Re: Oracle
Martin: alien -i oracle.rpm (or whatever the filename turns out to be) that sounds like the best ~/.plan to me. - DeJay. _ / Bedrock \__ | http://bedrock.dyn.ml.org/dejay | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| |_| On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, Martin Oldfield wrote: Alex == Alex Yukhimets [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alex Debian is not a company to sign up with. You can use Alex Oracle on Debian with no problems whatsoever. It is even Alex distributed in plain tarballs and not rpms. You can download Alex it right now, if you want. Personally I think that this misses the point. If Oracle support RedHat and I can just get the software and install it then it's a much more attractive proposition than having to install tarballs on Debian. Is it too much to hope that Debian's supposedly superior technology would persuade Oracle to release their software in a .deb ?
Re: beginner, system questions
Greetings. I saw that a few people have already answered your question, but I thought I would give you a little more to go on to help you get started. I've compiled a list of linux sites and organized them in a way that hopefully caters more to the beginners. http://bedrock.dyn.ml.org/dejay/linux Select the Documentation section and visit UNIXhelp for Users. My web pages (particularly the linux section) are still in development, but then again, that's what linux is all about. In the near future, I will be focusing on putting in my own comments and documentation throughout, so check back often. Hope this helps. - DeJay. On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Aldinga Library wrote: I have an NEC powermate 468 sx-25i with 4mb ram and 120mb hd, with floppy drive only. I use the internet at the local public library. I have done a bare minimum install of 8 floppies by internet ftp. I have some questions. I have a floppy with several text files on it, How do you list the filenames and file sizes on the floppy disk. How do you copy an individual file from the floppy disk. How do you save an individual file to the floppy disk. I cant seem to find how to do this. The system clock is about two hours incorrect. Logged in as root, I have tried setting the system clock with the date command but the system clock goes back to the old time when I reboot. How do I set the system clock and make it permanent. How do you alter screen and text colors, rather than the standard monochrome. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null _ / Bedrock \__ | http://bedrock.dyn.ml.org/dejay | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| |_|
Re: X Installation
X on a 386? *laff* Don't bother. I've been there, done that, as the saying goes. However, if you really enjoy pain that much, try using the most generic settings: SVGA driver at 640x480 resoltion. Make sure you look at the README file for your video card.. Start your machine again without trying to use X, then as root, use XF86Setup Make sure you read all the screens carefully, as there are many subtle things one could easily overlook. FYI, when I tried running Netscape on my 386 with 8M RAM (30M swap), it locked up my machine every time. you've been warned. - DeJay. On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Rodrigo Moya wrote: Hi all!!! I just installed Debian 2.0 in a 386 machine, during configuration of packages, I was asked if I wanted to create the XF86Config file, I said 'yes' and after specifying my card, mouse, etc, it tried to switch to graphics mode. All the screen went blank, so I had to reboot. Now, how can I continue the setup (not only X setup) process from the point it stopped (well, I stopped), since X is not configured yet. I am sure I put the correct settings (Oak (Generic) monitor, microsoft mouse, Extender Super VGA 800x600, spanish keyboard layout...), so what happened? Thanks -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null _ / Bedrock \__ | http://bedrock.dyn.ml.org/dejay | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| |_|
Re: locked keyboard messed screen
In a pinch, here's a few rescue commands: if you're remote, to kill the X server without rebooting: killall -9 startx If you're at the console: ctrl+alt+backspace To put your console's virtual terminals back into a sane state: stty sane /dev/tty1 (etc.) Sometimes, I have been able to use the trick of changing runlevels to do this for me all at once: init 2 init 3 (where runlevel 3 is my default with full network and xdm support, and runlevel 2 is the same as 3 but without xdm) Hope this helps. - DeJay. On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: Hi, I having some troubles to reset keyb and screen of a linux server. I can connect to it via ssh/telnet but can't reset its local login prompt. The keyboard is locked, crtl+alt+func didn't work; the screen is messed with several graphics patterns. The problem started just with a startx by a normal user. I tried to put xdm and it works ok. Even with X running, the virtual consoles doesn't work. When xdm stop things come back to caos. I tried some actions (kill -HUP, MAKEDEV tty1-6) and can't get the login prompt again. What could I do except shutdown the server? Thanks. Mario O.de Menezes | Many are the plans in a man's heart, but IPEN-CNEN/SP | is the Lord's purpose that prevails Prov. 19.21 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null _ / Bedrock \__ | http://bedrock.dyn.ml.org/dejay | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| |_|
