Re: apt-get dist-upgrade breaks lilo. Solved.

2001-11-08 Thread Charles Kaufman
till ok on the one machine that was not dist-upgraded. Thanks Charles Kaufman [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Charles Kaufman wrote: > Hi > I have a lab with 7 pc's. They have been running first debian 2.0, and > then 2.1, for almost two years. The machines are identical and

apt-get dist-upgrade breaks lilo

2001-11-08 Thread Charles Kaufman
to lilo version 20 on one of the machines, again with no success. Can anyone help me get lilo to work? Thanks Charles Kaufman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

python-visual and libgl1

2000-09-21 Thread Charles Kaufman
Hi I have a .deb file of python-visual from Carnegie-Mellon U. It depends on libgl1. I cannot find libgl1. Does anyone have any experience with this? Thanks. Charles Kaufman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

listres and viewres

2000-09-11 Thread Charles Kaufman
Hi listres and viewres fail with "Symbol 'XawWidgetArray' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking" followed by "Segmentation fault" There's some discussion about this under bug report #60390. Is there a way to get these programs to r

Re: Failed reboot after upgrade

2000-08-13 Thread Charles Kaufman
Hi Thanks for the help. On Sun, 13 Aug 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 12:37:05AM -0400, charles kaufman wrote: > > Hi > > I have just upgraded from 2.1 to frozen. I had some difficulty with > > apt but the list helped me past it and all seemed

failed upgrade-solved

2000-08-10 Thread Charles Kaufman
th boot just fine. Some of the messages that fly by during the upgrade are critical, but it's not easy to tell which those are. The release notes made me think I didn't have to study update-modules too carefully. That was wishful thinking. Charles Kaufman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Failed reboot after upgrade

2000-08-09 Thread charles kaufman
run, but since I had 2.1 I did not do that. I do have the script record of the upgrade. Help. Please respond to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks Charles Kaufman

upgrade to potato; tetex-bin depends

2000-08-08 Thread Charles Kaufman
x-bin' reports 'tetex-bin depends on libz1, which is not installed'. I can't find libz1, but tetex-bin's depends, in the package archive, does include zlib1g. Should I let apt-get run as long as it wants? Is there a libz1? Am I done for? Thanks Charles Kaufman [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Please reply directly as I am not a subscriber.)

Re: install manual for x86

2000-07-11 Thread Charles Kaufman
Thank you for the directions to fips. Charles Kaufman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

install manual for x86

2000-07-11 Thread Charles Kaufman
am? Thanks Charles Kaufman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: g++ and libstdc++2.9 circular dependence

1999-11-16 Thread Charles Kaufman
Dear Kevin > dpkg -i foo bar seemed a little bit criptic to me. In case it was to you as > well, you can just type > > dpkg -i g++*.deb libstdc++2.9-dev*.deb > > Both packages will be installed without any problem. I know this because I > had > the same question as you had, and this was the

g++ and libstdc++2.9 circular dependancy

1999-11-15 Thread Charles Kaufman
2.10 but none about 2.9 that I can find. Charles Kaufman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

latex2html and GIF

1999-10-07 Thread Charles Kaufman
Dear Debian I cannot make latex2html produce images in GIF format. There is an option in the config file which may be GIF or PNG. When I use PNG (the default) it works. When I use GIF it reports 'this version of pstoimg does not support GIF format.' I do have netpbm-nonfree installed as well as net

Re: new hard drive install

1999-07-01 Thread charles kaufman
On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, David Wright wrote: >> > Yes it really says FAT 12 > > ... which you presumably don't have. (Actually I just saw my Certainly not due to anything I did (on purpose, that is). > very first FAT12 partition yesterday when I was mending someone's > disk geometry settings. It

Re: new hard drive install

1999-06-30 Thread charles kaufman
On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Brad wrote: >> > Yes it really says FAT 12 > > What does Linux "fdisk -l" show? Here it is. The segmentation fault at the end is part of the output.(not encouraging) The disk is not all partitioned. fdisk -l The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 1027. This is

Re: new hard drive install

1999-06-30 Thread charles kaufman
On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Stephen Pitts wrote:> > > Check the boot= in LILO. I just recently had similar problems and it turned > out that I was writing my new lilo to /dev/hda1 instead of /dev/hda. Thanks. I've tried each of those and get the same error either way. Chuck Kaufman

