I am doing a clean install on a 486 w/20Meg and Buslogic SCSI w/3 400MB drives.
Booting from floppy (resc1440.bin) looks ok until it tries to mount the RAMDISK:
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
invalid compressed format (err=2) [MS-DOS FS Rel. 12, FAT
There was an effort to outline a configuration (administration) tool on
debian-admintool, but the discussion was very hot and then cooled down to
silence.
However, the goal was much higher than expanding the install menu.
Marcus
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FWIW, If I select ramdisk0 install instead of the default, it seems to come up
OK using the root diskette.
On 19-Oct-97 George Bonser wrote:
I am doing a clean install on a 486 w/20Meg and Buslogic SCSI w/3 400MB
drives.
Booting from floppy (resc1440.bin) looks ok until it tries to mount the
On Sat, 18 Oct 1997, George Bonser wrote:
I just noticed that a FREE Linux version of PerfectBACKUP is now available. It
is not crippled and does not expire.
Maybe someone could build a loader script like the one for Netscape?
Have a look at www.unisrc.com
Will this work with lesstif, or
At 04:37 PM 10/19/1997 -0700, George Bonser wrote:
There was an effort to outline a configuration (administration) tool on
debian-admintool, but the discussion was very hot and then cooled down to
silence.
However, the goal was much higher than expanding the install menu.
Still, it would be
Hello,
It has come to my attention that individuals are using the open
architecture of the debian mailing lists to subscribe other individuals.
The most recent incident which has come to my attention involves a
victimized recipient who has several email addresses, some of which
forward
On Sun, 19 Oct 1997, Stuart Krivis wrote:
For example, I can get a new Caldera install up and on the net within
minutes. Debian was not so accommodating. No modem. No modemtool app. No
LISA. Ok, MAKEDEV cua1. Dial... connected... ping junior.apk.net ---
network unreachable
cua1 is bad,
On Sun, 19 Oct 1997, Stuart Krivis wrote:
For example, I can get a new Caldera install up and on the net within
minutes. Debian was not so accommodating. No modem. No modemtool app. No
LISA. Ok, MAKEDEV cua1. Dial... connected... ping junior.apk.net ---
network unreachable
Hi Stuart,
I
For example, I can get a new Caldera install up and on the net within
minutes. Debian was not so accommodating. No modem. No modemtool app. No
LISA. Ok, MAKEDEV cua1. Dial... connected... ping junior.apk.net ---
network unreachable
cua1 is bad, don't use it. Not good with file
When I invoke lates on a .tex source file, like so
$ latex usrguide.tex
I get
This is TeX, Version 3.1415 (C version 6.1)
I can't find the default format file!
Also, when I try to run LaTeX from LyX, I get
Missing log file: newfile.log
Am I doing something wrong? Could this be
At 10:49 PM 19/10/97 -0400, Brandon Mitchell wrote:
On Sun, 19 Oct 1997, Stuart Krivis wrote:
For example, I can get a new Caldera install up and on the net within
minutes. Debian was not so accommodating. No modem. No modemtool app. No
LISA. Ok, MAKEDEV cua1. Dial... connected... ping
Ok. I had some bad RAM in the system. Put the old 1MEG simms back in and it
installed fine.
Now I have a new problem. When dselect runs the first time and I try to
install using the FTP method I get:
Net:FTP:Unexpected EOF on command channel at /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/setup
line 137
FTP
I just did a dselect of stable on my local mirror and it grabbed
xlib6_3.3-4.deb. Is this a
libc6 package, or is the version number confusing? I'm still running an
entirely bo system
right now.
Thanks
Rob MacWilliams
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On 20-Oct-97 A. M. Varon wrote:
Example, to change the hostname, you could do that with lisa. But the
truth is, you could easily edit /etc/HOSTNAME and it would give you the
same effect. Please note that this apply not only to linux but other
variants of unix as well. So knowing this is a very
I have tried numerous installations of X and I can't get the monitor to
display anything when I 'xinit'. I have a Jaton Video-67P card (don't
ask!) based on the Trident Providia 9685 chipset. I used the SVGA
base... and I tried using both of the Jaton drivers (neither for the
67P) and Trident 96xx
On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Shaul Peleg wrote:
I have tried numerous installations of X and I can't get the monitor to
display anything when I 'xinit'. I have a Jaton Video-67P card (don't
ask!) based on the Trident Providia 9685 chipset. I used the SVGA
base... and I tried using both of the Jaton
I just did a dselect of stable on my local mirror and it grabbed
xlib6_3.3-4.deb. Is this a
libc6 package, or is the version number confusing? I'm still running an
entirely bo system
right now.
