[Q] Best Strategy to install Debian 1.3 using a PCMCIA CDROM?

What Ho! I am planning on installing Debian 1.3 on my laptop. I have had prior success installing 1.2 on this same laptop. I prefer to clean up the hard-disk and start from scratch. But here is the problem. This laptop does not have a built in CDROM drive. I have had success using a PCMCIA CD

RFC: Prospective Kernel-Compiling mini-HOWTO

Hello, This file has been posted to this forum a few times before in earlier versions. I would very much appreciate feedback on it. If enough people think it's a good idea, I will attempt to contribute it to the LDP. --BEGIN-- Kernel Compiling for Dummies By Branden Robinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: Changing the host name

Rick Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > /etc/hostname, too . . . and then i think (not sure) you neet a reboot > or midnight to pass. This can be a tricky operation. You'll have to change every config file that has cached the hostname. I'm specifically thinking of things like the sendmail co

Upgrade path to 1.3 from 1.2

Ok, I understand hte basics and I can follow the directions on the web site. Here's my question: After I've installed the basics (by hand), what do I tell dselect? Should I just select EVERYTHING? Are some packages more important to keep up with? I basically play to set it up, point it a

Re: Upgrade path to 1.3 from 1.2

On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Will Lowe wrote: > Should I just select EVERYTHING? YIKES! Don't do THAT! You will spend so much time in the conflict resolution screen that you will NEVER figure out what to do! You might take a close look at the packages marked IMPORTANT first. Select which of these you

Re: [Q] Best Strategy to install Debian 1.3 using a PCMCIA CDROM?

On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > I am planning on installing Debian 1.3 on my laptop. I have had prior > success installing 1.2 on this same laptop. I prefer to clean up the > hard-disk and start from scratch. You do? I switched to Debian a year and a half ago in the hope

Re: [Q] Best Strategy to install Debian 1.3 using a PCMCIA CDROM?

Rick Macdonald wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > > I am planning on installing Debian 1.3 on my laptop. I have had prior > > success installing 1.2 on this same laptop. I prefer to clean up the > > hard-disk and start from scratch. > You do? > > I switched to Debian

menu package

Hi, I just did an upgrade from menu version 1.3-2 to 1.4-1 and I noticed that the program "update-menus" provided by the new package segmentation faults when the pre-removal and post-removal scripts execute it. This effects packages such as procps and xproc. Anyone seen this? Thanks... J. Goldman

First impressions on installing Debian 1.3

These are my first impressions, feel free to just delete this post. >From a guy who has used Linux since 1993 or so, I found the installation to be non-trivial: - The use of a single boot disk didn't help me with my Adaptec SCSI card. I *think* there are alternative kernels in some directo

Installing

I am having trouble installing the new version of debian. Iget all the way to the select type color or mono screen. and it stops right there. I don't think it freezes up because the cursor is still blinking. I just cant select anything. Conflict with keyboard?maybe? Any suggestions would be very he

Re: First impressions on installing Debian 1.3

Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A question... > > - I assume that the list of installed packages is in some file. Is it >possible to transfer this file to another PC to instruct Debian to >install the same pacakges? I often install on several PCs and this >would be

nec scsi controller

I have nearly everything working; i've even mounted afs. The last piece is the scsi cdrom. It's a NEC 16 bit controller, probably about 3 years old. As near as I can tell from the kernel documentation, I need the eato driver. I compiled this into a kernel, but I get: bash-2.00# mount /dev/sda

Re: nec scsi controller

> "Rick" == Rick Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rick> I have nearly everything working; i've even mounted afs. Rick> The last piece is the scsi cdrom. It's a NEC 16 bit Rick> controller, probably about 3 years old. As near as I can Rick> tell from the kernel documentatio

Re: First impressions on installing Debian 1.3

> - I didn't really like the interface of dselect. It's easy to get lost in >there. Perhaps changing the background colour according to the context? >(different background colour during conflict resolution; this package >suggests this other (in blue foreground); this package confli

