Hello folks. My dad just got a nice laptop: IBM Thinkpad 560.
I'm trying to install 1.1 on it, but I can't get it to read
the ROOT disk from the floppy. I did write "floppy=thinkpad"
on the boot line as well as leaving it out. The error is:
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0
Hi!
I got that "Debian Linux 1.1" CD from iConnect when I returned
from my summer vacation...
I have an ASUS SP3G Motherboard with an ISA ET4000 video card (which
already brought me lots of trouble in the past with the Setup preset
value of the NCR Chip's IRQ being the same as the ET4000's IR
On Fri, 9 Aug 1996, Derek Lee wrote:
> I have Real Audio working on my debian box. I am running 2.0.0 kernel
> which contains the appropriate Voxware sound driver. There was no need
> to install USSLite.
>
> Are your other sound utilities working?
>
> --Derek Lee
>
I'm having a problem getting
I had to change my base_io address on my adaptec 1542
controller to 0x234. I had to do this to get my audiotrix
pro card to work with the midi port. I put the following
line at the top of my /etc/lilo.conf file:
append = "aha1542=0x234"
This is the boot prompt parameter documented in the
adapt
On Sat, 10 Aug 1996, Dan Bergman wrote:
This isn't really germane to Debian, but I'm responding to the list
as an error-checking scheme.
> Well its been a few years since I used unix.. so
Welcome back to the fold; I'm sure you'll find Linux to be at least
as rewarding (and outrig
Joey Hess writes ("new to debian; some questions"):
...
> Does debian use the "user groups" system that redhat uses, that makes each
> user be in a group containing only themselves, so the umask can be set to
> 002? I see in /etc/group that each user does get placed in their own
> group. But I see
Well its been a few years since I used unix.. so
1. How do I used FIND to find say.. core files and delete em I know that
it should
look something like this... find -name core -exec rm
2. How do I use FIND to find files bigger than 1024k and using -ok if i
want to
delete or not..
3. In what i
Here I thought that last night (Fri) I was gonna get my system out of
the stone age (ISA 486-50) and into the bronze age (PCI 486-133)..
I believe I *hate* Adaptek 2940 controllers :( The old system
had a 1542b... everything worked fine. I recompiled the 2.0.11 to
include the aic7xxx drivers an
There is a package called bin86 in the devel area which contains the
as86 and ld86 binaries, which are necessary for kernel-compilation.
Once you have these, the compilation should proceed smoothly.
I don't know if this is properly a bug in the distribution, though, because
you don't need the x86
> Is there shadow password support for debian yet? (Or PAM?)
Yes. There is an experimental shadow package, and a libpam has
recently been uploaded (expect it to be visible in a few days).
> Does debian use the "user groups" system that redhat uses, that makes each
> user be in a group containing
> What have you used for testing? [disk drive performance].
> I'm curious to test my own system.
> Something more sophisticated than hdparm -t?
Hdparm and "/bin/time dd". I was mostly interested in transfer
rate. Note that you have to not read the same data twice, as otherwise
you get fooled by th
>In comp.os.linux.networking you write:
>Can you mail me your configuration files, and I'll try to suss out
>the problem.
>
>Cheers,
>
>-- eric
I finally got it working!!! (Hey, I may be a newbie, but I'm a PERSISTANT one!)
I don't know why, but after downloading the source, recompiling diald, se
> The advantage
> of the on-board disk cache is reduced, as Linux duplicates it with its own
> cache on a faster bus.
On-board disk caches have _one_ advantage over the Linux disk caching:
* When data is read off the disk, the head a
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) writes:
> I didn't say wide fast. On my system I am getting about 5 MBPS on IDE from
> a Quantum Fireball drive, which is as fast as my narrow fast SCSI drive
> on a narrow fast Adaptec AIC-7850 SCSI on the same motherboard (an IWILL
> P54TS). The speed seems to be
I have Real Audio working on my debian box. I am running 2.0.0 kernel
which contains the appropriate Voxware sound driver. There was no need
to install USSLite.
Are your other sound utilities working?
--Derek Lee
The standard kernel image from debian does not support ps2 mouse.
Look in the special-kernels directory. There is a config file for each
kernel to tell you what the kernel supports. I believe the kernel that was
built with config-1 contains ps2 mouse support. It should contain a
line like
CONFIG
> This did not work, however - the make failed (after the best part of an
> hour had elapsed) when it was unable to find "as86". I could not find
> as86 anywhere on my system, and so was stuck.
