USB external drive mounting / permissions issues.
[I used the wrong email address when I posted this message a few minutes ago. I hope I will be forgiven for reposting using this correct address.] Hello: I have four partitions on a USB drive, including ntfs, fat32, and ext4. None of them is accessible as automounted. Each of them is accessible as root, however, and each of them is accessible when mounted manually with this command: $ sudo mount /dev/sdXN /mnt/ I realize this is a permissions issue. In fact the error message when clicking on one of these partitions that shows up in files or dolphin tells me it is. I have tried a few things and wasted some hours this morning googling this problem, encountering a virtual Pacific Garbage Patch of miscellaneous traffic, not one of them seeming specific to this probably very simple problem. (It's a sign of the times, I guess). I can mount even a partition that already shows up as mounted on files or dolphin and is unreadable, except for ntfs, which does not allow itself to be mounted until unmounted first. At this point, the newly mounted partitions can be accessed normally. I have tried a recipe for udev from an archilinux article, but this was no better. I wrote entries into /etc/fstab for each partition, using Label=. This does not work. This seems strange because I have used this in the past. As long as these fstab entries were in the file, the system would not boot normally. There may be a few different things going on here? I would very much appreciate a pointer. I can manually mount, for now, but since I access files on these partitions regularly, it would be extremely helpful for them to be automatically mounted. Alan Davis PS. It's good to be using Debian GNU/Linux again after many years. The sticking point (that led to my giving up) has almost always been networking, usually a wifi adaptor that is not supported. This time it took two days for me to copy over *deb files one at a time, but eventually, the install succeeded, in good fashion. -- "Sweet instruments hung up in cases. . . keep their sounds to themselves." ---Shakespeare, _Timon of Athens_
USB Drive "The location could not be displayed"
I am using debian stretch and gnome. When I plug in a usb external drive with four partitions (including ext4, ntfs, fat32) they are mounted automatically, but when I click on any of them in files or dolphin, this message is received: The location could not be displayed. You do not have the permissions..." I am able to read these files as root. Even in the command line, however, a normal user can only see: Permission denied. Trying to mount by label: # mount Label= /mnt/ I see "special device does not exist I am able to mount any of them with a simple "mount /dev/sdcX /mnt/, and they are accessible. They are not shown automatically on dolphin, although Iall files are visible when I navigate to the mountpoint and click in files or dolphin. I tried changing permissions of /media. Not solved. an NTFS partition was not mountable unless dismounted from the automatic mount point; as far as I can see, this is not the case for vfat or ext4 partitions. I did copy a udev rule for setting permissions---something above my level of understanding, however. If anything, the situation was worse. It has been very frustrating to google for 2 hours on this probably very simple problem. I think the solution is just to mount them manually. Still, it would be helpful to automount them, or mount via fstab. I have not had success mouting by label, and one does not know in advance whether some usb flash drive might preempt these drive designations. BTW I am pleased to be running a Debian system again after some years. It took a good deal of work, though, to get it set up on an iMac with a broadcom wifi adaptor! Alan Davis -- [I do not] carry such information in my mind since it is readily available in books. …The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think. ---Albert Einstein "Sweet instruments hung up in cases. . . keep their sounds to themselves." ---Shakespeare, _Timon of Athens_
Instralling from offline sources: broadcom
I need to install the broadcom-wl wireless adaptor drivers. I have no connection to the internet on this new installation. So it's either this or tethering the iphone to get this package installed. Both of these pathways require a plethora of steps to install various dependencies for dependencies. I was a debian user in the early 90s, and remember alarm at the penchant of devels to split everything into packages; now I can remembery why Anyway, I need build-depends. Make, of all things, is one of the most difficult things to install. I have installed stretch. Up to this point, it's a fantastic process of installation. As of now, several problems have kept me back. 1. I used a usb of HD medium, so many packages are on this usb drive, but it's beyond me how to get apt-get to recognize the USB drive as a rep, and go ahead and complete the update. Probably I need a list of packages. 2. I cannot find make on this USB drive in pool. 3. I cannot find patch on this USB drive. 4. Individually I have installed a bunch of development packages. 5. Tethering is a huge problem because of ifuse, I think, and other dependency hells. This is enough for now. I would very much appreciate some advice on any of these topics. Once I have broadcom-wl installed it's all downhill I think. I do have the package, but the dependencies are driving me bats. Thank you. Alan Davis -- [I do not] carry such information in my mind since it is readily available in books. …The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think. ---Albert Einstein "Sweet instruments hung up in cases. . . keep their sounds to themselves." ---Shakespeare, _Timon of Athens_
Re: Joey Hess is out?
