Re: Installation Problem with Potato

2002-02-13 Thread Wayne Byarlay
nken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 11:58 AM Subject: Re: Installation Problem with Potato > On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 11:06:10AM -0500, Wayne Byarlay wrote: > > I am attempting to install Debian Linux Potato version via CD. [...] > > The cd s

Re: Installation Problem with Potato

2002-02-12 Thread Johannes Franken
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 11:06:10AM -0500, Wayne Byarlay wrote: > I am attempting to install Debian Linux Potato version via CD. [...] > The cd spins up, but then it says, "Unable to mount the rescue floppy. [...] > Obviously, the CD can be read, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to get > this fa

Installation Problem with Potato

2002-02-12 Thread Wayne Byarlay
Greetings. I am attempting to install Debian Linux Potato version via CD. The computer I'm installing to used to have some previous version of Linux on it, but I have reformatted it at the prompts. The problem occurs when it wants to begin copying the kernel files to / . The cd spins up, but then

system time problem with potato?

2001-09-20 Thread Rino Mardo
i'm using the 2.2r0 CDs to install my debian box and i notice one thing. the dates of some files and directories are set hours ahead of my cmos time. files affected are the dynamically created ones like linked files in "/dev", some files in "/var" and "/usr", and "/proc" itself. poking around i

Re: Serious problem with potato

2000-12-09 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 06:07:44PM -0500, S . Salman Ahmed wrote: > Can anyone explain why /home should be somewhere near the last entry, > presumably in /etc/fstab ? > > I am all set to repartition my HD and reinstall potato, and having > solved my problems with /usr and /usr/local (mounting orde

Re: Serious problem with potato

2000-12-09 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 03:39:44AM -0500, S . Salman Ahmed wrote: > I just installed potato using the 2.2r2 boot floppies. The problem I am > having is that the output of 'du' and 'df' does not agree. Specifically, > even though I created a 2.5Gb /usr/local/ partition on which I haven't > currently

Re: Serious problem with potato

2000-12-09 Thread Nate Amsden
the problem is your mounting /usr/local before /usr change that i dont know if any data will be lost..but you must always mount lower level stuff first. nate "S.Salman Ahmed" wrote: > > I just installed potato using the 2.2r2 boot floppies. The problem I am > having is that the output of 'd

Re: Heard there was a problem with potato first release

2000-08-23 Thread Mark Janssen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 16:40:52 -0400 > From: Paul McHale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Debian-User > Subject: Heard there was a problem with potato first release > > I am going to a computer show this weekend and would l

Heard there was a problem with potato first release

2000-08-23 Thread Paul McHale
I am going to a computer show this weekend and would like to buy the CDs for potato. I heard the initial images were flawed. What is the old/new release numbers so I know what to ask for? paul -- Paul McHale Work: 937-320-5495 Double E Solutions Mobile: 937-371-2828 14

Re: Problem with potato

2000-08-13 Thread Marko Cehaja
Dear On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 08:46:41AM +0930, John Pearson wrote: > > > > DEBUG: Pages 0: Changed 0, Reapped 0, Empty 0, > > New 0; Tup 0: Vac 0, Keep/VTL 0/0, Crash 0, UnUsed 0, MinLen 0, MaxLen 0; > > Re-using: Free/Avail. Space 0/0; EndEmpty/Avail. Pages 0/0. Elapsed

Re: Problem with potato

2000-08-13 Thread John Pearson
On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 10:23:41AM -0400, Brian Schramm wrote > I just got through installing Potato on my HP Pavilion 133 computer with > 80 meg of ram and a 8gig HD. > > When I come back to it from letting it sit idle for about 8 hours this is > on the tty1 screen: > > D

Re: Problem with potato

2000-08-13 Thread alan
arko Cehaja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To:Brian Schramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Problem with potato > Dear > > On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 10:23:41AM -0400, Brian Schramm wrote: > > I just got through installing Potato on

Re: Problem with potato

2000-08-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 10:23:41AM -0400, Brian Schramm wrote: > --Relation pg_indexes-- > DEBUG: Pages 0: Changed 0, Reapped 0, Empty 0, New 0; > Tup 0: > Vac 0, Keep/VTL 0/0, Crash 0, UnUsed 0, MinLen 0, MaxLen 0; Re-using: > Free/Avail. Space 0/0; EndEmpty/Avail. Pages 0/0. El

Re: Problem with potato

2000-08-13 Thread Marko Cehaja
Dear On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 05:34:41PM +0200, Marko Cehaja wrote: > Dear > > happening, and I have the same. > > I looked into configuration files of PostgreSQL and debug is turned off. > I can however imagine that it is some kind of message which also goes > through syslogd. I quote now myse

Re: Problem with potato

2000-08-13 Thread Marko Cehaja
Dear On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 10:23:41AM -0400, Brian Schramm wrote: > I just got through installing Potato on my HP Pavilion 133 computer with > 80 meg of ram and a 8gig HD. > > When I come back to it from letting it sit idle for about 8 hours this is > on the tty1 screen: > >

Problem with potato

2000-08-13 Thread Brian Schramm
I just got through installing Potato on my HP Pavilion 133 computer with 80 meg of ram and a 8gig HD. When I come back to it from letting it sit idle for about 8 hours this is on the tty1 screen: DEBUG: Pages 0: Changed 0, Reapped 0, Empty 0, New 0; Tup 0: Vac 0, Keep/VTL

Re: daylight savings time problem with potato?

