Mark Wright writes:
> Did someone register FreeBSD? If you check out FreeBSD.org, they say
> "FreeBSD is an advanced BSD UNIX operating system".
They don't need anyone's permission to call FreeBSD UNIX. They aren't
selling it.
--
John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain.
>
> Hi all,
>
> What is the best way to configure my sound card in Debian Linux ?
>
> thanks !!!
>
> regards,
> Andrew J Fortune
For starters you could tell what card you have, whether it's PnP or not,
what settings you have for it (Boot into Windows to get the settings, like
DMA, IRQ, IO).
A
I don't have an isp for the computer (silly, I know), and I have already
installed the base system, which seems to be in fine working order. What I
did was to swap the hd into a WinNT box (on my LAN w/ 100Mbit connection at
work) and download the lot to that, but I somehow managed to loose the
dire
Howdy all,
I've installed amanda 2.4.0-3 from the Debian 2.1 CDs, and there were no
dependency errors. However, after configuring amanda and running
amcheck, I receive an email report containing these client errors:
-
ERROR: localhost: [can not execute /sbin/dump: No such file or
directory]
*- On 8 Jun, rathon wrote about "Re: [Re: [Re: [Re: deb pkg of X-server for
Matrox Millennium G200 AGP] ] ]"
> Finally resolved all the dependencies and ran xf86config. It wrote out
> the file in /etc/X11/XF86Config and that looks ok too.
>
> When I do, % startx, I get the error:
> bash: startx:
Recently, apt-get has started segfaulting on me every time I do an
apt-get install. It will also often do it in the upgrade phase. This
is, of course, quite frustrating. I'm using the 0.3.6 package.
Has anyone seen this before? Does anyone know a workaround or fix?
I've seen a bug report on t
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Andrew J Fortune wrote:
>
> > I don't know what I have done, but Linux (using slink) is now booting up to
> > a graphical login. This is not what I want at the moment, and I was
> > wondering if anyone knew what the problem mig
still trying to compile wterm, i got the two libs that were missing (wmaker
and wings). so, i went to wterm's dir and restarted the compile process:
configure - ok.
make - /usr/bin/ld: cannot open -lXpm: No such file or directory
and i have libxpm installed.(xpm4g).
can anybody help me
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have pine 4.10 sitting in /usr/local and was trying to get the following
> .procmailrc to work (it's almost straight from procmailex man page)
I am doing that with Pine 4.05 on an OSF/1 system, so this might work for
4.10 on Linux.
Did you enable i
On 08-Jun-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> When I finally tried RedHat a couple of years later I was disgusted
> because it wanted me to do configuration using their 'tools' vs. just
> editing /etc/* --- I found that I could tweak it a lot less before the
> whole thing broke and I finally reinstalled
On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 11:06:44AM -0500, Kelly Corbin wrote:
> I install Debian with a 14.4 modem. Trust me, it only takes patience.
And a lot of money!
For me in Poland it is much cheaper to download
once the whole CD-image (through the T1 network in my University),
burn it and use for all the
rathon wrote:
> Finally resolved all the dependencies and ran xf86config. It wrote out
> the file in /etc/X11/XF86Config and that looks ok too.
>
> When I do, % startx, I get the error:
> bash: startx:command not found
>
> I tried running startx as root and that did not help either.
>
> Why would
Hi all,
What is the best way to configure my sound card in Debian Linux ?
thanks !!!
regards,
Andrew J Fortune
On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Andrew J Fortune wrote:
> I don't know what I have done, but Linux (using slink) is now booting up to
> a graphical login. This is not what I want at the moment, and I was
> wondering if anyone knew what the problem might be ? this is not
> normally a problem, but I am try
I have pine 4.10 sitting in /usr/local and was trying to get the following
.procmailrc to work (it's almost straight from procmailex man page)
PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
MAILDIR=$HOME/mail #you'd better make sure it exists
DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/mbox #completely optional
LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/
On Wed, 09 Jun 1999, Chris wrote:
> As for sound, I must say that I've had a few problems with it. Of course, I
> had similar problems in previous versions of RH... Go fig. Anyway, once
> you've compiled in the kernel modules that you'll need, try this: Grab an
> rpm of RH's sndconfig, alien
*- On 9 Jun, Andrew J Fortune wrote about "Unwanted Graphical Login and other
woes..."
>
> I don't know what I have done, but Linux (using slink) is now booting up to
> a graphical login. This is not what I want at the moment, and I was
> wondering if anyone knew what the problem might be ?
