Re: masqdialer

[john]

Christopher J. Morrone writes:
> I don't want random packets causing my modem to dial out. :)

Then you'll like diald: it has elaborate, configurable filtering rules to
prevent just that. 
-- 
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI

Bind/Sendmail question

[John Plate]

Hi

My Debian system is connected to the outer world by uucp.
How can I tell Bind that there are no root servers - only the
computers on the local network.

I can configure Bind with no root server information, but then
Sendmail gets an error and holds the mail until I "fix the problem". 

Thanks in advance
-- 
John Plate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

compiling mod_perl

[Christopher Fury]

I'm trying to compile mod_perl and it doesn't seem to see my gdbm
library
in /usr/libs:

ip046:/usr/local/src/mod_perl-1.16# perl Makefile.PL EVERYTHING=1
Configure mod_perl with ../apache/src ? [y]
Shall I build httpd in ../apache/src for you? [y]
Appending mod_perl to src/Configuration
Using config file: /usr/local/src/mod_perl-1.16/src/Configuration
Creating Makefile
 + configured for Linux platform
 + setting C compiler to gcc
 + setting C pre-processor to gcc -E
 + checking for system header files
 + adding selected modules
 + doing sanity check on compiler and options
Note (probably harmless): No library found for -ldbm
ld: cannot open -lgdbm: No such file or directory
make: *** [dummy] Error 1
** A test compilation with your Makefile configuration
** failed. This is most likely because your C compiler
** is not ANSI. Apache requires an ANSI C Compiler, such
** as gcc. The above error message from your compiler
** will also provide a clue.
 Aborting!  

It goes on, of course, and says everything's okay, but I'm kind of
sketchy about this.  Does anybody out there have a clue to what's going
on?
-- 
Christopher Fury
Aerosoft, Inc

... a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

You'll need another ISP, but AOL *kinda* can work with Linux. Re: Linux and AOL

[Christopher Barry]

You'll definately need another ISP, but once you have one, using WINE,
the Windows Emulator, you can connect to AOL using the PPP/ethernet type
connect. You'll never get your modem working with it, so don't bother
trying to not get another ISP. You can actually connect to AOL and check
your mail, and chatrooms work to, but IMs never do. There is a Java
client for IMs though.

I'm using an older snapshot of WINE, and with the current one AOL might
run even better. I'm running WINE like this with these arguments:

wine -winver win31 -perfect -managed -desktop 800x600 ./aol

So hopefully after getting a real ISP you'll still be able to talk to
your lesser configured buddies.

Christopher


Stephen Gore wrote:
> 
> Is it possible to connect to the Internet through AOL?  I'm installing Debaian
> v2.0 via floppy and ftp, and need internet access to complete the
> installation. Any alternative suggestions welcome.  Thanx!
> 
> 
> More than just email--Get your FREE Netscape WebMail account today at 
> http://home.netscape.com/netcenter/mail
> 
> --
> Unsubscribe?  mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: AGAIN HELP!!!: Debian on ThinkPad 380XD

[Noel Yap]

Alexander Kushnirenko wrote:
> Thanks for the help!  It's started to work.  We managed to start installation
> process,  partitioned disks, installed base system, prepare a bootable floppy
> etc...
> 
> Problem:
> 1. When we reboot computer it prints:
> LILIO: linux..
> 
> AND REBOOTS AGAIN!
> 
> 2. We put in bootable diskette, same story:
> boot: linux.
> 
> AND REBOTTS AGAIN.
> 
> It looks like we screwed up again :(
> 
> Any help?

Make sure you are using the Tecra disk images:

ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/current/drv1440tecra.bin
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/current/resc1440tecra.bin

Noel

Re: masqdialer

[Christopher J. Morrone]

On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Stephen A. Witt wrote:

> On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Christopher J. Morrone wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Has anyone gotten masqdialer to work with a Debian dist?  I currently have
> > a debian box set up to do IP masquerading, and I use the Debian pon and
> > poff to start and stop the PPP dial-up connection.
> > 
> > First of all, is there an easy way to make pon and poff executable by
> > everyone?  (Or maybe only certain people?)
> > 
> > And is there then an easy way to just have masqdialer use the Debian pon
> > and poff?
> > 
> 
> I don't know what masqdialer is but an alternative way to do what I think
> you want is with diald.  This is described in a couple of mini howto's and
> is, if I dare make this claim, sort of the standard way to asynchronously
> access a dialup line without having to manually establish the connection
> (with pon, for example).  I have a small network at home with a Debian box

Unfortunately, we only have a single phone line in my apartment, so
manually establishing the connection is exactly what I want.  I don't want
random packets causing my modem to dial out. :)

Re: Setting size that windows start as

[Christopher Barry]

Most X apps accept a "-geometry" flag which you give the arguments as:
xemacs -geometry 80x24+100+100
or
netscape -geometry 800x600+0+0

The first two numbers are the window's dimensions. For most apps, such
as Netscape, this is the pixel size, but for many text oriented apps
such as xterms and emacsen it's the columns and rows. The second 2
numbers are how far the window is offset in pixels from the upper left
corner of the screen, position +0+0.

Christopher



M.C. Vernon wrote:
> 
> Dear debian people,
> 
> When I launch emacs in X, it comes up just a little too big for my
> screen. Is there a command-line argument for setting the size of the
> window, please?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Matthew
> 
> --
> Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo
> 
> Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society
> Selwyn College Computer Support
> http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/
> http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/
> http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
> 
> --
> Unsubscribe?  mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Problems installing Debian

[Alexander Bugeja]

I am trying to install Debian from floppy (I have the rescue, driver
and 5 base floppies set up) on my AMD K6 machine. However
when I try to start the installation, with the rescue disk, the
machine just reboots. More specifically, I first get the
following messages

Loading root.bin...
Loading Linux...
Uncompressing Linux

 followed by a string of messages too fast to read, and then
the machine reboots all over again, leaving me right where I started.

Can anyone help?

Thanks.

Alex.

Re: wierd problem with ppp; need help!

