potato install and module 3c59x.c
Hello to all! I am installing potato 2.2r2 from the distribution CDs in a new machine which has the 3c905c NIC. After selected the 3c59cx module and complete a minimal installation, I can't put the NIC to work. I searched in the archives and I found that this was already a problem with other people in the past. All of them compiled the last version of the module and apparently this fixed the problem. I have the las version of the module now, the 3c59x.c. The problem is that I have no idea what to do in order to install this module together with potato. Perhaps this should enter as a third part driver during the installation, but I don't know how. Any help regarding this problem will be very appreciated. Thanks ins advance, Marcelo -- Marcelo Chiapparini DFT-IF/UERJ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: potato install and module 3c59x.c
Hello! its me again! On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 08:50:41AM -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Hello to all! I am installing potato 2.2r2 from the distribution CDs in a new machine which has the 3c905c NIC. After selected the 3c59cx module and complete a minimal installation, I can't put the NIC to work. I searched in the archives and I found that this was already a problem with other people in the past. All of them compiled the last version of the module and apparently this fixed the problem. I have the las version of the module now, the 3c59x.c. The problem is that I have no idea what to do in order to install this module together with potato. Perhaps this should enter as a third part driver during the installation, but I don't know how. Any help regarding this problem will be very appreciated. Thanks ins advance, Marcelo I was thinking that it may be a matter of compiling the 3c59x.c in order to transform it into the 3c59x.o and copy this module into the /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/net directory in order to replace the old module. Is this correct? if so, how can I compile the module? Thanks again for the help! Regards, Marcelo -- Marcelo Chiapparini DFT-IF/UERJ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: potato install and module 3c59x.c
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 08:50:41AM -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Hello to all! I am installing potato 2.2r2 from the distribution CDs in a new machine which has the 3c905c NIC. After selected the 3c59cx module and complete a minimal installation, I can't put the NIC to work. I searched in the archives and I found that this was already a problem with other people in the past. All of them compiled the last version of the module and apparently this fixed the problem. I have the las version of the module now, the 3c59x.c. The problem is that I have no idea what to do in order to install this module together with potato. Perhaps this should enter as a third part driver during the installation, but I don't know how. Any help regarding this problem will be very appreciated. The 3x905c is not supported by the 3c59x module that ships with 2.2r2 - I believe that version of potato shipped with kernel 2.2.18presomething. IIRC the 3c905c was supported by the 3c59x module in kernel 2.2.19. So, your options are 1) grab 2.2.19 kernel sources (no, they won't be on the cd :) and build a custom kernel including the 3c59x module. 2) get the 3c59x module from http://www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html, install the 2.2.18pre kernel source (should be on the cd), install kernel-package, and compile a kernel. If you do step 2, you should followup with step 1 once you have network access. The 2.2.18pre kernel that shipped with 2.2r2 sucks. -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better Micromuse Ltd. | than a perfect plan tomorrow. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Patton pgpECeIJDUAO1.pgp Description: PGP signature
Missing GLIBC2.2 on potato install
I've installed potato a few times on this particular PC, and for various reasons, I wanted to do a clean re-install. I repartitioned and off we went. Everything went smoothly and I soon had a working system. I wanted to access reiser filesystems (version 2) created by another linux distro, so I added the Adrian Bunk lines to my /etc/apt/sources.list, and downloaded the kernel packages and 2.4.14 sources. I recompiled the kernel with reiser support, rebooted, and all was well. So far so good. I've done this process a few times with no problems. Then I decided to try postfix for a change, and did an apt-get install postfix, and allowed it to do its stuff. I read the postfix config file, hacked it with a bit of trial and error, and managed to get things working. I was pleasantly surprised. I made a few other hacks around the system, all of which I've done on previous occasions. I restored my woody partition which I'd zapped because of the repartiotioning, modified my lilo, and rebooted to check that I could still get into woody. Yes. Fine. Rebooted to get back to potato - and now big problems. Most things I try say that the GLIBC 2.2 package library or whatever is not installed. I try various permitations of apt-cache search and apt-get install and reinstall and fix to try get things working again, but most things, such as perl, need glibc2.2. I don't know where things went wrong, but presumably I messed up somewhere, and don't know where I did it. Question 1: Is the system salvagable? I suspect not. Is it possible to install the GLIBC_2.2 (I can't recall the exact error) - or is it needed by everything, including the install routines? Question 2: Assuming I'm looking at a clean rebuild, is there anything I can salvage from the current install that will save me another long download. I'm thinking mostly of the 2.2.14 Bunk kernel and docs. They took a long time to download, and if I can copy them out of the way until I've reinstalled, then copy them back, that would save me a lot of time. I can see them in /var/cache/apt/archives - is it just a question of backing that directory up then restoring, or is there more involved? Thanks, Dougie
Re: Missing GLIBC2.2 on potato install
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 11:03:01PM +, Dougie Nisbet wrote: Most things I try say that the GLIBC 2.2 package library or whatever is not installed. I try various permitations of apt-cache search and apt-get install and reinstall and fix to try get things working again, but most things, such as perl, need glibc2.2. I don't know where things went wrong, but presumably I messed up somewhere, and don't know where I did it. Nothing in potato should need glibc 2.2. Potato uses glibc 2.1. How did you manage to get woody/sid packages installed on your potato system? Question 1: Is the system salvagable? I suspect not. Is it possible to install the GLIBC_2.2 (I can't recall the exact error) - or is it needed by everything, including the install routines? They're always salvagable, it's just not always worth the effort. In this case, it should be pretty easy to salvage since you've got another working OS on the system. Boot to your other OS and copy glibc 2.2 over to the potato system. Question 2: Assuming I'm looking at a clean rebuild, is there anything I can salvage from the current install that will save me another long download. I'm Assuming you've got /home on a separate partition, copy everything there while you re-install. The .debs from /var/cache/apt/archives is fine to copy over. Apt on the new system will be smart enough to see them and not download them again. But of course, you don't necessarily have to re-install. noah -- ___ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html pgpETngO3XvuA.pgp Description: PGP signature
Please help! New Potato install
I just finished installing Potato v. 2.2r3. My motherboard is the Intel 815EEA, and X recognizes neither the onboard video nor my ATI Radeon 64MB DDR AGP. Am I correct in saying that I have to upgrade to Woody in order to take advantage of my video card, or can I simply install xFree86 4.1/4.2? Also, should I upgrade my kernel to 2.4, or should that even matter? (Please bear with me; I'm from the Windows world, where the newest is the least unreliable) Also, I understand that my modem(Creative Modem Blaster 56K PCI model DI5630) doesn't function under Linux because it's just another Winmodem. Has anyone heard of any ways to get this device to function under Linux? If not, that's alright because I've got a 33.6 external in the mail. Thanks for your help! Jason Machacek
Re: Please help! New Potato install
check your logs, everything you find in the directory /var/log, for system info on what might be wrong. also, check your bios settings regarding onboard or AGP video. apropos the modem, if it's truly a winmodem, dump it. it's not your fault. it has to do with proprietary issues being held back from developers. the main thing is, don't give up. the thing to remember is that if it's a computer, it will eventually run some version of linux. the psychological advantage of escaping bill is worth all the frustration. post your logs, particularly dmesg and any X logs, to make it easier for others to understand the problem. Jason Machacek wrote: I just finished installing Potato v. 2.2r3. My motherboard is the Intel 815EEA, and X recognizes neither the onboard video nor my ATI Radeon 64MB DDR AGP. Am I correct in saying that I have to upgrade to Woody in order to take advantage of my video card, or can I simply install xFree86 4.1/4.2? Also, should I upgrade my kernel to 2.4, or should that even matter? (Please bear with me; I'm from the Windows world, where the newest is the least unreliable) Also, I understand that my modem(Creative Modem Blaster 56K PCI model DI5630) doesn't function under Linux because it's just another Winmodem. Has anyone heard of any ways to get this device to function under Linux? If not, that's alright because I've got a 33.6 external in the mail. Thanks for your help! Jason Machacek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Please help! New Potato install
I just finished installing Potato v. 2.2r3. My motherboard is the Intel 815EEA, and X recognizes neither the onboard video nor my ATI Radeon 64MB DDR AGP. Am I correct in saying that I have to upgrade to Woody in order to take advantage of my video card, or can I simply install xFree86 4.1/4.2? Jason, you should be able to get X working at least with an svga server, but I guess that an ATI server will work as well. Try XF86Setup to create a working XF86Config file. Also, should I upgrade my kernel to 2.4, or should that even matter? (Please bear with me; I'm from the Windows world, where the newest is the least unreliable) This should not be necessary although kernel 2.4 is reliable. Also, I understand that my modem(Creative Modem Blaster 56K PCI model DI5630) doesn't function under Linux because it's just another Winmodem. Has anyone heard of any ways to get this device to function under Linux? If not, that's alright because I've got a 33.6 external in the mail. Search Google for your modem or have a look at www.linmodems.org. Plenty of people had the same problems like you and they managed to solve them. Thanks for your help! Jason Machacek Frank --
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.
IDE kernel messages after potato install
Hello,
I have had two messages in kern.log since installing potato 2.2-r3
yesterday. First, brief background: Gateway Solo 9300 with a 450 Mhz
Pentium, 288 MB RAM, 12 GB IDE hd and IDE CDROM. Phoenix BIOS 16.53.
Windows 98 currently resides on /dev/hda1, but I haven't added it back
to lilo yet. I have been running RH 6.2 and then 7.0 on it without
any obvious problems. The first problem occurred when I was
un'tarring a pretty big file, my old /usr/local/ directory:
Jul 16 04:33:55 wenho kernel: hda: read_intr: status=0x59
{ DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
Jul 16 04:33:55 wenho kernel: hda: read_intr: error=0x40
{ UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=16490098, sector=3188215
Jul 16 04:33:55 wenho kernel: end_request: I/O error,
dev 03:06 (hda), sector 3188215
In looking on the web, it looks like people have said that this is a
hardware error, but it seems strange that a hd error would just pop up
the day after I install Debian.
The second one is a clock time error that occurred when installing
software from a CDROM:
Jul 16 15:18:36 wenho kernel: probable hardware bug: clock timer
configuration lost - probably a VIA686a.
Jul 16 15:18:36 wenho kernel: probable hardware bug: restoring
chip configuration.
So, my question is are these really hardware problems that Debian is
showing me and other OS's hide or don't notice? Or could these errors
be due to the fact that I am using the kernel off the Debian CD?
Might they disappear if I build my own kernel? Finally, are these
significant? Do they occur and then the system tries again and then
it works, or are these serious errors that should be corrected?
Thanks for your time and any suggestions.