Thanks
Rob MacWilliams
I hate to follow up my own posts, but I should apoligize for
Ok... I ran 'startx' and this time the bottom (lets say) 1/4 of the screen
flashed white for a second... and that was it. I mean, the HD gets accessed here
and there, but obviously the display is no good. Even if the driver is not the
*exact* one, shouldn't something come up, even garbled? The
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
: Let me say that the awe driver package works just fine with a SB AWE32.
: Don`t know about the 64 yet. Any people tried?
I would suspect that it would work fine with the 64 as well. AFAIK, the
AWE64 is the same as the 32, except for the extra 32 voices. Oh, and
On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Shaul Peleg wrote:
Ok... I ran 'startx' and this time the bottom (lets say) 1/4 of the screen
flashed white for a second... and that was it. I mean, the HD gets accessed
here
and there, but obviously the display is no good. Even if the driver is not the
*exact* one,
Ok... I changed the server to XF_VGA16 and then I noticed that startx itself was
pointing to xinitrc and xserverrc in /usr/X11/ - shouldn't it be reading it from
/etc/X11? I have a feeling that the setup program won't work here because I
screwed
something up and will have to do it all by hand
Michael Legart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There's a program in win95 called winipcfg, which shows what the computer
have recived from a dhcp server. BUT in the field which should be showing
193.162.146.9 (a dns server) is just empty...
How are you setting the DNS server? The Name Server
Hi
Is there any debianized Visio like program ?
Thanks
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I am having problems with my Toshiba laptop 410CS. Resume mode doesn't
work --- the machine just freezes.
Any ideas
Thanks
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On Sat, Oct 18, 1997 at 11:19:16AM +0200, Gernot Bauer wrote:
Deselect tells me that there are obsolete packages in my debian system (I
use stable contrib non-free bo). One of the obsolete packages is the
modules-package. When I try to remove it, Debian tells me that I use a
modular kernal and
On 19 Oct 1997, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
On Sun, Oct 19, 1997 at 08:43:07PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote:
On Sun, 19 Oct 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I downloaded the .31 kernel and tried to do a make menuconfig and got the
following:
rm -f include/asm
( cd include ; ln
WZ == W Zabolotny [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
WZ preparing small presentation about application of Linux in
WZ digital signal processing. I wouldn't like to have to present
WZ transparencies prepared with M$ PowerPoint...
have a look at root.cern.ch: root does look like to be suitable
On 20-Oct-97 Bill Moran wrote:
I am having problems with my Toshiba laptop 410CS. Resume mode doesn't
work --- the machine just freezes.
Bill
I'm not familiar with Toshibas, but many laptops have a BIOS setup option
to activate Advanced Power Management. Turn this off and use at most
basic
Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe wrote:
:Is there any debianized Visio like program ?
Not as such, but you may want to try XFig, a structured drawing program.
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Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
When I invoke lates on a .tex source file, like so
$ latex usrguide.tex
I get
This is TeX, Version 3.1415 (C version 6.1)
I can't find the default format file!
You do not have latex.fmt installed!
You must search for the latex.ltx file and then run
since i updated to hamm, two odd things are happening. one is that often
when i send a message from Pine, it hangs for 20-30 seconds before saying
'message sent and copied to sent mail'. just in case there was a problem
with smail, or my isp's mail server (mail.oz.net), i sent some mail from
At 09:19 PM 10/19/1997 -0700, George Bonser wrote:
On 20-Oct-97 A. M. Varon wrote:
Example, to change the hostname, you could do that with lisa. But the
truth is, you could easily edit /etc/HOSTNAME and it would give you the
same effect. Please note that this apply not only to linux but other
On Mon, Oct 20, 1997 at 09:54:25AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Replacing modules by modutils will require some tricky dpkg stuff. Wichert?
Actually it should be automic now: when you install modutils it replaces
all of modules' files.dpkg will notice that and mark modules as removed.
On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Matt Thompson wrote:
since i updated to hamm, two odd things are happening. one is that often
when i send a message from Pine, it hangs for 20-30 seconds before saying
'message sent and copied to sent mail'. just in case there was a problem
with smail, or my isp's mail
Hi,
A friend of mine has installed debian on his laptop. I tried running pon.
