True package management, including installation scripts. And a process
in place to keep packages out of the main distribution that don't follow a
standard for file locations, and other stuff.
In a word: stability
It's great for servers, end-users can use just about any version of Linux
and be ha
Patrick,
What's "Tom's Rescue Disk"? Is it the standard Debian Rescue image, or
something else? (I missed it in your thread somewhere...)
On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Patrick Kirk wrote:
> Thanks one and all. I tried two approaches:
> - at LILO prompt I typed linux init=/bin/bash. This failed becau
As far as I know, the only time you can select these pre-packaged lists of
software to install is in the install scripts.
It would be nice to be able to pick a "group" like that after install, but
I don't think it's in the software yet.
Of course, the old open-source adage applies. Jump in and
Cory,
Boot hangs during the "now booting the kernel" stage can usally be
remedied by using the "Tecra" boot images from the FTP site.
I had a Toshiba laptop exhibiting the same problem during install and I
followed the instructions at :
http://slf.gweep.net/~sfoskett/linux/p3010-4.html#ss4.3
Some of the linux disk partition programs (cfdisk included) are "large
disk impaired" to be politically correct about the issue.
I've had wonderful results with programs like PartitionMagic doing the
partitioning and then installing linux into pre-made partitions.
Your mileage may vary, good luc
Sorry for so many messages. Too much coffee makes me too quick to hit
SEND!
Does the "Update" step work correctly? (Do you see the CD-ROM light up
and does the system respond appropriately that the available packages have
been updated?
On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Ron Stordahl wrote:
>
Hello again Ron,
One more thing, confirm for us that you're loading Debian 2.1 (some
version of slink) and not something else. Perhaps we're giving you bad
information due to assumptions.
On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Ron Stordahl wrote:
> Nathan Duehr replied:
>
> > Ron,
>
oppy?
Keep asking questions, we'll keep trying to help!
On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Ron Stordahl wrote:
> Nathan Duehr replied:
>
> > Ron,
> >
> > Due to various laws and licenses, the non-free and non-US packages and
> > directories are not on the CD-ROM'
Ron,
Due to various laws and licenses, the non-free and non-US packages and
directories are not on the CD-ROM's, for good reason.
Answer "none" for the non-free and non-US stuff, finish installing your
packages selected, then change your Access method to APT go online and do
an Update to get the
Check out Abacus PortSentry if you're looking for pretty good portscanning
detection software. He also does a log scanner and a host protection
scanner.
http://www.psionic.org/
On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Mark Wagnon wrote:
> Hi all:
>
> I'm looking at Firewall and Security listing on Freshmeat, but
I recently had this problem with a Toshiba 3015CT. I needed a zImage
kernel instead of the default bzImage kernel on the standard boot disks.
There's floppy images called "Tecra" images (named after the Toshiba
laptops which seem to exhibit this problem the most) which you might try
to boot from
Alex,
You may also take a look at the linuxlogo package. You can add a neat
Debian logo to your console login screen with the linuxlogoconfig script
that comes with it. Fun stuff...
On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Alex V. Toropov wrote:
> Is ther any way to clear console window (text mode) before login
On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Brian Servis wrote:
This is really interesting. I didn't realize the kernel did this.
I'll probably try this out this weekend. (I love finding little tweaks
like this...)
> Add a second hard drive on the second ide channel(hdc) It is good to
> have a swap partition on a di
Typically when people refer to using "DSL" for ISP access, they're talking
about ADSL or RADSL which is an analog signal and requires that you be
within 12,000 - 18,000 cable feet of the service Central Office. This
depends on a number of other items including cable gauge and the presence
of gauge
Check out the man page for the "who" command and also try out the package
called "slay" which claims to kill all the processes of a particular user.
On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, [iso-8859-1] André Bell wrote:
> How do I determine all users who are logged into debain while they are
> logged in?
