A fellow posted a couple weeks ago about problems making a larger hdimage
for dosemu. If t hat's you and you're still having problems, I just got
dosemu working properly -- larger hdimage and accessing a linux
subdirectory. Lotsa fiddly bits. Be glad to help if you write.
Rick
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"Robert D. Hilliard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I experience this and other problems when using dynamic IPs.
> > Using '-S localhost' on the commandline solves it for me.
I think I also solved a similar problem by fixing my /etc/hosts file.
I made sure that the first entry was "127.0.0.1 loc
Alexandre Lebrun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'd like to set up my PPro to enable my 486 to boot nfs.
> looking at mknfsroot, this should be possible and perhaps easy with eth
> cards.
If you're talking about the 486 booting from an nfs mounted root on
your PPro machine, I think you may need a
On 23 May, Toens Bueker wrote:
> On May 22, Kevin Hilman wrote
>
>> It installs with no complaints, but i can't run it.
>> I can run it if I download and compile the source myself, but I'd like
>> to get the .deb working to use on multiple machines.
>> What is going on here? what file is missin
I have seen the same problem with a small system (8MB) when attempting to
mkfs a disk drive. I wonder if it has anything to do with the disk
controller baing busy when the system attempts to swap. This is a BusTek
ISA SCSI controller card that seems to want to load the BusLogic Driver.
It is th
Kernel 2.0.30 changed the way it handles memory. It's supposed to be a
stable kernel (by this I'm saying it's a 2.0.x and not a 2.1.x), but
problems like this make me think it shouldn't be used in 1.3. Could you
try downgrading to 2.0.29 and let me (or the whole list) know if it works?
Thanks fo
From: Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> If you're talking about the 486 booting from an nfs mounted root on
> your PPro machine, I think you may need an ethernet card with special
> boot ROMs.
Not nearly so difficult, he can use a floppy drive.
You can load the kernel from floppy and have it moun
> "MS" == Markus Schneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
MS> I try to make use of the powersave-ability of my monitor. Typing
MS> "setterm -powersave on" on a textconsole is working properly but how
MS> can I set this at boottime for ALL textconsoles? I've put this command
MS> into a little scri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) writes:
> Not nearly so difficult, he can use a floppy drive. You can load
> the kernel from floppy and have it mount an NFS root. SysLinux
> would be best for this.
I presume that this will only work if you're using NFS over something
like ethernet (not that nf
Cyrix does in fact make (or used to) make a 5 volt 486dx2. I have
two of them, 66 and 80 mhz. As a bonus, they have a bonded heat-
sink and do not require a fan.
The SX to DX upgrade will probably be as simple as "plug it in
and turn it on," only if the existing SX is a pin grid array
package
On Tue, 27 May 1997, George Bonser wrote:
> I have seen the same problem with a small system (8MB) when attempting to
> mkfs a disk drive. I wonder if it has anything to do with the disk
> controller baing busy when the system attempts to swap. This is a BusTek
> ISA SCSI controller card that s
Sorry for my previous request which apparently was sent to the wrong
distribution list (many apologies to Pete Templin who kindly pointed it
out to me).
I've been trying to download a PASCAL compiler for Linux and I've been
unsuccesful. Every site I've gone to either has the wrong link on their
This is a trivial matter, but I was trying to figure out a way to have
the screen run xlock after a certain period of inactivity, then the
"xset power" saver if there was a longer period of inactivity. It
looks like using xautolock and "xlock -nolock" with the enablesaver
option, I can get close
Bruce:
> Not nearly so difficult, he can use a floppy drive. You can load
> the kernel from floppy and have it mount an NFS root. SysLinux
> would be best for this.
From: Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I presume that this will only work if you're using NFS over something
> like ethernet (not
On Wed, 28 May 1997, Leandro Asnaghi-Nicastro wrote:
> I've been trying to download a PASCAL compiler for Linux and I've been
> unsuccesful.
Um, I'm assuming you're using Debian, since you're asking in
debian-user. (grin) Did you try the p2c package, which is a
Pascal-to-C translator? Not exac
On Wed, 28 May 1997, Leandro Asnaghi-Nicastro wrote:
> Sorry for my previous request which apparently was sent to the wrong
> distribution list (many apologies to Pete Templin who kindly pointed it
> out to me).
