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and 'LILO' shows up in bytes 6-9, so it looks like it's being
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boot order there.
Also, the second kernel is just what the install puts in the lilo.conf
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/dev/hda333 4865 38821072+ 83 Linux
As i said in my first email, /boot is on /dev/hda1, which is marked
bootable and is at the beginning of the drive.
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ernel image or can't read the hard drive.
And yes, even though the bios seems to have no problem with my hard
drive, i have a small hda1 partition for the /boot directory, which is
marked bootable in cfdisk.
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I've installed the redhat xrage and regframe packages so that I
can run the XFCom_Rage128 X server on a slink machine. The
server needs the regframe library to be preloaded, so I've added
"/lib/libregframe.so" to /etc/ld.so.preload. A consequence of
this is that acroread segfaults when started.
> "Andrea" == Andrea Novara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi! I have a small config feeling question? Since we
> spawn hundreds of messages each day, it would be more
> comfortable to have a constant string in subjects such as
> [ DEBIAN ] that allows easy filtering.
There i
> "timothy" == timothy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi! The export, or 'set' in this case term variable works.
> However, I modifed the .login file as you suggested set
> TERMINFO=~/.terminfo, but it still doesn't recognize
> xterm-debian when I login. :(. Any ideas? The she
> "Dale" == Dale E Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Once a filesystem is on the disk, you can mount it just
> like any other partition: mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
To simplify mounting even further, I put this in my /etc/fstab:
/dev/sda1 /zip ext2 noauto,user,nodev,noexec,nosuid,r
> "timothy" == timothy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am telnetting an AIX machine and trying to run pine and
> it says "No terminfo entry for "XTERM-DEBIAN"." in xterm,
> and similarly for when i'm in rxvt. Before my terminfo was
> just "xterm" i think, and it worked, how d
I'd like to make a little more room on my /usr partition. Is it
safe to move /usr/doc to somewhere else and make a symbolic link
back? Is there something more appropriate that can be moved to
make space?
Mike
> "Gary" == Gary L Hennigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I haven't received anything from the digest version of this
> list in about 6 days.
I've had the same problem - haven't received anything from either
debian-user-digest or debian-devel-digest since Aug 13. I've
asked the list
Has anyone got a working copy of eiffel-mode for emacs? The copy
I have works somewhat, but does not do font-lock-ing properly
with emacs 20.0.
Mike
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> "Jay" == Jay Barbee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> TIMESTAMP='date +backup%y%m%d.tar.gz'
> tar czvf $TIMESTAMP
Try reversing the quotes: TIMESTAMP=`date +backup%y%m%d.tar.gz`.
That will do the trick.
Mike
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I have a related question. We are considering putting together a
collection of Linux machines, but our major concern is
administration. Because we are the fortunate recipients of
government funding, we are in the situation where we can fairly
easily purchase hardware, but there is no way we can a
> "Keith" == Keith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I would like to know how do I check how much disk space I
> have left on my drives.
df reports free disk space. `du -s' can be used to find how much
space a particular directory tree uses.
Mike
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I'm trying to build the python ppgplot module (two p's) on a
Debian 2.0 (frozen) system. I've been able to compile it, but
when I try to use the module, I get the following error:
Traceback (innermost last):
File "examples/tstsimple.py", line 3, in ?
from ppgplot import *
ImportErro
I'm looking for a Debian 1.2 cd. Does anyone know where I might
find one?
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> "Michael" == Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> My advice would be for the maintainer of the pine package,
> (or whoever it was George is accusing of changing the
> interpretation of the copyright) to answer George's
> question about why it was done
That was done
> "Michael" == Michael Stutz writes:
> I'm ready to conclude that you cannot install Debian on a
> laptop that uses a pcmcia modem as its primary interface to
> the world. I would really love it if somebody proved me
> wrong.
Well, it is certainly possible to do the installati
> "George" == George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> No, I think someone is taking the politics of free software
> to an extreme. It looks like someone in Debian decided
> that their patches to configure it resulted in a
> "derivative work" and since pine does not allow d
There is the Linux/IR project [1]. I've never looked into it
though. I've got an IrDA port on my laptop, but don't have
anything to talk to with it.
Mike
[1] http://www.cs.uit.no/~dagb/irda/irda.html>
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With either emacs or xemacs, Gnus can be completely mouse
driven. xemacs is likely to satisfy even the most
pointy-and-clicky folks.
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I use Gnus - a powerful, customizable news- and mail-reading part
of emacs (and xemacs). It will thread, score, sort and do just
about anything you want to your mail.
