Zenith Z-Note MX Laptop
In my never-ending quest to install Debian on every non-standard piece of hardware I can find, I am trying to install it on a P-75 16MB RAM 800 MB Hard Drive Zenith Z-Note MX. There is a website about this which is very helpful, but it does not discuss the PCMCIA drivers that are necessary. I am installing from the Potato install disks and neither of the two standard PCMCIA types listed seem to work. Does anyone know how to get past this? In addition, I have a 3Com Etherlink III (3C589C) PCMCIA Ethernet NIC. It isn't listed by name or number in the selection list. If anyone has any suggestions on regarding how I might proceed, I would greatly appreciate them. Thanks. ==== A. Scott White Director of Information Systems and Product Strategy ACS Healthcare Solutions Group
RE: Can't Write To Temporary User Settings Files During Install
I hate to be a pain in the @ss, but if anyone could possibly help me with this I would really appreciate it. ORIGINAL MESSAGE: I compiled a new kernel that included Compaq Smart Array support. I ran the following rdev files on it (I got these from looking at the rdev.sh file on the rescue floppy): rdev -R linux 1 rdev -r linux 0 rdev -v linux -1 rdev linux /dev/ram0 I then copied the kernel onto the rescue floppy. The install runs (and recognizes my smart array controller). When the setup scripts start, however, it asks me for my keyboard type. When I try to select it, I get the error: Can't write to temporary user settings file /tmp/keybd_settings. I assume it means that it cannot write to the RAM disk (it wouldn't try to write to the floppy, and the hard drive isn't even partitioned yet). Any clues as to what's up? Thanks. ======== A. Scott White Director of Information Systems and Product Strategy ACS Healthcare Solutions Group
Can't Write To Temporary User Settings Files During Install
I compiled a new kernel that included Compaq Smart Array support. I ran the following rdev files on it (I got these from looking at the rdev.sh file on the rescue floppy): rdev -R linux 1 rdev -r linux 0 rdev -v linux -1 rdev linux /dev/ram0 I then copied the kernel onto the rescue floppy. The install runs (and recognizes my smart array controller). When the setup scripts start, however, it asks me for my keyboard type. When I try to select it, I get the error: Can't write to temporary user settings file /tmp/keybd_settings. I assume it means that it cannot write to the RAM disk (it wouldn't try to write to the floppy, and the hard drive isn't even partitioned yet). Any clues as to what's up? Thanks. ======== A. Scott White Director of Information Systems and Product Strategy ACS Healthcare Solutions Group
RE: Compaq ProLiant ML350
Thanks to everyone who has helped me with this. I'm getting closer. I compiled a 2.2.15 kernel with Compaq Smart Array2, placed it onto the Rescue floppy and ran the following rdev commands on the kernel image: The install can now see the controller and the 1 logical drive (YES). rdev -R linux 1 rdev -r linux 0 rdev -v linux -1 rdev linux /dev/ram0 However, I fear there is a problem with the kernel I compiled. I included all the features required by http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/doc/ch -boot-floppy-techinfo.en.html#s-rescue-replace-kernel but, after I select my Keyboard type, I get the message: Can't write to temporary user settings file /tmp/keybd_settings. I assume it means that it cannot write to the Ram Disk (it wouldn't try to write to the floppy, and the disk isn't even partitioned yet). Any clues as to what's up? I think I'm pretty close. ============ A. Scott White Director of Information Systems and Product Strategy ACS Healthcare Solutions Group
RE: Compaq ProLiant ML350
NOTE: I sent this about 30 minutes ago, and didn't see it. Then I realized that, once again I had sent it only to the original author and not to the group. Is there some benefit to the listserv operating this way (replies go to the original author rather than the list). I, personally, find it annoying, but maybe there's some good reason that I simply cannot see. If there isn't, I wonder what it would take to make the list operate like most other lists. Sorry for the rant. Anyway... > Try the potato (Debian 2.2) boot disks instead. potato is "frozen" > right now but it's quite stable and has lots of things you'll want > (or even need) on your server anyway. > I know Compaq Smart Array support is available in the latest 2.2.x > kernels. I have tried this now. The 2.2 install disks tell me there is no hard drive on the machine. I looked at the LILO help screen but the Compaq Smart Array support options are not listed. Is Compaq Smart Array support included in the default kernel for the 2.2 disks? I suppose I will have to compile a 2.2.15 kernel with Compaq Smart Array support on another of my Debian machines and create install floppies out of it. A few questions: 1. What other options are necessary for an install floppy kernel? 2. Can I just compile the kernel and put it on the new install disks, or do I need to create an entirely new set of floppies? 3. If I need to create an entirely new set of floppies, how do I do so? Someone earlier mentioned the "boot-floppies" package. What is this? Will this help me? Thanks. ==== A. Scott White Director of Information Systems and Product Strategy ACS Healthcare Solutions Group
