Thanks to all who replied. I only do this with systems that
are not connected to the internet. This one is experimental,
but I like to have an old 386 system for making kernels or
whatever. I edited the /etc/passwd file to set paul and root
to have no password. Now, I just telnet in as paul and do
Fritz Ilg wrote:
Hi Debian Linux users:
I am a Linux novice and I have a Slackware Linux distribution installed
on my Toshiba 105CS Satellite, which works fine. I am planning to install
DEBIAN Linux on to my Laptop. Unfortunately I have no CD-ROM drive avail-
able with this Laptop which
OK... I've beat my head on this for long enough, maybe some of you can
help me out.
I upgraded my R6 system to 1.1beta last week, and after a few days (and
nights) of tweaking, I got everything setup to my liking... except
compiling. For some unknown reason, when I try to compile anything, I
Hi,
I have recently installed debian (1.1beta) for the first time, my
previous system being Slackware 3.0. I have had a number of problems
and would appreciate some help.
* My machine name is destiny and when trying to rlogin from destiny
to destiny I get the following problem:
rlogin destiny
I saw some messages about kernel-package-1.01 in the debian-user list.
Where is it? I cannot find it in tsx-11.mit.edu or master.debian.org
Derek
It looks as if you aren't getting the definition of wchar_t.
To kluge around the problem put typedef unsigned long wchar_t; before
line 333 in stdio.h . The correct way to fix this is to get the latest
libc and libc-dev packages and install them. If the problem doesn't go
away, tell us.
On Wed, 12 Jun 1996, Mark Phillips wrote:
I have recently installed debian (1.1beta) for the first time, my
previous system being Slackware 3.0. I have had a number of problems
and would appreciate some help.
I can help with a this one:
* I've installed color-ls but I still don't get
Derek Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I saw some messages about kernel-package-1.01 in the debian-user list.
Where is it? I cannot find it in tsx-11.mit.edu or master.debian.org
I think it's in debian/experimental. Don't know why.
--
Rob
Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Not sure about all your problems, but...
* Why do I automatically get an xterm coming up when I start X? It
didn't happen with Slackware.
This is the default for debian when you don't have your own
~/.xsession. /etc/X11/Xsession is where this happens.
* Is it true that dselect automatically updates to newer versions of
packages (if a newer version appears in the directory structure and
you run dselect)? What do you do if you want to reinstall the same
version of a package - can you do it? (for example you might want to
re - set it
[...]
Anyway, the intranet is a Window NT net and while goofing around I
discovered that my machine has two IP addresses. One is the one
assigned, 172.16.18.5 and the other is 127.0.0.1. I think I have gone
through all the config files in /etc and I can't find out where this
address is
Oz Dror wrote:
:
: Hi,
:
: I want to upgrade my debian 1.0 to 1.1.
: I have installed the new dpkg (1.2.3 elf)
: then followed the steps in dselect.
: then dselect failed in the Install step with the following error:
:
: Running dpkg -iGROEB /u2/debian/binary
: find:
On Tue, 11 Jun 1996, Rick Hawkins wrote:
I have compiled the 2.0.0 kernel (successfully), but lost my routing
info in the process (coming from 1.3.95). route only shows the
machine itself.
If i manually add the missing router gateway, it works fine, but i
lose this on reboot.
Please
Zachary DeAquila [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I can't seem to log in through xdm into my newly upgraded from .93 to 1.1
system. I log in, the screen freaks out as it swaps video modes to
the correct one that I'm running (or is it restarting the X server?
whatever) and then... it comes back to
On Mon, 10 Jun 1996 15:36:42 -0400 (EDT), Dale Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
DM It would appear that the boot disks for debian 1.1 beta don't have
DM generic ncr-810 SCSI support - the .93 disks did. Are there
DM alternative boot disks available with this support? I perused the
DM
I can't seem to log in through xdm into my newly upgraded from .93 to 1.1
system. I log in, the screen freaks out as it swaps video modes to
the correct one that I'm running (or is it restarting the X server?
whatever) and then... it comes back to the xdm prompt. I can log in
fine if I do a
Paul Wade wrote:
:
: Before installing Debian Linux, I was able to log in
: as root over telnet. Now it is refused. I am simply
: using a Windows system as a Linux console over
: ethernet. How do I fix this?
