Re: Accessinf devices after install...

2000-05-09 Thread Kevin A Smith
At 05:23 PM 5/6/2000 -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote: On Sat, May 06, 2000 at 08:39:44PM +0100, Steven Satelle wrote: > Look in your /etc/dev for /cdrom and mount using that, linux sees it as a > cdrom not a hd (i think) No. /dev/cdrom is just a symlink to /dev/hd?.  I'm guessing that the cdrom is n

Re: Accessinf devices after install...

2000-05-06 Thread Kevin A Smith
At 01:22 AM 5/6/2000 -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote: On Sat, May 06, 2000 at 01:19:44AM -0700, Kevin A Smith wrote: > I don't think it's even "installed" as such. If I tried the above > command for example, I keep getting: > kevin-dsl-212:/cdrom# mount -t iso9660

Re: Accessinf devices after install...

2000-05-06 Thread Kevin A Smith
At 01:08 AM 5/6/2000 -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote: On Sat, May 06, 2000 at 12:40:55AM -0700, Kevin A Smith wrote: > I'm pulling hair already. > > I have debian running on a desktop system now, all working fine > with network access - but I cannot access either my CDROM o

Re: Accessinf devices after install...

2000-05-06 Thread Kevin A Smith
Never mind! I Missed that the floppy itself also has to have a valid filesystem before the "mount" will work. I was thinking I just need to get the "device" configured first and then I can worry about formatting! Well, now to my CDROM problem.? At 12:40 AM 5/6/2000

Accessinf devices after install...

2000-05-06 Thread Kevin A Smith
I'm pulling hair already. I have debian running on a desktop system now, all working fine with network access - but I cannot access either my CDROM or FLOPPY drives. I've tried "installing" the drivers via "modconf", but my first problem is that my CDROM does not appear to be supported - at

Which LINUX

2000-05-05 Thread Kevin A Smith
I know the answer to this will be obvious to those on this list, but I wonder what criteria people have used to decide on which distribution to use...where/for what? I have debian on a desktop at home, simply a "users" setup. I now want to setup a laptop (IBM Thinkpad 600) with a development envi

CDE for Linux?

2000-05-03 Thread Kevin A Smith
Is CDE available for LINUX? Where would I find information about it? Is it that much better than KDE? Kevin Smith TNT/APX Engineering email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]    Lucent Technologies pager: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gzip/gunzip problems

2000-03-31 Thread Kevin A Smith
At 12:09 PM 3/31/2000 +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > After (ftp) downloading a .gz file and running gunzip on it I get the error: > invalid compressed data--crc error > the linux ftp client is probably in ascii-mode. set it to "bin" and everything should be fine. or is your filesystem just fu

gzip/gunzip problems

2000-03-31 Thread Kevin A Smith
After (ftp) downloading a .gz file and running gunzip on it I get the error: invalid compressed data--crc error Now the same file was (ftp) downloaded onto a Solaris box next to this one with the same options (binary etc.) and gunzip runs just fine. Both boxes are running version 1.2.4 of gunzip.

Problems getting files from distribution sites.

2000-03-26 Thread Kevin A Smith
New installation. Go the base system up with floppies ;-0 Now running dselect, getting numerous failures when trying to download packages either with http from "llug.sep.bnl.gov" or ftp from ftp.debian.org. Errors I'm getting with HTTP method: "overly long header from webserver" and "bad header