Re: nec scsi controller

> Rick> bash-2.00# mount /dev/sda3 /cdrom -t iso9660 mount: the > Rick> kernel does not recognize /dev/sda3 as a block device (maybe > Rick> `insmod driver'?) > > SCSI CD-ROMs are usually /dev/scd0 and up. Check dmesg | less to see > exactly where it is (but it's most likely /dev/scd

TaskBar: a follow-up

Well even if the documentation is still missing, I found something that maybe can interest somebody. I integrated my .fvwm95rc with the Debian menus because I found them nice to have, but since I personilyze my setup I jut added the Apps, Modules and Games ... After that TaskBar didn't work quit

Debian and 387

Hi, I have got wine 970509 and I tried to run matlab 4 for windows 3.11. My DOS directory is mounted on /c , so I ran: wine /c/matlab/bin/matlab It first looked as if it was good but it crashed, complaining about a 80387 coprocessor missing. The problem

Re: netatalk error: atalkd socket: Invalid argument

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ed Donovan) writes: > > If your kernel Appletalk support is compiled as a module, you'll get > that error message when /etc/conf.modules file has the line: > > alias net-pf-5 off > > instead of: > > alias net-pf-5 appletalk > > > I think my current conf.modules

Problem with chat, diald, & pppd

I've been using diald and pppd for about six months now - no problem. (Thanks to Phillipe Troin et al.) But, ISDN has arrived and the 33.6Kbps is "growing old" I've installed a Hayes ESP and attached a Hayes Accura ISDN TA to it. I've installed the esp module as per instructions, configure

Re: glibc

On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, joost witteveen wrote: : > : : > : > Hmm I should have know. I installed LinuxThreads a while ago, but I removed : > : > it when installing pthreads. : > : > And of course, right now, LinuxThreads refuses to compile.. : > : > : > : > Seems the include files in /u

lockd for debian ?

I need to export a mail directory from a Debian system to SGI and SUN machines. A few applications expect a lock daemon lockd on the exporting system. I seems that there is no such daemon for debian, We found an old Linux version 0.4 '95 from Olaf Kirch, but it does not seem to work reliable. Do

Re: RFC: Prospective Kernel-Compiling mini-HOWTO

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, w rites: >Hello, > >This file has been posted to this forum a few times before in earlier >versions. I would very much appreciate feedback on it. If enough people >think it's a good idea, I will attempt to contribute it to the LDP. >... >// if you w

Re: Books on Debian

David Wright wrote: > > Two problem(s) with a book: (a) you're really only buying a few pages of > Debian-specific stuff which (b) is almost out-of-date before it's > published. I'd far rather have just a good annotated bibliography of all > the Debianised documentation. As I think I've said befor

Bruce on congress in germany

Good morning everyone, I hope you find your day going well. I am organizing a congress in fall, Sept 27th and 28th. One schedule is titled 'New Technologies' and will contain several Linux and Debian talks. We have invited Bruce Perens to talk about Debian GNU/Linux there. Richard St

Re: First impressions on installing Debian 1.3

Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >From a guy who has used Linux since 1993 or so, I found the installation > to be non-trivial: ... > - I didn't really like the interface of dselect. It's easy to get lost in >there. Perhaps changing the background colour according to the

Re: [Q] Best Strategy to install Debian 1.3 using a PCMCIA CDROM?

On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > > > I am planning on installing Debian 1.3 on my laptop. I have had prior > > success installing 1.2 on this same laptop. I prefer to clean up the > > hard-disk and start from scratch. > > You d

Re: nec scsi controller

Rick Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > EATA0: address 0x1f0 in use, skipping probe. > EATA0: address 0x170 in use, skipping probe. > scsi : 0 hosts. > scsi : detected total. [snip] > So how do i clear whatever has its grubby paws on the controller? cat /proc/ioports (or run lsdev) s

Re: Books on Debian

On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, H.C.Lai wrote: > David Wright wrote: > > > > Two problem(s) with a book: (a) you're really only buying a few pages of > > Debian-specific stuff which (b) is almost out-of-date before it's > > published. I'd far rather have just a good annotated bibliography of all > > the Deb

