Re: Could you give an example iptables script? (Help... I want to learn this stuff)
On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 10:06:25AM +0100, Joris Huizer wrote: Hello everybody, I'm planning to use iptables as it seems it's powerfull and it will let me choose really what is allowed and what is not (because of p2p stuff etc. which allways keeps complaining - and out of curiosity) However, I never used iptables before and it looks like it's got some learning curve :-P I found a great tutorial at http://iptables-tutorial.frozentux.net/iptables-tutorial.html .. I'm not going to try myself just like that as I'm afraid I might kill the internet connection like that, therefor I want to ask for some help. I recently ran across the Easy Firewall Generator for IPTables web page, where you can plug in some simple requirements and it will generate an iptables firewall script on the fly. Check it out at: http://easyfwgen.morizot.net/ -- Shaun Crossley mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.whatever.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BIND can't find root nameservers
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 10:23:08AM -0500, John Holland wrote:
I have a recurring problem on a Debian machine that is running named.
The bind program becomes unable to get the address of the root
nameservers and fills up /var/log/daemonlog,/var/log/syslog with
messages to that effect.
sysquery: no addrs found for root NS (M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET)
I got hit by this earlier this week. My current working theory
is that it has something to do with a bug in BIND, but I can't be
sure.
My fix included adding a forward only; statement in the global
options {}; stanza following my forwarders { ... };
statement. However, I suspect that this is only masking the
problem.
It took me about twelve hours to figure that out. Total waste of
my employers time, and not a particularly positive commentary on
my troubleshooting abilities! :-)
For more details see the following url:
http://www.whatever.ca/blog/2003/12/9/dns-hell/
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Xinerama + triplehead + y = FREEZE; y = ?
I've got a system with three video cards (all ATIs) running Xinerama, and there are a number of applications which will completely freeze X such that I must do an Alt-SysRq-k to kill all processes on the current virtual terminal in order to return control of the system to me. One such application is 'psi' which depends on libqt3, among others. I'm also unable to run most Gnome2 applications, as I recall. I'd appreciate any advice on how to troubleshoot this. I'm not entirely sure where the problem resides, nor am I fully confident in my abilities with respect to X configuration. Is there a way to make X exit a little more cleanly in situations like this, or is there a way for me find out what's going on behind the scenes so that I can see what failed? Full disclosure: it's possible that the issue may be related to my running the system at 'testing' for a while and then going back to 'stable' sources. For example, X is version 4.2.1-3 instead of the 4.1.0-16 from Woody. The three cards are: 1. PCI ATI All-in-Wonder 2. AGP ATI Radeon 3. PCI ATI [EMAIL PROTECTED] Here's what it all looks like physically: http://www.whatever.ca/gallery/whatever/f136_cropped And here's what a typical desktop screenshot looks like: http://www.whatever.ca/gallery/whatever/2002_08_11_001159_shot Here's my XFree86Config-4 file: http://www.whatever.ca/misc/XF86Config-4 And finally, my most recent XFree86.0.log file: http://www.whatever.ca/misc/XFree86.0.log -- Shaun Crossley mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.whatever.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Checking what's installed
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 06:58:41PM -0400, Kevin McKinley wrote: On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 12:12:59 +0900 Nick Hastings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am installing Debian on a 486 laptop, and because I want to trim down the installation as much as possible, how do I view a list of what's installed by apt-get on the laptop? DSelect is useless as it marks some stuff that hasn't been installed as to be installed. dpkg -l | grep ^ii dpkg -l works just fine, since it only reports the installed packages. On my hybrid woody/sarge system, dpkg -l *lib* (for example) includes lots of libraries that are status un and pn which are definitely not installed. But that's just my US$0.0142573 (CDN$0.02) -- YMMV. -- Shaun Crossley mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.whatever.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: keeping partitions mounted read-only
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 01:16:57PM +0200, Hans Wilmer wrote: Thank you for your hints! I?ve already been trying to figure which files prevent the partition from being remounted with lsof. The problem with lsof is that a large number of files on /usr is listed, and I can?t tell which of them need to be closed and which can stay open. I have always understood that *any* open files would prevent a partition from being unmounted, and I assume the same is true for remounting the partition as read-only. Therefore, using this assumption, *every* file listed via lsof +D /usr must be closed before the kernel will permit the partition to be unmounted or remounted. But perhaps I'm wrong. Anyone in the know care to set me straight? -- Shaun Crossley mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.whatever.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: keeping partitions mounted read-only