2000-04-03 Thread Touloumtzis, Michael
Re potato seeming not to be handling EST correctly, I'm still confused, but I have it working okay now (with some manual intervention) and have more info ... I noticed that when I use tzconfig to set timezone to EST5EDT it copies file EST5EDT to /etc/localtime (rather than creating a link, as the

daylight savings time problem with potato?

2000-04-03 Thread Touloumtzis, Michael
Arriving at work this morning I notice that my Debian box (running up-to-date potato) still thinks it's standard time. A similarly configured RedHat 6.0 box reports daylight savings time. Am I missing something? # date Mon Apr 3 09:38:53 EST 2000 # cat /etc/timezone Sys

Problem with potato installation, Where can I find the description of kernel's boot parameters?

2000-03-02 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
Hi All, I need to block the autodetection (at the boot time) of device located at 0x280 , but without blocking possibility of loading the module with this iobase. The problem is that the WD8003 netcard is located there, which locks the system during the startup of potatos installation kernel (pro

Re: dselect problem with potato [RESOLVED]

2000-01-31 Thread Gregory T. Norris
The problem turned out, rather unexpectedly, to be that xscreensaver recommends the virtual package "perl". Since both perl-5.004 and perl-5.005 conflict with "perl" (providing "perl5" instead), dselect silently selected them for removal... which chained down to everything which had a direct or in

Re: dselect problem with potato

2000-01-30 Thread Gregory T. Norris
On Sun, Jan 30, 2000 at 01:07:02AM -0500, paul wrote: > Please read this earlier thread (on this list): > "BEFORE YOU UPGRADE TO POTATO LOOK AT..." > > I hope this answers your questions. Thanx for the pointer!

Re: dselect problem with potato

2000-01-30 Thread paul
Please read this earlier thread (on this list): "BEFORE YOU UPGRADE TO POTATO LOOK AT..." I hope this answers your questions. -ptw-

dselect problem with potato

2000-01-29 Thread Gregory T. Norris
For some reason dselect wants to remove an awful lot of packages from my potato system: at, cron, debconf, exim, mailx, apparently all of gnome, and a bunch of others. When I run apt-get it seems perfectly happy with everything that's installed, and nothing seems to be flagged for removal in dsele

Re: update-menus problem with potato

2000-01-15 Thread Marek Habersack
* Sean Johnson said: > wow, don't know how I missed that ... thanks. Anytime :))) marek pgpOFpgPBeW6V.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: update-menus problem with potato

2000-01-14 Thread Sean Johnson
wow, don't know how I missed that ... thanks. Sean Marek Habersack wrote: > > * Sean Johnson said: > > A quick fix is to remove (or move) the /usr/lib/menu/xbase-clients file > > ... as its format is evidently fscked. > Even quicker is to edit it and add a backslash after every > 'hints="somethi

Re: update-menus problem with potato

2000-01-14 Thread Marek Habersack
* Sean Johnson said: > A quick fix is to remove (or move) the /usr/lib/menu/xbase-clients file > ... as its format is evidently fscked. Even quicker is to edit it and add a backslash after every 'hints="something"' line. marek pgpAGDbUCzWKV.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: update-menus problem with potato

2000-01-14 Thread Sean Johnson
A quick fix is to remove (or move) the /usr/lib/menu/xbase-clients file ... as its format is evidently fscked. Sean Gerhard Kroder wrote: > > i've just setup a brandnew potato system (builtup from scratch as > potato) an try to get x/windowmanagers runnig. i noticed that > update-menus doesn't

update-menus problem with potato

2000-01-14 Thread Gerhard Kroder
i've just setup a brandnew potato system (builtup from scratch as potato) an try to get x/windowmanagers runnig. i noticed that update-menus doesn't run throug correctly, but i can't find the problem. running on the new system shows: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] gerdk >more update-menus.log > In file

tftp problem with potato

1999-07-16 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Hi, after doing a new installation of debian potato on our server, i have a strange tftp problem: If i issue a tftp get command on a client, tftp hangs. If i do 'strace tftp', it works. Same if i strace in.tftpd on the server. Is this a weird timing problem? I use kernel 2.2.10, potato as of 12-J

Installation Problem with Potato (2.1) + latest Boot-discs

1999-01-07 Thread Franz . Skale
I installed potato with the latest boot-disks via ftp.Worked without problem. But if it finished downloading all the wanted packages and configured them something wonderful happend. A message is displayed that sounds like this." You have compiled your kernel to support modules but that is not suppo