>
> I've
On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, Justin Wells wrote:
> I think that Debian has a much better technology, but the average Debian
> user right now gets to stare at all the whirling gears in the install,
> and sometimes tinker with them, to get things going. The average RedHat
> user watches a status bar crawl
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Lee Elliott wrote:
> Don't forget that V90 isn't symetrical - I believe it's only only on
> D/Ls that you'll approach 56K. I think the U/L rate is still 33.6K
> max. Even so, it still sounds as though something may be wrong. Have
> you got an external modem, so you can see
I had the same problem in a 486 machine with an NE2000 clone and never
could figure it out. A different NIC and it's been running like a champ
ever since.
Donald Becker's webpages (the great guy who writes an awful lot of NIC
modules...) have some great info on which NIC's he liked writing modul
Actually the top button doesn't do anything at all. It's been broken for
quite some time now.
On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Kent West wrote:
> Brian Servis wrote:
> > http://www.debian.org/List-Archives, it is linked off the main page.
> but don't click on the "Search" button at the top of the page. Sc
It was there last night. I loaded it on my laptop!
I didn't see if perhaps it rolled version numbers, but it's there.
On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Robert Varga wrote:
>
> Where can I find apt-0.3.10slink11.deb ?
>
> It was up on proposed-updates and at security.debian.org, but now I can't
> find it t
;
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Thank you for your replies.
>
> My original e-mail included:
> I tried several bootdisks (resc1440.bin resc1440-safe.bin
> resc1440tecra.bin) and even old bootdisks from a previous debian
> version. Also booting from DOS using loadlin doesnt work.
You must configure the X setup for your particular system before it will
work. xf86setup or XF86Config.
On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Kim, Jeong-Hwan wrote:
> Also when I type "startx" in shell, it tells me "XFree86Config" file cannot
> be found.
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On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote:
Thanks for the correction. I should've read the SSH documentation more
closely.
Now you have me wondering how the "export DISPLAY machinename:0.0" method
has been working between the office and home, since the firewall setup
shouldn't allow that i
Make sure you try the Tecra disk images, which are zImage kernels instead
of bzImage kernels. There's some notes on the mirrors in the README files
and in the HTML doc files of the bootdisks regarding this in the disk-i386
directory.
On 16 Aug 1999, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wri
Ken,
Take a look at SSH. It would get you a couple of things you probably
need in your "headless" webserver configuration :
1. Secured connections to your headless system from anywhere.
2. X forwarding over that same secured connection.
X forwarding allows you to have the base X stuff and X app
On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Kent West wrote:
> (BTW, if everyone but IBM calls it a Network Interface Card, and
> IBM calls it a Network Adapter Card, shouldn't we refer to it as
> a NIC/NAC? Paddy-whack Sorry.)
... Give the slink an MBONE? (:
This new-bie came trol-ling home...
Couldn't resist -
Some of you may be interested to find that I was able to get Debian up and
running on a Toshiba Portege' 3015CT laptop (finally). And in deference
to my post to debian-user last week regarding this issue, I promised to
let everyone know what I found...
First, I found a VERY nice document on the s
Hi all,
Tried to do an installation of Debian 2.1 (slink) on my Toshiba Portege
3015CT laptop this evening, and failed miserably.
First I downloaded the standard installation floppies and tried to
install from floppy, since the CD-ROM is on a PCMCIA-IDE controller and I
figured it might not be b
On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Vaughn J Lujan wrote:
> Let me start off my saying that I am new to Debian. Previously I've
> been using RH since v 5.1. I swithched over to debian because I was led
> to believe the packaging was more stable and robust. I've done a basic
Packaging IS more stable and robus
On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> problematic for certain machines. The case that is sited most often
> is the IBM Tecra laptop, so the problem is often referred to as the
> "tecra problem." Since I wasn't installing on a laptop of any kind, I
Actually, IBM doesn't make the Tecra's. To
If I've been interpreting the traffic about the 2.2 kernels correctly
here...
The 2.2 kernels no longer need the route add -net statements. They set
this up automagically... (:
On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Bob Bernstein wrote:
> A thousand pardons if this a faq, but why does, in /etc/init.d/network, th
Only 6 days ago on the list...
