Re: installing debian with initrd
Is there a compressed filesystem in a file somewhere (I already have a kernel) where I can just do: loadlin kernel initrd=image.gz root=/dev/ramdisk and start installing? I am working on this for Debian 1.2 . Currently, you have to go through the 5-floppy thing as detailed in my installation document on our WWW site and also via FTP as ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/stable/disks-i386/current/install.html . I am planning to make 3 initrd files. Which one you use depends on how much RAM you have. The smallest one boots to a miniroot, and you have to feed in a floppy to get the device driver modules. This is suitable for 4MB systems. The next larger one contains the miniroot and all of the modules, and you have to feed in floppies for the base system. This is suitable for 8MB system. The largest contains the entire base system, and is suitable for 16MB systems. These should run directly off of a CD or DOS partition, and will make floppy-less install possible for most people. Thanks Bruce
aout/elf
Can some kind soul tell me if there is a libg++ for the aout compiler, or, if not, how to get a ELF binary to run on a stock 1.2.0 kernel aout system? I have elf enabled in the kernel, but it doesn't run.. I forget the message right now. It's a farily simple c++ program, but it's running (or supposed to) on an embeded system based on 1.2.0 Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps Very Pete Townshendish. Who? Exactly. -- Anon ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.**
--largemem | --smallmem
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Re: eepro.c + question of my own
if you run eepro as a module try adding: options eepro io=0x230 in /etc/conf.modules. if you have it compiled in the kernel (as i do) add: append=ether=0,0x230,eth0 in /etc/lilo.conf. i've tried it both ways and it works fine for me (set at 0x210). now if i can only convince the card to show up on irq 11 as the dos setup program believes it to be instead of irq 5 as linux insists. so if anybody out there has any ideas please let me know. --alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand when, by a paranoiac and active | | advance of the mind, it will be possible (simultaneously with | | automatism and other passive states) to systematize confusion | | and thus to help to discredit completely the world of reality. |
Re: installing debian with initrd
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], you write: and start installing? I am working on this for Debian 1.2 . Currently, you have to go through the 5-floppy thing as detailed in my installation document on our WWW site and also via FTP as ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/stable/disks-i386/current/install.html . I am planning to make 3 initrd files. Which one you use depends on how much RAM you have. The smallest one boots to a miniroot, and you have to feed in a floppy to get the device driver modules. This is suitable for 4MB systems. The next larger one contains the miniroot and all of the modules, and you have to feed in floppies for the base system. This is suitable for 8MB system. The largest contains the entire base system, and is suitable for 16MB systems. These should run directly off of a CD or DOS partition, and will make floppy-less install possible for most people. What I thought...I frown on making floppies anymore (I'd much rather transfer images through ethernet... Right...I'm looking at machines with = 16 mbytes RAM...I've used yard to make ram boot disks of 4 megabytes...(with bash and nvi on there). I then mount the slackware (I've used slackware) install disk (as another ram image somewhere) and get it to work.. through brute force!! Maybe I'm looking for instructions of what programs I have to have installed in what places...I'm perfectly comfortable building them myself... You want to some help? I'm going to install a system this weekend, so I might give debian a while (I've been using ELF for a year, and the only ELF system I knew of last year was slackware). I floppyless install off CDROM is the way to go... Are all the floppies independent file systems? Can I mount them as loopback file systems? marty
Re: Debian Linux
Hi John -- You said: The kernel needed is the special kernel 6: special NCR53C8XX. This special kernel is supposedly available from buzz-fixed/disks-i386/special-kernels at any Debian FTP site. However, when I go the Debian FTP site the only special kernels available are numbers 0 through 5 (i.e. there is no special kernel 6 listed). I can't find special kernel 6 now either, although I could have sworn it existed at one time. You can, if you like, use a boot disk I made for a colleague which has the NCR53c7xx adapter built into it. (This is what's needed for the NCR53c810). It's available at: ftp://sgk.phast.umass.edu/pub/boot1440.bin.gz Note that it is a compressed file. So after you get it, you'll need to process it with gzip -d boot1440.bin.gz then write it to your disk, using either rawrite2 or just dd if=boot1440.bin of=/dev/fd0 (if you already have some Unix system up somewhere). The .config file used to make tha kernel is attached below for your curiosity. Good luck, Susan Kleinmann .config for kernel mentioned above= # # Automatically generated make config: don't edit # # # Code maturity level options # CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y # # Loadable module support # CONFIG_MODULES=y # CONFIG_MODVERSIONS is not set CONFIG_KERNELD=y # # General setup # # CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION is not set CONFIG_NET=y # CONFIG_MAX_16M is not set CONFIG_PCI=y # CONFIG_PCI_OPTIMIZE is not set CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT=y CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y CONFIG_BINFMT_JAVA=m CONFIG_KERNEL_ELF=y # CONFIG_M386 is not set # CONFIG_M486 is not set CONFIG_M586=y # CONFIG_M686 is not set # # Floppy, IDE, and other block devices # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y # # Please see Documentation/ide.txt for help/info on IDE drives # # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD_IDE is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDETAPE is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_PCMCIA is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD640 is not set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_TRITON=y # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RZ1000 is not set # CONFIG_IDE_CHIPSETS is not set # # Additional Block Devices # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=y # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD is not set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_XD is not set # # Networking options # CONFIG_FIREWALL=y CONFIG_NET_ALIAS=y CONFIG_INET=y CONFIG_IP_FORWARD=y # CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST is not set CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL=y # CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL_VERBOSE is not set CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE=y # # Protocol-specific masquerading support will be built as modules. # CONFIG_IP_TRANSPARENT_PROXY=y CONFIG_IP_ALWAYS_DEFRAG=y # CONFIG_IP_ACCT is not set # CONFIG_IP_ROUTER is not set # CONFIG_NET_IPIP is not set # CONFIG_IP_ALIAS is not set # # (it is safe to leave these untouched) # # CONFIG_INET_PCTCP is not set # CONFIG_INET_RARP is not set # CONFIG_NO_PATH_MTU_DISCOVERY is not set CONFIG_IP_NOSR=y CONFIG_SKB_LARGE=y # # # # CONFIG_IPX is not set # CONFIG_ATALK is not set # CONFIG_AX25 is not set # CONFIG_NETLINK is not set # # SCSI support # CONFIG_SCSI=y # # SCSI support type (disk, tape, CD-ROM) # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y CONFIG_CHR_DEV_ST=m CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=m # CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG is not set # # Some SCSI devices (e.g. CD jukebox) support multiple LUNs # # CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_CONSTANTS is not set # # SCSI low-level drivers # # CONFIG_SCSI_7000FASST is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_AHA152X is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_AHA1542 is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_AHA1740 is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_AIC7XXX is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_ADVANSYS is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_IN2000 is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_AM53C974 is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_BUSLOGIC is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_DTC3280 is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_EATA is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_EATA_DMA is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_EATA_PIO is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_FUTURE_DOMAIN is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_GENERIC_NCR5380 is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C406A is not set CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C7xx=y # CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C7xx_sync is not set CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C7xx_FAST=y # CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C7xx_DISCONNECT is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_PPA is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_PAS16 is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_QLOGIC_FAS is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_QLOGIC_ISP is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_SEAGATE is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_T128 is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_U14_34F is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_ULTRASTOR is not set # # Network device support # CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y CONFIG_DUMMY=m # CONFIG_EQUALIZER is not set # CONFIG_DLCI is not set # CONFIG_PLIP is not set CONFIG_PPP=m # # CCP compressors for PPP are only built as modules. # CONFIG_SLIP=m CONFIG_SLIP_COMPRESSED=y # CONFIG_SLIP_SMART is not set # CONFIG_SLIP_MODE_SLIP6 is not set # CONFIG_NET_RADIO is not set CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y # CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_3COM is not set # CONFIG_LANCE is not set # CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_SMC is not set # CONFIG_NET_ISA is not set # CONFIG_NET_EISA is not set # CONFIG_NET_POCKET is not set # CONFIG_TR is not set # CONFIG_ARCNET is not set # # ISDN subsystem # # CONFIG_ISDN is not set # # CD-ROM drivers (not for SCSI or IDE/ATAPI drives) # #
Number of Linux processes allowed?
Hello, I'm getting some out of processes errors lately in my debian 1.1 installation. Typically this is returned to the shell when I try to open a new xterm, etc. Linux secura-8 2.0.0 #3 Sun Jun 23 22:23:43 PDT 1996 i486 top says I only have about 50 procs running, and I doubt Linux would have a limit that low. Couldn't find a reference to a kernel variable in the source or in the FAQ. Anyone have any ideas why this is happening? Typically I have netscape, fvwm, goodstuff, dxpc, and xterms open... Thanks, nathan p.s. did the deb-user list burp recently? My subscription stopped functioning and I had to resubscribe...
syslogd not starting up...
