Re: scsi drive recognition problems

[Greg Norris]

I've seen reports on the aic7xxx and linux-kernel mailing lists about
device-negotiation error under the more recent versions of the driver.
Many of them sounded quite similar to what you've described.  You might
try creating a custom install-disk, using an older version of the driver...
you can find them at ftp://ftp.dialnet.net/pub/linux/aic7xxx/OLD/.

> I've been having problems when (re)installing the Debian distribution using
> the 2.0.8_1998-06-23 *14* installation disk images.
> 
> On two different systems, with two different Adaptec controllers (AHA-2940AU
> and AHA-7880), I have had major problems getting the rescue disk to recognize
> my second scsi drive.
> 
> I have not had this problem (at all) with the 2.0.6_1998-05-12 distribution
> disks.
> 
> At times, I have had to revert to using the 2.0.6_1998-05-12 set, rather than
> use the newer 2.0.8 set (it's only been recently - and even then, with 
> difficulty [I get timeout errors, if the second drive is recognized at all]) 
> to get both disks to be 'seen' by the installation media.
> 
> I am using one IBM DCAS-34330W, and one IBM DCAS-34330 (drives a and b in that
> order).
> 
> I don't know what the problem is, other than maybe a 'newer and better' 
> aic7xxx driver being used.  There are no errors generated when the second
> drive isn't found; only when it is, and then (sometimes) timeout errors.


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Bo pppd not support IPX?

[Tim Thomson]

Hi,

I've being trying to get a Win95 machine to dialin with a IPX connecting,
but adding the settings for IPX as per the man page, causes pppd to fail,
saying that the ipx settings are invalid.

I take it this means the pppd isn't compiled with IPX support, as ipx is
enables in the kernel.

Why not? Is it enabled in the hamm one?
I don't want to upgrade to hamm on this system yet, so I'll need to
download another pppd, where from?

Thanks,

Tim.

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Using YARD to create boot floppies?

[Gary L . Hennigan]

I'm trying to use YARD to create a boot/root floppy pair for
emergencies. The trouble is that I can't seem to get them to work and
I believe I'm missing something. The boot floppy works fine and
prompts me to insert the root floppy. That goes fine, i.e., it gets to
the login prompt. But at that point I'm stuck. The login "root", and
any login I try, yields the following message:

login[12]: invalid password for `UNKNOWN' on tty1

Where is the "UNKNOWN" coming from?

I've checked and double checked to /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files
before the root floppy is created and everything looks fine. I've also 
copied /etc/login.defs and modified the CONSOLE line to look like

CONSOLEconsole:tty1:tty2:tty3:tty4

with no success.

I suspect I'm missing some library necessary for /bin/login, or I'm
missing some security file somewhere.

Anyone have any ideas? Anyone ever used YARD before on a Debian
system? It wasn't packaged so I installed it from source.

Specifics: Debian 2.0 beta (everything is the latest available from
the "frozen" distribution).

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Re: Gnome gmc where?

[Edward Betts]

On Fri, 03 Jul, 1998, Kevin Atkinson wrote:
> Hi there.  After a wonderful discussion in debian-devel :) I decided to
> try out gnome.  However I can't seam to find the gmc package in the
> incoming or slink directory?
> 
> Does the package exist get?  And if so where

no, it does not, Jim Pick, thought he would leave it to the maintainer of
midnight commander to package, but on the last changelog of mc it said the
maintainer felt gmc to be too experimental to included. It is not a part of
debian :-(

get it and compile it yourself.

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"Like a lot of products that are free, you get a loyal following even
though it's small. I've never had a customer mention Linux to me" 
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Fwd: Re: installing, bad primary partition fatal error

[Avalon Rusk]

I thought I would follow up my own note so that someone else might
benefit from the answer I found.  (See below for question)
I found out that I had two partitions on my DOS harddisk.  The first
partition amounted to about 2 megs and was a non-DOS partition.  I have
no idea whatsoever how it got there.  Using DOS FDISK, I deleted this
partition and loadlin and floppy installs proceded as normal from there
on.
I hope this helps someone.
>
>
>What command did you use with loadlin?  It should be
>
>loadlin linux root=/dev/ram initrd=root.bin
>
>Try this and make sure that you get it right.
>
>The FATAL ERROR message is most likely caused by a bad floppy.  Linux 
is
>_very_ picky about floppies and you might need to make 5 or 6 before 
you
>get a good one.  No kidding.  For this reason the loadlin method is
>preferred.
>
>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
>Lindsay Allen   <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  Perth, Western Australia
>voice +61 8 9316 248632.0125S 115.8445Evk6lj  Debian Linux
>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
>
>On Fri, 3 Jul 1998, Avalon Rusk wrote:
>
>> I tried installing debian 1.3 after downloading it from the website.
>> I made a rescue floppy and attempted an install from DOS with loadlin
>> (1.6).  From loadlin, I got the following message during the install
>> process (but before configuring the monitor or keyboard):
>> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00
>> I was then able to boot back into DOS/Win95. (I have 8M ram and a 
285M
>> IDE hard drive.)  I then attempted to boot/install Linux from the
>> rescue disk.  The following error occured when I was adding 
partitions
>>  (after configuring monitor and keyboard):
>> I tried a few more times each way with the same results (FATAL ERROR
>> for rescue floppy and Kernel panic for loadlin).  Can someone please
>> help me figure out what to do?
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scsi drive recognition problems

[taren]

I've been having problems when (re)installing the Debian distribution using
the 2.0.8_1998-06-23 *14* installation disk images.

On two different systems, with two different Adaptec controllers (AHA-2940AU
and AHA-7880), I have had major problems getting the rescue disk to recognize
my second scsi drive.

I have not had this problem (at all) with the 2.0.6_1998-05-12 distribution
disks.

At times, I have had to revert to using the 2.0.6_1998-05-12 set, rather than
use the newer 2.0.8 set (it's only been recently - and even then, with 
difficulty [I get timeout errors, if the second drive is recognized at all]) 
to get both disks to be 'seen' by the installation media.

I am using one IBM DCAS-34330W, and one IBM DCAS-34330 (drives a and b in that
order).

