install disk with aic7xxx patch

1996-08-11 Thread Danny Heap
I want to install debian 1.1 on a pentium with an adaptec 2940 UW scsi controller. Unfortunately, my installation seems to be stymied by the aic7xxx driver that comes with kernels 2.0.0 through 2.0.6, resulting in completely corrupted filesystems once I've gotten to the point of installing the bas

Re: Sob!

1996-08-11 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sat, 10 Aug 1996, Tim 'The Unslept' Sailer wrote: > I recompiled the 2.0.11 to include the aic7xxx drivers and the PCI > support, swapped everything over, watched as the system booted, and > watched the errors scroll across the screen... [...deleted...] > > Does *anyone* have a clue as to what

make-kpkg...and other things...

1996-08-11 Thread Jeff Mickey
Im haveing module problums.SIGHI installed 1.1..kernel 2.0.0..since this is going on my thinkpad 500..4Megs of memory...i built myself a real lean kernel:). ...well in the "old" way..make clean,dep,zImage.modules,module_installand got ..

Re: Linux as a 100Mb/sec router?

1996-08-11 Thread Dermot Bradley
Hi Gordon (Gordon works for my NSP :-) On Fri, 9 Aug 1996, Gordon Henderson wrote: > Anyone using Linux with Dec ethernet 100Mb ethernet cards? I'm wondering > if it's suitable as I have an application that might need 2 x 100Mb ports > and a 10Mb port - thinking of running it on a P120. Haven't

Re: Installing Linux over a LAN

1996-08-11 Thread Lazaro . Salem
Alan wrote: >Subject: Installing Linux over a LAN >Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] at cclink >Date:11.08.96 06:16 The is a nice page about setting a micro-lan in http://www.panix.com/~hypertyp/tcpip/tcpstart.html The example is given for a mac connected to a Linux box have a nice weeke

Re[2]: new to debian; some questions

1996-08-11 Thread Lazaro . Salem
What about modifying the options in the file /etc/adduser.conf? Btw, there is a typo in that file "equivilant" (AFAIR) instead of "equivalent" ... does that qualify for a bug Ian? ;-) Lazaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _ Reply Separator _ Subject: R

Help setting up NIS on a machine

1996-08-11 Thread Yves Arrouye
Hello, I tried to use the nis 1.20 package but have a problem: I setup a server on my machine, but when I run ypbind it makes endless connections: marin54# !y ypserv -d [Welcome to the NYS YP Server, version 0.18 (with securenets)] Find securenet: 255.0.0.0 127.0.0.0 Find securenet: 0.0.0.0 0.0.0

How to make dselect shut up?

1996-08-11 Thread Randy Gobbel
I've installed xpaint on my system, and every time I run dselect it complains about pbmplus being unavailable--even though pbmplus has been superseded by netpbm, and I have netpbm installed. Is there some way to get deselect to stop complaining about this non-problem? I could go and hack on some

Re: lots of dpkg ideas for discussion (was Re: GCC frepo (continue))

1996-08-11 Thread Craig Sanders
On Fri, 9 Aug 1996, Ian Jackson wrote: > > 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 dpkg's status areas. > > If you take the first

Installing Linux over a LAN

1996-08-11 Thread alan_pater
Is it possible to install Linux over an ethernet Lan? I have two computers at home which I hope to connect together into a mini-Lan. The first computer is a notebook with an ethernet card. The second computer does not have an monitor, it has a cpu, ram, hard-drive, floppy drive, and ethernet