Brian Flaherty
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Potato Install, Modconf, and a SMC (Western Digital 8013 ISA) NIC
Afternoon folks, I am in the process of configuring a new Debian server, and have been informed that I have to use a SMC (Western Digital 8013 ISA) NIC. We do have these NICs running under Red-Hat Linux in-house, but I have convinced the powers that be, to let me migrate from RedHat to Debian. Here's a low-down on the box P-166MMX Microstar MS-5156 mainboard 128 MB of RAM Adaptec 29160 SCSI adapter Quantum Hard Drive - Atlas USR ISA Internal Modem Cirrus Logic 1MB Video Card Western Digital 8013, ISA (SMC Chipset) The NIC is jumpered to IRQ-10, IO=0X300 modconf fails no matter what I try and do with this NIC, and yes, I have tried a second NIC I know works forsure. Thanks in advance all, -- +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Scott FraserMyra Systems Corp. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.myra.com/ voice: 250.381.1335 ext:163488A Bay Street fax: 250.381.1304 Victoria, BC cell: 250.514.4765V8T 5H2 +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=
Re: Potato Install, Modconf, and a SMC (Western Digital 8013 ISA) NIC
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 01:17:22PM -0700, Scott Fraser wrote: Afternoon folks, I am in the process of configuring a new Debian server, and have been informed that I have to use a SMC (Western Digital 8013 ISA) NIC. We do have these NICs running under Red-Hat Linux in-house, but I have convinced the powers that be, to let me migrate from RedHat to Debian. Here's a low-down on the box P-166MMX Microstar MS-5156 mainboard 128 MB of RAM Adaptec 29160 SCSI adapter Quantum Hard Drive - Atlas USR ISA Internal Modem Cirrus Logic 1MB Video Card Western Digital 8013, ISA (SMC Chipset) The NIC is jumpered to IRQ-10, IO=0X300 modconf fails no matter what I try and do with this NIC, and yes, I have tried a second NIC I know works forsure. Fails how? What module are you trying to load? The WD8013 series is supported by the wd.o module. Adaptec cards like irq 10 ... make sure it's not stealing it. -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better Micromuse Ltd. | than a perfect plan tomorrow. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Patton pgpYtwB53dzEB.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Potato Install, Modconf, and a SMC (Western Digital 8013 ISA) NIC
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 01:17:22PM -0700, Scott Fraser wrote: Afternoon folks, I am in the process of configuring a new Debian server, and have been informed that I have to use a SMC (Western Digital 8013 ISA) NIC. We do have these NICs running under Red-Hat Linux in-house, but I have convinced the powers that be, to let me migrate from RedHat to Debian. Here's a low-down on the box P-166MMX Microstar MS-5156 mainboard 128 MB of RAM Adaptec 29160 SCSI adapter Quantum Hard Drive - Atlas USR ISA Internal Modem Cirrus Logic 1MB Video Card Western Digital 8013, ISA (SMC Chipset) The NIC is jumpered to IRQ-10, IO=0X300 modconf fails no matter what I try and do with this NIC, and yes, I have tried a second NIC I know works forsure. How was it setup under redhat? Did they use isapnp? Is pnp (os = winxxx) on in the bios?
Potato install termwrap problem
I also had the problem listed below. I tracked the problem to /etc/inittab there was a temp /etc/inittab tring to run /sbin/termwrap but I found the real inittab at /etc/inittab.real just,cp /etc/inittab.real /etc/inittab I just installed the base system of potato from the binary-i386 iso image disk 1. Once it goes through the install of the base system, I get the following error on boot. /bin/sh: /sbin/termwrap: No such file or directory /bin/sh: exec: /sbin/termwrap: cannot execute: No such file or directory INIT: Id 1 respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes What is wrong here? I looked in /sbin and there is no termwrap program there. brian -- Brian Lavender http://www.brie.com/brian/
After potato install, why does 1st dselect install so much?
AFTER SEARCHING through about 18 months of debian-user archives and not finding a related thread, here's a question that's been on my mind looking for a high-level answer. Just now I did a fresh install of potato (2.2r2) from CD and chose these tasks: [*] Dialup Dialup utilities [*] Laptop A selection of tools for laptop users [*] Newbie Help New user documentation [*] Python Python script development environment [*] Python Bundle Full distribution of Python [*] Python Dev Full Python development environment [*] Python Web Python web application development environm [*] SgmlSGML and XML authoring and editing [*] Sgml DevSGML and XML development environment Everything seemed OK, judging from having installed slink/potato about a dozen times before (sometimes just for practice). After a reboot, I launched dselect and: - [S]elect - upon entering Select screen, pressed ENTER (- All packages -) - [I]nstall It said: ... 65 newly installed; 89.8MB will be used ... I don't get it. Why does dselect want to install so much, whereas the operating-system install (from Rescue Disk boot to the Have Fun! message) did not? The main installation routine didn't install such basic packages as ispell and finger, but somehow those two (and 63 others) were in dselect's queue of packages to be installed. Running dselect a second time doesn't install or delete anything. Is flushing dselect a normal part of installing Debian? If so, is there a design reason why it's meant to be that way, or did it evolve (in the negative sense of evolve), sort of like some packages use Debian Configuration and others don't? -- Rob Cymbala2nd email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG/PGP: www.Lafn.org/~cymbala/pubkey.html
Re: After potato install, why does 1st dselect install so much?
Robert Cymbala wrote: I don't get it. Why does dselect want to install so much, whereas the operating-system install (from Rescue Disk boot to the Have Fun! message) did not? Dselect installs all standard priority packages by default. The task system does not (in the version of debian you use; this was an oversight, and it does/will in all later versions). If so, is there a design reason why it's meant to be that way, or did it evolve (in the negative sense of evolve), sort of like some packages use Debian Configuration and others don't? That is not an evolution, that is the fact that potato shipped with us 50% through the transition to debconf (and woody will probably ship with us 90% through). -- see shy jo
Re: After potato install, why does 1st dselect install so much?
Quoting Robert Cymbala ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): AFTER SEARCHING through about 18 months of debian-user archives and not finding a related thread, here's a question that's been on my mind looking for a high-level answer. I don't know about high-level; I can only make some observations. Just now I did a fresh install of potato (2.2r2) from CD and chose these tasks: [*] Dialup Dialup utilities [*] Laptop A selection of tools for laptop users [*] Newbie Help New user documentation [*] Python Python script development environment [*] Python Bundle Full distribution of Python [*] Python Dev Full Python development environment [*] Python Web Python web application development environm [*] SgmlSGML and XML authoring and editing [*] Sgml DevSGML and XML development environment I don't normally select any tasks, but just move on to the 1st dselect. Everything seemed OK, judging from having installed slink/potato about a dozen times before (sometimes just for practice). After a reboot, I launched dselect and: - [S]elect - upon entering Select screen, pressed ENTER (- All packages -) - [I]nstall It said: ... 65 newly installed; 89.8MB will be used ... I don't get it. Why does dselect want to install so much, whereas the operating-system install (from Rescue Disk boot to the Have Fun! message) did not? The main installation routine didn't install such basic packages as ispell and finger, but somehow those two (and 63 others) were in dselect's queue of packages to be installed. What do you mean by operating-system install? If you mean the part of the installation prior to the reboot, well you wouldn't expect that part to install much. 89.8MB, let's see, what's that in floppies, sixty? No, that part of the installation only includes the packages that are needed to install more packages, i.e. it's a classic bootstrap process. Looking back at the size of dselect's appetite in the past, the figures I have are: bo35MB hamm 45MB slink 37MB potato installed August 2000 with May's boot disks, dselect upgraded 25 and installed 91 packages. Running dselect a second time doesn't install or delete anything. Is flushing dselect a normal part of installing Debian? Yes, unless you know and specify exactly what you want to apt-get (which also only satisfies Depends, and does not bother with Recommends or Suggests). Dselect will give you everything that's Required, Important or Standard, IIRC. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
Re: After potato install, why does 1st dselect install so much?
David Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 14:45:40 +0100 [...] Quoting Robert Cymbala ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): [...] Just now I did a fresh install of potato (2.2r2) from CD and chose these tasks: [*] Dialup Dialup utilities [*] Laptop A selection of tools for laptop users [*] Newbie Help New user documentation [*] Python Python script development environment [*] Python Bundle Full distribution of Python [*] Python Dev Full Python development environment [*] Python Web Python web application development environm [*] SgmlSGML and XML authoring and editing [*] Sgml DevSGML and XML development environment [...] After a reboot, I launched dselect and: - [S]elect - upon entering Select screen, pressed ENTER (- All packages -) - [I]nstall It said: ... 65 newly installed; 89.8MB will be used ... I don't get it. Why does dselect want to install so much, whereas the operating-system install (from Rescue Disk boot to the Have Fun! message) did not? The main installation routine didn't install such basic packages as ispell and finger, but somehow those two (and 63 others) were in dselect's queue of packages to be installed. What do you mean by operating-system install? If you mean the part of the installation prior to the reboot, well you wouldn't expect that part to install much. 89.8MB, let's see, what's that in floppies, sixty? No, that part of the installation only includes the packages that are needed to install more packages, i.e. it's a classic bootstrap process. Thank you for the feedback. It has prompted me to dig deeper into the install documentation; in fact, I've been able to answer my own question upon further reading! My CD set has (where M: is CD-ROM in Windows Explorer): --- file:///M:/install/doc/ch-init-config.en.html#s-preselections 7.24 Select and Install Profiles version 2.2.20.0.1, 30 November, 2000 That section says: So, you have the ability to choose tasks or profiles instead. The latest install documentation version has: --- http://www.debian.org/releases/2.2/i386/ch-init-config.en.html#s-preselections 7.29 Simple Package Selection -- The Task Installer version 2.2.21, 21 March, 2001 That newer section says: So, you have the ability to choose tasks instead. Section 7.29 (version on-line) ends with a caveat: The second caveat is that some so-called ``standard'' packages are not installed by default. Thus, some software, which we consider basic to any Linux system, may not be installed.[6] In order to install that software, simply run tasksel -s, without selecting any packages, then select ``Finish''. Footnote #6 reads: http://www.debian.org/releases/2.2/i386/footnotes.en.html#6 This is due to a bug in base-config which we have fixed for the next release. We decided not to change this after Potato release, since it was a rather large change, and too likely to cause problems. So, until next release, I need to do ``tasksel -s'' as the final step of what I called operating-system install (better to have said, Debian install). It turns out that I noticed the bug in practice, and sure enough the latest install documentation addresses it and what to do about it. Thank you, -- Robert Cymbala 2nd email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG/PGP: www.Lafn.org/~cymbala/pubkey.html http://www.Lafn.org/~cymbala/airguard.html
Re: printing broken in potato install
On my system, to get around this situation, I installed the paraport modules during the initial install and used modconf later to add lp. bob On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Doug Hespe wrote: I have just installed potato on a machine which happily ran slink before. During the install it refused to load the lp module--- Error installing lp module /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/lp.o:init_module:Device or resource busy Hint: this error can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/lp.o:insmod /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/lp.o failed /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/lp.o:insmod lp failed ---so I put in parport which someone mentioned some time ago. At bootup, if the printer is on, parport detects the printer correctly-- see attatched dmesg log-- but when I try to cat testfile /dev/lp0 or lp1, bash complains that no such devices exist. If someone can tell me where in the fine manual to look for help, I should be most grateful. TIA, Doug. Content-Type: text/plain; name=unnamed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description:
Re: printing broken in potato install
Thanks Sebastiaan and Mike: insmod lp.o did the trick. My next task will be to work out a way of getting this to happen automatically on boot-up, probably in one of the rc scripts. regards, Doug.
