Re: Running files

1997-03-05 Thread John T. Larkin
> how can I run a file that is not a command file? Like I have a > file called startup, how do I run it? What sort of file is it? If you know that it's an executable file, you probably need to set the execute bit on the file. You can do with "chmod u+x ". Check out the man page for ch

Re: debian install error

1997-03-05 Thread Solomani
On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, Craig Sanders wrote: Im using the 2.0.0 install set (i then upgrade teh kernel myself later:) I'll download the later disks and see what happens. Thanks! > > On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, Solomani wrote: > > > When i first initialise two brand new 4.5 gig IBM HD i get this error > >

current?

1997-03-05 Thread Solomani
where are the debian disks at ftp.debian.org? theres no such directory as current? c'ya hate to be ya, michl electric RAIN http://www.electric-rain.net/ "Go as far as you can see, and when you get there, you'll see farther."

Running files

1997-03-05 Thread Pete Poff
Hi, how can I run a file that is not a command file? Like I have a file called startup, how do I run it? And where can I find minicom, or any of the other comm programs? And where can I get pico, the text editor? thanks again, Pete Poff Pete Poff---AKA---BlackJac

Re: XFree 3.2A package?

1997-03-05 Thread Larry 'Daffy' Daffner
This has been hashed through a few times. There is not, has never been, and probably will never be an official Debian package based on the XFree Beta releases, since they do not provide source for the betas. Your best bet is to get just the server tgz that you need from the XFree ftp site, untar

Re: Xfree86 Question

1997-03-05 Thread William Chow
On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, Terry Martin wrote: > Could not find config file! > - Tried: > /etc/XF86Config > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config.neverland > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config > > Fatal server error: > No config file found! > Note, the X server no longer looks for XF86Config in $

Re: Problems

1997-03-05 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, Pete Poff wrote: > Dear Sir or Madom, > I have servel question to ask. > > 1. How do I access my floppy drive? All I know is that it is fd0. the mount command can be used to mount a floppy - but remember to unmount it again before removing it from the drive!! e.g.

Re: Problems

1997-03-05 Thread David B. Teague
Pete, If you have installed mtools, you can access MS DOS disks: low and high level format files, copy to the disk, read from the disk, delete, both text and binary files etc. Please read man mtools, then man each of the individual mtools (mcopy, mdel, mdir,...) that should get you started. Oh th

FTP archive time-stamps

1997-03-05 Thread Bruce Perens
The FTP archive timestamp.txt is being updated again. That was broken for about a week. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3

Re: lastlog is looking strange

1997-03-05 Thread Joey Hess
Robert Stone: > so am i the only one getting this? I'm getting it on two machines now. Both use ssh, if it's relevant. The second is really bad: g***z*** }*** Tue Mar 4 01:38 still logged in g***z*** }*** Tue Mar 4 01:38 - 01:38 (00:00) g***z

IP Accounting

1997-03-05 Thread Karsten Mueller
Hello, I want to monitor the traffic over a ppp connection and also between some adresses on the local network. So I set up the net-acct package but whatever the configuration looks like only the local traffic is monitored. Maybe I got something wrong but it looks easy: th

Re: lastlog is looking strange

1997-03-05 Thread Joey Hess
Robert Stone: > i'm not sure when it started, but one of my debian 1.3 system has lines > like: > > {*** 'y*3 Tue Mar 4 11:33 - 16:37 (05:04) > > in the output of the 'last' command. three other 1.3 systems and > another 1.2 system i use are not having this probl

Re: lastlog is looking strange

1997-03-05 Thread Tim Sailer
In your email to me, Robert Stone, you wrote: > > i'm not sure when it started, but one of my debian 1.3 system has lines > like: > > {*** 'y*3 Tue Mar 4 11:33 - 16:37 (05:04) > > in the output of the 'last' command. three other 1.3 systems and > another 1.2 sys

lastlog is looking strange

1997-03-05 Thread Robert Stone
i'm not sure when it started, but one of my debian 1.3 system has lines like: {*** 'y*3 Tue Mar 4 11:33 - 16:37 (05:04) in the output of the 'last' command. three other 1.3 systems and another 1.2 system i use are not having this problem. the only major between

Re: kerneld problem

1997-03-05 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, I don't use NFS with Linux, so I am not sure about that ... As to compiling your own kernel, and the modules you have, well, you configure a kernel by running make menuconfig (or xconfig or config; the same basic configuration, the user interface is nacurses, X, or the stan

