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 try. Hope this helps. --David On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Shaul Karl wrote: > > 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, > > 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 error from tar? > > Thanks for any help > > Jack Morgan > > > > > Useful search interfaces to the man pages can be found at: > http://linux.wiw.org/doc/man/ and http://linux.com.hk/man/. > > -- > > -- Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (I hope this is all of the above.)