Hmm. Perhaps kernel-package should depend on bin86? You definitely
need the bin86 package to build a
> On Thu, 8 Aug 1996, Douglas Bates wrote:
> > the combination of the IDE controller in the Triton chipset with an
> > EIDE drive is as fast as fast, wide SCSI.
>
> SCSI's advantage is that it can handle multiple outstanding requests at
> the same time, while EIDE has to wait for one to complete b
the sources to main (ie. not non-free or contrib) debian packages are
*always* in source on the mirror site...
mirror/binary-i386/admin/dump_0.3-6.deb
mirror/source/admin/dump_0.3-5.diff.gz
mirror/source/admin/dump_0.3-6.tar.gz
(odd that the diff and tar are out of phase, but that could just be
m
Rob Browning writes ("Consensus about /bin/perl."):
> So what was the decision about /bin/perl, and the packages that depend
> on it right now (kernel-*, etc). Should it be a symlink, or should
> these packages just be fixed?
Both.
> Just wanted to know so know whether or not I should create the
> "bruce" == Bruce Perens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
> It's not likely that dpkg/dselect put the system in this
> state on its own. Things that wedge the system and then
> make e2fsck not run generally have to do with the shared
> library files containing corrupt data. T
Dominik Kubla writes ("Re: des encryption.. "):
> Look at my SSLeay Package (not yet fully functional) at
>ftp://ftp.uni-mainz.de/pub/Linux/debian-local/
>
> It contains the whole familiy of des commands. (BTW. This is the first
> Debian package to actually use /opt, so make sure your root par
Craig Sanders writes ("lots of dpkg ideas for discussion (was Re: GCC frepo
(continue))"):
...
> if dpkg were to keep a list of all selected files and a list of
> pathnames to available deb files, then it could simply iterate through
> the list of selected packages.
The information is already in
On Thu, 8 Aug 1996, Douglas Bates wrote:
> For example, Bruce Perens mentioned on this list some time ago that
> the combination of the IDE controller in the Triton chipset with an
> EIDE drive is as fast as fast, wide SCSI. I found that the system I
> was using had the Triton chipset and enabled t
I recieved this info from Syrus Nemat-Nasser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
( I was unaware that I did not need color-ls )
With the integration of color-ls directly into the fileutils
package, a few things have changed. dircolors no longer sets
up aliases or shell scripts to colorize ls, dir, and vdir.
H
Stuart Lamble wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Susan Kleinmann wrote:
> :
> : Hi Chris --
> :
> : You said:
> : > I tried to post to the linux.debian.user newsgroup without success.
>
> : There isn't any newsgroup -- just this mailing list.
>
> Actually, linux.debian.user exists, but it
As Mark Edward Johnston said:
>
> - The modules.tgz file on the special kernel 1 boot disk
> is corrupted. If this was fixed I could have obtained the
> module I needed by extracting it from this file.
>
I'd like to take time to point this out. I thought that I was the only
Ok, I figured out what I was doing wrong before.. I had diald calling a
shell script I wrote to connect to the net with ppp. Now diald says my
connect script is bad.. AAAHHH!
Where can I get the source to this thing? I think either it will help me
understand what's going on, or get rew
As Susan G. Kleinmann said:
>
> My experience is that there are a couple of good hardware reasons for
> getting serial mice instead of PS/2 mice:
>
> -- removing the PS/2 mouse frees up an IRQ.
Perhaps I am wrong, but a serial mouse also requires an IRQ... and a serial
port! With my PS/2 mouse I
Cornerstone makes a pair of high resolution grey scale monitors.
(highest one is 2500+ x 1500 pixels)
Has anyone used one on a linux box?
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Physics Dept |activities will consitute a request for
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I'm switching over to debian from red hat. I've not used it much yet,
just a quick install to get the feel of it, but I do have some questions.
Is there shadow password support for debian yet? (Or PAM?)
Does debian use the "user groups" system that redhat uses, that makes each
user be in a group
(Follow-up only to debian-user. Please don't write to debian-devel and
debian-user at the same time.)
Shaya Potter writes:
Shaya> I just installed fileutils 3.13-3, and now my 'ls' is screwed up.
Shaya> I removed color-ls as it said I was supposed to. I remember reading
Shaya> about how
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