[Jim Foltz]

Hello,

I think there was an issue with the noauth option in the
/etc/ppp/peers/provider file. It was not needed in bo, but is needed in
hamm. I think also the name option is now a priveledged option, and user is
the correct option. Check these 2 items.

You need to give more information about your connection to get a more
precise reply. Try including log files, /var/log/ppp.log and use the debug
option in the /etc/ppp/peers/provider file.


On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 12:36:25AM +0400, Eugene Sevinian wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> recently I have upgrated to hamm on my home computer
> which is running also w95. After that I have got broken ppp from linux
> side while everything is ok from w95 :(((. Therer where no such problems
> with bo. Speaking more definitly .. it looks like connection hang very
> soon at the beginnig of session. Sometimes I  even unable to input
> password. As the phone line is noisy it seems that linux-ppp (from hamm) 
> is more sensitive to it. However, I hate this possibility.
> 
> Are ther any other ideas? At this point I am quite lost :(((
>  
> TIA,
> 
> Eugene Sevinian
> 
> 
> CRD, YerPhI, 375036, Armenia
> URL: http://crdlx5.yerphi.am/
> Phone: 374-2-344873
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Unsubscribe?  mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
> 

-- 
Jim Foltz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

wierd problem with ppp; need help!

[Eugene Sevinian]

Hi all,
recently I have upgrated to hamm on my home computer
which is running also w95. After that I have got broken ppp from linux
side while everything is ok from w95 :(((. Therer where no such problems
with bo. Speaking more definitly .. it looks like connection hang very
soon at the beginnig of session. Sometimes I  even unable to input
password. As the phone line is noisy it seems that linux-ppp (from hamm) 
is more sensitive to it. However, I hate this possibility.

Are ther any other ideas? At this point I am quite lost :(((
 
TIA,

Eugene Sevinian


CRD, YerPhI, 375036, Armenia
URL: http://crdlx5.yerphi.am/
Phone: 374-2-344873

Re: 8-bit characters on editor (joe)

[Lorenzo Pulici]

On dom, 11 ott 1998, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hi there,

>

>I'm using a Spanish keyboard which has some special (8-bit?) characters in

>it (such as accents, n with tilde~,...) and have the system configured for

>using them.  In fact, they work fine on the command line, but not with the

>editor I use (joe, jstar,...).  The joe doc says:

>"If you want 8-bit character get through, you will have to play with you stty

>settings:

>On Posix/SysV try this command: stty -istrip -iexten -inpck"

>How can I configure joe for using the 8-bit character?

>

Launch joe -asis

Bye
Lorenzo

scsi boot up problems? simplifed request??

[Chris Evans]

I've simplified my request.  I suspect it may belong on another list 
(linux kernel?  linux and adaptecs or linux and SCSI?  are there 
such lists?)

Desperate for any help, pointers etc.!

Chris

--- Modified Message Follows ---

I get the following on booting system with clean resc1440.bin 
floppy:

<4> Detected scsi CD-ROM sr1 at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0
<6> (scsi1:0:-1:-1) Scanning channel for devices
<4> (scsi0:-1:-1:-1) Bad scbptr 255 during SELTO.
<4> (scsi0:-1:-1:-1) Referenced SCB 255 not valid druing SELTO
<4>  SCSISEQ = 0x12 SEQADDR = 0xa SSTAT0 = 0x15 
SSTAT1 = 0x8a
<4> scsi:   detected 2 SCSI cdroms 2 SCSI disks total.

The three error lines are then repeated but with SSTAT1 = 0x88 
later.

I get the same message whether I use channel A or B on the 
controller and both have the lines starting (scsi0:-1:-1:-1) which 
suggests to me this is something to do with that channel on the 
controller, as handled by linux, not something to do with the drives. 
The controller says all the drives (four hard discs, two CDROMs) 
are there and that the discs verify fine.  Set up worked fine under 
linux with 90MHz P5 motherboard before with Award BIOS, now 
has 300MHz K6 with later Award BIOS.  Linux initialisation of the 
two SCSI channels appears to go fine, problem appears to be at 
the next stage.  What are SCBS?!!  What is a SELTO?  What are 
those hex values?  More to the point, where do I find out or find 
someone who knows?!


Chris Evans, R&D Consultant,
Tavistock & Portman NHS Trust

Re: ls-120 drives

[Lorenzo Pulici]

On sab, 10 ott 1998, Vernon Marshall wrote:
>Anyboy had any success installing an ls-120 drive into a debian system?


Recompile the kernel with 

section (on make menuconfig)
FLOPPY, IDE AND OTHER BLOCK DEVICES

[*] Include IDE/ATAPY FLOPPY support (NEW)

enabled.
I have a LS 120 drive as /dev/hdb that works.
I had problems with this one as a unique floppy drive (it can't boot under
Linux AFAIK)

Ciao
Lorenzo

Difficulty posting with INN+suck

[Vikram Prabhu]

I'm trying to get my dial-up linux box to read and post news smoothly but 
unfortunately that's not happening at the moment.  I can read news just fine.  
Posting, however, is a different matter.  When I try to post an article or a 
follow-up using slrn I get the following messages in the status line, "Article 
rejected: 441 Can't' generate Message-ID, No such file or directory."  If I try 
to repost it works fine.  Can anyone help me to understand what's going on and 
how I can fix this problem.  I've included a few relevant (I hope) lines from 
my syslog below.  Thanks.

Oct 10 23:23:13 shalafi innd: shalafi connected 17 streaming allowed
Oct 10 23:23:13 shalafi innd: shalafi:17 closed seconds 0 accepted 0 refused 0 
rejected 0
Oct 10 23:23:13 shalafi nnrpd[1632]: shalafi connect
Oct 10 23:23:16 shalafi nnrpd[1632]: shalafi group 
comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure 1
Oct 10 23:26:09 shalafi nnrpd[1632]: shalafi post failed Can't generate 
Message-ID, No such file or directory
Oct 10 23:26:21 shalafi innd: localhost connected 17
Oct 10 23:23:13 shalafi innd: localhost:17 closed seconds 0 accepted 1 refused 
0 rejected 0
Oct 10 23:26:21 shalafi nnrpd[1632]: shalafi post ok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

-- 
Vikram Prabhu
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

AGAIN HELP!!!: Debian on ThinkPad 380XD

[Alexander Kushnirenko]

Hi, 

> Alexander Kushnirenko wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > We are trying to install debian 2.0 from floppies on ThinkPad IBM 380XD
> -- 
> Unsubscribe?  mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
> 
Thanks for the help!  It's started to work.  We managed to start installation 
process,  partitioned disks, installed base system, prepare a bootable floppy 
etc...