Hello again... Since upgrading to 1.1, syslogd doesn't start up at boot. I have seen this problem brought up on the list before, but didn't see an answer. This only relevant things in var/log/messages (not too useful as syslogd isn't usually running) is perhaps: Sep 2 10:05:23 secura-9 syslogd 1.3-0#6: restart. Sep 2 10:05:24 secura-9 kernel: klogd 1.3-0, log source = /proc/kmsg started. Sep 2 10:05:25 secura-9 syslogd 1.3-0#6: restart. Sep 2 10:05:25 secura-9 kernel: Cannot find map file. ^ ??? Any Ideas would be welcomed. I have tried purging the old sysklogd, then had to reinstall some files by hand as dpkg *would not* find some files needed to install the package (I believe it was the /etc/init.d/sysklogd file). Thanks. Sigh. nathan Linux secura-8 2.0.0 #3 Sun Jun 23 22:23:43 PDT 1996 i486
hellish symlinks in archive
Zoikes. You know, it is not straightforward to keep *only* the intel binaries mirrored on another machine. I did write a preliminary mirror config file: package=debian site=ftp.caldera.com remote_dir=/pub/mirrors/debian local_dir=/usr3/people/nathan/src/debian get_patt=(binary-all/|non-free/binary-i386/|non-free/binary/|contrib\ /binary-i386/|contrib/binary/|buzz/binary/|buzz/binary-i386/|buzz-updates\ /binary/|buzz-updates/binary-i386/|buzz-fixed/binary/|buzz-fixed/\ binary-i386/|rex/binary-i386/|rex/binary/) Does anyone have a better config file for this purpose? I then used dselect to install some new files from buzz-fixed. However, despite the seemingly infinite number of symbolic links in the archive, certain things (like binary/devel/kernel-source...) have *not* been linked here. Should they be? Help! (and thanks) nathan
Re: time to split the list?
This is a good idea. I would suggest: debian-install debian-user (instead of debian-technical) debian-novice (instead of debian-nontechnical). Derrick.
Re: help ?
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 10:33:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Dale Scheetz ren!polaris.net!dwarf Subject: Re: help ? On Thu, 29 Aug 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, My pentium is not booting after I installed Debian 1.1 (kernel 2.0.0). The system hangs after configuring the serial ports. Here is what the last screen looks like. I am not sure what other information would be useful, but here are some of the hardware details. Pentium 100 MHz Two SCSI HDDs : SEAGATE ST5 1080N (1030 Mb each) using Future Domain TMC-3260 (PCI) controller. (now trying Future Domain TMC-950) One 3.5 FDD One ATAPI CDROM NE2000 ethernet Monitor is 14 SVGA colour Looks like you have no driver for the Future Domain controler in your kernel. Look at the special kernels and see if there is one that will work. If not, let me know, and I will try to build you a custom kernel. Luck, Dwarf I tried switching controllers. First, I switched to a BusLogic Flashpoint; this was not detected though I typed linux buslogic=[iobase] at the boot: prompt as directed. Second, I tried Future Domain TMC-950, which does not use the PCI bus. (This is mentioned in the hardware list obtained by pressing F4 at the boot: prompt). I tried linux tmc8xx=0xca00,10 (membase,irq was asked for). This time, I got TMC-8xx/TMC-950 options: ARBITRATE SLOW_HANDSHAKE FAST32 PPA: unable to initialize controller at 0x378, error 2 scsi 0: TMC-8xx/TMC-950 at irq 10, adress 0xCA00 scsi: 1 host scsi: detected total lance.c: PCI bios is present, checking for devices... There are 2 disks, both of which are detected by MS-DOS; so there is no problem with the hardware. I tried partitioning the detected scsi disk, but got this response. No hard disk drives could be found. Make sure they are cabled correctly and are turned on before the system is started. You may have to change driver settings when you start the system with a command at the boot: prompt, or you may have to load a driver that is in a loadable module to solve this problem. Also, what does the error message PPA: ...controller at 0x378... mean? I do need that port for the printer. I had no such trouble when installing Debian 0.93 (a.out) on the Future Domain. I hope at least the TMC-950 is supported; else, I am planning to switch to IDE because the alternative is to switch the OS to MS-DOS, which is not much of an alternative. Given my ftp connections and my knowledge of computers, it is simpler to switch controllers than to try something fancy. Thanks a lot for the help. Shankar. D. Shankar Ph.: (91)(832) 226253-56 ext 224 Physical Oceanography Division, Fax: (91)(832) 223340/221360 National Institute of Oceanography, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dona Paula, Goa 403 004, India.
