Re: Computer insane behaviour!

. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Anyone using Free SCO Unix yet?

a continuing discussion on debian-user. It should go to debian-talk (is there still a debian-talk?) or one of the Linux newsgroups. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: MS-DOS FS won't work as a module. Why?

Be sure you are loading _both_ the fat and the msdos modules. They are two halves of the same driver. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

kernel 2.0.25 expected for Debian 1.2

The fix for X slowness under kernel 2.0.24 was tracked down to a networking bug (thanks to Winfried Truemper for bringing this to my attention). That means that there will be a 2.0.25 soon. When the dust settles I'll build a boot disk for 1.2 . Thanks Bruce Bruce Perens K6BP

using dselect to install from both CD and FTP

. This will break if you download packages that depend on more recent versions of other packages than the ones on your CD. I haven't tested this. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED

installing .tgz's and Red Hat packages

Download the latest version of the debmake package from unstable and read man alien. Be aware that this is very little tested and you will be liable to hit bugs. Write to Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] about your experiences. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Libc5 woes

Look at some of the environment variables that are set when root logs in. Look especially at $SHELL and $PATH. Type alias and see if any well-known programs are aliased. These would be set by files like /root/.profile . Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: accessing files over serial cable?

Given that you have 16550A-compatible serial interfaces (or something else with a deep serial buffer), you should be able to go 115,200 bits per second over serial lines from one Linux to another. Get a Laplink cable from the computer store. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED

Installing packages from an MSDOS partition

You can pull the entire archive on to a straight MSDOS partition. That's why we provide an MSDOS area on the FTP system. After you get the system running, install dpkg-1.4.x.x.deb by hand, and then run dpkg-scanpackages on all of those packages. You can then use dselect to select and install them.

Re: ETA of the new X packages

Any chance that 1.2 will have a recent kernel (like 2.0.23 or 2.0.24)? 2.0.24 has the big ping fix which I consider important, however I've heard some applications have problems with .24 due to a change in a network struct. It currently has 2.0.23 (although I have not released a boot disk,

Re: Is this a virus?

No, it is not a virus, although I think that code fragement is now obsolete. Ian Murdock wrote that to run a configure script the first time the system boots after being installed. I think I hacked inittab or something to start the configure script without waiting for the login prompt in 1.1 ,

non-free on CDs

From: Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] How about putting in as well that those CD-ROM manufacturers are at last allowed to include the non-free directory too? The note I gave them last time on the non-free directory was that they can include parts of it, but they must read all of the licenses of

Re: XFree86 3.2 is available

Regarding XFree 3.2, it will be in unstable before 1.2 is released. I guess it is appropriate to recommend that CD manufacturers include the 27 XFree82 3.2 packages from unstable on their CDs along with the 3.1 version that will be in the release. When I write the release notes for CD

need help from someone who has gotten their SONY cdu31a working

Would someone who has gotten their SONY cdu31a working please walk through the process with this user? Thanks Bruce From: The Darter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Bruce! A friend of send me this: Run the module configuration, and add the arguments cdu31_port=3D0x

Re: shadow password

Enough packages have been built with shadow passwords so that you can run them. They are available in the project/experimental directory on our FTP archive. The encryption should be the same. Thanks Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to

cdu31a

Run the module configuration, and add the arguments cdu31_port=0x cdu31a_irq=X Fill in your I/O port address and IRQ as appropriate. Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: talking RS232

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. Is there a simple program to talk transparently to my RS232 port. I use minicom. It works with or without a modem. 2. I have noticed that my xterm converts both '^J' and '^M' into newlines. For the time being you can use Ctrl-Alt-F1 (or F2 through F6) to get to a

Re: Please Help me Out

You should not have to compile the ibcs package. If your system has direct access to the Internet, start up dselect as root and select the FTP installation method. Select the FTP site as ftp.debian.org and the distribution as stable. Select the packages you want, and then watch as they are

ETA of the new X packages

The person who is building X is expecting to upload them within the next two weeks - he says sooner, I'm being conservative. The hold-up is due to our packaging system going through some changes that require editing of installation scripts. The X source builds 27 binary packages, no surprise that

Re: XFree86 3.2 is available

XFree86 3.2 will appear in the unstable distribution, and you'll be able to install it from there. We unfortunately could not make the release schedule for 1.2 with it included. Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble?