Debian's mailing list had a sharp edge back in the 90's, the last times I inhabited them for much time. And it still does. If it means anything, Constitution or not, the Gentoo mailing list in its heyday was the epitome of civility, in comparison. A breath of fresh air, and none of the arrogance toward noobies. I am just an interested observer. It is remarkable to see this level of venom and spite about the systemd issue. Alan Davis -- “That is the way to learn the most, that when you are doing something with such enjoyment that you don’t notice that the time passes.” --- Albert Einstein
New install from DVD (via USB flashdrive)
After many years, I have finally gotten a working Debian install. It looks ok, but there are a few issues. The installation media handling of wifi-connections was not transparent, but it worked fine. I had to NOT configure the wifi connection, after signing in to the router. I was unable to contact a mirror; however, once I decided to install without configuring wifi during the install, and rebooted, I was connected automatically! Wonderful! It would be well if the user could predict this behavior. Now that I am connected, however, synaptic does not allow me to configure the software components that are "Downloadable from the Internet." Checkboxes will not accept any change. Is there any trick one can use here? It is awesome that this installer is working this well. Thank you. Alan Davis -- “That is the way to learn the most, that when you are doing something with such enjoyment that you don’t notice that the time passes.” --- Albert Einstein
CUPS: jobs stop printing until reboot
Hello: I have finally broken down and installed CUPS, which seems to work pretty well for two printers, an HP PSC2175 and a Brother HL1440. However, I have run into a few rough spots. Besides driver issues for the HP, I have a problem that has happened often enough to start to bug me. As mentioned in the subject line, it has happened a few times that at some point, even when the printer has been working, some small change in the parameters or some unknown factor will cause the printer to just stop accepting jobs, or else the system to stop passing them to the printer. On one instance, using Sane to scan from the HP PSC2175 and print to the HL1440, the scans went perfectly and printed ok on the Laser printer (giving me a copy function at a much cheaper cost). Then for one scan I decided to specify in the Sane dialog for two copies to be printed. It worked fine. Then the next time around, I specified one copy, but nothing happened. I repeated the command several times. Other print jobs could not print either. After rebooting, the printer cranked out pending jobs. In another instance, today, jobs sent to the HP printer didn't print. I rebooted, and the copies printed ok. I tried /etc/init.d/cupsys restart, but this didn't work. I had similar problems with lpd/lpr for perhaps years, which I have always had to solve with the /etc/init.d/lpd stop/start trickery. I have looked at the CUPS docs, but haven't figured this out. Is this problem familiar to anyone? Alan Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kagman High School Saipan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Nikon Coolpix 990 USB with kernels 2.6.X
Can someone correspond about how to use photopc and xphoto (no debian package I think) to communicate with this camera over USB? Somewhere along the line, a package is mentioned that would set the permissions for the usb devices in /proc/bus/usb/, but that package isn't any longer available either as a package, or, apparently, on an independent site that was referred to "somewhere." The package was called "usb-permissions". Any, can this camera be used and controlled remotely from a debian box with output over the TV, pictures taken and camera focused through the above named packages? Is it necessary to use kernels 2.4.X? Thank you very much, in advance, for any advice, Alan Davis Science Department Kagman High School Saipan, MP 96950 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Printing with Mozilla and Firefox
When trying to print from Mozilla or Firefox on a friend's Debian box (which started from a Knoppix 3.4 install a couple of months ago), the print dialog lists some printers, including "lp@:64". I had gotten printing working by installing magicfilter and lpr about three weeks before, so I was discouraged to learn that the above named printer was the default printer in cups. It is impossible to edit the printer name in the dialog. I moved his ~/.mozilla, and after that a new postscript printer name was observed in the same dialog, in Mozilla only, NOT for firefox. Thunderbird does show this printer, and it is possible to print from either Mozilla or Thunderbird by selecting this printer. However, it is still impossible to print from Firefox, which does not show the postscript printer in the print dialog. I haven't found a .mozilla-firefox directory, but did find a Desktop/mozilla-firefox, which I deleted. This did not change anything. I have reinstalled mozilla, which resulted in an upgrade, with no change, and deleted cupsys and some other cups packages. My friend, who has recently and happily adopted Debian, and is trying to learn the basics, is willing to forego the use of firefox; I told him there must be a logical explanation, so I am bringing these questions to the list: Is there a separate firefox configuration/customization directory? Lpr has worked for me for a decade; even though apsfilter has often worked better, I still have clung to lpr and magicfilter whenever it works, although in a few cases apsfilter was a better choice, or the only one that easily worked. I have recently ordered an HP multipurpose inkjet, and I think I'll have to use cups. So I'll ask: where can I find a FM about CUPS besides the Printing HOWTO? And of course I'd appreciate any simple explanations aboutr CUPS---if it is understandable at all. Is xprt controlling the print dialog? What is? Of course, any clue at all will satisfy me, as well as my friend. Thanks again, Alan Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ftp behind firewall
At work, we have an excellent Internet connection, but we are behind a firewall on a
private network. I am having email and ftp problems from behind the firewall; at
home, all is well with the new ISP. My old isp worked fine at work for both.