Have a look into /etc/securetty:
# /etc/securetty: list of terminals on which
On Tue, 11 Jun 1996, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote:
I can help with a this one:
Maybe one of these days I'll remember that English is my native language.
It is left to the system administrator whether to enable color-ls as the
system-wide default. I just put enable it from my personal .cshrc
Steve == Steve Preston [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Steve You need to 'split' the .deb files that are too big. This
Steve requires dpkg-split, but I am not aware of a WIN95 version of
Steve this. If you created a (relatively minimal) linux partition on
Steve your cdrom machine, then you could
On Tue, 11 Jun 1996, Carlo U. Segre wrote:
I have been helping out a colleague with a Linux installation on a Cyrix
5x86 system on a combination PCI/VLB motherboard. Everything works fine
except for X. We have tried running the ET4000/W32 server and the SVGA
server as per the README.W32.
Luis Francisco Gonzalez wrote:
:
: Hi,
: I have just had something strange happening to me. I tried to update some
: packages using dselect with the NFS option. When going into the install option
: I would get an error from find about not being able to find the directory. The
: strange thing
Hello,
I have recently installed the beta version of Debian on a Gateway that is
connected on an intranet at work. (The installation was flawless by the
way.)
I have recompiled the kernel and added all the network support and apache
as I will be running an intranet-based website with
use a cable to transfer the files to the laptop from the machine with
the cdrom. Dont forget to use a proper cable setup...
It'll save your ass a ton-o-time. and you wont have to be splitting
files across floppies.
I use xtgold's xtlink which works great...
Anyway, the intranet is a Window NT net and while goofing around I
discovered that my machine has two IP addresses. One is the one
assigned, 172.16.18.5 and the other is 127.0.0.1. I think I have gone
through all the config files in /etc and I can't find out where this
address is being
Hi,
Lawrence == Lawrence Chim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Lawrence I don't know why there is a libc5-dev.
This provides all kinds of libraries in /usr/lib/* and headers
in /usr/include; without which it is impossible to compile any
program.
Lawrence If I install a new kernel, it comes
On Tue, 11 Jun 1996, Rick Hawkins wrote:
I have compiled the 2.0.0 kernel (successfully), but lost my routing
info in the process (coming from 1.3.95). route only shows the
machine itself.
If i manually add the missing router gateway, it works fine, but i
lose this on reboot.
help!
Thanks for your reply.
As far as I know, I have the latest packages... I got them from the
mirror a few days ago.
The ones I have installed are:
libc5-5.2.18-6.deb dated May 1
libc5-dev-5.2.18-6.deb dated May 1
gcc-2.7.2-8.deb dated May 2
In fact, I have reinstalled them (and others, just in
Steve == Steve Preston [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Steve You need to 'split' the .deb files that are too big. This
Steve requires dpkg-split, but I am not aware of a WIN95 version of
Steve this. If you created a (relatively minimal) linux partition on
Steve your cdrom machine, then you
Sven Rudolph writes:
4. Packages that someone is working on
Programs listed in this section aren't yet available as Debian
packages, but someone is working on providing a package.
[...]
o Xemacs
Has been released a while ago.
o nn (newsreader)
Just released the other day.
I don't know why there is a libc5-dev. If I install a new kernel,
it comes with its only kernel headers. Is it necessary to install
lib5-dev in order to compile programs.
Yes. The kernel headers are not enough to compile even a normal Hello, world!
program. stdio.h etc are libc headers, and
Evan Harris writes:
reference to `_ctype' messages on the link step, although my hello,
world test program will compile and link (but nothing else will).
Please send the output from 'dpkg -l' and from compiling your program
with 'gcc -v'.
David
--
David EngelOptical
Hello all:
I have been helping out a colleague with a Linux installation on a Cyrix
5x86 system on a combination PCI/VLB motherboard. Everything works fine
except for X. We have tried running the ET4000/W32 server and the SVGA
server as per the README.W32. No Luck! Basically, the symptoms
I don't know why there is a libc5-dev. If I install a new kernel,
it comes with its only kernel headers. Is it necessary to install
lib5-dev in order to compile programs. Also, if I install libc5-dev,
can I still install a newer version of linux kernel whenever it is
available.
libc5-dev: The
On Tue, 11 Jun 1996, Rick Hawkins wrote:
I have compiled the 2.0.0 kernel (successfully), but lost my routing
info in the process (coming from 1.3.95). route only shows the
machine itself.
