Making identical copies of CDROMs

1998-06-02 Thread Martin Stromberg
How should I proceed to make an identical copy of a CDROM? dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/image_of_cdrom bs=2048, then what? What parameters should I give to cdwrite/cdrecord? Or is this way impossible to take? Right, MartinS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

kernel-source-2.0.32...?

1997-11-28 Thread Martin Stromberg
Hi. I haven't seen the kernel-source-2.0.32... package yet. Does anybody know where it is? Thanks, MartinS -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL

Building dpkg on sparc

1997-08-20 Thread Martin Stromberg
Hello. I'm trying to build dpkg on a Solaris machine, to be able to look at .deb packages at work. But the make stops. Have anybody successfully done that and have some suggestions? ; uname -a SunOS juno 5.4 Generic_101945-32 sun4m sparc ; pwd /[removed]/dpkg-1.4.0.8 ; tail -18 make.txt

Re: Finding files not present (challenge to your intelligence)

1997-03-26 Thread Martin Stromberg
Hi, I was given a text file containing one file name (no full path name) per line. My task consists of searching the entire filesystem and generate a list of the files that are NOT present. At first I thought this was a task easyly solved with a couple of awk's, sed's, and find's.

Re: gcc

1997-03-24 Thread Martin Stromberg
On Mon, 24 Mar 1997, Daniel J. Mashao wrote: On Mon, 24 Mar 1997, Seth Reinosa wrote: I have looked but have not seemed to find in the man gcc page how to extract data from a document into a program. Please help. What do you mean? If you mean 1) To read data from a

Re: DEC 21140 ethernet card ifconfig failure: SIOCSIFFLAGS: Try again

1997-03-20 Thread Martin Stromberg
I'm installing Debian (1.2) for the first time. The base install didn't seem to have any problems, but my ethernet card isn't being configured properly after the system comes up. The card works in this machine under Freebsd and Windows 95. The card is an SMC 9332, it's a PCI card based

Re: maximum mount count

1997-03-11 Thread Martin Stromberg
Hi, I need to reboot my PC once or twice a day. Lately, I had a boot message displaying '/dev/hda3 has reached the maximum mount count. Checked forced' I found no option to deselect this mount count check in the mount man pages. Does anybody knows ? If it's an ext2 file system then

Re: gzip repair

1997-03-06 Thread Martin Stromberg
Does anyone know if there exists a utility to try and repair dammaged gzip files? I have a tar.gz with 13 postscript files which were generated with an MSDOG graphics programme in the Dark Days, unforunately when I gunzip I get $ tar -xvzf figures.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- graeme/staff 23145

Re: Why is PPP so screwed up!?!?!

1997-02-28 Thread Martin Stromberg
Martin Stromberg wrote: [Klippa, klapp, kluppit] I'm not sure that it's possible to ping over ppp. Oh my. If you really don't know that much about something please don't risk spreading disinformation. ping is of course possible over ppp. About the Oh, my. Aren't we ticklish today? I

Re: pernewbie_question

1997-01-16 Thread Martin Stromberg
I have used Debian for some time, yet seem to be a permanent newbie - a 'pernewbie'. I updated from 1.1.4 to 1.2.1 and have one remaining glitch; lpr has a problem. I am hoping someone can give me the simple solution: 1. As root, an attempt to 'lpr filename' leads to this error

ping reply without OS (was: Re: Unidentified subject!)

1997-01-03 Thread Martin Stromberg
ping response can be handled by network hardware without OS running. Uhhmmm... hadn't heard of this ever before. To reply to a ping request the network card has to have an assigned IP address... -- Eloy A. Paris Information Technology Department Rockwell Automation de Venezuela

Re: rescue disks for a tecra

1997-01-03 Thread Martin Stromberg
[Klippa, klapp, kluppit] At http://www.cck.uni-kl.de/misc/tecra710/, Jens Maurer discusses the problem and gives a kernel patch which works around it, a patch which Bruce was going to incorporate it into the next set of boot disks. I would try it myself as a service to other Tecra owners if

Re: Disk partitioning

1997-01-02 Thread Martin Stromberg
[Klippa, klapp, kluppit story about bad drives.] I have the installation disks made and they appear to work. I have not been able to access the cfdisk manual doc on any of the mirror sites and I am afraid to proceed without it. Any suggestions on where to locate it? I don't think you have

Re: PPP dial up connection help

1997-01-02 Thread Martin Stromberg
OK, I'm a super newbie at Linux. I have it installed, and tried to set up a PPP dial up threw an external modem. I think I am correct in using /dev/ttys2 as my modem on port 3. No, It's /dev/ttyS2. ^ When I go to establish a connection it says System lacks PPP kernel

Re: upgrade from 1.1 - 1.2, some minor problems

1996-12-30 Thread Martin Stromberg
I didn't see any follow-ups on this one so here I go... [Klippa, klapp, kluppit] 4) In the configuration mode of dselect, I needed to use the 'Z' parameter to move to the background and examine configuration files. The first package I tried this on was 'xntp'. After I was finished

SMC Etherpower

1996-12-18 Thread Martin Stromberg
Hi. Is there anybody that's using Debian and two computers talking to each other through two SMC Etherpower cards, without a hub in between i. e. through a twisted TP cable? Please give me some advice how to make it work! aTdHvAaNnKcSe,

Re: DIP to PPP ?

