of it.
Thank you for helping me get this to the correct maintainer.
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At 07:07 PM 12/26/99 -0500, Carl Fink wrote:
c:\loadlin\loadlin c:\linux root=/dev/sda1
ro vga=3
and got the message not an Image file.
Did you copy your kernel to the c: drive and name it
linux?
Otherwise it won't work.
I am using the Linux Router Project
(http://www.linuxrouter.org/)
I pulled loadlin off the Debian Slink CD and loaded it onto
my C: (DiskOnChip device) and tried to boot linux with the following
MS--DOS command:
c:\loadlin\loadlin c:\linux root=/dev/sda1 ro
vga=3
and got the message not an Image file.
I am a Linux novice and not quite sure what is going on.
At 11:19 PM 12/24/99 -0700, Howard Mann wrote:
Matt Garman wrote:
Now I want to split up Linux into many partitions,...
I used cfdisk...
Here are some things I remember.
You will need to figure out beforehand if you want to leave room for more
than one operating system on your disk. IMHO,
(in the manner of a palindrome)
becomed GnuPG. It could stand for GNU Pretty Good Privacy UNder GNU
or, perhaps, GNU Pretty Good Privacy Uses Namesake GNU. That's my
theory :-)
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At 08:44 AM 11/10/99 -0800, aphro wrote:
On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Art Lemasters wrote:
alemas Which port number does ping use in
Debian Linux?
I do not believe ICMP uses ports, there are TYPES of ICMP though,
the
'ping' command uses ICMP type 8. at least thats what i have blocked
in my
firewall, it
Last night when I was installing Slink it asked me to name the directory
for my cvs repository. I hunted all over debiag.org but found no guidance.
I did a Altavista web search and found no guidance. I finally named
/var/cvsroot. What should I have said?
At 05:10 PM 11/1/99 -0500, Joe Miklojcik wrote:
Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card!
scsi : 0 hosts.
scsi : detected total.
I don't know if your problem is related to mine but I also cannot boot
Debian 2.1 with an Adaptec SCSI controller. Redhat works fine for
me too. I was advised in a
At 09:25 PM 11/1/99 -0600, Gregory T. Norris wrote:
Assuming that you're trying to install slink (2.1, stable
branch)
rather than potato (unstable), I've got a set of unofficial
install-disks setup specifically for this situation. You can
snarf
them from
I seek info showing the sequence that Debian uses when starting its devices.
What URL's have such a list?
If I had gotten my machine to boot and completed the install, where would I
look to study (and perhaps modify) the boot sequence?
I am trying to install Debian 2.1. My system hangs after writing the
following messages to the screen. I have tried every BIOS, hardware and
bootprompt I can think of. Can anyone help me or does anyone know if it is
hanging in the SCSI initialization or if it has completes SCSI and is
hanging
I have a Portwell SBC that has an integrated SCSI and Ethernet. I am
booting Linux off the Slink Install CD-ROM. It gets as far as reporting
the (scsi0) messages and then hangs. Before I start changing hardware
jumpers, does anyone know what device/s would immediately follow the scsi
devives
.
At 11:10 PM 4/18/99 -0500, Lyno Sullivan wrote:
I booted from the 2.1 CD and tried to Partition a Hard Drive but it
appears
that cfdisk doesn't know how to handle extended partitions on a 12GB
disk.
I used Win98's DOS diskette fdisk to format the extended partition
and
allocate the logical drive
As soon as I get a chance I am going to write an article
recommending that Redhat and Debian form an alliance. Redhat
becomes the distributor to 1) commercial operations and 2) people who are
only interested in being free software consumers.
People interested in becoming a volunteer producer, in
I seem to be creating some kind of technical problem because
of the mail address 'Lyno Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED]' I am
using. Sorry for any inconvenience I might be causing. I am
trying to sort out what I am doing and how to remedy the situation.
Most assuredly this is not any official
I booted from the 2.1 CD and tried to Partition a Hard Drive but it appears
that cfdisk doesn't know how to handle extended partitions on a 12GB disk.
I used Win98's DOS diskette fdisk to format the extended partition and
allocate the logical drive partitions. Then when I return back to the
At 01:17 PM 3/2/99 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When I get this I switch sites in sources.list. Fixes it for me.
I tried to do that but couldn't seem to find a site that would work for me.
Does any ftp site work or do I have to use a http site. I couldn't get ftp
sites to work and
When using apt-get at:
http://http.us.debian.org/debian/
why do I get the following errors repeatedly on the same packages?
1) Connection timed out
2) Incorrect MD5Sum
What is the proper thing to do about a situation like this? Should I
report it and if so, where? Should I use an alternate
I completed installing slink and now X comes up automatically. My first
login is always refused and the second one works. If I try to Quit X I am
forced back to the X login.
When I bring up xterm and do a 'shutdown -h now' I see that my original CLI
login has been repaetedly failing to login on
At 10:16 AM 3/1/99 -0600, Keith Saxon wrote:
I'm trying to install .deb files from a DOS partition.
I have /hda1 (linux primary), /hda2 (linux swap), /hda3 (ms-dos primary).
Does it work to define /hda3 as vfat rather than msdos? If vfat isn't in your
kernel, you can mount it after you login.
At 10:58 AM 2/28/99 +1030, Mark Phillips wrote:
I suspect there won't be enough room in the / partition to use apt-get
successfully. I can probably empty out most of /usr/local/store0.
Is there any way of getting apt to download stuff into store0?
I had a similar problem that I resolved by
Formerly: Re: Debian and Redhat - are most linux users missing the point?
At 08:44 PM 2/26/99 -0800, George Bonser wrote:
On Sat, 27 Feb 1999, Frankie wrote:
Yet most linux users opt for redhat.
Because it is the only distribution that many
have heard of.
Also, Red Hat is being given shelf
installed apt-get, I had given up on
dselect and was simple downloading packages and running dpkg recursively until
I got a given package fully installed.
Disclaimer: I am a Debian amateur so my comments may be uninformed.
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I am very inexperienced and seem to be able to login as root without having
to supply a password.
My machine boots straight to the root account without a passwd being required.
If I do passwd to change root password it appears to take the new password
but then if I do a login as root I do not
found
That appears on the console every couple minutes until I do an lprm all
command.
Does anybody know how to fix this? Also, where should I have gone to find
the right documentation so that I might have fixed it myself? Thank you
for your assistance.
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