Re: Fixing the Master Boot Record

1999-11-01 Thread Bill Leach
Hi Bryan; First, you did not need to do anything to your mbr. Your machine was just responding to the fact that the floppy that you had in the drive was not a bootable floppy. It sounds as though you need to create a bootable DOS floppy. I presume based on what you have said that your machine

Re: Fixing the Master Boot Record

1999-11-01 Thread Bill Leach
Hi Bryan; First, you did not need to do anything to your mbr. Your machine was just responding to the fact that the floppy that you had in the drive was not a bootable floppy. It sounds as though you need to create a bootable DOS floppy. I presume based on what you have said that your machine

Re: Help: exim not accepting mail!

1999-10-26 Thread Bill Leach
Hi Drew; Did you tell dpkg during the installation to run it as a deamon? inetd _should_ launch exim as the virtual package for mail otherwise. It sounds as though your problem was indeed different than the one that I experienced. I have not tried to use exim on any potato machine except as a da

Re: Help: exim not accepting mail!

1999-10-26 Thread Bill Leach
Hi Drew; Did you tell dpkg during the installation to run it as a deamon? inetd _should_ launch exim as the virtual package for mail otherwise. It sounds as though your problem was indeed different than the one that I experienced. I have not tried to use exim on any potato machine except as a da

Re: Help: exim not accepting mail!

1999-10-26 Thread Bill Leach
In this case it is most probably NOT a problem with sockets, RPC, inetd, etc. I had two machines that "suffered" from this problem when upgraded. The apparent problem is that there was more than one "common practice" way of configuring the exim-fetchmail relationship in bo, hamm, slink that will n

Re: Help: exim not accepting mail!

1999-10-26 Thread Bill Leach
In this case it is most probably NOT a problem with sockets, RPC, inetd, etc. I had two machines that "suffered" from this problem when upgraded. The apparent problem is that there was more than one "common practice" way of configuring the exim-fetchmail relationship in bo, hamm, slink that will n

Re: Help: exim not accepting mail!

1999-10-26 Thread Bill Leach
Hi Drew; I have been running potato on the machine that handles mail for a long time now but remember having the problem you described. I wish I was more sure that this is your problem than I am but... In your fetchmailrc file I think you need: set invisible (near the top) and smt

Re: Help: exim not accepting mail!

1999-10-26 Thread Bill Leach
Hi Drew; I have been running potato on the machine that handles mail for a long time now but remember having the problem you described. I wish I was more sure that this is your problem than I am but... In your fetchmailrc file I think you need: set invisible (near the top) and smt

Re: Bondwell laptop and unknown type partition

1999-10-22 Thread Bill Leach
I did a clean install on a Compaq 1255 that I had never booted into Windoz. This one came with "DOCS" but it they were typical, don't worry you arn't missing anything useful!! It had such an unidentified partition which I deleted. AFAIK, there were no "ill effects". On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 11

Re: Bondwell laptop and unknown type partition

1999-10-22 Thread Bill Leach
I did a clean install on a Compaq 1255 that I had never booted into Windoz. This one came with "DOCS" but it they were typical, don't worry you arn't missing anything useful!! It had such an unidentified partition which I deleted. AFAIK, there were no "ill effects". On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 11

Re: Trouble booting debian on IBM 365XD?

1999-10-18 Thread Bill Leach
Did (does) the installation floppy (resc1440.bin or whatever) booth the machine? If so, at the initial "boot:" prompt type "rescue root=/dev/hda1". See help (ALT-F1) about boot methods. That should boot your "normal" system except that the kernel itself is read off of the "rescue floppy". As roo

Re: Trouble booting debian on IBM 365XD?

1999-10-18 Thread Bill Leach
Did (does) the installation floppy (resc1440.bin or whatever) booth the machine? If so, at the initial "boot:" prompt type "rescue root=/dev/hda1". See help (ALT-F1) about boot methods. That should boot your "normal" system except that the kernel itself is read off of the "rescue floppy". As roo

IBM 365XD won't boot

1999-10-18 Thread Bill Leach
David; I don't know anything about your machine but that isn't one of the "Thinkpad" IBMs is it? In absence of specific knowledge I would suggest that you look at the "Tecra" disks. Also I note that there are some note about Thinkpads (some sort of boot command line option required). I don't k

IBM 365XD won't boot

1999-10-18 Thread Bill Leach
David; I don't know anything about your machine but that isn't one of the "Thinkpad" IBMs is it? In absence of specific knowledge I would suggest that you look at the "Tecra" disks. Also I note that there are some note about Thinkpads (some sort of boot command line option required). I don't k