Debian stable install problems

ny sugestions as to what I can do to fix this? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patc

Help PLEASE with perl/cpan.pm and passive ftp!

PLEAS! -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally

Problems building gmmusic on stable

e::gettextLocale::gettext not installed. Checking for StorableStorable not installed. Please run (as root) bin/testdeps.pl and follow the instructions make: *** [all] Error 1 Migth this be a ptaing error? I installed using the CPAN scriptin /usr/local. -- Stan Brown [EMAIL

Passive mode FTP?

Whats the magic environment variable to get ftp to use FTP mode? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16

Re: perl modules in general

On Wed Apr 11 13:36:46 2001 Colin Watson wrote... > >"Stan Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>I was looking around in dselct, and I did not see much in the way of perl >>modules (no cpan.pm for instance). >> >>Since I would really like to use "

perl modules in general

need, and installling by hand. -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operat

gmmusic install help (passive ftp), please

de for ftp. How can I gat the cpan install to work this way? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bi

Re: playing mov files

ou need are some add in "modules" for xanim. Try installing the xanim-modules package. This did not work for me so I had to do it by hand. If that does not work, send me mail, also check the archive, this was just yesterday. -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROT

Re: Debian xterm termcap broken

On Sun Apr 8 14:04:02 2001 Alan Shutko wrote... > >Stan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I have a fairly fresh stable install on a machine, and I am having >> problems with the Debian xterm termcap entry. >> >> Loged onot the Debian box for a HP-UX

CD database application?

appliaction. Sugestions? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system

Debian xterm termcap broken

issue a reset from the command line. This is _very) anoyitn, esentially rendering this useless. How can I fix this? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit

Re: Help please playing QuickTime files

On Sun Apr 8 02:26:55 2001 Mario Vukelic wrote... > >On 08 Apr 2001 01:32:57 -0400, Stan Brown wrote: >> I have a couple of .mov files I need to play. > >There were several threads in the last couple of days on this topic. >Please use list archive at http://lists.debian.org

Good diet program?

Can anyone recomend a good program to record the intake caloories of a person, that I can install on my Debian machine? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32

Help please playing QuickTime files

When I try to play them :-( I would alos like for Netscape, and Mozilla to be able to use whatever program I wind up using to play Quicktime files. Help, please. -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless

xanim-modules install script failing

I'm trying to set up xanim to allow me to view some old QuickTime movies. I selected it from dselect (stable), but the python script it runs at install time seesm to have a syntax error. How can I work arounf this? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]84

Re: Quicktime player?

On Sat Apr 7 11:18:21 2001 Philipp Lehman wrote... > >On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, Stan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>I have installed xanim, and xanim modules, but I still don't seem to be >>able to play QuickTime movies. This is on a stavble system. > >D

Quicktime player?

I have installed xanim, and xanim modules, but I still don't seem to be able to play QuickTime movies. This is on a stavble system. Is there something special I need to do to enbale this? Or can someone sugest a different QuickTime viewr? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROT

Re: screensaver strangeness....

t. Any >ideas on what to do? >Pad. > Well the first thing to do is ask yourself what you were doing, before it stoped working. Under what circumstances does it not work now, that it did? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-7

Lunar lander game?

Can anyone sugest a good lunar lander game for use on a Debian system? I found Lunar Lander 200, and it looks just perfect, but I can't seem to get it to compile on my Debian stable machine. -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charlest

xscrabble for Debian?

Can anyone point me to a Debian package for xscrabble? I'm buildng a new machine for my SO & it's one of her favorites. -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch

Re: Enableing color LS on consoke sessions

35:or=43:*.rpm=01;31:*.sh=01;32:*.csh=01;32:*.tar=01;31:*.tgz=01;31:*.arj=01;31:*.taz=01;31:*.lzh=01;31:*.zip=01;31:*.z=01;31:*.Z=01;31:*.gz=01;31:*.bz2=01;31:*.bz=01;31:*.tz=01;31:*.rpm=01;31:*.cpio=01;31:*.jpg=01;35:*.gif=01;35:*.bmp=01;35:*.xbm=01;35:*.xpm=01;35:*.png=01;35:*.tif=01;35' >