> I've been trying to download a PASCAL compiler for Linux and I've been
> unsucces
On 27 May 1997 14:43:53 -0700, you wrote:
>What kinds of free utils are available for analyzing and trying
>to figure out source code? Preferably with a GUI.
>
>--
>Kevin Hilman -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sysadmin - Image Computing Systems Lab - U of Washington
>PGP public key
I don't know that any low level drivers need to explicitly specified
in /etc/modules. My ethernet card, scsi hostadapter, filesystems,
etc. all load and unload on demand, as long as the right aliases
are set in /etc/conf.modules.
--Brian Borg
Dale Scheetz wrote:
>
> On Tue, 27 May 1997, Har
[About upgrading a 486SX-33 chip.]
I wonder, did the original poster consider a 486DX4-100? If you are
going to spend some money, this would definitely be a more noticeable
change. Intel has (used to have?) 5V 486DX4-100 chips that can without
modification be plugged in any old motherboard that
Brandon Mitchell wrote:
>
> Kernel 2.0.30 changed the way it handles memory. It's supposed to be a
> stable kernel (by this I'm saying it's a 2.0.x and not a 2.1.x), but
> problems like this make me think it shouldn't be used in 1.3. Could you
> try downgrading to 2.0.29 and let me (or the whole
On Tue, May 27, 1997 at 03:55:49PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> I just discovered rwhod, ruptime, rusers, etc, in the netstd package.
>
> Is there any reason why rwhod is not run in the /etc/init.d/netstd_misc
> script? (I see it's commented out.) Security concerns, etc?
Well, I enabled it and it ke
Hi folks,
I`ve recently installed *yet* another hardrive in a bid for more room.
The drive has been formatted as fat16 for use by Win95 as well. Now I`ve
decided to ask about a problem I`ve ignored until now. Both the new drive
and my present Win95 drive are mounted in fstab using vfat at
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On Tue, 27 May 1997, Walter L. Preuninger II wrote:
>Below is a simple drawing of my lan/wan setup.
>I want to route traffic from Subnet 0 over to subnet 8, ie from .2 to .254
>The micom rts card drops packets not destined for the remote slip
>address(.29)
Does
Hi,
I've got a problem regarding the localized keyboard mapping (german)
and an appropriate console font.
After I installed bash-2.0 and kbd-0.94 I couldn't access certain
chars, so I needed to replace default.map by de-latin1.map or
de-latin1-nodeadkeys.map. Then I used 'setfont iso01.f14'
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On Tue, 27 May 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:
>Oops. Right - he wants to use PPP. Sorry, my answer _was_ specific to
>Ethernet.
>
>You'd need to use INITRD. That's a good deal harder, but do-able. You would
>have to load a small root filesystem, start up PPPD, mount t
On Tue, 27 May 1997, Brian Skreeg wrote:
>
> I`ve recently installed *yet* another hardrive in a bid for more room.
> The drive has been formatted as fat16 for use by Win95 as well. Now I`ve
> decided to ask about a problem I`ve ignored until now. Both the new drive
> and my present Win95 drive ar
> Martin Schulze:
> > I believe there are security concerns. Via rwho protocol your machine
> > distributes information on who is logged in. So you are able to play
> > big brother and generate personal profiles for instance.
[..]
>
> Since broadcast packets shouldn't leave your local network, I
>
> On 27 May 1997 14:43:53 -0700, you wrote:
>
> >What kinds of free utils are available for analyzing and trying
> >to figure out source code? Preferably with a GUI.
> >
> >--
> >Kevin Hilman -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Sysadmin - Image Computing Systems Lab - U of Washing
Hamish Moffatt writes:
> On Tue, May 27, 1997 at 03:55:49PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> > I just discovered rwhod, ruptime, rusers, etc, in the netstd package.
> >
> > Is there any reason why rwhod is not run in the /etc/init.d/netstd_misc
> > script? (I see it's commented out.) Security concerns, e
Just wanted to let all the "helpers" on the list that your past messages about
LILO helped me get it working in just a few passes. (DOS-Linux boot) Thanks!