1996-12-18 Thread Martin Stromberg
[Klippa, klapp, kluppit] The /etc/ppp/chatscript: ABORTBUSY ABORTNO CARRIER ABORTVOICE ATZ OK ATDT0345573793 CONNECT loginZETppp\r ame Christopher Bond\r umber1234-567-89\r11\rpassword\r The

Re: Does the list send the sender a copy?

1996-12-18 Thread Martin Stromberg
I have recently sent a number of messages to the debian-user mailing list and have not seen a copy of my message sent back to me by the list software. Does the list software exclude the original sender when it reflects the messages out to the list members? Or have my recent posts been

Re: mt I/O error w/ HP T1000 tape drive.

1996-12-18 Thread Martin Stromberg
Hello all, I get I/O errors when I attempt to mt -f /dev/nrft0 fsf # my HP/Colorado T1000 tape drive. I'm gonna guess it's either not a supported action or a bug, but it doesn't really matter. Is there any easy workaround for this problem, preferable one which integrates

1.2 installation, problem making boot floppy

1996-12-16 Thread Martin Stromberg
Hi everyone. I have problems with making a boot floppy during the installation of 1.2. I do not have the exact error message but it appears when I have selected to make a boot floppy for my system (just before the rebooting part). It's when the installation program is formatting the floppy; it

Re: Newbie question -- Installing with Adaptec 2940

1996-12-06 Thread Martin Stromberg
I'm trying to install debian 1.1 from the Infomagic CD set, and using the boot1440.bin image for the boot disk I can't get it to recognize my 2940 SCSI adapter. I have a hard disk and a Jaz drive on the SCSI card, and an IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM. I found the directory of patches for the

Re: I can't find netscape and Debian versions

1996-12-05 Thread Martin Stromberg
Howdy, I know that the directory tree on ftp.debian.org is in a state of change with the upcoming release of v1.2, but I have spent two hours looking for the 'netscape-v301' package. Could somone point me to the correct location? I'll be fine from that point on (I think 8-). It's in

Re: Sources for rootdisk

1996-11-21 Thread Martin Stromberg
I think the subject says it all... I'm looking for the sources of the programs found on Debian rootdisks. Can anybody help me? Thanks, Juan Cespedes Install the boot-floppies package. If you are planning to create an umsdos installation, please contact me. Click,

Re: problems rebuilding hello

1996-11-08 Thread Martin Stromberg
As an experiment (before working on a package myself) I am trying to rebuild the hello binary package. Source is from hello_1.3-13; running debian/rules build compiles fine, but debian/rules binary-arch gives, after a while, dpkg --build debian/tmp .. dpkg-deb: building package `hello'

Re: Can Debian install from a UMSDOS filesystem?

1996-11-06 Thread Martin Stromberg
I couldn't find in the FAQ whether or not one can place all the deb files on a UMSDOS drive and install from scratch with the boot floopy sets. Anybody know one way or another? ...RickM... Yes. I did exactly that last week. And if you copy base1_1.tgz or what-ever it is called to

Re: Rearranging partitions WAS: Re: Question??

1996-11-04 Thread Martin Stromberg
On Fri, 1 Nov 1996, Martin Stromberg wrote: What do I need to consider when copying / to another partition? Reason I ask is I would like to put it in partition which had dos. Here is what I would like to do: Old setup: hda1 -- dos hdb1 -- swap hdb2 -- / hdb3

Re: cpio WAS: Rearranging partitions

1996-11-04 Thread Martin Stromberg
Date: Sat, 2 Nov 1996 00:29:32 - From: Nelson Posse Lago [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Martin Stromberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Rearranging partitions WAS: Re: Question?? find ./ | grep -v /mnt/ | cpio -pdmv

ethernet card

1996-10-24 Thread Martin Stromberg
Hello to all! I'm intending to put in two ethernet cards in two computers, so that I can nfs mount /home and /usr in one (where disk space is limited) from the other (where there's plenty of disk space). I don't have a great deal to choose from from my hardware supplier: Either an NE2000

Re: find and symlinks question

1996-10-11 Thread Martin Stromberg
Hi, As some of you may have noticed already, the http://www.debian.org/FTP/ interface unfortunately has duplicated entries in it. The script that generates it does a 'find' through all the directories of the FTP archive. To be precisely, it does a find unstable contrib non-free

Re: Dselect problems

1996-10-01 Thread Martin Stromberg
[Klippa, klapp, kluppit] Running dpkg -iGROEB /tmp/Debian-1.1.6/stable/binary-i386 find: /tmp/Debian-1.1.6/stable/binary-i386/admin/sudo_1.4.4-2.deb: No such file or directory find: /tmp/Debian-1.1.6/stable/binary-i386/base/mount_2.5l-1.deb: No such file or directory dpkg:

modules.tgz in buzz-fixed/.../special-kernels/boot1440*.bin are corrupt

1996-09-16 Thread Martin Stromberg
Hello. Yesterday I tried to install a buzz-fixed system. As the disk I wanted to install onto, was a SCSI disk connected to a ncr810, I had to use one of the special kernels - number 5 in buzz-fixed/.../disks-i386/special-kernels. At the time of the part of installation where the kernel is

Re: Installing on a portable

1996-09-13 Thread Martin Stromberg
[Klippa, klapp, kluppit] I could install base, copy over the pcmcia-cs*.deb package on floppy and I assume use dkpg to install it - only the man page for dkpg says use dselect and dselect want to install the lot. Any pointers, I can't be alone with this