Re: need libbsd.so.1.0.0

1996-09-04 Thread Bruce Perens
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (joost witteveen) > But if you've got the .a file, cannot you make the .so file by: > > mkdir t > cd t > ar -x ../libbsd.a > gcc -o libbsd.so.1.0.0 -shared -W,l-soname,libbsd.so.1 *.o > > (I may well be _very_ wrong, and please flame me if I am, > but I just _think_ it woul

Re: Cross posting per request

1996-09-03 Thread Bruce Perens
It's unfortunate that the printer config stuff (and other stuff from Red Hat) is written in TCL/TK. One thing we _don't_ assume is that the user has X (or even a VGA card - it might be a serial console). A shell/dialog solution would be much better. Thanks Bruce

Re: Cross posting per request

1996-09-03 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Glenn Bily <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 1) Long awaited cleaning out of /usr/lib. In addition, categorizing > what is left into subdirectories. > > A reasonable setup would be: > > /usr/lib/elf -- elf shared libs > /usr/lib/aout -- a.out shared libs How about /usr/lib/i386-elf and /usr/lib/i386-

Re: Using dpkg to install Debian?

1996-08-31 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Barid Bel Medar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Is it possible to install *components* of Debian without having to totally > blast away all of the Slackware garbage I have now? The version I have > is old enough that it's due upgrading anyway, and I'd like to switch to > Debian piecemeal 'cause of

Re: writing to /dev/stderr

1996-08-30 Thread Bruce Perens
I looked at this a little more. It seems that the object on the other side of /dev/fd/X isn't always one that you have permissions on _after_ it's been opened. > ls -l /dev/fd/2 lrwx-- 1 brucebruce 64 Aug 30 16:16 /dev/fd/2 -> [0301]:7060 This means "device 3, 1, inode 7060". > ls -li

Re: writing to /dev/stderr

1996-08-30 Thread Bruce Perens
> echo test | gawk '{print $0 > "/dev/fd/2";}' > > gawk: cmd. line:1: (FILENAME=- FNR=1) fatal: can't redirect to > `/dev/fd/2' (Permission denied) There's a kernel bug operating here, I think. If you chmod 666 /dev/fd/2 (from the same console, of course) it shows no change in its mode using "ls",

Need new web sites for Debian

1996-08-30 Thread Bruce Perens
Debian needs a new web server, or servers. If your site can run WWW host aliases (we use www.debian.org), can serve about 300MB of stuff, has a working mirror program, and doesn't mind the bandwidth, please write to me. We maintain the master copy of our web site on our internal system (master.debi

varargs, terminfo, and a note for the policy manual

1996-08-27 Thread Bruce Perens
From: "Larry 'Daffy' Daffner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > So, while I would strongly discourage the use > of obsolete items like varargs and such, the fact remains, some code > is still written to use them, and if it means that I can compile and > use said programs on my machine with minimal effort, then

Re: gcc can't find termcap library

1996-08-26 Thread Bruce Perens
Bruce: > There is no varargs.h in libc5-dev_5.2.18-9 . Maybe older versions > contain it. David: > varargs.h is provided by gcc. Oops. Never thought of that. Anyway, nothing should use it any longer. Thanks Bruce

Re: problem with the mailing list

1996-08-26 Thread Bruce Perens
Susan: > Does anyone else get repeated messages from >"Manager, AlisaMail" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> You get one for each posting. The version of the Microsoft Mail gateway they are running at Lockheed simply assumes you can figure out the address that is failing from the "To:" address in the messa

Re: Booting problems

1996-08-26 Thread Bruce Perens
From: "David C. Winters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I'm running into a problem with one, lone Linux box right now. > After the BIOS bootstraps, the drive and CD-ROM and recognized, and the 3.5" > floppy is seen, instead of saying "LILO" as a preface to LILO's booting into > Linux, the following co

Re: Dpkg feature request

1996-08-24 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I've implemented --get-selections and --set-selections in dpkg 1.3.9 > which will be released some time this weekend. > > --get-selections produces a list of lines each with a package name and > wanted state. By default it lists all the packages; you can sp

Re: lyx and fonts

1996-08-24 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Hakan Ardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Well, I am using mfbasfnt 1.0-3. Because 1.0-4 is in the unstable > distribution and I thought that with unstable you ment not yet usable. > But I am getting the feeling that the packages in there is perfectly OK > to use. They are there for people to test be

