Dale Scheetz writes:
On Thu, 16 Jan 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here are some shell scripts for mounting and unmounting DOS CDROM stuff.
My DOS partition is /dev/hda1 and the cdrom drive is /dev/hdb. If yours is
different, change the scripts to match your equipment. I keep these in
Ok, what's the difference between mgetty and vgetty? (aside from the spelling)
I tried vgetty --help and it reported mgetty FATAL.
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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
Peter Iannarelli writes:
Drop your linen and stop your grinen:
To all those; and you know who you are, who are whinng
about Debian PPP. Ask your self two questions.
* What do I know about RFC 1331 or more commonly known as PPP.
* What do I know about my ISP.
Not everyone
Craig Sanders writes:
[snip]
from the pppd man page:
ipcp-accept-local
With this option, pppd will accept the peer's idea
of our local IP address, even if the local IP
address was specified in an option.
ipcp-accept-remote
Rick writes:
I haven't run across this original msg yet, since I am re-configuring my
system
and am just now getting to read some email, but I would like to say something
ab
out all the ppl that post to this list and do nothing but bitch about the
curren
t state of Debian/Linux.
I
Jason Costomiris writes:
On Sun, 6 Apr 1997, Christian Hudon wrote:
So the question is, is there an easy way to make a substitution on *only*
the 'Subject:' line of the *header* of the mail, either using procmail or
something else?
Sure. man formail.
I wonder, however, why on
First I'd like to thank everyone who replied to my comment. I apologize about
the length of this message. It combines the current comments and I'm
attempting to show that not every message has a uniform header. So please bear
with it and read on.
From dragon!cogs.susx.ac.uk!luisgh Wed Apr 9
First off, I apologize to all who sent private replies and I had used them in
a public message. Thanks to Santiago, I now understand the difference between
the variations in mail headers. Gracia Senor!
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Wichert Akkerman writes:
[snip for brevity]
Here's a simple one: the ability to create a tagfile. We had to install
25 Linux machines here a while ago and it is a pain to select to same
package every time in dpkg. I would like to be table to create a file
with a list of packages I want to
Dale Scheetz writes:
[snip]
Isn't this already available with get_selections and set_selections?
What about a fresh, from scratch installation? (like a newby would
encounter) 8-)
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Solomani writes:
On Sun, 27 Apr 1997, Joey Hess wrote:
Hi, thanks for your help, I added the line you suggested, but now I get
this error ...
|- Message log follows: -|
no valid recipients were found for this message
I went looking for the documentation for GCC and found it in info format. Is
there a way to convert the documentation into a plain jane text file without
editting every file?
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I recently moved my Debian to a larger hard drive. I reorganized the partition
allocation from a splintered arrangement to a 2 partition arrangement:
/dev/hda4 - /var
/dev/hda3 - / (and all other stuff)
Up until this change, 'shutdown' worked ok. Recently, I've been getting a
message:
..
John Foster writes:
I set it up a while back. I seem to remember that some of the paths
were not as the docs indicated. It wasn't on a handy machine, but I
seem to remember that majordomo expected some things to be in
/var/lib/majordomo that were actually in /usr/lib/majordomo.
There was
John Foster writes:
[snip]
I'm not intending this to be a flame, but I think that we can all
lighten up a bit when it comes to replying to posts on this list. If
you read my post you'll see that I had read the docs - and they were
wrong. As were the scripts. Perhaps you are running a different
Just wanted to let all the helpers on the list that your past messages about
LILO helped me get it working in just a few passes. (DOS-Linux boot) Thanks!
- lilo.conf
## Use MBR
boot=/dev/hda
##
I've been experiencing sudden loss of subscription to this list. No warnings,
nothing to indicate that the list might have a problem with delivering mail.
One day I will have new mail from the list, the next day, nothing... and
nothing afterwards. Has anyone else had this experience as well?
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Martin Stromberg writes:
The con regarding cp -a is that it's GNU cp. Versions on other systems
fuck up symbolic links e. g.
I used this very same method to migrate my debian system to a new hard drive
and I agree with the above! I had /usr/local/bin setup with symbolic links
(for my own
Can someone send this gentleman information on his request? Thanks!