If i manually add the missing router gateway, it works fine, but i
lose this on reboot.
I'm
On Wed, 12 Jun 1996, Zachary DeAquila wrote:
I can't seem to log in through xdm into my newly upgraded from .93 to 1.1
system. I log in, the screen freaks out as it swaps video modes to
the correct one that I'm running (or is it restarting the X server?
whatever) and then... it comes back to
Are you sure that, when you updated the xbase package you EITHER kept all
the old config files OR installed all the new ones? A mix will probably
not work.
hmm. i moved /etc/init.d/xdm to a safe place, rebooted, copied the new
kernel modules from the other machine, rebooted made minor
I have been trying to use dselect 1.2.3 on a partial 1.1beta
distribution tree obtained as an FTP mirror:
dpkg --clear-avail
dpkg-deb -AR binary-i386
[I did not want to point dselect at the packages file of the partial
tree, because that contains also those packages that I do not have.]
OK, i've got it. but i think this means i've found a bug, or at least
something that needs fixing.
Under the beta releases with 1.3.9x, the following file is created:
#! /bin/sh
ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
route add 127.0.0.1
IPADDR=129.186.31.38
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=129.186.31.38
Douglas Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Does anyone have suggestions on
a) does this seem like a reasonable approach?
b) if so, what would be good tools for creating such a POP forwarder?
I have some experience with sockets under perl if that seemed to be a
good way or I could treat this
Lawrence Chim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is it necessary to install lib5-dev in order to compile programs.
Yes
I don't know why there is a libc5-dev. If I install a new kernel,
it comes with its only kernel headers.
Install libc5-dev and read /usr/doc/libc5-dev/FAQ.gz.
Also, if I install
Fritz Ilg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am a Linux novice and I have a Slackware Linux distribution installed
on my Toshiba 105CS Satellite, which works fine. I am planning to install
DEBIAN Linux on to my Laptop. Unfortunately I have no CD-ROM drive avail-
able with this Laptop which make
I have friends visiting for a couple of weeks and I would like to help
them access their e-mail while here. They are accustomed to using
applications such as Eudora or Netscape under Windows to access a POP
server. I can provide them with the opportunity to connect the
Windows machine to a PPP
David Gaudine [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This does work. Since I don't know how to find the configuration
programs for some package, I use dselect to remove the package and
then to reinstall it. I assume there's a better way, but this does
work.
There's nothing too terribly wrong with that,
Hi,
Bruce == Bruce Perens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Bruce Kernel-package seems to be in the project/experimental
Bruce directory of the archive. I don't know why...
It's there because I wasn't sure that the user interface was
stable enough to let it on the wide public just as we went
From: Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
* Is it true that dselect automatically updates to newer versions of
packages (if a newer version appears in the directory structure and
you run dselect)? What do you do if you want to reinstall the
one more, probably minor thing: with it set up for xdm, it ignores the
.xinitrc file in my home directory. am i missing something obvious?
rick
I'm using 0.93R6...
I can't find any docs for groff. No man pages, no texinfo pages, nada.
Sorta frustrating. I checked /var/lib/dpkg/info/groff.list, but no dice.
Just executables and fonts.
Am I doing something wrong? If not, where can I scavenge up some
documentation?
--
If a man ate a
I can't quite get nfs going for some reason. I had it going quickly
under the 1.2 kernel (i have 2 machines sitting here).
I uncommented everything in /etc/init.d/netstd_nfs. I added / to
exports. I added ALL: .iastate.edu to hosts.allow.
ANd the two machines give me different errors . . .
Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In a nutshell: this is normal. You don't have a problem.
I'm not sure if this is related, but there was one problem with the
*configuration* of the loopback interface that was fixed in the latest
package.
The original /etc/init.d/network read:
#
Andreas Kerzmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Steve == Steve Preston [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Steve You need to 'split' the .deb files that are too big. This
Steve requires dpkg-split, but I am not aware of a WIN95 version of
Steve this. If you created a (relatively minimal) linux partition
one more, probably minor thing: with it set up for xdm, it ignores the
.xinitrc file in my home directory. am i missing something obvious?
Here's an example of how I sometimes launch xdm:
xdm -config /home/syrus/.fvwmrc -session /home/syrus/.xinitrc\
-resources
Rick Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
one more, probably minor thing: with it set up for xdm, it ignores the
.xinitrc file in my home directory. am i missing something obvious?
