Sorry about today's mailing list mess-up. It started because of some
confusion about the management reorganization (I am delegating most of
the project management to two other people), and escalated into permissions
being shut off, servers being moved, and a three-hour search for a broken
When i first initialise two brand new 4.5 gig IBM HD i get this error
badblocks: cant resolve symbol 'llseek'
writing inode tables: 256/265mkfs.ext2 cant resolve symbol 'llseek'
ideas?
suggestions?
solutions?
:)
Michl,
Any instrument when droped will always roll to the most inaccessible
The list server is delivering messages at a good speed, and its problems
appear to have been solved this time, so please go back to using it as
you usually would.
Thanks
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Hello.
Brian K Servis wrote:
So the question is how can he install a fresh Debian to his DOS/VFAT
internal using UMSDOS?
By using my experimental Debian installation software.
I would rather not make this generally available yet as there are some
known problems to be ironed out and some of
Hi.
Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
I just installed Debian on my 486 and thought I'd try to do it
without disks. I got as far as the point were it wanted to install
the kernel, but couldn't go any further. Is there any reason why
there is no drivers.tgz and perhaps kernel.tgz?
There is actually a
dpk wrote:
is there a package for color xterms for debian? if so, does anyone
know where it is? i have looked all over in the ftp site to find it
with no luck.
This has been asked recently. The color xterm package has been
abandonned with XFree 3.2. All you have to do is to add the
CoB SysAdmin (Joe Emenaker) wrote:
On Tue, 4 Mar 1997, Craig Sanders wrote:
1. what do you expect for free?
Well, one would expect at least a clean install... If people perceive
Linux/Debian as being impossible to install, then, well, they won't use it
:)
Which is one of the
Does anyone know if it is possible for a pnp sound card to configure
without that package, on previous versions of debian?
Funny thing is with deb 1.1 I was able to
config my kernel for sound no problem.
Even for your PnP board. It sounds strange for me that Debian 1.1 could
Hi,
What would be the recommended way to find out if someone is still actively
maintaing a package? I few packages that I have upgraded myself haven't
been released in the past several months to keep up with up-stream
versions (Jed, Slang, Squid). Is there anyway to tell if a developer is
still
I'm running into problems with installing Debian 1.2 on a
new laptop. I've created the various floppy disks, start
the installation and get the following errors when I insert
base14-1.bin:
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0
floppy0: probe failed...
The problem occurs when the
Has anyone out there gotten Essentia running under a Debian installation? I
am stumped.
Ean Schuessler Director of New Products and Technologies
Novare International Inc. The Unstoppable Fist of
Did you try passive mode?
On Mar 4, Matt Lawrence wrote:
Is there any way to run dselect via ftp through a SOCKS server? I have T1
access from work, but I'm behind a firewall.
-- Matt
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Custom Programming|
On Mar 4, Scott Stanley wrote:
On Tue, 4 Mar 1997, Dominik Kubla wrote:
It seems like anyone who is running their system with /usr as a CD-ROM is
probably not looking for options or configurability. They just want a
basic system to play with and try before stepping all the way into an
I have a AMD586-133 chip whose architecture more resembles
an enchanced 486 cpu rather than a pentium. In terms of performence, is
it better to compile with the [486] or the [586] parameter during
make config?
Ioannis Tambouras
[EMAIL PROTECTED], West Palm Beach, Florida
Signed
Hi all!
I hope someone can give me a clue here, for I'm really stumped. I'm
running the most recent files from the unstable directory (except for
bash--I've still got 1.14.7-2), and am suddenly not able to run the
appletalk printing services. Printing used to work beautifully, and
now it
The more(1) pager produces correct results when 8-bit characters are
send to the screen. The less(1) pager fails to do so with its
default configuration: I used setenv LESSCHARSET latin1 to get
around this problem.
