lilo again

If I may I will give some excerpts of Running Linux This is from the /etc/lilo.conf section of the book: ... If you give a partitiondevice name (such as /dev/hda2) instead of a drive device, LILO will be installed as a secondary boot loader on the named partition. (Debian users should always do

Segmentation Fault

I have the slink version of debian installed an a second hard drive and it was working quite well. At the start of December I recompiled the kernel as I had added a SCSI device to my system and as the kernel was compiling I got an error Segmentation Fault. These messages are becoming

Lilo

Does anyone have any idea why Matt Welsh in his book Running Linux suggests not putting Lilo on the master partition of the boot disk?

Sound Card Problem

My system is an old P5-100 with 48 MB RAM and a pnp modem, pnp on the motherboard CS4232 sound card (this is disabled in WIN 95), and an pnp AWE64 Sound Blaster. The trouble I am having is that pnpdump is not seeing the Sound Blaster. On a friends machine (almost the same except no no onboard

Printer Trouble

I am having problems getting my printer to print. I am using lprng and magicfilter. The printer is an HP722c and I know from the How-To that is only partially supported. The trouble is that when I issue a lpr test.file I get a message that says the message couldn't be sent. I can't remember the

Re: dpkg problem

Ok, two choices: 1) Open up /var/lib/dpkg/status, and find the package entries for libc6 and dpkg, then give the full entry (all fields for that package) for each one. 2) Try getting the slink _and_ potato dpkg .deb's, then use dpkg-deb to unpack them so you can try to get a working

Handling raw files

I have figured out how to get the raw tar.gz files for the dpkg package. How do I know where to put these files once I get them ungzipped and untarred? Is there a way for my system to do that automatically? (I know that is what dselect is for but it is currently broke)

dpkg problem

In moving from slink to potato I have managed to break dpkg. Whenever I run dselect or try to 'force' in dpkg I get a segmentation fault. I believe I have exhausted every man page and all documentation on my system. Does anyone have an idea how I can get dpkg working again at least or at most

Re: dpkg problem

Unfortunately I cannot do anything in dpkg other than get the help listings. All I get is the segmentation faults. Ben Collins wrote: On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 03:57:19PM -0700, Rik Burt wrote: In moving from slink to potato I have managed to break dpkg. Whenever I run dselect or try

Dselect Trouble

I am having problems with the apt part of Dselect. I can get it to access an ftp site but as it is updating it gives a segmentation fault in apt update. What gives? I am trying to install the stable (slink) version but I tried the potato version and I had the same problem. When I helped a

Motif Software

Where can I find the Motif software. I am aware that it is a commercial product but I don't know where to look for it. I am interested because the Netscape pkg that dselect has requires it for certain versions of netscape.