Can't find XF86Setup, and other dselect questions..

2000-04-05 Thread Gregory Guthrie
2.2, what is the easiest way to get this. 4) On initial boot, we got a nice dselect'ish menu, what type of install to do, .. with a default set of packages. Is there a dselect option for this? Thanks. Dr. Gregory Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED

crash by installing bad libc5...

2000-04-05 Thread Gregory Guthrie
??... not found. (sorry, not exact..!) Already recovered, but wondering what was wrong and why we could not fix it without a complete re-install. Thanks. Gregory Gregory Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] (515)472-1125Fax: -1103

Re: zip and parport printer sharing??

2000-04-05 Thread Gregory Guthrie
partition table lp: Driver configured but no interfaces found. Dr. Gregory Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] (515)472-1125 Fax: -1103 Computer Science Department College of Science and Technology Maharishi University of Management

Re: Help with module problems on Upgrade to 2.1

2000-04-03 Thread Gregory Guthrie
] |_) (_) |_) Palm City, FL USAPGP Key ID: A8E40EB9 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Dr. Gregory Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] (515)472-1125Fax: -1103 Computer Science Department College

lp problems, with iomega ZIp pass through on parallel port

2000-04-03 Thread Gregory Guthrie
Dr. Gregory Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] (515)472-1125Fax: -1103 Computer Science Department College of Science and Technology Maharishi University of Management (Maharishi International University 1971-1995) http://www.mum.edu/cs_dept

zip and parport printer sharing??

2000-04-03 Thread Gregory Guthrie
If I try to use my printer, downstream from a Zip parallel device, I get Status: cannot open, /dev/lp1 - device not configured But if I power down the Zip pre-boot, it works fine. I am running Debian 2.1R4. Gregory Guthrie From Zip-Drive mini-HowTo: As of kernel version 2.2.x you can do

Re: Help with module problems on Upgrade to 2.1

2000-04-01 Thread Gregory Guthrie
these. Sorry, but the following packages are broken - this means they have unmet dependencies: samba: Depends:libpam0 At 03:58 PM 03/31/2000 -0500, Bob Hilliard wrote: Gregory Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At 02:19 PM 03/30/2000 -0500, Bob Hilliard wrote: Gregory Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Help with module problems on Upgrade to 2.1

2000-04-01 Thread Gregory Guthrie
At 12:11 PM 04/01/2000 -0400, Bob Hilliard wrote: Gregory Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bob, thanks for the help. - again! But, how does one probe into the details of: subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status? You can look at the prerm script with `less /var/lib/dpkg

Re: Help

2000-03-31 Thread Gregory Guthrie
nave lost 2 different installs because X would lock up the console on setup. Many other problems are the standard cycles of bugs in each release; again product specific. Still, I use it! Dr. Gregory Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] (515

Re: Help with module problems on Upgrade to 2.1

2000-03-31 Thread Gregory Guthrie
At 02:19 PM 03/30/2000 -0500, Bob Hilliard wrote: Gregory Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I took a new CDrom (2.1) and did re-deselect, which did a lot of upgrades to various stuff. ... dependency problems - not removing Errors were encountered while processing: samba libpam0 libpam

Re: Help with module problems on Upgrade to 2.1

2000-03-30 Thread Gregory Guthrie
At 06:36 PM 03/29/2000 -0500, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote: On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Gregory Guthrie wrote: I am running Debian 2.0, upgraded from ... (libc5), and trying to upgrade to 2.1. When I do an apt-get upgrade, it complains that: Sorry, but the following packages are broken

Re: Help with module problems on Upgrade to 2.1

2000-03-30 Thread Gregory Guthrie
At 08:06 AM 03/30/2000 +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: Gregory Guthrie wrote: Have you tried running `apt-get -f install'? If so, what happened? Updating package status cache...done Checking system integrity...dependency error Correcting dependencies...failed E: Internal error, ScoredFix

Help with module problems on Upgrade to 2.1

2000-03-29 Thread Gregory Guthrie
appreciated. Thanks, Gregory Guthrie Script started on Wed Mar 29 05:41:04 200 - apt-get check Updating package file cache...done Updating package status cache...done Checking system integrity

irqtune

1998-12-16 Thread Gregory Guthrie
. Actually, I applied the 2.0.17 patch which contained this small patch. I'm glad this thing's in the kernel now. --- Gregory Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] (515)472-1125Fax: -1103 Computer Science

RMON for linux?