I don't know what the problem is, other than maybe a 'newer and better' 
aic7xxx driver being used.  There are no errors generated when the second
drive isn't found; only when it is, and then (sometimes) timeout errors.

If anyone has any suggestions about how to 'fix' this, I'd appreciate it if
they'd let me know.

Thanks,

Richard Paynter
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Appletalk/AX.25/8530

[Tim Thomson]

Hi People,

I have a Digicard network card in my Linux box.
The Digicard network was designed for schools, and has a main server
box, and Macs, Apple IIs and PCs can all connect to it. It is very like
AppleTalk (you can use the same connectors from the cable to the Mac.)

The card in my Linux box uses a 85C30 to communicate with the network.
I'm wondering if I can set it up so that my Linux box can talk to the
network using Appletalk, so I can share stuff to my Mac.

I saw a driver for the 8530 chip, in the kernel source but it was designed
for an AX.25 (or AX.5, can't remember) network.

Could I still use this driver, and get the AppleTalk driver to talk to
that? Or could I somehow modify the existing 8530 driver to pretend to be
an Appletalk card?? (I'm not too good on C at the moment though )-:
What driver does the Appletalk driver expect to talk to?

Thanks for any help,

Tim.

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Re: svgatextmode fails with 2.1.108

[Joseph Carter]

On Sat, Jul 04, 1998 at 01:23:27PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I wouldn't worry too much about VGA-related stuff not working in
> 2.1.107 and 2.1.108. The VGA Console is completely broken in these two
> kernels. Shift-PgUp/PgDn does not work and God knows what else is
> broken. As far as I know a fix has not been provided yet, not even in
> the kernel mailing list.

The fbcon stuff broke the kernel when it was merged.  They'll hash it out in
a few releases.  The good news is that when they do GGI will be able to run
without recompiling a kernel for it.  In theory.


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Re: Linux/WinNT dual booting (an idea...)

[Martin Bialasinski]

>> "B" == Brederlow  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

B> The Suse handbook descibes nicely how to set up Linux to appear in the 
B> NT boot loader. That way one has only one prompt.

They have a nice supportdatabase. The NT-Loader entry is
http://www.suse.de/support-db/sdb_e/nt.html 

Ciao,
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Re: slrnpull + trn?

[Pann McCuaig]

On Sat, Jul 04, 1998 at 09:03:21AM -0300, Trevor Barrie wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Jul 1998, Johann Spies wrote:
> 
>> I use slrn --spool.  I can't remember the details, but I know at first I
>> had a lot of trouble to get it to work.  If I remember correctly, I, as
>> root, deleted the /var/news/ directory because of trouble getting the
>> correct permissions.  Thereafter the slrnpull created the directory with
>> the correct permissions.
> 
> Could you summarize what the correct permissions are? I'd rather not
> have to redownload what I've got now if I can help it.

Here are the permissions in my working setup. I think I had problems
with article storage permissions way back when.

$ ls -l /var/spool/slrnpull/
drwxr-xr-x   2 news news 1024 Jul  4 11:56 data
-rw---   1 root news  1899351 Jul  4 11:56 log
drwxr-xr-x  13 news news 1024 Apr 28 14:05 news
drwxrwxrwx   3 news news 1024 Jun 20 11:05 out.going
-rw-r--r--   1 news news 1854 May 22 09:26 slrnpull.conf

$ ls -l /var/spool/slrnpull/news/
drwxr-xr-x   3 root pann 1024 Mar 22 08:55 agora
drwxr-xr-x   3 root pann 1024 Mar 22 08:55 aol
drwxr-xr-x   4 root pann 1024 May 22 07:50 linux
drwxr-xr-x   3 root pann 1024 Mar 22 08:55 nevada
drwxr-xr-x   4 root pann 1024 Mar 22 08:55 or
drwxr-xr-x   4 news news 1024 Mar 22 08:55 orst
drwxr-xr-x   3 root pann 1024 Apr 28 14:05 pdaxs
drwxr-xr-x   4 root pann 1024 Mar 22 08:55 pdx
drwxr-xr-x   4 root pann 1024 Mar 22 08:55 pnw
drwxr-xr-x   3 root pann 1024 Mar 22 08:55 portland
drwxr-xr-x   3 root pann 1024 Mar 22 08:55 seattle

$ ls -l /var/spool/slrnpull/news/pdx/
drwxr-xr-x   2 root pann12288 Jul  4 11:55 forsale
drwxr-xr-x   2 root pann 9216 Jul  4 06:58 singles


I also had to put this umask line in my ip-up script to get things
going, as I recall.
. . .
# last line
umask 022
# begin: SLRNPULL_WITH_PPP (automatically added by slrnconfig)
source /etc/slrnget.conf
if [ "$USE_SLRNPULL" = "y" -a "$SLRNPULL_WITH_PPP" = "y" ] ; then slrnpull -h 
`cat /etc/news/server` >/dev/null; fi

# end: SLRNPULL_WITH_PPP


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Re: Stopping and restarting mgetty.

[Martin Bialasinski]

>> "S" == Shaul  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

S> I have the following line in /etc/inittab:
S> S1:23:respawn:/sbin/mgetty ttyS1

S> How can I stop it whenever I need to, do something (like changing some 
S> parameter) and restart it again ?

Change the config, then kill the mgetty prozess. init will respawn it
automaticly.

Ciao,
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Re: Powerpoint equiv. for Linux?

[Shaul]

> I downloaded and installed Star Office 4.0.  I haven't had much opportunity 
> to 
> study it, but I did find out that it will not load PowerPoint (*.ppt) files.  
> I also checked on word processor files.  WinWord 6.0 and 95 are supported, 
> though the files should not have been saved with the "Fast Save" option. I 
> have received a number of files which I suspect are WinWord 97 for which I 
> got 
> the message "no filter available". Also, WordPerfect files are not recognized.
> 
> In summary, Star Office 4.0 looks like a nice office package, but its 
> interoperability isn't super.
>

As was disscussed not long ago on this list, you can try to verify if it is 
indeed a WinWord 97 documents by using the strings command.
For a word 6 Document I got

$ strings /MS/winword/Document/openu/20417_15.doc | grep Word
Microsoft Word 6.0 Document
MSWordDoc
Word.Document.6
Microsoft Word 6.0
Microsoft Word 6.0
Microsoft Word 6.0
$  

> The Web site lists Star Office 5.0 features which include filters for Word 
> 97, 
> AmiPro, WordPro, WordPerfect, PowerPoint97, Excel 97, etc., etc.   Looks like 
> a nice product but I couldn't tell if it is available yet and how much it 
> costs.