Re: Big problem with TeX/LaTeX

Paul Rightley writes: > teTeX does seem to install now (and I do not have the TeX environment > variables set... To me, this is not right. This means that I cannot > use dselect to remove the teTeX packages and then reinstall them without > executing commands not related to dselect. Is this

Re: nec scsi controller

On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote: > hmm: > > EATA0: address 0x1f0 in use, skipping probe. > EATA0: address 0x170 in use, skipping probe. > scsi : 0 hosts. > scsi : detected total. > > something is already getting at it. The controller does make some kind > of attempt to boot from the cd,

Re: radius

>Is anyone actually using the debian radius package? It doesn't appear >to work in any fashion. It seems like all the binaries are looking >for /usr/private/etc/raddb/ as in: Are you using the Merit or Livingstone version? >dict_init: Couldn't open dictionary: /usr/private/etc/raddb/dictionary >D

Re: radius

In your email to me, Adam Shand, you wrote: > > >Is anyone actually using the debian radius package? It doesn't appear > >to work in any fashion. It seems like all the binaries are looking > >for /usr/private/etc/raddb/ as in: > > Are you using the Merit or Livingstone version? Right now, Merit.

Re: radius

I compiled Merit and actually got it to work last year on a non-Debian system. It involved a bit of study and doing things manually. I started at an ISP that had a Cisco 2516 router and tacacs+ on NT. I switched to 2 Linux systems on an isolated (coax) ethernet. I was able to get client and server

Where is libc6 ????????

Hi, I am trying to find the LIBC6 package but with no luck. The new "menu" package r equires it and I cannot find it anywhere. Thanks == Eddie Katz == [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . T

Re: Where is libc6 ????????

/hamm/hamm/binary/base I hope the 'new' menu package came from hamm if it requires libc6. On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Eddie Katz wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to find the LIBC6 package but with no luck. The new "menu" > package r > equires it and I cannot find it anywhere. > > Thanks > > == Eddie

Re: radius

In your email to me, Paul Wade, you wrote: > > I compiled Merit and actually got it to work last year on a non-Debian > system. It involved a bit of study and doing things manually. I started at > an ISP that had a Cisco 2516 router and tacacs+ on NT. I switched to 2 > Linux systems on an isolated

[no subject]

I am new to Linux and am currently attempting to install the Debian 1.2.17 Linux Distribution. I have successfully written the floppy disks and installed the base system. My problem is with the detection of my Pro Audio Spectrum 16 SCSI controller (= sound card) and the CDROM drive. I have used

Re: Installing

Coby Pritchard wrote: > > I am having trouble installing the new version of debian. Iget all the way > to the select type color or mono screen. and it stops right there. I don't > think it freezes up because the cursor is still blinking. I just cant > select anything. Conflict with keyboard?maybe?

Re: First impressions on installing Debian 1.3 (and an idea!)

First, let me thank all those that responded to my `impressions' post. I'll reply to this one, and leave it at that. > (I thought Debian's installation asked whether you were really sure about > running mke2fs, It does, it does. Just a case of initial culture shock. > > - I assume that the l

Re: radius

On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Tim Sailer wrote: > Well, I've made a bit more progress. The whole problem was that merit > radiusd has been compiled without shadow support. Doing 'shadowconfig off' > now allows radpwchk to authenticate properly. So.. has anyone played > with the merit version and shadow?

Re: Changing the host name

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote: >> I'm trying to figure out how to change the hostname manually. I did the >> command hostname , and I went into /etc/hosts and replace the >> old hostname with the new one. Is it anything other command or file that >>

Re: radius

In your email to me, Paul Wade, you wrote: > > On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Tim Sailer wrote: > > > Well, I've made a bit more progress. The whole problem was that merit > > radiusd has been compiled without shadow support. Doing 'shadowconfig off' > > now allows radpwchk to authenticate properly. So..

Re: radius

On Tue, 24 Jun 1997 10:38:28 -0400 (EDT), Tim Sailer wrote: >In your email to me, Paul Wade, you wrote: >> >> On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Tim Sailer wrote: >> >> > Well, I've made a bit more progress. The whole problem was that merit >> > radiusd has been compiled without shadow support. Doing 'shadow

Re: [Q] Best Strategy to install Debian 1.3 using a PCMCIA CDROM?