Re: --largemem | --smallmem
[What do the dpkg --smallmem and --largemem flags do?] On a 4MB system, dpkg's in-RAM database is larger than your physical RAM. Thus, you use virtual memory for much of this database. Unfortunately, dpkg has poor locality-of-reference when accessing this database, so most of its execution time on a 4MB system is spent in handling VM page faults. --smallmem makes the working set smaller, and thus makes dpkg run faster on low-memory systems. --largemem lets it use a large working set, which runs faster on systems with more memory. The behavior of the program other than its execution time should be unchanged. Thanks Bruce
Re: Number of Linux processes allowed?
[User is getting a too many processes error] I am using tcsh for a shell, and when I run the limit command, I get maxproc 30. This seems a bit low. Try becoming root, and in csh or tcsh running limit maxproc 100, and see if you can actually run enough processes. This number is set to 256 by the kernel in 2.0.17 . I suspect something is turning it down. Bruce
A couple of Problems
I'm having the following problems, any suggestions woulg be greatly appreciated. Jim (1) Netscape 3.0B7 - non debian The backspace key doesn't work. Is this a setup problem? I'm using TCSH shell (2) xdm - Debian 1.1.0 release The Debian login window appears, After a correct login it tries to do something (a few horizontal bars across the root window) and then the login window re-appears. Same process repeats resulting in an endless loop. An incorrect login produces a red incorrect login message as it should. Any Ideas? startx works fine.
help with SCSI boards
First, I switched to a BusLogic Flashpoint; this was not detected though I typed linux buslogic=[iobase] at the boot: prompt as directed. See the special notice for FlashPoint owners with Linux systems at the end of this message. TMC-8xx/TMC-950 options: ARBITRATE SLOW_HANDSHAKE FAST32 This is /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/seagate.c talking, _not_ /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/fdomain.c, which is for the newer Future Domain boards. I guess Seagate designed the TMC8xx series. The kernel command line format is tmc8xx=ADDRESS,IRQ. Default IRQ is 5. PPA: unable to initialize controller at 0x378, error 2 ZIP drive parallel port adapter. You probably don't have one. Thanks Bruce ANNOUNCEMENT BusLogic FlashPoint LT/BT-948 Upgrade Program 1 February 1996 ADDITIONAL ANNOUNCEMENT BusLogic FlashPoint LW/BT-958 Upgrade Program 14 June 1996 Ever since its introduction last October, the BusLogic FlashPoint LT has been problematic for members of the Linux community, in that no Linux drivers have been available for this new Ultra SCSI product. Despite it's officially being positioned as a desktop workstation product, and not being particularly well suited for a high performance multitasking operating system like Linux, the FlashPoint LT has been touted by computer system vendors as the latest thing, and has been sold even on many of their high end systems, to the exclusion of the older MultiMaster products. This has caused grief for many people who inadvertently purchased a system expecting that all BusLogic SCSI Host Adapters were supported by Linux, only to discover that the FlashPoint was not supported and would not be for quite some time, if ever. After this problem was identified, BusLogic contacted its major OEM customers to make sure the BT-946C/956C MultiMaster cards would still be made available, and that Linux users who mistakenly ordered systems with the FlashPoint would be able to upgrade to the BT-946C. While this helped many purchasers of new systems, it was only a partial solution to the overall problem of FlashPoint support for Linux users. It did nothing to assist the people who initially purchased a FlashPoint for a supported operating system and then later decided to run Linux, or those who had ended up with a FlashPoint LT, believing it was supported, and were unable to return it. In the middle of December, I asked to meet with BusLogic's senior management to discuss the issues related to Linux and free software support for the FlashPoint. Rumors of varying accuracy had been circulating publicly about BusLogic's attitude toward the Linux community, and I felt it was best that these issues be addressed directly. I sent an email message after 11pm one evening, and the meeting took place the