Re: gcc can't find termcap library

1996-08-24 Thread Bruce Perens
nd I don't know why it would not have been done for any software but the most dusty decks by now. Please do not link libtermcap with any new software. It is there only for run-time compatibility with software built on other Linux distributions. It is definitely not supported for software deve

Need volunteer to write shell script using dialog

1996-08-24 Thread Bruce Perens
I need someone to write a shell script using dialog that guides a user through setting up a PPP or SLIP connection. The tool set used must be limited to the tools in the base floppies. These are the "ash" shell (like Bash, but small), the "dialog" program, the "chat" program for making the connecti

Re: /dev/console and headless computers

1996-08-24 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Has anyone had expereince with setting up debian on a headless meachine? > I've run into one strange problem since I pulled the monitor, mouse, and > keyboard off a computer here last night. When it boots up, it symlinks > /dev/console -> /dev/console. I haven'

Re: Shadow & S/key

1996-08-24 Thread Bruce Perens
The shadow packages are just recently uploaded into the "unstable" directory of our FTP archives. They are little tested, and I'm not sure that everything has been shadow-ified that must be ("xdm" may be one of the programs yet to be converted). You can try it now if you like to live dangerously. T

Re: Bugs

1996-08-23 Thread Bruce Perens
The submission address did change, to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Bruce

Re: Installation loop and other probs with Debian 1.1.5

1996-08-23 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Bertrand Leconte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > As my boot disk is on a ncr53c810 board, I need a special kernel, Write to Susan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, she can send you a special kernel. Bruce

Re: EXT2-fs warning (device 16:0n)...

1996-08-23 Thread Bruce Perens
[regarding chronic filesystem errors] About the only additional thing I can suggest is upgrading your kernel (we are now at 2.0.13, I think) and watching to see if the problem goes away. Bruce

Re: Unidentified subject!

1996-08-23 Thread Bruce Perens
From: "Carlo U. Segre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Alternatively, boot the system from a floppy and make the second > partition the active one. This will then boot LILO properly without > having to write to the MBR. It works... I don't think that will work because he wrote LILO on the MBR.

Re: Digested version of this list?

1996-08-23 Thread Bruce Perens
I suggest that you get "procmail" or "mailagent" on your system, and set it up so that the list is split into a separate file from your personal mailbox. That's how I read the 30 lists I subscribe to, and there is much less overwhelm than if I had everything in one mailbox. Thanks

Re: EXT2-fs warning (device 16:0n)...

1996-08-23 Thread Bruce Perens
> The first question is this: which device are 16:02 and 16:01 ? > I looked in /dev searching for devices whith major number 16 but > I didn't found any. Shouldn't hda and hdc correspond to major 3 and 22 ? The message is in hex (which is probably a mistake). It's hdc2 and hdc1. > I've tryed to e

Re: Security holes in bash

1996-08-23 Thread Bruce Perens
This is best sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED], for future reference. Thanks Bruce

Re: Unidentified subject!

1996-08-23 Thread Bruce Perens
> What should I try next to get the hard drive to boot > the kernel on the second partition? I may have ruined > it by writing a boot record onto the second partition. Try re-installing the LILO package, and answer _yes_ to all of the questions it asks you. This will put Debian's MBR program on y

Re: lilo installation on IDE disk > 500 megabytes

1996-08-23 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Charles Blair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I am trying to install the 7-14-96 debian release on a machine > with over 500 megabytes on an IDE hard disk. Well, if LILO will work at all with the default configuration that you get when you install the package, you are probably safe, since only _one_ c

Re: /tmp, /var/tmp (was: Debian Quirks?)