> "SC" == Sudhakar Chandrasekharan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SC> PS: Does my digital signature attachment bother folks reading this SC> list. It's just that sometimes there is more signature than message. Pretty annoying, IMO. -- Emilio C. Lopes -- TO UNSUBSC

fvwm2 and the focus

Hi, I am using fvwm2 and I want to configure it in the following maner : If I click with the mouse on a window, this window becomes the active one and raises on the top. I didn't manage to write the corrects instructions in my .fvwm2rc file in order to have the required behaviou

Re: First impressions on installing Debian 1.3 (and an idea!)

On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > An idea about `menu': > > I think the a frustrating thing with Linux is finding out what's > available. I think what would attract people to Linux is *showing* them > all that's available. You mean package-wise? Generally I check out www.debia

Re: radius

In your email to me, Dave Cinege, you wrote: > > On Tue, 24 Jun 1997 10:38:28 -0400 (EDT), Tim Sailer wrote: > > >In your email to me, Paul Wade, you wrote: > >> > >> On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Tim Sailer wrote: > >> > >> > Well, I've made a bit more progress. The whole problem was that merit > >> >

Re: Books on Debian

On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, H.C.Lai wrote: > My point is, having Debain's book on the shelves of bookshops raises the > visibility of Debain and may actually encourage people to choose it over > other distributions. Very true. I had heard about linux for some time before first trying it somewhere back

Re: emacs ispell -- request for bug confirmation

I'd appreciate if someone could help confirm/deny two possible bugs. Regarding emacs and ispell (and iamerican) for Debian 1.3: - if iamerican is not installed, using ispell under emacs incorrectly yields an error message indicating that 'ispell -v' does not output it's version line (this appears

What good is the default .alias file?

What good is the default .alias file in /etc/skel? It by default isn't, and I can see my way to execute the damn thing. If it was in the format: alias lsa="ls -a" it would be useful. How is this any good? alias a alias alias loada 'source ~/.alias' alias loadalias loada alia

Re: radius

On Tue, 24 Jun 1997 11:23:14 -0400 (EDT), Tim Sailer wrote: >> >I haven't played with the source yet. I was hoping not to. I'm trying to >> >put together an 'instant ISP' type system, complete with a linux based >> >term server. I use the SDL WAN cards, with the builtin csu, so I'm >> >also buildi

problems with PCMCIA network card 3COM 3C589D

Hi, I'm having problems attaching my portable to the network from within Linux. It used to work fine with a 3Com Etherlink III 3C589C network card, however I just got a new shipment of 3Com Etherlink III 3C589D cards and these do not seem to be compatible at all. Did anybody succeeded in gettin

Debian 1.3: Boot on ThinkPad 760EL

As I have read in Deja News others have (had?) the same problem I do. The new Rescue Disk does not work on my (new as well) ThinkPad. Other distrubutions do not seem to have this problem. Am I missing something obvious? Is there a solution I am not aware of? Thanx, -- Martin Fehlhaber [EMAIL PROT

Re: What good is the default .alias file?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Dave Cinege wrote: > What good is the default .alias file in /etc/skel? > > It by default isn't, and I can see my way to execute the damn thing. > If it was in the format: > > alias lsa="ls -a" > > it would be useful. How is this any good

Re: fvwm2 and the focus

On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Santi Mauro wrote: > Hi, > > I am using fvwm2 and I want to configure it in the following > maner : > > If I click with the mouse on a window, this window becomes the > active one and raises on the top. > > I didn't manage to write the corrects instructions

Re: Debian 1.3: Boot on ThinkPad 760EL

Boot from the "tecra" boot disk in disks-i386/current/tecra/resc1440.bin This works on Thinkpads, too. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87

Re: fvwm2 and the focus

On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > I am using fvwm2 and I want to configure it in the following > > maner : > > > > If I click with the mouse on a window, this window becomes the > > active one and raises on the top. > > > > I didn't manage to write the corrects instruct