On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 21:59:26 -0400, Timothy Burt wrote:
> Could it be some other motherboard problem? Or even the cpu?
http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11 lists a whole list of problems that have
resulted in signal11 and related unpredicatable behaviours.
On Tue,
Last time I looked at the LRP project's stuff, they were storing
everything on the floppy in a compressed format. Therefore you needed to
do some extra work to get the files you're looking for to work with it.
There was an HTML page written by one of their developers that helps you
get the modul
Hi all,
I haven't done a whole lot of research, but so far I haven't seen any
mention of one of my printers in any documentation for ghostscript or
gs-aladin (did I spell that right?) and was wondering if anyone simply has
one of these printers and has it up and running. I've been to a couple of
Both of these are in the base/procps package. You might want to check and
see that dpkg/dselect thinks this package is in good shape. (Upgraded,
etc...)
On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Takanori Suzuki wrote:
> I installed the potato last week.
> Today I found that I could not use "ps" and "top" command.
>
I'm not sure if this is slink or potato, but there is a separate package
for netscape mime support in slink, if I remember correctly...
It looks like it might be looking for that.
Perhaps the maintainer forgot a "requires" line.
On Sun, 8 Aug 1999, Christian Dysthe wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I did a
Must i using ISA graphics card?
>
> Help! 2Mb is too few!
>
> Kotya
>
> Nathan Duehr schrieb:
>
> > Is there a jumper on the motherboard (besides the BIOS setting) that
> > physically disables the onboard video when you're not using it?
> >
> > On Mon,
That worked for me.
I did it during the "great perl reorganization" and a few things were
borked, but they've been straightening that stuff out, and it shouldn't be
as much of a problem now. As always... unstable means unstable...
Good luck!
On Sun, 8 Aug 1999, Francis J. Bruening wrote:
> H
Upgraded slink to what?
On Sun, 8 Aug 1999, Pollywog wrote:
> I just updated Slink (apt-get update and upgrade) and cardmgr was upgraded.
> I lost networking on that machine and will probably have to reinstall Linux
> because I have no idea how to fix it when I need the network to upgrade
> anyth
I use Netscape Messenger and IMAP instead of POP3 to talk to my mail
server. This allows me to keep my mail on the server and "sync" up
multiple machines -- whatever OS I'm running, whatever... there's usually
a version of Netscape Messenger available for it.
To get my mail delivered into folders
The resolutions your X server supports and will run with are set in the
/etc/X11/XF86Config file.
In a "normal" configuration...
To change resolutions "on the fly", the three key command:
CTRL-ALT-+ (AND YOU HAVE TO USE THE NUMBERPAD'S PLUS KEY)
Will cycle through the resolutions set up in th
Of course. I should have mentioned that.
On Sun, 8 Aug 1999, Eric G . Miller wrote:
> Of course, you're aware that those debs are not official and may give
> you problems.
> --
>
> Eric G. Miller
> Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
>
>
> --
> Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [
http://samosa.debian.org/~branden/ xfree86-334/
Has some experimental stuff...
On Sun, 8 Aug 1999, Didi Damian wrote:
>
> - Original Message -
> From: Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To:
> Cc: Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Sunday, August 08, 1999 12:41 PM
> Subject: XFr
Is there a jumper on the motherboard (besides the BIOS setting) that
physically disables the onboard video when you're not using it?
On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Mark Phillips wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Let me tell you about strange happenings on my computer. Any
> suggestions/ideas would be most appreciate
Floppy disks built with rawrite or dd are notorious for not working
properly. I had to rebuild one of mine numerous times (back when I didn't
have a BIOS that would boot from CDROM) when I was doing my first Debian
install.
Make another one and see if the problem clears up...
On Sat, 7 Aug 1999,
Depending on your samba configuration, you may need to run smbpasswd to
set a samba password for the user you're logging into the Windows machine
as.
On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, Rudy Broersma wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I tried to mount a windows 98 share, but it just doesn't work! I can get the
> share list, b
You probably have the XDM package installed, which defaults your system to
starting an X server and running XDM for you.