By the way, does someone knows if, and to waht level, does Star Office 
supports multiple languages ? I am particulary interested in Hebrew, which 
ofcourse needs its special fonts, but even more problematic then that is the 
fact that it is written from right to left. (I think that Arabic is also 
written from right to left.) What other languages, if any, are written this 
way ?




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Re: using mail on a debian system (betwin users)

[Shaul]

$ mail -s test rami < /dev/null  
Null message body; hope that's ok

would sent the user rami a mail with the subject test and with null message 
body.




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Stopping and restarting mgetty.

[Shaul]

I have the following line in /etc/inittab:

S1:23:respawn:/sbin/mgetty ttyS1

How can I stop it whenever I need to, do something (like changing some 
parameter) and restart it again ?


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Re: Can't Copy 161 MB

[Ed Cogburn]

Brederlow wrote:
> 
> Dennis Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > What I need to do is change one of my Debian (version 1.3) partitions into 2
> > separate partitions.  There is presently 161 MB of files in hda6 (the
> > partition I want to subdivide) and on my Windows half of the computer in
> > Drive D: (hda5) I have 190MB of free space.
> 
> Normaly the easiest way (after cleaning up the mess you have :) to
> copy the stuff would be "mc". Its located in utils and a very handy
> tool immitating the Norton Commander.
> 
> Since you want to copy stuff to your MSDos Partition temporary, I
> suggest to use tar. That way you won't lose the ownership and
> permissions of your files.
> 


I second what Brederlow said Dennis.  MC has an option on its default
user menu that can build a tar.gz file of the current directory.  Use
that option to build the tar file, then copy it to your Dos partition. 
MC will probably show an error saying it can't change the owner of the
file after copying it to the Dos partition.   I get it all the time;
don't worry about it.  Since DOS/Win doesn't have multiple users the
change owner function will always fail. (you could compare the tarfiles
with diff if you want to be sure the copy to DOS worked).


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Re: Netscape install problems .. please help ???

[Ed Cogburn]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> > seems we have a problem here ... it relieves me from feeling totally
> > dumb. Anyone could suggest the SAFE way of setting things up for the
> > COLOUR Netscape ??? Thanks.
> 
> >> Now I have
> >> running Netscape but it is black and white, and I don't know what to do 
> >> *sigh*.
> 
> This wouldn't be the 24bpp bug? Netscape in 24bpp gets black/white
> icons... Switch X to 16 or 32 bpp and see if that works better...
> 
> /Michael


Michael's right.  Well I'll be... I just tried all 8,16,24, and 32 bpp
and in 24 bpp mode NS comes up in black & white.  Never knew about that
bug cause I never used 24bpp.  Its not you Christopher, blame it on NS!


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Re: Can't Copy 161 MB

[Brederlow]

Dennis Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> What I need to do is change one of my Debian (version 1.3) partitions into 2
> separate partitions.  There is presently 161 MB of files in hda6 (the
> partition I want to subdivide) and on my Windows half of the computer in
> Drive D: (hda5) I have 190MB of free space.

Normaly the easiest way (after cleaning up the mess you have :) to
copy the stuff would be "mc". Its located in utils and a very handy
tool immitating the Norton Commander.

Since you want to copy stuff to your MSDos Partition temporary, I
suggest to use tar. That way you won't lose the ownership and
permissions of your files.

May the Source be with you.
Mrvn


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Re: Linux/WinNT dual booting (an idea...)

[Brederlow]

Dennis Dai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> My experience is: install NT first, then install Linux, run LILO to
> modify MBR (add a dos option as usual). After reboot, I got LILO prompt
> first. If I select dos, NT boot loader came up, there you can select NT
> or win95. This is quite different from what has been described in those
> mini HOWTOs. So I suspect that although MS claim to modify MBR, but in
> fact they just modify the boot sector of the active partition. Correct
> me if I'm wrong 'cause I'm not the expert.
> 
> Note: my first partition on first HD is a DOS (vfat) partion. I use it
> to hold those ntldr, boot.ini, ntdetect.com etc.
> 
> Dennis

The Suse handbook descibes nicely how to set up Linux to appear in the 
NT boot loader. That way one has only one prompt.

I don't have a handbook here, so it might be a good idea to look for
some suse user on irc.

May the Source be with you.
Mrvn


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Driver bug? 56k USR doesn't transmit properly?

[kaynjay]

Got my PPP connection up and running with a USR 56k modem.  The modem WILL
connect through "regular" dialup (33.6).  Problem is that it doesn't
transmit properly when connected with the provider's X2 modem.  It DOES work
under OS/2. Init string's same.  Login procedure is simple (no PAP or CHAP,
just id and pswd).  Login's the same for both numbers (the 33.6 and X2
dialups).  

I get an "Invalid login" when my user ID is entered at the initial prompt. 
My ID begins with a lowercase "i" followed by a number.  Eg.  i123456

Could this be a problem with the serial driver??  Their tech support
mentioned the server being Unix or Unix-based (Linux/BSD?).

Kenward Vaughan
"nearly up and running under Linux ... "
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Re: Problem with installing Debian

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I had a similar problem trying to install Debian 2.0 on my machine at 
work.  Many Maxtor hard drives come with their own BIOS program that 
takes control of the computer away from the ROM BIOS.  This is done 
mainly to allow older BIOS's to see the full capacity of larger hard 
drives, but it may be interfering with debian's installation.  If you 
have this BIOS program installed, you might want to try removing it 
before installing debian.