I moved to Debian from slackware... and have been very satisfied with it
to date... I've done all installs via apt over the network, without cd's,
and from ya'll discriptions this appears to be more straightforward than
actually using a cd.
My first linux install was about 4 years ago... I was i
> I need to use LaTeX for a project in one of my classes, and was
> wondering whether anyone could recommnd a particular type that does
> mathematics-related things (integrals etc..), i'm quite a newbie to
> LaTeX (understatement), so a GUI-based version would be cool.
Try Lyx. And the Debian tex
Finally resolved all the dependencies and ran xf86config. It wrote out
the file in /etc/X11/XF86Config and that looks ok too.
When I do, % startx, I get the error:
bash: startx:command not found
I tried running startx as root and that did not help either.
Why would startx not work ? I am using t
I don't know what I have done, but Linux (using slink) is now booting up to
a graphical login. This is not what I want at the moment, and I was
wondering if anyone knew what the problem might be ? this is not
normally a problem, but I am trying to resolve other problems associated
with startx
Yes, many versions of it. If you use apache, php3-mysql and php3 from
slink, it's pretty straightforward. If you run into problems, write.
"David H. Silber" wrote:
>
> Has anyone out there successfully installed Keystone on a Debian system?
>
Hello,
I need to use LaTeX for a project in one of my classes, and was wondering
whether anyone could recommnd a particular type that does
mathematics-related things (integrals etc..), i'm quite a newbie to LaTeX
(understatement), so a GUI-based version would be cool.
thanks for any help!
-lev
Take a look at the vncserver and xvncviewer packages -- they tell you
where to get Windows versions of the same stuff. Very nice, you can run
vncserver on linux and vncviewer under windows and have access to a
complete linux/x desktop from windows, and you can run vncserver(or
something).exe on wi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Thanks a tremendous lot for all the help. It really helps keeping my spirit
> up as a newbie.
> I managed to mount the dos partition allright, but it seems like dselect
> wants an exact copy of the ftp-site, which is a problem since I can't make
> the directory "binary-i
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Raymond A. Ingles wrote:
> /var is awful large unless you're spooling huge print jobs or running
> your own news server. You could probably reduce it.
I've been hearing that alot. I think i will reduce it, probably 500-700M?
My concern was that i would have enough for /tmp a
On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 08:35:04PM +, Lazarus Long wrote:
> > you've compiled in the kernel modules that you'll need, try this: Grab an
> > rpm of RH's sndconfig, alien it over to a .deb, and install it. I used it,
>
> Where does one find this thing? Many of us are not RH ppl and don't
>
The PIII ought to work just fine since its basically another x86 CPU.
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Apparently intel has discontinued 450 MHz PII processors. Will linux (the
> debian flavour, of course) work with a PIII?
>
> I checked the linux hardware HOWTO, but no mention
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Michael Merten wrote:
> I wouldn't worry about wasting a bit of space on the / partition... it's
> probably the most difficult to fix when you run out of space, so go ahead
> and give it 300-400M. Mine is 500M and runs about 24% used (/home
> included).
But i'm not going to p
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Brad wrote:
> Yes, i realize this is something a lot of people disagree on. Which is why
> i hope to get a lot of opinions!
>
> One partition for swap, one for everything else. From what i've heard,
> not a very good arangement if anything goes wrong.
Also harder to back up
On Mon, Jun 07, 1999 at 11:47:08PM -0400, Stuart Ballard wrote:
> "Luis M. Garcia" wrote:
> >
> > ""Raphaël\"@[EMAIL PROTECTED]"[EMAIL PROTECTED],
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > I have d/l gnome-apt with apt-get and it of course has d/l and installed
> > > some others package like libgnomeui32. But now,
Hi, I thought I'd just throw in that I have used both Red Hat (5.0 ->) and
SuSE (5.1 ->) and am mightily impressed by The Debian Experience. The
install process is rather rough, I'll admit. I just pick the installation
type from the "custom" menu on the Slink disk and grit my teeth as dselect
doe
> Quoting Lance Heller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > 2. The problem system is an old pentium running Award bios 4.5.
> > Attempts to boot an installed system from HD with Lilo have failed,
> > boot floppies however succeed. Boots fail shortly after finding,
> > and correctly reporting, the
You could try mounting the drive as a vfat drive and creating the long dir
that way. I'm not sure if that will work or not (probably won't if the
drive is formated by DOS) but it's worth a try.
