[Fwd: OK I'm stupid. How do I get to my floppy and other hard partition?]
--- Begin Message --- I have seen the replies to you about how to get to your floppy. It got me wondering. In the realm of curiousity I play with linux for a while until I realize it is intruding into my work life and get back to WIN 95 & NT. Everytime I get back to try and use linux for something I have to relearn doing simple things like trying to use a floppy. Gets irritating. No flames , but I thought that there was a project that would make it easy for us folks who just want to use an X app like star office etc and once in a while copy something to floppy or someother mundane task without recompiling or going through the hoops. For example I use MC a lot and wish something like that is builtin. Point & click. People bad mouth windows, but it is very simple to use even NT. Chuma Tristan Day wrote: > It's me again, I'm stupid. I come with a label on me saying "Please help > this poor inexperienced ex-DOS user who knows nothing about linux!" > > how do I get to my floppy without using mtools and how do I get to my other > hard drive partition? I have got Windows NT (sorry) on the other partition > and all my stuff is there so it's imperitive that I get into it. > > cfdisk says it's hda4 but I can't get into it... > > Thanks everyone... > > PS if you know somewhere that will give me a load of simple Linux codes then > please tell me! > > PPS Please give any reply in simple English, as if you were teaching a child > how to do it... > > -- > E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- End Message ---
Re: Why use pgp?
How about the so called Certificate Authorities? Should one use them ? And if am paranoid should I trust them ? What if I impersonate someone and give out keys under their name ? I read something about such issues long ago , but still don't understand. Chuma Dan Hugo wrote: > Will Lowe wrote: > > > > On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Tim Thomson wrote: > > > > > I know why you would want to use it to send encrypted messages, but why do > > > you want to sign your messages? > > Well, we use it to sign other things. Like, for example, when I upload > > a new debian package, I sign it so that the people who run ftp.debian.org > > (and eventually you) know that that package really came from me -- I put > > my name on it, so I'd like to make sure noone's releasing stuff under my > > name without my authorization. By the same token, you'd like to make > > sure that I'm the person who did it, so that if there's a bug, or if it > > releases some horrible plague on your computer, you can get ahold of me. > > :) > > Something that might be less obvious is the fact that signing a message > not only authenticates the author (assuming your signature, or public > key, is available for someone to use for this purpose) of a message or > piece of code, but it also allows one to authenicate the content of the > message or code. Public key encryption like PGP would allow the same > thing to a limited number of users for an encrypted message, but if, > using the same example, I want to post to a newsgroup and I want to make > sure that what I post is not altered in some way, I could sign it, and > then anyone who was interested could verify that the content that > appears on the group is what I actually posted (once they get my public > key). > > Same goes for that code example... anyone who hacks the code between the > source and desitination would not be able to create an authentic > signature for the new content, so that the recipient could (should) > authenticate the message for content and author (or signer, actually), > then decide if the content is what it was when it was posted or sent, > and that the author or signor is trustworthy. > > It's all very cool... > > Check out Applied Cryptography, by Bruce Schneier, John Wiley & Sons, > Inc 1996, as it is pretty much THE text on this sort of thing. There > are many web sites as well. > > > Some people just have pine set up to auto-sign everything. > > If I recall correctly, there are cases where one shouldn't sign > something. If I can remember any, I'll post 'em... > > Hopefully, nothing changed in this message. > > -dh > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Partitioning
Hi Gertjan One thing still puzzles me that I hope you can clear up for me. Supposing I buy a brand new hard disk. IDE, SCSI or whatever. To use it, I have to partition it, using a utility like FDISK . FDISK writes the MBR and Partition Table. Right ? If I go and start copying files to any of the partitions, the data can't be read. Because I have to format or initialize the partition before writing to it . Right ? So how come the system can write/read the MBR and partition table ??? Chuma -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
pppd 2.3.1
Does pppd version 2.3.1 have demand dial built into it or does one still have to use diald with it. And can it be used with linux 2.0.29 ? Chuma -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Diald
Can someone please send me a working copy of their diald-options file. So I can find out what is wrong with my setup or non-setup ? I think that's where the problem lies because when I disable diald and use pon everything works. This linux has fought me every inch of the way. But I really want to rely on it. Thanks Chuma -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
diald vs ipmasquerade
Do diald and ipmasquerading serve the same purpose ? Or do I have to use both ? I have a 3 node ethernet lan. The all had windows on them. Now I installed Linux 2.0.29 (debian 1.3) on the unit that has the modem on it. And would like the other units to access the internet via the modem on LINUX unit. So I have diald running on the linux. The windows node have the linux unit as their gateway. But if I ping an IP diald doesn't dial. What next ? Thanks. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Proposal on PPP
You realize that xisp is an X windows application. And the proposal is to have a PPP frontend that will fit in the base floppy. Chuma Bruce Perens wrote: > All that is necessary is for the xisp package to install a file in > /usr/lib/menu, that will hook it into the menu system of the Debian > "menu" package. > > Thanks > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Installing a generic PCI network card
