mouse broken
I was upgrading my Xwindows to the slink distributions, and my mouse broke. When I try to start gpm, i get the following error message: gpm: /dev/mouse: Operation not supported by device /dev/mouse is a soft link to /dev/ttyS0. Does anyone know how I should go about fixing this problem? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Erik
Re: Missing file error
At 09:05 PM 12/2/98 -0800, Curt Howland wrote: After getting hacked over the holidays, I decided to upgrade to slink. I'm getting the following error: Setting up e2fsprogs (1.12-4) ... ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/i486-linuxaout/libdb.so.1 (No such file r directoryg There's nothing in that directory but one link called libdb.so.1 pointing to a non-existant file. The actual file installed won't be /usr/lib/i486-linuxaout/lidb.so.1. It'll probably be a library in /lib or /usr/lib. Try: dpkg -S libdb* this should show you which package installs the libdb.xx.xx.xx file where the x's indicate a version (kinda like libc.so.5 points to libc.so.5.4.44). # dpkg -S /usr/lib/i486-linuxaout/libdb.so.1 dpkg: /usr/lib/i486-linuxaout/libdb.so.1 not found. Hope this helps. Erik
Re: Understanding /root Re: My solution
At 02:10 AM 12/3/98 PST, Michael Wahl wrote: So, I make a guess: For my first time installation: 1.7GB hard disk, 98MB RAM -NT40, Win95 (Im not sure about this) -Staroffice -ME10, ProE (CAD Software) -Excel -Neoplanet (Net Browser) -CorelDraw7 -Some Games (WingCommander, Forsakken) -other stuff (collecting pictures) I decided to partition my hard disk into: /boot 50MB /home 50MB (maybe more) /root 50MB /var150MB (maybe more) /usr700MB /etc50MB /swap 128MB /dos200MB /tmp50MB - Sum.1428MB - rest: 270MB for ??? Would this be a good idea? Any criticism welcome!!! First, I'm assuming that /dos is going to be where you install NT40/Win95? if this is correct, then you definitely need to rethink that partition. Win95 will take ~120MB to install just the OS. NT40 takes even more. If you're going to have any applications at all for Windows, you'll need even more space. Next, you don't need to make separate partitions for /etc or /boot. If you want to make a separate directory for /tmp, 50MB is probably plenty there. here's how I would probably chunk this disk up: /dos500MB (maybe less depending how many Win apps you want) (I wouldn't go less than 350MB considering it's Windows) /usr/local 300MB (do this for local programs that won't change with upgrades) /home 100MB (this depends on # users, amt. stuff they'll have) /tmp50MB /swap 128MB / Rest With Debian, most of the stuff you install will be in .deb format. These packages have specific locations where they install the software (not usually in /usr/local) so the software is system software (not local software) so you'll probably want a pretty big / partition. Depending on how much you plan to compile and install yourself (without using .deb's) you can shrink or grow /usr/local accordingly. Actually, if you're only using one disk, you can get by with 3 partitions: /dos500MB /swap 128MB / REST On a single physical disk, you don't gain anything by making a bunch of partitions (although you get to know mount and /etc/fstab)--if your disk crashes, you lose everything anyway and you don't gain any speed since there's only one I/O path for the data. Usually, when you see a system with a bunch of mount points, it's because there's more than one disk. Using 4 2GB drives is better than one 8GB drive because: 1. if one drive goes down, you only lose the data on that one drive, not the other 3. 2. there are 4 I/O paths for data (i.e. you can read from more than one disk simultaneously) which reduces I/O wait times and speeds up the system. Hope this help you out. Erik
Can't boot with new kernel
I'm having a major problem right now... I recompiled my kernel to enable some different filesystems and now whenever I boot xdm starts up but my monitor doesn't show anything. It just sits there sounding like someone keeps pushing the degauss button. I'm not sure where the problem is, but I can tell you what I did: 1. changed the option for native language support from m(odule) to y(es). 2. commented out all modules in /etc/modules and placed auto in the file (enable kerneld). 3. recompiled the kernel with: make dep; make clean; make modules; make modules_install; make zlilo 4. rebooted. I tried to reboot from a repair floppy, but it still loads all the rc.x stuff and the same thing happens. I think if I could reboot without firing the rc.x scripts, I could fix the problem. My questions are: 1. How can I reboot without running the rc.x scripts. 2. Is this problem with my trying to use kerneld without fully understanding it? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Erik
Re: Netscape...
At 09:05 PM 12/1/98 +, Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote: Þann 01. desember 1998 reit Brant Wells svohljóðandi: Hey all! I downloaded the *.deb packages for NETSCAPE...when I try to install it using dselect, it won't install... Help!!! Thanx, Brant ... download netscape from there and put it into the appropriate folder ... Download the tarball from ftp.netscape.com and place it in /tmp. Then run dpkg -i netscape4.deb The .deb will search /tmp for the new version and install it. Erik -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Network Configuration
Have you added lines to your /etc/resolv.conf? ex. nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the IP of your DNS server. Erik By the way, we have a machine in our subnet that recently was installed linux in. We have had some problems with the network configuration in order that the linux box doesn't recognize its DNS. It's possible to execute telnet from it only to IP addresses, and a ping to the DNS's IP doesn't work. Can this be a trouble with the linux configuration ? We are sure that all the configuration needed to get it working is made. Or can it be a problem with the DNS ? Any sugestions will be appreciated. Thanks in advance. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Ifconfig
At 01:42 PM 11/23/98 -0500, Amanda Shuler wrote: I have a question about ifconfig. I have a machine that I am trying to configure to put onto a local network. I'm an assigning it IP address 192.168.76.76 I type: ifconfig eth0 192.168.76.76 then I check it with ifconfig and everything is correct. I reboot the machine, and recheck ifconfig -- it's wrong. It resets the IP address to 192.168.1.1 everytime! Currently, I do not have this machine physically hooked up to the network, because I was just doing the configuration and I didn't want to knock another (very important) machine off the network. If the ethernet card is not actually hooked up to the network, will that cause this reset to happen upon every boot? How do I get it to stay at 192.168.76.76? You have to set the IP address in the network.local file (/etc/rc.d/network.local on Slackware, haven't gotten around to installing Debian yet). this file is called every time the machine boots to set up networking... Erik - Amanda Shuler | I don't want to start any [EMAIL PROTECTED] | blasphemous rumours, but... - -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