Ioannis Tambouras
[EMAIL PROTECTED], West Palm Beach, Florida
Signed
UNSUSCRIBE
hi
i just tried 2 boot up my debian linux partition and i got this.
first of all it begins 2 load the first half of the kernel and then i
get this error no matter if i boot from a floppy ar from my hard
drive.HELP PLEASE
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer defernce at virtual address
Hamish Moffatt writes:
On Mar 03, 1997 at 09:17:45AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ok, what's the difference between mgetty and vgetty? (aside from the
spelling)
I tried vgetty --help and it reported mgetty FATAL.
vgetty has voice extensions. I wish I knew how to set them up
hi
i just tried 2 boot up my debian linux partition and i got this.
first of all it begins 2 load the first half of the kernel and then i
get this error no matter if i boot from a floppy ar from my hard
drive.HELP PLEASE
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer defernce at virtual address
c4e0
On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, Solomani wrote:
When i first initialise two brand new 4.5 gig IBM HD i get this error
badblocks: cant resolve symbol 'llseek'
writing inode tables: 256/265mkfs.ext2 cant resolve symbol 'llseek'
ideas?
suggestions?
solutions?
hmmm. that's an old
Hi.
It the nis documentation it says I can + and - users in the passwd file (I
take it that it should be on the fly and it used to work with debian 0.93
in this case...) - however I can't seem to do this. The following two
lines are in my /etc/passwd file:
+::/bin/bash
-karl
However,
Nils == Nils Rennebarth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Nils On Tue, 4 Mar 1997, Craig Sanders wrote:
On Mon, 3 Mar 1997, Nils Rennebarth wrote:
lprng has removed the possibility to automatically remove Files
after printing. This is however necessary to remove spooled
jobs. How do you work
On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, Karl Ferguson wrote:
Hi.
It the nis documentation it says I can + and - users in the passwd file (I
take it that it should be on the fly and it used to work with debian 0.93
in this case...) - however I can't seem to do this. The following two
lines are in my
Do you need tester reports? I've been using the shadow package for a
month or so, and everything seems to work fine. I'm not the best test
case, since it's a one-man machine, but it does work. :-)
I think the install process should fix up an /etc/alternatives link
to xdm-shadow, shouldn't
Brian == Brian C White [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Brian I upgraded to fvwm2 today and ran into a few problems.
Brian Some of these may be worthy of bug reports, but I thought
[...]
Brian - The FvwmPager does not have the correct aspect ration.
Brian Each of the virtual
On Tue, 4 Mar 1997, Richard Morin wrote:
Does anyone know if it is possible for a pnp sound card to configure
without that package, on previous versions of debian?
Funny thing is with deb 1.1 I was able to
config my kernel for sound no problem.
Even for your PnP board. It
At 09:56 AM 3/5/97 +0100, Swen Thuemmler wrote:
You must reverse the lines. The pw routines will stop when a name is
found, so -karl is useless when there is a + preceding it.
Perhaps I should've pointed this out - that was one of the first things I
tried. So now I have:
-karl
+::/bin/bash
Hallo,
because of a lack of diskspace I want to use another computer
(HP-Workstation) as NFS-server. So I installed the base disks
of debian and wanted to move /usr to the NFS server by
tar -cf usr.tar /usr
and
tar -xf usr.tar
in the approriate directory of the server mounted via NFS.
How do you manage links in /etc/alternatives (ie. what's the recommended
way)? Would you establish the links by hand or run the postinst of the
desired package or do something else?
I'd like to switch from nvi to vim...
Thanks,
Ulf
Can anyone help me set up my Netscape so it will gunzip .gz files
again? I've no clue what to type in the 'helpers' configuration to
get it to do that.
TIA
Karl M. Hegbloom [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.inetarena.com/~karlheg
Debian GNU 1.2 Linux 2.0.29t
This is a common problem. Try making another copy of base14-1 (and the
others if thaey fail) on a different floppy disk. I had to make two or
three before I got a complete set of boot floppies that were reliable.
Even floppies that I had used to install debian on my desktop system
wouldn't
On Tue, 4 Mar 1997, Steve wrote:
On Mon, 3 Mar 1997, Jason Costomiris wrote:
I run myown scripts for ppp not the pon. be that as it may.. all thats
needed here is to make a script that greps for ppp / pon .. whatever. set
this on a cron and bang! if the connection drops, your check script,
Andreas Tille wrote:
Hallo,
because of a lack of diskspace I want to use another computer
(HP-Workstation) as NFS-server. So I installed the base disks
of debian and wanted to move /usr to the NFS server by
tar -cf usr.tar /usr
and
tar -xf usr.tar
in the approriate
Hi!