next afternoon. Unfortunately, corporate wheels sometimes grind slowly, especially when a company is being acquired, and so it's taken until now before the details were completely determined and a public statement could be made. BusLogic is not prepared at this time to release the information necessary for third parties to write drivers for the FlashPoint. The only existing FlashPoint drivers have been written directly by BusLogic Engineering, and there is no FlashPoint documentation sufficiently detailed to allow outside developers to write a driver without substantial assistance. While there are people at BusLogic who would rather not release the details of the FlashPoint architecture at all, that debate has not yet been settled either way. In any event, even if documentation were available today it would take quite a while for a usable driver to be written, especially since I'm not convinced that the effort required would be worthwhile. However, BusLogic does remain committed to providing a high performance SCSI solution for the Linux community, and does not want to see anyone left unable to run Linux because they have a Flashpoint LT. Therefore, BusLogic has put in place a direct upgrade program to allow any Linux user worldwide to trade in their FlashPoint LT for the new BT-948 MultiMaster PCI Ultra SCSI Host Adapter. The BT-948 is the Ultra SCSI successor to the BT-946C and has all the best features of both the BT-946C and FlashPoint LT, including smart termination and a flash PROM for easy firmware updates, and is of course compatible with the present Linux driver. The price for this upgrade has been set at US $45 plus shipping and handling, and the upgrade program will be administered through BusLogic Technical Support, which can be reached by electronic mail at [EMAIL PROTECTED], by Voice at +1 408 654-0760, or by FAX at +1 408 492-1542. As of 14 June 1996, the original BusLogic FlashPoint LT to BT-948 upgrade program has now been extended to encompass the FlashPoint LW Wide Ultra SCSI Host Adapter. Any Linux user
Re: hellish symlinks in archive
You know, it is not straightforward to keep *only* the intel binaries mirrored on another machine. I did write a preliminary mirror config file: package=debian site=ftp.caldera.com remote_dir=/pub/mirrors/debian local_dir=/usr3/people/nathan/src/debian get_patt=(binary-all/|non-free/binary-i386/|non-free/binary/|contrib\ /binary-i386/|contrib/binary/|buzz/binary/|buzz/binary-i386/|buzz-updates\ /binary/|buzz-updates/binary-i386/|buzz-fixed/binary/|buzz-fixed/\ binary-i386/|rex/binary-i386/|rex/binary/) Does anyone have a better config file for this purpose? Here is mine: (symlinks to nonexistant files/dirs are not made by mirror) package=defaults site=ftp.debian.org remote_dir=/debian local_dir=linux/debian local_ignore+|^local/ exclude_patt+|(^|/)(ls-|.ls-|source/|\..*|.*\.tar\.gz$|.*\.diff\.gz$| WebPages|debian-bugs/|debian-manual/|debian-lists/|kernel/| Packages$|Contents$|md5sums$|Maintainers$|Packages-|buzz| [Ii]ncoming|.*-alpha|.*-sparc|.*-m68k|.*-ppc|\ ) package=debian use_files=true (The exclude_patt is all on one line, actually.) Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) --- In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not.
Re: hellish symlinks in archive
Nathan O. Siemers: You know, it is not straightforward to keep *only* the intel binaries mirrored on another machine. I did write a preliminary mirror config file: ... Does anyone have a better config file for this purpose? Here's a sanitized version of mine: package=debian-rex site=ftp.lh.umu.se remote_dir=/pub/linux/debian/rex/ local_dir=/x/mirror/debian/rex/ get_newer=false max_delete_files=50% max_delete_dirs=10% exclude_patt=( ^buzz |^unstable |^upgrades |^project/experimental/dpkg |^debian-lists |^Incoming |ls-lR |(^|/)disks- |^WebPages |^debian-bugs |^indices/\. |^indices/md5sums$ |[^be]/binary/ |binary-[^ia] |binary-alpha |msdos |ms-dos |m68k ) It's full of old cruft, but perhaps it workable. My actual rule is about three times longer, because I exclude a number of packages I'm not interested in. OTOH, using dpkg-ftp or dftp might be a better alternative. -- Please read http://www.iki.fi/liw/mail-to-lasu.html before mailing me. Please don't Cc: me when replying to my message on a mailing list. pgpBThZrber0e.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: How to migrate a Debian system to another hard drive?
