excerpt from a recent rant:
There are *still* bugs in the 1.3 installation
(such as the problems with X).
Are the X problems in 1.3 documented anywhere? I am about
to try configuring/running X on a new 1.3.1 installation
and would appreciate any pointers here. (I have an ATI
WinTurbo
Everything seemed to go smoothly, until I rebooted.PC hangs when the
hard drive is first accessed. The letters
LI appear on the screen, with a blinking cursor after the I. If I boot
from the Custom Floppy and not the Rescue/Setup floppy, I get the $
prompt.
I am a new Debian user
In your email to me, STEVENS, TIM S., you wrote:
Everything seemed to go smoothly, until I rebooted.PC hangs when the
hard drive is first accessed. The letters
LI appear on the screen, with a blinking cursor after the I. If I boot
from the Custom Floppy and not the Rescue/Setup
On Sun, 27 Jul 1997, D. W. Wieboldt wrote:
Good suggestion. I think it is indeed timing out for want of a good
lookup. Have host name in /etc/hosts but that doesn't help. Now howto
hack sendmail into submission! Does anybody know the simple fix to the
.cf file to make it run? Thanks
On Sat, 26 Jul 1997, D. W. Wieboldt wrote:
WARNING: local host name (shiloh_a) is not qualified; fix $j in config file
It is illegal to use '_' in hostnames, and newest dns servers are enforce
this limitation AFAIK. Use '-' instead.
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On 26 Jul 1997, Graham Hughes wrote:
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D. W. Wieboldt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I just built a new Debian 1.3
This happens to me a lot. You have two options: put your hostname and
IP address in /etc/hosts, or convince sendmail that it really doesn't
need to do a DNS lookup. The second I don't remember how to do, but I
think you can manage it from the M4 stuff (which is good; .cf files
are
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D. W. Wieboldt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I just built a new Debian 1.3 system from cdrom. Lots of things are running
just fine, but somehow sendmail doesn't work. I want sendmail on this one
so I can build a beeper gateway :-) Does anybody have any clues
I just built a new Debian 1.3 system from cdrom. Lots of things are running
just fine, but somehow sendmail doesn't work. I want sendmail on this one
so I can build a beeper gateway :-) Does anybody have any clues about what
I should be looking for?
Upon startup, sendmail hangs for a couple
Hi,
There have been a few people asking about problems with PCMCIA for
Debian 1.3. The pcmcia-modules packages provided by Debian 1.3 are
broken.
I got it working a few weeks ago with some difficulties. The way to solve
it is to install a kernel-source package (either 2.0.29 or 2.0.30
Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There have been a few people asking about problems with PCMCIA for
Debian 1.3. The pcmcia-modules packages provided by Debian 1.3 are
broken.
Odd; PCMCIA was the only major component that *didn't* give me
problems when I installed on my laptop
Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There have been a few people asking about problems with PCMCIA for
Debian 1.3. The pcmcia-modules packages provided by Debian 1.3 are
broken.
Odd; PCMCIA was the only major component that *didn't* give me
problems when I installed
On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, Mark Phillips wrote:
There have been a few people asking about problems with PCMCIA for
Debian 1.3. The pcmcia-modules packages provided by Debian 1.3 are
broken.
I got it working a few weeks ago with some difficulties. The way to solve
it is to install a kernel
tmiller writes:
Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There have been a few people asking about problems with PCMCIA for
Debian 1.3. The pcmcia-modules packages provided by Debian 1.3 are
broken.
Odd; PCMCIA was the only major component that *didn't* give me
problems when I installed
Ole B Hansen
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I installed the recent stable version of debian linux on my laptop
with a 3Com EtherLink 3c589D card. There were some problems when I
installed the PCMCIA module. The cardmgr daemon couldn't be started because
of a mismatch between the kernel(2.0.29) and the PCMCIA
On Tue, 22 Jul 1997, Junbiao Zhang wrote:
of a mismatch between the kernel(2.0.29) and the PCMCIA module(2.0.30)(
I selected pcmcia-cs_2.9.5-3.deb and pcmcia-modules-2.0.30_2.9.5-3.deb under
stable/binary/admin). pcmcia-modules-2.0.29_2.9.5-2.deb could not be
installed
because it
Timothy J. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm attempting a new install on the ThinkPad 365XD w/800x600
display, 40Mb RAM, CDROM and external floppy; at boot, the system reports
root.bin loaded, then linux, then it simply halts.