I had a 16 bit NE2000 card in my desktop. - An AMD 166 based computer. Since I wanted to add a third system (using a 486) I replaced the 16 bit NIC with a PCI NE2000. So I go to recompile in the PCI NE2000 into the Linux on the AMD computer. During make config, I pick PCI. Well linux would not see the PCI card. I finally told it I had other ISA NE2000 and LINUX saw it (Just like before) except that IRQ and base address changed. Why is it being used as a 16 bit card. Or is it running as a 32 bit ? Chuma -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: My neverending unstable xlib6 / xcontrib saga
Yes I noticed what you report. But I have no sugestion. Not having anytime to play hide and seek, I simply left 3.3-5 in there . At least for now. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi! I haven't seen any other messages on the list or bug reports about > this, so maybe I'm overlooking something really basic... Anyway, the > problem is: > > I have tried each successive version of xlib6 from unstable after 3.3-5, > (the latest of which being 3.3.1-2), and even though Motif apps work > fine with the newer ones, pretty much every xcontrib client can't find > its app-defaults file and thus looks really bizarre and is mostly or > totally non-functional. I can sort of solve the problem by copying the > app-defaults files to my home directory, but I don't particularly like > them cluttering it up, so I've ended up downgrading back to good old > reliable xlib6_3.3-5.deb. > > Has anyone else noticed this? What can I do to fix this? (aside from > downloading the xcontrib source and recompiling everything) > > I hope this is the right list to send this to! > > Cheers > > Dave > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Can't login anymore
Thanks Oliver. You nailed it. I had forced install of libreadlineg2, libc6 and a bunch of other stuff postgresql 6.2.1 was complaining about that it needed. Boy! am I sorry I did that. What a mess. My dotmatrix printer now prints a line a minute. Still can't figure that one out. Fixed startx. Anyway you mentioned changing /bin/bash to some other shell. I tried csh and it made it possible to login. But when I tried to run some scripts I got segmentation fault. So I reinstalled libreadline2 from cdrom. Booted and I get my usuual login prompt. Now maybe you can help. How do I get libreadling2 to install. With it I can run the progres psql. Without it I get a buzzing sound until I control-C. I think I still have libc6 in there. But maybe that's why am having trouble with printing. Also can you tell me what version of progres you run . Incidently I sent you a message a few days before I got into this jam. To olly@lfix.co.uk and pointed out to you that the URL in your signature is broken. Thanks. Chuma Oliver Elphick wrote: > Chuma Agbodike wrote: > >Right after I installed postgres 6.2.1 and played with is a little I > >can't log into my LINUX anymore. Everything goes on as usual until it > >reaches: > >INIT: entering runlevel: 2 > >Then it differs from what it used to do, which is start the various > >daemons > >Now it says: Debian Linux 1.3 (none) tty1 > >(none) ? That's not what it used to say. > > > >(none) login: > > > >No matter how I login : even as root it takes me back to (none) login: > > > >If I try it loops also on the following: > > > >"Give root password for maintenance" > >(or type Control-D for normal startup): > > > >Only way out is a hard reset > > > >Please help. If there is any way rather than reinstall. > > You need to find what in particular is broken. Boot from your floppy or > CD and investigate. > > The login prompt is started by getty, which then calls login, which then > starts a shell. /etc/init.d/rc is a bash shellscript as well, and bash is > what you would get into from the single-user login; so it looks as if your > bash has been damaged, or perhaps a shared library that bash needs: > $ ldd /bin/bash > libreadline.so.2 => /lib/libreadline.so.2 (0x40011000) > libncurses.so.3.4 => /lib/libncurses.so.3.4 (0x40033000) > libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x40078000) > libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4007b000) > /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x4000) > > Try booting from a floppy/CD and putting /bin/ash (or whatever other shell > you have that doesn't depend on an unmounted file-system) in the shell field > of > the password entry (make sure you edit the one on your hard disk, rather than > on the ramdisk.) > > Incidentally, I have installed postgresql a number of times with no problem. > > -- > Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver > > PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Can't login anymore
Right after I installed postgres 6.2.1 and played with is a little I can't log into my LINUX anymore. Everything goes on as usual until it reaches: INIT: entering runlevel: 2 Then it differs from what it used to do, which is start the various daemons Now it says: Debian Linux 1.3 (none) tty1 (none) ? That's not what it used to say. (none) login: No matter how I login : even as root it takes me back to (none) login: If I try it loops also on the following: "Give root password for maintenance" (or type Control-D for normal startup): Only way out is a hard reset Please help. If there is any way rather than reinstall. Chuma -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Samba Samba
Thanks Adam. I had tried that before. But after I got your response I went and checked again. I had write permisions in the bottom directory of /var/spool/lpd/. So I made spool and lpd world writeable also. It works now. Thanks again. For a while I was wondering whether my message got out, because I got no response. Chuma Adam Shand wrote: > > How can I persuade Samba to let everyone print ? > > If user is not admin user I get Access denied writing to the printer > > when I click on > > Print. As soon as I add user to admin user then samba prints. > > That is not a samba issue it's an lp issue. Check permissions on > everything in /var/spool/lp/... Probably only people in the > admin group have write permissions to the spool directory. > > Adam. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Comparison of ultra dma disks vs scsi?