On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 04:35:43PM +0200, Hans Wilmer wrote: Is there any way to do the remounting without a reboot? From time to time I need to unmount a partition on an active system. I use lsof to show open files on the partition so that I know which daemons to shutdown so that I can temporarily unmount the partition. For example, # lsof +D /var displays all processes with open file handles on /var and subdirectories of /var. You may need to apt-get install lsof if it is not already installed on your system. -- Shaun Crossley mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.whatever.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: raid question
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 01:19:04PM +0200, Rudy Gevaert wrote: Hello, I was wondering can I set up raid when a partition is mounted? e.g. hda3 is /home and I want to set up raid1 with hdc3. If what you want to do is mirror an existing hard drive or partition, then yes, it's possible. Just last night I started the process and am about halfway through. For an idea of what to expect, check out my log at: http://www.whatever.ca/index.php?m=200308#134 I'm not done yet; I still have to test booting off the mirrored drive before I can wipe my primary drive and establish a fully redundant mirror. I'm hoping to be finished later today. The key is that you want to create your RAID1 array in degraded mode so that it's happy with just one disk/partition, then copy your data over. When you're satisfied that the data has been copied accurately, nuke the source partition (in your case /dev/hda3) and hotadd /dev/hda3 to the mirror. I found the following document to be quite useful; if you ignore the PA-RISC specific references, it walks through the process quite nicely: http://www.parisc-linux.org/faq/raidboot-howto.html This document (Boot+Root+Raid+Lilo: Software Raid HOWTO) is the best one I've found that describes the process, but I don't think it uses the current toolset: http://www.linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/Boot+Root+Raid+LILO-4.html I'm using mdadm, which I believe has replaced raidtools and raidtools2 in functionality. Perhaps I'm wrong on that aspect, but I do know that you must create the array in degraded mode, so that it doesn't put a nice fresh empty copy of /dev/hdc3 on top of /dev/hda3. Can I run mkraid when hda3 is in use? I would use the following raidtab: raiddev /dev/md0 raid-level 1 nr-raid-disks 2 nr-spare-disks 0 chunk-size 4 persistent-superblock 0 device /dev/hda3 raid-disk 0 device /dev/hdc3 raid-disk 1 Also, would I lose data? When happens if I change the above order? According to the Boot+Root+Raid+Lilo: Software Raid HOWTO, you should have /dev/hdc3 first, otherwise you'll have trouble booting, and instead of calling it a raid-disk you'll call /dev/hda3 a failed-disk to exclude it from reconstruction. I've done this once before and didn't lose any data, but I generally recommend having a full backup before playing fast and loose with this sort of thing. Good luck! -- Shaun Crossley mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.whatever.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-show-versions Question
On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 12:16:10AM -0600, Stephen Hargrove wrote: Based on a recent thread on this list, I've constructed the following bash script: #!/bin/sh # /etc/cron.daily/apt-show-versions: email alerts when new packages # are available # # 2003-03-10, Shaun Crossley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/bin/apt-show-versions -u | /usr/bin/mail -e -s `/bin/hostname`: updated packages available $ADMINMAIL I have one machine that _never_ reports any available updates, and I have another machine that _always_ reports available updates -- even when there are none available. For example, recently I performed: # apt-get update # apt-get upgrade And received a response that no updates were available. However, the script emailed me a list of approximately 50 available updates in the form of: dnsutils/testing upgradeable from 1:9.2.1-4 to 1:9.2.2-2 ksirc 4:2.2.2-14.6 newer than version in archive khexedit 4:2.2.2-9.2 newer than version in archive libpng3/testing upgradeable from 1.2.1-1.1 to 1.2.5-10 korn 4:2.2.2-14.6 newer than version in archive etc. Am I missing something? I'm sure that I'm doing something wrong, but I'm not seeing it. Any input would be appreciated. I'm the author of that snippet of code. I can't tell from what you've quoted, but it looks like you might have an earlier version that omits the /usr/bin/apt-get update -qq which runs prior to the apt-show-versions line. Perhaps that's the trouble you're having (in which case I apologize). If apt-get upgrade is not run prior to apt-show-versions you may not get an accurate report of what new packages are available. Or