Good Luck -
Steve

> Howdy,
> 
> I just downloaded the floppy version of Debian from
> ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/stable/disks-i386/current/ and I am
> attempting a default install on a new machine.
> 
> My hardware configuration:
> 
> PCI MB 486-dx2/80 with 32 megs of RAM.
> Maxtor 7540AV Cylinders:1046 Heads:16 Sectors:63 Size:515
> PCI controller is on the motherboard.
> UMC880 chipset (41-P301-0011-072594-UMC880-H)
> AMIBIOS (American Megatrends 1994) for 486 PCI Green_PC
> Trident VGA C4.0(02)
> 
> I have setup a 20 meg primary DOS partition on the machine to put DOS
> 6.20 and MS's CDROM extensions to verify that the hardware operates
> normally. Everything seems to be okay. The other ~500 megs on the drive
> are unpartitioned.
> 
> 
> 
> Here is a sorta complete list of what I see when I attempt the install:
> 
> (The boot intro screen, left most of it out.)
> 
> This floppy uses Linux 2.0.29 (from kernel-image-2.0.29_2.0.29-7)
> boot:
> 
> (I hit enter at this point.)
> 
> Loading root.bin...
> Loading linux...
> Uncompressing Linux
> Now booting the kernel
> 
> ... (all kinds of signals from the Zeta
> Reticuli:http://www.boblazar.com)
> 
> (only stuff left on screen when it hangs)
> loop: registered device at major 7
> hda: Maxtor 7540 AV, 515MB w/32kB Cache, LBA, CHS=1046/16/63
> hdb: CRD-8320B, ATAPI CDROM drive
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
> Started kswapd v 1.4.2.2
> FDC 0 is an 8272A
> md driver 0.35 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
> Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card!
> PPA: unable to initialise controller at 0x378, error 2
> scsi : 0 hosts.
> scsi : detected total.
> Partition check:
>  hda: hda1
> RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
> VFS: Mounted root (minix filesystem).
> mounting /proc
>   done.
> sbin/dinstall: sed: error 14
> Bus error
> Bus error
> Bus error
> Bus error
> Segmentation fault
> 
> and then it hangs there.
> 
> On the Alt-F3 console, I see:
> Executing pid 458 exited, status=b.
> Executing pid 459 exited, status=b.
> ... (and so on)
> Executing pid 481 exited, status=b.
> Executing 
> 
> 
> I am assuming that the kernel is hanging trying to autoprobe the PCI
> stuff to see the Maxtor. Is that true? Where could I begin investigating
> the problem? What docs should I be reading at this point? Is there some
> boot parameters I can enter at the boot prompt that might get the kernel
> past this point?
> 
> Thanks,
> John Hebert
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
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Re: X11 fonts not installed??

[Ed Cogburn]

Evan Van Dyke wrote:
> 
> After installing all of the X11 packages(through dselect) on
> Debian 2.0, I've run into problems.  when I try to run XF86Setup,
> It says that it can't find /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/6x13.pc*
> So I ran xf86config...  then when I ran startx, it can't find
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fixed  when I ls the directory,
> I find that, in fact, there are no fonts in it...  but according
> to dselect all of the X11 stuff in installed... as well as all of the files
> they depend on?  What's going on here?
> 
> --Evan


If there are no files in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc then install or
reinstall the xfntbase package.  This has the necessary fonts for /misc.


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Problem with installing Debian

[John Alex Hebert]

Howdy,

I just downloaded the floppy version of Debian from
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/stable/disks-i386/current/ and I am
attempting a default install on a new machine.

My hardware configuration:

PCI MB 486-dx2/80 with 32 megs of RAM.
Maxtor 7540AV Cylinders:1046 Heads:16 Sectors:63 Size:515
PCI controller is on the motherboard.
UMC880 chipset (41-P301-0011-072594-UMC880-H)
AMIBIOS (American Megatrends 1994) for 486 PCI Green_PC
Trident VGA C4.0(02)

I have setup a 20 meg primary DOS partition on the machine to put DOS
6.20 and MS's CDROM extensions to verify that the hardware operates
normally. Everything seems to be okay. The other ~500 megs on the drive
are unpartitioned.



Here is a sorta complete list of what I see when I attempt the install:

(The boot intro screen, left most of it out.)

This floppy uses Linux 2.0.29 (from kernel-image-2.0.29_2.0.29-7)
boot:

(I hit enter at this point.)

Loading root.bin...
Loading linux...
Uncompressing Linux
Now booting the kernel

... (all kinds of signals from the Zeta
Reticuli:http://www.boblazar.com)

(only stuff left on screen when it hangs)
loop: registered device at major 7
hda: Maxtor 7540 AV, 515MB w/32kB Cache, LBA, CHS=1046/16/63
hdb: CRD-8320B, ATAPI CDROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
Started kswapd v 1.4.2.2
FDC 0 is an 8272A
md driver 0.35 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card!
PPA: unable to initialise controller at 0x378, error 2
scsi : 0 hosts.
scsi : detected total.
Partition check:
 hda: hda1
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (minix filesystem).
mounting /proc
done.
sbin/dinstall: sed: error 14
Bus error
Bus error
Bus error
Bus error
Segmentation fault

and then it hangs there.

On the Alt-F3 console, I see:
Executing pid 458 exited, status=b.
Executing pid 459 exited, status=b.
... (and so on)
Executing pid 481 exited, status=b.
Executing 


I am assuming that the kernel is hanging trying to autoprobe the PCI
stuff to see the Maxtor. Is that true? Where could I begin investigating
the problem? What docs should I be reading at this point? Is there some
boot parameters I can enter at the boot prompt that might get the kernel
past this point?

Thanks,
John Hebert
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Re: slrnpull + trn?

[Trevor Barrie]

On Fri, 3 Jul 1998, Johann Spies wrote:

> I use slrn --spool.  I can't remember the details, but I know at first I
> had a lot of trouble to get it to work.  If I remember correctly, I, as
> root, deleted the /var/news/ directory because of trouble getting the
> correct permissions.  Thereafter the slrnpull created the directory with
> the correct permissions.

Could you summarize what the correct permissions are? I'd rather not
have to redownload what I've got now if I can help it.


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Re: Diald connect script for chap

[Joerg Friedrich]

On Fri, 3 Jul 1998, Randy Edwards wrote:

> I recently switched ISPs to one that uses NT and its chap.  Using the
> pppconfig package I have my system working so that it works fine with
> "pon".

