Making identical copies of CDROMs

1998-06-02 Thread Martin Stromberg
How should I proceed to make an identical copy of a CDROM? dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/image_of_cdrom bs=2048, then what? What parameters should I give to cdwrite/cdrecord? Or is this way impossible to take? Right, MartinS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

kernel-source-2.0.32...?

1997-11-28 Thread Martin Stromberg
Hi. I haven't seen the kernel-source-2.0.32... package yet. Does anybody know where it is? Thanks, MartinS -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTEC

Building dpkg on sparc

1997-08-20 Thread Martin Stromberg
Hello. I'm trying to build dpkg on a Solaris machine, to be able to look at .deb packages at work. But the make stops. Have anybody successfully done that and have some suggestions? ; uname -a SunOS juno 5.4 Generic_101945-32 sun4m sparc ; pwd /[removed]/dpkg-1.4.0.8 ; tail -18 make.txt make[1

Re: Finding files not present (challenge to your intelligence)

1997-03-26 Thread Martin Stromberg
> > Hi, > > I was given a text file containing one file name (no full path name) > per line. My task consists of searching the entire filesystem and > generate a list of the files that are NOT present. > > At first I thought this was a task easyly solved with a couple of > awk's, sed's, and find

Re: gcc

1997-03-24 Thread Martin Stromberg
> > On Mon, 24 Mar 1997, Daniel J. Mashao wrote: > > > On Mon, 24 Mar 1997, Seth Reinosa wrote: > > > > > I have looked but have not seemed to find in the man gcc page how to > > > extract data from a document into a program. > > > Please help. > > What do you mean? > > If you mean > > 1) T

Re: DEC 21140 ethernet card ifconfig failure: "SIOCSIFFLAGS: Try again"

1997-03-20 Thread Martin Stromberg
> > I'm installing Debian (1.2) for the first time. The base install didn't > seem to have any problems, but my ethernet card isn't being configured > properly after the system comes up. The card works in this machine > under Freebsd and Windows 95. > > The card is an SMC 9332, it's a PCI card

Re: maximum mount count

1997-03-11 Thread Martin Stromberg
> > Hi, > I need to reboot my PC once or twice a day. Lately, I had a boot message > displaying '/dev/hda3 has reached the maximum mount count. Checked > forced' > I found no option to deselect this mount count check in the mount man pages. > Does anybody knows ? If it's an ext2 file system t

Re: gzip repair

1997-03-06 Thread Martin Stromberg
> > Does anyone know if there exists a utility to try and repair dammaged > gzip files? I have a tar.gz with 13 postscript files which were > generated with an MSDOG graphics programme in the Dark Days, > unforunately when I gunzip I get > > $ tar -xvzf figures.tar.gz > -rw-r--r-- graeme/staff

Re: Why is PPP so screwed up!?!?!

1997-02-28 Thread Martin Stromberg
> > Martin Stromberg wrote: [Klippa, klapp, kluppit] > > I'm not sure that it's possible to ping over ppp. > > Oh my. If you really don't know that much about something please don't > risk > spreading disinformation. ping is of course possible ove

Re: pernewbie_question

1997-01-16 Thread Martin Stromberg
> > > I have used Debian for some time, yet seem to be a permanent newbie - > a 'pernewbie'. > > I updated from 1.1.4 to 1.2.1 and have one remaining glitch; lpr has a > problem. I am hoping someone can give me the simple solution: > > 1. As root, an attempt to 'lpr filename' leads to this err

Re: rescue disks for a tecra

1997-01-03 Thread Martin Stromberg
[Klippa, klapp, kluppit] > At http://www.cck.uni-kl.de/misc/tecra710/, Jens Maurer discusses the > problem and gives a kernel patch which works around it, a patch which > Bruce was going to incorporate it into the next set of boot disks. I > would try it myself as a service to other Tecra owners

ping reply without OS (was: Re: Unidentified subject!)

1997-01-03 Thread Martin Stromberg
> > > ping response can be handled by network hardware without OS running. > > Uhhmmm... hadn't heard of this ever before. To reply to a ping request > the network card has to have an assigned IP address... > > -- > > Eloy A. Paris > Information Technology Department > Rockwell Automation de V

Re: PPP dial up connection help

1997-01-02 Thread Martin Stromberg
> > OK, I'm a super newbie at Linux. I have it installed, and tried to set up a > PPP dial up threw an external modem. I think I am correct in using > /dev/ttys2 as my modem on port 3. No, It's "/dev/ttyS2". ^ > When I go to establish a connection it says "System lacks PPP kern

Re: Disk partitioning

1997-01-02 Thread Martin Stromberg
[Klippa, klapp, kluppit story about bad drives.] > I have the installation disks made and they appear to work. I have not > been able to access the cfdisk manual doc on any of the mirror sites and I > am afraid to proceed without it. Any suggestions on where to locate it? I don't think you hav

Re: upgrade from 1.1 -> 1.2, some minor problems

1996-12-30 Thread Martin Stromberg
I didn't see any follow-ups on this one so here I go... [Klippa, klapp, kluppit] > 4) In the configuration mode of dselect, I needed to use the 'Z' >parameter to move to the background and examine configuration >files. The first package I tried this on was 'xntp'. After I was >finis

Re: mt I/O error w/ HP T1000 tape drive.

1996-12-18 Thread Martin Stromberg
> > > Hello all, > > I get I/O errors when I attempt to > > mt -f /dev/nrft0 fsf # > > my HP/Colorado T1000 tape drive. I'm gonna guess it's either not a > supported action or a bug, but it doesn't really matter. Is there any > easy workaround for this problem, preferable one which in

Re: Does the list send the sender a copy?