perhaps your problem is related to a similar problem I'm having where I've used pinning, to make apt-get aware of all three versions (stable/testing/unstable). When I apt-get upgrade or apt-get dist-upgrade, it doesn't automatically upgrade those packages I've obtained from testing or unstable. I recall reading that you could only track two versions at once; perhaps I should be using some other method of getting testing packages into my stable systems. Currently, when I find that a testing package has been upgraded, I simply apt-get install -t testing $PACKAGENAME and it gets the upgrade. That's all I've got for now as far as insight -- hope it's of some use. And, thanks for using my script, such as it is! :-) One of these days I intend to figure out how to create an apt repository of my own so that scripts and custom kernel compiles can go there, and I can point people at it if they're interested -- and so that they will obtain the bug-fixes too. -- Shaun Crossley mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.whatever.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: spamassassin and exim in woody
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 12:22:06PM +, Phil Reynolds wrote: My mail system runs exim and I am wanting to integrate spamassassin into it too. I am using the versions of both packages contained in woody. I set up woody exim and spamassassin recently, and found the following page to be quite handy: http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/config_docs/exim3_spamassassin.html I also set up spamassassin as an exim router; you can see the config file snippet here: http://www.whatever.ca/index.php?m=200302#83 I can provide additional config file snippets if you like. -- Shaun Crossley mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.whatever.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
POP3 daemon recommendation?
I'm in the process of setting up a Debian mail server on a LAN from which eight local users and one or two remote users can collect their email. I don't believe I need the additional functionality of an IMAP server, so I'm looking specifically at POP daemons. Ideally there would be some form of web-based administrative console where users can be created and deleted. So far I'm planning on using webmin from testing and its user administration module to simply create new users whose mail spools will be served by the pop daemon, but if there's something out there with a simpler user interface I'd like to take a look at it. I've apt-cache search'd for pop and come up with the following results, among others: courier-pop POP3 daemon with PAM and Maildir support cucipop Cubic Circle's POP3 daemon ipopd POP2 and POP3 servers from UW ipopd-ssl POP2 and POP3 servers from UW popa3d A tiny POP3 daemon, designed with security as the primary goal qpopper Enhanced Post Office Protocol server (POP3). solid-pop3d POP3 server supporting Maildir, PAM, vhosting teapop Powerful and flexible RFC-compliant POP3 server I'm unsure of which to choose for this particular project. Security is definitely of paramount importance, as is ease of use. This will be a lightly-managed server, deployed in a small-office setting. Does anyone have any blinding flashes of insight they could shine my way, which might help me decide between this array of choices? -- Shaun Crossley mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.whatever.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Configuring mutt to view and quote html
Originally, this email was going to be a request for help. However, during the process of drafting the email, I was forced to do a little bit more research and ended up solving my problem. In the spirit of sharing, I'm posting this anyways in case anyone else might benefit from the info. - - - I quite like mutt, and from what I understand it's quite a popular mua around these parts. However, I started receiving email from friends with hotmail accounts and insufficient computer knowledge to select don't send html email to this recipient. In its default configuration, mutt would pass these emails on to my browser. No problem, except that I was then unable to easily quote their emails. I tried out balsa, but was dissatisfied with it for different reasons. I wanted my mutt back. Eventually I tracked the solution down in the following mutt mailing list posting by Gero Treuner, judiciously edited here for brevity: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mutt-usersm=95563623916928 [snip] In muttrc you need auto_view text/html and in mailcap text/html; lynx -force_html %s text/html; lynx -force_html -dump %s; copiousoutput The first entry is for interactive use from an attachment listing, the second for inline display in the pager (and for replies) [snip] With this in place, when you read an html-based email its content will be visible in the mutt viewer, with no need to view it in an external browser. Even better, when you reply and quote a message, the text is nicely extracted and quoted. Exactly what I wanted -- I hope that someone else out there can benefit from this as well. -- Shaun Crossley mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.whatever.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Duplicating Woody Package?