Re: kerneld activity

1997-03-05 Thread G. Kapetanios
I am sorry I did not mention in my previous email that Ioannis Tambouras send me a suggestion about my problem. He suggested using the kdstat program to see if I could find anything useful Unfortunately, I could not get far with his suggestion. The kdstat program whn run produces the following out

Problems

1997-03-05 Thread Pete Poff
Dear Sir or Madom, I have servel question to ask. 1. How do I access my floppy drive? All I know is that it is fd0. 2. How do I copy files off of a MS-DOS floppy? 3. How do I use my modem to connect to a local unix server? Thanks for you help if you can answer these. Pete Poff

Successful step from stable to unstable

1997-03-05 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
Thanks to Rob and Victorio for their advise about upgrading from stable to unstable. I first downloaded dpkg 1.4.8 and installed it by hand. After that I launched dselect and upgraded succesfully. I watched the upgrade process closely and here are the notes I made during the procedure. Once I

XFree 3.2A package?

1997-03-05 Thread The UnixWeenie
Has anyone made a package of the 3.2A beta release of XFree86? I'm new to the list, so if this has been asked before, I appologize. I ask because I have an ET6000 card (STB), and would like 16 bpp support. Thanks, -- Jeramia Ory - Resident UnixWeenie "The truth knocks on the door

Re: kerneld activity

1997-03-05 Thread Ioannis Tambouras
On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, G. Kapetanios wrote: > I have posted this query previously but I got no replies. That is not quite correct. I did send you private email with suggestions to help you track the problem. That must have been within 24 hours since you first posted. If you do not know more ab

Xfree86 Question

1997-03-05 Thread Terry Martin
Could not find config file! - Tried: /etc/XF86Config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config.neverland /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config Fatal server error: No config file found! Note, the X server no longer looks for XF86Config in $HOME Fatal server error: Error reading config file /home/ca

kerneld problem

1997-03-05 Thread Bruce Perens
This ended up in the wrong mailbox (debian-users instead of -user). Please respond to him directly. Bruce From: "G. Kapetanios" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I have posted this query previously but I got no replies. I am trying > again because I think that this might be a bug. Some days ago I

An ibcs2 module problem

1997-03-05 Thread Ramiro Arenas
I'm running FoxPro for SCO in linux using ibcs2 module, almost everything is going right except for some garbage in the screen. FoxPro documentation advice to pass some parameters in systems diferent to SCO, but it doesn't fix my problem. Is there someone who can help me.

kerneld activity

1997-03-05 Thread G. Kapetanios
I have posted this query previously but I got no replies. I am trying again because I think that this might be a bug. Some days ago I noticed after mounting an nfs system that the kerneld process would spawn other kernelds all the time ( sometimes also sh processses ) and then kill them only t

Re: xt?

1997-03-05 Thread Joey Hess
Jon: >The project dealing with porting Linux is called ELKS (Embedded Linux > Kernel Subset). Last I knew, it wasn't very far along. That was a while > ago, though, so maybe they have something new by now. They have it booting, and it actually runs a program after it boots. Not init, but i

Re: XFree86 3.2 performance problem ?

1997-03-05 Thread Joey Hess
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Has anyone else noticed that, since the upgrade to 3.2, X seems to be slower ? > I have a P120 with 48 Mb and a Stealth64 Video 2000 (S3) with 2Mb DRAM. > I use 1024x768 with 16 bpp. > After the upgrade I noticed that my WM (AfterStep) took about 2-3 seconds more > to load and

Re: xt?

1997-03-05 Thread Jon
On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, Vadim Vygonets wrote: > On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, Greg Vence wrote: > > > David Stein wrote: > > > Can debian Linux run on an xt? If not is there another linux that can run > > > on an > > > xt? a http: link in the right direction would be appreciated. > > There was once a project

A simple network

1997-03-05 Thread Steve Gaarder
David Stein writes: > I'm new to Linux and with what I've seen so far (1 night downloading, 1 > night > installing) I'm impressed. Is it possible to hook 3 or more PC's together > using their serial port with Linux in order to make a simple network? Where > do > you get such cables?

Re: xt?