Rob
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTE
From: Ted Harding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|On 08-Jun-99 Mark Wright wrote:
|> I've checked the FAQs, and I can't seem to find a good answer to this:
|> why is Linux not refered to as a flavor of Unix? On Linux.Org, it's
|> referred to as "Unix-like", and this hedging seems pretty universal.
|> Is th
Thanks a tremendous lot for all the help. It really helps keeping my spirit
up as a newbie.
I managed to mount the dos partition allright, but it seems like dselect
wants an exact copy of the ftp-site, which is a problem since I can't make
the directory "binary-i386" with only 8 characters allowed
Monte Copeland wrote:
>
> I used xv to take a jpeg screen-shot of the desktop. Then I tried to save it
> to a floppy using mcopy ( mtools ), but Linux will not let me do it. The
> following message comes up instead:
>
> Can't open /dev/fd0: Permission denied
> Cannot initialize 'A:'
> Bad target
Marc Mongeon wrote:
> If you run named (bind) on your 486, it will cache DNS responses.
> The first time you look up wanadoo.fr, for example, named will go
> through the root nameservers to find it, but subsequent lookups of
> the same name will be much faster, because the 486 will use its
> local
Quoting Lance Heller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> I've recently installed a Maxtor 90845D4 8.4GB EIDE disk as the second
> disk in an old standby intel slink system I use. I've run into 2
> problems:
>
> 1. The system does not see past 8GB. This is not a big deal
> but it would be nice to acc
Try Reflection4 from WRQ Inc. It's not free (sorry). I use it at work
(WinNT/LAN/Firewall) to emulate all sorts of terminals, and I'm very
satisfied. It has extended setup possibilities including keyboard mapping,
color, high-powered scripting/logging and so on.
Vitux
> -Oprindelig meddelelse-
This mail was sent from a 100% Microsoft-free (aka GPF-free) environment.
Have a stable day. Use Linux.
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Patrick Colbeck wrote:
> Hey, my hard drive did the sudden thrashing thing last night too. Its
> never done it before (well it has in NT but not in Linux). All I was
> doi
This mail was sent from a 100% Microsoft-free (aka GPF-free) environment.
Have a stable day. Use Linux.
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Armin Wegner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> can anybody tell where to find information on how to install linux
> from c source code.
> Currently I'm using Debian. Debian is fine. But
Has anyone out there successfully installed Keystone on a Debian system?
Thanks,
David
--
David H. Silber -- http://www.orbits.com/~dhs/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For custom software, see:http://www.SilberSoft.com/
Palm OS / Linux Documentation: http://www.orbits.
On 08-Jun-99 Mark Wright wrote:
> I've checked the FAQs, and I can't seem to find a good answer to this:
> why is Linux not refered to as a flavor of Unix? On Linux.Org, it's
> referred to as "Unix-like", and this hedging seems pretty universal.
> Is there some Unix standard that Linux does not
JY:
If you run named (bind) on your 486, it will cache DNS responses.
The first time you look up wanadoo.fr, for example, named will go
through the root nameservers to find it, but subsequent lookups of
the same name will be much faster, because the 486 will use its
local copy. Your idea that you
>
> I've checked the FAQs, and I can't seem to find a good answer to this: why
> is Linux not refered to as a flavor of Unix? On Linux.Org, it's referred to
> as "Unix-like", and this hedging seems pretty universal. Is there some
> Unix standard that Linux does not adhere to. Is there some lic
On Mon, 07 Jun, 1999 à 03:43:02PM -0400, Francois-Nicola Demers wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have tried to install the Debian Bo distribution on my 386 with only
> 2 megs of RAM without success. Some people told me that they have been able
> to
> install it even if the machine does not have the 4 meg of R
I heartily recommend Tera Term Pro, a much better telnet client than M$
could ship. it's on par with commercial solutions like SmarTerm, IMO.
It is free (in the beer sense, with source code available) and can even
do ssh with a free addon. It'll do ansi and vt100 emulation, and is
pretty configurab
I've checked the FAQs, and I can't seem to find a good answer to this: why
is Linux not refered to as a flavor of Unix? On Linux.Org, it's referred to
as "Unix-like", and this hedging seems pretty universal. Is there some
Unix standard that Linux does not adhere to. Is there some licensing
orga
I often need to telnet from my NT box to my Debian server. Of course, this
means I lose everything from Vim syntax highlighting to sensible Delete and
Backspace key mappings. What I really want is the equivalent of the Linux
console, but remotely from a Win32 machine. Does such a thing exist?