Is Ultra ATA same as Ultra DMA and Ultra DMA/33 ? And if a drive is ultra DMA do I have to get a different adapter than the EIDE built into the pentium mother board ? Chuma Tommy Lakofski wrote: > >From my experience, the CPU is still too involved in UltraDMA transfers to > offer better performance than SCSI. HD manufacturers still make their > best drives SCSI-only also AFAIK. UDMA's very cheap though. ;) > > -TL > > On Sun, 2 Nov 1997, butch wrote: > > > From: butch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Date: Sun, 2 Nov 1997 09:17:44 -0500 > > Subject: Comparison of ultra dma disks vs scsi? > > > > Hello, > > > > I have been planning to put together my ultimate linux machine and and when > > i get to the disks system there seems to be a successor to scsi for the > > ultimate price/performance. has anyone used an ultra drive and how does the > > actual perfomance compare to uw scsi? > > > > thanks, > > > > allan > > > > > > -- > > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > > > --(fortune.sig)-- > "Irrationality is the square root of all evil" > -- Douglas Hofstadter > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Samba Samba
The only time Samba agrees to print HERE is when I make the user an admin user. That is using the NT as a samba client. And use the printer attached to the LINUX box. I have LINUX 2.0.29 networked to an NT 4.0 server. How can I persuade Samba to let everyone print ? If user is not admin user I get Access denied writing to the printer when I click on Print. As soon as I add user to admin user then samba prints. Thanks -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: [Fwd: My printer is missing]
Solved ! Uncommented auto in /etc/modules. Saw extra lp in conf.modules. Was reading "options lp lp io=0x378 irq=7" removed the extra lp. Rebooted and the printer shuddered. Was not doing that before. Then I noticed that the printer was being accessed every minute or so but nothing was printing. Went and cleared the spooler. But still could not print. Checked the messages file in logs and saw several refernces to lp0. But printcap had refernce to lp1. Corrected and it's printing now. Now I can move on to samba to see if I can print from NT server to LINUX printer. Chuma Chuma Agbodike wrote: > > > > Subject: My printer is missing > Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 04:22:22 + > From: Chuma Agbodike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I have a 2 node network. I run winNT, win95 , DOS and LINUX > installed. > I only recently installed LINUX 2.0.29 though I had messed with it off > and on since 0.99 > Anyway I usually print from win95 or NT. Then one day I wanted to get a > hard copy > of a short text in LINUX. oops! no go. did lpq. and stuff was in que. > > I looked the the spooler log and I am told the printer daemon (lpd) > could not find > /dev/lp1. Well I know it's there. So I do /proc/devices. Indeed it is > not there. > > How do I get it back in there ? I am running LPRNG with magicfilter. > > So far I deleted printcap, re-installed lprng, and re-ran > magicfilterconfig to generate > a new printcap. My PCI mbd insists on forcing use of an IRQ instead of > allowing polling > so I tell LINUX via lilo.conf to use iobase addrs 0x378 and IRQ 7. > > Still no go. I modprobe lp.o and the printer shudders. Yet I still can't > print from LINUX. > > Oh I had installed samba a few days ago. Was able to talk to NT server > from linux, but thats about it. Have not had time to play more with it. > > Chuma -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
[Fwd: My printer is missing]
--- Begin Message --- I have a 2 node network. I run winNT, win95 , DOS and LINUX installed. I only recently installed LINUX 2.0.29 though I had messed with it off and on since 0.99 Anyway I usually print from win95 or NT. Then one day I wanted to get a hard copy of a short text in LINUX. oops! no go. did lpq. and stuff was in que. I looked the the spooler log and I am told the printer daemon (lpd) could not find /dev/lp1. Well I know it's there. So I do /proc/devices. Indeed it is not there. How do I get it back in there ? I am running LPRNG with magicfilter. So far I deleted printcap, re-installed lprng, and re-ran magicfilterconfig to generate a new printcap. My PCI mbd insists on forcing use of an IRQ instead of allowing polling so I tell LINUX via lilo.conf to use iobase addrs 0x378 and IRQ 7. Still no go. I modprobe lp.o and the printer shudders. Yet I still can't print from LINUX. Oh I had installed samba a few days ago. Was able to talk to NT server from linux, but thats about it. Have not had time to play more with it. Chuma --- End Message ---
Re: mouse/X compatibility problem
If it works in win95 and you see mouse cursor like you say, I suspect whoever configured you X picked the wrong mouse device. Check your X86config file. I belive it's in /etc/X11 . Also make sure you indeed have a serial mouse. Win95 is capable of detecting PS2, BUS and serial mice. LINUX X must be told what you have. And what device to use to access it. Chuma Larry Gariepy wrote: > Hello. >I am mailing a message that I posted earlier on the newsgroup because a > friend of mine informed me that many people subscribe to the list but do > not check the newsgroup that often. > - > I am a new Debian user. With a great deal of help from a friend (read: > he installed and debugged it for me), I now have Debian Linux 1.3.1 on > my Pentium 233. It is set up as a dual boot machine, with Win95. > > My problem is that X Windows doesn't seem to recognize my mouse, though > it works under Win95, and you even get a mouse cursor when logged in to > a vt100 terminal. The mouse is just a standard Microsoft serial mouse. > > If anyone has had this problem, or even if you haven't and know how to > fix it, any advice would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > Larry Gariepy > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ps. I have two friends who are Debian gurus, and they were unable to > diagnose the problem (other than to recommend buying a new mouse!), so > it leads me to believe this problem is non-trivial. > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: 3C509 acting strangely on Win95/Debian dual boot system