I had this problem recently. Turned out that the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy J. Miller) writes:
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (minix filesystem)
[MS-DOS FS Rel. 12,FAT 0,check=n,conv=b,uid=0,gid=0,umask=022,bmap]
[me=0x0,cs=0,#f=0,fs=0,fl=0,ds=0,de=0,data=0,se=0,ts=0,ls=0]
Transaction block size = 512
[MS-DOS
On 11-Jul-97 Timothy J. Miller wrote:
I'm attempting a new install on the ThinkPad 365XD w/800x600
display, 40Mb RAM, CDROM and external floppy; at boot, the system reports
root.bin loaded, then linux, then it simply halts.
I thought that the consensus was that the 365XD cannot boot
Paul Rightley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I thought that the consensus was that the 365XD cannot boot bzImages.
I went the route of installing Debian 1.1 (with boot disks using
zImages) and then upgrading. The most direct solution is to compile
an appropriate zImage on a working Linux machine
were built from
this machine, a ThinkPad 760LD running Debian 1.3 (that I'm *trying* to
replace).
NOTE: you don't need to use this switch for the 365XD (at least on
mine). I think this problem has been fixed on later ThinkPads. YMMV.
The ThinkPad 760LD is running an upgrade from Debian
Did you try the low-memory installation procedure? It's in the install.html
and install.txt documents in the same directory as the boot floppies.
Thanks
Bruce
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have exhibited the same problem. Booting
linux floppy=thinkpad has no observable effect. All were built from
this machine, a ThinkPad 760LD running Debian 1.3 (that I'm *trying* to
replace).
The ThinkPad 760LD is running an upgrade from Debian 1.2. I
didn't have any boot problems
Hi
I own an 386sx with 4mb of RAM, installed debian 1.3 on 386 at least 4MB
it was a problem, the machine goes stopping, I dont know what happened
something wrong. I try installed debian 1.2 on my machine with at least
4MB so it works done to appear the menu installation thats fine.
Debian 1.3
Hi
I own an 386sx with 4mb of RAM, installed debian 1.3 on 386 at least 4MB
it was a problem, the machine goes stopping, I dont know what happened
something wrong. I try installed debian 1.2 on my machine with at least
4MB so it works done to appear the menu installation thats fine
On 8 Jul 1997, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
I read in a thread here I dont find now something about a bookstore
called Lehmann which distributes it with a printed manual. Anyone got
the address of that bookstore or an ISBN-number of the thing?
There will be a CD a soone as the 1.3.1 Version is
Hi!
Are there any?
I read in a thread here I dont find now something about a bookstore
called Lehmann which distributes it with a printed manual. Anyone got
the address of that bookstore or an ISBN-number of the thing?
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On 8 Jul 1997, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
I read in a thread here I dont find now something about a bookstore
called Lehmann which distributes it with a printed manual. Anyone got
the address of that bookstore or an ISBN-number of the thing?
Check out the following URL's for complete
grewer == grewer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
grewer *hmm* seems to me like the ftp in debian 1.3 is buggy or
grewer have I forgotten something?
`ncftp' is much superiour. Try it instead. (That's if you can
download it... I could MIME attach and mail it to you if you like
The md-layout-mini-howto (or something with a similar name) has some fine
background reading.
After reading it, I decided to put /usr/lib and /usr/local/lib on the
same partition, but different from the /usr partition.
I am surprised to see that with Debian installation you require /usr/local
On Thu, 26 Jun 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote:
Friends,
Is there yet an Official 1.3 CD-ROM available from anywhere?
Talk Paul Wade of Greenbush on this list. He very generously donated a
pair of 1.3 cds to our project here.
I also saw a release of the official Debian 2CD masters on
On Fri, 27 Jun 1997, Eddie Katz wrote:
I am surprised to see that with Debian installation you require /usr/local
direc
tory. I am new to Debian (not to LInux), have a 1.3 installed and my
/usr/local
is completly empty. I believe that dpkg installs everything in /usr/lib. Is
ther
e a
On Thu, 26 Jun 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote:
Friends,
Is there yet an Official 1.3 CD-ROM available from anywhere?