Randy Dunlap writes:
From dragon!cc.gatech.edu!owner-ale Fri Dec 20 07:08:47 1996
[snip]
Hi,
I've just spent (wasted?) about 1/2 hour looking thru the
ALE email archives for an email I saw within the last week
about
I'm using the InfoMagic CDrom set (Dec 96) to upgrade. Here are some notes:
1) I installed dpkg*.deb and ldso*.deb by hand (per messages from this list)
2) Xlib6 and xlib have conflicts which cause problems in dselect. I remember a
fix for this, but I can't find the message(s). Would someone
I broke down and got Debian on CD (InfoMagic Dec 96 issue). In trying to
install/upgrade, I ran into trouble 8-). Some of it was covered by the
messages from this list (hurray!) However, I'm not familar enough with the
programming tools to make an intellegent decision as to what to select in the
Bruce Perens writes:
Buzz went to Infinity, and Beyond!
Thank heavens! 1.1 had terrible memory management. 1.2 (REX) is _much_ better.
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To answer myself and inform the folks on this list
I'd like to suggest that an option be added to the conflict list of dselect.
This option would allow one to pull-up the Packages description on a
After digging around, I found the I/i key did the trick for above! A big
_thanks_ to the
Another question, in Release 1.1, I had cdrom,isofs, and sound modules
loading up during boot-up. Release 1.2 complains about not being able to find
any of these modules during boot-up. isofs appears to have been compiled
into the kernel. So no big deal, but what about cdrom and sound modules?
Martin Konold writes:
[snip]
Thank heavens! 1.1 had terrible memory management. 1.2 (REX) is _much_
better.
The memory management issue mentioned here with 1.1 may explain some
slowness with my (1.1) machines.
I do not get the point! Memory management is the job of the kernel.
Daniel Stringfield writes:
A week or two ago, I wrote about an error that I got while compiling.
Well.. I fixed it.
This was with kernel-source 2.0.27
The error was on line 267 of scripts/mkdep.c
It read:
path_array[0].buffer[len] = '\0';(patth_array[0].len = len;
And I changed it to:
Daniel S. Barclay writes:
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm using the InfoMagic CDrom set (Dec 96) to upgrade. Here are some notes:
3) several packages have 2 versions and dselect happily installs both
versions without trying to distinguish between them. And because of the
Martin Konold writes:
Sorry I still do not get the point. Debian 1.1 never seemed to be slow to
me compared to any other distribution. Of course any broken setup you
might get by unstable/partial updates might slow down your machine to any
degree. But this still means that contradictionary to
Martin Konold:
I read my reply this morning and see harshness in a message. I would like to
apologize about that. Please look at the situation like this: I never said
that Debian 1.1 was the pits. Rather, I see that the development team did a
good job with 1.1; however, when 1.2 came out, it was
Nathan L. Cutler writes:
By accident, I rebooted my box with an msdog partition mounted
manually (i.e. it is not in /etc/fstab). Now, msdog can't access the
partition, and linux says the superblock is corrupt when I try to
mount it with mount -t msdos.
I don't know what happened, but I do
Nathan L. Cutler writes:
I'm running a modified 1.1 system. The whole question is moot now,
On a separate problem, I had 1.1 on my system and for whatever reason, 1.1
refused to shutdown cleanly. At first it was random, then it became constant.
Thanks to the redundancy in ext2, the boot up
bob writes:
Hello all,
I am setting up my home computer with Debian 1.2 and so far so good. My
question concerns my desire to use Suck to pull down newsgroups that I am
interested in. What package do I need to be able to allow Tin to read the
articles that I have downloaded? I am a little
Rick Macdonald writes:
I've been living off the unstable tree for almost a year. Back when the
version was 0.95r6 or something like that.
I believe this is a problem. People, who have fat pipes to get their
upgrades from the FTP sites, can live off of the unstable tree and have
their
Judith Steve Hornett writes:
I just purchased the most recent version of the LDR a few days ago.
Having read so much about Debian being the superior versions of Linux,
and having been less than thrilled with previous versions of RedHat
and Slackware, I thought I'd give it a try.
All of
Syrus Nemat-Nasser writes:
On Fri, 3 Jan 1997, Terrence M. Brannon wrote:
Everytime I restart Deb 1.2, it says /dev/hda3 not unmounted cleanly,
check forced. I exited. then turned off my laptop. What should I have
done first?
What you could do is use the command 'shutdown -h now' to
Timothy Phan writes:
Hi,
I'm a new debian user and currently experiencing some problems
with the debian 1.2 release. I'm wondering if any tests have
been performed before each of the debian release. It seemed to
me that all the problems I've encountered could have been easily
Alan Eugene Davis writes:
I hope this is not too far off topic for this list. I have seen a
number of discussions for hardware issues, so maybe it's ok.