- lilo.conf
## Use MBR
boot=/dev/hda
## Fast
On Wed, 28 May 1997, Brian N. Borg wrote:
> I don't know that any low level drivers need to explicitly specified
> in /etc/modules. My ethernet card, scsi hostadapter, filesystems,
> etc. all load and unload on demand, as long as the right aliases
> are set in /etc/conf.modules.
>
You are cor
Does this by chance happen when updatedb is run from the cron script? I
had this problem a while ago ... I had to add a 32 MB temporary swap
file to solve the problem. Nowadays we run on a PPro with lots of RAM,
so I haven't seen these problems ... even the home machine has 32 MB.
Good Luck!
--
>You want gpc and gpc-doc, about 1.5 mb total. If you can't get them by ftp
>from ftp.debian.org or a mirror site, tell me what does actually work on a
>WinNT server (http?) and I will see what I can do to help. I absolutely
>hate pascal, but I'm compassionate :)
Thank you for your quick and kind
On Tue, 27 May 1997, Brandon Mitchell wrote:
> Kernel 2.0.30 changed the way it handles memory. It's supposed to be a
> stable kernel (by this I'm saying it's a 2.0.x and not a 2.1.x), but
> problems like this make me think it shouldn't be used in 1.3. Could you
> try downgrading to 2.0.29 and l
Hello all,
I have a problem with mgetty. I have put an entry in /etc/inittab to start
mgetty. However, when I start the ppp process, it complains that kernel
lacks PPP support which is wrong. I look at the log messages and it saids
the device is busy.
However, if I start mgetty by hand, I can star
Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler wrote:
> I've got a problem regarding the localized keyboard mapping
> (german)
> and an appropriate console font.
>
> After I installed bash-2.0 and kbd-0.94 I couldn't access certain
> chars, so I needed to replace default.map by de-latin1.map or
> de-latin1-nodeadkeys
> > Kernel 2.0.30 changed the way it handles memory. It's supposed to be a
> > stable kernel (by this I'm saying it's a 2.0.x and not a 2.1.x), but
> > problems like this make me think it shouldn't be used in 1.3. Could you
> > try downgrading to 2.0.29 and let me (or the whole list) know if it
>
Markus Schneider wrote:
> I am also using bash-2.0, kbd-0.94 and de-latin1.map. I didn't set a
> special font. The only thing I had to do for mc to display german
> umlauts was to selecet "Full 8 bits" in the options menu under "Display
> bits...". If this doesn't do what You want perhaphs selecti
On Wed, 28 May 1997, Leslie Mikesell wrote:
> I got this recently when running in single-user mode doing mke2fs on
> a 9 gig drive, but I think my swap space wasn't activated. Has the
> install package activated swap at this point?
Yes, basically this occurs "following the prompts" when installi
Martin Schulze:
> rwhod distributes it's information on _every_ interface which is
> broadcastable. This includes loopback and eth0, and also sl0 and I
> suppose ppp0, too. So if you run rwhod you should start it before
> your link is up and before it notices that there are some more
> broadcasta
Thanks very much for the information on this problem I'm having. Trying now
to root around and see what's wrong (can't get dhcpcd to use my ethernet card).
I notice on boot that the following messages come up:
daemon.log.0:May 25 04:06:41 tao modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-4
daemon.log.0:M
Kendall P. Bullen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Curiously, rebooting (which I did for other reasons ;) appears to have
>fixed the problem with EMACS displaying things incorrectly (though it
>always appeared to know where things really were ;). At least, one of
>the more reproducible weirdnesses hasn
> I have a problem with mgetty. I have put an entry in /etc/inittab to
start
> mgetty. However, when I start the ppp process, it complains that kernel
> lacks PPP support which is wrong. I look at the log messages and it saids
> the device is busy.
> However, if I start mgetty by hand, I can start
Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler wrote:
> Markus Schneider wrote:
>
> > I am also using bash-2.0, kbd-0.94 and de-latin1.map. I didn't set
> a
> > special font. The only thing I had to do for mc to display
> german
> > umlauts was to selecet "Full 8 bits" in the options menu under
> "Display
> > bits...". If
On May 28, Alex Yukhimets wrote
> By the way, where are ddd-dmotif and ddd-smotif packages?