Has anyone else noticed that, since the upgrade to 3.2, X seems to be slower ?
I have a P120 with 48 Mb and a Stealth64 Video 2000 (S3) with 2Mb DRAM.
I use 1024x768 with 16 bpp.
After the upgrade I noticed that my WM (AfterStep) took about 2-3 seconds more
to load and the window drawing is
Just to add to the pppd confusion, I start my pppd with the basic pon
command, now, I think its my ISP but not sure, sometimes when running my
ISP seems to break ppp, although it doesnt disconnect the modem.. My pppd
detects this and tries to *redial* using the chatscript, when it doesnt
need to,
Many thanks to all those people who sent me suggestions about my libg++
problems I must have been blind at the time not to have seen the problem.]
I now have a new problem.
After a file corruption which did nasty things to my /etc directory I can
now not post anything using exmh and get the
Can debian Linux run on an xt? If not is there another linux that can run on an
xt? a http: link in the right direction would be appreciated.
How can I download .tar and .gz compressed files on a Dos system copy them over
to my linux system and uncompress them? Is the uncompression built into unix?
Also can I interlink my Linux and my Dos system? (my modem is on my Dos system).
--
De :David Stein[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date d'envoi : mercredi 5 mars 1997 11:52
A : debian-user
Objet : Dos Linux
How can I download .tar and .gz compressed files on a Dos system copy them over
to my linux system and uncompress them? Is the uncompression built into unix?
David Stein wrote:
Can debian Linux run on an xt? If not is there another linux that can run on
an
xt? a http: link in the right direction would be appreciated.
The minimum Linux requirement is a 386. If you have some kind of
upgrade chip/package to allow the XT to use a 386, then yes.
David Stein wrote:
How can I download .tar and .gz compressed files on a Dos system copy them
over
to my linux system and uncompress them? Is the uncompression built into unix?
Also can I interlink my Linux and my Dos system? (my modem is on my Dos
system).
tar (Tape ARchive) and
yeah but it's architechture (sp) is that of a 486 32 bits wide and all of
that stuff so compile with 486 optimizations
Corey A.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hallo,
yesterday I successfully compiled kernel 2.0.29 at home. Today I tried
the same at work and it went wrong :( Both systems are equally configured
regarding the relevant packages (dpkg 1.4.0.8, dpkg-deb 1.4.0.8,
kernel-package 3.19, don't know about others).
I did:
make mrproper
make
CoB SysAdmin typed:
Yes, I've read the Serial HOWTO. I've read the PPP HOWTO. I've even read the
PPP RFC. I know what IPCP does and I know what LCP does.
But I shouldn't have to.
I didn't have to read the LILO HOWTO to get my machine to boot Linux. I
didn't have to read anything about the
On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, Jeff Gunter wrote:
On Mar 5, 6:02am, Bob Clark wrote:
cd target_directory_on_server
rsh my.pc cd /usr; tar cf - . | tar xf -
This may work to copy the /usr-tree after installing the base disks.
But it won't solve the upcoming problem (see below).
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hamish Moffatt writes:
On Mar 03, 1997 at 09:17:45AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ok, what's the difference between mgetty and vgetty? (aside from the
spelling)
I tried vgetty --help and it reported mgetty FATAL.
vgetty has voice
On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, Greg Vence wrote:
David Stein wrote:
Can debian Linux run on an xt? If not is there another linux that can run
on an
xt? a http: link in the right direction would be appreciated.
There was once a project of porting Linux to XT. There is also a free
Unix clone called
Craig Small writes:
I don't think the variations in ppp servers (or ISPs) are insurmountable;
perhaps someone should look and see how some ms-windows programs get
around this problem.
I think the ISP's usually supply a program for MS.
I may be sticking my neck out, but here it goes:
Please
[ This is a resend, now that the list seems to be working again ]
I mirror debian on an SGI Indigo2 (IRIX64 6.2 IP26), and then from
there to my Linux box at home.