Off topic? Not really, having good hardware is important to having a stable
Debian system. 8-)
I am considering upgrading from my
(2 cents worth) 8-) I perceive 2 separate issues going on this list pertaining
to improving Debian. Issue 1 - Easier installation; Issue 2 - friendlier
dselect. On installation issue, I'd like to see a return to the installation
of release 0.93 - A custom mode for the experienced Debian user and a
System Account writes:
I've read all this stuff about PnP cards not being supported in the
kernel. I recompiled my kernel before I realized that I had a SB16 PnP
(atleast according to the model numbers at Creative Labs it's PnP).
However, it worked, and I get sound.
It should! True Blue
Jens B. Jorgensen writes:
Gith wrote:
[snip]
(**) SVGA: chipset: clgd5434
(**) SVGA: videoram: 1024k
(--) SVGA: clocks: 25.23 28.32 41.16 36.08 31.50 39.99 45.08 49.87
(--) SVGA: clocks: 64.98 72.16 75.00 80.01
(**) SVGA: Option mmio
(--) SVGA: Maximum allowed
Ralph Winslow writes:
When Kendrick Myatt, et. al. wrote, I replied:
Somebody wrote:
communications non-networking communications
documentation all documentation
development as is currently
games all games
graphicsanything which creates, massages,
Larry Clayton writes:
1. On startup the initial login will not take any input--as if the
keyboard was frozen. So I go to vc 2 and login. Then I can login at
vc 1 again. But after I succeed with the password, it still won't
give me a prompt until I do a Ctrl C. What's happening?
2.
Syrus Nemat-Nasser writes:
[snip]
read it. Please don't feel concerned that this list is too technical for
the simpler questions. All of us were new to Linux and Debian at one
time. IMHO, the best thing that a newbie can do is RTFM when they can
The problem with RTFM is sometime the
I use the Trident 9440AGi card with X windows. You will need the SVGA server
for X windows to drive this card. Be aware that you may have to lie to the
configuration program and state the video ram as twice the size reported by
SuperProbe. I ran into this situation when I configured Xwindows. I
Here are some shell scripts for mounting and unmounting DOS CDROM stuff.
My DOS partition is /dev/hda1 and the cdrom drive is /dev/hdb. If yours is
different, change the scripts to match your equipment. I keep these in the
/root directory and use su - to access them. I'm working on automounting
Gith writes:
I've been watching the debates about Cds, dividing up non-free, and etc..
And I had a few thoughts I wanted to throw out at everyone.
I think if debian is going to succeed, it's going to have to be reduced
to a standard set of core applications that will make up the offical
In the Debian installer, on the "debian-10.0.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso"
written to USB flash drive works perfectly, up to the mount CDROM step.
There is no way to tell the installer to use the USB drive.
Since I began using USB flash media for the installation disk, I have
always simply downloaded
Hamish Moffatt writes:
Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This may be true (most probably is) but mkisofs is the tool I know about
from personal experience. How would I create an ext2fs in a file? Wouldn't
it still need to be a ro file system?
You use losetup to make the
Fundamental writes:
[snip]
Now, what else do i have to do to get this virtual host to work on my
machine? IF anyone has some advice or can point me in the right direction
for a HowTO, id much apprecaiate it:)
[snip]
Excuse my ignorance, but what is a virtual host? (and what would be the
Bruce Perens writes:
[snip]
It's now possible to build a kernel with little more than the ramdisk
and console drivers and load everything else including the driver for
the root disk from a module (see the initrd documentation). That means
that the user can put together an efficient kernel
anyone have some words of wisdom? 1) When I do a reboot or shutdown, my system
will hang. This hangup is intermittant. I've installed the buzz release,
would upgrading to rex solve this? 2) I'm now seeing messages off of this
list showing a M in the left side of the menu. Going into the message
Bruce writes:
There's one Debian developer who has voiced strong objections to the spam
filter. I'd prefer to leave it on. What do you guys think? Please reply to
me, not the list.
Thanks
Bruce
While it is a pain in the A** for that initial posting, I like it! I wish I
could do
I'm not sure if my initial message made it to the list (spam filter
intervention 8-) ). Let's try it again. I fetch my Debian release packages
manually with FTP. I've always wanted an easy way to verify the integrity of
the packages (looking for stupidity like using text mode instead of binary
Adam Shand writes:
Hi.
A quick question I hope. We are moving our main server to debian in the
next few days. At the same time I hope to move from UUCP hdb configs to
taylor configs. I found the utility uuconv which got me started and I
think that I have that sorted out. My question
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