Re: bug ?: Disappearing DOS partitions

If you haven't fixed your problem, I can help you. Just send us what your able to see from DOS (with DOS FDISK) and/or from linux with cfdisk and with fdisk if you have it on your system (they do not present the same information as far as I remember). Just a comment to what Bruce said: > I think

Re[2]: HELP: problems compiling wine

After my post about my wine experience, Brian commented: >Subject: Re: HELP: problems compiling wine >Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] at RF >Date:18.09.97 10:54 >> I tried it with MS-Word 6.0c, MS-Excel and Matlab >> 4.2c (all 16bit applications) and they run to my satisfaction. >> I have no

Re[2]: HELP: problems compiling wine

Thanks to Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and Will <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for their prompt answer. Appending `-L /usr/X11R6/lib' to the command line made it. I have wine (version 960824) installed on my box. I tried it with MS-Word 6.0c, MS-Excel and Matlab 4.2c (all 16bit applications) and they r

HELP: problems compiling wine

Hi, I would appreciate any hint to work around this error I get when trying to compile wine (970828). configure and make depend worked ok, but when trying: mafalda# make [snip...] make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/wine970824/miscemu' gcc -o wine controls/controls.o files/files.o graphics/g

Support for the 3Com 3C900 (Etherlink PCI) network card?

It seems there is no module support for the 3Com 3C900 Etherlink PCI card in the standard kernel (version 2.0.x). However I found there are some updated source code and a compiled module in: http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html Has anybody tried the compiled module? Will it

help: lost network connection after upgrading 1.1 to 1.2

Hi, After upgrading from Debian 1.1 to 1.2 I lost my network connection. I must confess it was not a clean upgrade in the sense that i had to dpkg -i and dpkg -r a few times netbase (now 2.0.9-1)and netstd (now 2.12-1). I thought I just upgraded witohout modifying the configuration files but I

Links to package's bugs on the package web-page

Hi It would be nice to see links to the Bug Tracking System (BTS) from the web pages the individual packages can be downloaded on www.debian.org. Those interested in upgrading individual packages would so be able to check the reported bugs before starting the process which might brea

Re: bash profile question

For the prompt, I have the following line in my ~/.bash_profile and ~/.bashrc use: export PS1="[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w\\n[\#]\\$ " which produces, for example [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/bin [3]$ ls -laR or [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/linux [4]# ls -laR \$ gives you a different pro

Re[2]: Scsi errors

At 07:55 PM 9/25/96 -0500, you wrote: > Are there any kernels that are known to work _for_sure_ with an >AHA-1542CF?? Maybe that's my problem... > > Mike My 0.0001$ contribution: I've also been running Linux 1.0.9, 1.2.13 and now 2.0.6 with the AHA

Re[6]: Am I the Only One Waiting??

>'m talking about the archives on the *ftp* mirrors in >/debian/debian-lists. Sorry if that was not obvious. >The archives on the web site should be up before too long also. >Guy Great! thanks a lot Guy. One related question: How can I add the bunch of messages to my mail box so to read them o

Re[2]: Trashed disk

I you have an Adaptec card, you may want to check the disk using the utilities provided with the card to test the disk (alt-A at boot time before linux is booted). You can also check the grown defects list with the MS-Windows utilities provided with EZSCSI. Don't know if there is some linux util

Re[4]: Am I the Only One Waiting??

On 25.09.96 04:17 Guy Maor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Tue, 24 Sep 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Therefore the newest postings archived on the server and >> mirrors are those of June 96. Don't hold your breath :-) > >Check again; they're being updated now. There's a glitch right now so >

Re: need help: error opening terminal con80x25 during instal

change "console" to "linux". As you can check that is the entry in the terminfo database. I think the change occurred in the 1.3.x development stage of Linux. lazaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __ Reply Separator _ Subject: need help: error ope

Re[2]: Am I the Only One Waiting??

Guy Maor writes: >Date:24.09.96 08:31 > > >>On Mon, 23 Sep 1996, Paul T. McNally wrote: >> I've been dying to read this list in the archive version for the >> month of July. I know it is probably huge and I can wait, I >> just wanted to know about when it will be accessible via

Re: special boot disks

It is true. only a brief description is given. but you may want to read the config files with which the special kernels were created. They are in the same directory as the special-kernel packages. I also remember reading some (brief) info in the FAQ (not too much) lazaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re[2]: Filename case - the simple solution ...

somebody wrote (Sorry, I don't get always the original poster address ): >Resolving the case problem can also be solved VeRy simply by typing >the one magical word... case >- NEXT TIME - when you do your FTP'ing don't forget to use the "case" >statement. It may not be

Script to produce bug reports?