Re: printing broken in potato install
Doug Hespe wrote: Thanks Sebastiaan and Mike: insmod lp.o did the trick. My next task will be to work out a way of getting this to happen automatically on boot-up, probably in one of the rc scripts. For kernel modules to load at boot time check out /etc/modules in man modules. And for auto-loading modules with alias see man modules.conf. -- ~~~
Re: printing broken in potato install
Thanks, Bob. When I looked at modconf it indicated that the lp module was now in the kernel--probably because I followed Sebastiaan and Mike's suggestions. My next task will be to reboot and see if it stays there. Regards, Doug. On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 11:39:38AM -0500, Bob Underwood wrote: On my system, to get around this situation, I installed the paraport modules during the initial install and used modconf later to add lp. bob
printing broken in potato install
I have just installed potato on a machine which happily ran slink before. During the install it refused to load the lp module--- Error installing lp module /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/lp.o:init_module:Device or resource busy Hint: this error can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/lp.o:insmod /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/lp.o failed /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/lp.o:insmod lp failed ---so I put in parport which someone mentioned some time ago. At bootup, if the printer is on, parport detects the printer correctly-- see attatched dmesg log-- but when I try to cat testfile /dev/lp0 or lp1, bash complains that no such devices exist. If someone can tell me where in the fine manual to look for help, I should be most grateful. TIA, Doug. Linux version 2.2.17 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.95.2 2313 (Debian GNU/Linux)) #1 Sun Jun 25 09:24:41 EST 2000 Detected 400917 kHz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 799.54 BogoMIPS Memory: 127044k/131072k available (1732k kernel code, 416k reserved, 1740k data, 140k init) Dentry hash table entries: 16384 (order 5, 128k) Buffer cache hash table entries: 131072 (order 7, 512k) Page cache hash table entries: 32768 (order 5, 128k) VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized CPU: Intel Pentium II (Deschutes) stepping 02 Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. Checking for popad bug... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX mtrr: v1.35a (19990819) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb330 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 131072 bhash 65536) Starting kswapd v 1.5 Detected PS/2 Mouse Port. pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.13) apm: disabled on user request. Real Time Clock Driver v1.09 RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size loop: registered device at major 7 PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio hda: WDC AC26400B, ATA DISK drive hdd: ATAPI CD-ROM DRIVE 36X MAXIMUM, ATAPI CDROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: WDC AC26400B, 6149MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=784/255/63 hdd: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.11 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 md driver 0.36.6 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8 scsi: fdomain Detection failed (no card) NCR53c406a: no available ports found sym53c416.c: Version 1.0.0 Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card! IBM MCA SCSI: No Microchannel-bus support present - Aborting. megaraid: v107 (December 22, 1999) aec671x_detect: 3w-: tw_findcards(): No cards found. scsi : 0 hosts. scsi : detected total. Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 140k freed NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0. Adding Swap: 64224k swap-space (priority -1) AWE32: not detected parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [SPP,ECP,ECPEPP,ECPPS2] parport0: detected irq 7; use procfs to enable interrupt-driven operation. parport_probe: succeeded parport0: Printer, Kyocera FS-680 CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California PPP: version 2.3.7 (demand dialling) PPP line discipline registered. SLIP: version 0.8.4-NET3.019-NEWTTY-MODULAR (dynamic channels, max=256). SLIP linefill/keepalive option. Serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A registered device ppp0 PPP BSD Compression module registered PPP Deflate Compression module registered
Re: printing broken in potato install
Hi, perhaps lp.o is compiled in the kernel. In order to print you need (on an ordinary i386): parport.o parport_pc.o lp.o Try insmodding there three (in this order) and see what it does. Hope it helps, Sebastiaan On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Doug Hespe wrote: I have just installed potato on a machine which happily ran slink before. During the install it refused to load the lp module--- Error installing lp module /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/lp.o:init_module:Device or resource busy Hint: this error can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/lp.o:insmod /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/lp.o failed /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/lp.o:insmod lp failed ---so I put in parport which someone mentioned some time ago. At bootup, if the printer is on, parport detects the printer correctly-- see attatched dmesg log-- but when I try to cat testfile /dev/lp0 or lp1, bash complains that no such devices exist. If someone can tell me where in the fine manual to look for help, I should be most grateful. TIA, Doug.
Re: printing broken in potato install
At bootup, if the printer is on, parport detects the printer correctly-- see attatched dmesg log-- but when I try to cat testfile /dev/lp0 or lp1, bash complains that no such devices exist. You need the lp module. Do lsmod to see if its loaded. If not try modprobe. I am assuming the standard lpr program is installed. If so you can setup /etc/printcap with a pkg like printtool. -- ~~~
dropped out of potato install sequence
This is probably not a bug, but my careless fingers caused the 2.2r2 installation sequence to bail, leaving me at a login prompt. I'm sending this note in the interest of maybe improving the installation sequence for other clumsy new* users. (* new to Debian; I've used SuSE and RedHat for a few years.) This was just after going through the package select, then anXious dialogs, at a prompt which said I'd chosen 49 MB of packages which would take 100 MB disk space, and ended with the prompt (Yn)?. I typed y, then saw that Y was in caps; hit Y, so now had yY; tried backspace which did nothing; tried Ctl-H, which landed me at a login prompt. I'm not sure how to recover/restart the install, and don't see a troubleshooting section in the fine manual that covers this contingency. Running dselect shows a much more detailed package listing than was displayed during the install dialogs. Is it possible to run a command to run through the install profiles (tasks) from the command line? -- Ken Irving [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dropped out of potato install sequence
To quote Ken Irving [EMAIL PROTECTED], # I'm not sure how to recover/restart the install, and don't see a # troubleshooting section in the fine manual that covers this contingency. # Running dselect shows a much more detailed package listing than was # displayed during the install dialogs. Is it possible to run a command # to run through the install profiles (tasks) from the command line? Yeah, try 'tasksel'. David Barclay Harris, Clan Barclay Aut agere, aut mori. (Either action, or death.)
Re: dropped out of potato install sequence
I'm not sure how to recover/restart the install, and don't see a troubleshooting section in the fine manual that covers this contingency. Running dselect shows a much more detailed package listing than was displayed during the install dialogs. Is it possible to run a command to run through the install profiles (tasks) from the command line? yes, try apt-cache search ^task and apt-get install task-package after that. if you already have the stuff selected you can type dselect and go to install and just press enter a few times and it should start installing the stuff you selected later -- Ken Irving [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Straight to woody after fresh potato install?
The first of two questions: Is it OK to specify woody as the apt source after a fresh potato installation (I just grabbed, as someone suggested, the 2.88mb floppy install image)? I want to have woody with the least number of downloaded packages. Second question: where is the best place to get the latest gnome packages? I'm planning to do some gtk compiling. Which gnome and what (virtual?) package do I specify to get a complete development environment. This query has been prompted by my inability to compile the lastest xcdroast (0.98?) under potato. TIA
Re: Straight to woody after fresh potato install?
csj wrote: The first of two questions: Is it OK to specify woody as the apt source after a fresh potato installation (I just grabbed, as someone suggested, the 2.88mb floppy install image)? I want to have woody with the least number of downloaded packages. Sure. I'd recommend changing your sources.list, apt-get update, then install debconf, then apt-get dist-upgrade. Second question: where is the best place to get the latest gnome packages? I'm planning to do some gtk compiling. Which gnome and what (virtual?) package do I specify to get a complete development environment. This query has been prompted by my inability to compile the lastest xcdroast (0.98?) under potato. I just use the packages at Helixcode. I don't even use the Debian GNOME packages if I can help it. -- -=|JP|=-Why, oh, why didn't I take the blue pill? Jon Pennington| Atipa Linux Solutions -o) [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.atipa.com/\\ Kansas City, MO, USA | 816-595-3000 x1550 _\_V 6D04 39E0 CAE9 9ADA 2CA3 2EBE 898A 6C37 CA1E A29C
Re: Straight to woody after fresh potato install?
The first of two questions: Is it OK to specify woody as the apt source after a fresh potato installation I did and it worked fine. The commands (after specifying Woody in /etc/apt/sources.list) are apt-get update and then apt-get upgrade. This will only upgrade the packages you currently have, along with any new dependencies. Second question: where is the best place to get the latest gnome packages? I'm planning to do some gtk compiling. Which gnome and what (virtual?) package do I specify to get a complete development environment. This query has been prompted by my inability to compile the lastest xcdroast (0.98?) under potato. I believe the most actively developed would be HelixCode's site. I don't remember the exact URL, but do have it at home. Someone else will likely post it, but I did find this entry by searching the lists archives: deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distributions/debian unstable main Good luck Hall Stevenson
Re: Straight to woody after fresh potato install?
To quote Jon Pennington [EMAIL PROTECTED], # csj wrote: # # The first of two questions: Is it OK to specify woody as the apt source after # a fresh potato installation (I just grabbed, as someone suggested, the 2.88mb # floppy install image)? I want to have woody with the least number of # downloaded packages. # # Sure. I'd recommend changing your sources.list, apt-get update, then # install debconf, then apt-get dist-upgrade. # # Second question: where is the best place to get the latest gnome packages? # I'm planning to do some gtk compiling. Which gnome and what (virtual?) # package do I specify to get a complete development environment. This query # has been prompted by my inability to compile the lastest xcdroast (0.98?) # under potato. # # I just use the packages at Helixcode. I don't even use the Debian GNOME # packages if I can help it. I would just like to point out that it is really quite difficult to get rid of Helix GNOME in favour of the regular Debian packages if at some point in the future you decide Helix is too buggy. I installed Helix without difficulty; and it ran just fine. However, I have a rather spartan desktop, without even the GNOME panel. I long ago got rid of GNOME's session manager(sort of slow and bloated, that one), so really all I'm running is Sawfish and some 'gkrellm' monitors. So, I decided to get rid of Helix and switch to the Debian packages. I did it, but it wasn't fun at all. Dave
Re: Potato install termwrap problem
I have faced the same problem with a fresh installation with Linux Central binary CD distribution. Downloading a fresh base system and installing from hard disk made no difference. Secondly, the lp module is also not being configured on doing a Configure of the Installed kernel. No clues on this termwrap issue ! Need some help in this regard. Thanks. USM Bish On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Brian Lavender wrote: I just installed the base system of potato from the binary-i386 iso image disk 1. Once it goes through the install of the base system, I get the following error on boot. /bin/sh: /sbin/termwrap: No such file or directory /bin/sh: exec: /sbin/termwrap: cannot execute: No such file or directory INIT: Id 1 respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes What is wrong here? I looked in /sbin and there is no termwrap program there. brian -- Brian Lavender http://www.brie.com/brian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Potato install termwrap problem
I just installed the base system of potato from the binary-i386 iso image disk 1. Once it goes through the install of the base system, I get the following error on boot. /bin/sh: /sbin/termwrap: No such file or directory /bin/sh: exec: /sbin/termwrap: cannot execute: No such file or directory INIT: Id 1 respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes What is wrong here? I looked in /sbin and there is no termwrap program there. brian -- Brian Lavender http://www.brie.com/brian/
Re: potato install
VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd Known problem of linux 2.2.16 and some 2.2.17pre's. Update linux to 2.2.17 or even 2.2.18pre. this newbie wants to know whats name of what I need. have browsed metallab's potato list but can't locate the kernels ] TIA robert YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.
potato install
Have installed deb2.2 twice trying to correct the following error: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd This is after the base2.2.gz is loaded and being installed. Have tried using install from cd and install from floppys tia robert YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.
