Kent West wrote:
>
> Once you exit out of the "make menuconfig" step, the "Debian way" of
> compiling a kernel is next.
>
> "make-kpkg kernel_image" should be the only thing you have to do. It'll
> compile the kernel and modules, put everything where it needs to be,
> reconfigure lilo.conf to use
Liam Black wrote:
> But what do I do now? There is no /usr/src/linux directory on my machine,
> and I've never dealt with reconfiguring/recompiling the kernel (which seems
> to be something I have to do?)
Yup, if you want sound you'll need to recompile a kernel.
>
> Is there an "easy" way to do
of the
box, but I can't use DHCP.
Any ideas???
Thanks,
Andy
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io archive of the same filesystem:
#find /home -xdev |cpio --create >/dev/nst0
the tape spins and then stops and rewinds and then spins and stops
etc...
Any ideas how to make this work nicer?
Thanks,
Andy
P.S. please cc me on any replies.
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Ser
Hans Steinraht wrote:
>
> --
> Hi,
>
> I'm just new to Debian and installed the potato version from floppy.
> Next I want to do is installing X.
>
> With tasksel I downloaded and installed all the packages.
>
> After configuring all with the graphical tool I get the following
> error:
>
Peter Palmreuther wrote:
>
> Hello Andrew,
>
> On Thursday, September 27, 2001 at 4:44:34 PM,
> you wrote (at least in part):
>
> > Hi All,
> > I'm trying to run ntpd here to both set the clock and then keep it
> > synchronized with our ntp server. My problem is that ntpd seems to be
> > trying
Hi All,
I'm trying to run ntpd here to both set the clock and then keep it
synchronized with our ntp server. My problem is that ntpd seems to be
trying to slew the clock instead of setting it. Here is an example:
wolf:/home/andrew.dixon# date
Fri Jun 15 03:46:54 EDT 2001
wolf:/home/andrew.dixon#
Hi All,
last night I "#apt-get upgrade"d my system and this morning X was
broken. I tracked the problem down to my new set up not liking the
"1600x1200" mode in my "/etc/X11/XF86Config-4". The other modes work
fine.
I'm using:
XFree86 4.1
Matrox G450 card with mga_drv.o and mga_h
Hi All,
Could anyone enlighten me as to what type of file /dev/log is? ls -l
gives the following:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/include/linux$ ls -l /dev/log
srw-rw-rw-1 root root0 Aug 29 08:54 /dev/log
^
Specifically I was wondering what the leading "s" mean
Alan Shutko wrote:
>
> Andrew Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Does anyone know how to set xemacs to use 4 spaces when you hit the tab
> > key?
>
> What mode?
C programming mode. (That's a guess. I don't know anything about
xemacs mo
Ramesh Venkitaswaran wrote:
>
> Hi Andy
> You could try this command - It worked for me.
> M-x edit-tab-stops
>
Nope. It doesn't do anything. I can't even get it to break! Now I
know something is wrong.
> HTH
> --
> Ramesh.
>
> On Mon, 20 Aug
Hi All,
Does anyone know how to set xemacs to use 4 spaces when you hit the tab
key? I've tried adding:
;;Use spaces instead of tabs
(setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil)
;;set the width to 4
(setq-default tab-width 4)
to the end of my ~/.emacs file but it still looks like it's using 2
spaces (and
Hi All,
I just downloaded the source to ae from the Debian home page and when I
try to untar it I get the following error:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ tar -zxvf ae_962.orig.tar.gz
gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Victor wrote:
This because the precompiled packages are
> prepared for a generic i386 while I have an i686 processor.
>
>
This is totally off topic but I was just wondering. . .
What is an i686. i586 is the generic family of processors that the
Pentium belongs to if IIRC but I didn't realize
"Randolph S. Kahle" wrote:
>
> I may have messed up my package database...
ximian may have messed it up too. I find that it's a good idea to stay
away from ximian and use the gnome stuff from the Debian archives.
Ximian writes great stuff but they don't do a very good job packaging it
so it cre
Jor-el wrote:
>
> Andrew,
>
> This sounds like the noexec flag is in effect. This would prevent
> executing programs on an NFS mount. Do "mount" and see if the noexec flag
> shows up as one of the options listed.
>
That was it. I just remounted it with "defaults" instead of "rw" and
it'
Hi All,
I've got a perl script here that won't run in my home director (which is
nfs mounted) but will run if I put it in a file on the local disk.
