Replacing system hard drive?

2000-03-23 Thread Jerry E. McGoveran
My hard drive is starting to make noise, so I bought a replacement. What is the recommended way to make the switch? All my Linux partitions are on this disk except the swap partition. My Win95 OS is on a separate drive. This is a SCSI disk running 2.0.35 if that makes any difference. Regards,

Re: Linux help !

1998-12-02 Thread Jerry E. McGoveran
(Redirected to debian user list) At 01:11 PM 12/2/98 +1300, you wrote: >I've just got Debian Linux 2.0 set up on my system, and I can't even >figure out how to unpack *.deb files because when I create my user >account Dselect the package frontend program bombs out and gives me the >excuse saying

Repost: Which Xserver pkg for old Diamond Viper (VLB)

1998-11-17 Thread Jerry E. McGoveran
oint. What can I try next? -Jerry >At 10:15 PM 11/16/98 -0800, Jerry E. McGoveran wrote: >>Which Xserver package do I need to use for this old graphics card? It >>has a Weitec P9000 accelerator chip

Re: Which Xserver pkg for old Diamond Viper (VLB)

1998-11-17 Thread Jerry E. McGoveran
-Jerry At 10:15 PM 11/16/98 -0800, Jerry E. McGoveran wrote: >Which Xserver package do I need to use for this old graphics card? It >has a Weitec P9000 accelerator chip. > >Thanks, > >Jerry > > >

Which Xserver pkg for old Diamond Viper (VLB)

1998-11-17 Thread Jerry E. McGoveran
Which Xserver package do I need to use for this old graphics card? It has a Weitec P9000 accelerator chip. Thanks, Jerry Certus Consulting Group | Specializing in Integrated Circuit Antioch, CA 94509

Re: First-time Linux setup - questions

1998-11-11 Thread Jerry E. McGoveran
At 10:26 PM 11/10/98 -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: >Jerry E. McGoveran wrote: >> Ah Ha! So, the usual package dependancies that apt takes care of >> is not applicable to X? (startx is not found on my system, and I never >> ran any configuration utility for X and I loaded the olvw

Re: First-time Linux setup - questions

1998-11-11 Thread Jerry E. McGoveran
At 11:47 PM 11/9/98 -0500, you wrote: >On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Jerry E. McGoveran wrote: > >> At 10:29 PM 11/9/98 -0500, Immanuel Yap wrote: > >> Ah Ha! So, the usual package dependancies that apt takes care of >> is not applicable to X? (startx is not found on my sys

Re: First-time Linux setup - questions

1998-11-10 Thread Jerry E. McGoveran
At 10:29 PM 11/9/98 -0500, Immanuel Yap wrote: >On Sun Nov 8, 1998, Jerry E. McGoveran wrote: >> Someone pointed out correctly that I had to run ldconfig. What I figured >> out for myself was that I had to add /usr/openwin/lib to the conf file >> first. >> >>

Repost: Smail config problems....

1998-11-10 Thread Jerry E. McGoveran
When I try to send mail from one user to another on my local machine, the mail fails to get to the destination and does not return an error message to the originator of the mail. When I checked /var/spool/smail/error I find that smail can't identify the users. I've tried several forms of addresse

Smail config problems....

1998-11-09 Thread Jerry E. McGoveran
When I try to send mail from one user to another on my local machine, the mail fails to get to the destination and does not return an error message to the originator of the mail. When I checked /var/spool/smail/error I find that smail can't identify the users. I've tried several forms of addresse

Re: First-time Linux setup - questions

1998-11-09 Thread Jerry E. McGoveran
ror, exactly? > >On Mon, Nov 02, 1998 at 06:13:26PM -0800, Jerry E. McGoveran wrote: >> I've just got the basic Linux 2.0.35 working and have been busily >> adding packages. Among them is the olvwm package. When I try to >> invoke olvwm, I get a library missing error

Repost - First-time Linux setup - questions

1998-11-03 Thread Jerry E. McGoveran
I've just got the basic Linux 2.0.35 working and have been busily adding packages. Among them is the olvwm package. When I try to invoke olvwm, I get a library missing error message. When I look in /usr/lib, the file olvwm complains about is there. Apparently, the environment setup is not compl

First-time Linux setup - questions

1998-11-03 Thread Jerry E. McGoveran
I've just got the basic Linux 2.0.35 working and have been busily adding packages. Among them is the olvwm package. When I try to invoke olvwm, I get a library missing error message. When I look in /usr/lib, the file olvwm complains about is there. Apparently, the environment setup is not compl

Re: Catch-22 - Help!

1998-10-31 Thread Jerry E. McGoveran
, Helge Hafting wrote: >In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 10/28/98 > at 12:53 PM, "Jerry E. McGoveran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >>I have a Debian installation in which the ethernet card driver is >>apparently not installed. There were some errors at this st

Re: Catch-22 - Help!

1998-10-29 Thread Jerry E. McGoveran
At 06:37 PM 10/28/98 -0600, Andy Kennedy wrote: >On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Jerry E. McGoveran wrote: > >> I have a Debian installation in which the ethernet card driver is >> apparently not installed. There were some errors at this stage of >> the installation process, but the

Catch-22 - Help!

1998-10-28 Thread Jerry E. McGoveran
I have a Debian installation in which the ethernet card driver is apparently not installed. There were some errors at this stage of the installation process, but the screen drew and reset to the inst. menu too fast to read anything. I finished the installation, and now I need to update the kernel

Need help configuring network in Deb2.0

1998-10-21 Thread Jerry E. McGoveran
I finally got my initial installation to complete (no previous Linux experience), but the network config isn't quite right. The message during boot says the network is unreachable and that eth0 isn't found. All the other settings are okay. Can some kind soul tell me how to get Linux to recognize

Re: Repost - need help! : Debugging install script?

1998-08-29 Thread Jerry E. McGoveran
At 02:32 PM 8/29/98 -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: >On Sat, 29 Aug 1998, Jerry E. McGoveran wrote: > >> Can anyone help me with loadlin? > >Just out of curiosity, why are you using loadlin? > Actually, I'm running the install.bat command to begin installation. It calls l

Repost - need help! : Debugging install script?

1998-08-29 Thread Jerry E. McGoveran
Can anyone help me with loadlin? At 05:27 PM 8/27/98 -0700, you wrote: >Hello, > >I'm trying to install Debian 2.0 (my first Linux experience) and I'm >having trouble with the install script. Something to do with my >SCSI devices seems to be causing the install script to loop endlessly. >The tex

Debugging install script?

1998-08-28 Thread Jerry E. McGoveran
Hello, I'm trying to install Debian 2.0 (my first Linux experience) and I'm having trouble with the install script. Something to do with my SCSI devices seems to be causing the install script to loop endlessly. The text scrolls by too quickly for me to identify the root problem. Is there anyway