Compaq ProLiant ML350
Last Friday I asked this question to little avail. I don't mean to be redundant, but in the fear that it was deleted in the barrage of weekend mail by the one person who knows the answer, I'm posting this again. I have a new Compaq ProLiant ML350 server. It has a Compaq Smart Array 431 Raid Controller. It also has a NC3123 Fast Ethernet NIC PCI 10/100 Wake on LAN card. Is there any hope for installing Debian on this? The default 2.1 install disks hang while trying to reset the SCSI. The TECRA boot disks detect no drive at all. I have installed Debian several times, but always on fairly standard hardware. I think I will be able to follow instructions to do this if it is possible. Specifically, I have heard people say things like: You need to compile support for Compaq Smart Array controllers into your kernel. I am always perplexed by this. How do I compile a kernel if I don't have Debian installed yet? Do I compile the kernel on another Debian machine? If I do so, how do I get that kernel onto the install disks and ready to install? Thanks. ======== A. Scott White Director of Information Systems and Product Strategy ACS Healthcare Solutions Group
Compaq ProLiant ML350
I have a new Compaq ProLiant ML350 server. It has a Compaq Smart Array 431 Raid Controller. It also has a NC3123 Fast Ethernet NIC PCI 10/100 Wake on LAN card. Is there any hope for installing this? The default 2.1 install disks hang while trying to reset the SCSI. The TECRA boot disks detect no drive at all. I have installed Debian several times, but always on fairly standard hardware. I think I will be able to follow instructions to this if it is possible. Thanks. A. Scott White Director of Information Systems and Product Strategy ACS Healthcare Solutions Group
RE: vga=ask
Ragga Muffin wrote: > Have you tried the svgatextmode package ? I actually just downloaded it and installed it at another person's reccommendation. It will suffice. Thanks. ==== A. Scott White Director of Information Systems and Product Strategy ACS Healthcare Solutions Group
RE: vga=ask
Jo wrote: > A full screen console (no X), is that what you want? > If so check out framebuffer. There is an HOWTO on it. > Jo I want to use a different vga text mode (like 80x50) on my terminal. I do not like to use X Windows, it is too slow. I prefer to use the standard, text based terminal. I want, however, to be able to see more text on the screen at one time. What is framebuffer? ==== A. Scott White Director of Information Systems and Product Strategy ACS Healthcare Solutions Group
RE: vga=ask
I'm posting this again in the hopes that someone may know the problem. One person responded (and I appreciate that), but I've already tried everything they suggested. Anyone have any ideas? I'm really stumped. Is it possible that I've somehow excluded support for this option from my kernel or something? Thanks. > I've set vga=ask in my lilo.conf and run lilo. > > I've specified the kernel image along with the command line > vga=auto at the > lilo prompt. > > I've run rdev -v \boot\vmlinuz-2.2.15 -3 > > I've run vidmode \boot\vmlinuz-2.2.15 -3 > > I have also tried all of the above with "extended" in place of > "ask" (and -2 > in place of -3) > > None of this has worked for me. Any idea how I can squeeze more that 80x25 > out of my S3 Trio64 and my 21" monitor on Debian potato with > kernel 2.2.15? > > Thanks. A. Scott White Director of Information Systems and Product Strategy ACS Healthcare Solutions Group
vga=ask
I've set vga=ask in my lilo.conf and run lilo. I've specified the kernel image along with the command line vga=auto at the lilo prompt. I've run rdev -v \boot\vmlinuz-2.2.15 -3 I've run vidmode \boot\vmlinuz-2.2.15 -3 I have also tried all of the above with "extended" in place of "ask" (and -2 in place of -3) None of this has worked for me. Any idea how I can squeeze more that 80x25 out of my S3 Trio64 and my 21" monitor on Debian potato with kernel 2.2.15? Thanks. ======== A. Scott White Director of Information Systems and Product Strategy ACS Healthcare Solutions Group
ln -s (executeable) /usr/bin/(executeable) ( was: RE: Java 1.2)
Oki DZ wrote: > create links for the executables: > cd /usr/bin > ln -s /usr/lib/jdk1.2.2/bin/java java > ../bin/javac javac > ../bin/javap javap > (do the same for the other executables) This is pretty clever. Is this a common way of putting executables into the path without having to modify all the profiles? Is it recommended, or is there some hidden drawback? Thanks for any info. ============ A. Scott White Director of Information Systems and Product Strategy ACS Healthcare Solutions Group
RE: Debian Qestuin of the Day....