1997-03-05 Thread jghasler
Greg Vence writes: > The minimum Linux requirement is a 386. If you have some kind of upgrade > chip/package to allow the XT to use a 386, then yes. Else, no. I > believe one reason is its a 32-bit "PROTECTED" mode OS. I don't believe > that the 286 chip has that feature available. The XT use

Connection closed by host

1997-03-05 Thread Jason Killen
I just updated everything I have but now when I try to telnet into my machine I get a connection closed by host. I checked inetd.conf and found in.telnetd, other than that I'm not sure what could be wrong. Other things work eg sendmail. Any ideas?? Jason Killen

Re: xt?

1997-03-05 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, Vadim Vygonets wrote: > > I believe one reason is its a 32-bit "PROTECTED" mode OS. I don't > > believe that the 286 chip has that feature available. > You're right. I believe :) Nop. The 80286 has protected mode (that's why it can adress up to 16 Mb). But Linux is a 32 bi

Poetry on debian-user

1997-03-05 Thread Branden Robinson
On 5 Mar 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This posting is in the public domain. > Do with it what you will. > Make money from it if you can; I don't mind. > Do not send email advertisements to this address. I don't think I ever truly believed in found poetry until I read this. -- G. Branden Robi

Re: A simple network

1997-03-05 Thread John M. Rulnick
From: David Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 5 Mar 97 11:14:35 EDT Is it possible to hook 3 or more PC's together using their serial port with Linux in order to make a simple network? Where do you get such cables? Yes. You will need two (or more) null-modem serial cables (someti

Re: make-kpkg error

1997-03-05 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, I am afraid that you have run into restrictions about the version numbering scheme imposed by Debian Policy. Your revision number is taken to have an upstream version (work) and a debian-revision, which is the rest of the revision field. The upstream version is not allowed to have

A simple network

1997-03-05 Thread David Stein
I'm new to Linux and with what I've seen so far (1 night downloading, 1 night installing) I'm impressed. Is it possible to hook 3 or more PC's together using their serial port with Linux in order to make a simple network? Where do you get such cables?

Suddenly, my debian mirror timestamps out by 1 minute

1997-03-05 Thread Rick Macdonald
[ This is a resend, now that the list seems to be working again ] I mirror debian on an SGI Indigo2 (IRIX64 6.2 IP26), and then from there to my Linux box at home. Last night, the timestamps at home all became 1 minute off and the whole mirror retransfered (complete in several hours over ISDN :-)

PPP: send me your scripts

1997-03-05 Thread jghasler
Craig Small writes: > I don't think the variations in ppp servers (or ISPs) are insurmountable; > perhaps someone should look and see how some ms-windows programs get > around this problem. I think the ISP's usually supply a program for MS. I may be sticking my neck out, but here it goes: Please

Re: xt?

1997-03-05 Thread Vadim Vygonets
On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, Greg Vence wrote: > David Stein wrote: > > Can debian Linux run on an xt? If not is there another linux that can run > > on an > > xt? a http: link in the right direction would be appreciated. There was once a project of porting Linux to XT. There is also a free Unix clone c

Re: getty

1997-03-05 Thread Siggy Brentrup
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hamish Moffatt writes: > > > > On Mar 03, 1997 at 09:17:45AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Ok, what's the difference between mgetty and vgetty? (aside from the > > > spelling) > > > I tried vgetty --help and it reported "mgetty FATAL." > > > > vge

Re: Access to NFS-server

1997-03-05 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, Jeff Gunter wrote: > On Mar 5, 6:02am, Bob Clark wrote: > > > > cd > > rsh my.pc "cd /usr; tar cf - ." | tar xf - > > This may work to copy the /usr-tree after installing the base disks. But it won't solve the upcoming problem (see below). > > root=hostname[:hostname]..

Re: Why is PPP so screwed up!?!?!

1997-03-05 Thread csmall
CoB SysAdmin typed: > Yes, I've read the Serial HOWTO. I've read the PPP HOWTO. I've even read the > PPP RFC. I know what IPCP does and I know what LCP does. > > But I shouldn't have to. > > I didn't have to read the LILO HOWTO to get my machine to boot Linux. I > didn't have to read anything abo

make-kpkg error

1997-03-05 Thread Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler
Hallo, yesterday I successfully compiled kernel 2.0.29 at home. Today I tried the same at work and it went wrong :( Both systems are equally configured regarding the relevant packages (dpkg 1.4.0.8, dpkg-deb 1.4.0.8, kernel-package 3.19, don't know about others). I did: make mrproper make

Re: make config, [486] or [586]

1997-03-05 Thread Corey Allert
yeah but it's architechture (sp) is that of a 486 32 bits wide and all of that stuff so compile with 486 optimizations Corey A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nsbe.engr.ccny.cuny.edu/~corey PGP Key

Re: Dos & Linux

1997-03-05 Thread Greg Vence
David Stein wrote: > > How can I download .tar and .gz compressed files on a Dos system copy them > over > to my linux system and uncompress them? Is the uncompression built into unix? > Also can I interlink my Linux and my Dos system? (my modem is on my Dos > system). tar (Tape ARchive) and g

Re: xt?