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 04:21:31 Robert L. Harris wrote: Thus spake Shaun Crossley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): In the past, I've used the following to perform that task: dpkg --get-selections myselections (on the source dpkg --set-selections myselections (on the target apt-get update apt-get upgrade (on the target Looks great and seems to work except for the upgrade. On the second machine I do the --set-selections portion then the update and upgrade. It says nothing to upgrade, nothing to install. If I edit the file and remove the trailing install/deinstall then insert an apt-get install at the beginning of each line it does however install quite a few. I was wrong. If you do an apt-get dselect-upgrade instead of an apt-get upgrade it should work as advertised. (I see that this has already been mentioned in the thread. My apologies for the misdirection.) -- Shaun Crossley mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.whatever.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Duplicating Woody Package?
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 07:35:08 Robert L. Harris wrote: I finally got a second hard drive so I can put Linux on my wife's machine. She'd like her X setup Identicle to mine. I've installed a base Woody system, current kernel, etc. Now I need to get all the same KDE packages on her machine. Other than dpkg -l | grep kde file, copy the file to her machine and apt-get install file is there a better debian way to do this? In the past, I've used the following to perform that task: dpkg --get-selections myselections (on the source machine) dpkg --set-selections myselections (on the target machine) apt-get update apt-get upgrade (on the target machine) That seemed to work for me. Your mileage may vary! -- Shaun Crossley mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.whatever.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-* notify for new packages ? (update)
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 18:41:10 Shaun Crossley wrote: You might be interested in this script I came up with upon reading this thread. I called it apt-show-versions and placed it in /etc/cron.daily (and made it executable via chmod +x). [snip] #!/bin/sh # /etc/cron.daily/apt-show-new: email alerts when new packages # are available # # 2003-03-10, Shaun Crossley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/bin/apt-get update -qq /usr/bin/apt-show-versions -u | /usr/bin/sort | /usr/bin/mail -e \ -s `/bin/hostname`: updated packages available $ADMINMAIL Oops... if you don't run apt-get update first (as I've shown above) you won't get all the new good stuff. (I also changed it so that the output will be sorted.) Most of you probably already figured that out, but I only just clued in. Sorry! -- Shaun Crossley mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.whatever.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-* notify for new packages ?
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 09:31:56 Konstantin Kostadinov wrote: On 10 Mar 2003 08:13:52 -0600 Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 07:18, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] After you install apt-show-versions: # apt-get update # apt-show-versions |grep upgradeable|sort After reading Tim's reply, I should note that apt-show-versions + grep will only tell you if there are new versions of pkgs you currently have installed. tanx that's the thing i'm looking for. You might be interested in this script I came up with upon reading this thread. I called it apt-show-versions and placed it in /etc/cron.daily (and made it executable via chmod +x). Perhaps someone in the thread who is more adept at shell scripting will let me know if I'm doing anything wrong with it. :-) (Bear in mind that I haven't actually tested my assumption that any script placed in /etc/cron.daily is run daily, but based on the name I think it's a safe bet.) I'm going to put it on all of my machines, so that they will alert me when they need upgrading. Note that the apt-show-versions command supports a -u switch which eliminates the need for any grepping. I'm also not doing any sorting, but that would be just one more addition in the pipeline. #!/bin/sh # /etc/cron.daily/apt-show-versions: email alerts when new packages # are available # # 2003-03-10, Shaun Crossley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/bin/apt-show-versions -u | /usr/bin/mail -e \ -s `/bin/hostname`: updated packages available $ADMINMAIL -- Shaun Crossley mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.whatever.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-* notify for new packages ?