Jay Kelly: > ...Then I reboot the system and try ifconfig and eth0 is > fine has the same settings before I rebooted but eth1 has > NON SET where the ip and netmask should beWhat can I do > to keep the setting for eth1? Do you have an ifconfig setting for eth1 in /etc/init.d/network ? ======== A. Scott White Director of Information Systems and Product Strategy ACS Healthcare Solutions Group
Reinitializing LPD
I have been rebooting every time I edit /etc/printcap. I know there is a better way to reinitialize the LPD system. Can someone tell me what it is? Thanks. A. Scott White Director of Information Systems and Product Strategy ACS Healthcare Solutions Group
Printing to a Hewlett Packard Jet Direct card
I am trying to set my Debian box to print to an HP LJ-8000 with a Jet Direct card. has anyone ever done this? I want the name of the printer to be surgery. Assuming 111.222.333.444 is the IP of the Jet Direct card, here is my current setup: printcap: # lp|surgery|Surgery:\ :lp=/dev/null:sh:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/surgery:\ :rm=111.222.333.444:rp=raw: surgery-text:\ :lp=/dev/null:sh:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/surgery-text:\ :rm=111.222.333.444:rp=text: # If I enter the command line: lpr -P surgery-text myfile.txt or: lpr -P surgery mypsfile.ps I get nothing. If I check lpq, it shows that a job was processed by the queue, but nothing comes out of the printer. Any ideas? Thanks. A. Scott White Director of Information Systems and Product Strategy ACS Healthcare Solutions Group
Auto starting a script
The following are the pertinent sections a script (and the script it calls)
which I want to auto start for run levels 2-5. startup.sh simply calls
tomcat.sh with a "start" parameter.
Questions:
- Can I accomplish this by simply placing a symbolic link to
startup.sh called S99tomcat in rc[2-5].d?
- If I do that, what user will it run as (i.e. where do I set
the pertinent environment setting like the Java CLASSPATH?)
Thanks for any answers. Here are the scripts:
startup.sh
=
#! /bin/sh
BASEDIR=`dirname $0`
$BASEDIR/tomcat.sh start "$@"
=
tomcat.sh
=
#!/bin/sh
if [ "$1" = "start" ] ; then
shift
echo Using classpath: ${CLASSPATH}
$JAVACMD -Dtomcat.home=${TOMCAT_HOME} \
org.apache.tomcat.startup.Tomcat "$@" &
elif [ "$1" = "stop" ] ; then
shift
echo Using classpath: ${CLASSPATH}
$JAVACMD -Dtomcat.home=${TOMCAT_HOME} \
org.apache.tomcat.startup.Tomcat -stop "$@"
fi
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A. Scott White
Director of Information Systems and Product Strategy
ACS Healthcare Solutions Group
RE: POP3
Ron: > You should just install Debian and make the users the way you said, > after that everyone will be able to receive and send mail. > Of course after a correct configuration of sendmail. Hmmm...that doesn't seem to be working. I can send mail to my Debian box, and my local Debian users can read it. When I try to connect to the Debian box with Outlook Express, however, the connection fails. I assume that is because there is no POP3 server running. Is sendmail a POP3 server? ======== A. Scott White Director of Information Systems and Product Strategy ACS Healthcare Solutions Group
POP3
Okay, I've changed my mind. I want to migrate my company's mail server to my Debian box. My users are all running Windows boxes, so I don't want them to ever login to the server except to check mail. I want the migration from our current server to be transparent to the end user. Here's what I think I need to do. Please correct any errors I make. 1. Create a user (using adduser) for each mail user (i.e. [EMAIL PROTECTED]) 2. Make each user's password equivalent to their current pop3 password (so that the mail clients they have won't need to be reconfigured) 3. Set up a POP3 server. If this is correct, then what POP3 server is a typical default for Debian (if there is one). Thanks. ============ A. Scott White Director of Information Systems and Product Strategy ACS Healthcare Solutions Group
RE: NTP
Now that my ntp is working, is there a particular ntp server I should use? I'm using clock.via.net because it is listed at http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/clock1.htm as: - Service Area: All areas - Access Policy: open access Is there a set of criteria or a protocol for picking an ntp server, or are they all the same? I'm in the Dallas, Texas area, if that matters. Thanks. ======== A. Scott White Director of Information Systems and Product Strategy ACS Healthcare Solutions Group
RE: NTP