1996-08-22 Thread Bruce Perens
> > > Several programs seems to prefer /tmp over /var/tmp. Bruce: > /tmp should probably be a symbolic link to var/tmp . From: Pete Harlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I believe the way to do it is to have /tmp be a real directory in the > root filesystem, and then mount a larger filesystem over it late

new documentation on how to develop Debian packages available

1996-08-22 Thread Bruce Perens
There is some new documentation that I think is essential for all prospective Debian developers to read. It's in the dpkg_1.3.6 package, which you can find in the project/experimental directory on our FTP archives. Since this is unreleased developmental software, you might not want to install it (o

RE: configuring packages as a separate step

1996-08-22 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Casper BodenCummins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Perhaps I misunderstand the dselect installation process, but I thought > that dselect unpacks the all selected packages before running the > installation and configuration scripts. If one configuration goes badly > wrong, doesn't this leave a bundle

Re: *REPRODUCIBLE CRASH* with 2.0.12 kernel (earlier kernels also)

1996-08-21 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Randy Gobbel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > but when I try to run it on a relatively large password > file, I get a system freeze after running for around 45 minutes. Watch its memory usage, and see if it is using up your swap space. It's probably dying when memory usage gets to a particular value.

Re: output of shutdown -h now

1996-08-21 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Justin Ennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I am using the original Debian 1.1 release (kernel 2.0.0), and when > I issue a "shutdown -h now" command, I get the following: > System halted > general protection: > CPU: 0 > EIP: 0010: [<00173257>] > EFLAGS: 00010046 > eax: 5307 ebx: 0001 e

RE: kernel size (was: How do I get GATEWAY2000 PS/2 mouse to work?)

1996-08-21 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Casper BodenCummins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > IMHO, a better alternative to the large, best-endeavours kernel would be > to ship a really tight kernel and use the installation front-end to > configure additional support (in modules where possible or desirable). The stripped-down kernel for 1.2 i

configuring packages as a separate step

1996-08-21 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Casper BodenCummins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I like your suggestion of configuring packages as a separate step. There may be a bit of misunderstanding here. I did an update of my system from the "rex" (unstable) directory today using the FTP method of dselect. Updating from "rex" is a good way

Re: #1, make it boot! Engage.

1996-08-21 Thread Bruce Perens
From: "Charles A. Schuman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > # fdisk (then "p") > Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sda1 *1 1251 513891 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M > /dev/sda2 252252976 1484437+ 83 Linux native > /dev/sda3 977977 1003 55282+ 82 Lin

Re: Debian quirks?

1996-08-21 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Vebjoern Forsmo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > /etc/inittab: > 1:2345:respawn:/bin/login root /dev/tty1 2>&1 Login does have a built-in 60-second timeout at the "password:" prompt, and might have a timeout at the "login:" prompt too, I don't remember. If you run a more normal getty/login on this ter

Re: dead HD

1996-08-21 Thread Bruce Perens
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James W. Lynch) > can a Motherboard/IDE controller (onboard) destroy a disk drive? The sound you heard from the disk drive is probably the arm that holds the heads seeking repeatedly to the point that it hits the stop at one end of its travel. It can hit that stop repeated

RE: a problem with "screen"

1996-08-21 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Pure Energy[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >i tried to run screen but it has just started to continiously >terminate. > i have run screen now for weeks without this problem. the strange >thing is that it does this on my personal account, root and one other. >on >all other accounts screen runs

Dpkg feature request

1996-08-20 Thread Bruce Perens
Tres Hofmeister wrote: : Can someone point me towards info. on how one can duplicate the : packages installed on one Debian system on another? Going through : dselect by hand seems just a bit too tedious for multiple : installations... Thanks. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Heiko Schlittermann)

Re: module cdu31a fails on insert

1996-08-20 Thread Bruce Perens
Lars: > Ilucius ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) took it from me From: llucius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Yep, your right. I neglected to inform anyone. (face red in shame) > I've been playing around with this architecture independence stuff that I > COMPLETELY forgot about it. Leland, of course I'm happy to g

Re: kernel size (was: How do I get GATEWAY2000 PS/2 mouse to work?)

1996-08-20 Thread Bruce Perens
> > The real question is whether the default kernel should be bloated with > > features, or pared down. From: Todd Tyrone Fries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The default kernel need not contain anything that isn't necessary > to boot. This means floppy, minix, and ramdisk drivers. This is the way it wil

Re: module cdu31a fails on insert

1996-08-20 Thread Bruce Perens
Susan: > I'm getting confused. Isn't the purpose of /usr/lib/module_help/arguments > to document the arguments that can be given to a module when it is > activated? I don't think the cdu31a information is in there - we must have missed it when we created modconf. Also, not everyone uses modconf,