The /etc/exports file on the server looks like this:
/home (rw,no_root_squash)
and the /etc/fstab on the client looks like th
Anthony Fox wrote:
>
> Andrew Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > here it is:
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ssh -v -l andrew.dixon stiq
> > OpenSSH_2.5.2p2, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090601f
> > debug1: Seeding random number generat
Jonathan Daugherty wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> How can I get my passwords to be md5-authenticated?
>
>
as root:
#dpkg-reconfigure base-config
then answer yes when prompted for md5-authentication.
Andy
"Martin F. Krafft" wrote:
>
> also sprach Andrew Dixon (on Thu, 12 Jul 2001 01:57:48PM -0400):
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ssh -l andrew.dixon stiq
> > ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host
>
> this is most likely due to a combination of a f
Anthony Fox wrote:
>
> Andrew Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ssh -l andrew.dixon stiq
> > ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host
>
> Perhaps the versions of ssh are incompatible. Post the output of
>
&g
DvB wrote:
>
> Kurt Lieber wrote:
>
> > OK, I've read with great amusement all the chest-thumping going on about
> > MUAs, MTAs and how Microsoft email products are things that you scrape
> > off the bottom of your shoe.
> >
> > I, for one, am brand-spanking new at Linux and have yet to find a Li
Miguel Griffa wrote:
>
> At 01:57 p.m. 12/07/01 -0400, Andrew Dixon wrote:
> >Hi All,
> >I've been having some weird problems with ssh. I can connect to our
> >server (RH 7.1) but when I try to connect to another Debian box on the
> >network (PPC) I get t
Christian Jaeger wrote:
>
> At 13:57 Uhr -0400 12.7.2001, Andrew Dixon wrote:
> >Could this be a problem with reverse name lookups? We're using M$ as
> >our DHCP and primary DNS and it works about as well as you'd expect it
> >to work (read: it sucks).
>
Sorry for sending this twice but I didn't see it on the list and think
it got lost the first time.
Andrew Dixon wrote:
>
> Hi All,
> I've been having some weird problems with ssh. I can connect to our
> server (RH 7.1) but when I try to connect to another Debian box on
Brian Nelson wrote:
>
> Kurt Lieber wrote:
>
> > If there isn't, then I hope the person who stated "anyone who uses MS
> > email products is ignorant" will reconsider their statement.
>
> That's not an accurate quote, but...
>
> Why on earth would you want a single application to do all of t
will trillich wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 11:38:24PM -0300, Linuxero wrote:
> > - Original Message -
> > Subject: Debian Potato : office applications
> > > I finally decide to install kde2 and Ximian Gnome to
> > >
> >
> > I have used deb http://red-carpet.ximian.com/debian stabl
Hi All,
I've been having some weird problems with ssh. I can connect to our
server (RH 7.1) but when I try to connect to another Debian box on the
network (PPC) I get the following message:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ssh -l andrew.dixon stiq
ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host
Thomas Zimmerman wrote:
>
> On 10-Jul 05:06, Andrew Dixon wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > I'm looking for a filesystem to put on a some-what embedded system. I
> > was considering ext2 but IIRC there is a minimum 4K file size. Does
> > anyone know if that really is
Hi All,
I'm looking for a filesystem to put on a some-what embedded system. I
was considering ext2 but IIRC there is a minimum 4K file size. Does
anyone know if that really is the limit (I also remember that you can
resize the sectors on an ext2 filesystem but I don't know if these two
are connec
Hi All,
I was wondering if someone could look at this crontab file and tell me
if I've got it right.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /root]# crontab -l
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
# (- installed on Mon Jul 2 16:23:22 2001)
# (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 2.13 1994/01/17 03:20:3
"der.hans" wrote:
>
> Am 04. Jul, 2001 schwäzte Balbir Thomas so:
>
> > Yet another case of open source developers being harassed. Adobe lawyers
> > ask developer of killustrator to pay fines for using a name that abuses
> > their trade mark illustrator. Go read about it at slashdot , and then
>
Hi Calvin,
Lamer wrote:
>
> I'm going to give a free course to the members of a local linux user group,
> and would like to ask if it's possible to get some installation screenshots
> or notes for them.
on a working Debian system in an xterm you could run:
#dpkg-reconfigure base-config
Hi Darryl,
"Darryl L. Pierce" wrote:
>
> I have installed Debian 2.2-r2 on my workstation at the office. I also
> installed
> the NIS package, since our network uses NIS and I want to share the resources
> on
> my machine with my co-workers.
>
> The problem that I'm hitting is that, when I try
Hi All,
I was wondering if anyone out there has an oppinion on devfs. I'm
considering it for a system that I'm building and some real life
experiences with it would be helpful.