Watch out so you don't run into an infinite loop: Suppose that you mount the target disk on /mnt, then cd / tar cf - . | (cd /mnt; tar xvlpf -) would copy some things to /mnt then copy /mnt/* to /mnt/mnt/ and so on. It doesn't. I've been using this a lot lately while reorganising file systems, and have never had a problem. hamish
Re: Dosemu
I had no problem in running dosemu (deb package 0.60.1?) that came with Debian 1.1 with kernel 2.0.6 (I recompiled the kernele for other reasons so I don't know if the standard in boot.bin could have give any trouble to dosemu) Write to me if I can help you. Lazaro __ Reply Separator _ Subject: RE: Dosemu Author: debian-user@lists.debian.org at cclink Date:06.09.96 02:44 On 04:17:39 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone succeeded in getting the latest versions of Dosemu to work? I can successfully compile, but can't insmod emumodule. Insmod dumps fifteen or so lines saying: x undefined ... Loading failed! The module symbols (from linux-2.0.7) don't match your linux-2.0.7 What's going on?? Seems as if there are some system modules ( I use a very modularized kernel ) which are not loaded. However, I use kerneld, so all neccessary mods should be there. Someone please help!! Thanx... :-) No, it doesn't work here either. My I-Connect CD was cut on 12 june. I haven't fussed with it at all, but just wanted to respond that in my case it doesn't work either. Paul
Re: A couple of Problems
On Sat, 7 Sep 1996, Jim Worthington wrote: (1) Netscape 3.0B7 - non debian The backspace key doesn't work. Is this a setup problem? Put the following line in your /etc/X11/Xmodmap: keycode 22 = BackSpace Vad. ++_ Vadik V. (_`[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nether.net/~legolas/ Vygonets (_.lf PGP public key (ID 9FC1DED9) available from surfnet.nl User Failure: Please Insert a Bootable Brain
iBCS-problem
Hello. I have a problem with iBCS from 1.2.13 don't match 2.0.16. I downloaded iBCS 2.0 but cannot compile this. I get warnings like function declaration isn't a prototype and at the end of compilation Error after executing cc -pipe -b i486-linuxaout -c -o boot.o boot.S in the directory where boot.S found. The error message i have is cc: installation problem, cannot exec `cpp': no such file or directory *** [boot.o] Error 1, *** [all] Error 2. I tried to compile iBCS 2.0 1.3 but get same errors. Help me if you can. Igor -- #### ##### ## ### ## ## ### ###### ###### ### ### ###### ### ### ### ###### ### ### ### ###### ### ### ### ##### ### ## #### # #####
Re: iBCS-problem
Dolgopolsky Igor writes: Igor Hello. I have a problem with iBCS from 1.2.13 don't match 2.0.16. Igor I downloaded iBCS 2.0 but cannot compile this. You can just ignore the errors. I usually do make after un-tar-ing the source, with no confih whatsoever and it works. The make breaks in the 2nd or 3rd subdirectory it visits --- but it does create the file iBCS in one of the subdirs, and this is the module you are looking for. I usually move it to /lib/modules/`uname -r`/ibcs.o, and have a script insmod it when needed. -- Dirk Eddelbuttel http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd
Re: A couple of Problems
On Sat, 7 Sep 1996, Jim Worthington wrote: The backspace key doesn't work. Is this a setup problem? Put the following line in your /etc/X11/Xmodmap: keycode 22 = BackSpace I've found that I need to do a bit more then this because I use emacs. .Xmodmap keycode 22 = BackSpace keycode 107 = Delete .Xresources ! Make VT100 Backspace send ^?, and MetaKeyBackspace send ^[^?. *VT100.Translations: #override ~MetaKeyBackSpace: string(0x7F)\n\ MetaKeyBackSpace: string(0x1B) string(0x7F)\n\ XTerm*eightBitInput: False XTerm*eightBitOutput: True .emacs ;;; Add a DELETE key if possible. (define-key function-key-map [delete] nil) (global-set-key [delete] 'delete-char) Jim
mirror of a site
Hi all Cna anynone please tell me how do I mirror a site? Is there any howto? what are the procedures? Which files shall I configure? thanks miguel
Re: A couple of Problems