Destroying a computer via software

1996-08-20 Thread Bruce Perens
> "Rob" == Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rob> Well, I'd like to see the code for the infinite loop that'd melt Rob> down my processor. I've written a few in my time (accidentally), Rob> and the machine's still here. From: Christian Lynbech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The issue of destroy

Re: module cdu31a fails on insert

1996-08-19 Thread Bruce Perens
ke you volunteer to work on the documentation. Thanks Bruce -- Clinton isn't perfect, but I like him a lot more than Dole. Please register to vote, and vote for Democrats. Bruce Perens AB6YM [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.hams.com/

RE: GOOD TIMES

1996-08-18 Thread Bruce Perens
> You're right about that; Clinton IS a VIRUS! OK, I deserved that. Now let's go on with the software work. Bruce -- Clinton isn't perfect, but I like him a lot more than Dole. Please register to vote, and vote for Democrats. Bruce Perens AB6

Re: can I erase /var/tmp?

1996-08-18 Thread Bruce Perens
289 > 7676partial-tmp-6491 > What creates those directories, and can I erase them? My boot-floppy creation scripts. Blow them away. Bruce -- Clinton isn't perfect, but I like him a lot more than Dole. Please register to vote, and vote for Democra

Re: module cdu31a fails on insert

1996-08-18 Thread Bruce Perens
e an invalid parameter > message. Use the argument "cdu31a_port=0x340" when you install the module. It also understands "cdu31a_irx=N". Bruce -- Clinton isn't perfect, but I like him a lot more than Dole. Please register to vote, and vote for Democ

Re: GOOD TIMES

1996-08-18 Thread Bruce Perens
Only Kidding! Bruce -- Clinton isn't perfect, but I like him a lot more than Dole. Please register to vote, and vote for Democrats. Bruce Perens AB6YM [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.hams.com/

GOOD TIMES

1996-08-18 Thread Bruce Perens
Your system has now been infected with the GOOD TIMES virus. Have a nice day! -- Clinton isn't perfect, but I like him a lot more than Dole. Please register to vote, and vote for Democrats. Bruce Perens AB6YM [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.hams.com/

Re: How do I get GATEWAY2000 PS/2 mouse to work ?

1996-08-15 Thread Bruce Perens
n as I can. I've been very busy - I'm sorry that I haven't had time to correct this sooner. Thanks Bruce -- Clinton isn't perfect, but I like him a lot more than Dole. Please register to vote, and vote for Democrats. Bruce Perens AB

Re: Isn't it a security hole...

1996-08-15 Thread Bruce Perens
to mean "computer criminal" on this list. "cracker" is more appropriate. Thanks Bruce -- Clinton isn't perfect, but I like him a lot more than Dole. Please register to vote, and vote for Democrats. Bruce Perens AB6YM [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.hams.com/

Re: Isn't it a security hole...

1996-08-14 Thread Bruce Perens
Yes, it is in project/experimental on the FTP server. We'll put it in 1.2 . Bruce -- Clinton isn't perfect, but I like him a lot more than Dole. Please register to vote, and vote for Democrats. Bruce Perens AB6YM [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.hams.com/

Re: Some initial problems

1996-08-14 Thread Bruce Perens
ect, but I like him a lot more than Dole. Please register to vote, and vote for Democrats. Bruce Perens AB6YM [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.hams.com/

Re: SCSI and EIDE

1996-08-14 Thread Bruce Perens
ruce -- Clinton isn't perfect, but I like him a lot more than Dole. Please register to vote, and vote for Democrats. Bruce Perens AB6YM [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.hams.com/

Re: Debian 1.1: fsck failure.

1996-08-14 Thread Bruce Perens
device. Linux checks the root while it is mounted read-only, and then re-mounts it, so this is not a problem. Don't ever attempt to repair a disk that is mounted for writing. Bruce -- Clinton isn't perfect, but I like him a lot more than Dole. Please register to vote, and vote for Democrats. Bruce Perens AB6YM [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.hams.com/

Re: Can't find boot/root disks for 1.1

1996-08-14 Thread Bruce Perens
ct, but I like him a lot more than Dole. Please register to vote, and vote for Democrats. Bruce Perens AB6YM [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.hams.com/