Enableing color LS on consoke sessions

How do I enable colorizing my ls outptut on the console sessions? It workis in terminals under X. I am using framebuffer if ti matters. -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor

anoying flash in vi

again, how do I stop this anoying behavior? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit o

Re: Gnome Sound

ct for my card, which is the same as yours. However, as I said, pretty much everything (including Gnome sound events) is working. Hope this helps. -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98

keybindings in Mozilla

I want to start using Mozilla as my primary browser, but I find that I have become addiceted to Netscapes keybindings (Alt O, to bring up the new site window, Alr left arow to go back etc). How can I set up similar keybindings in Mozilla? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED

alsaconfig question about Sound Blaster PCI 16

I am trying to use alsaconfig to configure my soundcard. I have a Creative Labs Sound Blaster 16 PCI, and I don't seem to see that as a choice. Which one should I choose? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows

Re: Hepl, please, I broke my sound :-(

On Sat Mar 24 18:07:15 2001 ktb wrote... > >On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 05:47:36PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: >> broken my sound? >> > >I have the same card and it uses - >es1371 >ac97_codec >kent > Sorry that's over my head. How can I ma

Hepl, please, I broke my sound :-(

lled it with dselect. Could that have broken my sound? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch t

fbtv won't run for anyone but root

it be? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded fo

Re: audio recording in xawtv

u get sound working in xawtv at all? In my case I had to run a jumper from "line out" on the WinTV card to "line in" on the sound card. Given this, I can't see how recording sound can work at all. -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Can't get remote X clients to display on Debian machine

xhost + rlogin remote_machine export DISPLAY=debiab_box run_x_task And I get "can't connect" errors. What's going on here? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a

Re: xawtv and sound

On Fri Mar 23 11:50:10 2001 Nate Amsden wrote... > >Stan Brown wrote: >> > >> >> However, there are still a couple of problems. >> >> 1. I am not getting sound from the TV chanel while it's runing. Sound seems >> to work >> for eve

xawtv and sound

. That is I see the image starting about 1/3 of the frame with the top 1/3 showing on the bottom of th eframe. Whats do I need to do to fix this? Thanks for the help geting this going! -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98

WinTV card

e, if there is another choice. I primarily want to view/capture tv images (stills). Thanks fo the help. -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extension

How do I enable framebuffer?

evice configured. Is this correct? If so, how do I configure it? Thanks. -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for

Re: Font point sizes and X resolutions?

On Wed Mar 21 22:13:32 2001 Richard C. Cobbe wrote... > >Lo, on Wednesday, March 21, Stan Brown did write: > >[reformatted for 80 cols] > >> How can I set up X properly so that the fonts are displayed in the proper >> (eg 1/72 inch per point) size? > >Can't do

Do I still need xfst with XFree86 4?

Do I still need the TrueType Font server xfst, with XFree86 4? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit

Kernel-package, how do I get back to a distributed kernel?

package? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded

Font point sizes and X resolutions?

How can I set up X properly so that the fonts are displayed in the proper (eg 1/72 inch per point) size? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions

How do I enable color on the consloe?

I noticed that wehn I telnet inot my Debian bix from a machine runign a color capable xtern, I get ls displays in color, however, when I do ls on the console, I don't. How can I fix this? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charlest

Fint size vs X resolutin

e with The Swafish window manager and XFree864 with a resolutin of 1920x1440. How do I set this up coreclty? Pointers to docs appreciated! -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor pat

kernel-package questioin

installing kernel-image-2.4.2 Errors were encountered while processing: kernel-image-2.4.2_custom.1.0_i386.deb yogi:/home/stan/kernel_build# Script done on Wed Mar 21 06:37:31 2001 What am I doing wrong? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Ch

Re: Problems runing xawtv

c5-compat/Xaw3d /usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw3d /usr/lib/libc5-compat /lib/libc5-compat /usr/X11R6/lib [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ exit Script done on Tue Mar 20 12:37:09 2001 -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless

Re: Problems runing xawtv

On Mon Mar 19 21:50:09 2001 Nate Amsden wrote... > >Stan Brown wrote: >> >> I have build a nice new machine with a WinTV card. Now I want to plat :-) >> >> Loaded the xawtv package, and when I try to run it I get: >> >> Script started on Mon Mar 19

Rewriting "From" address

so that mail will be delivered there (from which I will retrieve it using fetchmail). How can I do this? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and

Gnome font size settings?

apps have bigger fonts? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating s

Problems runing xawtv

file or directory yogi:/etc# Script done on Mon Mar 19 20:47:39 2001 What can I do t fix this? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and

Why is /etc/inted.conf so empty?