1998-07-26 Thread Gregory Guthrie
We would like to create some LRP remote network traffic monitor boxes, queryable via SNMP; i.e. RMON probes. I thought I had once seen RMON for linux; but now cannot locate any such information. Hints? Thanks. Gregory Guthrie -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev

2.0 beta -- final; how different?

1998-07-23 Thread Gregory Guthrie
How does Debian 2.0 Beta, and the 2.0 release differ. I just got my Beta CD 2 days ago; should I order the final release also? Thanks. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

dselect questions, suggestion..

1998-07-21 Thread Gregory Guthrie
When running dselect (updating bo -- hamm), I get some items with a status of installed_version available_version - - - xxx xxx Why is there an installed version indicated, when it shows as not installed? -- It would be nice if 1) dselect

init file structures; changed in hamm?

1998-07-21 Thread Gregory Guthrie
I upgraded (bo-- hamm) and accidently selected teh sysvinit; and now my init packaging and strucutre is different; ppp setup names, etc.. I tried to unselect it and go back, but was told that cron, and a buch of other things required sysV init setup. I had cron installed before. Was ther a

Re: Upgrade problems..

1998-07-10 Thread Gregory Guthrie
? I know our Solaris system does not have any upgrades this complex. I am not sure how they manage their upgrades... Gregory Guthrie At 04:10 PM 7/9/98 -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: On Sun, 28 Jun 1998, Gregory Guthrie wrote: I just did an upgrade bo -- hamm using autoup.sh. Amazing

Re: Autoup Upgrade

1998-06-29 Thread Gregory Guthrie
Bob, Thanks for the clear and informative message. I think this should be included with the autoup.sh documentation, it certainly explains things not described there. Gregory Guthrie - At 10:53 PM 6/28/98 -0400, Bob Hilliard wrote: Hi, During the upgrade

bo -- hamm upgrade..

1998-06-28 Thread Gregory Guthrie
I find a lot of small changes, logs moved from (non-existent) /var/adm, to /var/logs, pppd argument changes, ppp setup changes, etc.. It took a bit of fiddling to bet the system re-working. E.g. pppd now needs a noauth argument, files have moved, etc.. Is there a list of these changes,

Upgrade problems..

1998-06-27 Thread Gregory Guthrie
I just did an upgrade bo -- hamm using autoup.sh. Amazing. But, there are a number of steps which left me cold; and flipping a coin for the right action. 1) during the autoup it had several conflicts, adn it was not clear to me if I needed to do anything about them. E.g. I think it tried to

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V98 #536

1998-06-26 Thread Gregory Guthrie
at hundreds of packages, try to remember which I had selected, and decide if they need update. Am I missing something here? Greg Guthrie Dr. Gregory Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] (515)472-1125Fax: -1103 Computer Science Department

Debian vs. W95 (was: Money where mouth...)

1998-06-11 Thread Gregory Guthrie
had MS Office! Best, Gregory Guthrie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

bridging?

1998-06-06 Thread Gregory Guthrie
? en0--ppp ppp--en0 Thanks. Gregory Guthrie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

library upgrade, required, but conflicts?

1998-06-04 Thread Gregory Guthrie
seen bunched of discussions on the list about library upgrades, but ignored them, as I was trying to make my life simple by sticking with the stable (1.0.31 CD) distribution. I did upgrade to the .30 kernel from the CDROM. Recommendations? Thanks, Gregory Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED

Boot to Linux from NT; problem

1998-06-03 Thread Gregory Guthrie
). This is a new installation (yesterday), so I doubt it is corrupt. I am reluctant to do a reinstall of all of NT, and don't know how to refresh this single file. Help, or pointers? Thanks Gregory Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- *at least as best I could.. Some

Boot problems: PCI device(s) unrecognized..