Re: File systems

1996-08-14 Thread Bruce Perens
good performance. There are various other filesystems that are shared with the Macintosh, OS/2, and other PC Unix systems. Bruce -- Clinton isn't perfect, but I like him a lot more than Dole. Please register to vote, and vote for Democrats. Bruce Perens AB6YM [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.hams.com/

Re: Can't find boot/root disks for 1.1

1996-08-14 Thread Bruce Perens
he system admin. Thanks Bruce -- Clinton isn't perfect, but I like him a lot more than Dole. Please register to vote, and vote for Democrats. Bruce Perens AB6YM [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.hams.com/

Re: Some initial problems

1996-08-13 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Jens Peter Lindemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The $TERM Environment-Variable is set to "con80x25" on my system This is a symptom of an antique kernel. Are you running Debian 0.93? Debian 1.1.4 is on our FTP site ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/stable . Did you change the kernel in some other way?

Re: UncorrectableError from two disk sectors

1996-08-13 Thread Bruce Perens
Douglas Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > `dmesg' shows a lot of messages about two sectors on my disk. From: Michael Harnois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Oh, thank God! I'm not the only one! I thought my disk was dying! Maybe it is. Read the man page for "e2fsck", and look for the "-c" flag. Read the

Re: Formatting a 4GB Partition

1996-08-13 Thread Bruce Perens
This problem only exists on the boot floppies. That means if you can install on any small partition (where anything under 1024MB is "small") you can then make the filesystem correctly once the system has been installed on your hard disk. I will try to get a new boot floppy set uploaded in the next

Re: IPX and loopback

1996-08-13 Thread Bruce Perens
Regarding why IPX gets loaded when configuring the loopback interface, Please figure out its protocol number and add "alias net-pf-N off" to /etc/conf.modules , where N is the protocol number. I'm not clear what the "real" fix should be. Thanks Bruce

Installation fails on AMD CPU until you disable the cache

1996-08-13 Thread Bruce Perens
From: "Christopher R. Hertel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I disabled the internal cache and--*poof*--the problem went away. > I will send a report to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have one other report matching this, and two anecdotes, all reproduced below. I suspect that BIOS floppy I/O is breaking when the cach

Re: Soundblaster 32 pnp kills ethernet card

1996-08-12 Thread Bruce Perens
Make sure that nothing but the 3C509 uses address 0x300. This is necessary for the 3C509's ancient plug-and-play scheme. Thanks Bruce

Re: make-kpkg...and other things...

1996-08-12 Thread Bruce Perens
Bruce: > Try running "depmod -a" after you install a new kernel and modules. > That might fix the undefined symbols. From: Jeff Mickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Yes after i wrote the originall message i gave this a try..sadly no > it did not fix it.. The module it is looking for is /lib/modules/curr

Re: Installing Linux over a LAN

1996-08-12 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > When I installed Debian 2 days ago, I was wishing that instead of the 3 > "base" floppies, it could at least use a .tar.gz file containing > the same stuff somewhere on an existing ext2 partition. A small change (?) > like that would make the install a lot easi

Re: install disk with aic7xxx patch

1996-08-12 Thread Bruce Perens
> How do I either modify an existing boot installation disk, or make my > own, to incorporate this patch? Boot floppies for 1.1 are MSDOS filesystems. The file "linux" contains the kernel. Just replace it. Bruce

Re: make-kpkg...and other things...

1996-08-12 Thread Bruce Perens
Try running "depmod -a" after you install a new kernel and modules. That might fix the undefined symbols. Regarding the net-pf-X problems, these will not kill your system, but the fix is to add "alias net-pf-4 off" and "alias net-pf-5 off" in /etc/conf.modules . These should probably be done for yo

Re: Installing Linux over a LAN

1996-08-12 Thread Bruce Perens
For Debian, you can do the installation using the 5 floppies, and then all other software can be auto-loaded by "dselect" via FTP. We can do better than that, and will in 1.2 if I get time (or a volunteer to work on the installation system). Thanks Bruce

Re: Installing 1.1 on a Thinkpad 560

1996-08-12 Thread Bruce Perens
There's a ThinkPad FAQ in the Linux FAQ collection. Bruce

Re: Sob! (Adaptec 2940 driver problem)

1996-08-12 Thread Bruce Perens
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim 'The Unslept' Sailer) > 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 and the PCI support, swapped everything > over, watched as the system booted, an