Talk Paul Wade of Greenbush on this list. He very generously donated a
pair of 1.3 cds to our project here.
The website is lagging. I dropped prices and am busy doing a
Friends,
Is there yet an Official 1.3 CD-ROM available from anywhere? Is it
bootable? I concur with many of you that it is *very* important to
have an official cd-rom, not primarily becase SPI could bring in a
little dough, but rather because you just don't know what you're
getting when you get
Friends,
Is there yet an Official 1.3 CD-ROM available from anywhere?
Talk Paul Wade of Greenbush on this list. He very generously donated a
pair of 1.3 cds to our project here.
the Timestamp is
Thu Jun 19 15:57:01 UTC 1997
Is it
bootable?
The binary/install CD is bootable on
On Thu, 26 Jun 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
So, what changes am I suggesting for the Release Methodology? Well,
it would be presumptuous of me to suggest changes when I don't know
what is currently in place. I would suggest that a few basic procedures
be followed though. When a change to a
Greetings! Our Debian 1.3 system is quite stable except for two
things:
1) X sessions run along fine for a while, until I must hit some key
sequence which alters the X keymap. The '9' and '(' keys
become unaccessible, and Alt-F4 is no longer recognized as the window
minimization command. I'm
I've spend a couple of hours upgrading my debian 1.2 to 1.3 (my dselect
wanted to;))
Anyway now I did a dselect-Update, then dselect-Install, and now it
wants to reinstall everything AGAIN!! *sigh*
Is there anyway to tell dselect that I've already installed the stuff???
//Regards,
Niklas
In your email to me, Niklas Hoglund, you wrote:
I've spend a couple of hours upgrading my debian 1.2 to 1.3 (my dselect
wanted to;))
Anyway now I did a dselect-Update, then dselect-Install, and now it
wants to reinstall everything AGAIN!! *sigh*
Is there anyway to tell dselect that I've
The problem is that after the A20 gate is enabled, the cache is not
invalidated and contains incorrect data for some addresses. The tecra
boot disk (in the directory tecra under the normal boot disks) fixes
this. The next issue of the regular boot disks will have the same patch
we are currently
On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote:
The same in my case too. Ideally, I would like to have seperate
partitions for /, /usr, /usr/local, /home and /root. One wants to
maintain a clean machine. ;-)
The md-layout-mini-howto (or something with a similar name) has some fine
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ftp c
ftp: can't resolve symbol 'BC'
ftp: can't resolve symbol 'PC'
ftp: can't resolve symbol 'UP'
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~#
*hmm* seems to me like the ftp in debian 1.3 is buggy or have I forgotten
something?
//Regards,
Niklas Hoglund
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On Tue, Jun 24, 1997 at 03:23:53PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The only Kernel that would *have* to have Java support compiled in would
be the one on the rescue disks. The system could install a different kernel
that would not have JAVA support.
Java support in the Linux kernel doesn't
On Jun 23, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote
Sudhakar
PS: Does my digital signature attachment bother folks reading this list.
Mutt doesn't know about this content-type, so I don't see it.
On Jun 24, Emilio Lopes wrote
It's just that sometimes there is more signature than message. Pretty
Hi
we tried to upgrate from Debian-1.2 to Debian-1.3
following the directions given in Debian home page.
There was a problem:
dpkg -i ldso_1.9.2-3.deb
(Reading database ... 20479 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace ldso 1.8.10-2 (using ldso_1.9.2-3.deb
On Wed, 25 Jun 1997, Vladimir Kolobov wrote:
Hi
we tried to upgrate from Debian-1.2 to Debian-1.3
following the directions given in Debian home page.
There was a problem:
dpkg -i ldso_1.9.2-3.deb
(Reading database ... 20479 files and directories currently installed
On Jun 24, Peter S Galbraith wrote
Another question: There are many upgrades to make to use a 2.1.X kernels.