I remember having similar problems . When I got my Infomagic 6 CD set, and wrote the install (rescue) diskette, LINUX wouldn't even boot. It will hang at the spot where it is looking for SCSI device. Well after several attempts at this I abandoned the idea of LINUX. Then after several weeks, I tried again and it came up and let me install LINUX. But it froze again when I tried to boot from hard disk and even the rescue disk like old. I forget the sequence of things. pwr down, boot win95, boot DOS. Soon I had Linux again. So I proceeded to recompile. Took references of any stuff I dont use out of the config. Added append "ether=11,0x340" to LILO.CONF ..yours may vary!! I dont have that problem anymore. Wait!! I do when I pop in the RESCUE diskette. So I suggest rebuilding your favorite kernel. kevin havener wrote: > The problem began when the network guys switched from Novell server to > NT Server...in the process they (up/down)graded me from WfW 3.11 to Win > 95 on my local machine. This machine has Debian 1.3.4 (whatever) on it > and I dual boot with regularity. > > When rebooting into Linux from W95 everything works great. YESS! > When rebooting into W95 from Linux, I have to power cycle the machine to > get it to recognize my 3C509 ethernet card. I've been doing this for a > couple of months now...I'm just now getting tired of this behavior. > > So far my network admins have suggested that I run their configuration > managed linux kernel 2.0.23 or something using loadlin. Didn't work. > I'm put LILO back in place. Didn't work. Went back to my 2.0.29 and > now 2.0.30 debian kernel. Still doesn't work. > Hey don't blame Wintel. Where would we be if they didn't give usthe opportunity to get our hands on PCs ? > Now you and I know this is almost assuredly a micro$oft W95/NT problem. > Has anyone else encounterd this problem or could otherwise give me a > clue how to make 95/NT act as nice as WfW 3.11 did with Linux. > > TIA > kevin > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Linux/NT Dual Boot
BOOTPART does work. I used it about 2 months ago while contemplating how to have on demand boot to handle the different OSes that I toy with. I have WinNT, Win95, DOS 6.22, and LINUX 2.0.29 available. Still having problems in my attempts to add Caldera OpenDos. I let NT40 handle the MBR here. During Linux installs I tell Linux to park himself in it's partition and stay away from the MBR. Then tell bootpart to add Linux. Same proceedure for DOS, WIN95 Now has anyone toyed with adding OPEN DOS to a boot handler? That other partition I have (230 mb) is begging to be put to use . Chuma Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Wed, Oct 29, 1997 at 01:50:14PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > There is an HOWTO about this topic, which I used to set up my > > system. I seem to remember I had captaliztion problems editing the > > This did not work for me. I did have to use bootpart. > It works well though, for Linux; the promised booting of DOS and Win95 > separate did not work (but I had tried that by hand and it did not work > either.) > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: dselect infinite loop?
It happened to me also. Ctrl-C was the only way out. Then grief doing the rest of the install manually. This is the first time it happened to me too. I installed from Informagic's 6 set CD. Chuma PATRICK DAHIROC wrote: > Hi > > A weird thing happens to deselect when I run it. It keeps replacing > existing files in my system even though I did not select it. And it keeps > on doing this over and over again. This is the first time this has > happened. Normally is simply skips over files that were already selected, > but not anymore I have to Ctrl-C to stop deselect. Is this a bug with > deselect or is this bug in my system? Please let me know > > Thanks > Patrick > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: XFree86 setup!!!
I suspect you told xf86config to Probe. Do not probe. And do not use the fancy setup program. And then make sure you see a stable grey screen before venturing further. You may also have to use the following command line. startx -- -bpp 16 Chuma Shaul Peleg wrote: > I have tried numerous installations of X and I can't get the monitor to > display anything when I 'xinit'. I have a Jaton Video-67P card (don't > ask!) based on the Trident Providia 9685 chipset. I used the SVGA > base... and I tried using both of the Jaton drivers (neither for the > 67P) and Trident 96xx drivers. My monitor settings were for regular > 640x400 VGA (I tried 800x600 too). I have tried numerous combinations. I > have looked at the XFConfig file ... BTW I installed afterstep. I am new > at this... please help. It took me hours to figure out how to get the > pointer moving!!! Thanks all. -sp > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Netscape for Linux
