it by moving or turning off its init
Bob Proulx wrote:
APT does not know or care about any Debian version that you seem to
be trying to make up. It does not exist. Don't try to create one.
I guess these guys didn't hear the news:
algernon:/home/marty# dlocate debian_version
base-files: /etc/debian_version
algernon:/home/marty
Colin Ingram wrote:
On a side note: I installed sarge fresh a couple of months ago and I
didn't have a /etc/apt/apt.conf file or /etc/apt/preferences. I created
both by hand.
This is all very mysterious to me, all these people lacking an apt.conf file.
I wonder how apt can function
Clive Menzies wrote:
On (10/06/05 13:13), Marty wrote:
This is all very mysterious to me, all these people lacking an apt.conf
file.
I wonder how apt can function without it? In particular, how do you specify
your Debian version?!
I think it's mainly for situations where you have multiple
Guillaume TESSIER wrote:
Apt can fonction without [apt.conf]. Unless you have specific network settings
(like access through proxy) then you don't need it. Either its an empty
file either it's not there. If you use testing it might be there of not
depending of the moment of your upgrade.
John Hasler wrote:
Marty writes:
I still don't understand where apt gets the Debian version.
Why do you think it cares?
I thought apt knew about debian version. If the version is only a
classification for grouping .deb files in the archives/repositories, then
it raises many more questions
Colin Ingram wrote:
Marty wrote:
Colin Ingram wrote:
On a side note: I installed sarge fresh a couple of months ago and I
didn't have a /etc/apt/apt.conf file or /etc/apt/preferences. I
created both by hand.
This is all very mysterious to me, all these people lacking an
apt.conf file
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