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 18:11:56 Shaun Crossley wrote: You might be interested in this script I came up with upon reading this thread. I called it apt-show-versions and placed it in /etc/cron.daily (and made it executable via chmod +x). [snip] #!/bin/sh # /etc/cron.daily/apt-show-versions: email alerts when new packages # are available # # 2003-03-10, Shaun Crossley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/bin/apt-show-versions -u | /usr/bin/mail -e \ -s `/bin/hostname`: updated packages available $ADMINMAIL Oh, and by the way -- please change the ADMINMAIL line to use your own email address. Otherwise you'd be notifying me about the packages your computer needs! -- Shaun Crossley mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.whatever.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: apt logfile?
Is there an apt (or dpkg) logfile? Something that would keep a record of what was done when? Just a simple text file with a format of: timestamp action full-package-name Does anyone else think this could be very useful? It's not what you meant, but sometimes I use ls -ot /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.md5sums | head -20 I did something similar to this a while back by putting a wrapper around 'dpkg' that used 'logger' to log the commandline arguments with which dpkg was called. Braindead, but at least it gave me an idea of which packages were installed when.
RE: fixing demand-dialing ppp
I had this same problem, so I manually removed woody ppp and installed potato ppp, then marked it 'hold' so that it wouldn't get replaced on the next apt-get upgrade. Since then, ppp demand-dial has been working just great on my woody ipmasq/demand-ppp 56k dail-out box. If you don't need whatever functionality might be in the latest ppp, but do need the demand-dial, then this might work for you as well. Of course, perhaps you've already tried this; in which case nevermind. :-) Shaun Crossley, Technician [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kootenay Computers (1995) Inc. 250-365-2323 (voice) 250-365-0151 (fax) -Original Message- From: Forrest Cahoon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, Aug 21, 2001 10:42 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: fixing demand-dialing ppp I have the same problem that is described in bug #103843: my woody box can't do demand-dialing ppp. While the bug is still open, the maintainer (Eduard Bloch [EMAIL PROTECTED]) posted this response: The reason is the kernel-mode-pppoe patch, having removed it the pppd seems to start fine. I have no clue what this is supposed to mean. I got pristine 2.2.19 sources from ftp.us.kernel.org and built a kernel with make-kpkg, but I still have the problem. I've tried both building ppp into the kernel and building it as a module, but both fail. A couple of points that might be relevant: 1) My woody box that is having this problem is running ip masquerade. 2) I've been building these kernels on a sid box with make-kpkg, then installing them on my woody box. Anyone have any suggestions? | Forrest Cahoon | [EMAIL PROTECTED] |--| | 850 21st Ave SE |--| Only unbalanced people | | Mpls MN 55414-2514 | |can tip the scales... | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Successful Debian Potato install on Compaq Proliant 2500 (was RE: Floppy Install - Need drivers for scsi raid controller)
I'm a week or three late replying to this message, but I just thought I'd put in my two bits on the issue. I don't know if my experience will be of any help to anyone but I'll do a brain dump nonetheless. I successfully installed Debian Potato on a Proliant 2500 with a pair of Compaq Smart 2/P PCI RAID controllers. The primary controller is attached to an external RAID tower, and the secondary controller is attached to the internal RAID bay. In addition, it has another onboard scsi controller for the tape drive. Not sure of the chipset on that because it's at home and I'm at work right now. I had previously succesfully installed RH7 on this box, so I knew that it was possible to run the controllers under Linux. After a bit of experimentation and reading, I discovered that the compact series of boot floppies include smart-2 drivers. Once I built