vgetty as answering machine
Good evening folks, I want my machine be my answering machine except for the possibility for saving incoming calls. Only a message shall be displayed to inform the caller to call at a later time or to send me a dumb letter. I know that vgetty is able to do this job, but I didn't find enough information to configure this. * Where shall I put the voice file? Which format? .au or .wav? * How shall I install vgetty in inittab? * How do I tell vgetty to not let the caller leave a message? Or even better: is there a configuration file for vgetty? Thanks in advance, Joey -- Individual Network e.V._/ OrgaTech KG [EMAIL PROTECTED]_/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geschaeftszeit: Di+Fr, 15-18 Uhr _/Tel: (0441) 9808556
Re: Custom installation boot disks?
If I'm not mistaken, the generic kernel will install on a 2940. It's the AIC7XXX series of chips, and aic7xxx.o is built into the generic kernel. It's always best from a performance standpoint to create your own custom kernel. If you can allocate the space to install the kernel sources and the tools necessary to build them, go ahead and do so. The generic kernel is built for the '386, and has a number of linked-in drivers that you don't need, and probably has the wrong IP options selected for your application. You should be able to get the system running well before Thursday. Thanks Bruce Perens
Re: Custom installation boot disks?
On Tue, 17 Sep 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: If I'm not mistaken, the generic kernel will install on a 2940. It's the AIC7XXX series of chips, and aic7xxx.o is built into the generic kernel. It does. I was at the office and had the generic disk set with me. Said 'what the heck' and found it works. It's always best from a performance standpoint to create your own custom kernel. I always do. However, after installing, I found that the 'ne' module would hang the system when trying to find my PCI card (io=0x6200). Since the kernel installation package does not come on my CD (Infomagic Linux Developer's Resource, 9/96 Debian 1.1.4), I had to recompile the kernel the old way, but with NE2000 support built in. That works fine. Now that I have my network back, I can ftp the modules needed. Thanks to all for their help.
Version 2.0
Hi, Some are saying that 2.0.20 may be the final 2.0 version... Does debian already have 2.0.20 in its stable tree? If I buy a Debian CD, will it come with 2.0.20? Thx. Ricardo
Re: ?-html
I've seen a few listed. Try: http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/XMosaic/faq-software.html#editors On Sep 17, 3:56pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject: ?-html : Hi, : Please does anyone know of a program/script I can run to provide an : html output for my manual pages? or better still act as the front end : of man? I have heard that there is some utility for doing this, though : I have not come across it yet -- End of excerpt from [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Christopher R. Hertel -)- University of Minnesota [EMAIL PROTECTED] Networking and Telecommunications Services
Re: Shouldn't go app-defaults in /etc/X11?
Yves Arrouye ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 17 September 1996 00:10: That wouldn't resolve Michael's problem: assume I change my app-defaults file for SomeApp, just to adjust colors to my tastes. Then comes a new release of SomeApp, with new features controlled by X resources that are in the app-defaults file. What will dpkg do, then? Propose me to keep my modified file (1), or replace it (2). If (1) changes are that I loose the ability to use the new feature because the app-defaults file lacks some defaults (in most cases the app will even not run). If (2) I get the new feature but lose my colors changes. It is extremely hard to update a changed file automatically (don't talk about patch, please, this works only if the organization of the file didn't change), so the best way is effectively to make resources mofifications *outside* of the app-defaults file to keep them local and still be able to upgrade nicely. Exactly. That's why Jamie Zawinsky (or however it's spelled...) strongly recommends against such files. Have a look at netscape readmes'. Carlos
Re: ?-html
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Please does anyone know of a program/script I can run to provide an html output for my manual pages? There's rman, in non-free. or better still act as the front end of man? I'm working on a WWW front end to all on-line documentation on a Debian system, but it's not finished yet. I'll need a couple of weekends or so to finish a usable version. -- 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. pgprwR2Dbeaj8.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Shouldn't go app-defaults in /etc/X11?
