? Linux stranded ?

1999-01-18 Thread Ulrich Gruen mails again
Is it possible that Linux strands on certain occaisons? After installating Linux, I run and download several programmes from FTP. After closing and before I could login as root, I got the following message: INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes I switched to the second user

ETHERNET (3com) problems at boot: unknown interface

1999-01-14 Thread Ulrich Gruen mails again
Dear reader. I have an i386-25 with 4 Mb RAM with a 3COM 3c509 ethernet card. the problem: at boot I have the following messages: SIOCSIFADDR: operation not supported by device eth0: unknown interface SIOCSIFNETMASK: operation not supported by device SIOCSIFBRDADDR: operation not supported by d

linux instalation: error activating swap partition

1999-01-13 Thread Ulrich Gruen mails again
Dear helpful person. I have a problem with the installation of linux, and I hope that you can help me. I tried to install Debian linux, with the help of cfdisk.txt and the "Installing Debian Linux 2.0 For x86" guide. I try to install with floppies. I have an i386-25 MHz and 4MB RAM, and I'm using