Last night, the timestamps at home all became 1 minute off and the whole
mirror retransfered (complete in several hours over ISDN
I'm new to Linux and with what I've seen so far (1 night downloading, 1 night
installing) I'm impressed. Is it possible to hook 3 or more PC's together
using their serial port with Linux in order to make a simple network? Where do
you get such cables?
Hi,
I am afraid that you have run into restrictions about the
version numbering scheme imposed by Debian Policy. Your revision
number is taken to have an upstream version (work) and a
debian-revision, which is the rest of the revision field. The
upstream version is not allowed to have
From: David Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 5 Mar 97 11:14:35 EDT
Is it possible to hook 3 or more PC's together using their serial
port with Linux in order to make a simple network? Where do you
get such cables?
Yes. You will need two (or more) null-modem serial cables
On 5 Mar 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, Vadim Vygonets wrote:
I believe one reason is its a 32-bit PROTECTED mode OS. I don't
believe that the 286 chip has that feature available.
You're right. I believe :)
Nop.
The 80286 has protected mode (that's why it can adress up to 16 Mb). But
Linux is a 32 bit
I just updated everything I have but now when I try to telnet into my
machine I get a connection closed by host. I checked inetd.conf and found
in.telnetd, other than that I'm not sure what could be wrong. Other things
work eg sendmail. Any ideas??
Jason Killen
Greg Vence writes:
The minimum Linux requirement is a 386. If you have some kind of upgrade
chip/package to allow the XT to use a 386, then yes. Else, no. I
believe one reason is its a 32-bit PROTECTED mode OS. I don't believe
that the 286 chip has that feature available.
The XT used an
David Stein writes:
I'm new to Linux and with what I've seen so far (1 night downloading, 1
night
installing) I'm impressed. Is it possible to hook 3 or more PC's together
using their serial port with Linux in order to make a simple network? Where
do
you get such cables?
You
On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, Vadim Vygonets wrote:
On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, Greg Vence wrote:
David Stein wrote:
Can debian Linux run on an xt? If not is there another linux that can run
on an
xt? a http: link in the right direction would be appreciated.
There was once a project of porting
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Has anyone else noticed that, since the upgrade to 3.2, X seems to be slower ?
I have a P120 with 48 Mb and a Stealth64 Video 2000 (S3) with 2Mb DRAM.
I use 1024x768 with 16 bpp.
After the upgrade I noticed that my WM (AfterStep) took about 2-3 seconds more
to load and the
Jon:
The project dealing with porting Linux is called ELKS (Embedded Linux
Kernel Subset). Last I knew, it wasn't very far along. That was a while
ago, though, so maybe they have something new by now.
They have it booting, and it actually runs a program after it boots. Not
init, but it
I have posted this query previously but I got no replies. I am trying
again because I think that this might be a bug. Some days ago I noticed
after mounting an nfs system that the kerneld process would spawn other
kernelds all the time ( sometimes also sh processses ) and then kill them
only
I'm running FoxPro for SCO in linux using ibcs2 module,
almost everything is going right except for some garbage
in the screen. FoxPro documentation advice to pass some
parameters in systems diferent to SCO, but it doesn't fix
my problem. Is there someone who can help me.
This ended up in the wrong mailbox (debian-users instead of -user). Please
respond to him directly.
Bruce
From: G. Kapetanios [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have posted this query previously but I got no replies. I am trying
again because I think that this might be a bug. Some days ago I
Could not find config file!
- Tried:
/etc/XF86Config
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config.neverland
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config
Fatal server error:
No config file found!
Note, the X server no longer looks for XF86Config in $HOME
Fatal server error:
Error reading config file
On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, G. Kapetanios wrote:
I have posted this query previously but I got no replies.
That is not quite correct. I did send you private email with suggestions to
help you track the problem. That must have been within 24 hours since you
first posted. If you do not know more
Has anyone made a package of the 3.2A beta release of XFree86?
I'm new to the list, so if this has been asked before, I appologize. I
ask because I have an ET6000 card (STB), and would like 16 bpp support.
Thanks,
--
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Thanks to Rob and Victorio for their advise about upgrading from stable to
unstable. I first downloaded dpkg 1.4.8 and installed it by hand. After that I
launched dselect and upgraded succesfully.