Problem:
1. When we reboot computer it prints:
LILIO: linux..

AND REBOOTS AGAIN!

2. We put in bootable diskette, same story:
boot: linux.

AND REBOTTS AGAIN.

It looks like we screwed up again :(

Any help?

Network

[Mans Joling]

Hi
I have a pc with a ne2000 card running debian 
and a Sun sparc20 running solaris for my work .
I want to make tcp/ip connection between 
them
What must I do so they are can talk to each 
other.
Under windows95 it works.
Best Regards
Mans Joling

mandb error messages

[Colin Telmer]

When mandb is run, I get the following error messages:
Processing manual pages under /usr/man...
mandb: warning: /usr/man/man8/mailq.8.gz: whatis parse for mailq(8) failed
mandb: warning: /usr/man/man8/sendmail.8.gz: whatis parse for sendmail(8) failed
mandb: warning: /usr/man/man8/runq.8.gz: whatis parse for runq(8) failed
mandb: warning: /usr/man/man8/rmail.8.gz: whatis parse for rmail(8) failed
mandb: warning: /usr/man/man8/rsmtp.8.gz: whatis parse for rsmtp(8) failed
mandb: warning: /usr/man/man8/in.smtpd.8.gz: whatis parse for in.smtpd(8) failed
mandb: warning: /usr/man/man1/javac.1.gz is a dangling symlink
mandb: warning: /usr/man/man1/javac.1.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request
mandb: warning: /usr/man/man1/java.1.gz is a dangling symlink
mandb: warning: /usr/man/man1/java.1.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request
mandb: warning: /usr/man/man1/appletviewer.1.gz is a dangling symlink
mandb: warning: /usr/man/man1/appletviewer.1.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' 
request
mandb: warning: /usr/man/man1/jre.1.gz is a dangling symlink
mandb: warning: /usr/man/man1/jre.1.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request
mandb: warning: /usr/man/man1/sf2text.1.gz: whatis parse for sf2text(1) failed
mandb: warning: /usr/man/man1/uupath.1.gz: whatis parse for uupath(1) failed
mandb: warning: /usr/man/man1/pland.1.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request
/usr/man/man3/DSA_SetItem.gz: No such file or directory
.3w.gz: No such file or directory

Can anybody assist me in getting to the root of these? Cheers.

--
Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Re: ftpd

[Matt Garman]

On Sun, Oct 11, 1998 at 01:26:26AM -0500, Default Debian Reader wrote:
> I have put a sym link in /home/ftp to some other directory on my machine.
> However when doing ftp and loging in anonymously and i try to the cd to
> the symlink it says no such file or directory.  Can anyone help?  Thanks
> much.

A working approach for you may be to change the home directory of the
user named "ftp" to the directory to which you have the symlink.

I do this for my computer: All my ftp files are in a directory with
some monstor path.  For security reasons ftp daemons are not supposed
to follow symlinks (I think), so I could not link /home/ftp to my said
monster path.  Instead, I edited ftp's entry in /etc/passwd, changing
home home directory field to the path appropriate to my files.

Maybe that helps?
Good luck,
Matt

Re: Linux and AOL

[Jim Foltz]

On Sun, Oct 11, 1998 at 11:28:43AM -0500, Stephen Gore wrote:
> Is it possible to connect to the Internet through AOL?  

No, not using Linux.

> I'm installing Debaian
> v2.0 via floppy and ftp, and need internet access to complete the
> installation. Any alternative suggestions welcome.  Thanx!

I would shop around for an Internet Service Provider in your area. Call them
and ask them what they know of Linux. 

AOL uses their own proprietary protocol to link your pc to their pc's. That
is why you need to use AOL's software, which is not avalable for Linux.

Linux has support for PPP connections using PAP, CHAP, and chat
authentication. 

> 
> 
> More than just email--Get your FREE Netscape WebMail account today at 
> http://home.netscape.com/netcenter/mail
> 
> 
> -- 
> Unsubscribe?  mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
> 

-- 
Jim Foltz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Linux and AOL

[Stephen Gore]

Is it possible to connect to the Internet through AOL?  I'm installing Debaian
v2.0 via floppy and ftp, and need internet access to complete the
installation. Any alternative suggestions welcome.  Thanx!


More than just email--Get your FREE Netscape WebMail account today at 
http://home.netscape.com/netcenter/mail

debianized Scanner support somewhere?

[Thomas Adams]

Is it possible to get a deb File which provides support for a scanner? I'd
be most interested in support for the Logitech ScanMan32 Mac which is a
handscanner which operates via a little box with a SCSI connector at one
end and the handscanner jack at the other. Shouldn't be too hard to support
this should it? IF there is no such driver, how would I write one myself?
I.E. what should I read, would it be better to disassemble the Mac driver
or snoop the SCSI bus or what?

Re: meskes@usa.net

[D'jinnie]

:  Dell offers such a configuration (about $1500 with a 17" monitor).
:This is what my OM will probably get.  This machine comes with windows
:98 and microsoft home office software and a winmodem. If you only want
:to install linux call them and ask for a quote with NO software, and a
:REAL modem.  The Dell dimension 333v (celeron) was rated a best buy by
:PC magazine.

You can't get a machine from Dell with no software at all. They won't sell
it without at least Win98. If you don't feel like spending extra $100 or
whatever 98 costs, you'd be better off "assembling" your own PC - just buy
everything from the same place, they will usually put it together (esp. if
you ask).

---
There is no time like the present for postponing what you ought to be doing.