Nathan: > If your system is way off, ntp will refuse to update the clock on > the assumption that the remote server is insane. > > Soluiton: install ntpdate, edit /etc/init.d/ntpdate to sync to > the ntp server at startup, and then ntp will keep things synced after > that. That did it! Thanks! ============ A. Scott White Director of Information Systems and Product Strategy ACS Healthcare Solutions Group
NTP
Can anyone tell me how to get ntp running? I installed the package using dselect, and it looks like it's there. The daemon is running, and the run-level start scripts exist. Unfortunately, my time is still wrong. Any suggestions? Thanks. ==== A. Scott White Director of Information Systems and Product Strategy ACS Healthcare Solutions Group
RE: MUAs (was Re: Help with the /etc/init.d/network)
Thanks to all for the MUA advice. I can see that I'm going to have to learn some new things (again), like MTAs. Linux has an amazing ability to laugh at your years as a computer professional make you feel like an idiot. But that's what's so [EMAIL PROTECTED] great about it. ======== A. Scott White Director of Information Systems and Product Strategy Healthcare Solutions Group Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
obsolete packages in dselect
I recently upgraded to Potato and Linux 2.2.15 Now, when I go into dselect->select several packages are listed as Obsolete. What, exactly, does this mean? Should I remove these packages? Thanks. ==== A. Scott White Director of Information Systems and Product Strategy Healthcare Solutions Group Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Help with the /etc/init.d/network
Ethan Benson wrote: > that is because outlook is broken and does not understand > RFC2015. What Linux MUA should I use. I'd like one that has a complete feature set and doesn't rely on X (I don't like X). Also, most of the MUA's I've looked at don't clearly define a way to specify checking a corporate SMTP server. They all seem to want to check the mail on the Linux box itself. I'm really not interested in using this Linux box as a mail server, as I already have an SMTP server. I just want to use it to check mail. Thanks. ======== A. Scott White Director of Information Systems and Product Strategy Healthcare Solutions Group Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Help with the /etc/init.d/network
Ethan: > to the original poster, reply & change subject != new message > ... > the former screws up threading in mailing list archives and in > MUAs such as mutt. please always create a new message and paste > the list address in instead of using reply as a shortcut, or if > you post often create an alias/address book entry for the list > address. thank you. I always new I was being watched. Pardon my ignorance. I had no idea that any mechanism for tracking threads existed other than the subject line. I'll keep that in mind. Incidentally, how exactly does thread tracking work? I assume there is a header of some kind. Maybe I'll hack it out. Interesting. Well, you learn something new everyday (especially when you don't know much). Thanks. ======== A. Scott White Director of Information Systems and Product Strategy Healthcare Solutions Group Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Help with the /etc/init.d/network
Can anyone tell me exactly what this line accomplishes:
[ "${GATEWAY}" ] && route add default gw ${GATEWAY} metric 1
I'm pretty sure it adds the default gateway setting for TCP/IP, but I don't
understand what it means, exactly. Could you explain:
1. The script syntax
2. the commands involved
I'd appreciate it. Thanks.
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A. Scott White
Director of Information Systems and Product Strategy
Healthcare Solutions Group
Affiliated Computer Services, Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Compiling New Kernel
I have just installed Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 with kernel 2.0.36 and wanted to update the kernel to 2.2 I downloaded the source code for the Linux kernel 2.2.15 I was reading the Documentation/Changes document to make sure I had the necessary versions of the various software packages. I found that the recommended versions for a couple of packages are newer than the versions available through dselect. These are: package dselect version recommended version == == Procps 1.2.9-3 2.0.3 Util-linux 2.9g-6 2.9z I have updated my dselect packages list, and it appears that no newer versions are available. Do I need to change my access URL's for dselect? If so, which are recommended? Also, the Documentation/Changes document requires procinfo version 16. As far as I can tell, I do not even have procinfo on my system. It is also not listed (as far as I can see) in dselect. Is this package important? Thanks. ===== A. Scott White - Director, Information Systems Affiliated Computer Services - Healthcare Solutions Group