Re: invisible network card
i had a lot of trouble with mine at first also... so i ran the dos-based eeprom setup program for it. i used that to change the card's software settings to the irq and base-i/o i wanted.. after that, i finished installing it in my sleep. you can get the program from intel's ftp site, but if you still have trouble finding it, let me know and i will send you my copy. - DeJay. On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, John Watts wrote: Many thanks to those who tried helping with my earlier questions on compiling the network driver I thought that I needed. Anyway, another question. I have an EtherExpress 16 network card the system I'm trying to set up as a linux box. Linux refuses to believe it's there when I try to install the drivers for it. Modconf gives me a rejected: invalid address every time. I've tried specifying the io and irq with no luck. Is this card just a piece of cr*p(possible) or am I missing something obvious (very possible) Rgds John Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null _ / Bedrock \__ | http://bedrock.dyn.ml.org/dejay | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| |_|
Re: HP ScanJet Plus + Debian 2.0 (fwd)
Ray, Thanks for the input. Some things are making a lot more sense here. I'll make comments below. On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Raymond A. Ingles wrote: On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Bedrock LAN Administrator wrote: Greetings folx. I have an old HP ScanJet Plus connected to my parallel port that I cannot seem to get working with Debian 2.0 no matter what I try. If it's the scanner I'm thinking of (8bit grayscale scanner) it needs a proprietary interface card to function, which isn't much like a parallel port, except for the cable. Does it work with DOS/Windows? 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) The ScanJet Plus is not listed as one of the supported scanners at the SANE website. I'm pretty sure you're going to have a lot of trouble getting this to work. You may have to write a driver yourself. I noticed before that it was not explicitly listed, but I was hoping that some of the newer drivers might be backward-compatible. I took a look at hpscanpbm, which is a command-line program to scan from HP scanners direct to a file, and which the SANE HP driver is based on: This program controls Hewlett-Packard ScanJet series scanners. It captures the image based on command-line parameters, and provides it as a thresholded, dithered, grayscale, or full-color Portable Pixmap. This is not a device driver; your ScanJet should be connected to a SCSI adapter that is supported by Linux (which does not include the card that came with the ScanJet). This program uses the generic SCSI interface, so this feature must be available in the kernel. 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. :) It doesn't look promising... architecture, with the I/O card in an ISA slot. Is this I/O card the one that came with the ScanJet? Does it work as a regular parallel port (can you plug a printer or perhaps a Zip drive into it?) The I/O card is actually a multi-I/O.. EIDE+Floppy+Serial+Parallel. All are enabled and working properly. Yes, I have had a dot-matrix printer working on the parallel port before. This time, however, I modified my /etc/printcap to contain only one remote-printer definition pointing to my other linux box. Thus, lpd should not be trying to use this parallel port and should not be conflicting with the scanner software or device. If so, it's just barely possible you might be able to get this to work. From what I understand, the Zip drives talk some funky SCSI-over-parallel language. *If* you can get that parallel-to-SCSI converter module, and *if* it talks the same way to the ScanJet, it *might* work... I'm aware of the SCSI emulator kernel module... I forgot to check that a moment ago while rebuilding my kernel, though... I can go back and try that tomorrow. Also, I *do* have a SCSI-Parallel adapter kicking around which was given to me with the scanner. I also have a SCSI card floating around which is known to work with the NCR-5380 module. I suppose that I could add those two components, but at first, this seemed like overkill... perhaps now it is the way to go. misconfigured). I created a link /dev/scanner - /dev/lp0 when I run xcam and tell it to use either pnm:0 or pnm:1 (what are these?) it ^^ These are dummy scanners, for testing purposes. When you scan with them, it just reads a graphics file in PNM format off the disk. This makes perfect sense now. The last time that I saw 'pnm:' though, was with rvplayer5.0 in 'pnm://www.ithaca.edu/radio/vic/viclive.ram' or something like that. Sincerely, Ray Ingles (248) 377-7735 [EMAIL PROTECTED] One man's 'magic' is another man's 'engineering'. 'Supernatural' is a null word. - Robert Heinlein Forgive me for not chopping out all the extraneous info here... it's in the interest of my time ;-) - DeJay. _ / Bedrock \__ | http://bedrock.dyn.ml.org/dejay | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| |_|
Re: X Installation