Re: file [ in /usr/bin???

Read man test. It implements the following construct in shell scripts: if [ -f /etc/motd ]; then echo motd exists, and is a regular file. fi Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to

color ls

To get color ls, use the command alias ls=ls --color=auto That's for sh and bash. If you use csh or tcsh use alias ls ls --color=auto - Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian installation in a bigger network

From: Dirk Luetjens dirk%plus We plan to install the debian distribution in the whole network. Well, I hope you get this via the list, Dirk. Please fix your mailer, it's not placing your domain name in your messages. I was looking for a master installation script to run the installation

Re: Generating 'Packages' file ?

Yes, you can make a packages file by running dpkg-scanpackages. Check out its man page on your Debian system. Thanks Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ??? About New Installation - Successes and Problems

Anyway, I try to install what the FAQ/DOCS call 'packages', but all I can find is .deb files. Those are the packages. You can install them manually using dpkg -i FILENAME They may complain that you need to install something else first. If you want to use dselect (and you should),

Re: color ls

From: Jason K. Keimig [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can just put: eval `dircolors` in your startup script .profile, .tcshrc, .login or whatever... it sets the color-ls environment appropriately for whatever shell you use. Are you sure, or am I doing something wrong? Dircolors doesn't turn on

Re: Final Update to GCC Error

From: Christian Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is in regards to the discussion concerning 'fatal signal 11' under GCC 2.7.2 on my machine. Resetting the CPU type from 120Mhz to 100Mhz resolved the problem. I'm not exactly sure why, but it worked. Interesting. Did you use the same memory on

Re: Bash 1.14.6.....

Our bash-1.14.6-5 package contained the security bug fix. That's the current version. Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ethernet card

What I wonder is, is there any reason to buy a PCI card (speedwise) if I go for the NE2000 compatible one? As for PCI versions - they're worth it, they speed up transfers accross the network dramatically (that is, if you have both cards being PCI). From: Rick Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] It

Re: ethernet card

At 03:52 PM 10/24/96 PDT, Bruce Perens wrote: An NE2000 is a programmed-IO card, isn't it? While you are transferring data to and from one, your system isn't processing. From: Christian Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have an Artisoft Noderunner S/I (NE2000 clone, the one that comes with lantastic

Re: is ftp.debian.org mirroring properly?

So, the question is : is the Debian Organisation dead ? You wouldn't ask that if you had _my_ mailbox :-) There must have been 20 or 30 debian-devel messages today. I couldn't kill it if I tried. I fixed a subscribe bug yesterday. Perhaps it had bit you. Please send a message with only the word

Re: Mounting CDROM during installation

NCR SCSI 53c810 You need a special boot floppy for the 53c810. It's at ftp://sgk.phast.umass.edu/pub/boot1440.bin.gz . If you continue to have problems, get into the shell and run lsmod and cat /proc/filesystems. Both should list the ISO driver. Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Re: performance cost of modules?

Does anyone know the performance cost of modules? They use a bit more locked-down RAM in the kernel than non-modular drivers, however not generally a significant amount. Execution speed should not be different. The thing you might be noticing is the delay for run-time loading a module (via

Installation manual and dpkg document available in French

I don't read French, but I think this says the dpkg manual and my installation document are available in French under the following URL. I checked the URL and yes, that's what it looks like. So Bruce is Bruces in French, I guess. Thanks Bruce Perens From: Joel Bernier [EMAIL

Re: Apache requires a trailing slash on URLs

HTTP servers react by sending a REDIRECT message to the name with a slash appended if the user gives the name without a slash. I don't know why Apache wouldn't do this. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens, Pixar Animation Studios *** Toy Story video tape in U.S. stores October 30

Re: Debian + POSIX

can be used for what it was intended for: insuring source-level compatibility across multiple software platforms. Thanks Bruce Perens Debian Project Leader -- Bruce Perens, Pixar Animation Studios *** Toy Story video tape in U.S. stores October 30 *** Worldwide box office

