When I run less on a 0 byte file, it displays its help screen (same as
if you less a normal file and press 'h').
Example:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/work>touch foo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/work>less foo
SUMMARY OF LESS COMMANDS
Commands marked with * may be preceded by a number, N
On Aug 11, 7:25pm, Bruce Perens wrote:
> Subject: installation boot fails with standard bootdisk on 486SX/33
: From: "Christopher R. Hertel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
: > On my system (brand-new AMD-486DX4-120), the error that I get tells
: > me that the failure is occurring as the kernel is being
: > d
Make sure that nothing but the 3C509 uses address 0x300. This is necessary
for the 3C509's ancient plug-and-play scheme.
Thanks
Bruce
:
: Hello,
:
: I tried to install Debian 1.1 on a 4GB Partition using the kernel 2.07
: with NCR8010 Support. The disk is a Quantum Atlas.
: After writing 255 inodes on disk the formatting stopped with
: the message "Can't resolve symbol llseek".
:
: Does anybody know if the formatting should wo
>
>Hi
>
>I had an initial problem with diald and solved it by turning off all the
>modem-related options in the ppp config file (can't remember where, but
Well, I've somehow solved my diald problems with a lot of help from a variety
of places. Now if only I could get Windows 95 to wait long eno
> On Mon, 12 Aug 1996 19:40:00 +0200, Jean Orloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> said:
> I'm still unsuccessfully fighting my chat problems reported over 2 weeks
> ago. [snip]
> Then the chatscript sends a character over the line, and hopelessly waits for
> the reply (a login prompt): just as if t
Hi
I had an initial problem with diald and solved it by turning off all the
modem-related options in the ppp config file (can't remember where, but
somewhere under /etc). My problem was somewhat different from yours in
that my modem would connect to my ISP and then it woud cut before I could
> On Mon, 12 Aug 1996 12:48:47 +, Karsten Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> said:
> I tried to install Debian 1.1 on a 4GB Partition using the kernel 2.07
> with NCR8010 Support. The disk is a Quantum Atlas.
> After writing 255 inodes on disk the formatting stopped with
> the message "Can'
On Mon, 12 Aug 1996, Christian Lynbech wrote:
> I upgraded to 2.0.0 and found much to my pleasant surprise that my
> soundblaster card had started to work. Then I upgraded to 2.0.6 and it
> stopped working again (I haven't had time to properly report it yet,
> so I haven't the error message at ha
I'm still unsuccessfully fighting my chat problems reported over 2 weeks
ago. For memory:
# pppd connect 'chat -v '
fires ppp OK,
starts chat OK,
dials the correct number,
waits for '00',
find it in the 'CONNECT 28800' response from the modem
Then the chatscript sends a character over the li
On 12 Aug 1996, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Hello..
>
> I'm not sure why the module problems exist (I only had those
> problems with old modules lying around), but I can explain the
> make-kpkg stuff.
It seems to be that the kernel was looking for..as mr. Perens has
point
Hi!
I've upgraded to Debian 1.1 two days ago and have some doubts...
I used to have installed lots of packages I couldn't find in a debianized
form (fetchpop, ImageMagick, and lots more). I see several alternatives,
but I'd like a recommendation...
1) Wait till somebody releases a debianized pa
Hi!
Why does kerneld load the IPX module while the localhost's loopback
interface is being set up? (ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1)
I see no need to it... stracing ifconfig shows that it makes an IPX call
(and also an AX.25 and some other calls). This didn't happened with and
old Slackware based installati
On Sun, 11 Aug 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
>
> The module it is looking for is /lib/modules/current/net/8390.o .
> Try pre-loading it with "modprobe".
>
That got it..thanks Bruce...Now ill go and figure out Why it wants
that...i *think* i turned all of the specific net work off infavor of
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As Shaya Potter said:
>
> On Sat, 10 Aug 1996, Dan Bergman wrote:
>
> > Well its been a few years since I used unix.. so
> >
> > 3. In what ini file do I put my aliases so I get em all the time when I
> > start a bash
> > shell in a xterm window?
>
> put them in both .bash_rc and .bash_profile
Since my last post, I have had a number of requests for a nfs.o
module which works with the 2.0.6 kernel. I have therefore uploaded a
custom kernel deb package for those people who are still having
problems with nfs. The bug has been reported to the maintainers (bug
#3999 of Aug 1st -- Thanks [E
> 1. The Bourne Again SHell seems to require a '.\' before the
|
I guess you mean "./", don't you? ---+
> executable name in order to be able to execute the program (all
> programs in the /usr/games directory).