It runs without complaining, but doesn't do anything much. The modem
doesn't make any of the usual noises associated with an attempt to
connect. When I do plog, it comes up blank. When I do a ps, it seems
that pon
I've got Debian Linux 1.3 using bash for a shell. When I go into X-Windows
(Afterstep win. manager) I lose all of my aliases and other settings that
get run in my .bash-profile when I login, and when i quit X the settings are
back to how they should be. Is this just a bug or am I doing something
On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Shaul Peleg wrote:
Ok... I changed the server to XF_VGA16 and then I noticed that startx itself
was
pointing to xinitrc and xserverrc in /usr/X11/ - shouldn't it be reading it
from
/etc/X11? I have a feeling that the setup program won't work here because I
screwed
At 05:30 PM 10/19/97 +0200, Michael Legart wrote:
Hi!
I have a little problem with ip_masq.
It's allmost working ... clients on the network can access hosts outside
the LAN if they type the hosts ip instead of the domainname. I can access
hosts via. domainnames from my linux box. I use dhcpd to
On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Matt Thompson wrote:
since i updated to hamm, two odd things are happening. one is that often
when i send a message from Pine, it hangs for 20-30 seconds before saying
'message sent and copied to sent mail'. just in case there was a problem
with smail, or my isp's mail
On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Mark Phillips wrote:
Hi,
A friend of mine has installed debian on his laptop. I tried running pon.
It runs without complaining, but doesn't do anything much. The modem
doesn't make any of the usual noises associated with an attempt to
connect. When I do plog, it
Jason Bauer wrote:
I've got Debian Linux 1.3 using bash for a shell. When I go into X-Windows
(Afterstep win. manager) I lose all of my aliases and other settings that
get run in my .bash-profile when I login, and when i quit X the settings are
back to how they should be. Is this just a bug or
Hi!
This is my dhcpd.conf. Can anyone see whats wrong?
# dhcpd.conf
#
# Configuration file for ISC dhcpd
#
# Hosts with more than one interface MUST specify a ``server-identifier'',
# which should be the IP address of the server's primary network interface,
# or if there is no interface that
Hi!
At 08:17 20-10-97 -0600, you wrote:
option domain-name-servers 192.168.2.1, 205.162.184.2, 205.162.184.3;
I think a have that line. 192.168.2.1 is your box, right? I don't need to
be running a DNS server - or?
Also, you must have DNS enabled in the Win95 TCP/IP control panel.
I just
Thanks for the alias settings help and the quick response! I've got
another question while i'm thinking of stuff. I used to run Slakware
linux until I heard about how much better Debian is. In Slakware, when I
did an ls it showed all of the files in colors according to their type,
while Debian
On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Jason Bauer wrote:
I've got Debian Linux 1.3 using bash for a shell. When I go into X-Windows
(Afterstep win. manager) I lose all of my aliases and other settings that
Do you mean these settings don't work if you (for example) start up an
xterm with bash in it?
get run in
On Sun, 19 Oct 1997, Rob MacWilliams wrote:
I just did a dselect of stable on my local mirror and it grabbed
xlib6_3.3-4.deb. Is this a
libc6 package, or is the version number confusing? I'm still running an
entirely bo system
right now.
No, this is a libc5 package. The '6' stands for
The newer Yamaha CD-R drives are protected by an NDA. You can't get the
developer information without signing one. The old CDR-100 information
is available on their website.
I used to own a CDR-100. I now have a CDR-400c. The 100 was more stable
and better made, but the 400c has better
On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Jason Bauer wrote:
Thanks for the alias settings help and the quick response! I've got
another question while i'm thinking of stuff. I used to run Slakware
linux until I heard about how much better Debian is. In Slakware, when I
did an ls it showed all of the files in
Ok... I changed the server to XF_VGA16 and then I noticed that startx
itself was
pointing to xinitrc and xserverrc in /usr/X11/ - shouldn't it be reading it
from
/etc/X11? I have a feeling that the setup program won't work here because I
screwed
something up and will have to do
Help,
I've been playing arround with the new 2.1.5x kernels. Now when I issue a
depmod -a, it does not update the modules.dep file. Any content of the
modules.dep is cleared. I've re-built the depmod / modprobe utilities (v
2.1.55) from source, but still no joy.