1998-06-03 Thread Gregory Guthrie
is has no indication, 8802. eth0: Media selection timer finished, MII. It also looks like my AGP graphics board shows up as PCI, and a few other bridge devices. It is a new PII motherboard (Asus). AM I ok, or do I need to do something. Thanks for any information or pointers. Gregory Guthrie [EMAIL

Re: Boot to Linux from NT; problem

1998-06-03 Thread Gregory Guthrie
it on another file system causes some confusion.. Thanks for all suggestions. Gregory Guthrie -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: low throughput on PPP link

1998-06-02 Thread Gregory Guthrie
Hankins. -- Shouldn't this (also) work? Dr. Gregory Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] (515)472-1125Fax: -1103 Computer Science Department College of Science and Technology Maharishi University of Management

Re: low throughput on PPP link

1998-06-02 Thread Gregory Guthrie
baud = 57600. If so, I still wonder why we are only getting ~ 56K throughput.. Thanks. Gregory Guthrie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

low throughput on PPP link

1998-05-31 Thread Gregory Guthrie
Currently we are building two Debian boxes(2.0.30) running as routers with a PPP link in between. Things are mostly going fine except the link throughput. 56kbps is the best it gets while we are expecting over 100kbps since we are using the 16550A UART serial cards, trying for 115K.. Here's the

Re: ipforward'ing on in kernel?

1998-05-30 Thread Gregory Guthrie
is (run-time) enabled. Thanks. Dr. Gregory Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] (515)472-1125Fax: -1103 Computer Science Department College of Science and Technology Maharishi University of Management (Maharishi

ipforward'ing on in kernel?

1998-05-29 Thread Gregory Guthrie
[Since I got no answer last time, I am trying again on this query] The basic question is: is IP-forwarding on in the default kernel, and how does one tell, or does one have to build a custom kernel to do routing? -- In gereral, how does one tell if a feature is on in a kernel?

NT: boot to Linux?

1998-05-24 Thread Gregory Guthrie
NT provides a boot manager, with a startup option to boot to various OS's, clearly intended mainly for MSoft versions! Can this be used to provide a boot to a Linux partition? Thanks. Greg Guthrie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

ipforward'ing on in kernel?

1998-05-22 Thread Gregory Guthrie
this correspond to the binary kernel distributed, or is it just a standard default spec for building new kernels? 4) We also need PPP procxyarp, is it on by default (curious about the ARPD not set). Thanks, Greg Dr. Gregory Guthrie

newsgroup, instead of mail list?

1998-05-22 Thread Gregory Guthrie
that newsgroups can automatically accept Email inputs, and can also be list replicated. COmments? Dr. Gregory Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] (515)472-1125Fax: -1103 Computer Science Department College of Science and Technology

Re: newsgroup, instead of mail list?

1998-05-22 Thread Gregory Guthrie
I don't know about you folks, but my newserver (news.vt.edu) has the group, but I've never seen a single message in it Am I broken? -- Mine has 6 messages total; I get 10x that each day in the mail list! Situation? Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

PP failure problem...

1998-05-12 Thread Gregory Guthrie
must be wrong with my LRP setup. I just re-downloaded everything, and still get the same thing. Any ideas appreciated. Greg Guthrie Dr. Gregory Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] (515)472-1125Fax: -1103 Computer Science Department

Re: ppp setup issues..

1998-05-10 Thread Gregory Guthrie
John, thanks, very useful. I hope this all finds it's way into a FAQ; (before it changes!). Greg Gregory Guthrie writes: My system calls /etc/init.d/ppp, which seems to do the same general thing as /usr/bin/pon. Right. init calls /etc/init.d/ppp which calls pppd with appropriate options

loadlin problem

1998-05-10 Thread Gregory Guthrie
partition (option G), it lists partitions, but not the linux one. If I ask it to list all partitions, it shows the ext2 Linux partition, but the mount initialized partion doesn't list it. ?? Thanks. Greg Guthrie Dr. Gregory Guthrie [EMAIL

W95 access to Debian files..

1998-05-10 Thread Gregory Guthrie
it is pretty unstable, and locks up the machine regularly after only a short time. The author is not maintaining it anymore. It would sure be nice if there was a new version, or other options for this. Thanks for any pointers if such exists. Gregory Guthrie [ from: http://www.yipton.demon.co.uk

ppp setup issues..

1998-05-09 Thread Gregory Guthrie
options_out like files? The header documentation there does not imply this. Thanks. Gregory Guthrie Computer Science -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ppp setup issues..