Michael Alan Dorman: I feel like a broken record, here, but would people involved in this discussion please look at /usr/doc/X11/debian.README? I did that. I didn't notice that paragraph, probably because it comes under the heading of ``xdm-start-server''. The visual clues given by the formatting of the file (one extra empty line) were not enough to make me read that part thoroughly. I really need to get searching to work in my WWW documentation front-end... -- 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. pgp1ujWGMjJUQ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: dvips top margin
Are you using ghostscript? I discovered a similar problem a few days ago: I worked with gs-4.01-2 and all the offsets were correct as specified in TeX, correct in DVI (xdvi) and PS (ghostview) and on the printer. But I had to switch back to gs-2.62-2 because of the problem, that characters get cut off at the right hand side (I posted this to this list a few days ago, but didn't receive any hints.) In gs-2.62 the output is shifted about 7mm. I just read a hint in an ghostscript README, that the were some bugs in older gs versions in handling of offsets. Hope this helps, Chris -- _,, Christian Schwarz / o \__ [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], ! ___; [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / \\\__/ !PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA \ / http://www.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/ -.-.,---,-,-..---,-,-.,.-.- DIE ENTE BLEIBT DRAUSSEN!
Re: ?-html
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Please does anyone know of a program/script I can run to provide an html output for my manual pages? or better still act as the front end of man? I have heard that there is some utility for doing this, though I have not come across it yet Check out tkman and its companion filter, rosettaman. -- ...RickM...
pc speaker
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Re: ?-html
Thanks, Jonathan On Tue, 17 Sep 1996 16:06:39 -0600 Rick Macdonald wrote: From: Rick Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 16:06:39 -0600 Subject: Re: ?-html To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Please does anyone know of a program/script I can run to provide an html output for my manual pages? or better still act as the front end of man? I have heard that there is some utility for doing this, though I have not come across it yet Check out tkman and its companion filter, rosettaman. -- ...RickM...
Re: Version 2.0
If you buy a Debian CD, it may not come with 2.0.20 . However, you will be able to download a package from our FTP site and upgrade your system to 2.0.20 . It should be about 2MB for the binary kernel package, 5MB for the full kernel source. Installing a package takes a one-line shell command. 2.0.20 isn't on the FTP site now, because the two people who build kernels (Simon and I) have been busy. I guess we'd better build some. Thanks Bruce
Re: How to create a Packages file?
On Tue, 17 Sep 1996, Amos wrote: Can anyone tell me how to create an updated Packages file, please? Use dpkg-scanpackages(8). I'm not sure if its manpage is in dpkg 1.2 (stable). You may need to install the dpkg fro unstable to get the manpage. Guy
Version 2.0
On Tue, 17 Sep 1996 13:04:18 -0700, Ricardo Kleemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Some are saying that 2.0.20 may be the final 2.0 version... Does debian already have 2.0.20 in its stable tree? I hope that's not the case, because there are bugs in the Adaptec drivers (aic7xxx) in 2.0.20 that were introduced in 2.0.13. I know because I just tripped over them. The bugs have been reported, and I'm hoping the implementors will manage to get them fixed soon. I am unable to access MS-DOS volumes from Linux kernels later than 2.0.13. Also, there are some serious problems with module versions that were introduced in 2.0.19 and have yet to be sorted out. With all that, there will almost certainly be more versions in 2.0, and I wouldn't recommend moving forward at this point if you have a kernel that basically works. -Randy -- http://cogsci.ucsd.edu/~gobbel/ NOTICE: I DO NOT ACCEPT UNSOLICITED COMMERCIAL EMAIL MESSAGES OF ANY KIND. I CONSIDER SUCH MESSAGES PERSONAL HARRASSMENT AND A GROSS INVASION OF MY PRIVACY. By sending unsolicited commercial advertising/solicitations (or otherwise on or as part of a mailing list) to me via e-mail you will be indicating your consent to paying John R. (Randy) Gobbel $1,000.00 U.S.D./hour for a minimum of 1 hour for my time spent dealing with it. Payment due in 30 days upon receipt of an invoice (e-mail or regular mail) from me or my authorized representative.