I watched the upgrade process closely and here are the notes I made during the
procedure.
Once I
Dear Sir or Madom,
I have servel question to ask.
1. How do I access my floppy drive? All I know is that it is fd0.
2. How do I copy files off of a MS-DOS floppy?
3. How do I use my modem to connect to a local unix server?
Thanks for you help if you can answer these.
Pete Poff
I am sorry I did not mention in my previous email that Ioannis Tambouras
send me a suggestion about my problem. He suggested using the kdstat
program to see if I could find anything useful Unfortunately, I could not
get far with his suggestion. The kdstat program whn run produces the
following
Hi,
I don't use NFS with Linux, so I am not sure about that ...
As to compiling your own kernel, and the modules you have,
well, you configure a kernel by running make menuconfig (or xconfig
or config; the same basic configuration, the user interface is
nacurses, X, or the
i'm not sure when it started, but one of my debian 1.3 system has lines
like:
{*** 'y*3 Tue Mar 4 11:33 - 16:37 (05:04)
in the output of the 'last' command. three other 1.3 systems and
another 1.2 system i use are not having this problem. the only major
In your email to me, Robert Stone, you wrote:
i'm not sure when it started, but one of my debian 1.3 system has lines
like:
{*** 'y*3 Tue Mar 4 11:33 - 16:37 (05:04)
in the output of the 'last' command. three other 1.3 systems and
another 1.2 system i
Robert Stone:
i'm not sure when it started, but one of my debian 1.3 system has lines
like:
{*** 'y*3 Tue Mar 4 11:33 - 16:37 (05:04)
in the output of the 'last' command. three other 1.3 systems and
another 1.2 system i use are not having this problem.
Hello,
I want to monitor the traffic over a ppp connection and also between
some adresses on the local network.
So I set up the net-acct package but whatever the configuration looks
like only the local traffic is monitored. Maybe I got something wrong
but it looks easy:
Robert Stone:
so am i the only one getting this?
I'm getting it on two machines now. Both use ssh, if it's relevant. The
second is really bad:
g***z*** }*** Tue Mar 4 01:38 still logged in
g***z*** }*** Tue Mar 4 01:38 - 01:38 (00:00)
The FTP archive timestamp.txt is being updated again. That was broken for
about a week.
Bruce
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Pete,
If you have installed mtools, you can access MS DOS disks: low and high
level format files, copy to the disk, read from the disk, delete, both
text and binary files etc. Please read man mtools, then man each of the
individual mtools (mcopy, mdel, mdir,...) that should get you started.
Oh
On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, Pete Poff wrote:
Dear Sir or Madom,
I have servel question to ask.
1. How do I access my floppy drive? All I know is that it is fd0.
the mount command can be used to mount a floppy - but remember to unmount it
again before removing it from the drive!!
e.g.
On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, Terry Martin wrote:
Could not find config file!
- Tried:
/etc/XF86Config
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config.neverland
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config
Fatal server error:
No config file found!
Note, the X server no longer looks for XF86Config in $HOME
This has been hashed through a few times. There is not, has never
been, and probably will never be an official Debian package based on
the XFree Beta releases, since they do not provide source for the
betas. Your best bet is to get just the server tgz that you need from
the XFree ftp site,
Hi,
how can I run a file that is not a command file? Like I have a
file called startup, how do I run it? And where can I find minicom, or
any of the other comm programs? And where can I get pico, the text editor?
thanks again,
Pete Poff
Pete
where are the debian disks at ftp.debian.org? theres no such directory as
current?
c'ya hate to be ya,
michl
electric RAIN http://www.electric-rain.net/
Go as far as you can see, and when you get there, you'll see farther.
On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, Craig Sanders wrote:
Im using the 2.0.0 install set (i then upgrade teh kernel myself later:)
I'll download the later disks and see what happens. Thanks!
On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, Solomani wrote:
When i first initialise two brand new 4.5 gig IBM HD i get this error
how can I run a file that is not a command file? Like I have a
file called startup, how do I run it?
What sort of file is it? If you know that it's an executable file, you
probably need to set the execute bit on the file. You can do with
chmod u+x filename. Check out the man page
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