I think you're using hamm.

if you look in /etc/ppp/peers you'll find the ppp-options generated by
pppconfig. There is a line 'user '

diald does not read any file in /etc/ppp/peers. Just add 'user  to /etc/ppp/options and everything should work

 
> However, I want to get diald working.  Unfortunately, I can't for the
> life of me create a diald "connect" script that works properly in this
> setup.
> 
> Would anyone have a working equivalent of /etc/diald/connect -- the
> script that diald.options calls in its "connect" parameter -- that
> works with a chap login sequence?  If so, could I get a copy of it?
> Thanks in advance.
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Re: serial troubles

[Chea Prince]

>   I remember some PCI errors showing up during boot with older kernels
> that were eliminated in later kernel versions(2.0.32+ ?), but, of
> course, I can't tell whether this applies to your situation.

yep.  upgrading removed (PCI-related) warnings during boot and now
XF86Config, e.g., recognizes the diamond s3-virge which it wasn't doing
before

> What exacly does 'can't initialize the modem' mean?  

the ppp-on-dialer script was unable to pass the 'AT' command to the modem.
there was txd/rxd activity but the modem was not receiving the command.

> I had a file
> permission problem with the /etc/chatscript/provider script that caused
> pppd to freeze when it tried to use the chatscript.  What does the end
> of the ppp.log look like?  Use plog to see this.

the string being passed by the script (which i borrowed from the PPP-HOWTO
included a /r -- '/rAT' -- the modem in the 486 had no problem with the
return.  but, both the gdc and the us robotics (on the pentium)
did. i removed the 'r' and...  voila.  funny.  had ruled out the script
because it "worked" and had been "tested."  duh. 

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pon and permissions

[Pann McCuaig]

> I've got hamm installed, and can use 'pon' to start ppp to hook up to
> the net okay as root, but for the regular user account I made during
> install I can not because I get 'permission denied' errors. I know
> this has to do with permissions, so what do I change and how? I've
> looked for a 'permissions faq' or 'HOWTO' and they don't exist and
> I checked out the Debian Linux User's Guide and they don't really
> explain permissions and what they are all about, just the syntax for
> the commands. I know I can make something '--?--??---' with 'chmod
> ??0', but I have no idea what the '--?---' means. If you guys
> could tell me which ppp related files need to be set to what, and
> point me to a good document that explains permissions nicely for
> newbies, I would much appreciate it. I'm s sick of AOL.

There are two steps:

If you are user pann (I'm sure you're not, but I am), as root,

adduser pann dip

Also as root

chown root.dip /etc/chatscripts/

The first step is a normal procedure, the second is owing to a bug in
earlier versions of the ppp package for hamm, which is now fixed.

Luck,
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Re: Deselect

[servis]

*-Christopher Barry ( 4 Jul)
| Type 'dselect' at the prompt.
| 
| Jonathan Bruce wrote:
| 
| >  How do I run deselect after installing Linux?
| 
| 

Also, you might want to read the Dselect Beginners guide:

ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/bo/main/disks-i386/current/dselect.beginner.8.html

or

ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/hamm/main/disks-i386/current/dselect.beginner.html

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Re: xcontrib problem

[David Flethcer]

On Fri, 03 Jul 1998, Kevin Atkinson wrote:
>I just ran apt-get to upgrade fully upgrade to hamm and everthing worked
>fine except
>that I got this on xcontrib:
>
>Setting up xcontrib (3.3.1-2) ...
>chown: /usr/X11R6/bin/xload: No such file or directory
>dpkg: error processing xcontrib (--install):
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
>Errors were encountered while processing:
> xcontrib
>
>Is this a bug? Or is something set up wrong?
>
>If you want more info on my system just ask/
>
>Thanks, Kevin.


I get the same problem.  I eagerly wait the responses to this.

David  (unlurking)

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Re: svgatextmode fails with 2.1.108

[peloy]

Hi,

I wouldn't worry too much about VGA-related stuff not working in
2.1.107 and 2.1.108. The VGA Console is completely broken in these two
kernels. Shift-PgUp/PgDn does not work and God knows what else is
broken. As far as I know a fix has not been provided yet, not even in
the kernel mailing list.

E.-

Lindsay Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have been using 116x34x9 for many moons now, but after changing from
> 2.1.106 to 2.1.108 my screen is steps and stairs.  It all comes good if I
> revert to 80x25.
> 
> Using hamm and svgatextmode_1.8-5.2.deb.
> 
> Can anyone point me in the right direction to get this fixed?
> 

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Re: installing, bad primary partition fatal error

[Lindsay Allen]

What command did you use with loadlin?  It should be

loadlin linux root=/dev/ram initrd=root.bin

Try this and make sure that you get it right.

The FATAL ERROR message is most likely caused by a bad floppy.  Linux is
_very_ picky about floppies and you might need to make 5 or 6 before you
get a good one.  No kidding.  For this reason the loadlin method is
preferred.

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On Fri, 3 Jul 1998, Avalon Rusk wrote:

> I tried installing debian 1.3 after downloading it from the website.
> I made a rescue floppy and attempted an install from DOS with loadlin
> (1.6).  From loadlin, I got the following message during the install
> process (but before configuring the monitor or keyboard):
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00
> I was then able to boot back into DOS/Win95. (I have 8M ram and a 285M
> IDE hard drive.)  I then attempted to boot/install Linux from the
> rescue disk.  The following error occured when I was adding partitions
>  (after configuring monitor and keyboard):
> I tried a few more times each way with the same results (FATAL ERROR
> for rescue floppy and Kernel panic for loadlin).  Can someone please
> help me figure out what to do?
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changing kernel - network problems !