Can anyone suggest what I've
On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Michael Legart wrote:
At 08:17 20-10-97 -0600, you wrote:
option domain-name-servers 192.168.2.1, 205.162.184.2, 205.162.184.3;
I think a have that line. 192.168.2.1 is your box, right? I don't need to
be running a DNS server - or?
Yes. You must.
I just checked
On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Michael Legart wrote:
This is my dhcpd.conf. Can anyone see whats wrong?
What appears in /var/log/daemon.log after saying:
/etc/init.d/dhcpd start
?
The configfile appears to be ok.
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George Bonser writes:
I, for one, would much rather have some sort of a tool so I can get back
to enjoying my system and not spend as much time configuring it.
So would I. Can we get a project going to create one?
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Hi.
I recently posted a message about Kernel Panic that was due to bad
blocks in my hard drive. My plan is to just start all over. What I need
now is a way to fix bad blocks or to skip over them if neccessary. I
received a message that told me to use e2fsck -c /dev/hda? ( where ? is
any one of
JD Thomlinson wrote:
Nuts! I'm damn glad that you sent what you sent to the list!
Considering how much space is already wasted on irrelevant
flame wars on who's in charge of what and in what manner,
it's refreshing to see useful, detailed information about
real code and what's going
hello to all!
tonight at 18:00 CST the Debian master will be taken down for system
maintenance. estimated down time will be 1 hour or less.
feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns.
thanks,
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HI,
I'm trying to install Debian on a PPro and I having problems
with Lilo.
I can use the boot floppy created at install step but if I
compile a custom kernel, install it and run lilo, the boot process
or hangs with LIL- or after the boot is completed there is a
kernel panic
hi everybody,
I really don't understand ftp.debian.org directory structure;
is there a document explaining every bit of it?
it fisrt happened with samba-1.9.17p2; I read in the newsgroups that it
was available (and it was important!) but couldn't install it with
dselect: dselect still showed
Will Lowe wrote:
On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Jason Bauer wrote:
I've got Debian Linux 1.3 using bash for a shell. When I go into X-Windows
(Afterstep win. manager) I lose all of my aliases and other settings that
Do you mean these settings don't work if you (for example) start up an
xterm with
Al Youngwerth wrote:
At 05:30 PM 10/19/97 +0200, Michael Legart wrote:
Hi!
I have a little problem with ip_masq.
It's allmost working ... clients on the network can access hosts outside
the LAN if they type the hosts ip instead of the domainname. I can access
hosts via. domainnames
At 11:02 20-10-97 -0600, Al Youngwerth wrote:
No, you don't have to be running DNS but is this a demand dial link? If so
you may have a problem with an Win95 TCP/IP bug that can cause Win95
machines to query DNS when they can't find a resource they used to have.
The fix for this sucks: setup all
First, let me assure you that you can get it to work. It works great on
my Toshiba 440CDT.
Install the kernel-source package. As root, make menuconfig in the
/usr/src/linux directory. Enable APM (it's under character devices).
Enable the option for APM to blank the screen. This will work fine for
By the way, my Toshiba system runs the disk about 20% faster when I use
hdparm to turn on 32-bit mode.
Bruce
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First, let me assure you that you can get it to work. It works great on
my Toshiba 440CDT.
Also on my 430CDS.
Do not install the apmd package. apmd is not reacting fast
enough and it breaks resume on my system. The system resumes fine
without it.
I must admit that
At 09:57 PM 10/20/97 +0200, Michael Legart wrote:
At 11:02 20-10-97 -0600, Al Youngwerth wrote:
No, you don't have to be running DNS but is this a demand dial link? If so
you may have a problem with an Win95 TCP/IP bug that can cause Win95
machines to query DNS when they can't find a resource
Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
When I invoke lates on a .tex source file, like so
$ latex usrguide.tex
I get
This is TeX, Version 3.1415 (C version 6.1)
I can't find the default format file!
You do not have latex.fmt installed!
You must search for the latex.ltx
You need to create a file containing the block numbers of
the bad blocks. The badblocks program should work. Then
run e2fsck -L on the *un-mounted* filesystem. See the
manpages for badblocks and e2fsck. You may still need to
re-make the filesystem on the affected partition. I would
repeat
On Mon, Oct 20, 1997 at 08:10:09AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
George Bonser writes:
I, for one, would much rather have some sort of a tool so I can get back
to enjoying my system and not spend as much time configuring it.
So would I. Can we get a project going to create one?
