Low memory installations?

1998-10-02 Thread Peter \(Troff\) Petroff
Hi, please forgive the newbie... While waiting to get a copy of Hamm for my main machine, I thought I'd try putting Bo on an old machine I've got. 486DX33, <4MB RAM (3968kB), 520MBHD (no CD, I was going to install debs via FTP from my thin-netted major machine or even floppy).

New/old kernel devices disappearing?

1998-12-15 Thread Peter \(Troff\) Petroff
ignificant changes in configuration in between. Been looking, still too inexperienced and I've run up against the wall of my own ignorance. Could someone please at least point me in the direction of the right literature, if not give me the answers outright (which would be REALLY ni

Re: New/old kernel devices disappearing?

1998-12-15 Thread Peter \(Troff\) Petroff
ld lock-files under /var > dam..., can't remember locality, sorry Thank you. Apache locks under /var/*, I'll have a look. Much appreciated. > there several books on linux, take time go to a library and read > some pages in different books, than buy that one which is comfortabl

Re: New/old kernel devices disappearing?

1998-12-15 Thread Peter \(Troff\) Petroff
nks, guys, but: a) Not using LILO b) I found the reference that says that is an unadvised procedure when I was first reading about the problem: http://www.debian.org/fom/147.html Any suggestions why a kernel recompile would just lose everything, when I use 'make xconfig'? --

Re: New/old kernel devices disappearing?

1998-12-15 Thread Peter \(Troff\) Petroff
> (you should see an output of all of your definitions, check they are ok) I will (have to reboot for that, at the moment I'm a part of the Gates collective. Quel horreur and please pardon my pathetic French, I took Russian and German). Thank you very much for the hints. -- P (Peter "

Violence: Lethal StarOffice, terminal Apache, broken partitions...

1998-12-17 Thread Peter \(Troff\) Petroff
Hi all, quick questions: 1) Can anyone think of a reason why running the setup of StarOffice 5 would cause a complete (and I mean complete) freeze and hang of a computer? Said computer is an AMD K6-233 with 128MB running Hamm (2.02), under kernel 2.0.34. X-Windows WAS wor

Re: Violence: Lethal StarOffice, terminal Apache, broken partitions...

1998-12-17 Thread Peter \(Troff\) Petroff
so installed so I can use XF86Setup (and have a backup in case S3V ever dies). -- P (Peter "Troff" Petroff) * part-time IT administrator within the Uniting Church * IT student at the Queensland University of Technology

Re: Violence: Lethal StarOffice, terminal Apache, broken partiti

1998-12-18 Thread Peter \(Troff\) Petroff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 17-Dec-98, Peter \(Troff\) Petroff took time to write : > > to check error logs and suprise, it said that ServerName wasn't set. But the > > thing was, Apache WORKED for a few days before it failed to start up and I > > made NO repeat NO cha

Re: 64megs to 192megs of ram

1998-12-21 Thread Peter \(Troff\) Petroff
Sean wrote: > Actually, even the kernels up to 2.1.129 need the append line added to > lilo.conf. I'm running a PPro machine with 128MB of ram, and unless I add > the append line under kernel 2.1.129 top only reports 64MB present. On an AMD K6-233 with 128MB RAM, running Hamm under kernel 2.0.34

Passing parameters to a new kernel?

1998-12-21 Thread Peter \(Troff\) Petroff
Hi there, I have a fairly vanilla Hamm 2.02 release with kernel 2.0.34. It lives on /dev/hdb1, where Winborg lives on /dev/hda1. I don't use LILO in an MBR, I use a boot floppy. I download the source for kernel 2.0.36. I make x/menu/config, dep, clean, zdisk (and modules, modules

Total absence of Ethernet iff dLinux

1998-11-02 Thread Peter \(Troff\) Petroff
Hi, please excuse the ignorance of a Linux newbie, still learning. please excuse the desperation, I haven't a damn clue what to do. please help! Short story: my Ethernet card appears but doesn't work under dLinux. Confusing evidence: One computer, three har

Re: Total absence of Ethernet iff dLinux

1998-11-08 Thread Peter \(Troff\) Petroff
Samba * recognise a second monitor * get this other NIC into a physically misaligned 486 motherboard Oh yeah. And pass exams. :-( Thanks so much, everybody... -- P (Peter "Troff" Petroff) * I.T. undergraduate student at the Queensland University of Technology * pa

Re: Win95/Linux network problem

1998-11-10 Thread Peter \(Troff\) Petroff
Hey there... You wrote... > I've got a Win95 machine and a linux machine connected via ethernet cards > (Realtek in both) but cannot 'ping' from one to another. This is the I had much the same problem. Very recently too. What driver are you using under Linux (and W95 too) for the network card? Is