D'jinnie/Jinn, encountered on IRC and select MU**. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key

DOOM on hamm

[Rick Macdonald]

I just upgraded to HAMM, and would like to verify that my DOOM problems
are expected and that my solution is the right one.

HAMM seems to come only with X-doom (linuxxdoom). It seems to work OK
but I have to start an 8-bit XServer (I have an ATI Mach64 Graphics Pro
Turbo). I don't have a 320x200 mode; I don't know if the driver supports
one. Is there no longer Doom for SVGA?

To get my old-old SVGA-doom to work (linuxsdoom) I had to re-install
aout-svgalib_1.2.10-5.deb from BO, and now it works again.

--
...RickM...

Re: Internet via Proxy-Server?

[Miquel van Smoorenburg]

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Norbert Nemec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Anyway, I couldn't find any documentation about using a proxy as a
>client within the docs coming with debian. Is using a proxy a thing
>that can only b done by the individual programs? It would be a great
>thing, not to have to configuring every single program you want to use.

I think you want to look into IP-masquerading, aka NAT. It rewrites
the addresses of your local LAN to the address of the gateway
transparently, so that you can use most applications in a normal
way. From the outside world it looks like all connections come from
the firewall/gateway.

Transparant proxying is an optimization in that you can redirect
all connections to port 80 of any outside-server to pass through
a caching proxy, so that you get the benefits of a proxy cache without
configuring the client to use the caching proxy. I mentioned port
80 because this is done in most cases for web traffic only (not
much use in caching telnet sessions)

Mike.
-- 
  "Did I ever tell you about the illusion of free will?"
-- Sheriff Lucas Buck, ultimate BOFH.

Re: Internet via Proxy-Server?

[Norbert Nemec]

On Sat, 10 Oct 1998 11:49:53 +0100, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote:

>Yes. You could recompile your kernel to include transparent proxy support. 
>This 
>would automagically redirect all connection attempts to the corresponding 
>proxy 
>servers.

Well, as far as I could find out, that's something completely different
from what I need. transparent proxy support in the kernel is an option
if you put up a proxy server using Linux. It doesn't help at all at the
client side.

Anyway, I couldn't find any documentation about using a proxy as a
client within the docs coming with debian. Is using a proxy a thing
that can only b done by the individual programs? It would be a great
thing, not to have to configuring every single program you want to use.
Does anybody know a source of information about *using* a proxy
(besides all the help you find about *setting up* a proxy, which
actually doesn't help a bit... :-(   )




Norbert "Nobbi" Nemec
Paul-Gerhardt-Str. 4
90765 Fuerth

Tel: 0911-761206
Fax: 0911-7658329
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cfdisk

[Ole J. Tetlie]

*-Donald L Mainier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| Can I get a copy of cfdisk, or is it buried in my packages somewhere?

It's in util-linux.

-- 
...Unix, MS-DOS, and MS Windows (also known as the Good, the Bad,
and the Ugly).   (Matt Welsh)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]   [-: .elOle. :-]   [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PPP: I give up

[john]

Leon Breedt writes:
> On my box, the modem device (/dev/ttyS1) is owned by root, group dialout.

That is not necessary as long as pppd is setuid root, which is how it is
installed.
-- 
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI

Re: cfdisk

[Nuno Carvalho]

On Sun, 11 Oct 1998, Donald L Mainier wrote:

> Can I get a copy of cfdisk, or is it buried in my packages somewhere?

 You can find cfdisk on util-linux package !

 Best regards,
   Nuno Carvalho

Re: cfdisk

[Frank Barknecht]

Donald L Mainier hat gesagt: // Donald L Mainier wrote:

> Can I get a copy of cfdisk, or is it buried in my packages somewhere?

$ dpkg -S /sbin/cfdisk 
util-linux: /sbin/cfdisk


-- 
 ____
 Frank Barknecht    __    __ trip\ \  / /wire __
  / __// __  /__/ __// // __  \ \/ /  __ \\  ___\   
 / /  / /  / /  / // // /\ \\  ___\\ \  
/_/  /_/  /_/  /_//_// /  \ \\_\\_\
/_/\_\ 

Re: DOS to LINUX via floppy?

[Frank Barknecht]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] hat gesagt: // [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Does anyone know if a simple program exists that will let me transfer
> a Linux file to (say a floppy) then Linux can load the file from the
> floppy?

Install the mtools package. And add yourself to the floppy group by
calling:

$ adduser hwalton floppy
 

-- 
 ____
 Frank Barknecht    __    __ trip\ \  / /wire __
  / __// __  /__/ __// // __  \ \/ /  __ \\  ___\   
 / /  / /  / /  / // // /\ \\  ___\\ \  
/_/  /_/  /_/  /_//_// /  \ \\_\\_\
/_/\_\ 

Re: PPP: I give up

[Frank Barknecht]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] hat gesagt: // [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> When I try to run my PPP scripts, everyone of them results in
> permission denied.
>
> I did edit the /etc/group file and added my user name as follows:
>
> dip:x:40:hwalton
  ^ 
   this has to be a *

It is safer to add a user to a group by using the command "adduser"
You can add yourself to group dip by:

$ adduser hwalton dip

Nearly no spelling mistakes possible. 
-- 
 ____
 Frank Barknecht    __    __ trip\ \  / /wire __
  / __// __  /__/ __// // __  \ \/ /  __ \\  ___\   
 / /  / /  / /  / // // /\ \\  ___\\ \  
/_/  /_/  /_/  /_//_// /  \ \\_\\_\
/_/\_\ 

Re: Linux install error

[Frank Barknecht]

Shane S. hat gesagt: // Shane S. wrote:

> I am trying to install debian linux on this laptop i have.
> When I bootup with boot disk, i get the following error.
> Parition check:
> hda:
> attemtp to access beyond end of device
> 03:01: rw=0, want=2, limit=0
[... and so on]

> And it sits there forever.
> Can someone help?