1997-03-05 Thread Greg Vence
David Stein wrote: > > Can debian Linux run on an xt? If not is there another linux that can run on > an > xt? a http: link in the right direction would be appreciated. The minimum Linux requirement is a 386. If you have some kind of upgrade chip/package to allow the XT to use a 386, then yes.

RE: Dos & Linux

1997-03-05 Thread Jean-Paul LACHARME
-- De :David Stein[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Date d'envoi : mercredi 5 mars 1997 11:52 A : debian-user Objet : Dos & Linux How can I download .tar and .gz compressed files on a Dos system copy them over to my linux system and uncompress them? Is the uncompression built into unix?

Dos & Linux

1997-03-05 Thread David Stein
How can I download .tar and .gz compressed files on a Dos system copy them over to my linux system and uncompress them? Is the uncompression built into unix? Also can I interlink my Linux and my Dos system? (my modem is on my Dos system).

xt?

1997-03-05 Thread David Stein
Can debian Linux run on an xt? If not is there another linux that can run on an xt? a http: link in the right direction would be appreciated.

problems with posting in exmh

1997-03-05 Thread Joseph Skinner
Many thanks to all those people who sent me suggestions about my libg++ problems I must have been blind at the time not to have seen the problem.] I now have a new problem. After a file corruption which did nasty things to my /etc directory I can now not post anything using exmh and get the follo

PPP

1997-03-05 Thread The Lord Bhaal
Just to add to the pppd confusion, I start my pppd with the basic pon command, now, I think its my ISP but not sure, sometimes when running my ISP seems to break ppp, although it doesnt disconnect the modem.. My pppd detects this and tries to *redial* using the chatscript, when it doesnt need to,

XFree86 3.2 performance problem ?

1997-03-05 Thread robsi
Hi! Has anyone else noticed that, since the upgrade to 3.2, X seems to be slower ? I have a P120 with 48 Mb and a Stealth64 Video 2000 (S3) with 2Mb DRAM. I use 1024x768 with 16 bpp. After the upgrade I noticed that my WM (AfterStep) took about 2-3 seconds more to load and the window drawing is al

Re: Access to NFS-server

1997-03-05 Thread Bob Clark
Andreas Tille wrote: > > Hallo, > > because of a lack of diskspace I want to use another computer > (HP-Workstation) as NFS-server. So I installed the base disks > of debian and wanted to move /usr to the NFS server by > >tar -cf usr.tar /usr > > and > >tar -xf usr.tar > > in the appr

Re: pppd keep-alive cron script (was Re: Why is PPP so screwed up!?!?!)

1997-03-05 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Tue, 4 Mar 1997, Steve wrote: >> On Mon, 3 Mar 1997, Jason Costomiris wrote: >> I run myown scripts for ppp not the pon. be that as it may.. all thats >> needed here is to make a script that greps for ppp / pon .. whatever. set >> this on a cron and bang! if the connection drops, your check scr

Re: Problem with 1.2 install and floppy

1997-03-05 Thread Bob Clark
This is a common problem. Try making another copy of base14-1 (and the others if thaey fail) on a different floppy disk. I had to make two or three before I got a complete set of boot floppies that were reliable. Even floppies that I had used to install debian on my desktop system wouldn't neces

Help: Netscape and .gz files

1997-03-05 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Can anyone help me set up my Netscape so it will gunzip .gz files again? I've no clue what to type in the 'helpers' configuration to get it to do that. TIA Karl M. Hegbloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.inetarena.com/~karlheg Debian GNU 1.2 Linux 2.0.29t

/etc/alternatives -- How?

1997-03-05 Thread Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler
How do you manage links in /etc/alternatives (ie. what's the recommended way)? Would you establish the links by hand or run the postinst of the desired package or do something else? I'd like to switch from nvi to vim... Thanks, Ulf

Access to NFS-server

1997-03-05 Thread Andreas Tille
Hallo, because of a lack of diskspace I want to use another computer (HP-Workstation) as NFS-server. So I installed the base disks of debian and wanted to move /usr to the NFS server by tar -cf usr.tar /usr and tar -xf usr.tar in the approriate directory of the server mounted via NFS. B

Re: NIS documentation wrong?