Vadik Vygonets wrote: On Sat, 7 Sep 1996, Jim Worthington wrote: (1) Netscape 3.0B7 - non debian The backspace key doesn't work. Is this a setup problem? Put the following line in your /etc/X11/Xmodmap: keycode 22 = BackSpace Vad. I tried adding the line to /etc/X11/Xmodmap -- It didn't work. I also tried creating ~/.Xmodmap and ~/.xmodmaprc files with the same data. These did not work either. I tried typing xmodmap -e keycode 22 = BackSpace This worked for the session. I suppose I could put it in the .cshrc file but something is still broken. It looks as if my /etc/X11/Xsession file is not being read. Where does this get called from? I suspect that whatever is causing this problem is also responsible for my xdm problem. /etc/X11/config also looks OK. Jim
Re: mirror of a site
Miguel Cna anynone please tell me how do I mirror a site? Is there any Miguel howto? No, but I've put a README with some documentation, as well as an example file for ftp.debian.org, into the Debian mirror package. The manual page for mirror is quite good. Miguel what are the procedures? Which files shall I configure? Install ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/rex/binary-all/net/mirror_2.8-7.deb and look at the example in /etc/mirror/packages/ftp.debian.org. I recommend creating a package file per site in /etc/mirror/packages and then to start the mirror as mirror /etc/mirror/packages/site_name -- Dirk Eddelbuttel http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd
seg faults with majordomo
help help :/
i've been tring to setup majordomo and have done the following:
1 made '/etc/smail/lists' dir
2 did ln -s /var/lib/majordomo/lists /etc/smail/lists
3 added to /etc/smail/directors:
aliasinclude:
driver=aliasinclude,nobody;
copysecure,copyowners
and
lists:
driver=forwardfile,
caution,
nobody,
sender_okay,
owner=owner-$user;
file=lists/${lc:user}
4 made sure the proper aliases were in the /etc/aliases file
majordomo: |/usr/lib/majordomo/wrapper majordomo
list-request: |/usr/lib/majordomo/wrapper majordomo
majordomo-owner: adren
owner-majordomo: adren
and
hottub-owner: adren
hottub-approval: adren
owner-hottub: hottub-owner
hottub-request: majordomo
hottub: :include: /etc/smail/lists/hottub
5 made a list-file 'hottub' in /var/lib/majordomo/lists which is also in
the /etc/smail/lists dir
when sending mail to majordomo for help or lists it sends the
correct info back to me. if i send to the list i get the mail returned
with 'no such recipient'.
on another subject i find that sending mail locally is fine but
sending mail to a diff site it lags for about 30 - 45 seconds. i have
noticed a few time even longer. any ideas what causes this mail to hang
for this amount of time?
thanx for any help -rob
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Sony CDU31A not recognized at all!?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi all! Yesterday evening i started installation of Debian-1.1.5 being well aware about the need to use the bad_links_fix_1.1.5.tgz for fixing some troubles related with the spoiled CD-ROM which i received like a few others too. Using the 1,44 diskimages in buzz/disks-i386/current/ i managed without any major problem to partition my harddrive and install a base system. BTW, this is a well designed setup procedure to my mind. But here installation is over for me. My Sony CD-ROM drive CDU31A doesn't get recognized at all by the debian kernel, whereas there never was any problem with this for one year and a half with a Slackware-based setup. Also Win95 has no problems with this drive. Trying to install a loadable module via insmod or the Debian installation routines just yields a Initialization of cdu31a failed. When giving the kernel the proper I/O adress and IRQ like it worked before (0x340,5) has no impact at all. In /dev there is not even mention made of a 'cdu31a' although there exists a 'cdu31a.o' in the place where all modules are to be found. My machine is a Vesa Local Bus 486DX-33 with 20MB RAM, two harddrives and the CDU31A on a ISA CD-ROM controller by Sony. This is my first encounter with Debian as well as with the 2.xx generation of the Linux kernel. I tried pretty everything to find out why the drive is not recognized. I even read the documentation provided on the CD-ROM by I-Connect and on the Debian WWW server. Regrettably the man pages are still not accesible with the barebones base installation. Right now i'm checking the Debian mailing list archives at http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives; but i didn't find any hint so far... Well, i can't proceed with the installation and i am pretty disappointed up to this point that i'm so helpless right now. I need Linux for my