Might be that your boot disk is corrupt. This happens quite often,
floppies are junk :( Try using another floppy. You can make one with
rawrite. Please read the installation guide on www.debian.org for
further instructions.
-- 
 ____
 Frank Barknecht    __    __ trip\ \  / /wire __
  / __// __  /__/ __// // __  \ \/ /  __ \\  ___\   
 / /  / /  / /  / // // /\ \\  ___\\ \  
/_/  /_/  /_/  /_//_// /  \ \\_\\_\
/_/\_\ 

cfdisk

[Donald L Mainier]

Can I get a copy of cfdisk, or is it buried in my packages somewhere?
Thanks much

Re: help(newbie): emacs20 install

[M.C. Vernon]

> MCV> I think the problem is partly that you're trying to
> MCV> install emacs19 and emacs20: this will make things unhappy.
> MCV> Purge one or the other. Installing the emacs20-el package
> MCV> should created those files your lacking.
> 
> I've purged both emacs19 and emacs20 and corisponding -el's
> (Since xemacs20 works, I didn't touch it.)
> Then --install emacs20,
> again,  it  failed  at
> "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/debian-startup.el missing"
> Then I tried --install emacs20-el,
> but this depends on emacs20, so have not been succeed, yet.

Hmm... try --configure emacs20

I seem to recall trying --configure on both emacs20, emacs20-el and gnus
several times, and it all sorted itself out eventually. Inelegant, but
there you go...
 
Matthew

-- 
Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo

Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society
Selwyn College Computer Support
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/
http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/
http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/

Re: PPP: I give up

[Leon Breedt]

On Sat, Oct 10 1998, [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus:

> When I try to run my PPP scripts, everyone of them results in 
> permission denied. 

Does the account have permission to use the modem?  On my box, the
modem device (/dev/ttyS1) is owned by root, group dialout.  See if
adding your user to the dialout group helps.

leon

-- 

 Leon J. Breedt : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Valderen Sysadmin
 Linux valderen 2.1.124 #1 SMP, One AMD 5x86-133, 64M RAM
  
 "Some people have one of those days.  I've had one of those lives."

Re: Setting size that windows start as

[Ole J. Tetlie]

*-"M.C. Vernon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| Dear debian people,
| 
|   When I launch emacs in X, it comes up just a little too big for my
| screen. Is there a command-line argument for setting the size of the
| window, please?

-geometry 81x30

Works with most X apps (but it usually specifies pixel size instead
of character size).

-- 
A mathematician is a machine for converting coffee to theorems
  (Martin Schulze)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]   [-: .elOle. :-]   [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: X problems

[M.C. Vernon]

On Sun, 11 Oct 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> I got X setup OK (using XF86Setup), and then set start-xdm in the config
> file, but xdm dies horribly (from the error log):
> 
>  (--) Mach64: Mode "1024x768" needs hsync freq of 35.57 kHz. Deleted.
> 
> 
> (--) Mach64: There is no mode definition named "1024x768"
> 
> Fatal server error:
> No valid modes found.
> 
> Now my XF86Config file:
> 
> Section "Monitor"
>Identifier  "Primary Monitor"
>VendorName  "Unknown"
>ModelName   "Unknown"
>HorizSync   31.5-31.5,35.15-35.15,35.5-35.5
>VertRefresh 55-90
>Modeline  "1024x768"   44.96 1024 1048 1208 1264 768 776 784 817 +hsync
> +vsync interlace
> EndSection
> 
> These were all made by XF86Setup, and indeed it worked OK when Setup ran
> it's little auto-test.
> 
> So why doesn't it work now? and indeed, would fiddling the HorizSync rate
> be OK or am I going to blow my monitor?

Well, I went ahead and changed that Horizsync to 35.5-35.6 and it hasn't
blown up yet. :)

Matthew

-- 
Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo

Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society
Selwyn College Computer Support
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/
http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/
http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/

Re: deb box as 'gateway'?

[Randy Edwards]

>  If I put the modem in the old 486, can I
> use that to dial out through both under NT4 and debian on the other box,
> and debian on that box?

   Of course.   First, install the Debian package called "diald" (dial on demand
daemon).  Then set up NT to see your Debian box as the gateway.  Then you'll 
need to
recompile with IP Masquerading support.  There is a really good HOW-TO document 
on IP
Masquerading, I'd strongly recommend getting that and following the instructions
there.

--
 Regards,| Debian GNU/ __  o http://www.debian.org
 .   |/ / _  _  _  _  _ __  __
 Randy   |   / /__  / / / \// //_// \ \/ /
 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) |  // /_/ /_/\/ /___/  /_/\_\
 http://www.golgotha.net |  ...because lockups are for convicts...

X problems

[M.C. Vernon]

Dear all,

I got X setup OK (using XF86Setup), and then set start-xdm in the config
file, but xdm dies horribly (from the error log):

 (--) Mach64: Mode "1024x768" needs hsync freq of 35.57 kHz. Deleted.


(--) Mach64: There is no mode definition named "1024x768"

Fatal server error:
No valid modes found.

Now my XF86Config file:

Section "Monitor"
   Identifier  "Primary Monitor"
   VendorName  "Unknown"
   ModelName   "Unknown"
   HorizSync   31.5-31.5,35.15-35.15,35.5-35.5
   VertRefresh 55-90
   Modeline  "1024x768"   44.96 1024 1048 1208 1264 768 776 784 817 +hsync
+vsync interlace
EndSection

These were all made by XF86Setup, and indeed it worked OK when Setup ran
it's little auto-test.

So why doesn't it work now? and indeed, would fiddling the HorizSync rate
be OK or am I going to blow my monitor?

Matthew


-- 
Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo

Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society
Selwyn College Computer Support
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/
http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/
http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/

Re: debianized themepacks?

[M.C. Vernon]

> are there any debianized themepacks (e.g Alien) it would be much easier if
> we could dpkg those themes then uninstall them if we don't like it.
> 

This is an interesting thought - changing the theme settings so that
themes (and the programs they look for) are in a consistant place for the
debian filing system. They could suggest all the apps they try to launch
as well.

Matthew

-- 
Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo

Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society
Selwyn College Computer Support
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/
http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/
http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/

debianized themepacks?