Re: potato install
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd Known problem of linux 2.2.16 and some 2.2.17pre's. Update linux to 2.2.17 or even 2.2.18pre. moritz -- /* Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://hp9001.fh-bielefeld.de/~moritz/ * PGP-Key available, encrypted Mail is welcome. */
potato install - unmet mysql dependency?
i did a fresh format/partition/install of potato from iso/cd install; after poking around a bit* i found that mysql needed zlib1g-dev (zlib.h i think) and even though apt-get check reported all was lovely, i had to manually apt-get install zlib1g-dev anyhow. is it a bug? is it me?* -- *poking around a bit entails many apt-get install and apt-get remove while i find the arrangement i'm after... -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dontUthink.com/
Re: Potato install fails to load ROOT image
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 04:41:33PM -0400, Stuart Ballard wrote: Sorry to reply to myself, but I've come to the conclusion after further testing that my floppy drive is 100% busted and I'm not going to be able to do anything useful off it. I also can't (practically) replace it. I do have a fully functioning RedHat 5.2 installation on the machine and a fast network connection, but it's one big partition plus swap. Is there any way I can get debian onto this puppy? I had problems with my floppy drive... cleaning it worked fine for me. Look below for more tips... I'm thinking of things along the lines of # cd / # mkdir redhat # mv * redhat # /redhat/usr/bin/tar zxvf redhat/base_2.2.tar.gz First, note that this won't work. You will move the libraries off the root directory so the system won't find them and it will simply crash. You won't be able to run tar or anything other. But then... - How do I get a kernel? - How do I make the system bootable (is LILO in the default install?) [Possible answer: mv /redhat/boot /boot, and just boot off the old kernel - how much else would have to be preserved, though?] - How do I get into the installation system? (presumably base_2.2 doesn't extract to a fully functional distribution, or we wouldn't have an installation program at all...) Note that due to the aforementioned fast network connection, there is no problem getting stuff onto this machine, and it already has linux on an ext2 filesystem, so it should be among the easier cases of this kind of installation. On the other hand, the absence of a working floppy is going to make life hard. Do other machines on the network have linux installed? First, compile a kernel in them so you have a properly one to go with debian. Then, INSTALL the debian base system in any other machine that has a good floppy drive. After the base system has been properly installed and configured, tar it and then untar it in the laptop machine in the root directory. Once you have done this, the system will be able to boot up after you install LILO. I managed to acquire something like this to get debian installed in a raid device. Hope this helps. PD: It could be interesting that debian could be network-cross-installed, I mean, remotely installed or installed from any other linux system. One *possible* workaround would be that, since the floppy drive is more temperamental than 100% broken, I might be able to get the rescue floppy, at least, to boot. If I can do this, I can of course enter rescue mode and mount my existing / partition as root, but (at least according to the installation guide) you can't install from a partition onto the same partition. What I'm trying to say is, Er, help? Thanks in advance, Stuart. PS please keep -user (or myself personally) cc:d, I'm not subscribed to -boot -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Juli-Manel Merino Vidal Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://jmmv.cjb.net
RE: Potato install fails to load ROOT image
Sorry to reply to myself, but I've come to the conclusion after further testing that my floppy drive is 100% busted and I'm not going to be able to do anything useful off it. I also can't (practically) replace it. I Floppy drives are about $10 now aren't they? do have a fully functioning RedHat 5.2 installation on the machine and a fast network connection, but it's one big partition plus swap. Is there any way I can get debian onto this puppy? Shrink your big partition and add one for /home. Move your stuff on there, then you can blow out the main one and do a fresh install from the CDs ( I assume they're around somewhere) tim
RE: Potato install fails to load ROOT image
How depressing. The only thing I can think of is to install a very basic potato on another machine and copy that over, then install the rest from the network. But that maybe completely stupid, and if it is then I'm sure the list will say so.. tim -Original Message- From: Stuart Ballard [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 10:20 AM To: Anderson, Tim TL33E Subject:Re: Potato install fails to load ROOT image Anderson, Tim TL33E wrote: Floppy drives are about $10 now aren't they? Try $139. It's an old laptop requiring a specially made floppy drive, and it has no access to anywhere I could plug a standard floppy into... I'm screwed. Stuart.
RE: Potato install fails to load ROOT image
At 09:45 AM 9/14/00 -0400, you wrote: Sorry to reply to myself, but I've come to the conclusion after further testing that my floppy drive is 100% busted and I'm not going to be able to do anything useful off it. I also can't (practically) replace it. Bugger! Go buy a new floppy drive - standard PC ones are $40 NZ (probably no more than $15 US) However if this machine is a laptop a floppy will be expensive. I paid $450 NZ for a TI floppy drive last year. If this is the case, have you got a CD Rom drive that can boot? Or perhaps you can borrow a floppy drive for long enough to get things going. A friend here has a Toshiba Libretto with a PCMCIA floppy drive, perhaps that will boot in your machine. Or as a last resort - use a 2.5 to 3.5 IDE adapter, take out the hard drive and boot it on a normal workstation. Good luck ! (down with laptops) -- Criggie
Re: Potato install fails to load ROOT image
Stuart Ballard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sorry to reply to myself, but I've come to the conclusion after further testing that my floppy drive is 100% busted and I'm not going to be able to do anything useful off it. I also can't (practically) replace it. I do have a fully functioning RedHat 5.2 installation on the machine and a fast network connection, but it's one big partition plus swap. Is there any way I can get debian onto this puppy? CD? Install from DOS? Those would be easiest. But I'll assume those won't work. I'm thinking of things along the lines of # cd / # mkdir redhat # mv * redhat # /redhat/usr/bin/tar zxvf redhat/base_2.2.tar.gz Ouch. Do you have a free partition to play with? YOu only need, uh, 150MB or so. But then... - How do I get a kernel? Install from harddisk option, is documented. The problem is going to be starting the system. I don't know what to say about this. Hmm. It might be possible to gunzip and loop mount root.bin and then chroot into it, invoking the busybox init. Never tried it though. - How do I make the system bootable (is LILO in the default install?) Yup, sure. [Possible answer: mv /redhat/boot /boot, and just boot off the old kernel - how much else would have to be preserved, though?] doesn't much matter... - How do I get into the installation system? (presumably base_2.2 doesn't extract to a fully functional distribution, or we wouldn't have an installation program at all...) See above. Note that due to the aforementioned fast network connection, there is no problem getting stuff onto this machine, and it already has linux on an ext2 filesystem, so it should be among the easier cases of this kind of installation. On the other hand, the absence of a working floppy is going to make life hard. Yeah, that's why non-sucky arches like powerpc/sparc etc have openfirmware and better support for fully network installation. One *possible* workaround would be that, since the floppy drive is more temperamental than 100% broken, I might be able to get the rescue floppy, at least, to boot. If I can do this, I can of course enter rescue mode and mount my existing / partition as root, but (at least according to the installation guide) you can't install from a partition onto the same partition. Or, again, if you have disk space to play with, make a little dos partition, then boot from a dos disk and run the loadlin option... What I'm trying to say is, Er, help? Good luck! -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onShore.com/
Potato install fails to load ROOT image
I'm trying to install potato from floppies (onto a laptop that doesn't have a CD drive). 100% reliably and repeatably, I get the following messages when I insert the ROOT floppy: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 799 end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 799 invalid compressed format (err=1)5VFS: Insert root floppy and press ENTER (pressing enter at this point appears to try to mount the disk as the root filesystem itself, rather than copying it to the ramdisk, so I get a bunch of other error messages...) I've obtained this exact same error across 3 different root floppies (the third one I actually re-downloaded the image, to make sure) and two different rescue floppies. I'm out of ideas. Anyone? Thanks very much in advance, Stuart. PS in case it helps, I'm trying to install on an AST Ascentia 800N laptop, which I believe is 486-based.
Re: Potato install fails to load ROOT image
Maybe all your floppies have phisical errors... hey, that could happen, it happened to me. Try to buy new floppy disks. If this don't work, try to clean the floppy drive; get it out of the laptop and clean it internally (BE CAREFUL). If this doesn't solve the problem, I could say yo to buy a new one... Do any other disks work fine? Bye! On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 11:17:40AM -0400, Stuart Ballard wrote: I'm trying to install potato from floppies (onto a laptop that doesn't have a CD drive). 100% reliably and repeatably, I get the following messages when I insert the ROOT floppy: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 799 end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 799 invalid compressed format (err=1)5VFS: Insert root floppy and press ENTER (pressing enter at this point appears to try to mount the disk as the root filesystem itself, rather than copying it to the ramdisk, so I get a bunch of other error messages...) I've obtained this exact same error across 3 different root floppies (the third one I actually re-downloaded the image, to make sure) and two different rescue floppies. I'm out of ideas. Anyone? Thanks very much in advance, Stuart. PS in case it helps, I'm trying to install on an AST Ascentia 800N laptop, which I believe is 486-based. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Juli-Manel Merino Vidal Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://jmmv.cjb.net
Re: Potato install fails to load ROOT image
Julio Merino wrote: Maybe all your floppies have phisical errors... hey, that could happen, it happened to me. Try to buy new floppy disks. If this don't work, try to clean the floppy drive; get it out of the laptop and clean it internally (BE CAREFUL). If this doesn't solve the problem, I could say yo to buy a new one... Do any other disks work fine? Well, the rescue disk works fine, and the 3 floppies I tried were all from different sources. Actually the first rescue disk I tried failed the second time I tried to use it (and every time after that), but the second rescue disk seems to repeatably succeed. It seems unlikely that the 3 completely separate floppies would fail in the same place without it being a symptom of something bigger... Stuart.