As I
On Mon, Oct 20, 1997 at 06:04:32PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Help,
I've been playing arround with the new 2.1.5x kernels. Now when I issue a
depmod -a, it does not update the modules.dep file. Any content of the
modules.dep is cleared. I've re-built the depmod / modprobe utilities (v
Hola ,soy español. Tengo un ordenador IBM Aptiva 120MHz .Tengo un
problema: Tengo un Modem-Fax MWave 28800 y el Debian Linux no me lo
reconoció al instalarse ,¿Como puedo hacer que lo reconozca?.
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On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Bob Clark wrote:
You need to create a file containing the block numbers of
the bad blocks. The badblocks program should work. Then
run e2fsck -L on the *un-mounted* filesystem. See the
manpages for badblocks and e2fsck. You may still need to
re-make the filesystem on
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Hello. I have just installed Debian 1.3.1 and have a lot of doubts about
configurations By now I have been able to install the X windows. But for
example :
- How can I do for the files and folders' colours to appear?
- How can I do the PWD to appear in the 'prompt'?
-Something extrange: with
I'm trying to upgrade from ldso_1.8.10-2.deb to ldso_1.9.6-2.deb
because I can't get executor to run. I can run it under slackware
just fine, and one of the differences is the ld.so itself. I've
tried preloading the various other libraries with copies from the
slackware distro. No luck.
Can anyone tell me why I can't run the executable (if it is that!) that
gcc compiles? Is there some kind of setup required? I am compiling in my
home directory and another file, without the suffix is made but can't be
run! Thanks all!
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On Mon, Oct 20, 1997 at 04:05:56PM +1000, Mr Stuart Lamble wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
: Let me say that the awe driver package works just fine with a SB AWE32.
: Don`t know about the 64 yet. Any people tried?
I would suspect that it would work fine with the 64 as well. AFAIK, the
On 20-Oct-97 Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
But perhaps it is just better (and more efficient) to write more and good
documentation, instead of more and bad code...
Just my 2 cent on this.
Marcus
This comment is spot-on. Linux is now so complicated (and varied) that, if
you don't know it already, it
On Mon, 20 Oct 1997 20:23:19 EDT Shaul Peleg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Can anyone tell me why I can't run the executable (if it is that!) that
gcc compiles? Is there some kind of setup required? I am compiling in my
home directory and another file, without the suffix is made but can't be
Hi all. I have a compaq box with a CPQ-5710 Hardware-RAID5 controller and would
like to run the machine with LINUX. Does anyone know if there is a driver
already written for LINUX for this type of RAID?
TIA
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On Tue, 21 Oct 1997, Ted Harding wrote:
But perhaps it is just better (and more efficient) to write more and good
documentation, instead of more and bad code...
do even something simple correctly. This is why people call for software
admin tools: you can hope that the tool has the
I've already sent a message out about finding a driver for a compaq RAID, but
now
I'm not sure about the model number.
Does anyone know about any linux drivers for compaq RAID controllers, in
particular
the Proliant 2500 series, or any compatibility issues related to these
controllers?
TIA
I am having trouble getting X windows to run. I am *nix illiterate. The
documentation that I found did not help. My system is fairly simple - I
have a simple Trident Providia 9865 based board with 2 megs. After I
setup using generic VGA / VGA16 base / afterstep I run startx and the
screen goes
Thanks alot! That's probably it... I'll have to get offline now in order to
test this. BYE!
Philippe Troin wrote:
On Mon, 20 Oct 1997 20:23:19 EDT Shaul Peleg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Can anyone tell me why I can't run the executable (if it is that!) that
gcc compiles? Is there some kind
hello,
well I've went through some considerable pains to install the latest samba
on my system its there... everything seems to be working fine (seems to
be) the client can see the server the server and the client like to talk
back and forth... however when it comes to the issue of
Hi all,
Installing from a Debian 1.3.1 CD:
1. I'd like to make both xemacs and emacs available on my system, but
dselect prohibits both. Why? Should not there be an automatic way
for coexistence?
2. Also, I'd like to make bbdb and auctex available to xemacs, but
using dselect doesn't
I'm using a dual boot PC using 2 disks, debian on hdb and win95 on
hda. To keep things simple, I want to backup both disks through a
single (linux) mechanism, on a single tape.
It would be great to avoid dumping disk images, as I'd like to provide
incrementals, etc.
Recommendations? Options?
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