Is it's executable bit set? /etc/X11/Xsession checks this to decide
whether or not to run the user's script.
--
On Wed, 12 Jun 1996, Rick Hawkins wrote:
one more, probably minor thing: with it set up for xdm, it ignores the
.xinitrc file in my home directory. am i missing something obvious?
Here's an example of how I sometimes launch xdm:
xdm -config /home/syrus/.fvwmrc -session /home/syrus/.xinitrc\
:o GNAT (GNU Ada Translator)
: I believe this was released the other day, too.
Cool, I didn't even notice that it was on the wanted list when I
uploaded it. (I better put together -2, since -1 is missing a few
files...)
Rick Hawkins wrote:
one more, probably minor thing: with it set up for xdm, it ignores the
.xinitrc file in my home directory. am i missing something obvious?
rick
I ran into this. Reading /etc/X11/Xsession told me enough to
fix it.
Edit /etc/X11/config and add the following lines:
Rob, I hope you don't mind. I'm forwarding this message to the list as
it seems relevant.
-- Forwarded message --
Date: 12 Jun 1996 13:12:23 -0500
From: Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Syrus Nemat-Nasser [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: .xinitrc
Syrus Nemat-Nasser [EMAIL
A couple of people have given me pointers to some docs for troff/groff, so
let me say thanks to them.
Additionally, check this out:
::
groff.postinst
::
#! /bin/sh
rm -f /usr/bin/geqn /usr/bin/gtbl /usr/bin/gpic
ln -s eqn /usr/bin/geqn
ln -s tbl /usr/bin/gtbl
ln -s pic
Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I can point setserial at a particular port, but can't seem to tell it to
set the stop bits to two.
By the way, having 7 data bits and 2 stop bits should be equivalent to
having 8 data bits without parity generation and 1 stop bit. This is
because the
with all of these solutions running around, did we ask if he will still
have a dos partion? if he will, just get the files onto that, mount the
partion, and instaalll . . .
On Wed, 12 Jun 1996, Michael Meskes wrote:
Sven Rudolph writes:
4. Packages that someone is working on
Programs listed in this section aren't yet available as Debian
packages, but someone is working on providing a package.
[...]
o Xemacs
Has been released a while
Here's part of a msg. I've just sent to debian-bugs:
-
Finally, another weird problem. lpd is complaining about invalid
printer names, but the printcap is correct; also, the behaviour is
somewhat erratic. To debug this I inserted a fprintf in the routine
that gets the hole lines from
On Wed, 12 Jun 1996, Rick Hawkins wrote:
Under the beta releases with 1.3.9x, the following file is created:
#! /bin/sh
ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
route add 127.0.0.1
IPADDR=129.186.31.38
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=129.186.31.38
BROADCAST=129.186.31.255
GATEWAY=129.186.31.254
Rick Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
one more, probably minor thing: with it set up for xdm, it ignores the
.xinitrc file in my home directory. am i missing something obvious?
Is it's executable bit set? /etc/X11/Xsession checks this to decide
whether or not to run the user's
The reason the last route add -net ${NETWORK} is not working is that it
is expecting a network address (ending in .0) and it is getting a host
address instead. In the above example, change the NETWORK=129.186.31.38
line to NETWORK=129.186.31.0 and things should work. If this is indeed
Some packages seem to 'require' things they shouldn't need. For
example, gnuplot can run (believe it or not, I've used this)
with a terminal of 'dumb,' outputting text graphs etc., but
needs xlib. I solved this last time by just installing xlib,
even though I wasn't running X.
I ran into this
: NETWORK=129.186.31.38
IPADDR as the same as the NETWORK address?? Strange, isn't it?
err, forgot about this in the message i just sent.
On these machines, i found that i had to use their own address as teh
network address, rather than the .0 address; otherwise they wouldn't
talk to
The installation menu provides a prototype network number made from the
logical AND of your IP address and your netmask. If the user types in the
wrong netmask or overrides the prototype network number (which I think is
what happened here), they can get an incorrect value. I'll have to look at
Paul Kautz:
Some packages seem to 'require' things they shouldn't need. For
example, gnuplot can run (believe it or not, I've used this)
with a terminal of 'dumb,' outputting text graphs etc., but
needs xlib. I solved this last time by just installing xlib,
even though I wasn't running X.
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