1998-05-09 Thread Gregory Guthrie
John, thanks for the information on ppp setup. At 11:01 PM 5/8/98 -0500, you wrote: Gregory Guthrie writes: what is the relation of the /etc/ppp.options_out and /etc/ppp/options.ttyXX ? /etc/ppp.options_out is used by the 'pon' command and by init.d. /etc/ppp/options.ttyXX is read by pppd when

Creating small router systems

1998-05-07 Thread Gregory Guthrie
for any comments or suggestions. Gregory Guthrie Computer Science Department -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[no subject]

1998-02-04 Thread Gregory Guthrie
pointers or information. Gregory Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] (515)472-1125Fax: -1103 Computer Science Department College of Science and Technology Maharishi University of Management

Re: debian learning curve

1998-01-20 Thread Gregory Guthrie
, but would guess that this would not be too hard. Best. Dr. Gregory Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] (515)472-1125Fax: -1103 Computer Science Department College of Science and Technology Maharishi University

Cloning a Debian system

1998-01-14 Thread Gregory Guthrie
disks to a system with a CDROM, or move a CDROM around, etc.. ich! Thanks. --- *http://www.psychosis.com/linux-router/ Dr. Gregory Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] (515)472-1125Fax: -1103 Computer Science Department

Re: Cloning a Debian system

1998-01-14 Thread Gregory Guthrie
with it, but thought someone might already have a proven solution. Dr. Gregory Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] (515)472-1125Fax: -1103 Computer Science Department College of Science and Technology Maharishi University of Management

Xfree: screen size?

1998-01-13 Thread Gregory Guthrie
) Dr. Gregory Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] (515)472-1125Fax: -1103 Computer Science Department College of Science and Technology Maharishi University of Management (Maharishi International University 1971-1995

Updates from non-debian sites? Release numbers..

1998-01-13 Thread Gregory Guthrie
and compatibility. I just got a CDROM with 1.1.3, is it old already! :-) Dr. Gregory Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] (515)472-1125Fax: -1103 Computer Science Department College of Science and Technology Maharishi University

Monitor Specs for Xfree86

1998-01-13 Thread Gregory Guthrie
, or determine it? Dr. Gregory Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] (515)472-1125Fax: -1103 Computer Science Department College of Science and Technology Maharishi University of Management (Maharishi International

partitioning sizes (data:swap)?

1998-01-12 Thread Gregory Guthrie
. Dr. Gregory Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] (515)472-1125Fax: -1103 Computer Science Department College of Science and Technology Maharishi University of Management (Maharishi International University 1971-1995

PS/2 mouse setup; /dev/mouse?

1998-01-11 Thread Gregory Guthrie
. Dr. Gregory Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] (515)472-1125Fax: -1103 Computer Science Department College of Science and Technology Maharishi University of Management (Maharishi International University 1971-1995

Access Linux partition from W95?

1998-01-11 Thread Gregory Guthrie
I konw that I can mount W95 partitions from Linux; what aobut the inverse? Occasionally I am in windows, and want to examine, print, etc.. [So far, I only have MSOffice on Windows, not Linux! :-)] Thanks. Dr. Gregory Guthrie [EMAIL

Re: XFree86 setup problems

1998-01-09 Thread Gregory Guthrie
you to configure your mouse. I hope this helps, // Heikki Dr. Gregory Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] (515)472-1125Fax: -1103 Computer Science Department College of Science and Technology Maharishi University

lp/ppa configuration; how to set to use printer?

1998-01-08 Thread Gregory Guthrie
I have a Zip drive on lp0, and at boot time it is recognized (een if no disk inserted), and then I cannot use lp0 to print. The lsmod reports ls module loaded, no ppa module reported. How can I disable ppa, and print? Dr. Gregory Guthrie

XFree86 setup problems

1998-01-08 Thread Gregory Guthrie
a workable console. I disabled the xdm startup now... Solutions? 2) I also find the mouse doesn't work; a standard MS 2-button mouse; how to diagnose the problem? Thanks for any help. Dr. Gregory Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] (515)472

setup help....

1998-01-05 Thread Gregory Guthrie
information. Dr. Gregory Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] (515)472-1125Fax: -1103 Computer Science Department College of Science and Technology Maharishi University of Management (Maharishi International University 1971

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