Re: Need help with NIS: close, but it don't work yet

Don't you have to put entries starting with + characters at the end of your hosts, passwd, group, etc., files before NIS will be used to look stuff up? Just guessing... Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens, Pixar Animation Studios *** Toy Story video tape in U.S. stores October 30

Re: [comp.os.linux.announce] Clarification - Linux-FT, The Road

Please write to Klee [EMAIL PROTECTED]. He's committed to take on the package, but I suspect he could use some help with running tests and submitting bug reports on the results of the tests. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens, Pixar Animation Studios *** Toy Story video tape in U.S

Re: debian/linux Colour Management Module

here, but I don't have the slightest idea how to use them (and I'm color-blind). Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens, Pixar Animation Studios *** Toy Story video tape in U.S. stores October 30 *** Worldwide box office total for Toy Story: $353,275,005 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Re: mounting files as filesystems

I run the output of mkisofs to a raw disk partition. That mounts just fine. It's a bit faster to access when writing the CD, too, as all of the blocks are contiguous. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens, Pixar Animation Studios *** Toy Story video tape in U.S. stores October 30

Re: subscribe

Bruce -- Bruce Perens, Pixar Animation Studios *** Toy Story video tape in U.S. stores October 30 *** Worldwide box office total for Toy Story: $353,275,005 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Package finder

://www.cs.tut.fi/~hessu/ Tampere, Finland -- Bruce Perens, Pixar Animation Studios *** Toy Story video tape in U.S. stores October 30 *** Worldwide box office total for Toy Story: $353,275,005 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e

Re: debian/linux Colour Management Module

. As Debian project leader I am already too far overworked to take on any more. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens, Pixar Animation Studios *** Toy Story video tape in U.S. stores October 30 *** Worldwide box office total for Toy Story: $353,275,005 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Re: debian/linux Colour Management Module

, which is another way of saying don't wait for me to do anything. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens, Pixar Animation Studios *** Toy Story video tape in U.S. stores October 30 *** Worldwide box office total for Toy Story: $353,275,005 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail

Re: [comp.os.linux.announce] Clarification - Linux-FT, The Road Ahead

if you can. I don't know anything about the XPG4 test suite. Is it available to us? Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens, Pixar Animation Studios *** Toy Story video tape in U.S. stores October 30 *** Worldwide box office total for Toy Story: $353,275,005 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: failure notice

Sorry, I was hacking the server while it was still plugged in. Zap! -- Bruce Perens, Pixar Animation Studios *** Toy Story video tape in U.S. stores October 30 *** Worldwide box office total for Toy Story: $353,275,005 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe

time problems (forwarded)

the CMOS clock it sets the year to somewhere in the 21st century and the rest of the time information is all screwed up as well. What needs to change to make this utility work properly? Thanks, Ken Rea -- Bruce Perens, Pixar Animation Studios *** Toy Story video tape in U.S. stores October 30

Ctrl-Alt-Del doesn't work under X?

of introducing it into the Dept. Please let me know if you have any idea on how to get C-A-Del to work at the Xlogin prompt under xdm. I have checked the HOWTO's but to no avail. Thanks, Arrigo -- Bruce Perens, Pixar Animation Studios *** Toy Story video tape in U.S. stores

Re: Problems at www.debian.org??

The WWW site moved a day or two ago, and various bugs are popping up and being squashed. The new WWW site is organized to make regional WWW sites possible - just mirror and serve. As soon as the bugs with this site are worked out, we will start adding the regional sites. Thanks

Re: no wildcards from command line

[wildcard commands in the shell don't work] If you are using bash or sh, try unset -f -f, yes, it needs two -f flags. If you are using csh or tcsh, try unset noglob. Then figure out what set it. Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

digests of the debian-user mailing list now available

A daily digest of the debian-user mailing list is now available. To switch to digests: 1. Send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . The body of the message should be the word unsubscribe. 2. Send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . The body of the message should be the word subscribe. Digests