On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: De Jay wrote FYI, when I tried running Netscape on my 386 with 8M RAM (30M swap), it locked up my machine every time. you've been warned. Did you have a coprocessor, and did you have xfs running? yes, I had a coprocessor. I believe you are referring to 'xdm', not xfs. i had xdm running as well. xfs (dos-based nfs client) was running on my 286, while pcnfsd nfsd and mountd were running on my 386. netscape took between 8 and 15 minutes to load, and as soon as I landed on a page with too much animation (animated gifs or java scripts, it didn't matter), netscape would lock up my whole machine. i used every trick in the book to kill netscape and/or get back into the machine with another console or another terminal... but even my serial-line terminal was locked up, so I know that there was no way back in. BTW, only 70% of my virtual memory was occupied when it crashed. if you have any suggestions that I have not thought of yet, i am willing to try them :-) - DeJay. _ / Bedrock \__ | http://bedrock.dyn.ml.org/dejay | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| |_| A yar and a half or so ago, someone using macbsd without a coprocessor found that, contrary to what was believed, mosaic did work with an emulated coprocessor. He got called away and returned an hour later, discovering that it had launched. Selecting fonts with no postscript equivalent for *everythign* and running xfs make all the difference in the world. For that matter, even with a 486 coprocessor, they make the difference between painful usable. X is single-threaded. While it renders a font,, it can do nothing else. And on a slow machine without a coprocessor, this takes a very long time. With a 486/33, it can take a couple of minutes. By running xfs, you can keep the rest of X running to do something else (like hit keys to switch to a console :) rick -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: lowmem installation trouble
I've had a similar hardware configuration running linux before, but that was Slackware 3.0 (when *it* was considered NEW). I've not tried Debian with only 4M of RAM (and hercules card), but I can tell you that Debian 2.0 liked my 386 with 8M RAM. The Debian installation process, however, does take up a LOT more RAM than slackware or even RedHat does... at least, based on my experience. I'm not sure how much the lowmemrd image really does require now, even though the standard used to be 4M. I hate to steer you away from Debian, but I the only solutions I can suggest is to either upgrade to 8M (a $20 investment) or try another distribution like Slackware. Even if you do get it working with 4M of RAM, your machine will spend more time swapping than it will doing any productive work. If anyone else DOES know how to FORCE debian to work with only 4M of RAM, please forward the solution to me as well. :) Here is what I have on my 386 with 8M (running RedHat 5.0): [EMAIL PROTECTED] /root]# free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 6600 6204396 4252236 2168 -/+ buffers/cache: 3800 2800 Swap:30864 5132 25732 - DeJay. p.s. my 486 is running Debian 2.0 ;-) _ / Bedrock \__ | http://bedrock.dyn.ml.org/dejay | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| |_| On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Nathan Hendler wrote: I am trying to install Debian on my 386 w/ 4Megs of RAM and hercules video. Using the lowmem.bin image, here is what happens... boot: [I hit Enter.] Loading lowmemrd.bin ... That's as far as she goes. It hangs there, all night. I have to hard reboot. Using the resc1440.bin image I get... SYSLINUX 1.40-2.1 [etc...] Boot failed Using the lowmemrd.bin image I get... [beep] Nothing at all, no error, and I have to hard reboot. Using the root.bin image gets me the same result. Ok, obviously I don't know a whole lot about what I am doing. Can anyone help me out? I've installed FreeBSD and Linux before, but always on more modern systems with CDROMs. Thanks, Nathan Hendler -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Problem using vi in telnet session
I often have to manually set my terminal type to 'vt100' every time I log into my linux box from the windoze machine in my office. export TERM=vt100 then all works fine. You might also want to look into using the stty command to rebind certain keys to match what your terminal emulator sends. as in: stty erase ^? where you press the backspace character to get ^? I agree that the telnet app that comes with windoze sucks, but I found it easier to find these workarounds than to install a new telnet client on every windoze machine I visit when I want to telnet to my real machine. Hope this helps. - DeJay. _ / Bedrock \__ | http://bedrock.dyn.ml.org/dejay | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| |_| On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Steve Lamb wrote: On Tue, 06 Oct 1998 08:19:09 -0400, Jeff Miller wrote: I recently took a class on Unix and we used Win95 machines to Telnet into our server and vi acted weird. The instructor acknowledged this and said that there was nothing we could do. I would suggest using a Windoze X Client software in place of Telnet. We use Exceed and it works well. There may be something available that is free but I don't know. Tera Term works quite well in conjunction with Screen. The telnet that came with Windows is lousy emulation and should not be used except in extreme cases. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. ---+- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: URGENT !!! SYSTEM BROKEN (CONT)
