Slink upgrade left old symlinks in /lib

1999-05-19 Thread Tony Robinson
's own. I could try doing everything at once by a rescue floppy, but I wondered if someone knew a smarter way, or had seen the problem before. Tony Robinson compute# ls -tla /lib/lib* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 May 19 15:04 /lib/libc.so.6 -> libc-2.0.7.so-- lrwxrwxrwx

New machine spec: any comments?

1998-08-14 Thread Tony Robinson
time researching this so any discussion will probably help me and others thinking of very cheap compute/disk servers - not so long ago I paid this much for just the disk! Tony Robinson -- http://www-svr.eng.cam.ac.uk/~ajr

Re: Log of 1.2.2 install available

1997-01-19 Thread Tony Robinson
of catching the error messages. I installed a bunch more packages without problem. I hope this is of some use to somebody, if only to document how far Debian has got in terms of effort to install. Tony Robinson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Log of 1.2.2 install available

1997-01-19 Thread Tony Robinson
ajr/debian-1.2.2-install.gz (658305 bytes), you can cat to a console login to replay it although it is too fast (I intend to generate a simple script to play it slowly). If I'm not beaten by another release I'll summarise. Tony Robinson -- http://www.softsound.demon.co.uk/ email [

Debian 1.2.2 and dependency on libc5 (>= 5.4.17-1)

1997-01-13 Thread Tony Robinson
problem was as above and part was a LaTeX problem (appended). Tony Robinson kpathsea: Running MakeTeXTFM manfnt.tfm Running MakeTeXPK manfnt.tfm mf \mode:=nullmode; mag:=1; scrollmode; input manfnt \= 3.1415-4); however: Package texbin is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing xypic (--i

Re: Set up PPP for two ISPs

1996-12-31 Thread Tony Robinson
t instead. This works because non of the files in /etc/ppp/ are ISP specific. It works fine for me. I'm told (by the maintainers) that the next version of ppp will have it's own solution. Tony Robinson -- http://www.SoftSound.demon.co.uk/ email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax +44-1223-562588

Upgrade/downgrade cycles

1996-11-02 Thread Tony Robinson
wouldn't answer my question). Tony Robinson http://svr-www.eng.cam.ac.uk/~ajr http://www.compute.demon.co.uk/SoftSound.html -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installing on a portable

1996-09-14 Thread Tony Robinson
t I couldn't load the nfs module and so had to use ftp access instead. I'm puzzled by this as I can't remember the same problem with the other two (desktop) systems I've installed. Thanks to the poster and Brian Mays who emailed me, I'm now up and running. Tony Robinson

Installing on a portable

1996-09-13 Thread Tony Robinson
inters, I can't be alone with this problem? [ for background, I run six Linux boxes, two of the desktop boxes now run Debian, the other will soon, and the other three machines are portables so I need to know how to do this right.] Tony Robinson