Re: installation boot fails with standard bootdisk on 486SX/33

1996-08-12 Thread Bruce Perens
On Aug 9, 8:18am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Subject: installation boot fails with standard bootdisk on 486SX/33 : Installation fails on this old machine shortly after hitting return : at the 'Boot Parameters' prompt using the standard bootdisk. Linux : 1.2.13 runs fine. : I suspect (based upon bu

Re: About Triton DMA IDE vs. SCSI performance

1996-08-10 Thread Bruce Perens
> 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

About Triton DMA IDE vs. SCSI performance

1996-08-10 Thread Bruce Perens
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

About CD delivery delays from I-Connect and Bruce Perens

1996-08-09 Thread Bruce Perens
Simon Shapiro of I-Connect and I both had serious family emergencies at the same time. I lost about a week of work time, I don't know how much Simon is losing. Please bear with us if you are waiting for a CD. Thanks Bruce

Re: Floppy won't boot with internal cache enabled

1996-08-08 Thread Bruce Perens
On Tue, 6 Aug 1996, Steve Gaarder wrote: > I am installing Debian 1.1.1 on a generic clone with an AMD 486 on an > Opti-based motherboard. If I have the internal cache enabled in setup, > I get the error "invalid compressed format" after the "uncompressing > Linux" message. If I disable the cach

Re: dselect/dpkg problem: install/remove

1996-08-08 Thread Bruce Perens
> I tried to use dselect to > purge the kernel-source package and again dpkg crashed, this time > leaving me with a hung system. All I could do was power cycle my > machine since the keyboard was apparently frozen and I could not > log in on any other consoles. This left me with a bad disk which

Re: 1.1 install bootdisk problems

1996-06-19 Thread Bruce Perens
There are some reported problems with the Linux 2.0 kernel. We'd need a better description to figure out what's going wrong with your system. Try removing non-essential hardware cards and see if it boots. Thanks Bruce

Debian-1.1 "Packages" file sync problem

1996-06-19 Thread Bruce Perens
I ran a Packages file update yesterday but it apparently did not complete. I am running one now. Bruce

Re: ftp.debian.org

1996-06-18 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Has anyone noticed that today ftp.debian.org is being particularly vicious > about booting people from the server? Try debian.crosslink.net or one of the other mirrors. Ftp.debian.org is having some problems with running out of file descriptors, etc. We

Re: minimal nfs

1996-06-18 Thread Bruce Perens
> boot the first two disks, copy over the nfs module, activate it with insmod, > and then try mounting the file system. You're going to have to load your net card module and run "ifconfig" and "route" by hand if you try to do it from the boot floppy. When you're done, Please write us a script to d

Re: ftp.debian.org problems

1996-06-17 Thread Bruce Perens
The mirror system we use is in the Debian net/mirror-2.8-6.deb package. This is the well-known Perl mirror program. I think it requires Perl5 to run without great big memory leaks, but you should be able to take the debian source/net/mirror-2.8-6.tar.gz archive and move that to any platform that ru

Re: 1.1 problems

1996-06-17 Thread Bruce Perens
You might try the "modconf" tool. This is a shell/dialog program I wrote to help with static module configuration. Thanks Bruce

Re: Problems with 11-6 boot disks

1996-06-17 Thread Bruce Perens
> > - /etc/kbd/config has CONSOLE= > > which results in a symlink /console -> /dev/console which sucks. > > Putting 'CONSOLE=tty0' fixes it. Then again, if you run > > '/usr/lib/kbd/config' it's all wrong again (taking the defaults). > > > I also have this problem over and over. On top of th

Re: Problems with 11-6 boot disks

1996-06-17 Thread Bruce Perens
> ae adds a ^M at the end of newly inserted lines. Fixed in June 16 floppy set. Install the new ae package if you still need ae. > Whoa! "Configuring serial portsWild interrupts found: 7 15" > Please don't do this to me! That's my GUS, also my printer, and my > secondary IDE controller (which

Re: ftp.debian.org problems

1996-06-17 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Martin Konold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 1.) I do not hink it is a good idea to mount the /pub areas on a heavily > used ftp server via nfs. (especially performace wise) This is currently done because of a hardware/driver problem. We'll get that resolved eventually. > 2.) A lot of simple mirro