Why are so few services listed in /etc/inted.conf? Why are the ones that are turned off by default not even thre as comments? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release

Re: ntpdate, /etc/timezone et all.

On Sun Mar 18 19:48:18 2001 Christoph Simon wrote... > >On Sun, 18 Mar 2001 19:24:29 -0500 (EST) >"Stan Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> /usr/sbin/ntpdate -s -t 10 clock.llnl.gov tock.usno.navy.mil >> tick.usno.navy.mil >> /sbin/hwclock --utc

How can I find out what package installs xvditune?

I'm seting up a new system. xvidtune was here yesterday, today it's gone, or at least U can't find it. How can I find out what package it belongs to, and where it dhould have been isntalled? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-315

Flash Player ?

What's the Debian way of installing a Flash Player plugin for Netscape? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shel

Realplayer

I'm configuring a "stab;e" machine (with Progeny updates). I need RealPlayer, and the install package claims that I should get version 7 fro Real;s web sit. I'm afraid that I can only find version 8, am I overlooking soemthing? -- Stan Brown

Re: deb for AT&T ksh ?

they have not already been >suggested, glload, xpulse, wmdl, and tuXeyes. I will have to check >into how to suggest them. Just my thoughts on it. > http://www.research.att.com/sw/download/ It's been Open Source for several months know. yes, I know about pdksh, but it won

deb for AT&T ksh ?

Anyone know where I can get a .deb of the AT&T ksh. It's Open Source now, you know. I was a bit suprised to not find it in the standard distributins. Is there a reason for this? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Wind

Re: ntpdate, /etc/timezone et all.

On Sun Mar 18 16:11:55 2001 Carel Fellinger wrote... > >On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 03:07:55PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: >> On Sun Mar 18 12:40:10 2001 Carel Fellinger wrote... >> >Not sure, but are you applying that offset yourself? If so, are you >> >aware that &qu

Re: ntpdate, /etc/timezone et all.

On Sun Mar 18 12:40:10 2001 Carel Fellinger wrote... > >On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 10:57:37AM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: >> I am trying to get my machine to have the harware clock set to UTC, and >> honor the >> TZ environment variable for displaying the correct local time

Re: Help! dpkg --prge-package hangs forever

On Sun Mar 18 14:16:20 2001 Mircea Luca wrote... > >Stan Brown wrote: >> >> >> This of course renders dselect useless! >> >> Help, please, how do I fix this? >> > > >kill -9 logpager > >before dpkg --purge > >should do it. &

ntpdate, /etc/timezone et all.

is being applied, but I can't seem to get my script that runs ntpdate to set the hardware clock to UTC. It persists in setting it to the local time, so my displayed time, after applying the offset, is incorect. How can I get this to work? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROT

Xfree86 4, and video timings.

I need to adjust the video timings to better match my monitor. I am runing Xfree86 4, and I can't seem to find the mode line defs anythwere in /etc/X11. Where are these stored, please? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Wi

Help! dpkg --prge-package hangs forever

rbooted several times, and a "dpkg --purge-package console-log" hnags at the "shuting down package" state, forever (it's been siting there for an hour! This of course renders dselect useless! Help, please, how do I fix this? -- Stan B

Where do timings go for Xf86 4?

I have a nice Xfree86 4 server runing on my ATI card thanks to progeny! Ni, I have run xvidtune, and determined the correct timings, but I don't seem to be able to find the correct fiel to put them inot. What file is it? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROT

Re: Timezone/sustem time configuration?