Thanks to you and all that responded. I have downloaded and installed Netscape commuinicator ver 4.03 One thing though. In win95 version I am able to use the same copy to access two separate ISPs, by usiing the UTILITY provided to setup the accounts. Is there a similar utility for LINUX version ? Chuma Will Lowe wrote: > On Fri, 24 Oct 1997, Chuma Agbodike wrote: > > > Where can I download a free copy of Netscape Communicator or just > > netscape > > for LINUX ? I can't seem to find it at netscape. > > Try: > > ftp://archive.netscape.com/archive/index.html?#3.01en > > You're looking for the linux-elf-x86 version, and you might want to try > using the debian installer-package. > Will > > -- > | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > | > | http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ | > -- > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Netscape for Linux
Where can I download a free copy of Netscape Communicator or just netscape for LINUX ? I can't seem to find it at netscape. Chuma -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Recompiling Linux
I started with Debian Distribution 2.0.6. Then got 2.0.13 from sunsite and managed to update the kernel using kernel package or some such. Linux is now 2.0.13. A few days ago I decided to try most stuff as modules except kerneld, ext2 files system and anything else I chose the default. Sound I have and chose to have sound included. Then went to recompile. I have not suceeded. I get a lot of the following: drivers/block/block.a(genhd.o) in function 'disk_name' genhd.o(text+0x3c2): undefined reference to 'ide_xlate_1024' lots of such but different undefined references eg. 'device_setup' undefined reference to 'net_dev_init' lots more that scrolled off the screen and finally: make: [vmlinux] Error 1 make dep ran without error. What did I miss ? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I get back my LINUX
> > On Fri, 17 Jan 1997 18:36:37 GMT "Chuma Agbodike" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > > > > > > [snip] > > > > Then make dep, clean, zImage. It failed . mentioning stuff like core > > > > dump etc. Anyway I wanted my old LINUX back. So I edited lilo.conf to > > > > reflect 2.0.6 instead of 2.0.13 (I had 2.0.13 running when compile > > > > failed.) PROBLEM: I forgot to run lilo before rebooting. On rebooting > > > > I was greeted by crc error . System halted. Only way out was > > > > hard reset. I thought I could just use my BOOT & ROOT diskettes to > > > > fix things. I got in and shelled out. Mounted the filesystem on the > > > > HD. and tried to run lilo after copying boot.b to /boot. That got me: > > > > > > > > "Don't know how to handle device 0x100" > > > > > > You're trying to install lilo on the boot/root disks. > > > If you've mounted your HD root fs on /mnt, use: > > > lilo -r /mnt > > > Lilo will chroot() there before running, installing on the HD. > > > > I did what you sugested ans here is what I got: > > > > Lilo: "Can't resolve symbol 'chroot'. > > Gasp, the stripped down version of libc on the rescue disk doesn't contain > chroot() Who made the rescue disk ? This is a serious problem. > I can offer to compile for you a statically linked lilo... or the following > should work (I assume your root fs is mounted on /mnt) > ># export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/mnt/lib ># lilo -r /mnt > > This might fail (not sure) because lilo with dynamically link against > /mnt/lib/libc, and once chrooted, won't find this file anymore. > So the next thing might work too: > ># export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/mnt/lib ># /mnt/usr/sbin/chroot /mnt /sbin/lilo Thanks Phil. I tried your second option and it worked. It complained about /sbin/lilo not being a directory. I went ahead and isued lilo -r /mnt and the LILO got updated.THANKS I did learn quite a bit in the process. Chuma Agbodike > This way, chroot will use your hd's libc which should contain chroot(), and > then will start lilo in the chrooted environment. > > If the two things fail, email me, I'll send you a statically linked lilo. > But #2 should work... theorically... > > Phil. > > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I get back my LINUX
> > [snip] > > Then make dep, clean, zImage. It failed . mentioning stuff like core > > dump etc. Anyway I wanted my old LINUX back. So I edited lilo.conf to > > reflect 2.0.6 instead of 2.0.13 (I had 2.0.13 running when compile > > failed.) PROBLEM: I forgot to run lilo before rebooting. On rebooting > > I was greeted by crc error . System halted. Only way out was > > hard reset. I thought I could just use my BOOT & ROOT diskettes to > > fix things. I got in and shelled out. Mounted the filesystem on the > > HD. and tried to run lilo after copying boot.b to /boot. That got me: > > > > "Don't know how to handle device 0x100" > > You're trying to install lilo on the boot/root disks. > If you've mounted your HD root fs on /mnt, use: > lilo -r /mnt > Lilo will chroot() there before running, installing on the HD. > > Phil. Thanks Phil, I did what you sugested ans here is what I got: Lilo: "Can't resolve symbol 'chroot'. Am still stuck! Chuma -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How do I get back my LINUX