Re: emacs ispell -- request for bug confirmation

"John M. Rulnick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - on a clean Debian 1.3 install, 'dpkg -i ispell_3.1.20-0.1.deb' > followed by 'dpkg -i iamerican_3.1.20-0.1.deb' yields a failed > iamerican installation: What kernel are you running? Did you compile a special one? We thought we had tracked this

Re: Debian 1.3: Boot on ThinkPad 760EL

Martin Fehlaber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As I have read in Deja News others have (had?) the same problem I do. > The new Rescue Disk does not work on my (new as well) ThinkPad. Other > distrubutions do not seem to have this problem. Am I missing something > obvious? Is there a solution I am n

turning shadow on

Hi, I've upgraded from 1.2 to 1.3 w/o too much trouble. At that time I did not turn shadow on. Now I would like to do it. Should I do a shadowconfig on and cross my fingers or is there something further? I've installed almost all the stuff from stable. []s Mario O.de M

NFS problems with Debian server and Solaris client

I'm having problems getting Solaris 2.5.1 to use the Debian NFS server. Read only file systems work fine. On read-write file systems, the Solaris client works fine initially but then gets confused. It no longer can create files or directories, is unable to delete them, doesn't recognize director

Re: [Q] Best Strategy to install Debian 1.3 using a PCMCIA CDROM?

Ed Down wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote: > > On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > > > I am planning on installing Debian 1.3 on my laptop. I have had prior > > > success installing 1.2 on this same laptop. I prefer to clean up the > > > hard-disk and start fro

Re: Books on Debian

Paul Wade wrote: > I also agree. Only a few pages of hardcopy are needed. Consider the > candidate for a thick 'Complete Debian' type of book: > > 1) His hardware is too strange to get base and a few things installed. > > 2) He has no way to browse a CD. > > 3) He has no way to view web pages. >

Prob Removing Latex pkg

I've been upgrading to Debian 1.3 w/o problems except for the tetex upgrade. I've followed the instructions that tell me to first remove the tex packages and install the tetex ones. However, there is a problem when I try to remove the latex package. Apparently the latex.prerm script calls insta

first experience with defrag: have slight problem.

I have installed the Debian defrag v 0.61-1 package and tried it out. My partition table looks like sda1 / 100 Mb sda2 /usr400 Mb sdb1 /var 20 Mb sdb2 /mnt/sdb2 280 Mb soft linked, contains /usr/local, /usr/src sdb3 swap 20 Mb sdc1 /home 1020 M

Re: radius

In your email to me, Dave Cinege, you wrote: > > On Tue, 24 Jun 1997 11:23:14 -0400 (EDT), Tim Sailer wrote: > > >> >I haven't played with the source yet. I was hoping not to. I'm trying to > >> >put together an 'instant ISP' type system, complete with a linux based > >> >term server. I use the S

Video card not located

I'm a Debian newbie, but not a Linux newbie. Upon running my Xserver, it says it "Can't probe screen #0", which the vendor says means the video card is not being located. I've installed all the X packages.deb. Perhaps I'm missing a driver or something? I was able to drive this equipment at

Re: problems with PCMCIA network card 3COM 3C589D

Nico De Ranter wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm having problems attaching my portable to the network from within > Linux. It used to work fine with a 3Com Etherlink III 3C589C network card, > however I just got a new shipment of 3Com Etherlink III 3C589D cards and > these do not seem to be compatible at a

Re: fvwm2 and the focus

Santi Mauro wrote: > I am using fvwm2 and I want to configure it in the following > maner : > > If I click with the mouse on a window, this window becomes the > active one and raises on the top. > > I didn't manage to write the corrects instructions in my .fvwm2rc > file in order t

Re: Netscape uses SOCKS host for local servers

Kirk Hilliard wrote: > > > Subject: Re: Netscape uses SOCKS host for local servers > > Kirk Hilliard wrote: > > > > How do I get Netscape to not use a SOCKS host for machines in my local > > domain? > > > > I am running "Mozilla/3.01Gold (X11; I; Linux 2.0.27 i586)" on my > > Debian 1.2 box, which