Re: Potato install fails to load ROOT image
Stuart Ballard wrote: I'm trying to install potato from floppies (onto a laptop that doesn't have a CD drive). 100% reliably and repeatably, I get the following messages when I insert the ROOT floppy: [snip] I've obtained this exact same error across 3 different root floppies (the third one I actually re-downloaded the image, to make sure) and two different rescue floppies. I'm out of ideas. Anyone? Sorry to reply to myself, but I've come to the conclusion after further testing that my floppy drive is 100% busted and I'm not going to be able to do anything useful off it. I also can't (practically) replace it. I do have a fully functioning RedHat 5.2 installation on the machine and a fast network connection, but it's one big partition plus swap. Is there any way I can get debian onto this puppy? I'm thinking of things along the lines of # cd / # mkdir redhat # mv * redhat # /redhat/usr/bin/tar zxvf redhat/base_2.2.tar.gz But then... - How do I get a kernel? - How do I make the system bootable (is LILO in the default install?) [Possible answer: mv /redhat/boot /boot, and just boot off the old kernel - how much else would have to be preserved, though?] - How do I get into the installation system? (presumably base_2.2 doesn't extract to a fully functional distribution, or we wouldn't have an installation program at all...) Note that due to the aforementioned fast network connection, there is no problem getting stuff onto this machine, and it already has linux on an ext2 filesystem, so it should be among the easier cases of this kind of installation. On the other hand, the absence of a working floppy is going to make life hard. One *possible* workaround would be that, since the floppy drive is more temperamental than 100% broken, I might be able to get the rescue floppy, at least, to boot. If I can do this, I can of course enter rescue mode and mount my existing / partition as root, but (at least according to the installation guide) you can't install from a partition onto the same partition. What I'm trying to say is, Er, help? Thanks in advance, Stuart. PS please keep -user (or myself personally) cc:d, I'm not subscribed to -boot
Re: Debian 2.2 Potato install
Does the simple install as described in Debians HOWTO actually work, or wasn't it included in this distribution? I am not sure what exactly do you mean by Debians HOWTO, but the installation process that is described on www.debian.org and on the documentation section of the Debian CDs is supposed to be working. Of course, as you can see in this mailing list, there are problems for some users. Why won't you try it out? I have ready every mail in this subscription, I have seen questions on Zope, apache, squid answered promptly, but this simple question on Debian has been ignored. Is this some sort of snobery because I am a complete newby? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- -- Shaul Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Donate free food to the world's hungry: see http://www.thehungersite.com
Debian 2.2 Potato install
Does the simple install as described in Debians HOWTO actually work, or wasn't it included in this distribution? I have ready every mail in this subscription, I have seen questions on Zope, apache, squid answered promptly, but this simple question on Debian has been ignored. Is this some sort of snobery because I am a complete newby?
Re: Debian 2.2 Potato install
Subject: Debian 2.2 Potato install Date: Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 09:58:46PM +1000 In reply to:Reg Quoting Reg([EMAIL PROTECTED]): reg Does the simple install as described in Debians HOWTO actually work, or reg wasn't it included in this distribution? reg reg I have ready every mail in this subscription, I have seen questions on reg Zope, apache, squid answered promptly, but this simple question on Debian reg has been ignored. reg reg Is this some sort of snobery because I am a complete newby? 1st lesson a newbie has to learn. Start a NEW thread if you have a question, don't reply to a different subject. You don't get many answers that way. What problems are you having installing Debian? Put the problem in the subject and you will get more help then you ever saw on the Microsloth Help line. I haven't installed Debian, fresh, in 5-6 years so if you ask a specific question, i, or someone could be of help. -- A user friendly computer first requires a friendly user. ___
Re: ppp trouble on clean potato install [-v]
At 8:01 AM -0500 20/8/00, John Hasler kindly responded: Exactly what happens when you start pppd with 'noauth'? Excuse the laborious detail, I'm feeling my way fairly blindly here... I have a couple of xterms up for the exercise, su'd as root on both, with minicom running in the first. I dial in as described, manually entering my username and password, which seem to be acceptable to the remote machine (from the com-terminal at least). From the supplied menu, I choose start ppp (ie, on the remote side). The host responds with with my session IP MTU numbers, then a string of around 100 chars, none of it human-readable save for the word melbourne embedded twice (fair enough - that's our locale). I hurry over to the other terminal and issue pppd noauth. Echoed now to the same term is a string of around 50 chars (all cyber-greek-to-me), repeated perhaps ten times in fairly rapid succession before we return to the bash prompt. Back in the minicom session, nothing much visible is happening in response. A message online appears momentarily, then reverts to offline. The line drops finally with NO CARRIER in less than one minute - or else immediately I try to initiate an http request. After performing this rite, 'plog' gives this: Aug 21 19:11:29 proli pppd[7921]: pppd 2.3.11 started by rossh, uid 0 Aug 21 19:11:29 proli pppd[7921]: Using interface ppp0 Aug 21 19:11:29 proli pppd[7921]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/pts/2 Aug 21 19:11:59 proli pppd[7921]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests Aug 21 19:11:59 proli pppd[7921]: Connection terminated. Aug 21 19:11:59 proli pppd[7921]: Exit. ...whereas, after a simple 'pon', it's output is as follows: Aug 21 19:16:56 proli pppd[7933]: sent [PAP AuthReq id=0x1 user=rossh password=hidden] Aug 21 19:16:56 proli pppd[7933]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x0 magic=0x0] Aug 21 19:16:56 proli pppd[7933]: rcvd [PAP AuthNak id=0x1 Request DeniedBad Encrypted-Password] Aug 21 19:16:56 proli pppd[7933]: Remote message: Request DeniedBad Encrypted-Password Aug 21 19:16:56 proli pppd[7933]: PAP authentication failed Aug 21 19:16:56 proli pppd[7933]: sent [LCP TermReq id=0x2 Failed to authenticate ourselves to peer] Aug 21 19:16:57 proli pppd[7933]: rcvd [LCP TermAck id=0x2] Aug 21 19:16:57 proli pppd[7933]: Connection terminated. Aug 21 19:16:57 proli pppd[7933]: Hangup (SIGHUP) Aug 21 19:16:57 proli pppd[7933]: Exit. Curiouser and curiouser, eh?. Running 'pppconfig' shows the password identical to the one which works from the com-terminal as well as from my mac. I'm starting to think there's some more fundamental misconfiguration issue causing this (remember it's a fresh install, hardly road-tested yet). I do have shadow-passwords installed this time around (and not formerly under slink), but I really can't believe that could be the root of the problem. I'm certainly not having any trouble with shell log-in. Oh yeah, here is /etc/chatscripts/provider: # This chatfile was generated by pppconfig 2.0.5. # Please do not delete any of the comments. Pppconfig needs them. # # ispauth PAP # abortstring ABORT BUSY ABORT 'NO CARRIER' ABORT VOICE ABORT 'NO DIALTONE' ABORT 'NO DIAL TONE' ABORT 'NO ANSWER' # modeminit '' ATZ # ispnumber OK-AT-OK ATDT92501700 # ispconnect CONNECT \d\c # prelogin # ispname # isppassword # postlogin # end of pppconfig stuff Thanks very much for your attention so far. Any further ideas very much appreciated. Regards, /\ / \ / |) \ \ |\ / \ / \/
ppp trouble on clean potato install [-v]
Hi people, I decided to repartition my drives and install potato from scratch using my hot-off-the-press CD set, but am now having problems negotiating a PPP connection with my ISP under the new configuration. Issuing pon, the modem dials out, I/O LEDs flash briefly, then nothing. Attempts to make an http connection fail with lynx giving the standard message: Alert: unable to connect to remote host. So I installed minicom and tried walking through a terminal connection. As expected, dial out and initial connection seem to proceed well. The remote system requests and accepts my user id and password and I am presented with the expected menu of remote-hosted services. I can log in to the UNIX server, access my home directory, run a pine session, etc. The troubles surface when I choose the option to start PPP. Everything seems OK at the other end - I get a message: Entering PP session, then notification of my assigned assigned dynamic IP and MTU numbers, followed by an encouraging-looking stream of garbage... but after a short time the connection drops with a NO CARRIER signal. Here are the settings from /etc/ppp/options [egrep -v '#|^ *$' /etc/ppp/options]: asyncmap 0 auth crtscts lock hide-password modem proxyarp lcp-echo-interval 30 lcp-echo-failure 4 noipx ...and here is my /etc/ppp/peers/provider: # This optionfile was generated by pppconfig 2.0.5. # # hide-password noauth connect /usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/chatscripts/provider debug /dev/ttyS0 115200 defaultroute noipdefault user rossh remotename provider ipparam provider Possibly it's some kind of authentication problem I don't understand. I don't know whether or not this is relevant, but if I try to manually start pppd during the interval before the line drops, then I get the following message: pppd: The remote system is required to authenticate itself pppd: but I couldn't find any suitable secret (password) for it to use to do so. pppd: (None of the available passwords would let it use an IP address.) Anyway, the connection drops whether I try to start pppd with no argument, or with noauth or with call provider. Sorry about the length but I have no idea what's wrong or where to look further to troubleshoot this. Under my old slink install it all just worked. Any thoughts or pointers anyone? TIA /\ / \ / |) \ \ |\ / \ / \/
Re: ppp trouble on clean potato install [-v]
Ross Hamilton writes: Everything seems OK at the other end - I get a message: Entering PP session, then notification of my assigned assigned dynamic IP and MTU numbers, followed by an encouraging-looking stream of garbage... but after a short time the connection drops with a NO CARRIER signal. That sounds normal: the pppd at the other end gives up when it gets no response to its lcp packets. I don't know whether or not this is relevant, but if I try to manually start pppd during the interval before the line drops, then I get the following message: pppd: The remote system is required to authenticate itself Normal: you didn't start pppd with 'noauth' so it defaulted to 'auth'. Anyway, the connection drops whether I try to start pppd with no argument, or with noauth or with call provider. Exactly what happens when you start pppd with 'noauth'? Any thoughts or pointers anyone? Please post the output of the 'plog' command after doing 'pon' and /etc/chatscripts/provider. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI
Potato Install Problem (Base System Step)
Hi, I have been trying to install a copy of Potato, from last Sunday (July . The install is causing problems - first it gave me a bad lenght error when unzipping and installing the kernel and drivers (drivers.tgz). I solved this by copying the CD to a linux partition on another hard drive (not really sure why this worked...). But it will not install the Base System. I have tried from the hard drive and the CD, and each time it seems to be loading and reading information, and then it returns to the install menu with Install Base System selected again. If I select Configure Base System, it says that the Base system has not been installed. I know that at least one other person on thi slist has had this problem. Anyone else? Any suggestions? Would it help to update the Base2_2.tgz file? Is this a problem with the installer? Thanks, JP Montse Rue JP Glutting [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Potato install won't let me set root password.
Well you're the second person to report seeing this problem. Stephen Starling wrote: Had to use potato because I have an Athlon (tried slink, it hangs, did research here and found that the kernal was too old). So Potato installs fine up to and including The Moment of Truth Then it asks to set MD5? then Shadow? then root password? That's where I set it, it asks to confirm by retyping. then it sends me back to set root password again. I've tried all kinds of passwords, long, short, Caps and lower and punctuation. I've tried this without MD5 and without Shadow. Can anyone help me out? Please boot the system up. Use alt-f2 to switch to the next VC. Log in as root. If it asks you for a login password, something is really strange -- mail me back for other instructions. If it does not ask you for a password, run the following command at the prompt: script Then at the prompt, run the following command: DEBCONF_DEBUG=2 dpkg-reconfigure base-config Proceed through the dialogs exactly as you did before. Once you have entered a root password twice and (presumably) been sent back to the root password prompt again, use alt-f3 to switch to the next VC. Log in as root. There should be a file named typescript in your current directory. Mail me that file. -- see shy jo
Potato install won't let me set root password.