[kriol]

Hi, All

i've recompiled and put new kernel (2.0.34) on my computer,
running Hamm 2.0 Beta. Now looks like i have network problem,
namely, from syslog

Jul  4 18:57:08 stas inetd[176]: smtp/tcp: bind: Permission denied
Jul  4 18:57:08 stas inetd[176]: auth/tcp: bind: Permission denied
Jul  4 18:57:08 stas inetd[176]: finger/tcp: bind: Permission denied
Jul  4 18:57:08 stas inetd[176]: talk/udp: bind: Permission denied
Jul  4 18:57:08 stas inetd[176]: ntalk/udp: bind: Permission denied
Jul  4 18:57:08 stas inetd[176]: exec/tcp: bind: Permission denied
Jul  4 18:57:08 stas inetd[176]: login/tcp: bind: Permission denied
Jul  4 18:57:08 stas inetd[176]: shell/tcp: bind: Permission denied
Jul  4 18:57:08 stas inetd[176]: telnet/tcp: bind: Permission denied
Jul  4 18:57:08 stas inetd[176]: ftp/tcp: bind: Permission denied
Jul  4 18:57:08 stas inetd[176]: time/udp: bind: Permission denied
Jul  4 18:57:08 stas inetd[176]: time/tcp: bind: Permission denied
Jul  4 18:57:08 stas inetd[176]: daytime/udp: bind: Permission denied
Jul  4 18:57:08 stas inetd[176]: daytime/tcp: bind: Permission denied
Jul  4 18:57:08 stas inetd[176]: discard/udp: bind: Permission denied
Jul  4 18:57:08 stas inetd[176]: discard/tcp: bind: Permission denied

telnet works, but it seems there are problems with netscape.
What i did wrong? Kernel is recompiled using kernel-package stuff

thanks

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.emacs configuration question

[Ionut Borcoman at debian]

Hi,

Sometime ago somebody gave me some tips about how to do keybindings in
emacs. They were for latex. Here they are (from my .emacs):

(defvar TeX-command-list 
  (list
   (list "LaTeX" "latex %t" 
 'TeX-run-LaTeX nil t) 
   (list "View" "xdvi %d" 
 'TeX-run-command nil t)
   (list "dviPS" "dvips %d -o %f" 
 'TeX-run-command nil t) 
   (list "GV" "gv %f" 
 'TeX-run-command nil t) 
   )
  )

(global-set-key [(control f5)] 
(lambda ()
  (interactive)
  (TeX-command "LaTeX" 'TeX-master-file)))
(global-set-key [(control f9)] 
(lambda ()
  (interactive)
  (TeX-command "View" 'TeX-master-file)))

As it can be seen, the f5 and f9 are global. I would like to have them
only in TeX/LaTeX modes.

Another thing is the compile command. I have binded it to C-f8:

(global-set-key [(control f8)] 'compile)

The problem is that, when I hit C-f8, I am always questioned if I want
to do "make -k", or whatever was the last command entered for compile. I
would like to have this behaviour  (without any prompting) for C/C++
mode:

f9  ->  "make"
C-f9->  "make run"

Makeing the right changes in my Makefile, this will let me compile the
files with f9 and run them with C-f9. 

TIA,

Ionutz


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pon/mlddcs

[meridian]

Was wondering if there was still the mlddcs package around, and if there is
a good howto somewhere on setting up pon with mldcc. Thanks

meridian


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svgatextmode fails with 2.1.108

[Lindsay Allen]

Hi,

I have been using 116x34x9 for many moons now, but after changing from
2.1.106 to 2.1.108 my screen is steps and stairs.  It all comes good if I
revert to 80x25.

Using hamm and svgatextmode_1.8-5.2.deb.

Can anyone point me in the right direction to get this fixed?

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Re: [I98turboRI@aol.com: Newbie permissions question.]

[Martin Bialasinski]

>> "e" == ej  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

e> for the permissions, type 'man chmod' to read all about them.

http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/DOS-Win-to-Linux-HOWTO.html
http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/LDP/gs/node5.html#SECTION00510

have also some introducery words about permissions.

Ciao,
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Re: Lapack question

[Ionut Borcoman at debian]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I use the cfortran header file from this location
> ftp://zebra.desy.de/cfortan
> to build prototypes for BLAS and Lapack functions.
I've finally understood how to make the headers. Now I can make them by
myself.

> I> A more general question: is there a way to find out what
> I> functions are in a lib and what argumenst do they need ?
> 
> bash$ nm {libfilename}

Any whay to find out the arguments the functions from a lib require ?
The nm seems to output just the names of the functions.

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Re: Deselect

[Christopher Barry]

Type 'dselect' at the prompt.

Jonathan Bruce wrote:

>  How do I run deselect after installing Linux?




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Re: [Debian]: gimp: lib fehlt mir

[Martin Bialasinski]

>> "GWK" == G W Kugler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

GWK> wenn ich "gimp" aufrufe, erhalte ich: "can't load library 'libXm.so.2'.

libXm.so.2 ist glaube ich die Motif Library. Du hast wohl noch ein gimp,
das dynamisch gegen Motif gelinkt wurde. Entweder installierst du
gimp-smotif (die statisch gelinkte Version), oder du kannst dir gimp 1.0
für Debian 1.3.1 von
ftp://ietpd1.sowi.uni-mainz.de/pub/debian/unofficial/source/ holen. Du
solltest dann das .gimp Verzeichnis in deinem home löschen.

Ciao,
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Re: netscape 4.05

[Martin Bialasinski]

>> "KYL" == K Y Lo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

KYL> I had installed Netscape 4.05 and setting up things but I cant running
KYL> netscape to excute itself. it looks nothing

KYL> How do user run the netscape to execute? 

Install netscape using the debian installer (netscape4.deb), then just
type netscape at the xterm for a test. 

If you get back to the prompt. Press return to see if there are messages
"hiding" under the prompt.

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Re: Kernel compiling on Debian

[Martin Bialasinski]

>> "RA" == Robert Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

RA> One thing that works flawlessly is installing the source package and
RA> then using the make-kpkg command from the kernel-package package.

RA> The same source tree used with the usual make menuconfig;make dep;make
RA> all;make install does not work 

You maybe need to "make clean".

RA> What is the cleanest way to experiment with "unstable" kernels which are
RA> not yet packaged (ex. 2.1.xxx) ??? Just unpack them in the
RA> /usr/src/linux and use the make-kpkg trick on them and fiddle with my
RA> lilo.conf to have both old and new kernels to boot ??

I have never done this, but I think this is right (make a bootfloppy, just 
for the worst case though :-). make-kpkg (or is it lilo) will automaticaly 
have entries for the two most recent kernels you build in the standard
config, IIRC.