Buslogic SCSI

Don't buy a FlashPoint for Linux. If you do buy one, BusLogic will upgrade it to one of the MultiMaster controllers for a nominal fee. I have the details. The FlashPoint isn't a good controller for multi-tasking systems, and there's no Linux driver. Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Re: mailing-list X-Loop field disappeared :-(

From: Harald Paulsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] My problem is that many mails does NOT have the debian-list in the To: field, and filter %$# with Cc:.. oh well.. just a couple of hundred articles each month =) Let's not forget that this list is gatewayed to ham radio (packet radio), where they are not

over 8 characters in passwords

From: Buddha Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED] my root password is ... say toto. when i try to login with password totoxxx, it works. The xdm login only compares characters from the begining, to the end of the password. is it normal ??? It shouldn't be that way for your root password as

Re: debian alpha or debian sparc

The Alpha port is active, and is supported by the debian-alpha@lists.debian.org mailing list. The 68k port is also active. The SPARC port doesn't seem to be very active at the moment, this will no doubt change once we have _one_ port released. Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

list administrivia

I got a storm of rejected postings due to the anti-spam feature, and have turned it off for good. Sorry if yours was one of the bounced messages. Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The darned list request address is busted out.

Sigh. I unsubscribed him manually. I am looking at why the headers are broken. I think I fixed the -REQUEST problem yesterday, I am checking that. Bruce

mailing lists hopefully working better now

The Debian mailing lists should be working better now. The headers are back. Sorry about that. It put a lot of stuff in _my_ main mail inbox, too. I tested auto-unsubscribe, and it works. Instructions at the bottom of each message remind people how to unsubscribe. For procmail users, I prefer

need developer mailing-list requests again

Bruce Perens

list server finally changing

to re-add people to debian-devel, etc. Once this change is completed, all 100 Debian maintainers will be able to control the mailing list, so there should be no more problems with the prolonged absence of the list manager. Thanks Bruce Perens

Re: need help: error opening terminal con80x25 during install

For now, if you are using the Bourne shell, use TERM=linux export TERM or for the C-shell, use setenv TERM linux This is where my memory gets foggy. Some security package called lshell or something similar messes up the shell environment. The fix is to deinstall the

Re: ftp.debian.org

We recently decided to keep the master copy of the _entire_ WWW site on master.debian.org, rather than just a portion of it as previously. This meant that it would become very much larger. Rather than grow the mirror sites 300 MB, we moved it to its own separate directory. If you wish to mirror

Re: where's man ??

the package for their preferred editor and install it. Likewise, there is a man package on the FTP archive as well. The base system is supposed to be just enough to support installing the packages you choose. Thanks Bruce Perens

4 man page languages now

Susan: the manpages (in English, German (man-NNN-de), and Spanish (man-NNN-es)). I think some Italian language man pages have also recently been uploaded. I communicated with the maintainer last week. They are probably in unstable or the Incoming directory. Thanks Bruce

Re: Custom installation boot disks?

. Thanks Bruce Perens

Re: Version 2.0

If you buy a Debian CD, it may not come with 2.0.20 . However, you will be able to download a package from our FTP site and upgrade your system to 2.0.20 . It should be about 2MB for the binary kernel package, 5MB for the full kernel source. Installing a package takes a one-line shell command.

Re: Digests?

Bruce, We are currently moving the list server to another site. The move should take place in a few days - all of the pieces are working but I am still testing them. I will enable digests when that is done. Thanks Bruce

Re: DANGER: installing ld.so libc5 with dftp

Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 11:19:55 -0400 From: Brian C. White [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apparently, until ld.so is configured libc5 won't install, and if libc5 insn't configured then perl breaks. After which nothing will install. Am I right in assuming that this is an upgrade from 0.93 to 1.1 ? I

Re: Installation problems: boot, nfs, X

From: Mikko Suonio [EMAIL PROTECTED] Starting Dynamic Drive Overlay Press spacebar to boot from diskette... ERROR: Incompatible BIOS Translation Detected. Refer to your Ontrack documentation for more information. Insert boot ... It seems to be a hardware problem. Or? You are using Ontrack

Re: Worldnet.att.net via Linux PPP Connection

There is a Disable source routes prompt when configuring the kernel (with make menuconfig or make config). You are free to enable it when building your own kernel. I'd like to hear a good explanation of what the security problem is, and why anyone would want to use source routes. Thanks

Re: Debian 1.2 release date?