Re: NFS problems with Debian server and Solaris client

I do have similar problems serving SGI machines. It might depend on the way a file system is mounted e.g. hard vs. soft, but I'am not sure, still testing ... Markus Diesmann -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL

Re: turning shadow on

On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > Hi, > > I've upgraded from 1.2 to 1.3 w/o too much trouble. At that time I > did not turn shadow on. Now I would like to do it. Should I do a > shadowconfig on and cross my fingers or is there something further? > > I've installe

Re: Video card not located

On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Jon Stearley wrote: > runing Debian. Any ideas? Thx. > The millenium is now supported by XF86. You might want to try it out ... the driver is probably under "unstable" on ftp.debian.org. Will

Re: fvwm2 and the focus

On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > Did you know that with the default bindings ALT-clicking > on a window raises it, while an ALT-right-click lowers it? Perhaps this > would serve your needs? I got so used to this on my Linux machine that I set up my Solaris/CDE in the office with th

weird routing problems.

I somehow did something that affects route. I have the simple settings that the debian installer automatically sets up in my /etc/init.d/network file. This ifconfig's the eth0 interface appropriatly, set's up the network, but when it tries to set the default route, I get. chum# route add defaul

Re: First impressions on installing Debian 1.3 (and an idea!)

> > I think the a frustrating thing with Linux is finding out what's > > available. I think what would attract people to Linux is *showing* them > > all that's available. > > You mean package-wise? Yeah. > > What's missing is an X tool to display the > > package

Re: First impressions on installing Debian 1.3 (and an idea!)

On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > I'm not sure if fvwm95 menu entries calling a simple tk/tcl program to > display info on one package is better than a styandalone tk/tcl package > to provide info on all available packages. The standalone package > could be used with any window man

Re: Video card not located

On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Jon Stearley wrote: > > I'm a Debian newbie, but not a Linux newbie. Upon running my Xserver, it > says it "Can't probe screen #0", which the vendor says means the video > card is not being located. I've installed all the X packages.deb. > Perhaps I'm missing a driver o

libshadow.a ?

Hi, Looking for libshadow.a. Does not seem to be in Debian 1.3 as I checked the Contents file. It was in the experimental shadow package in earlier versions. Can anybody tell me where it is? Thanks, Roger -- ~~ Roger Endo

Re: turning shadow on

My last experiences on that issue: You need to have X installed otherwise shadowconfig on will fail because it expects to modify an X configuration file. In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: : On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: : > Hi, : > : > I've upgraded from 1.2

Re: RFC: Prospective Kernel-Compiling mini-HOWTO

> boot=/dev/hda3 This should read boot=/dev/hda no? Debian's installation gets this wrong, listing the boot device as a partition on the disk, when you're supposed to use the whole disk. This has caused problems for me, until I noticed it and changed it back to /dev/hda. Perhaps I'm

Re: first experience with defrag: have slight problem.

The C library on the rescue floppy only contains the functions that are used by the programs on the floppy itself. This is done to save space. Thus, it's problematical to run programs that weren't on the disk when it was built. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: radius

I've got 2 'boxed' systems to develop. One for multiple balanced modems because the frame relay costs are ugly in Maine. The other for wireless microwave links. Both are intended to provide Internet to win/mac/schmuckware workstations. I am planning to use bootable CD's on these. A motherboard wi

Re: Books on Debian

W Paul Mills wrote: > My start with Debian came about 6 months ago. I found dselect and > the rest of the packaging system confusing. Frustrating at that time > was man pages that said they were not up to date - read the docs. > The doc files also said they were not up to date - read the man pages

more on scsi controllers

After the hints so far, it's clear that eata 's error messages have to do with using the same adresses as the second ide card (which is installed). However, those aren't the correct adressess. I actually have three scsi cards sitting here to choose from: 1) the nec card, which, on closer look

Re: RFC: Prospective Kernel-Compiling mini-HOWTO

From: Pete Harlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > boot=/dev/hda3 > > This should read > > boot=/dev/hda If you do this, you will over-write any boot manager you happen to have installed on the system. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: First impressions on installing Debian 1.3 (and an idea!)

