[Fwd: OK I'm stupid. How do I get to my floppy and other hard partition?]

1998-03-14 Thread Chuma Agbodike
--- Begin Message --- I have seen the replies to you about how to get to your floppy. It got me wondering. In the realm of curiousity I play with linux for a while until I realize it is intruding into my work life and get back to WIN 95 & NT. Everytime I get back to try and use linux for somethi

Re: Why use pgp?

1998-01-09 Thread Chuma Agbodike
How about the so called Certificate Authorities? Should one use them ? And if am paranoid should I trust them ? What if I impersonate someone and give out keys under their name ? I read something about such issues long ago , but still don't understand. Chuma Dan Hugo wrote: > Will Lowe wrote:

Re: Partitioning

1997-12-18 Thread Chuma Agbodike
Hi Gertjan One thing still puzzles me that I hope you can clear up for me. Supposing I buy a brand new hard disk. IDE, SCSI or whatever. To use it, I have to partition it, using a utility like FDISK . FDISK writes the MBR and Partition Table. Right ? If I go and start copying files to any of the

pppd 2.3.1

1997-11-24 Thread Chuma Agbodike
Does pppd version 2.3.1 have demand dial built into it or does one still have to use diald with it. And can it be used with linux 2.0.29 ? Chuma -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Diald

1997-11-23 Thread Chuma Agbodike
Can someone please send me a working copy of their diald-options file. So I can find out what is wrong with my setup or non-setup ? I think that's where the problem lies because when I disable diald and use pon everything works. This linux has fought me every inch of the way. But I really want to

diald vs ipmasquerade

1997-11-22 Thread Chuma Agbodike
Do diald and ipmasquerading serve the same purpose ? Or do I have to use both ? I have a 3 node ethernet lan. The all had windows on them. Now I installed Linux 2.0.29 (debian 1.3) on the unit that has the modem on it. And would like the other units to access the internet via the modem on LINUX uni

Re: Proposal on PPP

1997-11-20 Thread Chuma Agbodike
You realize that xisp is an X windows application. And the proposal is to have a PPP frontend that will fit in the base floppy. Chuma Bruce Perens wrote: > All that is necessary is for the xisp package to install a file in > /usr/lib/menu, that will hook it into the menu system of the Debian > "

Installing a generic PCI network card

1997-11-18 Thread Chuma Agbodike
I had a 16 bit NE2000 card in my desktop. - An AMD 166 based computer. Since I wanted to add a third system (using a 486) I replaced the 16 bit NIC with a PCI NE2000. So I go to recompile in the PCI NE2000 into the Linux on the AMD computer. During make config, I pick PCI. Well linux would not see

Re: My neverending unstable xlib6 / xcontrib saga

1997-11-18 Thread Chuma Agbodike
Yes I noticed what you report. But I have no sugestion. Not having anytime to play hide and seek, I simply left 3.3-5 in there . At least for now. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi! I haven't seen any other messages on the list or bug reports about > this, so maybe I'm overlooking something really b

Re: Can't login anymore

1997-11-15 Thread Chuma Agbodike
a few days before I got into this jam. To olly@lfix.co.uk and pointed out to you that the URL in your signature is broken. Thanks. Chuma Oliver Elphick wrote: > Chuma Agbodike wrote: > >Right after I installed postgres 6.2.1 and played with is a little I > >can't log int

Can't login anymore

1997-11-14 Thread Chuma Agbodike
Right after I installed postgres 6.2.1 and played with is a little I can't log into my LINUX anymore. Everything goes on as usual until it reaches: INIT: entering runlevel: 2 Then it differs from what it used to do, which is start the various daemons Now it says: Debian Linux 1.3 (none) tty1 (none)

Re: Samba Samba

1997-11-04 Thread Chuma Agbodike
Thanks Adam. I had tried that before. But after I got your response I went and checked again. I had write permisions in the bottom directory of /var/spool/lpd/. So I made spool and lpd world writeable also. It works now. Thanks again. For a while I was wondering whether my message got out, becaus

Re: Comparison of ultra dma disks vs scsi?

1997-11-03 Thread Chuma Agbodike
Is Ultra ATA same as Ultra DMA and Ultra DMA/33 ? And if a drive is ultra DMA do I have to get a different adapter than the EIDE built into the pentium mother board ? Chuma Tommy Lakofski wrote: > >From my experience, the CPU is still too involved in UltraDMA transfers to > offer better perfor

Samba Samba

1997-11-03 Thread Chuma Agbodike
The only time Samba agrees to print HERE is when I make the user an admin user. That is using the NT as a samba client. And use the printer attached to the LINUX box. I have LINUX 2.0.29 networked to an NT 4.0 server. How can I persuade Samba to let everyone print ? If user is not admin user I get

Re: [Fwd: My printer is missing]