1997-03-05 Thread Karl Ferguson
At 09:56 AM 3/5/97 +0100, Swen Thuemmler wrote: >You must reverse the lines. The pw routines will stop when a name is >found, so -karl is useless when there is a + preceding it. Perhaps I should've pointed this out - that was one of the first things I tried. So now I have: -karl +::/bin/bash

Was: AWE32 problems. Now jubilation!

1997-03-05 Thread Richard Morin
On Tue, 4 Mar 1997, Richard Morin wrote: > > > Does anyone know if it is possible for a pnp sound card to configure > > > without that package, on previous versions of debian? > > > > > Funny thing is with deb 1.1 I was able to > > > config my kernel for sound no problem. > > > > Even for yo

Re: Problems with FVWM-2

1997-03-05 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
> "Brian" == Brian C White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brian> I upgraded to fvwm2 today and ran into a few problems. Brian> Some of these may be worthy of bug reports, but I thought [...] Brian> - The FvwmPager does not have the correct aspect ration. Brian> Each of th

Re: Holding Freeze for Shadow

1997-03-05 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Do you need tester reports? I've been using the shadow package for a month or so, and everything seems to work fine. I'm not the best test case, since it's a one-man machine, but it does work. :-) I think the install process should fix up an /etc/alternatives link to xdm-shadow, shouldn't it?

Re: NIS documentation wrong?

1997-03-05 Thread Swen Thuemmler
On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, Karl Ferguson wrote: > Hi. > > It the nis documentation it says I can + and - users in the passwd file (I > take it that it should be on the fly and it used to work with debian 0.93 > in this case...) - however I can't seem to do this. The following two > lines are in my /etc

Re: lprm says "Permission denied" (fwd)

1997-03-05 Thread James LewisMoss
> "Nils" == Nils Rennebarth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Nils> On Tue, 4 Mar 1997, Craig Sanders wrote: >> On Mon, 3 Mar 1997, Nils Rennebarth wrote: >>> lprng has removed the possibility to automatically remove Files >>> after printing. This is however necessary to remove spooled >>> jobs

NIS documentation wrong?

1997-03-05 Thread Karl Ferguson
Hi. It the nis documentation it says I can + and - users in the passwd file (I take it that it should be on the fly and it used to work with debian 0.93 in this case...) - however I can't seem to do this. The following two lines are in my /etc/passwd file: +::/bin/bash -karl However, here's

Re: debian install error

1997-03-05 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, Solomani wrote: > When i first initialise two brand new 4.5 gig IBM HD i get this error > > badblocks: cant resolve symbol 'llseek' > writing inode tables: 256/265mkfs.ext2 cant resolve symbol 'llseek' > > ideas? > > suggestions? > > solutions? hmmm. that's an old problem

help

1997-03-05 Thread \( Don \)
hi i just tried 2 boot up my debian linux partition and i got this. first of all it begins 2 load the first half of the kernel and then i get this error no matter if i boot from a floppy ar from my hard drive.HELP PLEASE Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer defernce at virtual address c4e0 cu

Re: getty

1997-03-05 Thread tomk
Hamish Moffatt writes: > > On Mar 03, 1997 at 09:17:45AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Ok, what's the difference between mgetty and vgetty? (aside from the > > spelling) > > I tried vgetty --help and it reported "mgetty FATAL." > > vgetty has voice extensions. I wish I knew how to s

help

1997-03-05 Thread \( Don \)
hi i just tried 2 boot up my debian linux partition and i got this. first of all it begins 2 load the first half of the kernel and then i get this error no matter if i boot from a floppy ar from my hard drive.HELP PLEASE Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer defernce at virtual address c4

RE: make config, [486] or [586]

1997-03-05 Thread Kevin & Lara Olfert
UNSUSCRIBE

Re: Documentation - I see squares

1997-03-05 Thread Ioannis Tambouras
The more(1) pager produces correct results when 8-bit characters are send to the screen. The less(1) pager fails to do so with its default configuration: I used "setenv LESSCHARSET latin1" to get around this problem. Ioannis Tambouras [EMAIL PROTECTED], West Palm Beach, Florida Signed pgp

Netatalk breaking

1997-03-05 Thread Norris Preyer
Hi all! I hope someone can give me a clue here, for I'm really stumped. I'm running the most recent files from the unstable directory (except for bash--I've still got 1.14.7-2), and am suddenly not able to run the appletalk printing services. Printing used to work beautifully, and now it doesn'

make config, [486] or [586]

1997-03-05 Thread Ioannis Tambouras
I have a AMD586-133 chip whose architecture more resembles an enchanced 486 cpu rather than a pentium. In terms of performence, is it better to compile with the [486] or the [586] parameter during make config? Ioannis Tambouras [EMAIL PROTECTED], West Palm Beach, Florida Signed pgp-

Re: /etc/alternatives -- Why?