Debian (not Linux) ne
@SUBJECT:Re: Debian (not Linux) newbie N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: use multi-volume backups as I do them off-line anyway. I just define my backup volumes such that they will fit on one 170 MB tape. That holds /etc, /home and /usr/local, which is all I need. My /home and /usr/local are two of the places which have exceeded the limits of a single tape. Guess I have to come up with another way then. One alternative is a commercial program such as BRU. I've heard it is a good program, but I have no experience with it. Thanks anyway for the reply, Dirk. Bob ... * ATP/Linux 1.42 * Linux, the choice of a GNU generation.
where's man ??
I just installed Debian 1.1 and I logged on as root. First thing I notice, there are no editors installed. Not one. You would think this would be a required thing... another thing... 'man' doesn't seem to exist! Logged in as root, typing 'man man' gives command not found -- and it's not in /usr/bin. what gives?? Thanks, Chris. === Chris R. Martin email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Version 2.0
Bruce Perens wrote: However, you will be able to download a package from our FTP site and upgrade your system to 2.0.20 . Installing a package takes a one-line shell command. So, when will the kernel-package appear on the CD-ROM distributions? I had to recompile the kernel before I could get net access, and I needed net access before I could (properly) rebuild the kernel. My problem was that the NE2000 module would crash the system when I tried to load it. For some reason, it has to be compiled into the kernel. -- +---+ . | Technical Support Engineer, Cyclades Corporation | | 800/88-CYCLADES (882-9252) or (510)770-9727, x258 | | Maker of High Performance Multiport Serial Cards | +---+
Re: HELP: Probs configuring X
Paul Christenson [N3EOP] wrote: [forwarded by request] --- Subject: Re: HELP: Probs configuring X Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 20:55:44 -0400 From: Susan G. Kleinmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Paul Christenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Paul Christenson wrote: Justin Stodola wrote: Ok, X works ok, with one annoying problem: Down the left hand side of the screen is a fairly narrow(~.25 inch) band of increased intensity that makes anything that fall within it unreadable. This occurs in all video modes with resolutions higher than 640x480. Anyone have any suggestions? Most likely, that bright band is caused by retrace, which is from the electron beam coming on too soon. A few minor adjustments in the XF86Config file will take care of that. There's a good document on making these adjustments. On a Slackware system, it's /var/X11R6/lib/doc/VideoModes.doc; don't know where it hides on a Debian system. The document you mention is in /usr/doc/X11. Also, Justin, you might want to try xvidtune. This is an application that allows you to interactively adjust your X settings. As a last resort, you may want to fetch the most recent X11 S3 server from ftp.xfree86.org, and install it in /usr/local/bin, then edit your file /etc/X11/Xserver so that the first line is /usr/local/bin/your-new-server-file. Good luck, Susan Kleinmann Problem solved. xvidtune didn't help, but I downloaded the 3.1.2G S3 server, poped it in, an bingo... Thanks all.