Mike
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I've used a thing called grok some, but not extensively. It may
be just what you are looking for. From the help intro:
> Grok is a program to present unstructured data in a
> row/column format using an index card paradigm. Each
> database row (line) is a card; each database column (f
> "James" == James D Freels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> (1) The stable version is stable (really runs for days,
> months, years, etc.). The MTBF becomes tied to hardware
> failures (hard drives being the most vulnerable) not
> software.
Absolutely. We've run a data acquisit
I recently moved a machine from 1.3 to unstable and am now
getting lib errors when I try to import a python module. The
module (dislin) is one I've installed myself, as is the python
version (1.5). Before the move to libc6, this worked fine.
After the move I recompiled python and now find that im
I've found that auctex cannot find default tex formats on my
recently upgraded hamm system. I do not yet know if this is a
problem with emacs, xemacs, auctex, or the tetex packages. Has
anyone else seen this behavior? To sort this out, I'm installing
my own emacs from scratch at the moment.
Mik
I recently built a kernel using kernel-source-2.0.32 from hamm.
Since this replaced my older 2.0.29 kernel, I installed the newer
pcmcia-cs_3.0.0-1 and pcmcia-modules-2.0.32_3.0.0-1k5.
Now when PCMCIA services start at boot time, I get the following
messages:
---
Starting PCMCIA services:
The oldlibs directory at several Debian ftp mirrors is empty?
Anyone know where they went?
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> "Anselm" == Anselm Lingnau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The current boot disks won't allow you to install over
> PCMCIA ethernet or off a PCMCIA SCSI bus, AFAIK, but this
> seems to be worked on.
I've done several installations on laptops with a PCMCIA ethernet
card. If you cop
> "Martin" == Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Most likely you told dpkg to keep your old /etc/init.d/xdm
> file, which was a dummy script.
So that dummy script is part of the base installation?
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I've recently reinstalled Debian 1.3 (on a system with a new
disk) and found that after installing xbase and xserver-svga, xdm
wouldn't start. After looking about a bit, I found that
/etc/init.d/xdm was empty and that the start up script was in
/etc/init.d/xdm.dpkg-dist.
Can anyone help me sort
> "Anthony" == Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Well, since the topic *is* ``Whiney little request'' and
> wrappers such as this seem the most likely way to integrate
> commercial software into Debian, is it worth considering a
> way of specifying how to get needed n
> "Asher" == Asher Haig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have a problem when my system boots where networking
> loads before the PCMCIA services that are needed to drive
> the network card. As a result, I have to run
> /etc/init.d/network whenever I boot before networking will
> "jan" == Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Now i wanted to install it on my notebook at home; the
> easiest way would be via my pcmcia network card and nfs; or
> otherwise via zip drive. But i guess debian doesn't do
> either (i guess i could try to install debi
I've been trying to install hamm on a new disk, but I have twice
now had disk problems, or maybe network problems. The
installation went well in both cases. After a couple of days,
ftp crashed and dumped core, apparently leaving me with a
partition that causes fsck to core dump when it checks at
> "marcus" == Marcus Lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does
> not understand this format, some or all of this message may
> not be legible.
Hmmm, my MUA /does/ understand MIME. Maybe your's just doesn't
know that.
> May I
You might have better success it you make your modules using
make-kpkg rather than make-ing in the source directory. Try
executing `make-kpkg --targets' to get a list of targets (which
includes modules).
Caveat - I haven't made modules with make-kpkg myself, so I don't
know what pitfalls might aw
I'd like to take Ignus' message as an opportunity to offer what I
think is an important caveat about Debian and custom kernels.
There have been several good responses about how to install a
kernel and where to get information. However, I'd like to point
out that it is rather important to follow t
>>>>> "brian" == Brian Mays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Miller) writes:
>> Here's a related question - where is the SCHEME variable
>> set in a Debian 1.3 system? The pcmcia docs state that
>&
After making a new kernel (using make-kpkg and so on, as
specified in /usr/doc/kernel-source-/debian.README), you
will have to make a new set of pcmcia modules. Instructions are
in /usr/doc/pcmcia-source/README. If you make both the kernel
and the pcmcia modules according to the Debian documentat
Anybody managed to get enlightenment to run under Debian 1.3?
Any hints?
Mike
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Mike
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> "dale" == Dale Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> David M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> If one were to buy a laptop these days what would be a
>> good brand that is widely supported by Linux (Debian)?
