Debian 1.1 will include the Linux 2.0 kernel

I see everyone wants to know. Yes, I will include the Linux 2.0 kernel in the latest boot disk set, which will be uploaded this evening. I also have a kernel-image package, although I am not the official kernel maintainer. Thanks Bruce

kernel-package

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

RAM dumping continues. Now US$7/MB

16MB SIMMS are being advertised in the Bay area for $110 to $115. They are 4x32 60 ns 72-pin types. That's $7/MB. Bruce

Re: 1.1-Beta install problem with Buslogic controller

characters are assumed to be D. */ -- Pixar's Toy Story: Over 1/3 Billion dollars world box office so far. Bruce Perens AB6YM [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.hams.com/

boot floppy problems

wide for its window. Thus, I'll fix that this weekend and release a new boot floppy set. Thanks Bruce -- Pixar's Toy Story: Over 1/3 Billion dollars world box office so far. Bruce Perens AB6YM [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.hams.com/

Re: installing with the new floppies

net - no modules are detected; however modprobe from the shell seems to detect the network modules. Are you using the boot1200.bin or boot1440.bin or something else as the boot disk? Thanks Bruce -- Pixar's Toy Story: Over 1/3 Billion dollars world box office so far. Bruce

Re: installing with the new floppies

system. I'll download and try again, just to make sure something did not go awry before the upload. Thanks Bruce -- Pixar's Toy Story: Over 1/3 Billion dollars world box office so far. Bruce Perens AB6YM [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.hams.com/

Re: 1200_root_floppy?

There is a more up-to-date boot floppy set in ftp://ftp.i-connect.net/debian/unstable/disks-i386/current . The file install.html in that directory contains full installation instructions. Thanks Bruce -- Pixar's Toy Story: Over 1/3 Billion dollars world box office so far. Bruce

Re: Help wanted :-)

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Re: new boot floppies

will be mounted via NFS, the base floppies and kernel will be on that same NFS filesystem, and the dpkg-ftp method will work to get the rest of the system. Thanks Bruce -- Pixar's Toy Story: Over 1/3 Billion dollars world box office so far. Bruce Perens AB6YM [EMAIL

Re: Debian 1.1 man more

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new boot floppies

floppies, where the second one is only infrequently-needed ones, so that I can get newer kernels to work on _any_ size floppy. The latest kernel + modules.tgz even overflows a 1440K floppy. Thanks Bruce Perens -- Pixar's Toy Story: Over 1/3 Billion dollars world box office so far

Re: big problems with installation

of testing and make the release. Bruce -- Clinton isn't perfect, but I like him a whole lot more than Dole. Bruce Perens AB6YM [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.hams.com/

Re: Debian 1.1 man more

I think more won't scroll back when it is reading a pipe, only when it is reading a file. Man drives it with a pipe. Bruce -- Clinton isn't perfect, but I like him a whole lot more than Dole. Bruce Perens AB6YM [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.hams.com/

Re: big problems with installation

Yes, it's time for us to remove 0.93 from the FTP site. I'll think about this for a while before I do it, though. Bruce -- Pixar's Toy Story: Over 1/3 Billion dollars world box office so far. Bruce Perens AB6YM [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.hams.com/

Re: Linux, GNU and Emacs 19.31

was tongue-in-cheek. The Debian Project's policy is to remain aloof from this particular fight. Rather than take this up on debian-user, I invite anyone concerned to write me directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] . I am the decision-maker where this issue is concerned. Thanks Bruce Perens

Re: Can't install debian 1.1

We're going to build another kernel with an updated device driver. That will probably fix this problem. Thanks Bruce -- Clinton isn't perfect, but I like him a whole lot more than Dole. Bruce Perens AB6YM [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.hams.com/

Re: /etc/cron.daily/find exited with return code 1

follow someone else's instructions to change your passwd file! The next person who gives that sort of instruction might not be so trustworthy. Bruce -- *** Re-elect Clinton *** Bruce Perens AB6YM [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.hams.com/

RE:

), and debian-changes (change notices for Debian packages). But always remember to direct your list-server commands to the -REQUEST address, not the list itself. Thanks Bruce Perens -- Pixar's Toy Story: Over 1/3 Billion dollars world box office so far. Bruce Perens AB6YM

Re: PPP problem w/ 1.1 install

in Germany for a week. Please test this on pre2.0.7 if you can, and report it if it is still broken. He urged us to put a lot of testing into pre2.0.7 . Thanks Bruce -- *** Re-elect Clinton *** Bruce Perens AB6YM [EMAIL PROTECTED]http

Re: Loading Modules

The latest upload of the modconf package (may still be in Incoming) edits /etc/modules and /etc/modules.conf for you, using a dialog GUI. It will correctly add module arguments to /etc/modules.conf . Bruce -- *** Re-elect Clinton *** Bruce Perens AB6YM

Re: 2.0 Kernel

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Need testimonials for press release

I'll be making some press releases around the 1.1 release, and I need testimonials and descriptions of interesting things that people are doing with the system for use in the press release. Please take some time to think about what you like most about Debian, and write it down. Write down what you

Re: regular (aka bsd) compress distribution?

Marek, Please contact Unisys and report back to us. Welch Patent Licensing Department; Unisys; Mail Stop C1SW19; P.O. Box 500, Blue Bell, PA 19424. Via the Internet, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], or use a form available on the Contact Page of the Unisys Web Server to request follow-up

Re: regular (aka bsd) compress distribution?

a license. If you look on Unisys web page, they say yes you definitely need a license. Red Hat could have one for all I know. You guys don't pay for Debian. Do I owe it to you to risk my home and all I own just because you want an obsolete Unix utility? Thanks Bruce Perens

Re: regular (aka bsd) compress distribution?