Suck and innxmit
Hello, I would very much like to read my mail and news off-line. So I thought suck and inn would be good choice for that. Now I have tried to set up a news spool. What comes to the local news, everything is working fine. I can send articles to local groups and I can read them with all news readers. The problems arise when I wanted to get some real news from the real world. I'm using pppd to connect to ISP and there haven't been no problems with that. I've tried get news to my machine with suck and that is working all right. I get them the way I want to get them to a batchfile. I'm using suck news.server.com -dm /var/lib/suck -m batchfile That creates a batchfile which innxmit should feed to the news spool. Here's where the problems start. When a give command innxmit localhost batchfile all I get is this... ... Unknown reply to /var/lib/suck/153-155 -- 480 Transfer permission denied Unknown reply to /var/lib/suck/154-155 -- 480 Transfer permission denied Unknown reply to /var/lib/suck/155-155 -- 480 Transfer permission denied ... for every article I just get from my ISP's news server. What's the problem. Have I configured inn the way I can't feed news spool? Still I'm doing all I explained above as a root. I've tried to read the manuals but I haven't found what I do wrong. By the way, Debian 1.1 included a script called get-news.inn. Haven't get any more success by using it. Things stop working at exactly the same place. any kinds of suggestions are highly appreciated, regards, Tapio
Re: vgetty as answering machine
Martin Schulze wrote: : : Good evening folks, : : I know that vgetty is able to do this job, but I didn't find enough : information to configure this. MGETTY comes definitfly with enought and complete docs. Heiko -- email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp : A1 7D F6 7B 69 73 48 35 E1 DE 21 A7 A8 9A 77 92 finger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: where's man ??
Chris R. Martin: I just installed Debian 1.1 and I logged on as root. First thing I notice, there are no editors installed. Not one. You would think this would be a required thing... I assume you have installed just the base package. /bin/ae is part of the base package. another thing... 'man' doesn't seem to exist! man is not in the base package, because we try to keep it very, very small (but still functional). -- 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. pgpBJfiYpMSZs.pgp Description: PGP signature
Passive ftp with dselect?
Hi again! System is running fine, thank you! A question: Can I do ftp in passive mode with dselect ? It does not seem to rely on .netrc, so I can't give passive command there. I also tried dftp, but it seemed too complicated (did not read .dftprc etc). (I would like to update my machines both at home and work to newest Debian. Behind a firewall this is always a bit strange. The only thing that seems to work is to use ftp in passive mode.) Mikko http://www.helsinki.fi/~msuonio
Re: where's man ??
Hi Chris, Subject: where's man ?? Author: debian-user@lists.debian.org at cclink Date:18.09.96 09:11 I just installed Debian 1.1 and I logged on as root. First thing I notice, there are no editors installed. Not one. You would think this would be a required thing... another thing... 'man' doesn't seem to exist! Logged in as root, typing 'man man' gives command not found -- and it's not in /usr/bin. what gives?? - Try ae (anthony's editor). The vi clones, emacs as well as the others editors must be installed (type `dselect' or `dpkg -i your_favorite_package_name'. They are not in the base system that you got from the tree 1.44 base disks. - The same applies to man. You have to install the corresponding package. Regards, lazaro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
BETA: mutt 0.43
Good day folks, I'd like to invite all of you to take a look at the mutt-package. You'll find it on ftp.infodrom.north.de in /pub/people/joey/debian/beta. The mime.types file that is supportet by mutt seems to be incompatibel to the one that is installed in /etc. Here's the mutt syntax: # # sample mime.types file # # file extensioncontent type # -- psapplication/postscript gif image/gif jpg image/jpg jpeg image/jpg wav audio/wav auaudio/basic mpg video/mpg I would be very glad, if someone could fetch the code and modify it so support our mime.types file. I can't promise that I find the time going through it, so please folks... And mutt supports pgp - somehow... I don't know, yet.. Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only / / proved it correct, not tried it. -- Donald E. Knuth /
Re: Mouse
By default, X11 uses /dev/mouse, I think. So perhaps there is just a symlink /dev/mouse - /dev/ttyS0 missing. (Of course, you have to refer to the correct mouse device, /dev/ttyS0 is COM1, so if you have a bus mouse, you will have to change this to the appropriate device.) So doing something like this (as root) ln -sf /dev/mousexyz /dev/mouse will do the job. Cheers, Chris -- _,, Christian Schwarz / o \__ [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], ! ___; [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / \\\__/ !PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA \ / http://www.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/ -.-.,---,-,-..---,-,-.,.-.- DIE ENTE BLEIBT DRAUSSEN!
Re: XFree86 3.1.2F plans?