I think we've slipped a month, maybe a bit more. Sorry. Blame me - I have been busy moving into a new home (we get posession on Monday), etc. Thanks Bruce

Re: Creating deb packages

The documentation on how to make a Debian package is in the package ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/unstable/binary-i386/base/dpkg_1.3.14.deb . (The package version number will soon change, and the package may split into base/dpkg* and devel/dpkg-dev* in the near future.) Install that package, and

Debian Logos (all kinds)

I don't think we have a package with the Logo programming language. It's a good teaching language, and there are a few free ones around, I think. Such a package would be welcome. Regarding the Debian Logotype: We still can't use the baby GNU - I'd like to reserve that for FSF's own product. I've

Re: problem with incremental dump updates

but I get lots of warning: cannot create hard link ./bin/uncompress-./bin/gunzip: File exists Dump is probably complaining that it can't create a symbolic link because the symbolic link already exists. It probably always archives symbolic links, whether they have been recently created or not.

Re: bug ins installation disks utilities?

Did you see any error messages on the floppy I/O? I've seen the floppy driver fail in several cases. I have a Pentium 120 laptop here in which the floppy works when cold, not when warm. Windows 95 runs that floppy just fine. The fix is probably to tune the floppy timing parameters automaticaly

Re: libg++-2.7.2.deb is old?

Me: It's complaining that it can't find the interpreter for the pre-installation script in the perl package. From: Amos Shapira [EMAIL PROTECTED] Which interpreter? When I run dpkg -I on the perl package I see only #!/bin/sh scripts. And if it's missing (whatever it is) then what should I

Re: Protections against a mad maintainer?

From: Jean Orloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] It just occured to me that any evil intentioned or mad maintainer could add rm -rf / or anything of this sort in a postinst script. I just would like to know what kind of protection debian could offer against such an unpleasant event. I am sure Bruce

Re: Base system installation

The unresolved symbols messages are harmless (unless you want to use nfs or the de4x5, in which case you end up rebuilding the kernel). 20 minutes, huh? You did create and activate your swap partition, didn't you? You can consider your installation successful. Bruce

Re: char-major-10

[Trying to find which major-10 device he's opening] sim:~# ls /dev | grep 10, Oops. Make that ls -l /dev | grep 10, Bruce

Re: how to sign up to debian-devel?

We are in the process of moving the mailing list from its site in Sweden back to the U.S. The current list manager is so swamped with work that he doesn't answer my mail. Thanks Bruce

Mailing list changes coming

into a new home, so please be patient if it takes me a few days to get this done. Thanks Bruce Perens

Re: Base system installation

From: Jason K. Keimig [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 9 Sep 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: The unresolved symbols messages are harmless (unless you want to use nfs or the de4x5, in which case you end up rebuilding the kernel). The problem here is if you _need_ nfs for mounting disks with the buzz

Re: libg++-2.7.2.deb is old?

From: Amos Shapira [EMAIL PROTECTED] In order to test a local copy of buzz-fixed before burning it on a CD-ROM, we tried to run dpkg --root=... --unpack, just to see if the files aren't corrupted. [...] Selecting previously deselected package perl. Unpacking perl (from

Re: Problems with Base Install Disks.

From: Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, 8 Sep 1996, Rosenberg Yigal wrote: to remind you the file are : 1) base12-4.bin 2) base14-3.bin You can't mix base12 with base14 images. Base12 are for 1.2 meg 5 1/4 floppies and base14 are for 1.4 meg 3 1/2 floppies. You should be building

Re: char-major-10

From: Boris Beletsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sep 9 03:53:44 sim modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-10 You are running kerneld. You go to open a character device with major number 10. There is no driver for the device and kerneld tries to load it. Do this command: ls /dev |grep 10, and

Re: Getty ports - dumb question

[Why do I have gettys running on tty1 through tty6? I only have 2 serial ports] These are virtual consoles using your VGA card. Push LeftAlt-F2 on your console (I think it's Control-LeftAlt-F2 or Shift-LeftAlt-F2 if you are running X) and you will be on tty2. And so on for Alt-F3, through Alt-F6.