everyday work and really need to have a working system ASAP. I'd really hope it is some dumb error of myself which prevents initialization of the CD drive but i just can't figure this out. Do you need more information or is this sufficient for having an idea about what is possibly a solution? TIA, Paul *8^) __ Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] African Music Archive - Institute for Ethnology and Africa Studies Johannes Gutenberg-University - Forum 6 - 55099 Mainz/Germany Our AMA Homepage in the WWW at http://www.uni-mainz.de/~bender/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: latin1 Comment: 'finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED]' for public key iQCVAwUBMjGfUOgqiw1XE3/lAQGfZwP/SgDKq6KUaubacHilpFXjYwUrxL28QtNZ bUyOFIPXLv7aaxXZwcA9SQmknrxlxQjJMG98Pr6nZDSEn5ZwQ0CNCSGtlVH5N2vi 7px+rr8eJQeKvVaSwg3+BVFnWyE7do0b4Wds6TqFx6YM35e1KHCfUv/gs1nhRCRV Afo67e151yU= =nRUM -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: mirror of a site
On Sat, 7 Sep 1996, Miguel A. Avillez wrote: Cna anynone please tell me how do I mirror a site? Is there any howto? what are the procedures? Which files shall I configure? If you get the mirror package, the instructions are all there but in a nutshell, you will need to configure the files: /etc/mirror/packages/site.to.mirror /etc/mirror/mm/site.to.mirror and then put a file in /etc/cron.daily called mirror which invokes the mirror-master program to do your mirroring. As I said, this is all in the documentation. Cheers, Carlo *** *Carlo U. Segre * * Department of Biological, Chemical and Physical Sciences * *Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL 60616 * * Voice: (312) 567-3498 FAX: (312) 567-3494* * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * ***
Re: A couple of Problems
On Sat, 7 Sep 1996, Jim Worthington wrote:
It looks as if my /etc/X11/Xsession file is not being read. Where
does this get called from? I suspect that whatever is causing this
problem is also responsible for my xdm problem. /etc/X11/config also
looks OK.
I'm sending you my /etc/X11/Xsession, install it with permissions 755,
owned by root.root, of course. This is the standard debian Xsession
(maybe it's corrupted on your system). Run xmodmap /etc/X11/Xmodmap or
re-login after installing this file... But I can see you're not a newbie
:)
All the best,
Vad.
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Vygonets (_.lf PGP public key (ID 9FC1DED9) available from surfnet.nl
User Failure: Please Insert a Bootable Brain
#! /bin/sh
#
# /etc/X11/Xsession
#
# This is the global Xsession file. It is used by both xdm and xinit.
# If /etc/environment is present, source it. It's useful to put default
# environment settings in this file, and then source it both here and in
# /etc/profile.
if [ -f /etc/environment ] ; then
. /etc/environment
fi
sysmodmap=/etc/X11/Xmodmap
usrmodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap
sysresources=/etc/X11/Xresources
usrresources=$HOME/.Xresources
startup=$HOME/.xsession
for errfile in \
$HOME/.xsession-errors ${TMPDIR-/tmp}/xses-$USER /tmp/xses-$USER
do
if ( cp /dev/null $errfile 2 /dev/null )
then
chmod 600 $errfile
exec $errfile 21
break
fi
done
case $# in
1)
case $1 in
failsafe)
if grep -q ^allow-failsafe /etc/X11/config
then
exec xterm -geometry 80x24-0-0
fi
;;
esac
esac
if [ -f $sysresources ]
then
xrdb -merge $sysresources
fi
if [ -f $sysmodmap ]
then
xmodmap $sysmodmap
fi
if grep -q ^allow-user-resources /etc/X11/config
then
if [ -f $usrresources ]
then
xrdb -merge $usrresources
fi
fi
if grep -q ^allow-user-modmap /etc/X11/config
then
if [ -f $usrmodmap ]
then
xmodmap $usrmodmap
fi
fi
if [ -x $startup ] grep -q ^allow-user-xsession /etc/X11/config
then
exec $startup
else
xterm -ls
if [ -e /etc/X11/window-managers ]
then
for i in `cat /etc/X11/window-managers`
do
if [ -x $i ]
then
exec $i
fi
done
fi
if [ -x /usr/X11R6/bin/fvwm ]
then
exec fvwm
fi
exec twm
fi
Re: A couple of Problems
On Sat, 7 Sep 1996, James A. Robinson wrote: .Xmodmap keycode 22 = BackSpace keycode 107 = Delete 107 is Delete by default. Jim The .xresources and .emacs code is nice, thanks, I copied it to my configs. Vad. ++_ Vadik V. (_`[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nether.net/~legolas/ Vygonets (_.lf PGP public key (ID 9FC1DED9) available from surfnet.nl User Failure: Please Insert a Bootable Brain