Are there Debian packages to do these upgrades? (I have an IDE/ATAPI
PD-CD; I need 2.1.X if I ever want to see the PD side working.) --
The 2.1.X kernels come with a list
Martin Fehlaber wrote:
As I have read in Deja News others have (had?) the same problem I do.
The new Rescue Disk does not work on my (new as well) ThinkPad. Other
distrubutions do not seem to have this problem. Am I missing something
obvious? Is there a solution I am not aware of?
This
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Jun 23, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote
Sudhakar
PS: Does my digital signature attachment bother folks reading this list.
Mutt doesn't know about this content-type, so I don't see it.
I shall not use these huge digital signatures that might annoy people.
I
What Ho!
I am planning on installing Debian 1.3 on my laptop. I have had prior
success installing 1.2 on this same laptop. I prefer to clean up the
hard-disk and start from scratch. But here is the problem. This laptop
does not have a built in CDROM drive. I have had success using a PCMCIA
On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote:
I am planning on installing Debian 1.3 on my laptop. I have had prior
success installing 1.2 on this same laptop. I prefer to clean up the
hard-disk and start from scratch.
You do?
I switched to Debian a year and a half ago in the hopes
Rick Macdonald wrote:
On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote:
I am planning on installing Debian 1.3 on my laptop. I have had prior
success installing 1.2 on this same laptop. I prefer to clean up the
hard-disk and start from scratch.
You do?
I switched to Debian a year
These are my first impressions, feel free to just delete this post.
From a guy who has used Linux since 1993 or so, I found the installation
to be non-trivial:
- The use of a single boot disk didn't help me with my Adaptec SCSI card.
I *think* there are alternative kernels in some
Peter S Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
A question...
- I assume that the list of installed packages is in some file. Is it
possible to transfer this file to another PC to instruct Debian to
install the same pacakges? I often install on several PCs and this
would be a nice
- I didn't really like the interface of dselect. It's easy to get lost in
there. Perhaps changing the background colour according to the context?
(different background colour during conflict resolution; this package
suggests this other (in blue foreground); this package conflicts
Peter S Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
From a guy who has used Linux since 1993 or so, I found the installation
to be non-trivial:
...
- I didn't really like the interface of dselect. It's easy to get lost in
there. Perhaps changing the background colour according to the
On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote:
On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote:
I am planning on installing Debian 1.3 on my laptop. I have had prior
success installing 1.2 on this same laptop. I prefer to clean up the
hard-disk and start from scratch.
You do?
I
First, let me thank all those that responded to my `impressions' post.
I'll reply to this one, and leave it at that.
(I thought Debian's installation asked whether you were really sure about
running mke2fs,
It does, it does. Just a case of initial culture shock.
- I assume that the list
SC == Sudhakar Chandrasekharan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
SC PS: Does my digital signature attachment bother folks reading this
SC list.
It's just that sometimes there is more signature than message. Pretty
annoying, IMO.
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On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
An idea about `menu':
I think the a frustrating thing with Linux is finding out what's
available. I think what would attract people to Linux is *showing* them
all that's available.
You mean package-wise? Generally I check out
As I have read in Deja News others have (had?) the same problem I do.
The new Rescue Disk does not work on my (new as well) ThinkPad. Other
distrubutions do not seem to have this problem. Am I missing something
obvious? Is there a solution I am not aware of?
Thanx,
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Boot from the tecra boot disk in disks-i386/current/tecra/resc1440.bin
This works on Thinkpads, too.
Thanks
Bruce
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Martin Fehlaber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
As I have read in Deja News others have (had?) the same problem I do.
The new Rescue Disk does not work on my (new as well) ThinkPad. Other
distrubutions do not seem to have this problem. Am I missing something
obvious? Is there a solution I am not
Ed Down wrote:
On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote:
On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote:
I am planning on installing Debian 1.3 on my laptop. I have had prior
success installing 1.2 on this same laptop. I prefer to clean up the
hard-disk and start from scratch
I think the a frustrating thing with Linux is finding out what's
available. I think what would attract people to Linux is *showing* them
all that's available.
You mean package-wise?
Yeah.