Even passive ftp doesn't work for a console based ftp client; however, wget does work
fine to pull files. Is there an alternative ftp client that works like wget, but to
upload files?
Where can I find TFM?
Alan Davis
Marianas High School
Saipan
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self-sufficient smtp server behind firewall?
Hello list: I have changed ISPs, where my email address is hosted, and the smtp server I normally use. I now am unable to send smtp mail from behind the firewall at work (private network), and ftp also isn't working from behind the firewall at work. I cannot send out mail through the smtp server of my new isp from behind the firewall, because relaying is not permitted. I have gotten no help from the firewall admin. He did suggest I obtain an IP number from the admin of the local network; however, I believe this isn't setting well with the network admins. Is sendmail an option, to act as an independent smtp server? I tried, and I did set up sendmail on my box at work, which worked well for sending email directly to outside machines, but email to the ISPs domian don't work, because sendmail is using the isp's domain as the visible mail name. How can I set this up so I can send email to myself or other people on the ISP's domain? (Suggestions also accepted about how to access ftp. Wget works to download, but I can't find any console client that works to FTP upload]. Thank you Alan Davis Marianas High School Saipan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1-670-235-6580 Alan E. Davis, P. O. Box 506164 CK, Saipan, MP 96950, NMI I As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously. -- Benjamin Franklin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Selection with mouse is bodged up on one machine
I am stumped on this one: X selection (cut and pasting with the mouse) has been working, so that I can select a URL from an email, and middle click on galeon to follow the url. But on one machine, this isn't working, on any account. This is a sid machine, up to date, and updates haven't helped. I went through the XF86Config-4 file, and commented some lines in the mouse configurations, but no avail. Is this something I should have been able to find in the archives of this list? Alan Davis Marianas High School Saipan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cache for packages
I have four or five machines running linux on our local network. Can someone point me to the easy instructions for setting up a cache of packages on one system, so that if packages are already on a local machine, they won't be ftped again? It's a tribute to Debian GNU/Linux that, running sid on these machines, which were disconnected for some six to seven months, three so far have upgraded without a single major problem using apt-get and aptitude. Aptitude has worked, when apt-get didn't. Thanks to everyone from a long time use, who never "got it" as far as developing packages. (Too busy teaching and doing science). Alan Davis Marianas High School Saipan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
upgrade problems with install-info hangups
Does everyone who upgrades have snags with install-info? I received an email when I posted a similar inquiry some months ago, that someone had never had such a problem. But especially when I am doing an update/upgrade after a long interval, with, say 200MB of files (sid), over several years I have had problems requiring hand editing of prerm and postinst files, to upgrade multiple packages. This can take hours. I usually just comment out or delete lines for install-info. Does this lead to more problems later on? What can I do to eliminate this problem? Can someone lend a clue? Alan Davis -- Alan E. Davis, Science Instructor Marianas High School PMB 30, Box 10006, Saipan, MP 96950 Northern Mariana Islands [EMAIL PROTECTED] "An inviscid theory of flow renders the screw useless, but the need for one non-existent." ---Lord Raleigh(aka John William Strutt),or else his son, Jr., who was also a scientist. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
access to IP address for a machine on inet behind a firewall?