> As someone else mentioned, I had to install off of CD in
> order
Kevin J Poorman wrote:
>
> On Mon, 11 Aug 1997 12:19:24 -0400 Mike Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> writes:
> >Has anyone gotten X working using on a Cirrus Logic 5428 Video
> >card/chip. When trying to run it, it crashed my machine, no matter
> >what
> >res
Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 07, 1997 at 11:03:10AM -0400, Mike Miller wrote:
> > On my machine at home I'm running a 486sx33 IBM PS/1 with an old BIOS.
> > For dos, I installed the western digital overlay that allows access, but
> > in Linux, it ran pe
`-.._,/ My; first you don't ""``.
``--...___/-"""""-; you don't succeed,\
```; Quotes ; call it version 1.0. ;;
;;If it still doesn't
I have a file on my machine that I created that begins with a hyphen.
How can I delete it. rm -test says can't delete est using option -t (or
whatever). How do I tell it not to use the hyphen as a switch?
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Chris Brown wrote:
>
> I have several old 386 machines around that would be nice for
> different tasks. These machines have older BIOSs in them that
> can't deal with larger IDE drives. My experience with DOS is that
> you need to fdisk and format the drive on a machine that properly
> supp
> "brandon" == Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If people who read debian-{novice,help,install,newbie} set
> up a procmail filter that removes cross postings, and this
> is made known, [...]
^^
This sounds like a good idea here. What if a Debian packa
> "rick" == Rick Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
> I'm familiar with Fortran, C, C++, etc., and the coding for
> fortran is far more efficient for what i'm doing: it comes
> down to applying functions to arrays. I also may have the
> world's only project that really c
> "ralph" == Ralph Winslow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [...] I also tried "man seyon" but no man entry was found.
> Anyone have a clue for me??
Take a look in /usr/doc - there is likely to be a seyon
sub-directory there.
Mike
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Well, it's the time of year for time zone questions. I have a
machine in Indiana, US, which has a system clock set to UT. I
use xntp to keep it in sync.
I look forward to the summer when Illinois and Indiana are on the
same time (CDT and EST respectively) because I don't have to
remember to ad
I've managed to scramble my modules and am looking for some hints
on how to recover. I'm running Debian 1.2 on a portable with a
pcmcia ethernet card. Up until a few days ago, I'd been making
my own kernel using the kernel HOWTO instructions, rather than
the debian scripts. Never wanting to leav
This is a related comment on X security.
> "dpk" == dpk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If you are trying to run X applications between to machines
> you have to set the display and xhost variables.
Not to be overly picky here, but xhost is not exactly a
"variable". For details, see t
I'd been using BLT for a while when I noticed that there was a
debian blt package. So, I installed it only to find that it does
not include a blt_wish binary. In addition, in interacts badly
with my earlier installed blt_wish, resulting in core dumps.
After purging the debian package, I'm back to
First an apology.
Some of us, at least myself, don't like to be confronted with our
stupidity. Why I choose to advertize it, then, is another question.
On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Siggy Brentrup wrote:
> I apologize if you took my citing of the man page as RTFM. Please attribute it
> to my poor English
ually did anything. Just something like
'at now + 5 minute'
without anything below. I shouldn't be surprised, but I thought a debian
list would be different. I'll return to lurk mode.
Mike.
hmm does Red Hat have a mailing list or newsgroup?
On Mon,
> "walter" == Walter Tautz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> other than pine. I would like a simple curses based reader
I use Gnus, which these days comes with emacs. It (emacs) runs
on almost any terminal or in a window - does that satisfy your
curses needs?. A word of caution - if you are
> "chris" == Chris R Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is the setserial program contained in any of the Debian
> packages, or will I have to install it seperately?
I didn't do anything special, and it is here on my Debian 1.1
system. I don't know which package it is a part of off
I've installed X11, but I find that I cannot run applications
that need courier and helvetica fonts. I've looked in the X11
and Debian faqs and readmes, but I haven't been able to find any
info on where to get fonts and how to install them. Can anyone
help me out?
Regards, Mike
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> "bruce" == Bruce Perens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
> It's not likely that dpkg/dselect put the system in this
> state on its own. Things that wedge the system and then
> make e2fsck not run generally have to do with the shared
> library files containing corrupt data. T
Chris,
I had the same problem with my profile. My work around
was editing (creating?) the .bash_profile file. At least I think that's
it, I'm at school now. It's just like .profile , but renamed to confuse
us ! Good luck.
Mike.
On Wed, 7 Aug 1996,
> "john" == John Houwen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I seem to have a similar problem with dselect/dpkg, but not
> with the dpkg-ftp option (haven't gotten that far yet)
> The dselect package has given me problems from the first. I
> made a few errors in my 1st attempt at the
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