What's missing is an X tool to display the
package description
On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
I'm not sure if fvwm95 menu entries calling a simple tk/tcl program to
display info on one package is better than a styandalone tk/tcl package
to provide info on all available packages. The standalone package
could be used with any window
I was thinking that perhaps this might be a
decent Java application: you could write essentially the same code to
run locally in your Java-enabled kernel, and those with web sites that
mirror debian packages could use the same code (with a few modifications)
to run in Netscape across
On Tue, 24 Jun 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
decent Java application: you could write essentially the same code to
run locally in your Java-enabled kernel, and those with web sites that
I think this is a very good idea - imagine when Debian is ported to other
hardware platforms and
I was thinking that perhaps this might be a
decent Java application: you could write essentially the same code to
run locally in your Java-enabled kernel, and those with web sites that
mirror debian packages could use the same code (with a few modifications)
to run in Netscape
Will Lowe wrote:
The point of the whole idea was to provide a way for people to get
information on and install packages. We discussed the idea that finding
linux software can sometimes be difficult because we didn't know where to
look and the fact that, while dpkg is a _GREAT_
I think this is a very good idea - imagine when Debian is ported to other
hardware platforms and (dreaming maybe) other OS's - one JAVA application
could handle the installation regardless of Hardware and OS.
Wait: you've apparently missed the thread that I've been carrying on all
On 20 Jun 1997, Ben Gertzfield wrote:
Ah hah!
You have to re-build your kernel, unfortunately, The Deskpro series
have been known to be really sneaky about where they hide their BIOS
information.
My 1985 Compaq DeskPro 8086 had problems caused by a weird BIOS. It looks
like they haven't
I upgraded a box from 1.2 to 1.3, and now my NIS doesn't work. A yppasswd
reports the user as unknown, and a ypwhich results in a segfault. A ypcat
reports that there is no server bound to the NIS domain. The yp server is a
debian box still running 1.2. I tried upgrading a separate debian box
On Fri, 20 Jun 1997, Scott Barker wrote:
I upgraded a box from 1.2 to 1.3, and now my NIS doesn't work. A yppasswd
reports the user as unknown, and a ypwhich results in a segfault. A ypcat
reports that there is no server bound to the NIS domain. The yp server is a
debian box still running
Tried to install debian 1.3 from the TRI-Linux CD.
At some point during Linux loading, the system reboots and enters
an infinite cycle.
I have an Adaptec 2940U and tried to pass aic7xxx=no_reset
to the kernel, but I don't know what the kernel name is!
I tried:
boot: default aic7xxx=no_reset
boot
None worked. Any idea how to get passed this hurdle?
Try 'linux'--you can probably find out for sure by hitting TAB.
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:Tried to install debian 1.3 from
Nathan E Norman wrote:
I'm guessing the kernel name is 'linux'.
No matter, as you can hit the tab key at the boot prompt to
see a list of valid boot images.
I tried that, but it didn't work. Perhaps this hints to a bad image?
I'll try booting with the same diskette on another
Peter S Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The PC is a Compaq Deskpro 6000:
PPro 200, 64 MB
Adaptec 2940U SCSI (IRQ 11) w/ one 4.3 GB disk attached.
ATAPI PD-CD (The CD shows up as /dev/hdc on Slackware)
Matrox Millenium graphics card, IRQ11
SMC EtherPower 10/100 (Tulip-based)
Ben Gertzfield wrote:
The PC is a Compaq Deskpro 6000:
PPro 200, 64 MB
Adaptec 2940U SCSI (IRQ 11) w/ one 4.3 GB disk attached.
ATAPI PD-CD (The CD shows up as /dev/hdc on Slackware)
Matrox Millenium graphics card, IRQ11
SMC EtherPower 10/100 (Tulip-based) Ethernet card.
--- Peter S Galbraith wrote:
However, I don't think your 2940U is the problem. The no_reset
parameter is to prevent the HBA from resetting the SCSI bus, which it
does by default to allow all the SCSI devices on the bus to initialise.
Then I don't need the `linux' label anyway.
...
The last
Joost Kooij wrote:
Building a kernel with exact
support for your hardware might get you `over the hill'.