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Deselect

[Jonathan Bruce]

How do I run deselect after installing 
Linux?

Re: [I98turboRI@aol.com: Newbie permissions question.]

[ej]

All you should have to do is add yourself to group dip.  Login as root (or
su) and use 'usermod -G dip username'.  That should do it, you can check
what groups you are in by logging in as yourself and typing 'groups'.  As
for the permissions, type 'man chmod' to read all about them.

 _  _ 
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|  _|  | |
| |___ | |
|__/ |
 |__/ 

On Sat, 4 Jul 1998, Martin Schulze wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> 
> I've got hamm installed, and can use 'pon' to start ppp to hook up to the net
> okay as root, but for the regular user account I made during install I can not
> because I get 'permission denied' errors. I know this has to do with
> permissions, so what do I change and how? I've looked for a 'permissions faq'
> or 'HOWTO' and they don't exist and I checked out the Debian Linux User's
> Guide and they don't really explain permissions and what they are all about,
> just the syntax for the commands. I know I can make something '--?--??---'
> with 'chmod ??0', but I have no idea what the '--?---' means. If you guys
> could tell me which ppp related files need to be set to what, and point me to
> a good document that explains permissions nicely for newbies, I would much
> appreciate it. I'm s sick of AOL.


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Re: CAP and linux

[Chris]

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On Sat, 4 Jul 1998, Ossama Othman wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Try the netatalk package instead of CAP.  I've been using it for over a
> month now and haven't had any problems.  You will need to enable support
> Appletalk DDP in the kernel or as a module.
> 
> -Ossama
> 

I should clarify that I need to do authentication for printer accounting
purposes - something which netatalk does not appear to do.  Does anyone
know a better way of doing user authentication for printing from macs with
netatalk?


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[I98turboRI@aol.com: Newbie permissions question.]

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Hello everyone,

I've got hamm installed, and can use 'pon' to start ppp to hook up to the net
okay as root, but for the regular user account I made during install I can not
because I get 'permission denied' errors. I know this has to do with
permissions, so what do I change and how? I've looked for a 'permissions faq'
or 'HOWTO' and they don't exist and I checked out the Debian Linux User's
Guide and they don't really explain permissions and what they are all about,
just the syntax for the commands. I know I can make something '--?--??---'
with 'chmod ??0', but I have no idea what the '--?---' means. If you guys
could tell me which ppp related files need to be set to what, and point me to
a good document that explains permissions nicely for newbies, I would much
appreciate it. I'm s sick of AOL.

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Re: CAP and linux

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Sat, Jul 04, 1998 at 12:00:01AM -0400, Ossama Othman wrote:
> Try the netatalk package instead of CAP.  I've been using it for over a
> month now and haven't had any problems.  You will need to enable support
> Appletalk DDP in the kernel or as a module.

I've had a few problems. Once it appeared to die, and when I did
/etc/init.d/netatalk stop it couldn't unregister some items,
and /etc/init.d/netatalk start failed after that. I had to rmmod
appletalk and insert it again. Also the appletalk module gives
me "no dependency information" when I modprobe it in 2.0.34.

When it does run it works okay though. A bit slow but that is
Appletalk for you I gather.


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Re: Netscape install problems .. please help ???

[Robert Alexander]

FWIW The development netscape Ed suggested worked flawlessly colorful
for me.

Christopher Barry wrote:
> 
> I tried this, because when I did an archives search I found a small thread 
> that talked
> about this bug. Switching to 16 or 32 did not work for me. Is there *anyone* 
> that this
> actually worked for, specifically jumping from 24 to 32, because don't 24 and 
> 32 both
> support the same number of colors (2^24), and 32 just uses the 8 extra bits 
> for
> something else?
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> > > seems we have a problem here ... it relieves me from feeling totally
> > > dumb. Anyone could suggest the SAFE way of setting things up for the
> > > COLOUR Netscape ??? Thanks.
> >
> > >> Now I have
> > >> running Netscape but it is black and white, and I don't know what to do 
> > >> *sigh*.
> >
> > This wouldn't be the 24bpp bug? Netscape in 24bpp gets black/white
> > icons... Switch X to 16 or 32 bpp and see if that works better...
> >
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adding, changing, using true type fonts under X11

[Micha Feigin]

anyone knows how to add new fonts to X11 (in existing directories)
How to change fonts and default fonts
and how to use true type fonts / xfstt?



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xemacs - align right, writing left to right, changing fonts

[Micha Feigin]

I wan;t to use xemacs in order to write in hebrew, which requires to
write from right to left, alight the text to the right and also change
the font to an hebrew one. 
Is there a way to do this, and how is it done.
If the optin doesn't exist now and there is a way to write it then if
anyone can point me to information on how this is done.
Thanx



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Re: Netscape install problems .. please help ???

[Christopher Barry]

I tried this, because when I did an archives search I found a small thread that 
talked
about this bug. Switching to 16 or 32 did not work for me. Is there *anyone* 
that this
actually worked for, specifically jumping from 24 to 32, because don't 24 and 
32 both
support the same number of colors (2^24), and 32 just uses the 8 extra bits for
something else?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> > seems we have a problem here ... it relieves me from feeling totally
> > dumb. Anyone could suggest the SAFE way of setting things up for the
> > COLOUR Netscape ??? Thanks.
>
> >> Now I have
> >> running Netscape but it is black and white, and I don't know what to do 
> >> *sigh*.
>
> This wouldn't be the 24bpp bug? Netscape in 24bpp gets black/white
> icons... Switch X to 16 or 32 bpp and see if that works better...
>
> /Michael
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Re: CAP and linux

[Ossama Othman]

Hi,

Try the netatalk package instead of CAP.  I've been using it for over a
month now and haven't had any problems.  You will need to enable support
Appletalk DDP in the kernel or as a module.

-Ossama

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Re: modem setup problem - zoltrix 33600

[ironfoot]

> I am having trouble setting up this modem.
> I tried the normal settings on this modem, but they won't work.
> If i'm reading the output from plog correct then it gets stuck
> waiting for the login name.
> It does everything before that very slowly but i got it to dial.
> then i get a first line of 'welcome to ...' which is supposed to be 
> the welcoming line to the ISP.
> The next line says waiting fot sername: (looking for the line
> requesting user name input). And then it times out and leaves.
> Any idea's?

