I am installing Debian 2.0 (hamm) from cd, but I don't see the
Enlightenment package on there... Am I just missing it, or was I
mistaken in thinking it was on there?
TIA!
-Kendrick
Thanks for the reply Sorry for the delay in response here, but
I've been _very_ busy... Well, I have Adaptec Easy CD Pro which can
write ISO image files to CD, but I thought _that_ wouldn't work
either because it doesn't support the Rock Ridge Extensions (read
from a previous post to
The last time I checked there was no such thing... Just curious if
there is now a program for an NT/95 machine which will correctly burn
the Debian 2.0 CD images (ISO-9660 + RRE, IIRC...). I just got a
nice new box with some actual horsepower! (PII-300).
If so, then I'd be willing to make as
FWIW, I went ahead and tried the loadlin deal from the DOS config.sys
multi-boot and it worked flawlessly. I used the defaults from the
manual.txt as examples, and copied my linux kernel from my floppy boot
diskette for the boot image. The line is:
shell=c:\loadlin\loadlin.exe c:\loadlin\linux
I'm not sure if my plan will work, but hopefully I'll find out this
weekend. Feel free to save me the trouble if someone else has
already tried this and it doesn't work... Actually I just realized
that I may not have time this weekend... but anyway...
My first hard drive has DOS and Win98 on
I have one box that is still Debian 1.2, can I upgrade to hamm
directly, or should I go to bo first? Unfortunately this is not a
test machine, so I can't afford to have it crashed. What's the best
route for something like this?
Which brings me to another question... what do I use in dselect for
Hello :)
I've been off this list and out of the Debian loop for a while,
but I'm starting to get back into it now. I'm getting a system set
up at the house and have just a few (hopefully quick) questions:
1) What are the best websites for info on how to do such-and-such
with Debian Linux?
2)
Hello :)
I've been off this list and out of the Debian loop for a while,
but I'm starting to get back into it now. I'm getting a system set
up at the house and have just a few (hopefully quick) questions:
1) What are the best websites for info on how to do such-and-such
with Debian Linux?
2)
Hello :)
I have looked but not found many Debian packages of popular security
programs such as crack, lsof, cops, iss, satan, swatch, etc. I did find
tripwire on the debian site, though.
Are these kept somewhere else, or do they not exist? Just wondering if I
should go ahead an install the
Be happy to make them... what all is involved? Do I have to have permission
of the author or anything weird like that? Please point me in the direction
oif whatever I need to get started.
Thanks,
Kendrick
At 02:58 PM 5/22/97 +, Christian Hudon wrote:
On May 22, Kendrick Myatt wrote
, shutdowns, etc.
Hope this helps :) I might drop by your mud once you get it up...
Regards,
Kendrick
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when I use dselect to try and get kernel-package, i get into an infinite
loop with dependencies on packages perl and libc5. I + them and they get *,
but when I enter, I go back to dependencies and there they are again, still
showing *!
I X'd back and tried again from start, chose ftp, looked at
At 04:28 PM 1/20/97 +, Karsten Bolding wrote:
Hi
I have problems networking, below I've listed output from relevant programs
but when I ftp or telnet or rlogin the system fails. ftp just hangs and the
2 other comes with a no route error
Any help would be appreciated since I can't get any
At 12:08 AM 1/19/97 +0100, Thomas Baetzler wrote:
Victor Torrico wrote:
When making a kernel 2.0.27 I do the following:
[clumsy procedure deleted]
Actually, on Debian it´s so much nicer to install the kernel-package
package.
Then you cd to the linux source, make mrproper and make config just
Nevermind.
I'm a moron.
I'm going home now...
-Kendrick
At 12:01 PM 1/21/97 -0600, Kendrick Myatt wrote:
I was editing something in Pico the other day and someone did a
boarding-house reach across my keyboard to get something. In the process
they bumped their elbow on the keyboard a couple
I just tried to install the aforementioned version of Apache I found in /bo,
but it does not copy a file called /etc/apache/srm.conf Apparently this
file is important, because the server cannot start. It tried to open it and
fopen fails, then the service start fails.
Is there a newer version
At 10:13 AM 1/19/97 -0500, Shaya Potter wrote:
On Sun, 19 Jan 1997, Lu Jimmy Chenji wrote:
2)I am trying to use dselect's FTP method without any success. I strted
pppd first. The program and my modem seem working properly. I checked
/var/log/ppp.log file and the message was like this:
At 09:56 PM 1/12/97 -0500, Daniel Stringfield wrote:
Hello. Me again. I'm the pine/pico maintainer. Its in the non-free
section. goto ftp.debian.org and look in
/pub/debian/bo/non-free/binary-i386
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Umm... I have been looking for pine pico for a while and can't
find
Hi folks :) 2 quick questions...
1)What is the best (easiest) way to get a PPP connection from my
debian box to my isp via a modem? Ideally I'd like for it to be like my
Win95 box (stop throwing things!) and dial on demand when I need Internet,
and redial if disconnected. Is this
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A question for others, then... I have
Someone mentioned to me once about there being a newsgroup version of this
list. I can't see it from my server, so I assume it's not propagated. What
server do I point my newsreader at to see it. Thanks! :)
Regards,
Kendrick
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I agree...