Just include support for all you need plus ramdisk and initrd support for
the installation rootdisk. Can't remember if a 'rdev /dev/ramdisk' is
Re: Book
I don't think there is enough demand to warrant publishing a Debian book
on paper yet. If such a document existed on other media, I (and quite a
few others) wouldn't mind using some supplies to print out, punch, and
bind a copy. I prefer documentation that can be updated by easily
From: Paul Wade [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: stupid non-free restrictions
Is there anything in non-free that can't be given away?
I'd suggest you read the licenses in there really carefully. We don't
make any guarantees about the way we have interpreted the software
licenses,
On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:
From: Paul Wade [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: stupid non-free restrictions
Is there anything in non-free that can't be given away?
I'd suggest you read the licenses in there really carefully. We don't
make any guarantees about the way we have
On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Paul Wade wrote:
Re: stupid non-free restrictions
Is there anything in non-free that can't be given away? If you buy a CD-R
from me, I can put the non-free software on it. Why? Because I will put it
on a CD-R that you don't buy from me at no charge. The CD-ROM vendors
From: Paul Wade [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I understand that you can't make guarantees and put SPI in a position of
potential liability.
Right.
Is there anything excluded from bo or contrib on the Official Debian CD?
No.
Is everything in main and contrib under GPL?
There are a variety of licenses
( I took out all the extra cc's on this thread. You're welcome. )
On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote:
Be very careful here. You have made the common blunder when thinking about
non-free. It has absolutely nothing to do with money! The fact that you
are not intending to sell the CD does
On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:
Is there anything excluded from bo or contrib on the Official Debian CD?
No.
I hope so, because I use a lot of it for my (commercial) operations.
We intend them to be OK for this.
Good. That means things haven't changed since I first viewed
On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Erv Walter wrote:
[...]
Let me clairfy. non-free contains packages that have some sort of
restriction either on use or on distribution or on modification. Not
all of the packages in non-free can be put on the Official CD although
some of them can. debian-cd
Will there be a debian-1.3-fixed (bo-fixed) directory soon?
bo-updates just contains a bunch of individual packages.
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I have an order in with I-Connect, but for some reason it is taking them a
long time to get me a CD out this time.
I CAN'T wait any longer. I have 5 servers sitting here and my deadline to
deliver them is quicky approaching. If I don't have a Deb 1.3 CD in my hands
by Friday I am screwed.
I
On Tue, 17 Jun 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote:
Will there be a debian-1.3-fixed (bo-fixed) directory soon?
bo-updates just contains a bunch of individual packages.
Until these bo-updates packages have been well tested they are not
candidates for bo-fixed. As soon as such candidates exist
On Tue, 17 Jun 1997 14:38:44 -0400 (EDT), Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Until these bo-updates packages have been well tested they are not
candidates for bo-fixed.
Is there a Packages file I can be downloading to help test these updates?
I'm using dpkg-ftp on stable, non-free and
Dale Scheetz wrote:
On Sun, 15 Jun 1997, Joerg Friedrich wrote:
Hi everybody!
I'm new to Debian. Yesterday I tried to install Debian 1.3, and I got 2
problems:
1. Installation.
Everythig workes fine, until I selected 'Make the Hard Disk Bootable'.
There was an error message
On Sun, Jun 15, 1997 at 01:12:33PM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote:
2. Compiling a Custom Kernel
I ran 'make menuconfig' in /usr/src/linux. I can't change the Soundblaster
Settings (Base Adress, IRQ, Hi and Low-DMA...). There is allways the
message 'You entered an invalid value'.
What did I
On Sun, Jun 15, 1997 at 11:24:53AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote:
If you are using OS/2 Boot Manager, you should NOT select the 'Make the
Hard Disk Bootable' option. Instead you should install LILO on the root
partition of your hard disk (the /dev/sdb7 partition should be made
bootable, however).
On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
On Sun, Jun 15, 1997 at 11:24:53AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote:
If you are using OS/2 Boot Manager, you should NOT select the 'Make the
Hard Disk Bootable' option. Instead you should install LILO on the root
partition of your hard disk (the
On Fri, 13 Jun 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:
All of the cheap CD outlets will soon be selling the Official CD at
very good prices (lunch money, and I mean McDonalds). I'd suggest you
get the book separately from the CD.
Will they include all the .deb packages? or just a selected few as they
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