Just for the sake of argument, are you sure your ISP's name prompt
is 'sername:'?  I had something of the same problem until I used
minicom and manually dialed my ISP.  I found they were using the
'login:' style of prompt instead.  A change of my script fixed my
problem.


Mike


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xcontrib problem

[Kevin Atkinson]

I just ran apt-get to upgrade fully upgrade to hamm and everthing worked
fine except
that I got this on xcontrib:

Setting up xcontrib (3.3.1-2) ...
chown: /usr/X11R6/bin/xload: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing xcontrib (--install):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 xcontrib

Is this a bug? Or is something set up wrong?

If you want more info on my system just ask/

Thanks, Kevin.


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CAP and linux

[Chris]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-


CAP = Columbia Appletalk Package


Hi,

I was wondering if anyone out there has or is using cap for appletalk on
debian linux.  I am trying to set it up, but not having any luck.  What
would be really good is if someone had a debian package for CAP, or
configuration details that could help.

Thanks,

Chris





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Re: Can't connect to slashdot.org

[Adam Klein]

On Fri, Jul 03, 1998 at 12:56:04PM -0400, Shaleh wrote:
> HAHAHAHAHA
> 
> Ok, now that that is said.  slashdot.org's founder Rob Malda is in the
> process of moving.  And as we all know once you do not have time to work
> on something -- it breaks.  the DNS server has had problems the last few
> days.  It is functional now, but will more than likely be coming up and
> down.  And ummm, like, it is just a web site.

The thing is, I can connect to slashdot from va.

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Re: More Can't Copy 161MB

[Eric]

On Fri, 03 Jul 1998, Dennis Dixon wrote:
>I did in fact forget to put a destination in my cp command.
>
>After deleting the '/root/core' file, freeing up some space, I tried to:
>   'cp -a /usr/* /mnt/linuxfiles/'
>
>But I got a whole bunch of "operation not permitted" errors, so I aborted
>the process. Apparently, the dos side won't save my symlink files, etc.. Now
>my problem is to get rid of the remaining files I copied on to the D: drive.
>Windows won't recognize a lot of them.  So to delete all of them from the
>linux side requires many, many 'rm *', 'cd ..', 'rmdir *' commands.  This
>would be better handled with a script that did all these commands.  Is there
>a script or a command somewhere I could use to accomplish these nested deletes.

'rm -r' removes directories and all their files and subdirectories
recursively.

>
>I still haven't solved the original problem of how to repartition the 'hda6'
>partition.  Are my only options to install ftape and back up the files or to
>just reinstall from scratch?

You could go out and get Partition Magic.  It's an excellent program
for dealing with partitions which allows you to resize certain types
of partitions (such as fat and fat32).  It's the only program of its
kind that can resize, as far as I know.  With it, you could resize
your windows partition to be smaller and give the space to another
ext2 partition.

Eric.

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Gnome gmc where?

[Kevin Atkinson]

Hi there.  After a wonderful discussion in debian-devel :) I decided to
try out gnome.  However I can't seam to find the gmc package in the
incoming or slink directory?

Does the package exist get?  And if so where

Thanks,
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Re: More Can't Copy 161MB

[Evan Van Dyke]

At 05:26 PM 7/3/98 -0700, you wrote:
>I did in fact forget to put a destination in my cp command.
>
>After deleting the '/root/core' file, freeing up some space, I tried to:
>   'cp -a /usr/* /mnt/linuxfiles/'
>
>But I got a whole bunch of "operation not permitted" errors, so I aborted
>the process. Apparently, the dos side won't save my symlink files, etc.. Now
>my problem is to get rid of the remaining files I copied on to the D: drive.
>Windows won't recognize a lot of them.  So to delete all of them from the
>linux side requires many, many 'rm *', 'cd ..', 'rmdir *' commands.  This
>would be better handled with a script that did all these commands.  Is there
>a script or a command somewhere I could use to accomplish these nested
deletes.
>
>I still haven't solved the original problem of how to repartition the 'hda6'
>partition.  Are my only options to install ftape and back up the files or to
>just reinstall from scratch?

rm -fr  is what you're looking for.
It's the Linux equivalent of DOS's deltree.
Just be careful you don't kill something you want to keep.  It doesn't
ask for confirmation.

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More Can't Copy 161MB

[Dennis Dixon]

I did in fact forget to put a destination in my cp command.

After deleting the '/root/core' file, freeing up some space, I tried to:
   'cp -a /usr/* /mnt/linuxfiles/'

But I got a whole bunch of "operation not permitted" errors, so I aborted
the process. Apparently, the dos side won't save my symlink files, etc.. Now
my problem is to get rid of the remaining files I copied on to the D: drive.
Windows won't recognize a lot of them.  So to delete all of them from the
linux side requires many, many 'rm *', 'cd ..', 'rmdir *' commands.  This
would be better handled with a script that did all these commands.  Is there
a script or a command somewhere I could use to accomplish these nested deletes.

I still haven't solved the original problem of how to repartition the 'hda6'
partition.  Are my only options to install ftape and back up the files or to
just reinstall from scratch?

Thanks for any help. 
Dennis Dixon
P.O. Box 1896 
Fort Bragg, CA  95437

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Re: debian for public stations

[Lindsay Allen]

Seems to me that locking it down will be the big problem because the first
requirement of security is to prevent access to the box.  You might be
better off using the boxes as X-Window terminals with a server in the back
room.  There was discussion on this recently about making X-Window
terminals.


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On Fri, 3 Jul 1998, Rhyno Art wrote:

> I am new to the list and am investigating some options for configuring our
> publically accessible PCs.  Through various upgrades and other developments  
> we are also assembling a growing base of 486DX stations with 16 MB RAM. One 
> option we are exploring is to use debian on these units. Linux has
> smaller requirements than windows and might make it possible to get some
> additional mileage out of this equipment.
> 
> Has anyone put together a minimally configured and locked-down system with
> debian ? I am running a graphical java application and some x-windows
> applications.
> 
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