On Sat Mar 17 21:59:45 2001 Eric G. Miller wrote... > >On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 09:13:04PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: >> I'm creating a new Debian machine, after a failry lengthy absence from >> the comunity. >> >> I seem to have managed to get something mucked up

Timezone/sustem time configuration?

this right? At the moment I have the correct timezoen in /etc/timezone, but the system persists in showing UTC time. -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 3

XFree864 PS/2 mouse & gpm

ion, I am uncertain which device type I should put in the Xf86 config file. What device type should it be? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit exten

Re: Correct X server for AYI Rage Fury Pro?

On Tue Mar 13 13:58:33 2001 mike polniak wrote... > >Stan Brown wrote: >> I fnally put together a system out of somewhat less than ancient parts. >> >> Now on installing stable on it, it does not auto detect the correct X >> server. It' >> has an AATI

Correct X server for AYI Rage Fury Pro?

I fnally put together a system out of somewhat less than ancient parts. Now on installing stable on it, it does not auto detect the correct X server. It' has an AATI Rage Fury Pro video card in it, in an AGP socket (my first AGP). What X server should I install? -- Stan Brown [

Re: Is it possible to downgrade a Debian system from testing to stable?

care > So, does this mean I'm screwed? Or, perhaps I could manualy ftp atp-get from unstable, use dpkg to install it, and try to downgrade? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. usel

Is it possible to downgrade a Debian system from testing to stable?

m scratch, is there a way to get back to "stable"? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8

Re: How do I set the default printer?

to anyone that has ever admined a non Linux UNIX system! -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 1

How do I set the default printer?

for print spooler software in Debina? If so, how do I determine which one I have installed? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a

Help geting hP jetdirect printer to work with Debian

I;m integrating a Debian "testing" machine inot a network with lot's of FreeBSD machines, and some HP-UX, and Sun machines. I'm having a hard time geting the Debian box to print to our networked (JetDirect) printer. Can anyone give me a pointer to some docs. -- Stan Brown

What's wrong with this printcap file?

t the spool que not existing, and the printer not existing. What am I doing wrong? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and

Re: Getting Helix-Gnome

ckages on a recurring >basis. > Is there an ftp equivalent? I am having trouble getting apt-get to work using http, and am limited to using the ftp method at teh moment. Thanks. -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-315

Re: 2nd try, what is my problem with apt-get?

debian.org", and "runsocks lynx http://debian.org' both work fine. I did go inot dselect and ask it to change the method to ftp, which I ha not done when I tried your sugestion the first time. Now runing "runsocks dslect" works (using ftp a

Re: 2nd try, what is my problem with apt-get?

> > > >Could you try using ftp instead? I am using testing/unstable and I >found that the http method doesn't always work anymore. My error is >different (could not connect to 0.0.0.80) but ftp works fine. Try >using "deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/...etc";.

2nd try, what is my problem with apt-get?

.org_debian_dists_testing_non-free_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these missing files E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead. debian:~# Script done on Tue Feb 27 04:43:01 20

Help, please apt-get update problems

: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead. debian:~# Script done on Tue Feb 27 04:43:01 2001 So, it seems to me, that apt-get is magling the names of the sources? How can I further troubleshoot/fix this problem? i'm stuc

Local mail not geting deliverd

If I do "mail -s foo user" and send a test message, it never shows up. I don't see anythign in /var/log/mail either (it's zero length). How should I start troubleshooting this? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston S

Upgraded to "testing" + 2.4.2 kernel, and dselect + SOCKS nit working

ing the otehr problems untill I get the abiloty to load packages! -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bi

How does Debian handle local mail?

How does Debian handle mail local to the machien? And where can I find out how the mail system is configured? There does not seem to be an /etc/mail directory. -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows

"testing" & 24.2 kernel = mtx problems

mtx which was workign perfectly on "stable" with the default kernel now gives me the following error: mtx: faile to set sg timeout - Invalid Argument Any sugestiosn as to how to fix it so I can use my tapechanger again? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL

Upgared stable to testing, and I broke X, help please.

working great on this machine, untill I did this, so what's the best way to figure out what I have dome to create this mess, and get back to my working config? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows

Where is the kernel-package .deb?

e .deb to build the kernel. Now dselct can't find it, and I can't seem to find it on the ftp sit (ftp.debian.org) either. Acording to the Packages file, it should be in: pool/main/k/kernel-package/kernel-packag_7.34_all_deb Unfortunately, I don't seem to see it there. Help, plea

Problems with mail local to Debian machine

a problem with the llocal mail configuration. How can I check this out, and correct it? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphi

Re: How do I get larg file support?