1996-12-18 Thread Martin Stromberg
> > I have recently sent a number of messages to the debian-user mailing list > and have not seen a copy of my message sent back to me by the list > software. Does the list software exclude the original sender when it > reflects the messages out to the list members? Or have my recent posts > be

Re: DIP to PPP ?

1996-12-18 Thread Martin Stromberg
[Klippa, klapp, kluppit] > > The /etc/ppp/chatscript: > > ABORTBUSY > > ABORT"NO CARRIER" > > ABORTVOICE > > "" ATZ > > OK ATDT0345573793 > > CONNECT "" > > loginZETppp\r > > ame Christopher Bond\r > > umber1234-567-89\r1000

SMC Etherpower

1996-12-18 Thread Martin Stromberg
Hi. Is there anybody that's using Debian and two computers talking to each other through two SMC Etherpower cards, without a hub in between i. e. through a twisted TP cable? Please give me some advice how to make it work! aTdHvAaNnKcSe,

1.2 installation, problem making boot floppy

1996-12-16 Thread Martin Stromberg
Hi everyone. I have problems with making a boot floppy during the installation of 1.2. I do not have the exact error message but it appears when I have selected to make a boot floppy for my system (just before the rebooting part). It's when the installation program is formatting the floppy; it s

Re: Newbie question -- Installing with Adaptec 2940

1996-12-06 Thread Martin Stromberg
> > > I'm trying to install debian 1.1 from the Infomagic CD set, and using the > boot1440.bin image for the boot disk I can't get it to recognize my 2940 > SCSI adapter. I have a hard disk and a Jaz drive on the SCSI card, and > an IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM. > > I found the directory of patches for

Re: I can't find netscape and Debian versions

1996-12-05 Thread Martin Stromberg
> > Howdy, > > I know that the directory tree on ftp.debian.org is in a state of change > with the upcoming release of v1.2, but I have spent two hours looking > for the 'netscape-v301' package. Could somone point me to the > correct location? I'll be fine from that point on (I think 8-). It'

Re: Sources for rootdisk

1996-11-21 Thread Martin Stromberg
> > I think the subject says it all... I'm looking for the > sources of the programs found on Debian rootdisks. Can anybody > help me? > > Thanks, > Juan Cespedes > Install the boot-floppies package. If you are planning to create an umsdos installation, please contact me. Click,

Re: problems rebuilding hello

1996-11-08 Thread Martin Stromberg
> > As an experiment (before working on a package myself) I am trying > to rebuild the hello binary package. Source is from hello_1.3-13; > running "debian/rules build" compiles fine, but > "debian/rules binary-arch" gives, after a while, > > dpkg --build debian/tmp .. > dpkg-deb: building packa

Re: Can Debian install from a UMSDOS filesystem?

1996-11-06 Thread Martin Stromberg
> > > I couldn't find in the FAQ whether or not one can place all the > deb files on a UMSDOS drive and install from scratch with > the boot floopy sets. > > Anybody know one way or another? > > ...RickM... > Yes. I did exactly that last week. And if you copy base1_1.tgz or what-ever it is c

Re: cpio WAS: Rearranging partitions

1996-11-04 Thread Martin Stromberg
> > > Date: Sat, 2 Nov 1996 00:29:32 - > > From: Nelson Posse Lago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: Martin Stromberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Subject:

Re: Rearranging partitions WAS: Re: Question??

1996-11-04 Thread Martin Stromberg
> > On Fri, 1 Nov 1996, Martin Stromberg wrote: > > > > What do I need to consider when copying "/" to another partition? Reason > > > I ask is I would like to put it in partition which had dos. Here is what > > > I would like to do: > > >

ethernet card

1996-10-24 Thread Martin Stromberg
Hello to all! I'm intending to put in two ethernet cards in two computers, so that I can nfs mount /home and /usr in one (where disk space is limited) from the other (where there's plenty of disk space). I don't have a great deal to choose from from my hardware supplier: Either an NE2000 compat

Re: "find" and symlinks question

1996-10-11 Thread Martin Stromberg
> > Hi, > > As some of you may have noticed already, the http://www.debian.org/FTP/ > interface unfortunately has duplicated entries in it. > > The script that generates it does a 'find' through all the directories > of the FTP archive. To be precisely, it does a > find unstable contrib no

Re: Dselect problems

1996-10-01 Thread Martin Stromberg
[Klippa, klapp, kluppit] > > Running dpkg -iGROEB /tmp/Debian-1.1.6/stable/binary-i386 > > find: /tmp/Debian-1.1.6/stable/binary-i386/admin/sudo_1.4.4-2.deb: No such > > file or directory > > find: /tmp/Debian-1.1.6/stable/binary-i386/base/mount_2.5l-1.deb: No such > > file > > or directory > >

modules.tgz in buzz-fixed/.../special-kernels/boot1440*.bin are corrupt

1996-09-16 Thread Martin Stromberg
Hello. Yesterday I tried to install a buzz-fixed system. As the disk I wanted to install onto, was a SCSI disk connected to a ncr810, I had to use one of the special kernels - number 5 in buzz-fixed/.../disks-i386/special-kernels. At the time of the part of installation where the kernel is inst

Re: Installing on a portable

1996-09-13 Thread Martin Stromberg
[Klippa, klapp, kluppit] > I could install base, copy over the > pcmcia-cs*.deb package on floppy and I assume use dkpg to install it - > only the man page for dkpg says use dselect and dselect want to install > the lot. Any pointers, I can't be alone with this pr