Now that I am in love with my Debian box, I can tell that a LOT of
work must have gone into this, and the benefits are great. In my case, all
that I needed to do was NOT put commas between my nameservers. If this had
been in my install.html file, then I never would have had
Thanks :)
I appreciate everyone who answered this for me politely, although I was
deserving of a RTFM, no doubt :) D'oh!
Regards,
Kendrick
At 04:29 PM 1/10/97 -0500, David Gaudine wrote:
Yes, because you didn't select what you want to remove. Use select first.
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Hmmm...
In my /etc/modules file I only have the following:
#auto
serial
lp
ne
However, each time I boot it is still going and polling for all the
nic cards and CD-ROMs, which effectively hoses my LAN. I tried modconf and
according to it, nothing is loaded except the above.
Whenever I boot my Debian system now, it still goes through and polls for
devices I just don't have before it goes to INIT 2. The BIG problem with
this is, for that time, my LAN is completely hammered with bad packets. My
collision lights slam steady on, and all network activity is hosed. This
Somebody wrote:
communications non-networking communications
documentation all documentation
development as is currently
games all games
graphicsanything which creates, massages, transforms graphics
misccatch all- math, electronics, hamradio, misc, etc.
Ok, so somehow I downloaded a lot of stuff I just don't want, like X, emacs,
TeX, and a host of little things like the little calculator program... I
fire up Dselect and go to remove, and then it comes back to the menu screen
with Exit highlighted. Is this normal?
I did a dpkg --list, and I have
At 08:29 PM 1/8/97 -0500, Dale Scheetz wrote:
This is a demonstration that dpkg-ftp is working properly. It is reporting
that the name specified (which is correct, by the way) either wasn't know
to the name server, or you have not designated one correctly (you may have
followed instructions and
At 07:15 PM 1/5/97 -0600, Guy Maor wrote:
No, dselect's ftp method, dpkg-ftp, uses perl's Net::FTP to do ftp
(the protocol). It does not require ftp (the client). Use dselect to
get netstd and you'll have ftp (the client).
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It may have gotten lost when the list went down
At 10:25 AM 1/6/97 -0500, Dale Scheetz wrote:
Well, you are partially correct. There is no ftp client on the base disks.
However, dpkg-ftp IS provided on the base system and dselect's ftp method
should work.
It does not. This is what I get when I try and run dselect with
Okay, here is what I have learned...
The Debian 1.2 Disk release version is broken.
There is no ftp or dpkg-ftp program installed to your machine if you get all
the Disks and do a fresh install. Basically you are screwed :(
Dselect will not work because there is no ftp.
Nobody understands what
Well, turns out that 1.2.1 is the same as 1.2-fixed, which I have already
installed and it too is broken.
So now the big question is, where can I get 1.1?
Regards,
Kendrick
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Yes!
This is EXACTLY what happens to me when it tries to connect to the ftp site
using dselect. At least I know now that I'm not the only one :) The only
difference is that it DIDN'T work once for me...
Regards,
Kendrick
At 09:34 AM 1/3/97 -0500, Dale Scheetz wrote:
Victor still can't post
At 11:11 PM 1/2/97 -0400, Eloy A. Paris wrote:
What do you mean? If you can ping any host in the Internet then you have
anything you want (FTP, Telnet, News, WWW, etc.) - unless you are
behind a firewall or something.
Any way, what's the specific problem?
##
That *is*
At 07:45 PM 1/2/97 -0800, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote:
If you did not get the ftp binary, then you did not get a complete base
system. It's included. Is your path okay? I think ftp should be in
/usr/bin.
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That's what I was thinking. No, didn't get it... Do I have
This could be the result of the ARP cache in your router (or on your machine
if you are running some routed type thing...) not expiring before the other
server happened to come back up. I can't remember how long this is, and it
_may_ be vendor specific when it comes to the hardware side.
At 05:08 PM 1/3/97 +0100, Orn E. Hansen wrote:
If you got no ftp, that means you don't have the netstd package... which is
in section net. You need netstd, and netbase... if memory serves. If you
do have the binaries, and the setup isn't working... try reading the HOWTO
for networking
Um, how am I supposed to connect to the ftp site if I don't have ftp? Heck,
I don't have any inet capabilities except for ping! Maybe I missed
something in the documentation, but it appears that have a pretty useless
system installed here. Is there someplace I can look that will actually
tell
When I boot my machine, I get LI and a blinking cursor, and it locks up.
The machine boots fine from floppy, though. My system is set up with
/dev/hdb1 as the / slice, booting from there. It gave me a warning when I
did that, but I just ignored it, thinking it was nothing. Does it HAVE to
boot
Okay...
I have made 3 different sets of diskettes with 3 different machines
and 3 different copies of the .bin files, but I can't get past the base 1
diskette encountering an end of file at about 1.2MB. This is *really*
starting to annoy me :( Anybody care to share a sure-fire way to get
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