Re: BUG?! no pcmcia ethernet on battery power

2000-02-08 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Feb 08, 2000 at 08:57:31AM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i wonder if there is some fundamental problem w/ patching fsck to have > an option to ask the user for confirmation before fsck-ing...actually, > what program checks the mount count? is it something other than fsck? fsck calls

Re: BUG?! no pcmcia ethernet on battery power

2000-02-08 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 12:02:59PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > > > to digress even further, does anyone know how to get fsck to postpone > > running until next boot? what happens to me is that i'll be in a hurry > > to get at some of the data on my laptop, so i'll turn it on, but > > wh

Lilo on dell 7500

2000-02-08 Thread Christian DeKonink
Hi I just installed debian on my dell inspiron 7500 It is coexisting with NT. I can boot from the floppy just fine, but when i try to boot from the hard disk it get to start lilo but hangs at this point LI Any suggestions clues flames? -- Christian DeKonink Technical Support Engineer Sendma

Re: Lilo on dell 7500

2000-02-08 Thread Greg Woods
Christian DeKonink wrote: > > Hi I just installed debian on my dell inspiron 7500 > It is coexisting with NT. > > I can boot from the floppy just fine, but when i try to boot from the > hard disk it get to start lilo but hangs at this point > > LI > > Any suggestions clues flames? > One tiny

Re: Lilo on dell 7500

2000-02-08 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Tue, Feb 08, 2000 at 11:36:12AM -0800, Christian DeKonink wrote: > Hi I just installed debian on my dell inspiron 7500 > It is coexisting with NT. > > I can boot from the floppy just fine, but when i try to boot from the > hard disk it get to start lilo but hangs at this point > > LI > > >

RE: Lilo on dell 7500

2000-02-08 Thread Cathy Cramer
One tiny flamedon't assume just because someone has installed Debian and Lilo that they have access to the documentation and man pages. ;-)

package compilation madness

2000-02-08 Thread Drew Parsons
Running on the theory that it might help speed up my Pentium II system (debatable, but that's beside the point), I've tried recompiling a selection of packages with pentium optimisation, downloading the debian source and running `./debian/rules binary`. However, after having done this, every time

Re: Lilo on dell 7500 - disk geom

2000-02-08 Thread Christian DeKonink
OK I've been hearing that flame recently, maybe I'll take listen to it more. The problem is that my disk geometry is set to 240 heads 63 sectors and 1299 cylinders. I would rather not change this manually. My swap part starts at 566 and ends at 601. My linux partition starts at cylinder 602 and e

shutdown/poweroff on vaio z505r

2000-02-08 Thread Thomas 'Mike' Michlmayr
hi! i just installed potato on my new vaio, and most stuff works pretty fine so far. but "halt -p"/poweroff does not power down the machine, the last message is something like "power down", and then the machine keeps running in that state. any black magic i forgot to apply? -- Thomas 'Mike' Mic

Re: package compilation madness

2000-02-08 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Tue, Feb 08, 2000 at 12:47:16PM -0800, Drew Parsons wrote: [...] > An irritating problem. Would anyone happen to know why compiled packages > are getting "upgraded" and replaced in this way? I don't know why... maybe it's because the packages one makes for oneself are in no section? Maybe they

Re: shutdown/poweroff on vaio z505r

2000-02-08 Thread matthschulz
On Tue, 08 Feb 2000, Thomas 'Mike' Michlmayr wrote: > i just installed potato on my new vaio, and most stuff works pretty fine > so far. but "halt -p"/poweroff does not power down the machine, the last > message is something like "power down", and then the machine keeps running > in that state. an

Re: Lilo on dell 7500 - disk geom

2000-02-08 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Tue, Feb 08, 2000 at 12:52:10PM -0800, Christian DeKonink wrote: > OK I've been hearing that flame recently, maybe I'll take listen to it > more. > > The problem is that my disk geometry is set to 240 heads 63 sectors and > 1299 cylinders. I would rather not change this manually. > > My swap p