4 machines in my classroom are attached to a private IP LAN, which is attached through a gateway to the Inet. I can FTP and so forth from these machines, but I cannot access them directly through the IP addresses I have been assigned. I want to set up a web server and also to have access to these machines from home. Is it possible to discover what INET IP addresses are assigned to these machines (if any)? How can I learn what IP address a machine outside the LAN associates with my machine? I'm learning, slowly but surely. Please point to the FM? Alan -- Alan E. Davis, Science Instructor Marianas High School PMB 30, Box 10006, Saipan, MP 96950 Northern Mariana Islands [EMAIL PROTECTED] "An inviscid theory of flow renders the screw useless, but the need for one non-existent." ---Lord Raleigh(aka John William Strutt),or else his son, Jr., who was also a scientist.
lpr (-#num parameter)
Using sid. How can I print multiple copies using lpr? I tried this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/PROJ/BIOLOGY$ lpr -Plp -#3 Breadmold_Experiment-worksheet.txt usage: lpr [-Pprinter] [-#num] [-C class] [-J job] [-T title] [-U user] [-i [numcols]] [-1234 font] [-wnum] [-cdfghlnmprstv] [name ...] man lpr: -#num The quantity num is the number of copies desired of each file named. For example, lpr -#3 foo.c bar.c more.c would result in 3 copies of the file foo.c, followed by 3 copies of the file bar.c, etc. On the other hand, cat foo.c bar.c more.c | lpr -#3 will give three copies of the concatenation of the files. Often ^ a site will disable this feature to encourage use of a photo ^ copier instead. ^ Does Debian lpr come with this option disabled? Alan Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marianas High School Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands
Re: Network: how can I set up remote printing (sid/lpr)
Thank you. I was able to get remote printing to work. The printer is an HP Laserjet attached to one machine's printer port. I had to create an /etc/hosts.lpd file; listing the hosts in hosts.equiv didn't work, contrary to the Printing HOWTO. I may take you up on the offer to help install cups. I like the simple approach, however; and besides, isn't cups proprietary? Alan , , On Wed, 17 Oct 2001 11:49:33 -0400 dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 10:51:27AM +1000, Alan E. Davis wrote: > | In my high school classroom we have a small network of four linux > | boxen, with private block ip addresses (our Public School System > | domain is in a private block), with one printer. I have been able > | to ftp/telnet between my own boxen, but I am unskilled so don't know > | how much I can do with/among my colleagues who are running Windoze. > | I wonder about security, but I think we are ok to at least share one > | printer via our "Internet" non-internet network. > > Where is the printer? Is it plugged straight into your machine > (parallel, usb, serial, whatever) or is it on the network (ipp or > jetdirect) or is it shared from a windows host via samba or shared > via lpd (or cups/ipp) on a unix host? > > I like the CUPS printing system. It works well for me. Install the > 'cupsys', 'cupsys-client' and 'cupsys-bsd' packages. Read the > documentation that comes with cups, and if it is overwhelming come > back with more details on your network/printer topology. > > If you have the printer and want to allow the windows hosts to use it, > or it is on a windows machine and you want to use it, also install the > samba package. For using a windows printer, the URI is > smb:///. To share your printer with a windows > machine, put "printing = cups" in the /etc/samba/smb.conf file (it > defaults to 'bsd' I think) and get rid of the printcap line. Make > sure a "[printers]" section exists and allows access. The samba howto > has more details. > > HTH, > -D > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
Network: how can I set up remote printing (sid/lpr)