One of the topics that I'm researching is the fact that it's marked as
experimental in the source. The howto makes it
Bonjour,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Bonjour tout le monde; j'ai un problème que je n'arrive pas à résoudre:faire
> un telnet sur un équipement privé;je tape telnet 10.x.x.x et il écris Trying
Oui, j'ai avais le meme problem. C'est un "bug" dans le deb. A
/etc/inetd.conf changes le user.group
Colin Watson wrote:
>
>
> Of course, you obviously don't mind, since you have a Mail-Followup-To:
> header that says so.
>
Where does the headder live? I ask because I've never seen it on any of
your posts. I do use netscape . Is this one of the things that
it would strip off and not show th
What's up,
Joerg Johannes wrote:
>
> Hi List
>
> I'm using gdm as display manager. What I am missing is the option "Login
> to remote host", as I have on Sun workstations at university. I looked
> into the gdm docs, and I found out that I have to set
> ..
> [xdmcp]
> Enable=1
> ..
>
> I left th
Tim Xu wrote:
> If I press [Enter], screen will be blak for a while, and the following
> messages are came up.
>
> _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect : errno=111
> _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect : errno=111
> _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect : errno=111
> _X11TransSock
Daryl Williams wrote:
>
> folks, i have a vanilla 2.2 debian system that i originally
> did not install the berkeley rsh-servers on. i subsequently
> have the requirement to run xclients from this host displaying
> to a win98 box using hummingbird exceed. becuase exceed
> does not support ssh
Do
Gregor wrote:
>
> my problem
> i have apdate my potato to woody and to gnome.1.4
> when i start my laptop the next time my x windows will not work more
> make a new setup with xf86setup and xf86config but it will not work
> is ther any other way to do it the xfree is now update to xfree4 befor
yo
Craig McLean wrote:
>
> The man page states that whenever you transition between two run levels, it
> sends all processes not in the new run level the SIGTERM and then SIGKILL
> signals. Also in the debian case it runs the rc script which does all the K
> entries and all the S entries, in the new
Hi All,
for some reason on of my boxen keeps starting up with the date way back
in the 1920's. ntpdate doesn't handle this well so the time is always
wrong. I hacked the /etc/init.d/ntpdate script and set the date to
something closer so that ntpdate could actually set the date correctly
but, like
christophe barbé wrote:
>
> If you don't like too much dselect, try under X gnome-apt.
>
how stable is gnome-apt these days?
how about storm-package (is that the right name)?
later,
Andy
Let the flames begin.
Kent West wrote:
> /RANT
> And while I'm on the subject of list netiquette (for anyone reading over
> your shoulder), I believe it's proper to put your reply at the bottom of
> the previous message instead of at the top, so that as the thread grows,
> it's easy to jump in in
In short, yes linuxconf is in the stable distribution but you should
edit those files by hand. At least look at what linuxconf does to those
files but I find that I don't really understand something untill I can
edit the config file and make it do what I want. With tools like linux
conf your stuc
HI
pReJkEr wrote:
Ello
i've installed debian on my comp for the first time
and when i was installing it (base-config) from an ftp site
(ftp.pl.debian.org) apt downloads very old packages ie. xfree-3.3.6
gnome-1.0 and so on can someone tell me what i have to write
to
sources.list to
Hi All,
I've got an old sound card that I'm trying to get running. All I know
about it is that it's a:
Creative Labs
Model No CT3600
and I found this number on one of the bigger chips on the board
CT2502-SDQ
Any thoughts?
Also what is a good way to check and see if the sound card i
Hi All,
I'm trying to get my sound card to work. It's a Creative Labs card but I
don't know much else about it. I have found the Model No. which is CT3600
and another number on one of it's bigger chips, CT2502-SDQ.
Does anybody know what kernel options I need for it?
Thanks,
Andy
Hi All,
I just recompiled my kernel so that my sound now
works. The only problem is that I have to enter:
modprobe nm256
in order to get the module to load into the kernel.
Any body know how I can automate this or get it to run
at startup.
Thanks,
Andy
Hi All,
I'm thinking of buying a new computer and I was
looking for information on getting a refund for
Windows.
