Re: Who is guilty, the kernel or Debian?

1996-11-29 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Hi, At 02:05 PM 11/28/96 PST, you wrote: >Can you revert to the 2.0.6 kernel and tell us if that one causes a problem? Nope, it didn't work. I re-installed a fresh kernel source tree (2.0.7), re-configured it for my basic hardware (IDE, NE2100 compatible card, serial driver, MS-DOS+ext2 fs suppo

Re: Blackout kills harddisk - owner pleads for help!

1996-11-29 Thread Mark Phillips
Dear Dr Debian, I woke up this morning to discover that there had been a blackout. My computer had tried to reboot but couldn't even get a LILO prompt. Actually, that's not completely true, it did manage to get half a LILO prompt (it printed "LI") and then hung. I tried rebooting again a couple

Re: DOS <--> Linux

1996-11-29 Thread Daniel Stringfield
On Wed, 27 Nov 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: > But will Lantastic use the TCP/IP transport, or only NETBEUI? It supports TCP/IP in version 7 out of the box, and the TCP/IP is available for older versions, but I would recommend version 7 anyway. -- Daniel Stringfield

Re: date and time

1996-11-29 Thread Daniel Stringfield
On Thu, 28 Nov 1996, Fundamental wrote: > my debian time is wrong:) > > The time in my cmos is correct, but the time that debian displays is > incorrect, like really wrong. Whenever i manually set the date on it works > fine untill the next time the machine is rebooted, then it goes all screwy >

doubled gifs in mosaic2.7b5-2

1996-11-29 Thread Brian Gough
I get a strange problem with the debianised Mosaic from non-free. All the gifs come out doubled horizontally, e.g. [ImageImage] . Looks Looks very very weird weird. I installed mosaic-2.7b5-2 using libpng1-0.88-1, on xbase-3.1.2-9 from buzz-fixed. X is running in 640x400 VGA16 mode (it's a laptop

About XFree86 3.2 ...

1996-11-29 Thread Carnage
Hello, When you installed XFree 3.2, did you experience any problems with the xrdb utility not working? When I first tried it, xrdb would exit with a "can't run '/usr/lib/cpp -Dblablabla' with a whole bunch of '-D' switches following the 'cpp' part. I checked out my '/usr/lib/cpp', and s

[NFS] UDP Socket?

1996-11-29 Thread Tan Wee Yeh
Hi, when I tried to start rpc.nfsd, I get the error nfsd: could not make a UDP socket My /etc/exports and /etc/fstab are ok. System setup: Both server and client are running on debian linux 1.1 (kernel 2.0.6). and are meant to share data. Setup is default but I have since edited the

Re: [NFS] UDP Socket?

1996-11-29 Thread Tan Wee Yeh
Hi, Sorry about the previous posting... I solved the problem already.. :) Reason is that the nfs support is not properly initiated for the server resulting in the udp socket not found. Just me, Wire ... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECT

dial up

1996-11-29 Thread Fundamental
Okay, what pacakges do i need to setup a debian server to accept i dial in modem via PPP and shell? A pointer to a howto would also be appreciated. Sahua, - mIcHaEl ///\ The Australian Internet Company c-00 ISP par Excellence \ > http://www.electric-rain.net/ (mine) |\_-

Specialized reboot parameters (was: who is guilty, the kernel or Debian)

1996-11-29 Thread Bruce Perens
Eloy, Under 2.0.25 there are options for how the system reboots. These are specified on the LILO command line. One of these will probably solve your rebooting problem. These are typed in the form boot: linux reboot=c at the lilo prompt, or in /etc/lilo.conf add the line append="

Printing using ghostscript

1996-11-29 Thread Paul Chau
I am using a debian 1.1 box installed from infomagic cd. I have setup a printer to print using ghostscript and all works well. But just one question, lpq always say printer is ready and printing even when the printer is offline. Is there any way to report the true status of the printer? Regards. P

Re: Who is guilty, the kernel or Debian?