--
Marc Mongeon wrote:
>
> JY:
>
> When you say "route," do you mean "IP address?" /etc/hosts
Yes, I meant IP address.
> is the file in which static name-address pairs are stored. You can
> use bind (i.e., nslookup) to determine the name-address mapping,
> and then manually enter these into /etc
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Ok, now I got a little further: I typed /dev/hda and dselect asks:
> Enter filesystem type for dev/hda:
> What's linuxian for a dos filesystem?
> Vitux
>
> > -Oprindelig meddelelse-
> > Fra: Wichmann, Viggo
> > Sendt:8. juni 1999 16:24
> > Til: 'debian
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Brad wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Ok, now I got a little further: I typed /dev/hda and dselect asks:
> > Enter filesystem type for dev/hda:
> > What's linuxian for a dos filesystem?
> > Vitux
>
> msdos if it's a plain DOS partition, vfat if has
On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 10:11:22AM -0500, Brad wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 12:03:39AM -0500, Brad wrote:
> > > 1. If i understand things correctly, /, /boot, /lib, /bin, /sbin, /dev,
> > >parts of /etc, and maybe /root should be on one p
I've had similar problems in the past when I tried to upgrade to potato,
but this time all I had was a base slink system. I have the termcap
compatibility installed, so thats not causing it. This is a big problem
for me, potato isn't work anything to me without X. And I'd rather not
use xfree.
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999 10:06:33 -0500 (CDT), Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Gertjan Klein wrote:
>
>> The only thing that needs to be below the 1024th cylinder is the
>> kernel (vmlinuz) and LILO's second stage boot loader
>
>Yes, but the kernel needs to be able to access mount
> "locate" command. It walks through the entire filesystem, so thats why
> the disk runs for so long. :)
> > > > Hey, my hard drive did the sudden thrashing thing last night too. Its
> > > > never done it before (well it has in NT but not in Linux). All I was
It's probably worth mentioning at thi
Hi Debians
I'm still in the process of installing. I managed to mount the dos-partition
in dselect, but now it wants the exact folder-structure to be copied on the
dos-partition in order to install. The problem is: I can't make a folder
called "binary-i386" because dos will only allow 8 characters
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On Tue, 8 Jun 1999 10:22:38 -0500 (CDT), Brad wrote:
>What if you're going to reinstall a few times before everything is
>set up properly? Would you want to be able to reinstall immediately, or
>would you rather wait 10 hours each time? Not that i'm s
But if you can't wait the week or two for the CD's...
Will Lowe wrote:
>
> > I install Debian with a 14.4 modem. Trust me, it only takes patience.
>
> Or CDs. They're cheap.
>
Hi Debians
I'm still in the process of installing. I managed to mount the dos-partition
in dselect, but now it wants the exact folder-structure to be copied on the
dos-partition in order to install. The problem is: I can't make a folder
called "binary-i386" because dos will only allow 8 characters
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On Tue, 08 Jun 1999 08:47:38 PDT, Martin Waller wrote:
>I don't why it ran find but it was a pain in the ass.
It is the locate database updating. Want a real PITA, try an out of date
locate database. ;)
- --
Steve C. Lamb | I
Martin Waller wrote:
> It's happened to me before (under hamm, but not slink) and it was find
> running.
>
> I don't why it ran find but it was a pain in the ass.
See the `locate' command. It's very handy to quickly find files
on your system:
$ locate bib-cite.el
/usr/lib/xemacs-20.4/lisp/au
I recently set up a potato machine and had enlightement working. Then I
installed sound in my kernel and turned it on in enlightenment. Now,
every time I fire it up, it seg faults and exits. Sound is working
correctly; I can use it with gnome and quake. I also un-installed and
re-installed enli
It is probably just the updatedb running, to update the database for the
"locate" command. It walks through the entire filesystem, so thats why
the disk runs for so long. :)
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Martin Waller wrote:
> It's happened to me before (under hamm, but not slink) and it was find
> runn
> I install Debian with a 14.4 modem. Trust me, it only takes patience.
Or CDs. They're cheap.
Will
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| [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTE
Patrick Colbeck wrote:
> Hey, my hard drive did the sudden thrashing thing last night too. Its
> never done it before (well it has in NT but not in Linux). All I was
> doing was reading mail remotely over a dialup line using xemacs in a
> kterm in KDE 1.1.1 (from snowcrash). It stopped after a whi
I install Debian with a 14.4 modem. Trust me, it only takes patience.
Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>
>
> Modem, that's why. All I have is about 28.8K to the Internet, and it takes
> a long time to download a whole Debian install on that.
>
> Hamish
These three settings are important in exim.conf:
qualify_domain = ihug.co.nz
qualify_recipient = localhost
local_domains = localhost
Assuming your computer does not have a fully-qualified domain name (most
dial-up users don't).
If you do have a FQDN, use that instead of localhost. So, people wh
On Tuesday, June 08, 1999 at 10:06:33 -0500, Brad wrote:
> To: Gertjan Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> X-UIDL: 4181e49e7b173d93decf7e7555e9405e
>
> On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Gertjan Klein wrote:
>
> Yes, but the kernel needs to be able to access mount in /bin, init
It's happened to me before (under hamm, but not slink) and it was find
running.
I don't why it ran find but it was a pain in the ass.
I haven't had the problem for a while.
May be there's some process running that lokks for something in a default
loctaion and then if it can't get it there for
I used xv to take a jpeg screen-shot of the desktop. Then I tried to save it
to a floppy using mcopy ( mtools ), but Linux will not let me do it. The
following message comes up instead:
Can't open /dev/fd0: Permission denied
Cannot initialize 'A:'
Bad target a:
When I change to root, I can use
"Jean-Yves F. Barbier" wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I think bind is able to keep the best routes in a file.
> Is it really possible? And how can I set it up?
> I'd like to keep all the routes used to access certain web servers.
>
Routing, no, AFAIK. If it's just keeping the IP addresses, "caching
nam
I heard somewhere in -user that there is a bug in ssh with newer
kernels...
Thanks, Paulo Henrique
Quoting Brad ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> > I installed ssh in my Sparc 5 and I have kernel 2.
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote:
> Hi all,
> I installed ssh in my Sparc 5 and I have kernel 2.2.9.
> The instalation begin to generate a 1024 bit key and was generating the
> entire morning?
> What is wrong?
> Thanks, Paulo Henr
Greetings...
I've tried searching the debian-user list archive already, and found some
messages which probably contain the answer I'm after, but it seems that the
actual messages aren't available, so I can't read them... (It was working a
week ago when I last tried, but not yesterday or today..
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Steve Lamb wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Jun 1999 22:53:30 +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>
> >Modem, that's why. All I have is about 28.8K to the Internet, and it takes
> >a long time to download a whole Debian install on that.
>
> When I first installed Debian I had a 28.8k connecti
On 06/07/99 at 18:36:20, Barry Samuels wrote concerning "I am not impressed
with Debian so far.":
> I bought a 4 CD Debian distribution and installed alongside SuSE.
Whence did you buy it? SuSE makes all their own CD's, I think, but
Debian, in contrast, relies on 3rd party CD vendors to make C
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Ok, now I got a little further: I typed /dev/hda and dselect asks:
> Enter filesystem type for dev/hda:
> What's linuxian for a dos filesystem?
> Vitux
msdos if it's a plain DOS partition, vfat if has Win32 long filenames.
IIRC, vfat will work even
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 12:03:39AM -0500, Brad wrote:
> > 1. If i understand things correctly, /, /boot, /lib, /bin, /sbin, /dev,
> >parts of /etc, and maybe /root should be on one partition below the
> >1024th cyl for hysterical reasons, whi
> I installed Debian 2.1 (kernel ver. 2.0.36)on my i386 PC. When I try to
> load the PCMCIA base modules I get the message
> 'modules/lib/modules/2.0.36/pcmcia/i82365.o
> init_module:device or resource busy' and in
> /var/log/messages 'kernel build:2.0.36 unknown
>
Hi,
I am trying to run fetchmail over ssh but I seem to be too dumb to get it
going. Ive read the (debian) docs, a webpage dedicated to this problem
(http://yosh.gimp.org/Secure-POP-SSH.html) but still I cant get it going.
I hope somebody here can help me.
The setup, two debian/slink boxes ap031
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Hans van den Boogert wrote:
>
> I find that after clicking on buttons in the control panel there is a
> considerable delay before KDE comes up with the application or menu. I
> doesn't matter that much, but I was wondering if this is because of my
> system, or a general quirk
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Gertjan Klein wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Jun 1999 00:03:39 -0500 (CDT), Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> >1. If i understand things correctly, /, /boot, /lib, /bin, /sbin, /dev,
> > parts of /etc, and maybe /root should be on one partition below the
> > 1024th cyl for hysteri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| Apparently intel has discontinued 450 MHz PII processors. Will linux (the
| debian flavour, of course) work with a PIII?
|
| I checked the linux hardware HOWTO, but no mention of a PIII.
