Re: Install problems - InfoMagic LDR
From: Judith Steve Hornett [EMAIL PROTECTED] I just purchased the most recent version of the LDR a few days ago. Having read so much about Debian being the superior versions of Linux, and having been less than thrilled with previous versions of RedHat and Slackware, I thought I'd give it a try. All of the diskettes load correctly, but when I get into Dselect, it can't find the main directories to start off of the root (contrib, etc). Has anyone been successful in installing Debian 1.2 from the December InfoMagic LDR? I have, but I would not have survived it without this mailing list. (Thanks) Daniel -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Install problems - InfoMagic LDR
Judith Steve Hornett writes: I just purchased the most recent version of the LDR a few days ago. Having read so much about Debian being the superior versions of Linux, and having been less than thrilled with previous versions of RedHat and Slackware, I thought I'd give it a try. All of the diskettes load correctly, but when I get into Dselect, it can't find the main directories to start off of the root (contrib, etc). I'm assuming that you chose the cdrom method of access. It didn't work for me either. SO, I mounted the cdrom drive to /cdrom (mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdb /cdrom) [my cdrom drive is /dev/hbd] and used the mounted filesystem access method. On a side note, A friend has an older Sony CDU33a drive. Debian _will not_ see this drive. However, there is a module for that drive on the Slackware CDROM in the LDR set. Can that module be used with kerneld? Has anyone been successful in installing Debian 1.2 from the December InfoMagic LDR? I suggest using the msdos-1386 tree to install from. The binary tree has some modules in the wrong order. (new then old) Dselect will install the newest version, and then gleefully, overwrite it with the older version 8-(. If you choose to use the binary tree, you need to install them by hand. To find the modules use the ls -U | more command line and look for new/old order of modules. There are 11 such pairs of files in various directories. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.2 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Install problems - InfoMagic LDR
I just purchased the most recent version of the LDR a few days ago. Having read so much about Debian being the superior versions of Linux, and having been less than thrilled with previous versions of RedHat and Slackware, I thought I'd give it a try. All of the diskettes load correctly, but when I get into Dselect, it can't find the main directories to start off of the root (contrib, etc). Has anyone been successful in installing Debian 1.2 from the December InfoMagic LDR? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Install problems - InfoMagic LDR
At 11:46 PM 5/01/97 -0500, you wrote: I just purchased the most recent version of the LDR a few days ago. . Has anyone been successful in installing Debian 1.2 from the December InfoMagic LDR? I am also very interested in hearing from others who have purchased InfoMagic LDR CD's. Is it good value or am I better off with iConnect's CD's. I am a first time Linux user. I install Debian 1.2 by downloading over the internet. I'm running it on my spare PC. A IBM MB 486SLC2-66, with 80Mb Hd, 4 Mb Ram. A bit slow but it well do for playing/learning with Linux. My interest is using Linux as a mail gateway for a Win95/Win3.11 LAN. The setup would be like this. 1. The Linux PC would dial into local ISP. Get each users mail from the local ISP. e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc. I presume the mail gateway software can read a userlist file ?? 2. Each PC user would then check the Linux mail server by using a Windows based mail package (e.g. Eudora) or telnet to the Linux PC and use Unix Mail command from a login shell. Is it possible. What packages would you recommend for 1. mail gateway software (e.g. fetchmail,sendmail etc) 2. to make the dial up connection (ISP would allocate IP on login) Regards Brian -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Install problems - InfoMagic LDR
On Mon, 6 Jan 1997, Brian Sheaff wrote: I am also very interested in hearing from others who have purchased InfoMagic LDR CD's. Is it good value or am I better off with iConnect's CD's. I bought the september '96 release and wouldn't bother about any InfoMagic set anymore at all. Maybe it is okay for RedHat users but not for users of Debian. IMHO the inclusion of Debian-1.2 was this time at a very much too early stage and it can not considered to be as complete and up to date as any freshly written CD from I-Connect. I'd order a CD from them as soon as Debian-1.2.1 appears on the FTP master server. BTW CheapBytes http://www.cheapbytes.com; are planning to offer a Debian CD distribution sometime soon as they have written in answer to an email i sent them yesterday. But based upon their bargain offers i personally doubt they'll let funds flow back into Debian development like I-Connect usually does. Their email is [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Regards, P. *8^) -- Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] African Music Archive - Institute for Ethnology and Africa Studies Johannes Gutenberg-University - Forum 6 - 55099 Mainz/Germany Our AMA Homepage in the WWW at http://www.uni-mainz.de/~bender/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Install problems - InfoMagic LDR
Brian == Brian Sheaff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brian My interest is using Linux as a mail gateway for a Brian Win95/Win3.11 LAN. The setup would be like this. Brian 1. The Linux PC would dial into local ISP. Get each users Brian mail from the local ISP. e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED], Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc. I presume the mail gateway software Brian can read a userlist file ?? Brian 2. Each PC user would then check the Linux mail server by Brian using a Windows based mail package (e.g. Eudora) or telnet Brian to the Linux PC and use Unix Mail command from a login Brian shell. Brian Is it possible. Certainly. Brian What packages would you recommend for 1. mail gateway Brian software (e.g. fetchmail,sendmail etc) 2. to make the dial Brian up connection (ISP would allocate IP on login) For 2., the latest ppp package should be just what you need. It contains the ppp daemon (pppd) and some useful scripts for connecting and disconnecting (pon, poff, plog). For 1., I personally would not recommend fetchmail. On my system at least, it seems to have trouble communicating properly with the POP3 server at my ISP. I would recommend 'popclient', which used to be in the 'netstd' package. As of 1.2, however, I believe you have to look for it elsewhere. Also, if you want to use it, you can't have fetchmail installed, because the fetchmail package contains a 'popclient' which is actually a symbolic link to 'fetchmail'. As to whether popclient (and fetchmail, for that matter) can read a user list, automating them to retrieve mail for any number of users with a shell script run by 'cron' is trivial. Good luck, sounds like you're off to a good start. The next step is to convince your Winblows users that they'd be better off running Linux as well... -- Nathan L. Cutler Linux Enthusiast http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~nlc -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