Even easier - I just downloaded the new 3.1.2F server, named it XF86_Mach64 (I think it already was..) and overwrote the old 3.1.2 debian server. Hey presto, no changes required. I'm new to debian/linux, but I think I'm right in saying that this file will now just be overwritten if I install a new debian Mach64 server. Ed On 17 Sep 1996, Mark Purcell wrote: Date: 17 Sep 96 14:49:47 GMT From: Mark Purcell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: XFree86 3.1.2F plans? Newsgroups: linux.debian.user Resent-Date: 17 Sep 1996 17:07:58 - Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Resent-cc: recipient.list.not.shown:; I had the same problem. My Mach64 chip is also new and wasn't recognized by the Debian Mach64 package. In my case the solution was simple, although it may not work in all cases. I installed the debian Mach64 Xserver (xserver-mach64.3.1.2-5.deb) and I then only downloaded the new 3.12G Xserver (XF86_Mach64) without any of the config files or supporting applications. I renamed the 3.12G server to XF86_Mach64.312G and placed it in the /usr/X11/bin/ directory with my other Xservers. When I edited the config file /etc/X11/Xserver to point to the new server everything worked like a charm. The beauty is that I haven't overwritten any of the debian controlled xserver files and have only added one additional file (/usr/X11/bin/XF86_Mach64.312G). Thus when the next debian release comes out I can upgrade without fear. Of course I am not totally sure of what mixing the binary with the debian config does, but it works and is giving me good results here. Mark David C. Winters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in article [EMAIL PROTECTED]... On Fri, 30 Aug 1996, Shawn Asmussen wrote: I agree. I would very much like to be running the F beta in its entirety, and with Debian I do not know how to go about doing that and being positive I am not breaking anything in the process. I realize that the owner of this package does not plan to release any of the beta versions as a Debian package while there is no source code, but I for one would VERY much appreciate some sort of instruction on what all is neccessary in order to take out the stock Debian XFree and replace it with one of the beta versions without breaking anything in the process. Okay. Here's how I got X 3.1.2[D|E|F] running. The background: The machines I was given to work with have Mach64 chipsets and the hardware appears to be so blasted _new_ I couldn't get the .deb X to work.
Re: where's man ??
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I just installed Debian 1.1 and I logged on as root. First thing I notice, there are no editors installed. Not one. You would think this would be a required thing... There is at least 'ae' installed and this is documented. At least i knew this after having read the installation instructions when i installed Debian 1.1.6 two weeks ago. This is a very easy to understand editor for the aspiring Debian Linux newbie and a complete limitation and annoyance for someone who would prefer a 'vi' variant which is not installed at all up to this point. But i remember to have been completely helpless in my first steps with Linux one and a half year ago when it came up to edit a file with 'vi' then... another thing... 'man' doesn't seem to exist! Logged in as root, typing 'man man' gives command not found -- and it's not in /usr/bin. Yes, that's true. At least some man pages are installed but without pager this is pretty useless. Well, one could read them with 'more' but... what gives?? In the end after installation? A fine Linux system! I have a smoothly running system now and i am very pleased because of the packaging system. Well, there are some hassles but then, why not? Nothing is perfect! Regards, 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: cp850 Comment: 'finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED]' for public key. iQCVAwUBMj/Grugqiw1XE3/lAQEZ4AQAuhZPJnr5w5ChsnMgw6wHUVMf32jA1KsL zNd5tbGeLnsxEx2ANyEJzm+SV1x9hP9v0grdSt/o6ugt9LvI98mMHZ7jeB6QiDI+ h/s4OHT53Wemj4jQ/TsAu1nZb4n8wSLdlLhGSLQ3BxTHMq6c9Ow0+8yI5XuaBxJi Ezzqhl17mT0= =jGFG -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Swap partition and fdisk
I have got 16MB of RAM on my machine. Could someone tell me if it would still be necessary for me to create a Linux swap partition. Also, would Linux fdisk wipe out my DOS partition even if I only want to create one Linux partition w/ Linux fdisk and not mess up w/ DOS partition using Linux fdisk. Thanks. A. R. ABID [EMAIL PROTECTED]