[Richard L. Alhama]

are there any debianized themepacks (e.g Alien) it would be much easier if
we could dpkg those themes then uninstall them if we don't like it.

TIA and Ciao.

Admiral Charah
Technical Support Group 
Cyberspace Laoag, ISP

Setting size that windows start as

[M.C. Vernon]

Dear debian people,

When I launch emacs in X, it comes up just a little too big for my
screen. Is there a command-line argument for setting the size of the
window, please?

Thanks,

Matthew

-- 
Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo

Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society
Selwyn College Computer Support
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/
http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/
http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/

Re: 386 mass storage

[paulwade]

I did this with a 386 a few times. Basically, it seems that once the
kernel is loaded the obsolete BIOS is no longer an obstacle. Here's 3
setups I have used.

1) boot from a linux partition at the beginning and then mount large
partition(s).

2) boot from a floppy. The drive had 1 large root partition and a swap
partition.

3) boot from a floppy. The space at the beginning was a bootable ms-dos
and linux used the space beyond that. This is handy because ms-dos would
have needed 'Disk Manager' type of software to use space which the 386
BIOS couldn't handle.

You have to be careful, but if you set it up right the drive can be moved
between the 386 and a newer machine without problems. Nice because it can
take a while to install lots of packages on a 386.

+--+
+ Paul Wade Greenbush Technologies Corporation +
+ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]  http://www.greenbush.com/ +
+--+

On Sat, 10 Oct 1998, George Bonser wrote:

> The only restriction is that the boot image be within the first 1024
> sectors. Actually, you could add that 6.4G drive as the second disk, and
> boot from your current disk.
> 
> 
> On Sat, 10 Oct 1998, Patrick Olson wrote:
> 
> > 
> > At the moment I'm running Debian 2 on a 386/33 with only 600MB of hard
> > disk space (400MB master, 200MB slave).
> > 
> > What I'm looking for is a way to allow this machine to take over as
> > fileserver.  The current fileserver is a 386/33 running Windows 3.11
> > between crashes.  It can access its 6.4GB drive only because of Ontrack
> > Disk Manager.
> > 
> > I'd like to put an external drive (about 6.4GB) on this 386.  Does anyone
> > have any suggestions for doing this within the parameters that the 386
> > must be able to make full use of the drive under Linux?
> > 
> > Ideas I've had include
> > 
> > 1. Using Ontrack Disk Manager with Linux.  Can it be done?
> > 
> > 2. Would the 386 BIOS limit of 1024 cylinders apply to a SCSI drive?
> > 
> > 3. Does Linux have a way around this 386 BIOS and it's 1024 cylinder
> > limit?
> > 
> > Of course, I'm open to other ideas as well as feedback on my ideas.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Patrick

Re: segfault: yes. what?

[M.C. Vernon]

> *-Alexander Gutfraind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> |
> | Hello Fello Users!
> | 
> | I have a small completely newbie question:
> | What is segmentation fault AKA segfault?
> 
> It means that the program has made an illegal memory access,
> for example trying to store in a region of memory it doesn't
> have permission to write to.
> 

This commonly results from dereferencing a NULL pointer.

Matthew

-- 
Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo

Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society
Selwyn College Computer Support
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/
http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/
http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/

8-bit characters on editor (joe)

[homega]

Hi there,

I'm using a Spanish keyboard which has some special (8-bit?) characters in
it (such as accents, n with tilde~,...) and have the system configured for
using them.  In fact, they work fine on the command line, but not with the
editor I use (joe, jstar,...).  The joe doc says:

"If you want 8-bit character get through, you will have to play with you stty
settings:
On Posix/SysV try this command: stty -istrip -iexten -inpck"

and so I did, but nothing happened here (I believe that whereas Slackware
uses BSD, Debian uses SysV?).

How can I configure joe for using the 8-bit character?

Thanks in advance.

-- 
Un saludo,

Horacio

[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: segfault: yes. what?

[Ole J. Tetlie]

*-Alexander Gutfraind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| Hello Fello Users!
| 
| I have a small completely newbie question:
| What is segmentation fault AKA segfault?

It means that the program has made an illegal memory access,
for example trying to store in a region of memory it doesn't
have permission to write to.

-- 
A mathematician is a machine for converting coffee to theorems
  (Martin Schulze)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]   [-: .elOle. :-]   [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installation thoughts

[Ole J. Tetlie]

*-Dave Swegen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| When I installed deb 2.0 a few weeks ago it was a pain in the arse
| process, so I was wondering whether there is anywhere I can write with
| comments on how I think it could be improved - I notice that people are
| still having some of the problems I encountered...

Try posting your suggestions on debian-devel.

-- 
Eschew obfuscation(go on; look them both up)
   (Brian White)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]   [-: .elOle. :-]   [EMAIL PROTECTED]

deb box as 'gateway'?

[Martin Waller]

Hi,

I want to use a 486 as my box with the modem in. I have a nother dual 
boot (NT 4 workstation (for the mrs. you understand..) and debian) which 
currently has the modem in.  If I put the modem in the old 486, can I 
use that to dial out through both under NT4 and debian on the other box, 
and debian on that box?

That way, if the Mrs. wants NT4 for work stuff, I can get a remote xwin 
session still and use debian to connect to the net from 486 box, and 
when mrs. not in NT can use debian diretc.

I guess this is a common q., so pointer to easy for beginner 
instructions appreciated,

Martin

__
Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Laptop Installation problem

[Christopher Philip Cronin]

I have just spent a day trying to install debian on my NEC versa laptop,
which has a pentium 133, 24 meg of ram and a 1gig hard drive.

I have tried to install off my HD using the procedure in the document
"Installing Debain Linux 2.0 for x86". Once the install.bat file is
executed, the expected cryptic information about hardware is displayed.
However during the process, it freezes and displays:

VFS: Cannot open root device 08:02
kernel panic: VFH: Unable to mount root fs on 08:02
 
I then tried installing via the recue disk. It managed to get to the boot
prompt ok, but whilst it was uncompressing it stoped and displayed a boot
error.