Check your PATH settin
Chris> 1. This question is more of a general bash question and if I
Chris> shouldn't be posting it here someone let me know and I won't pester
Chris> this group about it any more. All the following applies to the root
Chris> account, I haven't checked it for an ordinary user yet.
[lots of
Christian Lynbech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I upgraded to 2.0.0 and found much to my pleasant surprise that my
> soundblaster card had started to work. Then I upgraded to 2.0.6 and it
> stopped working again (I haven't had time to properly report it yet,
> so I haven't the error message at han
Dear list,
I have been trying to get latex work on my Debian-1.1 with
2.0.0 kernel on and off for the last couple of weeks.
First, following your advice, I replaced the latex-2e-4.deb
with latex-2e-7.deb and also installed mflib-1.0-8.deb.
I thought that everything was sorted. At last I could
comp
On Sat, 10 Aug 1996, Dan Bergman wrote:
> Well its been a few years since I used unix.. so
>
> 1. How do I used FIND to find say.. core files and delete em I know that
> it should
> look something like this... find -name core -exec rm
find / -name core -exec rm {} \;
|
Ok, I've got a few questions for problems that are for the most part
annoying the hell out of me.
1. The Bourne Again SHell seems to require a '.\' before the
executable name in order
to be able to execute the program (all programs in the /usr/games
directory).
2. I've created .bashrc, .bash_pro
Dear list members,
I am looking for NFS mountable debian mirrors in Europe.
TIA.
--
Billy C.-M. Chow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian Linux
Hello,
I tried to install Debian 1.1 on a 4GB Partition using the kernel 2.07
with NCR8010 Support. The disk is a Quantum Atlas.
After writing 255 inodes on disk the formatting stopped with
the message "Can't resolve symbol llseek".
Does anybody know if the formatting should work in general
and w
Hi Eric --
You said:
> Problem: sound module insists on looking at IRQ 7 ("sb: Interrupt test
> on IRQ 7 failed - device disabled" or something like that). Need it to
> look at IRQ 5.
>
> Hardware: unknown brand 8-bit Soundblaster-compatible mono... jumper-set
> to IRQ 5 by choice. Port 220, DM
Bruce you wrote:
> For Debian, you can do the installation using the 5 floppies, and then all
> other software can be auto-loaded by "dselect" via FTP. We can do better
> than that, and will in 1.2 if I get time (or a volunteer to work on the
> installation system).
But using NFS is more fun and
> "Richard" == "Richard G Roberto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Richard> On Fri, 9 Aug 1996, Derek Lee wrote:
>> I have Real Audio working on my debian box. I am running 2.0.0 kernel
>> which contains the appropriate Voxware sound driver. There was no need
>> to install USSLite.
>>
>> Are your
> eval `dircolors -b /usr/local/etc/colour-ls.rc`
> alias ls='ls --color=auto ';
> alias dir='ls --color=auto --format=vertical';
> alias vdir='ls --color=auto --format=long';
> Erick, is there a way that you can persuade/hack dircolors to do what the old
> one did? Or put a note i
> Can we please put /opt -> /usr/opt and the empty /opt tree in the base
> package, before things get any worse ?
>
> Also I propose to mandate in the policy manual that packages which use
> /opt should provide appropriate links or files in
> /opt/{bin,lib,man,include,info,doc} and that packages w
>When I installed Debian 2 days ago, I was wishing that instead of the 3
>"base" floppies, it could at least use a .tar.gz file containing
>the same stuff somewhere on an existing ext2 partition. A small change
>(?) like that would make the install a lot easier.
It is possible to do so. you
Joey Hess writes:
> Is there shadow password support for debian yet? (Or PAM?)
shadow is under project/experimental. libpam was uploaded a few days ago.
Michael
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On Sun, 11 Aug 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
Hi everybody,
> For Debian, you can do the installation using the 5 floppies, and then all
> other software can be auto-loaded by "dselect" via FTP. We can do better
> than that, and will in 1.2 if I get time (or a volunteer to work on the
> installation s
> I just installed fileutils 3.13-3, and now my 'ls' is screwed up. I
ls isn't screwed up. RTFM.
> removed color-ls as it said I was supposed to. I remember reading about
> how color-ls is now included in fileutils. However there is no color-ls
> file in my /usr/bin directory anymore, there
I have a SoundBlaster 32 pnp audio card. When this card is installed,
my 3Com 3C509B ethernet card is not recognized by Linux at boot time.
The 3C509B is also a pnp device, but pnp is turned off and the card is
manually configured. There aren't any interrupt or I/O conflicts that I
can identify.
after running dselect and installing a bunch of stuff.