Had to use potato because I have an Athlon (tried slink, it hangs, did research here and found that the kernal was too old). So Potato installs fine up to and including The Moment of Truth Then it asks to set MD5? then Shadow? then root password? That's where I set it, it asks to confirm by retyping. then it sends me back to set root password again. I've tried all kinds of passwords, long, short, Caps and lower and punctuation. I've tried this without MD5 and without Shadow. Can anyone help me out? Stephen __ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/
Ping and traceroute not working on new potato install
Hi -- I recently installed a machine with debian. I only have one problem with the install.. I can't ping.. whenever I try to ping: 3 bleh:~ ping 127.1 ping: socket: Protocol not supported traceroute has this error also: bleh:~# traceroute 127.1 traceroute: icmp socket: Protocol not supported All other networking on this machine works fine. I can telnet, ssh, web browse, etc. I just can't ping or traceroute. I'm baffled. Thanks, Michael Janssen
Re: potato install w/ aic7880
On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 12:45:47PM -0700, Chris Baker was only escaped alone to tell thee: sjk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am having a terrible time trying to get potato to install on a machine with an aic7880 scsi controller. The current rescue.bin hangs at loading sym53c416 - just after the aic78xxx mods. I have tried compiling a new kernel with the options listed in the install doc - and the install begins, but 1) it can't write the tmp keyboard config, and 2) the driver script fails. I can't seem to mount any of the driver disks to update the modules.tgz file - what file system do these disks use?? I have tried re-writing them several times. Have you tried passing aic7xxx=noprobe as a parameter to the kernel? No good, methinks. The default slink kernel was so loaded with SCSI drivers that the Adaptec 2940 in my machine choked and couldn't write to the drives. Two versions of aic7xxx-only kernels were announced on the Debian webpage to fix this. Does potato suffer from this problem as well? And may I compile a potato kernel on my slink machine BEFORE I upgrade, assuming I update glibc and gcc? -- i'm determined to stand, whether god |=| [EMAIL PROTECTED] will deliver me or not. -- bob dylan |=| www.cris.com/~bedlam
Potato install question--Configure Device Driver Modules step
When doing 'Configure Device Driver Modules' under 'misc' I find serial- ( no description available) Is this likely to be the typical 2 serial ports??? If so seems like it should say soas it is it leaves me wondering. Ron
Potato install question--Configure Device Driver Modules
When doing 'Configure Device Driver Modules' under 'misc' I find parport - (No description available) parport_pc - PC-style hardware Seems likely the later would be the typical parallel port at x'0378' irq 7. If so it would not be so hard to say so seems to me. But what is 'parport' (No description available)? A little more information at this point would be very helpful. Ron
Re: Potato install question--Configure Device Driver Modules
On Tue, 30 May 2000, Ron Stordahl wrote: When doing 'Configure Device Driver Modules' under 'misc' I find parport - (No description available) parport_pc - PC-style hardware Seems likely the later would be the typical parallel port at x'0378' irq 7. If so it would not be so hard to say so seems to me. But what is 'parport' (No description available)? A little more information at this point would be very helpful. parport gives you basic parallel port support, everyone with a parallel port in their box probably wants this. parport_pc should also be selected if you are running an Intel based box (or some SPARCs, IIRC), presumably it will handle any quirks specific to those hardware architectures. serial is the standard serial port driver. Yes, it would be nice if there were better docs available. Unfortunately, the best way to get the info you want is by downloading the kernel source and reading the docs and comments in the code for the drivers. later, Bruce
Re: potato install w/ aic7880
sjk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am having a terrible time trying to get potato to install on a machine with an aic7880 scsi controller. The current rescue.bin hangs at loading sym53c416 - just after the aic78xxx mods. I have tried compiling a new kernel with the options listed in the install doc - and the install begins, but 1) it can't write the tmp keyboard config, and 2) the driver script fails. I can't seem to mount any of the driver disks to update the modules.tgz file - what file system do these disks use?? I have tried re-writing them several times. Have you tried passing aic7xxx=noprobe as a parameter to the kernel? HTH, cbb
potato install
I've downloaded a cd-image of the potato 1st test cycle. Installation goes ok, but with potato there are tasks instead of profiles. The manual claims it's still possible to select a profile. I can't find it. Is it a glitch in the manual or am I doing something wrong? Harry ten Berge == With Microsoft products, failure is not an option - it's a standard component. Choose your life. Choose your future. Choose Linux.
potato install w/ aic7880
I am having a terrible time trying to get potato to install on a machine with an aic7880 scsi controller. The current rescue.bin hangs at loading sym53c416 - just after the aic78xxx mods. I have tried compiling a new kernel with the options listed in the install doc - and the install begins, but 1) it can't write the tmp keyboard config, and 2) the driver script fails. I can't seem to mount any of the driver disks to update the modules.tgz file - what file system do these disks use?? I have tried re-writing them several times. Any help would be much appreciated - Thanks
Re: Q: Potato install tool to config X is?
On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 03:11:56AM -0700, Ed Slocomb wrote: If I run out of ways to kill time at work, I'll do what other debian users do when they want a thorough X config-- I'll go out on the net and beg users of other distros and similar hardware for relevant snippets of their XF86Config files. i can't speak for all Debian users, but when i want a thorough X config i use xf86config, then check the docs and tweak things manually. -- finger for GPG public key. pgpPs7dnLcebJ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Q: Potato install tool to config X is?
Hi, Does the install procedure on Potato require you dig up the monitor's frequency rate, etc, or can you just select the resolution an bitmap mode as in 1152x864 and 24 bit? Thanks; Jonathan
Re: Q: Potato install tool to config X is?
On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 10:00:47AM +0200, Jonathan Gift wrote: Hi, Does the install procedure on Potato require you dig up the monitor's frequency rate, etc, or can you just select the resolution an bitmap mode as in 1152x864 and 24 bit? I just installed the frozen potato, and the cold spud tried to make me use xf86config to generate my XF86Config file. I outsmarted the icy tuber by hitting ctl-C and then saying no every time it asked me again, and then I used the bronze tool known as XF86Setup to get a suboptimal but perfectly functional XF86Config file in place. On the way, I had to get rid of the electric yo-yo known as gpm, because it was hijacking my mouse. If I were in charge, I'd drop gpm's priority to optional before releasing 2.2, but then I always purge the dratted package anyway. If I run out of ways to kill time at work, I'll do what other debian users do when they want a thorough X config-- I'll go out on the net and beg users of other distros and similar hardware for relevant snippets of their XF86Config files.
Re: Q: Potato install tool to config X is?
On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 03:11:56AM -0700, Ed Slocomb wrote: I just installed the frozen potato, and the cold spud tried to make me use xf86config to generate my XF86Config file. I outsmarted the icy tuber by hitting ctl-C and then saying no every time it asked me again, and then I used the bronze tool known as XF86Setup to get a suboptimal but perfectly functional XF86Config file in place. On the way, I had to get rid of the electric yo-yo known as gpm, because it was hijacking my mouse. If I were in charge, I'd drop gpm's priority to optional before releasing 2.2, but then I always purge the dratted package anyway. If I run out of ways to kill time at work, I'll do what other debian users do when they want a thorough X config-- I'll go out on the net and beg users of other distros and similar hardware for relevant snippets of their XF86Config files. You know, you CAN use gpm and have it work quite nicely with X. This issue has come up and been answered several times while I've been on this list (about 3 weeks). Hint: use /dev/gpmdata as your Pointer for X. Or just dig back a few threads and see the full writeup. -- Mental When in doubt, use brute force. --Ken Thompson (author of unix) PGP 2.6.3a Public Key: http://www.neverlight.com/Mental-PublicKey.pgp GPG 1.0.1 Public Key: http://www.neverlight.com/mental-gpg.asc pgpUiOGgVKQ4z.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Q: Potato install tool to config X is?
Hello Jonathan, On Fri, 12 May 2000, Jonathan Gift wrote: Does the install procedure on Potato require you dig up the monitor's frequency rate, etc, Yes it does. You can of course always choose one of the least demanding modes for the hardware (640x480, 16 colours (in fact this is what XF86Setup does. Uses this mode with the VGA16 server to throw you directly into X for a graphical configuration and later on switches to the better settings you supplied)). But if you want to get the best out of your hardware, you should know the capabilities of your monitor/graphics card. Most modern monitors have protection circuits against a dotclock which is too high, so at least you can't damage anything anymore (But be careful! Older monitors (and perhaps also some of the newer ones, I don't know) don't have this feature). So it would not be bad, if you could get the information (as you have to enter it in XF86Setup anyway). Regards, Daniel
Re: Q: Potato install tool to config X is?
On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 10:23:07AM -0400, Mental wrote: On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 03:11:56AM -0700, Ed Slocomb wrote: I just installed the frozen potato, and the cold spud tried to make me use xf86config to generate my XF86Config file. I outsmarted the icy tuber by hitting ctl-C and then saying no every time it asked me again, and then I used the bronze tool known as XF86Setup to get a suboptimal but perfectly functional XF86Config file in place. On the way, I had to get rid of the electric yo-yo known as gpm, because it was hijacking my mouse. If I were in charge, I'd drop gpm's priority to optional before releasing 2.2, but then I always purge the dratted package anyway. If I run out of ways to kill time at work, I'll do what other debian users do when they want a thorough X config-- I'll go out on the net and beg users of other distros and similar hardware for relevant snippets of their XF86Config files. You know, you CAN use gpm and have it work quite nicely with X. This issue has come up and been answered several times while I've been on this list (about 3 weeks). Hint: use /dev/gpmdata as your Pointer for X. Why? I've got gpm running to use the mouse on the console, and in my XF86Config the pointer section uses /dev/mouse, which is linked to /dev/psaux. And everything works just fine. Worked just fine when I was running slink, worked just fine when I was running potato, and still works just fine running woody. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | Where do you want to go today? ICQ# 12934898 | As far from Redmond as possible! '91 GS500E| Morgantown WV | Only dead fish go with the flow.
Re: Q: Potato install tool to config X is?
Hint: use /dev/gpmdata as your Pointer for X. Why? I've got gpm running to use the mouse on the console, and in my XF86Config the pointer section uses /dev/mouse, which is linked to /dev/psaux. And everything works just fine. Worked just fine when I was running slink, worked just fine when I was running potato, and still works just fine running woody. because MY system tends to hang upon every third console switch with this configuration. YMMV. -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Linux - the last service pack you'll ever need.
Re: Q: Potato install tool to config X is?