I then attempted to use the resc1440tecra.bin rescue disk for laptops,
which failed to get to the prompt displaying a boot failure. I then tried
the other rescue disk, which then did the same thing as the laptop recue.

I would really appreciate some help!

Re: Setting up Samba

[Michael Beattie]

On Sun, 11 Oct 1998, Chris Hoover wrote:

> I've just installed the samba .deb package, and was wondering what I
> need to do next as far as setting up the rest of the config files?  Is
> there a good doc on how to do this (debian specific)?
> 

You'll need to look at /etc/smb.conf, there is suitable explanation in
there as comments (I think) If not, try /usr/doc/samba/examples/
The man page is quite good too.

   Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

   PGP Key available, reply with "pgpkey" as subject.
 -
  "Bother," said Pooh, as he heard, "Will the Defendant please rise."
 -
Debian GNU/Linux  Ooohh You are missing out!

Setting up Samba

[Chris Hoover]

I've just installed the samba .deb package, and was wondering what I
need to do next as far as setting up the rest of the config files?  Is
there a good doc on how to do this (debian specific)?

Thanks,

Chris

re: ftp

[Michael Beattie]

On Sun, 11 Oct 1998, Default Debian Reader wrote:

> It seems the reason ftp doesn't like this sym link is that the sym link
> links to a directory on my win98 file system mounted at /win98.  Is there
> a way to get around this problem?  Thanks.
> 

Due to security issues, symlinks outside of the /home/ftp tree will not
work. Read 'man ftpd'


   Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

   PGP Key available, reply with "pgpkey" as subject.
 -
  The man who invented the eraser pretty well sized up the human race.
 -
Debian GNU/Linux  Ooohh You are missing out!

Re: PPP: I give up

[Ole J. Tetlie]

[EMAIL PROTECTED]
|
| When I try to run my PPP scripts, everyone of them results in permission 
denied. 
|  
| I did edit the /etc/group file and added my user name as follows:
|  
| dip:x:40:hwalton
|  
| I still get permission denied? Can anyone figure what is going on here?
| 
| I did logoff than log back on.
| 
| I also tried the following commands:
| 
| 1. chmod g+x /etc/chatscripts
| 
| 2. chmod u+s /usr/sbin/pppd
| 
| None of it works...I am ready to tear my hair out!

Here is the list of files that belong to group dip on my computer.
Check to see if you haven't missed anyone.

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/olet/xtron-2.0# find / -group dip
/etc/ppp/peers/provider.old
/etc/ppp/peers/provider
/etc/ppp/peers/usit
/etc/slip.dip
/etc/chatscripts
/etc/chatscripts/usit
/etc/chatscripts/provider
/usr/sbin/pppd

-- 
...Unix, MS-DOS, and MS Windows (also known as the Good, the Bad,
and the Ugly).   (Matt Welsh)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]   [-: .elOle. :-]   [EMAIL PROTECTED]

re: ftp

[Default Debian Reader]

It seems the reason ftp doesn't like this sym link is that the sym link
links to a directory on my win98 file system mounted at /win98.  Is there
a way to get around this problem?  Thanks.

ftpd

[Default Debian Reader]

I have put a sym link in /home/ftp to some other directory on my machine.
However when doing ftp and loging in anonymously and i try to the cd to
the symlink it says no such file or directory.  Can anyone help?  Thanks
much.

Re: HELP!!!: Debian on ThinkPad 380XD

[Noel Yap]

Alexander Kushnirenko wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> We are trying to install debian 2.0 from floppies on ThinkPad, we used 2
> floppies resc1440tecra.bin resc1440.bin. Here is what's going on:
> 
> 1. We boot from floppy see long message with
> boot:
> at the end
> 
> 2. type
> boot: linux floppy=thinkpad
  ^^^
This is unnecessary on the newer ThinkPads.  Try again using the Tecra
floppies.

Noel

segfault: yes. what?

[Alexander Gutfraind]

Hello Fello Users!

I have a small completely newbie question:
What is segmentation fault AKA segfault?

(I REALLY don't know)

TIA for your help.

Re: building a boot disk

[Kent West]

On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, tracheotomy_bob wrote:

> I would really like to be able to build a system up from scratch. While =
> I appreciate the excellence that is debian, I find that for =
> understanding how everything fits together building a system up from =
> scratch helps. Initially I only had the debian install disks, and I had =
> to ftp XFree86 myself and it seemed to make sense, so now I want to do =
> the same for a complete system. I need to be able to download EVERY =
> component from the net and cobble together a boot disk, then be able to =
> ftp the rest or copy it off some other media (disk or cd). Ideally the =
> building of a boot disk sould be able to be done under any OS, but I'll =
> bow to the groups wisdom in that aspect.=20
> If someone can supply some good pointers or and idiot proof guide then =
> I'd be grateful. This is probably a really stupid idea but I want to do =
> it anyway.
> 
> Thanks

I think it's a great idea. I was just thinking the other day how that the 
install programs for Debian, Slackware, etc, make it easier for getting a 
system up, but a newbie really needs to do a manual install once to get a 
better feel for how everything works together. One of these days I'm 
going to do this also, but for now, it's on the back burner.

Kent

Re: Should Package Web page be changed for non-free (Re: glimpse on CD?)

[James A. Treacy]

On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 02:47:20PM -0700, John Lapeyre wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> 
> Galbra>What I find strange if that I managed to download it without realising 
> it
> Galbra>was non-free.  I only *now* noticed that it's non-free by putting the
> Galbra>cursor on the `Download it!'  ftp link and seeing the non-free part in 
> the
> Galbra>path.
> 
>   I have built packages and uploaded them to main only to find later
> that they depend on non-free libraries that appeared free when I found
> them on the web page. (note that when the lib later shows up as a
> dependency, it is listed as non-free) .  
> 
The web pages will be updated using new scripts RSN. They are 95% done. All that
remains to be done is to properly deal with source packages. This is trivial
to get right for 90% of the packages, but a royal pain for the rest.

This problem and a number of others will be fixed with the new scripts.