I finished install.
Now I can't find the ftp option when I go back into dselect.
why?
how do I get it back.
how do I ftp with dpkg, is it possible?
?
thanks,
Joel
Hi,
I'm not sure why the module problems exist (I only had those
problems with old modules lying around), but I can explain the
make-kpkg stuff.
Older versions of what is now called kernel-package used to be
part of the kernel-source package (I think that kernel-source
package
> On Mon, 12 Aug 96 03:31 BST, Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Randy Gobbel writes ("How to make dselect shut up?"):
>> I've installed xpaint on my system, and every time I run dselect it complains
>> about pbmplus being unavailable--even though pbmplus has been superseded by
>> netpbm,
Bruce:
> Try running "depmod -a" after you install a new kernel and modules.
> That might fix the undefined symbols.
From: Jeff Mickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Yes after i wrote the originall message i gave this a try..sadly no
> it did not fix it..
The module it is looking for is /lib/modules/curr
From: Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> When I installed Debian 2 days ago, I was wishing that instead of the 3
> "base" floppies, it could at least use a .tar.gz file containing
> the same stuff somewhere on an existing ext2 partition. A small change (?)
> like that would make the install a lot easi
Me: New user of Debian Linux on 486.
Problem: sound module insists on looking at IRQ 7 ("sb: Interrupt test
on IRQ 7 failed - device disabled" or something like that). Need it to
look at IRQ 5.
Hardware: unknown brand 8-bit Soundblaster-compatible mono... jumper-set
to IRQ 5 by choice. Port 22
On Sun, 11 Aug 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
>
> Try running "depmod -a" after you install a new kernel and modules.
> That might fix the undefined symbols.
Yes after i wrote the originall message i gave this a try..sadly no
it did not fix it..
> Regarding the net-pf-X problems, these wil
On Sun, 11 Aug 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
> For Debian, you can do the installation using the 5 floppies, and then all
> other software can be auto-loaded by "dselect" via FTP. We can do better
> than that, and will in 1.2 if I get time (or a volunteer to work on the
> installation system).
When I
> How do I either modify an existing boot installation disk, or make my
> own, to incorporate this patch?
Boot floppies for 1.1 are MSDOS filesystems. The file "linux" contains
the kernel. Just replace it.
Bruce
Try running "depmod -a" after you install a new kernel and modules.
That might fix the undefined symbols.
Regarding the net-pf-X problems, these will not kill your system, but the
fix is to add "alias net-pf-4 off" and "alias net-pf-5 off" in
/etc/conf.modules . These should probably be done for yo
For Debian, you can do the installation using the 5 floppies, and then all
other software can be auto-loaded by "dselect" via FTP. We can do better
than that, and will in 1.2 if I get time (or a volunteer to work on the
installation system).
Thanks
Bruce
There's a ThinkPad FAQ in the Linux FAQ collection.
Bruce
Hi, as I warned, I have many more questions. Here are the first three:
1. This question is more of a general bash question and if I
shouldn't be posting it here someone let me know and I won't
pester this group about it any more. All the following applies
to the root account, I haven't checked it
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim 'The Unslept' Sailer)
> I believe I *hate* Adaptek 2940 controllers :( The old system
> had a 1542b... everything worked fine. I recompiled the 2.0.11 to
> include the aic7xxx drivers and the PCI support, swapped everything
> over, watched as the system booted, an
Randy Gobbel writes ("How to make dselect shut up?"):
> I've installed xpaint on my system, and every time I run dselect it complains
> about pbmplus being unavailable--even though pbmplus has been superseded by
> netpbm, and I have netpbm installed. Is there some way to get deselect to
> stop com
On Aug 9, 8:18am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Subject: installation boot fails with standard bootdisk on 486SX/33
: Installation fails on this old machine shortly after hitting return
: at the 'Boot Parameters' prompt using the standard bootdisk. Linux
: 1.2.13 runs fine.
: I suspect (based upon bu
Craig Sanders writes ("Re: lots of dpkg ideas for discussion (was Re: GCC frepo
(continue))"):
...
> Extracting the status line is easy. finding where the files are located
> isn't so easy.
You can get dselect to find the files for you.
> maybe it's simpler to just leave the job of finding wher
I just wanted to update to the latest Debian-1.1.4 with
netstd_2.06-1, but dpkg gives the following error:
(Reading database ... 20260 files and directories currently
installed.)
Preparing to replace netstd (using netstd_2.06-1.deb) ...
Can't locate DebianNet.pm in @INC at /usr/sbin/update-inet
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