On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 08:09:41PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: Hint: use /dev/gpmdata as your Pointer for X. Why? I've got gpm running to use the mouse on the console, and in my XF86Config the pointer section uses /dev/mouse, which is linked to /dev/psaux. And everything works just fine. Worked just fine when I was running slink, worked just fine when I was running potato, and still works just fine running woody. because MY system tends to hang upon every third console switch with this configuration. YMMV. It depends on your hardware. I've had varying degrees of success with different mice. Currently I'm using XFree4 and that 7 button optical USB mouse that MS makes. I like it. It doesnt get gummed up, and was easy to setup. I had a mouse that whenever I setup as an IMPS2 pointer, refused to work if gpm was running. Its just good to know alternatives if you have issues with gpm/X. There's usually a work around. If you dont care, thats valid too. I was just pointing out an option. -- Mental When in doubt, use brute force. --Ken Thompson (author of unix) PGP 2.6.3a Public Key: http://www.neverlight.com/Mental-PublicKey.pgp GPG 1.0.1 Public Key: http://www.neverlight.com/mental-gpg.asc pgpOrohWOuYFN.pgp Description: PGP signature
Potato install glitches....
I am doing a CD boot install of potato and finding a few problems. First as to what version this is, about all I can tell you is that it says: kernel-image 2.2.14_2.2.14-2 and a little later it says debian rescue floppy ver 2.2.9 2000-03-28. I downloaded the entire CD image of disc 1 potato-i386-1.raw 04/16/00 03:14pm so I am guessing its pretty fresh. Now the glitches: When the install program asks me to select the medium used to install the system I choose cdrom and it responds: You have more than one CD-ROM drive. Please select the drive from which you want to install Debian But I only have one CD-ROM drive and in addition it presents me with just this to choose from: /dev/hdc: ATAPI (IDE), first drive on the secondary controller. Now I want to point out I am not at all puzzled, I can just select this as its the only one anyway, but does this represent a problem in the install software which should be corrected before potato is released? Maybe that too late but I want to report this in case there is time. Or is this the wrong place to report this? By the way this potato install has many of the slink install querks fixed. Ron
Potato INSTALL on LAPTOP (NEC Versa 4050H): pcmcia modules unresolved
Trying to install potato from scratch on a NEC Versa 4050H (P90MHz), depmod reports unresolved symbols for all the pcmcia modules. I have zircom and 3com pcmcia NICs, but I can't get the modules for either to load because of this unresolved symbol problem. Without the NIC, I can't get past the base install. What can I do to fix this? ...RickM...
Re: Potato INSTALL on LAPTOP (NEC Versa 4050H): pcmcia modules unresolved
On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Rick Macdonald wrote: Trying to install potato from scratch on a NEC Versa 4050H (P90MHz), depmod reports unresolved symbols for all the pcmcia modules. I have zircom and 3com pcmcia NICs, but I can't get the modules for either to load because of this unresolved symbol problem. Without the NIC, I can't get past the base install. What can I do to fix this? This is a known problem with the Potato installation system. Check the debian-boot mailing list archives for a manual work around; that failing, subscribe to debian-boot and ask. later, Bruce
Re: Potato INSTALL on LAPTOP (NEC Versa 4050H): pcmcia modules unresolved
On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Bruce Sass wrote: On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Rick Macdonald wrote: Trying to install potato from scratch on a NEC Versa 4050H (P90MHz), depmod reports unresolved symbols for all the pcmcia modules. I have zircom and 3com pcmcia NICs, but I can't get the modules for either to load because of this unresolved symbol problem. Without the NIC, I can't get past the base install. What can I do to fix this? This is a known problem with the Potato installation system. Check the debian-boot mailing list archives for a manual work around; that failing, subscribe to debian-boot and ask. Ah, so it is -- thanks. I couldn't find any work-around so I've just asked on the boot list. I may have to load slink, then just upgrade to potato (and build my own 2.2.14 kernel). That should work, shouldn't it? It looks like just the boot floppies are mismatched, which wouldn't affect a slink-potato upgrade, I figure. ...RickM...
Re: Potato INSTALL on LAPTOP (NEC Versa 4050H): pcmcia modules unresolved
On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Rick Macdonald wrote: On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Bruce Sass wrote: On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Rick Macdonald wrote: Trying to install potato from scratch on a NEC Versa 4050H (P90MHz), depmod reports unresolved symbols for all the pcmcia modules. I have zircom and 3com pcmcia NICs, but I can't get the modules for either to load because of this unresolved symbol problem. Without the NIC, I can't get past the base install. What can I do to fix this? This is a known problem with the Potato installation system. Check the debian-boot mailing list archives for a manual work around; that failing, subscribe to debian-boot and ask. Ah, so it is -- thanks. I couldn't find any work-around so I've just asked on the boot list. I may have to load slink, then just upgrade to potato (and build my own 2.2.14 kernel). That should work, shouldn't it? It looks like just the boot floppies are mismatched, which wouldn't affect a slink-potato upgrade, I figure. Well, the pcmcia stuff is separate from the kernel so you would need to build both (that is the impression I get from monitoring debian-boot). If by load slink you mean re-install slink, then it may be best to try the latest Potato boot floppies release. 2.2.11 was just released (last night) and fixes some (all?) of the modconf related problems. There was also an upload of new pcmcia packages a day or two ago (check incoming.debian.org if they are not in the ftp archive yet). I'd give bf-2.2.11 a try. later, Bruce
Re: Potato INSTALL on LAPTOP (NEC Versa 4050H): pcmcia modules unresolved
On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Bruce Sass wrote: I couldn't find any work-around so I've just asked on the boot list. I may have to load slink, then just upgrade to potato (and build my own 2.2.14 kernel). That should work, shouldn't it? It looks like just the boot floppies are mismatched, which wouldn't affect a slink-potato upgrade, I figure. If by load slink you mean re-install slink, then it may be best to try Yes, I meant to start fresh and install slink. the latest Potato boot floppies release. 2.2.11 was just released (last night) and fixes some (all?) of the modconf related problems. There was also an upload of new pcmcia packages a day or two ago (check incoming.debian.org if they are not in the ftp archive yet). I'd give bf-2.2.11 a try. Sure, this is better! I assume that you mean: http://incoming.debian.org/boot-floppies_2.2.11_all.deb and not the bf-*-* stuff? ...RickM...
Re: Potato INSTALL on LAPTOP (NEC Versa 4050H): pcmcia modules unresolved
On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Bruce Sass wrote: 2.2.11 was just released (last night) and fixes some (all?) of the modconf related problems. There was also an upload of new pcmcia packages a day or two ago (check incoming.debian.org if they are not in the ftp archive yet). I'd give bf-2.2.11 a try. I'm downloading the boot-floppies, pcmcia-modules and pcmcia-cs packages now, but I would have thought that a new kernel-image package would have to come at the same time? ...RickM...
Re: Potato INSTALL on LAPTOP (NEC Versa 4050H): pcmcia modules unresolved
On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Rick Macdonald wrote: On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Bruce Sass wrote: the latest Potato boot floppies release. 2.2.11 was just released (last night) and fixes some (all?) of the modconf related problems. There was also an upload of new pcmcia packages a day or two ago (check incoming.debian.org if they are not in the ftp archive yet). I'd give bf-2.2.11 a try. Sure, this is better! I assume that you mean: http://incoming.debian.org/boot-floppies_2.2.11_all.deb and not the bf-*-* stuff? I'd wait until it hits the ftp archive (.../debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.11*). The boot-floppies .deb is the package that provides the bits you need to build your own boot floppies; good if you are creating custom boot floppies or are working with the boot floppies team. I think you need to have potato installed to use them. The stuff uploaded to incoming gets processed into what you see in the ftp archive automatically. - Bruce
Potato install: pcmcia broken?
Boy, I sure do pick loser subject lines! (was: Order of installation - potato/pcmcia.) Second try: Hi gang! What am I doing wrong? I copied linux, install.bat, base2_2.tgz, driver2_2.tgz, loadlin.exe etc. etc. to a DOS partition on my Toshiba 4080 XCDT, then booted from a DOS floppy and ran install.bat. The installation looks great (congratulations, team!) up to reboot the system: the boot hangs in /etc/init.d/pcmcia, right after it echoes modules to the screen. The pcmcia modules all show unresolved symbols. Don't they fit the 2.2.14 kernel that comes with the installation? Is something broken, or is there an operator error here? (I can Alt+Ctrl+F2 out of the dbootstrap routine and disable the init.d/pcmcia script before rebooting, but then what--go to dpkg and install kernel and pcmcia module sources and recompile before finishing the installation? That can't be the intended behavior.) Tony -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Phone: +49-3341-30 99 99 -- Fax: +49-3341-30 99 98
Re: Potato install: pcmcia broken?
Hi, did you try this? update-modules ; depmod -a ; /etc/init.d/pcmcia start This might solve -- or might not. -- Germano Leichsenring Kobe University
Re: Potato install: pcmcia broken?
Germano Leichsenring wrote (on 7 Apr 00, at 16:52): Hi, did you try this? update-modules ; depmod -a ; /etc/init.d/pcmcia start I did the depmod and start--didn't know about update-modules (why update them? they're brand new) but I'll try it, thanks! Tony -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Phone: +49-3341-30 99 99 -- Fax: +49-3341-30 99 98
Re: Potato install
It's not clear to me where you are in the installation process. Given that your post has been sitting here all day without response, I'd suggest it would be quicker and easier to restart the installation. Until you start installing and configuring packages on your system, you really haven't invested much effort. You can skip partitioning and badblocks checking steps, naturally, if you're satisfied with your current settings. On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 04:53:16PM +0200, Nico De Ranter wrote: Howdy, I'm installing a new PC with Debian potato. Unfortunately when I was asked to choose between Simple and Advanced installation I choose Advanced but after seeing the list of possible packages I changed my mind :-). How can I rerun the installation without having to reinstall the whole system? Nico It has been said that there are only two businesses refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SDCE/DME-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) What part of Gestalt don't you understand? http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/
Potato install
Howdy, I'm installing a new PC with Debian potato. Unfortunately when I was asked to choose between Simple and Advanced installation I choose Advanced but after seeing the list of possible packages I changed my mind :-). How can I rerun the installation without having to reinstall the whole system? Nico It has been said that there are only two businesses refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SDCE/DME-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to do a clean Potato install?
Hello everyone! I haven't been subscribed to this list for a long time (and I didn't post a lot even then because I was new to Linux at the same time...) Anyway, here I am. I've had surprisingly much success with setting up my Slink box, but the included X-Free doesn't support my new Matrox, SMP doesn't run all that smoothly... Question is, how do I best go about doing a clean install of Potato if I want to boot from the (2.1r4) CD and need the dhcpcd package to connect to the net? (Download quantities are no problem at all.) Best whishes Christian
Re: How to do a clean Potato install?