They are no more; they were quite out of date (1.4). I don't have motif, and
thus cannot build them.
> The package ddd (compiled with lesstif) leaves core dumps all over the
> place itself.
That should c
Is there a way to have the ISO-8859-1 charset with tin ?
I use tin 97.04.24-3, and before, I was able to have them with a simple
export LANG=fr_FR
I don't have the accents and the other ISO-8859-1 characters anymore.
--
Etienne BERNARD, Engineering Student at Ecole Centrale Paris, France.
E-M
Hi.
This morning, while poking around, I executed the comand on
the console of "X", seeing if Xwindows would start up without
having read much of the docs... :^<
In order to get my console back, since I didn't think of logging
in accross the network and killing the process, mea maxima culpa,
> /usr/ is loaded into the second partition on my hard disk. The
> fsck for the second partition is occurring after all the module
> failures, so it seems perhapps that the book sequence has gotten
> messed up somehow, if the modules are loaded from /usr
No, in /etc/init.d/boot I read that mod
Hello,
What is the easiest way to install an identical set of packages on multiple
machines? That is, at install time, I want it to select the same packages
to install, rather than manually having to select packages on each machine.
Thanks,
John Goerzen
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I've got a new project and I need a refresher on TCP/IP to get it done.
Can anybody help me with where I might find answers/documentation/sample
solutions, etc. on the following:
I have a company that wants to move to TCP/IP only. They need to connect
to 3 locations and the Internet (4
Hey
We (Hakan Ardo, [EMAIL PROTECTED], and myself) just tried to setup a
machine in Sweden, which should forward EVERY single mail from
[EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the Netherlands).
a.domain.org is a machine in Sweden.
b.domain.org is the same machine in Sweden. Mail to [EMAIL PRO
John Roesch wrote:
:I have a company that wants to move to TCP/IP only. They need to connect
:to 3 locations and the Internet (4 routers). The Internet link has a
:firewall with Network Address Translation so we can use any addressing we
:want internally.
:
:Networks in each location wou
>However, the modules aren't supposed to be loaded from /usr: they are supposed
>to
>live in /lib/modules, and the insmod executable is in /sbin, so there _should_
>be
>no problem. Did you messabout with your system?
Nope. I didn't touch the modules, path, boot files
or records. Just hit the re
>
> >However, the modules aren't supposed to be loaded from /usr: they are
> >supposed to
> >live in /lib/modules, and the insmod executable is in /sbin, so there
> >_should_ be
> >no problem. Did you messabout with your system?
>
> Nope. I didn't touch the modules, path, boot files
> or record
On Wed, 28 May 1997, Curt Howland wrote:
:
:>However, the modules aren't supposed to be loaded from /usr: they are
supposed to
:>live in /lib/modules, and the insmod executable is in /sbin, so there
_should_ be
:>no problem. Did you messabout with your system?
:
:Nope. I didn't touch the modules
Hi!
I upgraded to (pre-)debian-1.3 and lost my xload!
Grepping "Contents" tells me that it should be contained in Package
xcontrib, but there is no "xload" in the xcontrib-package.
Where is it gone?
Maybe any alternatives?
-
mfg Joerg Delker/2e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PRO
Hi!
Is there there a problem with dump again?
I get this dump errors:
DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Wed May 28 18:42:02 1997
DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
DUMP: Dumping /dev/hdb1 (/var) to wofaserv.var.dump
DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
DUMP: mapping (Pass II)
I've been analyzing options for ISDN on my Debian GNU/Linux box and have
found the following:
1. Many external TA's emulate standard analog modems (i.e. AT command set)
and connect via serial port.
2. To maximize performance I must run the serial port at 460K - i.e. not
even 16550A's will work.
[Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...]
> Hi!
>
> I upgraded to (pre-)debian-1.3 and lost my xload!
>
> Grepping "Contents" tells me that it should be contained in Package
> xcontrib, but there is no "xload" in the xcontrib-package.
>
> Where is it gone?