Not a problem. Been using one for a month or two now and it hasn't had
a single
%from wrote:
> Hi Debians
> Whats the "partition's block device name"?
> I'm trying to install Debian from the dos-partition using dselect.
> I copied alle the files from the ftp(main, etc.)-archives and put them
> into
The name will be something like /dev/hda1. If you look at fdisk or
cfdisk yo
Hi all,
I installed ssh in my Sparc 5 and I have kernel 2.2.9.
The instalation begin to generate a 1024 bit key and was generating the
entire morning?
What is wrong?
Thanks, Paulo Henrique
Apparently intel has discontinued 450 MHz PII processors. Will linux (the
debian flavour, of course) work with a PIII?
I checked the linux hardware HOWTO, but no mention of a PIII.
Thanks.
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E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 08-Jun-99
Time: 10:53:16
This message w
My guess is that you cuold create a custom kernel with the RAID driver
compiled in, and put it on the rescue floppy. If the RAID controller
BIOS provides the capability to boot from the array, that should be it.
However, this is hipotetical, I never dealt with RAID yet.
You might ask for advice at
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On Tue, 8 Jun 1999 22:53:30 +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>Modem, that's why. All I have is about 28.8K to the Internet, and it takes
>a long time to download a whole Debian install on that.
When I first installed Debian I had a 28.8k connection t
Ok, now I got a little further: I typed /dev/hda and dselect asks:
Enter filesystem type for dev/hda:
What's linuxian for a dos filesystem?
Vitux
> -Oprindelig meddelelse-
> Fra: Wichmann, Viggo
> Sendt:8. juni 1999 16:24
> Til: 'debian user'
> Emne: Short newbie question
>
>
Patrick Colbeck wrote:
> Hey, my hard drive did the sudden thrashing thing last night too. Its
> never done it before (well it has in NT but not in Linux). All I was
> doing was reading mail remotely over a dialup line using xemacs in a
> kterm in KDE 1.1.1 (from snowcrash). It stopped after a whi
Hi,
I'm writing some docs on SGML, but I'm having some trouble when
converting them with sgml-tools, and I too am a bit confused with it, is
there any mailing list on the subject (ie. SGML)?
Also, what's the difference between Debiandoc-SGML, Linuxdoc-SGML and
Docbook?
TIA
--
Horacio
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I ran top while all this was happening. No process appeared to be using any
more than its usual allotment of resources (CPU or RAM).
There was nothing I could do but just watch my machine croak. =\
- Original Message -
From: ktb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 1999 8:3
Hi Debians
Whats the "partition's block device name"?
I'm trying to install Debian from the dos-partition using dselect.
I copied alle the files from the ftp(main, etc.)-archives and put them into
the dos partition.
I believe Linux should be able to "see" the dos-part., but I don't know the
path t
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Armin Wegner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> can anybody tell where to find information on how to install linux
> from c source code.
This is not quite clear. You can't install the Linux kernel from its
source code on a bare computer---you have to bootstrap via simpler systems
to get to t
On 08 Jun 1999, F.P. Groeneveld wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> : Are there any nationwide ISPs around for Linux users? I'm using AOL,
> : which doesn't support Linux, and there aren't any Linux ISPs in my area.
> : It'd make it a lot easier on me for upgrading if I could get onto the
> :
"Camilo Alejandro Arboleda" wrote:
>Thanks to every one for the help with my first problem.
>
>Finaly I could compile the new kernel, but I could not start the system
>with the new kernel.
>
>I get this message:
>'kernel panic: no init found. Try passing init = option to kernel'
>
[snip]
To add to previous message.
> better way of approaching this problem. I have tried all sorts of (seemingly
> appropriate) combinations of monitor, video card and mode from within
> xf86config, but all to no avail. The areas that I am foggy on are horizontal
> and vertical sync, refresh rate
startx -- -bpp 16
to start X in 16bpp mode.
Andrew
>
> I have just installed Slink on my machine, and have ... almost got it
> working the way that i want it to. The only thing that won't work is that it
> is coming up in 256 colors, and I want it to use the 16-bit color palette or
> greater
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