Re: Sony CDU31A not recognized at all!?

You may be giving the module the wrong argument (for that version, at least). Try modprobe cdu31 cdu31a=0x340,5 . Also, add ,PAS to that if you are using the CD connector on a Pro Audio Spectrum card. Thanks Bruce

Re: gcc can't find termcap library

Tell me where the source for scilab is, and I will remove its termcap dependence. I'm a reasonably competent ncurses programmer. Supporting two terminal management mechanisms would not be a good idea. Bruce

Re: Sony CDU31A not recognized at all!?

I choose CDU-31-A as CD drive module and tried to install it with the parameters 0x340,5. Oh darn. I gave the wrong advice. Try: modprobe cdu31a cdu31a_port=0x340 cdu31a_irq=5 If you use modconf (the module configuration menu) use the arguments cdu31a_port=0x340 cdu31a_irq=5

Re: installing debian with initrd

Is there a compressed filesystem in a file somewhere (I already have a kernel) where I can just do: loadlin kernel initrd=image.gz root=/dev/ramdisk and start installing? I am working on this for Debian 1.2 . Currently, you have to go through the 5-floppy thing as detailed in my

Re: --largemem | --smallmem

[What do the dpkg --smallmem and --largemem flags do?] On a 4MB system, dpkg's in-RAM database is larger than your physical RAM. Thus, you use virtual memory for much of this database. Unfortunately, dpkg has poor locality-of-reference when accessing this database, so most of its execution time

Re: Number of Linux processes allowed?

[User is getting a too many processes error] I am using tcsh for a shell, and when I run the limit command, I get maxproc 30. This seems a bit low. Try becoming root, and in csh or tcsh running limit maxproc 100, and see if you can actually run enough processes. This number is set to 256 by the

help with SCSI boards

First, I switched to a BusLogic Flashpoint; this was not detected though I typed linux buslogic=[iobase] at the boot: prompt as directed. See the special notice for FlashPoint owners with Linux systems at the end of this message. TMC-8xx/TMC-950 options: ARBITRATE SLOW_HANDSHAKE FAST32 This

Re: eepro.c

[Question about how to neatly change the eepro driver CSR address] If it's a module, try modprobe eepro io=0x230. If that works, add it to /etc/conf.modules . Otherwise, just add 0x230 to eepro_portlist. Bruce

Re: Problem unpackagin Debian-1.1.4

[installation of gcc fails due to binutils dependency that dselect should have taken care of] I had this happen to me with two system installations I was running of 1.1.4 (from a CD I wrote a few weeks ago). Has anyone seen this on a later system than 1.1.4? Thanks Bruce

Re: emacs troubles

emacs is an editor with text/graphic interface so u can compile emacs with out graphic-x interface Generally, if there is an option to compile a program with an X interface as well as its text interface, we do so for Debian. This requires _only_ that the (reasonably small) X runtime library be

Re: How to migrate a Debian system to another hard drive?

From: Mark Eichin [EMAIL PROTECTED] and note that unlike tar, cp -a will actually *handle* pathnames over 100 characters Well, we've beaten this dead horse for long enough. I think GNU tar will handle over-100-character filenames. There is an extension to the tar format to handle them.

stuff Glenn wants to clean up, and how to do it

From: Glenn Bily [EMAIL PROTECTED] What is the fine line between a library such as libc.so.5, libm.so.5 or libcurses.a and just a compiled object file? If I had my druthers I'd clean lots of stuff like that up. The task is a lot more complicated than that, because you are working with other

Re: Problems with Base Install Disks.

The boot-floppies package contains all scripts used to build boot floppies. What's wrong with base14-3.bin ? It's been on the FTP site for at least a month with no other complaint. Thanks Bruce

Re: Ash script, tutorials, etc

[big uuencoded file deleted] If you are curious, this is a PPP configuration script we've been working on for Debian 1.2 . Rich is going to Japan and dumped it to the list so it wouldn't get lost. Bruce

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