1997-10-30 Thread Chuma Agbodike
Chuma Chuma Agbodike wrote: > > > > Subject: My printer is missing > Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 04:22:22 + > From: Chuma Agbodike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >

[Fwd: My printer is missing]

1997-10-30 Thread Chuma Agbodike
--- Begin Message --- I have a 2 node network. I run winNT, win95 , DOS and LINUX installed. I only recently installed LINUX 2.0.29 though I had messed with it off and on since 0.99 Anyway I usually print from win95 or NT. Then one day I wanted to get a hard copy of a short text in LINUX. oops

Re: mouse/X compatibility problem

1997-10-30 Thread Chuma Agbodike
If it works in win95 and you see mouse cursor like you say, I suspect whoever configured you X picked the wrong mouse device. Check your X86config file. I belive it's in /etc/X11 . Also make sure you indeed have a serial mouse. Win95 is capable of detecting PS2, BUS and serial mice. LINUX X must b

Re: 3C509 acting strangely on Win95/Debian dual boot system

1997-10-30 Thread Chuma Agbodike
I remember having similar problems . When I got my Infomagic 6 CD set, and wrote the install (rescue) diskette, LINUX wouldn't even boot. It will hang at the spot where it is looking for SCSI device. Well after several attempts at this I abandoned the idea of LINUX. Then after several weeks, I tri

Re: Linux/NT Dual Boot

1997-10-30 Thread Chuma Agbodike
BOOTPART does work. I used it about 2 months ago while contemplating how to have on demand boot to handle the different OSes that I toy with. I have WinNT, Win95, DOS 6.22, and LINUX 2.0.29 available. Still having problems in my attempts to add Caldera OpenDos. I let NT40 handle the MBR here. Duri

Re: dselect infinite loop?

1997-10-28 Thread Chuma Agbodike
It happened to me also. Ctrl-C was the only way out. Then grief doing the rest of the install manually. This is the first time it happened to me too. I installed from Informagic's 6 set CD. Chuma PATRICK DAHIROC wrote: > Hi > > A weird thing happens to deselect when I run it. It keeps replacin

Re: XFree86 setup!!!

1997-10-27 Thread Chuma Agbodike
I suspect you told xf86config to Probe. Do not probe. And do not use the fancy setup program. And then make sure you see a stable grey screen before venturing further. You may also have to use the following command line. startx -- -bpp 16 Chuma Shaul Peleg wrote: > I have tried numerous insta

Re: Netscape for Linux

1997-10-27 Thread Chuma Agbodike
? Chuma Will Lowe wrote: > On Fri, 24 Oct 1997, Chuma Agbodike wrote: > > > Where can I download a free copy of Netscape Communicator or just > > netscape > > for LINUX ? I can't seem to find it at netscape. > > Try: > > ftp://archive.netscape.com/arch

Netscape for Linux

1997-10-24 Thread Chuma Agbodike
Where can I download a free copy of Netscape Communicator or just netscape for LINUX ? I can't seem to find it at netscape. Chuma -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Recompiling Linux

1997-01-21 Thread Chuma Agbodike
I started with Debian Distribution 2.0.6. Then got 2.0.13 from sunsite and managed to update the kernel using kernel package or some such. Linux is now 2.0.13. A few days ago I decided to try most stuff as modules except kerneld, ext2 files system and anything else I chose the default. Sound I have

Re: How do I get back my LINUX

1997-01-18 Thread Chuma Agbodike
> > On Fri, 17 Jan 1997 18:36:37 GMT "Chuma Agbodike" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > > > > > > [snip] > > > > Then make dep, clean, zImage. It failed . mentioning stuff like core > > > > dump etc. Anyway I wanted my old LINUX

Re: How do I get back my LINUX

1997-01-18 Thread Chuma Agbodike
> > [snip] > > Then make dep, clean, zImage. It failed . mentioning stuff like core > > dump etc. Anyway I wanted my old LINUX back. So I edited lilo.conf to > > reflect 2.0.6 instead of 2.0.13 (I had 2.0.13 running when compile > > failed.) PROBLEM: I forgot to run lilo before rebooting. On reb

How do I get back my LINUX

1997-01-17 Thread Chuma Agbodike
d to run lilo after copying boot.b to /boot. That got me: "Don't know how to handle device 0x100" How can I get back my LINUX? I spent a lot of time setting it up. I hate to think that I may have to start over. Best regards Chuma Agbodike -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LI

Re: Rescue Disk (was Password)

1997-01-11 Thread Chuma Agbodike
non standard format. I can rawrite to it and make new INSTALL BOOT and ROOT disks. The floppy diskette still gave me errors. And when I tried to boot from it anyway, just to see. I get: LILO CatRescue Error 0x04 LILO CatRescue Error 0x04 Until I reset the system via the push button. I really ap

Re: Rescue Disk (was Password)