In my high school classroom we have a small network of four linux boxen, with private block ip addresses (our Public School System domain is in a private block), with one printer. I have been able to ftp/telnet between my own boxen, but I am unskilled so don't know how much I can do with/among my colleagues who are running Windoze. I wonder about security, but I think we are ok to at least share one printer via our "Internet" non-internet network. In my room I want to print to my printer from any of my machines. I have tried the scant instructions in the Linux Printing-HOWTO, and I have attempted to follow instructions on the debian lists. When testing remote printing, the file is spooled, but mhs49:/home/adavis# lpc stat lp: queuing is enabled printing is enabled 11 entiries in spool area waiting for queue to be enabled on mhs46. /etc/hosts.equiv on mhs46 (the server). Is there some clear instruction somewhere on how to do this. I can write a short HOWTO if I can figure this out. TIA and Thanks for many previous helps, Alan Davis
apt-get install mozilla---locale problem
I have seen some traffic about this problem. This is the message I get: /var/lib/dpkg/info/mozilla-browser.postinst: line298: 6563 Segmentation fault regxpcom >/dev/null 2>/dev/null I tried several ways to bring locales up to date, including editing the /root/.bashrc, running locale-gen, setting environment variables. Can I just reinstall some package? I am running sid updated from woody. Alan
tar and symbol: o0tind
I have apparently recovered from a memory module problem that bodged my system but good. I installed anew, potato from a CD; then upgraded to woody; now upgraded to sid. The machine behaves pretty well. But the upgrade wasn't smooth as it could be, and a new gremlin has attacked, giving the following error with any attempt to apt-get or dpkg any deb package: tar: error while loading shared libraries: tar: symbol o0tind, version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference Does this ring a bell? Alan Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
segmentation faults running rampant
A have been having much trouble with a good machine, and I have to finally ask some advice. Maching specs: ASUS A7V133 AMD Tbird 800 512 MB SDRAM (2 @ 256 MB DIMMS) Adaptec 19160 LVD-capable SCSI adaptor LVD cable Seagate Cheetah 18 GB 1 RPM SCSI Drive etc. This machine has been running Debian Woody pretty nicely for a few months. Recently, segfaults have been plaguing me. I suspect Hardware, but must ask for advice. Because the only evidence I have is the error messages (Debian GNU/Linux), I am asking this list. Please forgive me if this is off-topic. I get error messages, beginning with a segfault, when fscking, running any e2fs utility, or sometimes when doing an fdisk. Perhaps at other times also. Here are the main guts of one of the long error message, while booting, and before I reinstalled Debian potato: /dev/sda2 contains a filesystem w/ errors, check forced. /dev/sda2: Inode 407458 has illegal blocks(s). /dev/sda2: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY (ie., without -a or -p optoins). Unable to handle kernel paging request address 00800030 printing eip: C012ddf1 *pdl = [I'm not sure about the "l" in pdl] Oops: 0002 CUP: 0 EIP: 0010:[] EFLAGS: 00010206 [here are the contents of a bunch of registers] eax:ebx:ecx:edx: esi:edi:edp:esp: ds: es: ss: Process fsck.ext2 (pid: 54, stackpage dfa3f000) Stack: c012e101 [etc] . . . Call Trace: [etc] Code 8b 7b 20 0f [etc] Warning... fsck.ext2 for /dev/sda6 exited with signal 11 fsck failed. Please repair manually. [end of error messages I jotted down] This was after a number of file system errors. I had the system running ok for a morning, was planning to compile a new kernel. Then someone unplugged the machine. Eventually I gave up, and started trying to reinstall. After a few tries, still getting segmentation faults, and these kinds of long messages, I pulled out one dimm. The system worked better. But eventually I did get these messages. Can someone offer any suggestions? I did notice this: When the system crashes, I have little trouble getting an e2fsck the first time down. If problems persist, and th esystem is forced down again, especially if more than one more time, the fs problems seem quite intractible. I thought of running ext3? Sorry for the bandwidth. [Those images on the TV when I woke up... Too improbable. Impossible. I'm dreaming, shake the cobwebs out of my head.. Oh, my God... Our airport is closed on Saipan, too.] Alan Davis Marianas High School Saipan NMI
Re: galeon on woody?