1996-11-29 Thread Fabien Ninoles
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 28 Nov 1996, Eloy A. Paris wrote: > Hi, > > At 02:05 PM 11/28/96 PST, you wrote: > > >Can you revert to the 2.0.6 kernel and tell us if that one causes a problem? > > Nope, it didn't work. I re-installed a fresh kernel source tree (2.0.7), > re-confi

first steps: Installing kernel failed

1996-11-29 Thread Dr.-Ing. Andreas Wehler
Hi, trying to install with special boot disk image-2.0.5-5 the Installation of Operating System Kernel failed with: "Error in archive format". It is the very same floppy from which the first steps went through. /dev/sda1 is set up as root fs, rex is copied to /dev/sda3 and /dev/sda2 is a ha

What's the trick with X 3.2?

1996-11-29 Thread ugs
I've looked through the dependencies and I think xlib6 should be installed first. Turns out there is something called "xlib" that is blocking an easy upgrade. I get the following few errors: dpkg: considering removing

Re: doubled gifs in mosaic2.7b5-2

1996-11-29 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
I can confirm your experince. With both Xfree 3.1.2 and 3.2 I get double images in some application (e.g. Mosaic but not Grail). It appears to be a problem with the XF86_VGA16 server since the problem seems to go away with when I use the XF86_SVGA server. The solution is to upgrade to the SVGA s

Re: Blackout kills harddisk - owner pleads for help!

1996-11-29 Thread Graeme Stewart
> "Mark" == Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mark> Partition check: hda: hda1 hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3 VFS: Cannot Mark> open root device 08:01 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount Mark> root fs on 08:01 Your floppy is trying to boot from the device with major number 8, minor nu

How do I delete Obsolete/Required packages?

1996-11-29 Thread Rick Macdonald
My system is up-to-date with unstable. dselect shows me the following obsolete packages, but won't let me remove them because they're required. What do I do? - All packages - --- Obsolete and local packages present on system ---

Re: About XFree86 3.2 ...

1996-11-29 Thread Graeme Stewart
> "Carnage" == Carnage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Carnage> Hello, When you installed XFree 3.2, did you experience Carnage> any problems with the xrdb utility not working? When I Carnage> first tried it, xrdb would exit with a "can't run Carnage> '/usr/lib/cpp -Dblablabla' w

Re: first steps: Installing kernel failed - solved

1996-11-29 Thread Dr.-Ing. Andreas Wehler
: Hi, : : trying to install with special boot disk image-2.0.5-5 the : Installation of Operating System Kernel failed with: : "Error in archive format". : It is the very same floppy from which the first steps went through. ok, just cycled through kernels special_boot-[0-6].bin from debi

NFS installation

1996-11-29 Thread Tan Wee Yeh
hi, I am using debian 1.1. i am mirroring the whole debian site... hopefully, with that, I can export nfs to all of my U's workstation so they can install debian linux on the fly. I was unable to get the installation kernel to recognise nfs. The option to load nfs support module is given in

tar strange behaviour

1996-11-29 Thread Marek Duszynski
Hello, I do not seem to be able to use tar for multivolume archives on my Debian1.1 I make a tar file of a file like: tar cvMf /dev/fd0 myfile and this works all right, prompting me for next volumes and the archive is created OK. I can look up its contents with tar tvMf /dev/fd

Compiling Perl from Source

1996-11-29 Thread Robyn Renwick
Hi everyone! I am a second year computer science student working on a debian system. I recently completed a project where I compiled Perl from the source code. I was asked to post my findings here as it may be helpful. I did quite a long write-up, which I won't post here, but anyone who has furt

Why doesn't dselect show "local" packages?

1996-11-29 Thread Rick Macdonald
I tried the kernel-package_3.03.deb for the first time. I put the deb file in "local/binary-i386" and ran dpkg-scanpackages to create a Packages.gz file. dselect accepted the "local" directory in the "Access" and "Update" commands, but the "Select" menu doesn't show the local package. What have

Re: About XFree86 3.2 ...

1996-11-29 Thread Martin Alonso Soto Jacome
Hi: [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > "Carnage" == Carnage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Carnage> Hello, When you installed XFree 3.2, did you experience > Carnage> any problems with the xrdb utility not working? When I > Carnage> first tried it, xrdb would exit with a "can't run >

What's the trick with X 3.2?

1996-11-29 Thread Stephen Early
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I've looked through the dependencies and I think xlib6 should be installed > first. Turns out there is something called "xlib" that is blocking an > easy upgrade. I get the following few errors: In this particular case it's a bug in the gwm package; it depends on x