Hi, I was planning to write a script to make the bug reporting process semiautomatic. With a standard form, and leaving place for an "Additional comments" field would be IMO a step forward for the project: Std form+Script -> Fast&Easy to report -> -> Easier to read/bounce duplicates/fix ===> B

Re: dosemu 0.60.3-1 won't run

I remember I needed to install the xcompat package. did you? Maybe you want to check that if no better solution is at hand :-) lazaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __ Reply Separator _ Subject: dosemu 0.60.3-1 won't run Author: debian-user@lis

Re[2]: dosemu 0.60.3-1 won't run

I just want to report that I got dosemu 0.60.3-1 to work (or whichever the version is in the Debian 1.1 stable tree is) when booting from the hdimage instead of booting from the floppy. I must also admit that I got the message > ERROR: can't get floppy parameter of /dev/fd0 (Interrupted

single Debian on HD for two boxes?

Hi, I didn't succeed yet to share my portable 1GB SCSI-HD with Debian 1.1 (w/updates up to 1.1.8) to run Linux on two different boxes: Box 1) Non-internet connected (although planning and intranet). clone PC w/ i486/DX33 + 16MB RAM + 540MB SCSI HD (SCSI ID-1) + NE2000 NIC clone

Re: Q. about dosemu package

Yves Arrouye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Subject: Q. about dosemu package >Author: debian-user@lists.debian.org at cclink >Date:20.09.96 08:25 [snip] >2. I only have Windows 95 on my machine. Is it possible to boot its DOS >from Dosemu? Or should I make a hard-disk file with a 6.x DOS? I ha

Re: Debian Linux Installation problem

Unless you're inserting the wrong disk, it looks like a kernel bug. Send it to Linus. lazaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __ Reply Separator _ Subject: Debian Linux Installation problem Author: debian-user@lists.debian.org at cclink Date:19

Re: where's man ??

Hi Chris, >Subject: where's man ?? >Author: debian-user@lists.debian.org at cclink >Date:18.09.96 09:11 >I just installed Debian 1.1 and I logged on as root. First thing I >notice, there are no editors installed. Not one. You would think this >would be a "required" thing... >another

Re: Mouse

There is not support for busmice in the standard boot disk kernel. Try # dmesg | grep -i mouse to see if your mouse was detected by the installed kernel. You will probably get no output, so you can confirm that the kernel does not know about your mouse. Otherwise you should see the line recogni

Debian 1.2 release date?

Hi folks, Is the release of Debian 1.2 around the corner as scheduled? Thanks for such a good job! lazaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Strange problems with mc.

Scheetz (warf) writes: >Subject: Strange problems with mc. >Author: debian-user@lists.debian.org at cclink >Date:12.09.96 04:59 >Just recently I have begun having strange problems with midnight >commander. After some time some of the keys stop working. This usually >involves the arr

Re: how to exclude a directory from find?

You wrote: >Subject: how to exclude a directory from find? >Author: debian-user@lists.debian.org at cclink >Date:11.09.96 21:33 > >I'm trying to search for unused files, but I want to exclude a directory >from the search. I tried >cd /scratch && find . -atime +7 -path ./var -prune -o

Re: Getty ports - dumb question

I hope its a typo since ttyN is not the same as ttySN (N=0,1,etc) e.g., terminals vs. serial lines. Said that, by default I had more that the really existing serial lines (ttySN) configured To fix that edit the file you'll get after # find /etc | xargs grep tty I remember editing that f

Re: Dosemu

I had no problem in running dosemu (deb package 0.60.1?) that came with Debian 1.1 with kernel 2.0.6 (I recompiled the kernele for other reasons so I don't know if the standard in boot.bin could have give any trouble to dosemu) Write to me if I can help you. Lazaro

dosemu and bochs? (it was WABI)

Hi, DOSEMU I installed (not without some minor problems) dosemu_0.60.1-3.deb yesterday. It couldn't boot from the real floppy so I had to create an image of it in /var/lib/dosemu/bdisk as suggested in the config.dist -> renamed to /etc/dosemu.conf. I also had to modify the lat

dosemu and bochs? (it was WABI)

Hi, DOSEMU I installed (not without some minor problems) dosemu_0.60.1-3.deb yesterday. It couldn't boot from the real floppy so I had to create an image of it in /var/lib/dosemu/bdisk as suggested in the config.dist -> renamed to /etc/dosemu.conf. I also had to modify the latter to

Re: minimal system

Please, don't threat with the microstuffit :-) Concerning your not very specific question here is my rule of Thumb: No matter how large your HD is you will end up filling it. seriously, you may want look at the Debian FAQ revamped recently (great job!) under any debian mirror in /doc/FAQ/

Re: Debian on a Compaq Prosignia 4/66

Yes Dave, You can have Debian Linux on your compaq. This is from a previous posting I sent to this list: >I find this LOADLIN scheme a very flexible one. I find the related DOS > applications rdev, pfdisk and ext2tools good companions to this DOS > booting scheme. A DOS readln or readkey utilit

Re: lilo installation on IDE disk > 500 megabytes

You only need to copy the kernel image to the DOS partition, for example: cp /boot/vmlinuz-2.0.6 ./dos/vmlinuz Then when you've booted DOS type (make a batch :-) loadlin vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 ro Or have alook at the loadlin documentation. Some tips for "advanced" use of this boot

Help: need to fix ownership of /var/...