those floppies, though, the battle wasn't over -- the compact boot kernel only has /dev/ entries for a single controller; I had to manually mknod the entries for the second controller (/dev/ida/c0p0... and so on). It wouldn't have been an issue to get this running during the install process, but I wanted to install such that the system booted off the internal drive array instead of the external, and the internal array was on the secondary controller... so I had to create the /dev/ida/c1d0p... nodes for the secondary controller on the ramdisk during the first-stage install, so that it would see and install to the correct array. Then I was able to install to the secondary controller and internal array; root went on /dev/c1d0p0 or something. Anyways... I was actually surprised at how easy it was, once I figured out that I needed the Compact boot floppies and that I also needed to manually create a series of /dev/ida/c1d0p... nodes for the install to find. So, hopefully this info will be of use to someone... I'd be happy to fill in more details if anyone has any questions. Shaun Crossley, Technician [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kootenay Computers (1995) Inc. 250-365-2323 (voice) 250-365-0151 (fax) -Original Message- From: Bernie Boudet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, Jul 12, 2001 3:22 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Floppy Install - Need drivers for scsi raid controller Hi, I'm trying to do a vanilla Debian floppy install (rescue + root + driver-1,2,3,4). The system boots ok from the rescue disk and I get the boot: prompt, to which I hit return. Linux loads and I am prompted to insert the root floppy, which I do and hit return, the setup program loads and I get as far as the first step to select the keyboard layout. Everything ok so far, AFAICT. The next step is to Preload essential modules from a floppy. It seems, the scsi controller is not recognised. So I must follow this step, and insert the driver-1 floppy. After selecting yes, I get a dialog: Critical Error - Cannot mount the floppy. Stop I'm guessing that is isn't the correct install sequence, but after reading the install manual (specifically chapters 5, 6 7) I still can't see what I did wrong. Any help would be greatly appreciated. The system I am trying to install to is a Compaq Proliant 4500. It has a 5-disk scsi array controlled by a SMART raid controller in slot 1 of the EISA bus. There is also a NCR scsi controller embedded on the motherboard, this is used for the CD-ROM and DAT drive. If anyone has done an install to similar hardware, I would be interested to hear about any other problems I might expect. Thanks.
apmd, toshutils, etc. on non-X laptop (Toshiba T1910)?
I've set up an old Toshiba T1910 laptop (8MB RAM, 125MB HD, 486SX/33) with Debian Potato, and am having great fun tweaking it to do what I want while still being fairly economical with respect to drive space consumed. I'm awaiting a used Xircom Realport combo 56K modem and 10/100 NIC (eBay is wonderful!) so that I can make use of the laptop as a network analysis tool, among other things. That said, I'd really like to use the apmd and toshutils packages so that I can make use of the hardware to its fullest. However, both of these packages contain various X components which seem to prevent me from doing a simple apt-get install. (I've chosen not to install any X-related packages, in order to save space on the 100MB partition left over after designating swap space, etc.) When I try to apt-get install apmd toshutils, it wants to download stuff like libglib1.2, libgtk1.2, xfree86-common, xlib6g, xpm4g, etc. I'd prefer to avoid wasting space on X-stuff like this. For the time being, I've downloaded the deb's and will manually force them to install, hoping to avoid the X dependencies, but my question is this: has anyone out there built apmd and toshutils *without* the X components? Or would I have to do that myself (a daunting prospect, as I'm quite new to Debian)? Or am I barking up the wrong tree? Perhaps there's a very simpler way to do what I want. If so, I'd like to learn how! I look forward to any replies. Thank you! // Shaun Crossley, Technician // Kootenay Computers (1995) Inc. // [EMAIL PROTECTED]