Re: install disks

1996-06-17 Thread Bruce Perens
Scott, Your CD should have base1_1.tgz in /debian/base1_1.tgz . Unfortunately, the root floppy as distributed does not know how to take advantage of a local CD, so this won't help right away. We need some more work on the installation system (a kernel with all CD and SCSI drivers included, and a s

Re: debian.93 and inn

1996-06-16 Thread Bruce Perens
Chris, We've just released Debian 1.1 and we removed Debian 0.93 from the FTP sites. It doens't make sense to stick with 0.93 . I assure you that 1.1 is robust. Please install it, and you'll find that inn is there. Thanks Bruce

Re: Herculers graphics on debian?

1996-06-16 Thread Bruce Perens
There are some "#ifdef CONFIG_HGA" lines in /usr/src/linux/drivers/char/vga.c . I'd be interested in hearing about what happens when you try them. Bruce

Debian 1.1 ready for use

1996-06-16 Thread Bruce Perens
Debian 1.1 is available as ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/Debian-1.1 . I will wait 24 hours for the mirror sites to catch up with the last few changes, and will then post the public announcement. Thanks Bruce

Re: Local area talk protocal (LAT)?

1996-06-15 Thread Bruce Perens
> Using the Windows Fro Workgroups there is a terminal emulation/connection > software called SmarTerm that uses a LAT protocal to connect to the other > machine through the Windows NT net. Sorry if my previous answer was off-topic. I think I was answering an answer, not the question. Use telne

Re: critical :) nethack question

1996-06-15 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Rick Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > this may seem silly, but i haven't had a working nethack since law > school . . . > Is there a way to open the chests other than kicking them? would this > stop the potions from shattering? > if i recompile, can i add monsters? or is there already a gradua

Re: manpage compression

1996-06-15 Thread Bruce Perens
I think the last time we discussed this on the mailing lists, we decided that there was no problem with compressed man page source. The decompressor runs quickly, the man browsers all understand .gz files, etc. I think that it's OK for packages to start installing compressed man pages. Bru

RE: Local area talk protocal (LAT)?

1996-06-15 Thread Bruce Perens
> I would suggest using the Simba package. That's "samba". There's also "smbfs". Samba provides file and printer services, and a printer client to systems that run the Lan Manager protocol over TCP/IP, which is what NT and Windows 95 use for their native network. "smbfs" makes the Linux system a c

Re: Packages file for buzz

1996-06-15 Thread Bruce Perens
> The Packages file for 'buzz' still references all packages to the 'unstable' > directory. Is this a bug? It got better. Bruce

Re: 1.1 Beta Install (11 June 1996 disks)

1996-06-15 Thread Bruce Perens
> In particular, I find dselect-1.2.6 much nicer than 1.2.3. I moved it into "buzz" just now. > Less important, but more jarring, is that the system is installed with > kernel 2.0.0, but all the devel/ stuff is still 1.99.7. If Simon doesn't do a 2.0 package in time, I will upload one - I built

Re: ftp-install problem in Debian 1.11

1996-06-15 Thread Bruce Perens
I added 5 more perl files, and the next boot floppy set should run dpkg-ftp correctly. Thanks Bruce

Release on Monday

1996-06-13 Thread Bruce Perens
Unless something goes horribly wrong, Debian 1.1 will be released on Monday. Not every bug is fixed (far from it if you look at the bug listing). I am looking into the last few possible show-stoppers (the netmask configuration thing, and the dselect CD and hard-disk method) and the networking packa

Re: routing problem solved

1996-06-12 Thread Bruce Perens
The installation menu provides a prototype network number made from the logical AND of your IP address and your netmask. If the user types in the wrong netmask or overrides the prototype network number (which I think is what happened here), they can get an incorrect value. I'll have to look at this

Re: Problems doing compiles.

1996-06-12 Thread Bruce Perens
It looks as if you aren't getting the definition of wchar_t. To kluge around the problem put "typedef unsigned long wchar_t;" before line 333 in stdio.h . The correct way to fix this is to get the latest libc and libc-dev packages and install them. If the problem doesn't go away, tell us.

kernel-package

1996-06-11 Thread Bruce Perens
Kernel-package seems to be in the project/experimental directory of the archive. I don't know why... Bruce

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