Re: It still don't work......

1997-07-07 Thread Andree Leidenfrost
Hi Tony, you have to make these links both in /usr/lib *and* in /lib. Do this and have a look at the output of ldconfig afterwards. Hopefully it won't complain any longer and dselect will start working properly, too. Regards, Andree PS: Besides, I ran over a similar problem when upgradi

Re: It still don't work......

1997-07-05 Thread Brandon Mitchell
to make an 8 meg swap file called swap1 in the current directory: dd if=/dev/zero of=swap1 bs=1024 count=8192 mkswap swap1 8192 sync swapon swap1 But swap files are slower and can potentially cause problems, so swap partitions are prefered. Just make the swap partition large enough that you don't

Re: It still don't work......

1997-07-05 Thread Jon Nelson
Responding to the message of Sat, 5 Jul 1997 10:49:36 -0600 from [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > Well here we go again > > A little background so some of you remember. > > I installed debain 1.3 (7) times. Have been having trouble getting > dselect to install files using the ftp access method.

Re: It still don't work......

1997-07-05 Thread bigt
PA>If that is 2 meg total you need more. If it's 2 meg used, OK. I usually PA>create a swap partition of 32mb or more. Often I create them at the max PA>usable 128mb because I tend to really hammer the system with a lot of PA>tasks. PA>> The date on the floppy is 5-28-97 (looking at the rescue di

Re: It still don't work......

1997-07-05 Thread bigt
IG>Date: Sat, 05 Jul 1997 12:27:57 -0400 IG>From: Igor Grobman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> IG>did you type ldconfig (as root) after that? That might be the problem. IG>if that doesn't work, try reinstalling dpkg with dpkg -i (it includes dselec IG>HTH. Yes I did. I did find dpkg-dev and installed t

Re: It still don't work......

1997-07-05 Thread bigt
PA>I will be sending the 1.3.1 CD Monday. One of my machines is a 386DX40 PA>with 8 mb and a soundblaster 2x cd drive that is flaky under windows. I PA>have a 540 mb IDE drive in it that I use just for testing and I have good PA>results with it installing from my CD or from my network. PA>What d

It still don't work......

1997-07-05 Thread bigt
Well here we go again A little background so some of you remember. I installed debain 1.3 (7) times. Have been having trouble getting dselect to install files using the ftp access method. I keep getting this can't map /lib/libc message. Well someone sugested that I type this ln -s