I was trying to make my own rescue disk using Yard-1.7. The kernel + root disk that it prepared would not fit in 2 diskettes. On checking a few things, I noticed that my LINUX did not have RAMDISK configured into it. So I ran make config and edited Makefile uncommenting RAMDISK giving it size as 2048. At the same time added busmouse (now that I have a busmose after acquiring a 2nd modem). Then make dep, clean, zImage. It failed . mentioning stuff like core dump etc. Anyway I wanted my old LINUX back. So I edited lilo.conf to reflect 2.0.6 instead of 2.0.13 (I had 2.0.13 running when compile failed.) PROBLEM: I forgot to run lilo before rebooting. On rebooting I was greeted by crc error . System halted. Only way out was hard reset. I thought I could just use my BOOT & ROOT diskettes to fix things. I got in and shelled out. Mounted the filesystem on the HD. and tried to run lilo after copying boot.b to /boot. That got me: "Don't know how to handle device 0x100" How can I get back my LINUX? I spent a lot of time setting it up. I hate to think that I may have to start over. Best regards Chuma Agbodike -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Rescue Disk (was Password)
> > I'm sorry to hear you didn't get it to work on the first try. After > receiving your message, I went ahead and manufactured the floppy on my > (Debian) system. Here's how I did it. > > First, I noticed that superformat is already installed on my system. > I think it's part of the default Debian installation. > > Second, I noticed that the /dev file for the 1743K floppy drive > already exists on the system, but under a different name! In the > readme for CatRescue, it is referred to as /dev/fd0H1743 but on my > system it is /dev/fd0u1743. > > Third, I formatted a blank floppy using the command >superformat -s21 -t83 /dev/fd0 > > Fourth, I ran the following command from the top of the CatRescue101E > source tree: > zcat image.gz | dd bs=1024 of=/dev/fd0u1743 > > Note the lowercase 'u' instead of the uppercase 'H' in the device file > name. > > My advice: try the installation again -- this product is worth the > effort :-) > Thanks Nathan. I did everything you recommended. Still no go. I will assume now that my floppy drive cannot handle non standard format. I can rawrite to it and make new INSTALL BOOT and ROOT disks. The floppy diskette still gave me errors. And when I tried to boot from it anyway, just to see. I get: LILO CatRescue Error 0x04 LILO CatRescue Error 0x04 Until I reset the system via the push button. I really appreciate your assistance. Chuma Agbodike -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Rescue Disk (was Password)
Nathan L. Cutler wrote: > > >>>>> "Chuma" == Chuma Agbodike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Chuma> But HOW does one make RESCUE disk properly. Mine surely > Chuma> didn't rescue me! > > > > If you know how to do Archie searches, try searching for an exact > match of CatRescue101E.tgz, perhaps it will turn up an ftp site near > you. > > -- Thanks Nathan, I just did a search and downloaded it. Speaking of ARCHIE servers, which are the ones that get HITs frequently? The one I use is FTP SEARCH at Trondheim, Norway. Most of it's hits are in Europe. Much as am happy to find what am looking for, some of the sites can be rather slow. I once had no choice but download an 8 meg postscript file at 700bps, with a 28.8K modem even though I was careful to get in at a time I thought traffic would be low (2 am sunday central european time). I pulled in this Rescue program from umc.edu at 2.6K bps Decent! Best regards Chuma Agbodike -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Password
Nathan L. Cutler wrote: > > >>>>> "Chuma" == Chuma Agbodike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Chuma> Today I booted linux and it won't let me in. I log in as > Chuma> root and give it at password prompt. Keeps rejecting > Chuma> me. > > Chuma> How do I get around this? I hate to think that I have to re > Chuma> install from scratch after all the work I did getting it to > Chuma> where I like it. > > Try booting from your trusty rescue diskette (what? you don't have > one?) (which will automatically log you in as root). Mount the root > partition under /mnt or something appropriate to your rescue diskette > and use 'vi' to edit /etc/passwd. An entry for 'root' with no password > looks something like this: > > root::0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash > > (the space between the first and second colons should be empty). > > HTH Thanks to all that responded. Maybe I did not make a rescue disk the right way. I tried to boot from my rescue diskette, but the system kept bringing up the LINUX on hard disk and thereby still refusing access because of wrong password. So I used the INSTALL BOOT and ROOT diskettes. Somewhere in the menu it offered "mount a previously prepared disk partition" or something to that effect. I did and the took "execute a shell". >From there I got access to /etc/passwd. Edited root passwd to blank. Anyway I was wrong about there not being a passwd. I obviously forgot it. Well the install insisted that I enter a password which I eventually did. Then Dpkg came up and I quit it. Booted and gave it the new passwd I picked. Not to have this repeat, I went back into the passwd file and made root passwd blank. But HOW does one make RESCUE disk properly. Mine surely didn't rescue me! Chuma Agbodike -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Password
When I installed Debian 1.1 (linux 2.0) and later upgraded to 2.0.6 I did not give a password. I usually log in as root followed by a at password prompt. For some time now I have not logged into Linux. Been busy with several other stuff. Close to 2 months or more. Today I booted linux and it won't let me in. I log in as root and give it at password prompt. Keeps rejecting me. How do I get around this? I hate to think that I have to re install from scratch after all the work I did getting it to where I like it. Chuma -- This message was delayed because the list mail delivery agent was down.
