On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 10:20:46AM +0900, Jack Morgan wrote:
haven't been installed yet. I believe that hwclock and date commands should
help but I haven't got them to work. and no man pages :-(
Question: how can I set my bios clock to this century? or a workaround for
the future time stamp
I just did a clean install of debian potato on my Toshiba 2100cds. My bios
clock reads Thu Jan 4 23:17:51 JST 1990. So when I use dselect to install
numerous packages it stalls due to tar archive error that says ...future
time stamp..etc This is very frustrating since any info, e.g. man
Jack,
Shaul has replied with reference material, but I had some problems
with setting the hw clock. I got many answers =-- new bios, etc.
Then someone suggested that I reboot with a dos floppy, set the hw
clock to this century and that fixed my problem with two old
machines.
It is worth a
Michael Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do you have hwclock running? I will assume you have it but no man pages
yet.
Basically, you enter a command like:
hwclock --set --date=9/22/96 16:45:05
This sets the bios clock to the correct time. Just change the part in
quotes. Then you want to
I just did a clean install of debian potato on my Toshiba 2100cds. My bios
clock reads Thu Jan 4 23:17:51 JST 1990. So when I use dselect to install
numerous packages it stalls due to tar archive error that says ...future
time stamp..etc This is very frustrating since any info, e.g. man pages,
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