X11 Configuration of Elsa Winner 2000PRO/X-2
Hi! I wonder if someone has experiences configuring a Elsa Winner 2000PRO/X with 2 MB RAM under X11. The only mode working yet is 640x480, for all other modes I get a blank dark screen. BTW I'm using a Philips 21BA 21 autoscan monitor. I used the detailed timing data given in the Elsa WINman Utility under Windoze 3.1, but no result. Is it possible that the monitor isn't capable of catching the syncs? Volker M. Goebbels System Administrator, http://www.mc.rwth-aachen.de/~vmg/ Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, http://www.mc.rwth-aachen.de Rheno-Westfalian Technical University, Aachen, Germany Member of the HTML Writers Guild, http://www.hwg.org --- O for a muse of fire that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention! A kingdom for a stage, princes to act And monarchs to behold the swelling scene. [Shakespeare, Henry V] ---
(Solved): Re: recompiling kernel and ppp
Hi All, I'm replying to my own message since I got several responses and my problem is now solved. Unfortunately, the problem ( solution) turned out to be completely different. When I first came up with 2.0.0, I tested the modem with minicom before attempting PPP. No problem. After compiling the new kernel, I didn't test minicom. I compiled the kernel a dozen times, sometimes using modules, sometimes not, etc. I kept getting kernel doesn't support ppp. Well, while using 2.0.20, I decided to back up a step or 3 and try minicom. Device /dev/cua1 is busy. Ah ha! After some playing and investigating, it turns out that xringd (which I need for something else but I'm currently not using) is grabbing the modem and not sharing nicely. If I stop xringd, PPP works great first time, every time, my chat scripts, etc, everything was OK. I use xringd and kernel doesn't support ppp (probably not the most intuitive error message ;-). Once things calm down a bit I'll e-mail the author of xringd and see if this is a known problem. It might just be kernel specific, or I need to recompile it and didn't know. I don't need it for a while so I'm not sweating it yet. (I'm not including my original message, e-mail me with questions) thanks for all of the replies, -- kc Kevin Conover: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: where's man ??
On Tue, 17 Sep 1996, Chris R. Martin wrote: I just installed Debian 1.1 and I logged on as root. First thing I notice, there are no editors installed. Not one. You would think this would be a required thing... If you only installed the base system then the only editor availabe is AE (Andrews Editor). This was done because AE is small enough to fit on the base disks. another thing... 'man' doesn't seem to exist! Logged in as root, typing 'man man' gives command not found -- and it's not in /usr/bin. what gives?? The base system is only intended as a platform from which you can install other packages of interest. You will find man and man-pages are packages in the doc directory of the distribution. Hope this helps, Dwarf -- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 877-0257 Flexible Software Fax: NONE Black Creek Critters e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you don't see what you want, just ask --
Re: llseek error large partitions
Thanks for the info... I connected the disk to an existing system and it formatted 2.9 gb just fine. I was then able to move it back to the install system. Thanks again, Mike Bigus Also, I receive this message when past this point and writing the inode tables, 256/350 mkfs.ext2: Can't resolve symbol llseek Does anyone have any idea what is going on here? The install discs have a slimmed-down version of C library on them to allow the rest of the installation system to fit. In the process of slimming libc, bits have been missed out: it seems like llseek() is one of the functions that have been purged. Yes. Please could you file a bug against the installation discs virtual package? (I would do it myself, only I can't remember the exact name). No need to. This bug has been reported at least twice already: #3892: mkfs.ext2: can't resolve symbol 'llseek' Package: rootdisk; Reported by: Paul Traina [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 51 days old. #3451: Missing label 'llseek' in e2fsck - rootdisk Package: rootdisk; Reported by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 74 days old. Ray -- POPULATION EXPLOSION Unique in human experience, an event which happened yesterday but which everyone swears won't happen until tomorrow. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