Re: XF86Config
Lars Flodman wrote: > > I have a problem i can't get my xwindows to work properly my video card is > a ATI Mach 64 Praphics Pro Turbo 2mb and my monitor is a MAG DX 17. Does > anyone have an XF86Config file that works on that configúration. I can get > it to start when i use the vga16 server but with the mach64 it gets black > and then all i can do is to restart. > > Please help me > > Lars [EMAIL PROTECTED] First, I'll assume you are running 3.1.2 and that you have mach64 server. You might let Xconfig setup program (don't quite remember the name) probe your hardware. If you still have problems go manual and be sure to get your monitor specs handy (hsync, vertical sync etc) and also your ATI specs (RAMDAC etc) Chuma -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sanyo cdrom (crd-256P)
Richard Sevenich wrote: > > A new debian installer has asked me to inquire whether anyone has experience > with the subject cdrom unit - his installation won't recognize it. At this > writing I have asked him to determine more e.g. > - is it IDE > - is it ATAPI > - what debian version is being used > But in the meantime I thought I'd see if this cdrom unit was familiar to > someone here. > That's the cdrom I use. I told Linux that it is ATAPI. Installed it on the secondary Enhanced IDE adapter (DTC2278) as slave. Other than that nothing else. Chuma -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel-package
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Marcus Hightower writes: > Marcus> Does anybody know where I can find this as86 thing. > > See the Debian FAQ (from the doc-debian package, or the ftp site) > > 7.4. How can I find out what package produced a particular file? > > To identify the package that produced the file named foo execute > either: > > o dpkg -S filename. > > This searches through the lists of installed files. This is > (currently) equivalent to searching all of the files having the > file extension of .list in the directory /var/lib/dpkg/info/. > > o grep foo Contents, or zgrep foo Contents.gz. > > This searches for files which contain the substring foo in their > full path names. The files Contents and Contents.gz reside in the > major package directories (Debian-1.1, non-free, contrib, etc.) at > a Debian FTP site. A Contents file refers only to the packages in > the subdirectory tree where it resides. Therefore, a user might > have to search more than one Contents files to find the package > containing the file foo. > > Hence: > miles:~ [root] # zgrep as86 /mirror/debian/rex/Contents.gz > usr/bin/as86 bin86 > so you have to install the bin86 package. > > Marcus> Also does the zimage automaticly gets installed when you do a > Marcus> make zimage or does it just makes it without installation. > > Use the kernel-package from the rex/binary-all/misc directory. It will build > a .deb file with your kernel and install it all for you (you need to read > some doc, though). > > -- > Dirk Eddelb"uttel http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd I had used make-kpkg to build a debian package of linux 2.0.13 sources and installed the resulting .deb . Then I found that I had to reconfigure because my sound card will not work in windows every time I run Linux and switch back to win 95. I have to run DOS 5.0 to revive the sound in win 95. Since the IRQs and addresses were different in win 95 I decided to make the sound irqs in win 95 the same as in linux. Anyway after make config , make-kpkg refuses to run telling me there is nothing to make. What do I need to do to have make-kpkg rebuild with the new config ? Best regards Chuma
Re: Undefined module symbols
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >DOSEMU: ttys lock: (/usr/spool/uucp/LCK .. mouse): No such file or dir. > > There is no /usr/spool/uucp/ directory so it can't make > /usr/spool/uucp/LCK .. mouse I had a similar problem when I ran a non-Debian > version of efax. It should use /var/lock/LCK..mouse instead. Maybe > the directory DOSEMU uses is configurable. > > Good luck, > Nathan Thanks. I verified that I do not have the offending DIR. There is a /var/lock/LCK. I will make the modification and see how it goes. Chuma
Re: Undefined module symbols
James MacLean wrote: > > On Sep 13, 1:59pm, Chuma Agbodike wrote: > > Subject: Undefined module symbols > > Greetings. > > > > I picked up DOSEMU 0.63.1.75 from your ftp site. Installed it, > > but I have run into a wall. I get a screenful of undefined module > > symbols. And DOSEMU fails to load. > > I am runing Linux version 2.0.13 What do you recommend that > > I do to get DOSEMU to work? > > > > > > Best regards > > Chuma > > Have you upgraded your kernel in between compiling DOSEmu? If so , try another > make and see if it updates the modules. Otherwise, try modifying the > load_module.sh file to include some extra params like the -Z and -z parms. > execute DOSEmu's insmod without any parms to see the options. > > LAter, > JES > > -- > James B. MacLean[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Department of Education http://www.ednet.ns.ca/~macleajb/dosemu.html > Nova Scotia, Canada > B3M 4B2 Thanks James. After studying your response, I searched for all ocurences of insmod. There was another lurking somewhere. I renamed it to insmodold. Even though you said use the other insmod, it would not work. I kept on getting: insmod not a file or directory. Well I went to read LINUX manual about unix commands and started to understand why ./load_module.sh has that dot before the slash. In DOS if you're in the current DIR and the command is there the system doesn't have to stick to the path. So you get my drift I hope. Anyway I applied my haunch and got the help info after I did ./insmod from /usr/src/dosemu.bin where the insmod command was placed. It worked. >From there I went on. Now I studied the DOSEMU info files some more and finally was able to get DOSEMU started. Thanks. Now I have to figure out why am getting: DOSEMU: ttys lock: (/usr/spool/uucp/LCK .. mouse): No such file or dir. DOSEMU: ttys lock: (/usr/spool/uucp/LCK .. modem): No such file or dir. And int10,0 set_video_mode failed Like I said am new to this stuff! Best regards Chuma
Re: DOSEMU