Thank you for your reply! Will this break woody with up to date versions of woody packages such as xlibs? If not, then why not try changing sources.list to unstable long enough to install galeon? Is there a good argument against that? I tried individually downloading all the dependencies one at a time. Things threaten to become frighteningly complex. Alan Davis On Wed, 15 Aug 2001 21:47:46 -0400 dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 08:13:37AM +1000, Alan E Davis wrote: > | the new Galeon rocks. To the max. > | > | How can I install galeon on woody? I seem to remember a line for > | /etc/apt/sources.list; but I cannot find it on the list archives. > > I no longer have the apt line from my sources.list because I simply > downloaded the packages from sid (and all dependencies). See > http://packages.debian.org/unstable/non-us/galeon.html. > > I have 0.11.0-1.1 > > -D > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
galeon on woody?
the new Galeon rocks. To the max. How can I install galeon on woody? I seem to remember a line for /etc/apt/sources.list; but I cannot find it on the list archives. Thanks. Alan Davis
unstable system dies: apt-get dist-upgrade
Yesterday, 3 July (GMT+10) I attempted to resolve dependency problems for the dist-upgrade that I'd left running overnight. My system is now dead. I have installed a new installation on a different filesystem, and am starting from scratch. I do these upgrades fairly often. Sometimes I'll let it go a month, or even two. In general I have few real problems. Fairly often however I am harassed by messages from "install-info". I have developed a standard operating procedure in these cases: edit the offending file (eg *.prerm or *postinst) and run "dpkg --configure". I'm not happy of course, but this or some other similar procedure *usually* (TM) takes care of these things. I have posted to these lists in the past my feeling about this install-info. Why should installation of documentation be the most common pediment to upgrades? Rarely do I have any other problem. I have begun to think it's time to reinstall. I am sure there is major cruft I am not taking care of. After over perhaps two years of incremental upgrades, one or two major partition shifts, it's time. Well, it happened. I don't even know what. I am embarrassed that I cannot even relate to the list what messages I received. After a number of vexing complaints from apt-get/dpkg, which I overcame in the way I have described, as well as by "force-overwrite", etc., the system came to total loss. No keyboard input into login prompts. Messages about init. I think that sysvinit might have been hosed. I had to reinstall login a few weeks ago, to solve a somewhat similar problem. THis is not the libpam issue, as I had gotten through that one in an hour. I am reinstalling, but if I can figure this one out, I will save myself a month of work. This was a well loaded system with lots of self-installed packages. I am starting from potato, now have upgraded to woody. Does any of this mean anything to anyone? Alan Davis
ftp "reget" via netscape?
One of my reasons for not liking web browsers is their handling of FTP. Almost always, if a file transfer has been interrupted, it is necessary to restart from the beginning. However, on my sid machine, at home, I was able to ftp a partially completed file, and the ftp process restarted, didn't have to start again. So I tried again at school, on a woody machine. BOth machines are running netscape 4.77 installed from upstream tar balls, not using the debian installer. This time, netscape is starting from the beginning of the file, again. What can I do, if anything, to set this up as a default? THank you for your help, Alan Davis Marianas High School
Bootup Disaster (post-upgrade?)
Updating sid. A screen is presented at Lilo. Did I want Lilo to access the HDD as LBA? This was mentioned as probably desireable. Now I reboot. The boot process begins. After the BIOS readouts, up comes Lilo. But no! THis is what I see: LIL then a pause. Then continuing: LILLinux02 ^^^ Now the machine goes berzerk. The drive starts thrashing/clicking. [A friend tells me there are now viruses that can attack the hard drive this way.] I will try to install a new boot record using install disks from Testing. Meanwhile, does this ring a bell? Alan Davis
Proxy apt cache?;
I am in the middle of a four machine network install in my classroom. I have one machine connected by PPP to the Inet. I am attempting a dist upgrade to testing from potato. One machine is now upgraded, so the packages are here. I can mount the var directory by NFS to another machine; I have copied all packages to the new machine, in /var/cache/apt/archives. How can I set up the new machine now to recognize these packages and install, either from this machine or the connected machine? Can I just copy over the /etc/apt/sources.list onto this machine without being connected? Which of the other files in /var/cache need to be copied over? Thanks for any suggestions. I will try now to just copy over the files I see, but I am walking blind. Alan Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marianas High School and N. Marianas College Saipan, N. Mariana Islands
Detecting IBM 13.5GB IDE HDD---anyone?
Installing potato. My system is as follows: Mainboard: ASUS P5A CPU:K6-II 400 What is sfdisk? Is it on the install disks---apparently not? I have attempted to follow the Large Disk HOWTO and jumpered the drive as a 15 Head drive, as suggested. Otherwise it was detected at 500MB. I only see 7.9 GB. Several different BIOS parameters don't improve the situation. Has anyone on this list succeeded at this? Alan Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