Any links, help, tips, success stories, or general M$
bashing would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Andy
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Hi All,
I'm planning on burning a Debian install CD and I noticed that there are two
images, binary-1.iso and binary-2.iso. Has the install grown to 2 CD's or
is the second optional packages?
thanks,
Andy
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Hi everybody,
has anyone had any success or failures using a Zip CD
RW drive. They have a portable model that connects
through the USB port that looks interesting.
thanks,
Andy
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HI All,
I have a question on the go-gnome debate. Is there
any advantage to using:
#go-gnome
as opposed to:
#apt-get install task-helix-gnome
I tried out helix-gnome using apt-get, setting up the
sources.list file as described on helix-code's website
and found it to work well this way
Joel Dinel wrote:
So I've downloaded all of KDE2's .deb files instead
of fiddling around with sources.list.
trust me, it's worth it to fiddle around with the
sources.list (shouldn't be too hard just keep at it
untill it works, you'll get it) because after that's
done you just type:
#apt-g
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
Your boot disk has to point to the root partition of
the system it's
booting on. What failure or error messages are you
getting from the
laptop when you try to boot?
everything is smooth through the partition check and
then I get:
Invalid session number
Hi All,
I'm trying to roll a kernel for my laptop using my
desktop machine. I tried the usual:
#make config
#make dep
#make clean
#make bzdisk
and as I expected the boot disk does not work. Can
anyone give me any pointers on rolling a kernel on one
machine for an other?
thanks
HI All,
I was trying to figure out how to look at which
modules I am running and if one is not running force
it to load.
The module that I am specifically interested in is the
tulip.o module for my pcmcia card.
thanks,
Andy
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Hi everyone,
when I try to boot my system (Potato) I get this error and then it hangs:
scsi0: SCSI bus busy, waiting up to five seconds
scsi0: bus busy, attempting abort
this is weird because I don't even have a SCSI bus. I assume that it's
looking for a bus that isn't there and
HI everyone,
I'm trying to install over a dial-up connection and I'm not sure what nfs
server to use. Does anyone know where I can find this information?
tanks,
andy
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-Original Message-
From: Dinesh Nadarajah [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, June 30, 2000 5:37 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.or
-- Original Message --
From: "Petr [Dingo] Dvorak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 23:38:25 -0500 (CDT)
>On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Andrew Dixon wrote:
>
>-=[Snip]=-
>
>AD> >> hdc : tray open or drive not rea
-- Original Message --
From: Thomas Guettler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: Thomas Guettler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 23:32:47 +0200
>On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 12:08:50PM -0400, Andrew Dixon wrote:
>> --
licker when I tried to install the packages.
>On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 11:27:51AM -0400, Andrew Dixon wrote:
>> -- Original Message --
>> From: Thomas Guettler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Reply-To: Thomas Guettler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
-- Original Message --
From: Thomas Guettler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: Thomas Guettler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 16:25:29 +0200
>On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 07:36:28AM -0400, Andrew Dixon wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> I
Hi all,
I'm trying to install Debian but it can't seem to mount my cd-rom. It runs off
of the sound board which is a:
Creative Labs Sound Blaster AWE32.
When I boot off of the rescue floppy is does see that there is a cd-rom device
on hdc. I think I need to load the drivers for the sound c
Hi all,
I'm having trouble installing on a Dell Dimension XPS P120c. The problem is
that when I try to install the base system it can't mount my cd-rom
successfully. When it boots up off of the rescue disk it prints the line:
hdc: NEC CD-ROM: 273 ATAPI CDROM DRIVE
I'm stumped. Any suggestion
I'm installing Debian on an old machine (as soon as I finish downloading all
the files) that runns the CD-ROM off of a sound board. The sound board is a:
CREATIVE LABS SOUNDBLASTER AWE 32
Does anyone know if the driver for this board is in:
resc1440.binor,
drv1440.bin
These are th
Hi all,
does anybody know how rsync works? I keep pointing it to different mirrors
with:
rsync --verbose --progress --stats ...
and it always starts over at (0%). Is this how much it has left to do, or how
much of the file its compleated in total? It will also spike and rip through a
few %
I'm using rsync and it was chugging along untill it was about 50% done. Any
ideas on what to do to speed things up again?
Thanks,
Andy
I'm using rsync to get Debian which is causing a problem because I'm running
Win98 (I have to, I have one of those anoying soft-modems) so my connection to
my ISP is set up under Windows. Rsync, on the other hand, runs in DOS so
Windows doesn't know that there is active trafic and tries to disc
me the last day or so,
>but the assorted other US mirrors have been fine.
>
>
>
>On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Andrew Dixon wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>> I'm going to install Debian for the first time as soon as I download it.
>> This is the problem, the only si
Hi everyone,
I'm going to install Debian for the first time as soon as I download it. This
is the problem, the only site I can find that seems to work is:
sunsite.org.uk
But I'm in upstate NY and this is takeing FOREVER. Does anyone know of a
reliable mirror that I can use to speed thing
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