Dear Debian Gurus:
I have been using Linux since 1995. All this time I never
experienced a serious system crash, until recently.
I am using Debian 2.0.14.
My system has four partitions:
devicesize mount
/dev/hda1 ~1Gb /
/dev/hda2 128Mb swap
/dev/hda3 ~3Gb /usr
/dev/hda4 ~1Gb
Dear Debian Gurus:
I have been using Linux since 1995. All this time I never
experienced a serious system crash, until recently.
I am using Debian 2.0.14.
My system has four partitions:
devicesize mount
/dev/hda1 ~1Gb /
/dev/hda2 128Mb swap
/dev/hda3 ~3Gb /usr
/dev/hda4 ~1Gb
I want to start upgrading hamm --> slink !! Too late ??
hope not
Anyway I dont want to do this all in one round? Any
suggestions? Should I do it step by step or all in
once??
The problem is I'm connecting via modem, so it will take
until Y2K until I get all those new packages.
I know that up
I think I've missed some conversations about XF86Setup
going on over the last 2-3 days. I remember somebody
complaining about XF86Setup, not writing the XF86Config
file. I had a similar problem when XF86Setup was just not
adding the extra modes that I wanted to test to my config
file. That is, I
Hello all,
want to bring the insane naming convention into argument here
for one second.
This remains to be a mystery for me, I don't know hw I ended up
confusing all the names, slink potato, hamm, beef, etc.. Now I
go down to the source (i.e. ftp.debian.org) and try to figure out
which kernel
I have just installed netscape v4.51 from the official
CD release that received. Strangely, the menubar icons (i.e.
back, forward, stop, etc..) and all the other icons on the
front panel are colorless. My friend is running netscape v4.06
on a redhat machine, and he doesn't seem to have a similar
p
I have APM configured and it works when I am not
running an X-server. How do I start APM when I am
running X, and how do I configure some parameters
(i.e. suspend, etc.) ?
Fethi Okyar
Research Assistant
Computational Solid Mechanics
MMAE Department, IIT
Chicago,
ported you may not have the other parts of the kernel that
> vfat depends on(i think the onlyone is 'fat') which must be loaded before
> vfat.
>
> nate
>
> On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Fethi A. Okyar wrote:
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> > Thanks for all the feedback about the LIL
On Wed, 28 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
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> ~> The standard procedure is to make a symlink between /System.map and
> ~> /boot/System.map-x.y.z (assuming that you're using the x.y.z kernel).
> ~> If you have more than one kernel on the system, you're supposed t
Thanks for all the feedback about the LILO - System.map question
that I had. But its not over yet !!, now I'm firing up another one ;)
It turns out my initial kernel that came with the distribution had
vfat as a module, this is reconfirmed by the fact that I have a line
which says "vfat" in my /e
I admit that I am crating a lot of trouble myself, just
poking in things and compiling new kernels, but thats the
beauty of it, and as long as there's this kind of support,
it really helped me well. Ok, I had some problems during
installing a new kernel, and here's the symptoms::
I compiled a ker
1.
DO I need a separate System.map file for each
kernel that I compile, cause each time it also
spits out a new System.map file.
2.
If the answer is yes, how do I specify each
system.map that correspond to their kernel in
my lilo.conf file (i.e how are they supposed to
be stored??)
~~~
1.
DO I need a separate System.map file for each
kernel that I compile, cause each time it also
spits out a new System.map file.
2.
If the answer is yes, how do I specify each
system.map that correspond to their kernel in
my lilo.conf file (i.e how are they supposed to
be stored??)
~~~
I've compiled a kernel and tested it using a
floppy disk, everything worked fine except some
problem related with the system.map I guess, but
this is not what my question is about.
Then I wanted to boot the new kernel by simply
adding a few extra lines to lilo.conf and run
lilo. But now I real
Fethi Okyar
Research Assistant
Computational Solid Mechanics
MMAE Department, IIT
Chicago, IL 60616-3793
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 24 Apr 1999, Dan Willard wrote:
> Should be under /var/log/messages although I have noticed that not
> everything gets
I have a question about the whereabouts of the file that
contains the bootup messages.
I know that this used to be under /var/log somewhere with
my previous SUSE experience, but I couldn't seem to find
where I expected it to be. If anybody knows this,I would
appreciate their help/ thank you...
Thanks, I know I should have tried it myself, I had
a feeling it might have been because of this.
> > I am wondering why in the world does my floppy get
> > sooo slow while its reading the kernle image during
> > a boot process??
> >
> > It takes approximately 5-6 minutes until it finishes
> >
Did you have the same problem when you built
a custom floppy for your system, or does this
problem only occur when you used the original
boot disk that was included in the distribution?
On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Paul Winkler wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Fethi A. Okyar wrote:
> > I am wond
I am wondering why in the world does my floppy get
sooo slow while its reading the kernle image during
a boot process??
It takes approximately 5-6 minutes until it finishes
just reading the kernel image and then bang!! 2 seconds
to decompress it.
Are there any parameters that I have to tweak wh
I am wondering why in the world does my floppy get
sooo slow while its reading the kernle image during
a boot process??
It takes approximately 5-6 minutes until it finishes
just reading the kernel image and then bang!! 2 seconds
to decompress it.
Are there any parameters that I have to tweak wh
I am wondering why in the world does my floppy get
sooo slow while its reading the kernle image during
a boot process??
It takes approximately 5-6 minutes until it finishes
just reading the kernel image and then bang!! 2 seconds
to decompress it.
Are there any parameters that I have to tweak whe
Yes I used alien and took care of the rpm packages thank you.
Fethi
i
On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Pollywog wrote:
>
> On 07-Apr-99 John Galt wrote:
> >
> > Probably alien, that's what I've used in the past.
>
> Yes, it is alien.
>
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I did this once before, I copied the file
xf86setup.rpm
from my old installation CD and used a tool to
either convert that .rpm package directly to
.deb format, or had used an intermediate step, I
can't remember...
Surely somebody knows how to do this ?? thank you
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A. Okyar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Noah L. Meyerhans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: kernel eats alot of memory
On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:
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> On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Fethi A. Okyar wrote:
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> >
First time I left this new installation running for about 6 days
without rebooting, I notice two things though
Thing1! after using and quitting X11 I would expect all memory
that was being used by those hungry processes to be freed but it
looks like this :
Mem: 127216K av, 117296K used, 9920
I spent about 2-3 hours trying to figure out how to get color into
my xterm running tcsh.
I was previously using bash and had no problem with colors. I
remember there used to be a file called DIR_COLORS in the /etc, in
my previous SUSE installation, and it was pretty easy to manipulate
colors f
When I do an "ls -l" in a directory such as /etc, it
lists down about 300 entries but I can only go back and see
about 150 of them because of my limited "buffer size"
or whatever that might be called !
Question : What is the variable that controls this, and how
can I change that?
P.S. I played
know there is great help
system out there.
Fethi A. Okyar
Research Assistant
IIT
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
The last thing I expected to have problems with during my
recent hamm installation (2.0.34) was with the modem, but
guess what?
I spent a couple hours for the configuration, and figuring
which jumper switches to use, my modem is using ttyS3. By
the way does anybody think it would be easier
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