1997-03-05 Thread John Goerzen
On Mar 4, Scott Stanley wrote: > On Tue, 4 Mar 1997, Dominik Kubla wrote: > It seems like anyone who is running their system with /usr as a CD-ROM is > probably not looking for options or configurability. They just want a > basic system to play with and try before stepping all the way into a

Re: Using SOCKS server

1997-03-05 Thread John Goerzen
Did you try passive mode? On Mar 4, Matt Lawrence wrote: > Is there any way to run dselect via ftp through a SOCKS server? I have T1 > access from work, but I'm behind a firewall. > > -- Matt -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| [E

InterSoft Essentia Users?

1997-03-05 Thread Ean Schuessler
Has anyone out there gotten Essentia running under a Debian installation? I am stumped. Ean Schuessler Director of New Products and Technologies Novare International Inc. The Unstoppable Fist of Digital

Problem with 1.2 install and floppy

1997-03-05 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
I'm running into problems with installing Debian 1.2 on a new laptop. I've created the various floppy disks, start the installation and get the following errors when I insert base14-1.bin: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0 floppy0: probe failed... The problem occurs when the inst

Out of Date Packages

1997-03-05 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
Hi, What would be the recommended way to find out if someone is still actively maintaing a package? I few packages that I have upgraded myself haven't been released in the past several months to keep up with up-stream versions (Jed, Slang, Squid). Is there anyway to tell if a developer is still ac

Re: AWE32 problems.

1997-03-05 Thread Richard Morin
> > Does anyone know if it is possible for a pnp sound card to configure > > without that package, on previous versions of debian? > > > Funny thing is with deb 1.1 I was able to > > config my kernel for sound no problem. > > Even for your PnP board. It sounds strange for me that Debian 1.1 c

Re: Why is PPP so screwed up!?!?!

1997-03-05 Thread Hawkins Family
CoB SysAdmin (Joe Emenaker) wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 4 Mar 1997, Craig Sanders wrote: > > > > > 1. what do you expect for free? > > > > Well, one would expect at least a clean install... If people perceive > > Linux/Debian as being impossible to install, then, well, they won't use it > > :) > >

Re: color xterm

1997-03-05 Thread François
dpk wrote: > is there a package for color xterms for debian? if so, does anyone > know where it is? i have looked all over in the ftp site to find it > with no luck. This has been asked recently. The color xterm package has been abandonned with XFree 3.2. All you have to do is to add the fo

Re: Diskless install

1997-03-05 Thread Giuliano Procida
Hi. Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > I just installed Debian on my 486 and thought I'd try to do it > without disks. I got as far as the point were it wanted to install > the kernel, but couldn't go any further. Is there any reason why > there is no drivers.tgz and perhaps kernel.tgz? There is actually

Fresh Debian on UMSDOS?

1997-03-05 Thread Giuliano Procida
Hello. Brian K Servis wrote: > So the question is how can he install a fresh Debian to his DOS/VFAT > internal using UMSDOS? By using my experimental Debian installation software. I would rather not make this generally available yet as there are some known problems to be ironed out and some of

list service back at full performance

1997-03-05 Thread Bruce Perens
The list server is delivering messages at a good speed, and its problems appear to have been solved this time, so please go back to using it as you usually would. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP

debian install error

1997-03-05 Thread Solomani
When i first initialise two brand new 4.5 gig IBM HD i get this error badblocks: cant resolve symbol 'llseek' writing inode tables: 256/265mkfs.ext2 cant resolve symbol 'llseek' ideas? suggestions? solutions? :) Michl, Any instrument when droped will always roll to the most inaccessible cor

apology for mailing list mess-up

1997-03-05 Thread Bruce Perens
Sorry about today's mailing list mess-up. It started because of some confusion about the management reorganization (I am delegating most of the project management to two other people), and escalated into permissions being shut off, servers being moved, and a three-hour search for a broken configura