If you can boot to your hard drive from floppy, then do so, log in as root, then try this: cd /dev ./MAKEDEV console then try rebooting from the hard drive. For some strange reason, /dev/console is easily corrupted and then causes a LOT of weird problems like this. - DeJay. _ / Bedrock \__ | http://bedrock.dyn.ml.org/dejay | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| |_| On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, G. Kapetanios wrote: Following to my prvious email I have installed lilo. the system can boot from floppy. However, when I try to boot from disk the boot starts but it hangs with the following message VFS Mounted root (ext2) filesystem Unable to open an initial console This does not happen with the floppy boot. Any ideas ? George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Multi-partitions
Just something to add to this (although Randy is correct): Let's say you have a 1.2GB /dev/hda. Make the partitions something like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] fdisk -l Disk /dev/hda: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 621 cylinders Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes Device Boot BeginStart End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 *11 258 506 DOS FAT /dev/hda2 259 259 2641 83 Linux native /dev/hda3 265 265 589 623000 83 Linux native /dev/hda3 589 589 62162496 82 Linux swap and you would have them mounted like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mount /dev/hda1 on /dos type msdos (rw) /dev/hda2 on /boot type ext2 (rw) /dev/hda3 on / type ext2 (rw) Note that the /boot partition shown here as 10M can be as small as 3M, and must be above that 1024 cylinder boundary. This, however, maximizes the space you can have for dos and still allow you to boot into linux without LILO complaining. Note also that you'll have to move your kernel into the /boot directory, modify your /etc/lilo.conf file to reflect that you moved the kernel, and then re-run lilo before attempting to reboot linux. I used a calculator to produce the values show in the table above, so your actuall numbers will vary slightly.. but the principle is the same. ;-) Oh, as far as which one to install first, go for debian. After you install DOS, you'll most likely have to use your debian's boot floppy to kickstart the machine then re-run LILO, as DOS will overwrite the MBR (erasing LILO's boot code). - DeJay. On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Randy Edwards wrote: DOS is fairly fussy about where it wants its partitions. If I were you, I'd make a small DOS partition with DOS (how large is this supposed to be? Beware of the ~510MB/1024 cylinder BIOS problems), install DOS onto it, and then install Debian elsewhere on the hard drive using Linux's fdisk to make your new partitions. -- Regards,| Debian GNU/ __ o http://www.debian.org . |/ / _ _ _ _ _ __ __ Randy | / /__ / / / \// //_// \ \/ / ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | // /_/ /_/\/ /___/ /_/\_\ http://www.golgotha.net | ...because lockups are for convicts... -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null _ / Bedrock \__ | http://bedrock.dyn.ml.org/dejay | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| |_|
Re: // in paths
yes, i've seen it: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /# cd etc/.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] //# cd etc/.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] /# and repeat this ad-nauseum can't explain this, though, as I've only seen this happen with debian! - DeJay. _ / Bedrock \__ | http://bedrock.dyn.ml.org/dejay | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| |_| On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, David S. Zelinsky wrote: When I type (in bash): % type foo it returns foo is /usr/local/bin//foo with two /'s before `foo'. (I get the same effect with `csh' and `which'.) Has anyone else seen this behavior? Anyone know what's causing it? Or how to fix it? I'm using Debian 2.0 (hamm); kernel version 2.0.34 Thanks. David Zelinsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
HP ScanJet Plus + Debian 2.0 (fwd)
Greetings folx. I have an old HP ScanJet Plus connected to my parallel port that I cannot seem to get working with Debian 2.0 no matter what I try. The parallel port has Base I/O address 0x378. I believe that this is /dev/lp0. Someone please confirm / correct this for me. Secondly, I'm running Debian 2.0 out of the box (from CheapBytes 4 CD distribution, if it matters). It's an Intel 486/dx4-100, VLB architecture, with the I/O card in an ISA slot. I've killed lpd so as to not conflict with the scanner software, 'saned'. I manually (re-)loaded the lp.o module. I've configured /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf, /etc/hosts.equiv, along with every other file that I can think of that is mentioned in the saned(1) manpage (but perhaps there's something here that I overlooked or misconfigured). I created a link /dev/scanner - /dev/lp0 when I run xcam and tell it to use either pnm:0 or pnm:1 (what are these?) it tells me Failed to start Scanner: Invalid argument on that device. I've tried specifying /dev/lp0 and /dev/scanner and get the same invalid parameter result. It almost sounds like there is a module that needs to be loaded in the kernel and is being overlooked. Can anyone offer some clues here? Thanks in advance for your help. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ / Bedrock \__ | http://bedrock.dyn.ml.org/dejay | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| |_|