On Sun Feb 25 14:33:51 2001 brian moore wrote... > >On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 02:08:38PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: >> Let;s just cut to the chase on this. >> >> I need to be able to create, and work with larg files (> 2G) under >> Debian Linux. Secondly I need the

How do I get larg file support?

out seting up a machine to do this? I have already set up a test machine to test this on. I installed stable, and upgraded to testing. It's a pretty minimal install so far. What is the best path to achieve this? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-

A modules question

o the /etc/modules.conf directory. But a grep -I eep in that directory reveals no trace of this module. How does this work? And how can I _keep_ it workign after upgradeing? Thanks. -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Window

Re: Install (LILO ?) problems!

On Sat Feb 24 13:11:40 2001 Robert Waldner wrote... > >(quoting modified for readability) >On Sat, 24 Feb 2001 12:59:52 EST, "Stan Brown" writes: >>Now on to the good new. I made the changes to /etc/lilo.conf you >>sugested, and reran /sbin/lilo (no errors). Then I

Re: Install (LILO ?) problems!

nf you sugested, and reran /sbin/lilo (no errors). Then I rebooted. I now ger "LI" and the system hangs there. I have tried this both with LBA on, and off in the BIOS. Still that's a whole letters worht (I) of prgoress in the boot process. Next

Re: Install (LILO ?) problems!

ated in my 5M /boot partiton), and the exact same problem ocours. thet is I get the first L and then infinite "40 "'s. So this means it's a problem in how I have LILO setup, right? What looks wrong with /etc/lilo.conf (the one I posted)?

Re: Install (LILO ?) problems!

uncomment the # following lines, changing the device name on the `other' line to # where your other OS' partition is. # # other=/dev/hda4 # label=HURD # restricted # alias=3 debian_test:~# exit Script done on Sat Feb 24 05:58:20 2001 Thanks for any advice on this.

Re: Install (LILO ?) problems!

On Fri Feb 23 23:48:07 2001 Lute Mullenix wrote... > >On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 09:34:24PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: >> >> This seems to have been done by the installer. I booted from the >> floppy, looked >> at /etc/lilo.conf (which had all the correct set

Re: Install (LILO ?) problems!

he correct drive geometry in the BISO, whn I can boot (from the floppy) I get a message about ignoring the bad geometry from the BIOS, and indeed the numbers printede there make no sense. Sugestions? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Install (LILO ?) problems!

On Fri Feb 23 18:57:36 2001 ktb wrote... > >On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 05:42:13PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: >> I am trying to install "stable" On an HP Vectra P200, with a 20G IDE disk. >> >> All of the install goes well, untill I reboot. Then, I get a continuois

Install (LILO ?) problems!

floppy OK. I set up a 20M /boot parttion as the first partition on the only hard disk. How can I fix this? BTW, the BIOS thinks this is onl an 8G disk, which may be part of the problem? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston S

Where are the "testing" install floppy images?

install "testing" on a new machine? I have network conectivity, but no CD on the machine I want to install this on. -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch rel

What kernel is in testing?

ort, but I alos want to try out devfs. -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an

LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Whats the deal with LD_LIBRARY_PATH in Debian? I have a ORACLE::DBD perl module that needs this set to include the Oralce shared libs. I guess I can just set this in each users .profile. Sounds like there should eb a "Debian Way" of doing this though. ?? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL

Where ar Gnome screen background pixmaps put on Debian

Just instaled the latest Gnome 1.2 from Helix, and I'm wondering where to find things like the screen backdrops? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 3

etho: card reports no resources. (potato)

I have sudddenly started geting a slew of these on the console The cars is a Intel Etherexpress Pro100 What's going on? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch releas

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