I don't know about the cd, but I had to make a couple of boot disks, a rescue, boot image, and three driver disks, and the potato install process used dhcp to configure my network, and did everything else over the net, it was great. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Christian Pernegger wrote: Hello everyone! I haven't been subscribed to this list for a long time (and I didn't post a lot even then because I was new to Linux at the same time...) Anyway, here I am. I've had surprisingly much success with setting up my Slink box, but the included X-Free doesn't support my new Matrox, SMP doesn't run all that smoothly... Question is, how do I best go about doing a clean install of Potato if I want to boot from the (2.1r4) CD and need the dhcpcd package to connect to the net? (Download quantities are no problem at all.) Best whishes Christian -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: /etc/rc?.d directories missing on potato install
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 03:25:33PM -0500, Jameson Burt wrote: Last week I installed potato on a new computer. Before the first reboot, I selected one of the category of packages. After the first reboot, install let me select more packages, but exited prematurely. One possible reason would be that /var was limited to the size of /, 128MB, so apt-get may have crashed trying to pull down 700MB into 128MB of space [I had 10GB of space on /usr/local, which I later linked /var/cache into]. Bad juju that lack of disk space! I reinstalled sysvinit to get the /etc/rc?.d directories; however, reinstalling other packages like apache are not creating the links from /etc/rc?.d into /etc/init.d . I could make the links myself, but they have a certain number sequence, so I had best let the Debian installation create this links. The first thing that comes to mind, is you have at least one link to the packages in question in one of the /etc/rc?.d directories. The update-rc.d won't muck with your links unless there are none. This way, every time you do an upgrade, your links don't get screwed with. If you want the defaults do update-rc.d -f package remove ; update-rc.d package defaults. That should do the trick. -- ++ | Eric G. Milleregm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | ++
/etc/rc?.d directories missing on potato install
Last week I installed potato on a new computer. Before the first reboot, I selected one of the category of packages. After the first reboot, install let me select more packages, but exited prematurely. One possible reason would be that /var was limited to the size of /, 128MB, so apt-get may have crashed trying to pull down 700MB into 128MB of space [I had 10GB of space on /usr/local, which I later linked /var/cache into]. I reinstalled sysvinit to get the /etc/rc?.d directories; however, reinstalling other packages like apache are not creating the links from /etc/rc?.d into /etc/init.d . I could make the links myself, but they have a certain number sequence, so I had best let the Debian installation create this links. Does anyone have an idea how to get proper links back into /etc/rc?.d Thank you, Jameson Burt
Re: fresh potato install dpkg problem
I found it... the link is below. ftp://ftp.iteso.mx/.1/debian/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/base/dpkg_1.6.9.deb Note that the problem goes away on upgrade to 1.6.11... So this information isn't really relavent anymore. -- Jonathan Nieder __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: fresh potato install dpkg problem
Oh... I manually dpkg'ed the perl debs and that fixed it. but worth noting as a bug. But, where can I get the older dpkg packaes so that I don't hit that wall? On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Aaron Solochek wrote: I just got to the point of first dselect on a fresh potato installation. I get the following errors: debconf: Perl may be unconfigured (It then lists files it can't find and such) E: Write error - write (32 Broken Pipe) E: Failure running script dpkg-preconfigure --apt Then it runs the standard I'll try to configure the other packages and dies with code 100. How can I fix this? -Aaron Solochek -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: fresh potato install dpkg problem
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Aaron Solochek wrote: Oh... I manually dpkg'ed the perl debs and that fixed it. but worth noting as a bug. has this bug been reported? it really sucks. i've looked, and looked and can't find a related bug report -- Aaron S. Hawley - Aaron.Hawley @ uvm.edu - http://www.uvm.edu/~ashawley
Re: fresh potato install dpkg problem
I found it... the link is below. ftp://ftp.iteso.mx/.1/debian/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/base/dpkg_1.6.9.deb -Aaron Solochek On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Aaron S. Hawley wrote: On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Aaron Solochek wrote: Oh... I manually dpkg'ed the perl debs and that fixed it. but worth noting as a bug. has this bug been reported? it really sucks. i've looked, and looked and can't find a related bug report -- Aaron S. Hawley - Aaron.Hawley @ uvm.edu - http://www.uvm.edu/~ashawley -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
problem with new potato install
I'm having odd problems with a fresh potato install. I installed from the 2.2.7-2000-02-13 floppies yesterday (03/02/2000) and this is not an upgraded from Slink. System info: HP Vectra XA6 Series 5xx Via Rhine NIC (working fine, this doesn't appear to be a NIC problem) Custom kernel, not the stock Potato 2.2.14 synergy:~ ] uname -a Linux synergy 2.2.14 #2 Fri Mar 3 12:53:28 PST 2000 i686 unknown synergy:~ ] lsmod Module Size Used by sb 34708 0 (unused) uart401 6352 0 [sb] sound 58284 0 [sb uart401] soundcore 2788 6 [sb sound] nfs29408 1 (autoclean) lockd 32200 0 (autoclean) [nfs] sunrpc 54628 1 (autoclean) [nfs lockd] autofs 9440 1 (autoclean) via-rhine 9232 1 synergy:~ ] sudo ipchains -L Chain input (policy ACCEPT): Chain forward (policy ACCEPT): Chain output (policy ACCEPT): Telnet is not the only application exhibiting these symptoms, it just happens to illustrate them: synergy:~ ] telnet synergy Trying xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: No buffer space available synergy:~ ] telnet localhost Trying 127.0.0.1... [hangs untill I ^C out...] But, from another host: caliber:~ ] telnet synergy Trying xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx... Connected to synergy Escape character is '^]'. Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (frozen) synergy synergy login: Or: synergy:~ ] rpcinfo -p synergy rpcinfo: can't contact portmapper: RPC: Remote system error - No buffer space available But from another host: caliber:~ ] rpcinfo -p synergy program vers proto port service 102 tcp111 rpcbind 102 udp111 rpcbind Of course, this means that lockd, statd and other RPC friends have been unable to register on synergy so my NFS is erratic at best. I'm also getting a lot of these: Mar 3 19:22:49 synergy kernel: neighbour table overflow Mar 3 19:23:02 synergy kernel: neighbour table overflow Mar 3 19:27:17 synergy kernel: neighbour table overflow Any ideas? Thanks in advance! PeeWee -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - useless: http://www.scc.mi.org/peewee/ - efnet: Pwe I said you were a state of mind, I believe. I said that if you ran very swiftly and were acceptably violent, you would be admired. - The Era of Great Numbers
potato install woes
Hi! I tried to install potato on a Compaq Armada M700 notebook and experienced some problems (I think I solved them, this is just for documentation purposes): - When installing base2_2.tgz there is a broken pipe: zcat base2_2.tgz | tar x which hangs almost instantly, according to tar, the proper incantation to read from stdin would be zcat base2_2.tgz | tar x - I extracted base by hand on the second console, rebooted and went straight to the configure base system option in the installer - the pcmcia-cs-package adds a wrong line to /etc/inittab: S:12345:respawn:/sbin/getty ttyS3 which should read S:12345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 ttyS3 Since I don´t need this, I commented it out in the pcmcia-script. Should I file bugs, and if yes, against which packages? rw -- / Robert Waldner [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Phone: +43 1 89933 0 Fax x533 \ \KPNQwest/AT tech staff| Diefenbachg. 35 A-1150 Wien /
potato install issues
I'm trying to install potato to a new machine to be used as a squid box. (I know potato is beta/frozen). I'm having the following issues: 1) during the install, after the first reboot, I'm getting an error with init. Specifically, the install process puts a line in inittab that says to respawn /root/.bash_profile (or was it rc, I forget, I'm home now) at run level 1. The file doesn't exist so the respawn gets cranky. Who is supposed to put down this file? I've tried touching the file and/or commenting out the line (using another virtual console). Anyone know what is supposed to be the contents of this file or why I'm not getting it? 2) I'm not getting the dselect section that lets me select workstation or server or ... I'm trying to be lazy and just select server but I'm not getting this dialog. Where does this dialog come from? Is this supposed to be what's in /root/.bash_profile? 3) I have 1 SCSI drive and 4 ide drives and the lilo docs are unclear as to how to set up /etc/lilo.conf for this arrangement so that I can boot from the scsi drive and use the 4 ide drives for raiding for the cache. I've tried what the docs imply: disk=/dev/sda bios=0x80 disk=/dev/hda bios=0x81 (I've also tried 0x30, which is what lilo -v -v -v tells me) but I'm still dying at LI. According to the manual for lilo, this is a geometry mismatch, lilo can't find the data it needs, it's getting confused by the multiple hard drives. thanks. -- kc Kevin Conover: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
smb not working since POTATO install
I upgraded my slink system to potato and the 2.2.14 kernel. All is well so far except for smb serving files to a Win95 box. I can access the Win95 shares, bit Win95 can't access my Linux box. This happened after the potato install before I switched to the new kernel from 2.0.34. I get this at the command line of the potato machine (I have 3 NICs on the box): timshel:~/Tcl/TKSETI$ smbclient -L timshel added interface ip=1.1.1.1 bcast=1.1.1.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 added interface ip=2.2.2.2 bcast=2.2.2.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 added interface ip=3.3.3.3 bcast=192.168.49.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 Password: Domain=[WORKGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 2.0.6] tree connect failed: code 0 And this is in /var/log/smb: [2000/02/07 17:16:25, 1] smbd/server.c:main(643) smbd version 2.0.6 started. Copyright Andrew Tridgell 1992-1998 [2000/02/07 17:16:25, 1] smbd/files.c:file_init(216) file_init: Information only: requested 1 open files, 246 are available. [2000/02/07 17:16:26, 0] lib/util_sec.c:assert_gid(72) Failed to set gid privileges to (-1,65534) now set to (0,0) uid=(0,0) [2000/02/07 17:16:26, 0] lib/util.c:smb_panic(2456) PANIC: failed to set gid Any ideas? ...RickM...
RE: Cannot mount cdrom in new potato install
Thanks for all the replies. The problem was as described and subsequently solve. FRED ___ To get your own FREE ZDNet onebox - FREE voicemail, email, and fax, all in one place - sign up today at http://www.zdnetonebox.com
Cannot mount cdrom in new potato install
Hello Debian Users: I just installed a base potato system using the current disk downloads from the Debian FTP site. All went well until I tried to mount my cdrom drive. I was given an error message to the effect that the cdrom device does not exist. I then went to my /dev directory and discovered that there was no /dev/cdrom . . . .hmmm. I tried to run MAKEDEV but unfortunately was not clever enough to get it to do anything. Can anyone tell me how to fix this problem so that I can access my cdrom drive and install X windows and some other good stuff from my slink cdrom (until I can get a potato cdrom). Thanks in advance. FRED ___ To get your own FREE ZDNet onebox - FREE voicemail, email, and fax, all in one place - sign up today at http://www.zdnetonebox.com
RE: Cannot mount cdrom in new potato install
By any chance do you know to what device is your CD-ROM attached? For exemple, my cd-rom is the slave drive of the first IDE, therefore it is /dev/hdb. The usual IDE device are: /dev/hda: Master of first IDE slot; /dev/hdb: Slave of first IDE slot; /dev/hdc: Master of second IDE slot; /dev/hdd: Slave of second IDE slot. If you know this (that I believe so, since you could install Debian). You may try to mount your cd-rom by using the device name, as in mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom This mounts my cdrom on the /mnt/cdrom directory. If you can do this you may create a link /dev/cdrom to the real device using the ls command. Paulo -- Paulo José da Silva e Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph.D. Student in Applied Math. University of São Paulo - Brazil http://www.ime.usp.br/~rsilva May the code be with you :-)