Reposting message with slight modifications as I haven't got any answer yet. - Hi, Some files under /var and /usr are normally owned by root:systemgroup were the string systemgroup above can be root, staff, adm , mail, news ...etc Q: Will the bootup break something if the ownership of /var/

Help: how to fix ownership of /var /.. ?

(reposting looking forward to get some answers) Hi Debian-users, Some files under /var and /usr are normally owned by root:systemgroup were the string systemgroup above can be root, staff, adm , mail, news ...etc Q: Will the bootup break something if the ownership of /var/... are set to root:

Re[2]: Need help to set right ownerships

Hi Ken, Yes.. I know that should have made in a different way and yours is one of the possibilities (provided that there are not files beginning with two dots like /home/lds/..a_weird_name_for a file. I know that under the ksh I could have used # cd /home/lds ; chown -R lds:users .[!.]* .

Need help to set right ownerships

Hi, Anybody can help me, please? I really need to be sure how to fix this. Logged as root I did: # cd /home/lds ; chown -R lds.users * ; ls -laR | more and noticing that I forgot to change the ownership of the (hidden) dot files I typed: # chown -R lds:users ~/.* Uc! the `*' expands to

Re[2]: Installing Linux over a LAN

>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 easier. It is possible to do so. you

Re: Installing Linux over a LAN

Alan wrote: >Subject: Installing Linux over a LAN >Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] at cclink >Date:11.08.96 06:16 The is a nice page about setting a micro-lan in http://www.panix.com/~hypertyp/tcpip/tcpstart.html The example is given for a mac connected to a Linux box have a nice weeke

Re[2]: new to debian; some questions

What about modifying the options in the file /etc/adduser.conf? Btw, there is a typo in that file "equivilant" (AFAIR) instead of "equivalent" ... does that qualify for a bug Ian? ;-) Lazaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _ Reply Separator _ Subject: R

Re: Cannot compile mouse support - help!

Hi jj, You are lucky! we must be the only Debian Linux users with the same mouse and graphic card on this planet :-). From reading your mail it seems you have gone all the way through it... Oooops!!! Wait a minute. Try: # gpm -t 'bm' -m /dev/inportbm Remember from the busmouse HOWTO: one

Re: dselect/dpkg problem: install/remove

Hi, > where is local/binary ?? I _think_ is a local filesystem or directory where you put your any extra package which is not present under the stable|contrib|non-free tree. For example you can put ther a) Your own packages like a custom kernel created out of the kernel-source and ma

Re: lost lib

To exactly know which library a given command (say foo) needs you can try $ ldd foo If you don't find the library referenced ( e.g. library_name) in your system with: $ find / library_name) you can locate that library by $ zgrep library_name Contents.gz so you can install the pac

Re: Adding nfs and ip modules to base

Hi Jay, There have been some postings (since the 1.1.2 release) to this list reporting the same problem. Check last week's ones as I sent a kind of reports-log. I heard of no answers so I am not sure whther we are exceptions# to the rule. My solution was to reinstall 1.1 (stable tree)

Re[2]: shutdown: non-existing PID

Phil, Michael, Maybe pstree (and friends mentioned in the man page) can help you to trace the problem Lazaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __ Reply Separator _ Subject: Re: shutdown: non-existing PID Author: debian-user@lists.debian.org at c

Unidentified subject!

Hi I would like to have a "floating" Debian system on my external SCSI HD. At home I have no (network ...yet :) and at work I have a connection through ethenet. I think have resolved all the details except a proper network connection. At install, I said I had network and gave the IP addres of: my

Re: dpkg-ftp or installing via FTP

- dpkg-ftp is a separate program under projects/experimental (chek withint the zgrep ls-lR.gz (only 100Kb ;-) - yes dselect will do itif you have all or just what you know you need. My experience is that you never now exactly all the dependencies so if you don't have all Anyway you can inst

Re: Debian-1.1.3

The latex related packages were not in 1.1.2 You can find the changes in Changelog under /buzz-updates/.. If you read the messages will notice that stable, Debian-1.1.x and Debian-1.1-fixed _always_ are just links to the "real" files, no matter what the value of "x". You can zgrep ls-lR.z at the