Michael Harnois wrote: > > Chuma Agbodike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > error reading zSystem.map errno=2. I have System.map in /boot not > > zSystem.map > > My System.map is in /, not /boot. Looking at the notes in insmod.c, it's > supposed to automatically take System.map if zSystem.map is not present. But > I'm wondering why your System.map is in /boot, and I'm not enough of a hacker > to have an answer for that question. In my linux Makefile, BOOTDIR is specified as /boot . I am very green in linux. Migrating from DOS and win31 / 95. I currently have to LILO boot DOS (and thus run Win95 or 3.1) or Linux. However I want to boot only linux and with DOSEMU have access to some DOS based apps that I must use. Chuma
Re: DOSEMU
Michael Harnois wrote: > > Chuma Agbodike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Thanks Michael. > > > > I followed your suggestion. After recompiling, I did ./load_module.sh > > as > > instructed. But I got a new error: > > > > error reading zSystem.map errno=2. I have System.map in /boot not > > zSystem.map > > What kernel version are you using? I am using 2.0.13. I had also tried doing insmod emumodule.o and I get a sreenfull of all kinds of modules symbols undefined. Thanks Michael Chuma
Re: DOSEMU
Michael Harnois wrote: > > Chuma Agbodike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I got and compiled DOSEMU 0.63.1.75. After several attempts, going back > > and forth to pick up needed stuff like bison, byacc, libslang it finally > > compiled. Then when I tried to run it, I get this: > > > > Error:The module was compiled on kernel version 2.0.0 > > This kernel(mine) is version 2.0.13. They don't match. > > Check that the module is useable with the current kernel, > > recompile the module and try again. > > > > Where can I find the up to date module (emumodule) ? Or what should > > I do to make the one I have match the current kernel? > > > > > > Chuma > > With some linux packages -- e.g. Debian -- a separate set of kernel headers is > maintained, and dosemu's autodetect routine finds those instead. The cure is > to disable the autodetect and hardcode the path to the headers for the kernel > you're using. You'll have to do make pristine and configure again. Then go > to dosemu/src/arch/linux and edit Makefile.main. You'll see the line to > comment out and the one to uncomment near the top of the file. Thanks Michael. I followed your suggestion. After recompiling, I did ./load_module.sh as instructed. But I got a new error: error reading zSystem.map errno=2. I have System.map in /boot not zSystem.map Chuma
Re: DOSEMU
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > I got and compiled DOSEMU 0.63.1.75. After several attempts, going back > > and forth to pick up needed stuff like bison, byacc, libslang it finally > > compiled. Then when I tried to run it, I get this: > > > > Error:The module was compiled on kernel version 2.0.0 > > This kernel(mine) is version 2.0.13. They don't match. > > Check that the module is useable with the current kernel, > > recompile the module and try again. > > > > Where can I find the up to date module (emumodule) ? Or what should > > I do to make the one I have match the current kernel? > > > > > > Chuma > > > > I had some problems like that at one time when compiling some programs. > Chances are the /usr/include/linux and /usr/include/asm are pointing > to the original installed kernel you had. You have probably since > then compiled your own version of the kernel but not used the proper > Debian kernel source package and hence didn't update these two > directories. You may want to try making symbolic links for these > directories to the include directories for the kernel you compiled > and do a clean recompile of dosemu. > > Cheers! > Richard.. > I looked at both directories . They do not compare so I hesitate to do that until I learn how to unlink in case I mess up. Thanks Richard. I'm afraid I may not have understood you well enough. Chuma
DOSEMU
I got and compiled DOSEMU 0.63.1.75. After several attempts, going back and forth to pick up needed stuff like bison, byacc, libslang it finally compiled. Then when I tried to run it, I get this: Error: The module was compiled on kernel version 2.0.0 This kernel(mine) is version 2.0.13. They don't match. Check that the module is useable with the current kernel, recompile the module and try again. Where can I find the up to date module (emumodule) ? Or what should I do to make the one I have match the current kernel? Chuma
Re: Compile error
J.H.M.Dassen wrote: > > > as86 -0 -a -o bootsect.o bootsect.s > > make[3] as86: command not found. > > > Any ideas what am doing wrong? > Nothing. You just don't have a package installed that is required to build > the kernel: > > bin86 (29 Kb) > > Section: devel > Version: 0.3-1 Last modified: Fri Apr 26 10:47:00 1996 > Architecture: i386 > Maintainer: > Joost Witteveen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Description: > Assembler and loader for kernel compilation. > Depends: > libc5 > > > BTW I noticed a new vmlinux that is twice > > as large as my vmlinuz, so am guessing as86 has something to do with > > compressing vmlinux. > > I'm not really sure. It is needed to build the 16-bit start-code for > the kernel. After this code is executed, the compressed kernel image > is decompressed. > > Hope this helps, > Ray > --Thanks. Also to Thomas Freina for your responses. I got bin86 and intalled it. First time the compile failed again. I then deleted the whole source tree and started afresh. This time it worked and generated kernel-image_2.0.13_Custom.1_i386.deb, which I then installed with dpkg. However, when I told it to make a boot floppy, I got this: ioctl(FDGETPRM): No such device. Anyway I liloed and booted the new kernel. Now my sound doesn't work in windows 95 anymore. Scratching head. Chuma
Compile error
I have linux 2.0.6 running. I installed it from the kernel image I got fro ftp.debian.org using dselect. Since it was configured for a different hardware setup than mine I decided to reconfigure. I got a new kernel source 2.0.13 and unpacked it in /usr/src/linux. I also picked up make-kpkg 2.0.3. I ran make config and satisfied my hardware setup. Then ran: make-kpkg -r Custom.1 kernel_image. 40 mins later I get this: as86 -0 -a -o bootsect.o bootsect.s make[3] as86: command not found. make[3] [bootsect.o] Error 127 make[2] *** [boot] Error 2 make[1] *** [build] Error 2 make: *** [stamp-image] Error 2 as not as86 is in my /usr/sbin. I have not been able to locate as86 Any ideas what am doing wrong? BTW I noticed a new vmlinux that is twice as large as my vmlinuz, so am guessing as86 has something to do with compressing vmlinux. Chuma