On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Daniel Yang wrote:
> When my Linux boots, it starts X window automatically. I don't know how to
> stop it.
> Thanks
> Daniel
>
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Depends on where you live. Usually yes. In Colorado, USA it's a
misdemeanor crime.
On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Stephan Weaver wrote:
> I was just wondering if portscanning was illegal?
>
> Stephan Weaver
>
> _
> Do You Yahoo!?
> Free instant
Ahh... I stand corrected.
I really should avoid answering mail relaying questions in hte middle of
the night!
Just as a side-note, it is a silly option anyway, isn't it? I've not used
it for anything useful... yet.
On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Marc Haber wrote:
This worked. I feel silly... that was TOO simple.
Thanks Shao.
p.s. Using single-quotes didn't work, unless I misread and it was supposed
to be single-backquotes?
On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Shao Zhang wrote:
> have you tried
>
> rm ./?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~
>
>
> On Wed, Au
If you have the "relay-domains-include-local-MX = true" in your
/etc/exim.conf file, this is true. It WILL relay for anyone who lists
your machine as an MX for their domain (real, or not). I think this was
the original question.
The other gentleman is right about if this setting is NOT on, and
I've successfully used a laptop on pppconfig to set up a modem that uses
standard AT commands but had a special cable to my cellular phone (Nokia).
If you have some kind of special hardware that's not supported, I can't
speak to that... but any supported PCMCIA modem that uses standard AT
commands
It's available in potato/non-US I believe. I just tried searching for it
with the bot on the #debian irc channel and it couldn't find it. Since it
can only search the US mirrors, and since I have seen it before, it must
be a non-US package.
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Rune Linding Raun wrote:
> i need
See:
http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/running-kernel-2.2
... for a list of known issues when running the newer kernels on Slink
machines.
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, virtanen wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Anthony Campbell wrote:
>
> A:
> > One way is to use modules, which I think most people do.
>
That file was pulled off the mirrors due to a bug in it. Just run
"apt-get update" and get a new Packages.gz file...
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Pollywog wrote:
> I am getting the following error when I do 'apt-get upgrade':
>
> Err
> http://http.us.debian.org potato/main makedev 2.3.1-27
> 404 Not F
I think I missed something here...
I was under the impression that PINE would connect to a remote machine via
IMAP and retrieve mail messages, however I can't find anything resembling
that in the docs or in the Setup section of the program itself.
I currently have PINE working on the machine wher
Direct from the infobot on irc.debian.org -- channel #debian...
[dpkg([EMAIL PROTECTED])] behold, libxpm.so.4 is in these 2
packages:
oldlibs/xpm4.7 (/usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXpm.so.4.11) and
x11/xpm4g
(/usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4.11)
Also, I did a quick check and the packages
st the last 10
years, so I forget that telecommunications in other countries is still
very expensive in many cases.
My apologies... glad we all have a way to get to potato one way or
another.
On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 31, 1999 at 03:48:35AM -0600, Nathan Dueh
Phillip,
I don't understand your cost analysis. Potato is not release yet, and as
far as I know, there aren't any commercial outlets for Potato CD's yet.
I don't think Official Potato CD's are available from anyone yet... which
is as it should be.
So what were you comparing your dialup costs t
30, 1999 at 10:57:11AM -0600, Nathan Duehr wrote:
>
> > No, security.debian.org is a relatively new thing and probably isn't as
> > documented as it should be. It's not the same as proposed-updates.
>
> Oh. OK.
>
> > I don't understand the question a
Your Smaba passwords and your user passwords do no necessisarily match.
Check out the "smbpasswd" command...
On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Carlos Santos wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to share my Linux home directory so that i can maintain it from
> my NT box. I've installed Samba 2.0 with encrypted pass
Johan,
The 2.2 kernel is available for the stable version of Debian today, and
can be added, but there are some issues that a person needs to be aware of
when doing it.
See:
http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/running-kernel-2.2
On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, Johan Groth wrote:
> I wonder if there are
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