LILO vs LOADLIN (was Re: LILO and W95)

Hi The DOS+LOADLIN solution is in my opinion a very practical and safe one. I read "much safer than LILO" somewhere and some time ago, but I cannot recall why nor if it has changed with the last versions of LILO for which horror histories abound. Anybody knows? There is however at least one si

Log of reported problems with 1.1.2/2.0.6

; control files so if you "dpkg-name -a kernel*.deb" you get the funny name > kernel-source_2.0.6_2.0.6-0.deb as it happened with version 2.0.0 included > in Debian 1.1. That's done on purpose so you can install more than one kernel. Guy -Lazaro Salem (that'

Re[2]: Debian 1.1.2 is Released

This is what I found from the debian-announce mailing list > > Date: 20 Jul 96 18:01 UT > > Format: 1.6 >>> Distribution: stable >>> Urgency: High << > > Maintainer: Helmut Geyer <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re[2]: Is buzz-fixed (<- stable<- Debian-1.1.x <- Debian ) F

On 29.07.96 17:27 Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Subject: Re: Is buzz-fixed (<- stable<- Debian-1.1.x <- Debian ) >... > At 10:44 PM 7/26/96 +0200, you wrote: >> In my opinion (hope I am wrong) the buzz-fixed/ tree under >> ftp.debian.org:/debian/ and the other directories pointing to i

dselect --- It was: Re[2]: Is buzz-fixed?

I changed the subject of this posting because I want to follow this thread now: On 29.07.96 17:27 Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Subject: Re: Is buzz-fixed (<- stable<- Debian-1.1.x <- Debian ) FIXE > .. >>> ... >>> Lazaro >>> P.S. It would be nice to have quickstart guide at hand to help Debi

Re: impact of Caldera announcements

Maybe you want to check a related article in the August issue of the Linux Journal (www.ssc.com) or point your browser to www.lasermoon.com for the Linux FT 1.2 distribution. cheers, lazaro __ Reply Separator _ Subject: impact of Calder

Re: nfs module doesn't load in 2.0.6

I think that is related to something I noticed today when trying to install Debian 1.1.1 with the installation disks set 1996_7_14 (whatch out! I did not say "1996-07-14 boot disk set" which corresponds to the new Debian 1.1.2 just released yesterday). When configuring the system during

Re[2]: X and mice problems ?

Shaya Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] says: > > On Fri, 26 Jul 1996, David J. Evans wrote: > > I've recently switched from RedHat to Debian 1.1 and am > > experiencing problems with X. I had previously run X > > successfully on Redhat and so assumed that there would be > > no problem. > > ... > > >

Re: Debian 1.1.2 is Released

As Guy says, Wait a few days before downloading. Things are not yet (IMHO) completely fixed _everywhere_ or at best slightly confusing. To make it clear, and as Guy announced, the new boot set is: >Changes from Debian-1.1.1 are: > base-1.1.0-14 > boot-floppies-1.1.1-10 > boot

Re[2]: Is buzz-fixed (<- stable<- Debian-1.1.x <- Debian ) F

Nopp... it was not a mirror. As I said in my post I was pointing to ftp.debian.org. If you check there, there has been som reorganization during Friday and Saturday by Maor. Read a previous posting by Guy announcing the release of 1.1.2. Follow this thread... I am checking things now and

Re[2]: Seg faulting ....

Hi again Sorry for the typos in my previous posting. > Subject: Re: Seg faulting on installation of base... >Author: debian-user@lists.debian.org at cclink >Date:28.07.96 18:02 Errata: > or... keep trying. just read that Debian 1.1.2 was realesed. > PLease check that the new release is und

Re[4]: 1.1 problems

Well, a simple test to see whether (whichever) Linux kernel can recognize the busmouse is by reading the booting screeen. If the busmouse detection has been compiled in you should see at the very beggining just a few lines after the "Loading ..." : Bus mouse detected and configured If

Re: Seg faulting on installation of base...

I got also a seg fault but may be because I was using the VC #2 to mount other partitions floppy HD msdos and Linux ext2 :-) But that happen before installing the system (I was just trying yo copy base1_1.tgz to avoid installing from floppies. In a second attemt I succeeded. That was today

Is buzz-fixed (<- stable<- Debian-1.1.x <- Debian ) FIXED?

Hi, This is more for the mirror mantainers... but also for the impatient users: In my opinion (hope I am wrong) the buzz-fixed/ tree under ftp.debian.org:/debian/ and the other directories pointing to it through symlinks (including stable/) do NOT reflect the changes made under buzz-updates/ a