1997-01-07 Thread Chuma Agbodike
Nathan L. Cutler wrote: > > >>>>> "Chuma" == Chuma Agbodike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Chuma> But HOW does one make RESCUE disk properly. Mine surely > Chuma> didn't rescue me! > > > > If you know how to do Arc

Re: Password

1997-01-06 Thread Chuma Agbodike
Nathan L. Cutler wrote: > > >>>>> "Chuma" == Chuma Agbodike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Chuma> Today I booted linux and it won't let me in. I log in as > Chuma> root and give it at password prompt. Keeps rejecting > Ch

Password

1997-01-05 Thread Chuma Agbodike
When I installed Debian 1.1 (linux 2.0) and later upgraded to 2.0.6 I did not give a password. I usually log in as root followed by a at password prompt. For some time now I have not logged into Linux. Been busy with several other stuff. Close to 2 months or more. Today I booted linux and it won

Re: XF86Config

1996-11-02 Thread Chuma Agbodike
Lars Flodman wrote: > > I have a problem i can't get my xwindows to work properly my video card is > a ATI Mach 64 Praphics Pro Turbo 2mb and my monitor is a MAG DX 17. Does > anyone have an XF86Config file that works on that configúration. I can get > it to start when i use the vga16 server but w

Re: sanyo cdrom (crd-256P)

1996-10-02 Thread Chuma Agbodike
Richard Sevenich wrote: > > A new debian installer has asked me to inquire whether anyone has experience > with the subject cdrom unit - his installation won't recognize it. At this > writing I have asked him to determine more e.g. > - is it IDE > - is it ATAPI > - what deb

Re: kernel-package

1996-09-16 Thread Chuma Agbodike
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Marcus Hightower writes: > Marcus> Does anybody know where I can find this as86 thing. > > See the Debian FAQ (from the doc-debian package, or the ftp site) > > 7.4. How can I find out what package produced a particular file? > > To identify the package th

Re: Undefined module symbols

1996-09-16 Thread Chuma Agbodike
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >DOSEMU: ttys lock: (/usr/spool/uucp/LCK .. mouse): No such file or dir. > > There is no /usr/spool/uucp/ directory so it can't make > /usr/spool/uucp/LCK .. mouse I had a similar problem when I ran a non-Debian > version of efax. It should use /var/lock/LCK..mouse

Re: Undefined module symbols

1996-09-14 Thread Chuma Agbodike
James MacLean wrote: > > On Sep 13, 1:59pm, Chuma Agbodike wrote: > > Subject: Undefined module symbols > > Greetings. > > > > I picked up DOSEMU 0.63.1.75 from your ftp site. Installed it, > > but I have run into a wall. I get a screenful of undefined

Re: DOSEMU

1996-09-12 Thread Chuma Agbodike
Michael Harnois wrote: > > Chuma Agbodike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > error reading zSystem.map errno=2. I have System.map in /boot not > > zSystem.map > > My System.map is in /, not /boot. Looking at the notes in insmod.c, it's > supposed to aut

Re: DOSEMU

1996-09-12 Thread Chuma Agbodike
Michael Harnois wrote: > > Chuma Agbodike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Thanks Michael. > > > > I followed your suggestion. After recompiling, I did ./load_module.sh > > as > > instructed. But I got a new error: > > > >

Re: DOSEMU

1996-09-12 Thread Chuma Agbodike
Michael Harnois wrote: > > Chuma Agbodike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I got and compiled DOSEMU 0.63.1.75. After several attempts, going back > > and forth to pick up needed stuff like bison, byacc, libslang it finally > > compiled. Then when I tried to

Re: DOSEMU

1996-09-12 Thread Chuma Agbodike
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > I got and compiled DOSEMU 0.63.1.75. After several attempts, going back > > and forth to pick up needed stuff like bison, byacc, libslang it finally > > compiled. Then when I tried to run it, I get this: > > > > Error:The module was compiled on kernel ver

DOSEMU

1996-09-11 Thread Chuma Agbodike
I got and compiled DOSEMU 0.63.1.75. After several attempts, going back and forth to pick up needed stuff like bison, byacc, libslang it finally compiled. Then when I tried to run it, I get this: Error: The module was compiled on kernel version 2.0.0 This kernel(mine) is version 2.0.13. T

Re: Compile error

1996-09-05 Thread Chuma Agbodike
J.H.M.Dassen wrote: > > > as86 -0 -a -o bootsect.o bootsect.s > > make[3] as86: command not found. > > > Any ideas what am doing wrong? > Nothing. You just don't have a package installed that is required to build > the kernel: > > bin86 (29 Kb) > > Section: devel > Version: 0.3-1 Last modified:

Compile error

1996-09-05 Thread Chuma Agbodike
I have linux 2.0.6 running. I installed it from the kernel image I got fro ftp.debian.org using dselect. Since it was configured for a different hardware setup than mine I decided to reconfigure. I got a new kernel source 2.0.13 and unpacked it in /usr/src/linux. I also picked up make-kpkg 2.0.3.