Re: new hard drive install

1999-06-30 Thread charles kaufman
Hi > Not necessary. Recently i repartitioned my HD, moved Linux from hda2 to > hda1. Never had any trouble after i restored my filesystem from backups > and reran lilo (after editing lilo.conf and fstab) I did almost that. Instead of restoring from backups I had the old and the new hard drives

Re: Hard disk problems

1999-06-30 Thread charles kaufman
Dear Kaa: Thanks for the suggestions. On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, [ Kaa [EMAIL PROTECTED]@hotmail.com wrote: > Yes, but given that the kernel believes there is FAT12 partition, it seems > that there is something wrong with the partition table or at least the > reading thereof. > > Is the low-level

Re: your mail

1999-06-29 Thread charles kaufman
Hello On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, [ Kaa [EMAIL PROTECTED]@hotmail.com wrote: > Regarding > "kernel panic:VFS:Unable to mount root fs on 03:03" > > Are you sure you are not having BIOS/disk geometry problems? AFAIK with > certain BIOSes the Linux root partition must be within the first 1024 > cylind

Re: new hard drive install

1999-06-29 Thread Charles Kaufman
Hi Thanks again. On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, David Wright wrote: > Quoting charles kaufman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): "kernel panic:VFS:Unable to mount root fs on 03:03" > I think that may change everything. Allowing for typos, because you > copied that off the screen, did it re

Re: new hard drive install

1999-06-29 Thread charles kaufman
Hello again On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, David Wright wrote: > Quoting charles kaufman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > "kernel panic:VFS:Unable to mount root fs on 03:03" > > > > Is there somewhere in the kernel that remembers it used to boot from > > /dev/hda3?>

Re: new hard drive install

1999-06-29 Thread charles kaufman
Hi Thanks Brad. On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Brad wrote: > > "kernel panic:VFS:Unable to mount root fs on 03:03" > > It's still trying to mount root from hda3. i don't know why, since you say > you've checked and rechecked to make sure /etc/lilo.conf is correct and > you've run lilo with the correct set

new hard drive install

1999-06-28 Thread charles kaufman
Hi. I am trying to switch my debian 2.0 to a new hard drive. It was on a drive partitioned with dos on hda1 and hda2 and linux native and linux swap on hda3 and hda4 resp.; I partitioned the new drive with hda1 as dos, hda2 as linux native, hda3 as linux swap. I copied (only) dos c: to hda1, and

Re: "make-kpkg" terminated before completion

1999-01-09 Thread Charles Kaufman
Manoj: On 9 Jan 1999, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > Hmmm. Sorry to follow up my last posting so quickly, but I did > notice that the man page mentions /usr/doc/kernel-package in the see > also section. > > As I said, I have now included a reference in the files > section as well. >

Re: "make-kpkg" terminated before completion

1999-01-09 Thread Charles Kaufman
Manoj: On 9 Jan 1999, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > Well, the detailed manual is in /usr/doc/kernel-package/README.gz, > where I think it does indicate that only the kernel_image target is > required > Point well taken. I should have found it. Thanks for being so gentle. On the other

Re: "make-kpkg" terminated before completion

1999-01-09 Thread Charles Kaufman
On 8 Jan 1999, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi,> > May I suggest the kernel_image target for make-kpkg? For most Yes you may-who better? > people, the kernel-image-XXX-YYY package is the only one relevant; > everything else is only there for completeness. And for personal use, > you do n

Re: "make-kpkg" terminated before completion

1999-01-08 Thread Charles Kaufman
Manoj: On 8 Jan 1999, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > > Are you sure that the source tree was not somehow corrupted? I > can't reproduce the problem here. I do have include/net/rosecall.h > > manoj > I repeated the make-kpkg exactly as before, as far as I could tell. This time it

Re: "make-kpkg" terminated before completion

1999-01-08 Thread Charles Kaufman
Manoj Thanks for the quick reply. The output from du is exactly what you have. But the directory is /usr/src/linux/include/net, not the one you have, if that makes any difference. The file sizes are 7924 Nov 15 13:33 rose.h 110 Jul 13 16:47 rosecall.h I did a tar zxpv linux-

"make-kpkg" terminated before completion

1999-01-07 Thread Charles Kaufman
This is the tail of the output from "make-kpkg build-package modules" executed from /usr/src/linux. That directory was the top of the tree resulting from "tar zxpvf linux-2.0.36.tar.gz" There is a kernel "vmlinux" in /usr/src/linux, dated about 7 minutes before the make-kpkg command terminated.