Jay Treacy

Unidentified subject!

[Default Debian Reader]

Why when i anonymously ftp to my localhost(127.0.0.1) and i have made
files and directories in /home/ftp/ it doesn't show up when i do an ls
from the ftp session?  Any help is much appreciated.

HELP!!!: Debian on ThinkPad 380XD

[Alexander Kushnirenko]

Hi, 

We are trying to install debian 2.0 from floppies on ThinkPad, we used 2 
floppies resc1440tecra.bin resc1440.bin. Here is what's going on:

1. We boot from floppy see long message with 
boot:
at the end

2. type 
boot: linux floppy=thinkpad

3. It prints 
Loading root.bin.
Loading linux...

And keeps rebooting?

What shall we do?
Does anyone have good kernel for it?

Thanks,
Sasha.

386 mass storage

[Patrick Olson]

At the moment I'm running Debian 2 on a 386/33 with only 600MB of hard
disk space (400MB master, 200MB slave).

What I'm looking for is a way to allow this machine to take over as
fileserver.  The current fileserver is a 386/33 running Windows 3.11
between crashes.  It can access its 6.4GB drive only because of Ontrack
Disk Manager.

I'd like to put an external drive (about 6.4GB) on this 386.  Does anyone
have any suggestions for doing this within the parameters that the 386
must be able to make full use of the drive under Linux?

Ideas I've had include

1. Using Ontrack Disk Manager with Linux.  Can it be done?

2. Would the 386 BIOS limit of 1024 cylinders apply to a SCSI drive?

3. Does Linux have a way around this 386 BIOS and it's 1024 cylinder
limit?

Of course, I'm open to other ideas as well as feedback on my ideas.

Thanks,
Patrick

Re: Internet via Proxy-Server?

[Mark Phillips]

> Yes. You could recompile your kernel to include transparent proxy
> support.  This would automagically redirect all connection attempts 
> to the corresponding proxy servers.

Can you easily switch between "real" internet and "proxy" internet using
this solution?

> > Can I configure lynx to use a proxy? or ftp, dftp, etc.?
> 
> Lynx: yes, ncftp: yes.

What about mirror?

Cheers,

Mark.

__
_\/___\__/___Mark_Phillips___/
\__/_\__/--\__/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
\__/HE___\__/--APTAIN/   
\__/_\__/--\__/__/  /__"To be is to do."__I. Kant___/
\__/__\__/___/  /__"To do is to be."__A. Sartre_/
/__"I am."God___/
/__Jesus did.___/

scsi boot problems?

[Chris Evans]

Some days back I reported I'd lost three hard discs when I look for 
them using linux but they are still there according to my Adapted 
3940 SCSI controller.  Well, I've learned something about drive 
name spaces in linux (separate for drives and CDROMS as I 
thought blowing one attractive explanation out of the way!)

I've tried all sorts of things but have come back to reinstalling linux 
(probably needed to do this anyway).  I've found the wonderful thing 
that alt-F4 in the resc1440 boot shows you the end of the boot up 
messages.  (Not being able to get back at these in the event of a 
big disaster is a real problem: you can't pause them with ctrl-S nor 
can you find dmsg (?sp?) if your system is really damaged.  I'd rate 
a scrollable review of the messages very highly on my wish list!)

What I find there is about like this:
<4> Detected scsi CD-ROM sr1 at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0
<6> (scsi1:0:-1:-1) Scanning channel for devices
<4> (scsi0:-1:-1:-1) Bad scbptr 255 during SELTO.
<4> (scsi0:-1:-1:-1) Referenced SCB 255 not valid druing SELTO
<4>  SCSISEQ = 0x12 SEQADDR = 0xa SSTAT0 = 0x15 
SSTAT1 = 0x8a
<4> scsi:   detected 2 SCSI cdroms 2 SCSI disks total.

The three error lines are then repeated but with SSTAT1 = 0x88 
later.

I get the same message whether I use channel A or B on the 
controller and both have the lines starting (scsi0:-1:-1:-1) which 
suggests to me this is something to do with that channel on the 
controller, as handled by linux, not something to do with the drives.

Can someone point me to documentation on these things or 
explain them?  I tried putting an old Adaptec 1540 in temporarily 
instead of the 3940 but that didn't admit to finding _any_ drives and 
it may well be dead.  The firmware on the 3940 reports all the 
drives and claims to verify them fine so I'm puzzled here.  Looks to 
me like something wrong with the handling of the controller by linux 
but I assume there's something wrong with the controller.  I don't 
want to buy anything unnecessary or waste more time but I'd really 
love to get this system up and running again so any help is much 
appreciated.

Chris

Re: HP ScanJet Plus + Debian 2.0 (fwd)

[Raymond A. Ingles]

On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Bedrock LAN Administrator wrote:

> DOS?  Whassat?  Winders?  Whassat?  *smirk* Seriously, though, I'm
> afraid that I can't test this scanner under either DOS or Windows,
> since I ditched all of that over a year ago (ain't it great to be
> MS-Free?  visit www.i-want-a-website.com)

 With DOSEMU .99 out, I'm almost there myself. I only keep my DOS
partitions around for a couple of games... :->

[re: hpscanpbm]
> I'll look into getting this app.  Do you know off-hand where I can get
> it?  If not, I'll do a web-search when I get a chance.  :)

 I just did a web search, it's in a lot of places (including sunsite). 
If neither hpscanpbm nor SANE-talking-to-fake-SCSI-module-that-really-
speaks-parallel works, you *might* be able to find one of the special
driver cards on the web or by asking on Usenet groups. However, I think
you'd probably end up saving money & time by just getting a new, color
scanner... :-<

 Sincerely,

 Ray Ingles(248) 377-7735 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

 "Economies don't like step functions." - Dr. Leonard Bieman

Debian on ThinkPad 380XD

[Alexander Kushnirenko]

Hi,

We've got ThinkPad 380XD with EtherJet PCMCIA network card.  Does anyone have 
experience with installing Debian 2.0 on it? Comments?

Thanks,
Sasha.