> I was thinking that perhaps this might be a > decent Java application: you could write essentially the same code to > run locally in your Java-enabled kernel, and those with web sites that > mirror debian packages could use the same code (with a few modifications) > to run in Netscape acros

Print to IP

Hello, How/where could I find info on printing to an IP printer? Thanx -- Greg. -- Greg Vence | Debian GNU Linux KH2EA/4 | Diamond 2000 (7npw 4cpw) [EMAIL PROTECTED]| There is time for what's important -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "u

Re: First impressions on installing Debian 1.3 (and an idea!)

On Tue, 24 Jun 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > decent Java application: you could write essentially the same code to > > run locally in your Java-enabled kernel, and those with web sites that > > > I think this is a very good idea - imagine when Debian is ported to other > hardware platform

Re: Prob Removing Latex pkg

On Jun 24, Mark Mabry wrote > > I've been upgrading to Debian 1.3 w/o problems except for the tetex > upgrade. I've followed the instructions that tell me to first remove > the tex packages and install the tetex ones. However, there is a > problem when I try to remove the latex package. Apparen

Re: RFC: Prospective Kernel-Compiling mini-HOWTO

Depends. Are you installing the LILO boot block in the MBR or the boot record of the partition? If you're not going the MBR route, the hda3 line is correct. I believe debian *always* installs LILO in the boot record and uses the 'mbr' program to write a new mbr (?? This is from memory - I'm not

Re: First impressions on installing Debian 1.3 (and an idea!)

> > I was thinking that perhaps this might be a > > decent Java application: you could write essentially the same code to > > run locally in your Java-enabled kernel, and those with web sites that > > mirror debian packages could use the same code (with a few modifications) > > to run in Nets

Re: more on scsi controllers

On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote: : :After the hints so far, it's clear that eata 's error messages have to :do with using the same adresses as the second ide card (which is :installed). However, those aren't the correct adressess. : :I actually have three scsi cards sitting here to cho

Re: First impressions on installing Debian 1.3 (and an idea!)

Will Lowe wrote: > The point of the whole idea was to provide a way for people to get > information on and install packages. We discussed the idea that "finding > linux software can sometimes be difficult because we didn't know where to > look" and the fact that, while dpkg is a _GREAT

Re: What good is the default .alias file?

On Tue, 24 Jun 1997 12:05:25 -0400 (EDT), Scott K. Ellis wrote: >On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Dave Cinege wrote: > >> What good is the default .alias file in /etc/skel? >> >> It by default isn't, and I can see my way to execute the damn thing. >> If it was in the format: >> >> alias lsa="ls -a" >> >> it w

Re: more on scsi controllers

Looking at the kernel source, I would say try for the future domain first. It should be supported by a standard Debian kernel as a built-in (not modular) driver. Maybe if you're lucky it will autoprobe. On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote: > > :

Re: more on scsi controllers

> Looking at the kernel source, I would say try for the future domain first. > It should be supported by a standard Debian kernel as a built-in (not > modular) driver. Maybe if you're lucky it will autoprobe. no such luck :( bash-2.00# mount /dev/scd0 /cdrom/ -t iso9660 mount: the kernel does

Re: libshadow.a ?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Roger Endo wrote: > Hi, > Looking for libshadow.a. Does not seem to be in Debian 1.3 as > I checked the Contents file. It was in the experimental shadow > package in earlier versions. Can anybody tell me where it is? If I'm not mistaken

# That's ease :-) how to setup dos ?

Ave As far as I'm concerned the main package we need is *fdos*, that should be at unstable directory. May be I'm too blind but I didn't found it at my CDRom or at ftp.debian.org neither. Any suggestion ? Thank you Samuel -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe"

Re: # That's ease :-) how to setup dos ?

> Ave > > As far as I'm concerned the main package > we need is *fdos*, that should be at > unstable directory. > May be I'm too blind but I didn't found it > at my CDRom or at ftp.debian.org neither. > > Any suggestion ? > > Thank you > Samuel > fdos comes with dosemu package, AFAIK. Alex Y.

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