If it is - better move the distribution outside the US now, it only gets worse. Not only something that was in the public domain may be patented, you can also get in trouble if there is a four-letter word in some package. It is very unfortunate that most Linux distributions come from the

Re: nvi segfaults

Someone reported it segmentation faulted in the ncurses library when using the vt100 terminal type logged in from a serial port. I would assume it is getting a null return from tiget*() and not checking for that, etc. Bruce

RE: ping!

From: Simon Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes, very much so, but moved several months ago to lists.debian.org. Pixar does not want the indecency law implications, I think. Actually, I didn't want the indecency law liability directed toward me as moderator - the list was just something I did on my

Re: My complaints

yourself in the foot with it. We are working on the problem. You can help. Thanks Bruce Perens Debian Project Leader

new installation floppies - please test

be configured. 8.3 file names and date encoded in the directory name. Various small bugs in the floppies and base system repaired. I'm sure I've made at least one stupid mistake - there was a lot of time pressure. Please test these floppies. Thanks Bruce Perens

Re: Root login is waiting

It should be possible for sysklogd to check if a write is going to block by setting O_NONBLOCK on the file descriptor. If the write fails with EAGAIN, the pipe is full. It's easy enough to tell if something is a pipe or named pipe using fstat(). Bruce

Re: regular (aka bsd) compress distribution?

from an infringement of the Unisys patent when gzip works so well that it has obsoleted compress. That's why we won't put compress in the official Debian archive. Thanks Bruce Perens Debian Project Leader

Re: dselect complaints

I was going to come down on Mr. Gribble for his post, but that work has already been done Let's all stop coming down on each other - even the ones who speak out of turn should themselves be corrected gently. Project staff must maintain their cordial dialogue. It's essential for the project

Re: installation

1.3? We're only up to 1.1 . Please verify that you got the boot floppies via FTP from the unstable/disks-i386 directory on one of our FTP sites, not from a CD or anywhere else. That BusLogic interface should work. The driver should look for it at one of the addresses 0x330, 0x334, 0x230, 0x234,

truly huge memory configurations

Thanks to all who answered my question about 3D cards. Has anyone managed to operate a system with more than 128MB RAM? I'm interested in configurations of 1/4 and 1/2 Gigabyte of physical RAM. Thanks Bruce

Any accountants and attorneys out there?

Debian will eventually need U.S. 501(c)(3) tax status. If anyone's willing to work on that for us, it would be a great help. Thanks Bruce

Re: beta 1.1 problems with 3c503 and the debian search system.

In general, I think the beta 1.1 installation lacks severely in this regard. There is an item on the menu to add the modules. However, it does not run correctly and gives a ton of error messages saying it cannot find the /etc/modules file (when it is there!), and will not allow the

1.1 module set-up progress

mail (really only a few subject lines that look as if they are related to the 1.1 installation). Thus, if there's anything important for me to see, please make sure to send it to me directly. Thanks Bruce Perens

Re: 'unsupported packages' (was Re: uugetty?)

Absolutely. If Bruce finds some time the dpkg and dselect ought also be modified to show up a small WARNING message. Those are Ian Jackson's programs. P.S. Sorry I'm keeping a low profile on debian-user - I'm very busy getting the release in shape and am unable to even _read_ all messages, no

3D Graphics Cards?

Is anyone out there using 3D graphics cards with Linux? The only one I know about is the Matrox Millenium that works with Accellerated X. I need X support and Open GL, and as much rendering power as possible. Thanks Bruce

New root floppy helps installation on 4MB systems

to remove the root floppy from the first drive while the installation is running. OK. One of the above should work for all people who are having problems with 4MB systems. Please write back and tell me which one works for you. Thanks Bruce Perens

Re: Rawrite on Win 95 NT

rawrite2 works fine on my wife's Windows 95 system. Perhaps it's a flaw in my documentation. Did you uncompress the 1440_boot_floppy.gz file using the gzip executable that will be self-extracted from gzip124.exe ? You must uncompress the boot floppy, but need not uncompress the root floppy or any

Re: 4 Meg memory *Cyrex* machine

and when a classmate here asked me to help him installing Debian on his 4 MB Cyrex (sp?) 486-80 I said sure, no i problem, but the installation didn't complete. When asked to swap disks (boot-root), I prints Running sh or something like that, and hangs. Can you lend your friend a few SIMMS

Debian 1.1 problem configuring Spanish keyboard

In /etc/init.d/keyboard, change the loadkeys line to load one of the other files in /usr/lib/kbd/keytables . You might want to configure what console font is used, change the font=none line to one of the fonts in /usr/lib/kbd/consolefonts . Thanks Bruce

Re: Is 1.1 instalable on a 4 Meg memory machine?

OK - that's low-memory complaint number 2 and the day is still young. I will issue a new root disk that allows you to turn off the shell on the second virtual console. Hopefully you'll be able to squeak by after that. I'll also add a boot option to start the shell, not the menu, on the first

Re: status of dftp and dpkg-ftp

From: Scott Barker [EMAIL PROTECTED] What's the current status of dftp and dpkg-ftp? Are either of them official I would like dpkg-ftp to become part of the base system, which is the stuff that is a required part of Debian. It's necessary so that mostly-net installs would work. Dpkg-ftp has some

Re: Is 1.1 instalable on a 4 Meg memory machine?

Chris, My test-bed for the 1.1 install is a slow 386 with 4MB + 640K . This machine has Linux installed on it several times a week :-) . The RAM disk implementation in the new kernels uses less memory (it used to have a RAM cache of the RAM disk). The installation tools on 1.1 also use less RAM

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