$ dpkg -S xload
[..]
xp
Hi,
It looks like xload has moved from xcontrib to xproc. When I did 'dpkg
--search xload' this happened:
% dpkg --search xload
xloadimage: /usr/X11R6/bin/xloadimage
diversion by xproc from: /usr/X11R6/bin/xload
diversion by xproc to: /usr/X11R6/bin/xload.xcontrib
xloadimage: /usr/X11R6/man/man1
Kevin Traas wrote:
>
> I've been analyzing options for ISDN on my Debian GNU/Linux box and have
> found the following:
Another option which probably costs more (but I got for free :-) is to
have
an external router/bridge ISDN box, such as the Ascend Pipeline series.
Then
you just connect from an
On May 28, John Goerzen wrote
> Hello,
>
> What is the easiest way to install an identical set of packages on multiple
> machines? That is, at install time, I want it to select the same packages
> to install, rather than manually having to select packages on each machine.
I believe the easiest w
> > I've been analyzing options for ISDN on my Debian GNU/Linux box and
> > have found the following:
>
> Another option which probably costs more (but I got for free :-) is to
> have an external router/bridge ISDN box, such as the Ascend Pipeline
> series. Then you just connect from an ethernet
On Tue, 13 May 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Mon, May 12, 1997 at 01:27:32PM -0300, Nelson Posse Lago wrote:
> > The Sportster Si (I think only 14400 versions exist) is a RPI model, and
> > therefore doesn't work under linux as well.
>
> I doubt USR would be making RPI (Rockwell Protocol Inte
I've not yet worked with one - though I plan on it RSN - but how about
one of the PCMCIA ISDN Cards? There are a couple of companies that
offer ISA adapters: one company has three products 1) ISA card that supports
1 PC Card accessible from the rear of the computer, 2) ISA card that
supports 2 PC
> Hi!
>
> I upgraded to (pre-)debian-1.3 and lost my xload!
>
> Grepping "Contents" tells me that it should be contained in Package
> xcontrib, but there is no "xload" in the xcontrib-package.
It's in a new package "xproc".
This is explained in the description for the xcontrib package.
But do
The following joke struck me as funny even though I knew the answer before
I got to the punch line. While trying to figure out who to send it to, it
came to me that this is something to keep in mind when answering quetions
on this list. Think about it next time you have "the" answer.
-- Fo
I recently got myself a Seagate Tapestor3200 TR3/QIC 3020 tape drive. It works
fine under DOS, however when I try to backup anything in Linux, I get the
following errors:
May 28 19:43:36 whoever kernel: [047]ftape-write.c (ftape_write_segment) -
write error, retry 1 (399).
May 28 19:43:46 whoever
On May 28, Kendall P. Bullen wrote
> On Mon, 26 May 1997, Andy Mortimer wrote:
>
> > This is probably not the case, but I thought I'd mention it; you aren't
> > by any chance using XEmacs rather than FSF Emacs, are you? ISTR getting
> > this problem with 19.14; although it has been fixed in 19.15
Hello ALL,
As Debian-1.3 is comming soon, I would like to know if there
is some problem with the 3com (vortex 3c59x) driver in debian?
I have seen a lot of problems been reported in linux-vortex
list and I'm afraid of upgrading my kernel to 2.0.30 as 1.3 is released.
Will
Hi,
I have set a debian machine as a IP-Masq for 2 subnets:
subnet 1 (most win3.x/95 mach)
|
Gateway-IP-MASQ
nameserver |
subnet 2-(win3.x/95 and Linux(my))
I would l
On May 28, Igor Grobman wrote
> I recently got myself a Seagate Tapestor3200 TR3/QIC 3020 tape drive. It
> works
> fine under DOS, however when I try to backup anything in Linux, I get the
> following errors:
>
> May 28 19:43:36 whoever kernel: [047]ftape-write.c (ftape_write_segment) -
> write
On Wed, 28 May 1997, Kevin Traas wrote:
> > I have a problem with mgetty. I have put an entry in /etc/inittab to
> start
> > mgetty. However, when I start the ppp process, it complains that kernel
> > lacks PPP support which is wrong. I look at the log messages and it saids
> > the device is bus
> > > I have a problem with mgetty. I have put an entry in /etc/inittab to
> > start
> > > mgetty. However, when I start the ppp process, it complains that
kernel
> > > lacks PPP support which is wrong. I look at the log messages and it
saids
> > > the device is busy.
> > > However, if I start mget
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