On Fri, 21 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Jimen Ching wrote: > Instead, try to unpack base2_0.tgz directly onto your hosed system. IIRC > it contains all the necessary devices and essential libs. Just boot the > rescue floppy, switch to VC2 and mount your root filesystem on /mnt and
Thanks for pointing this out. As I said before, I couldn't boot off the rescue floppy (of Debian 2.0, cheapbytes), so I used the boot/root floppies of Debian 1.1. But it worked. I repartition and started from scratch. It was easier this way. > cpio -i -dbm < /path/to/base2_0.tgz The Debian 1.1 boot/root disk had gzip and star (as another user suggested). I don't know how to use cpio either, so I use the star instead. > dpkg --configure --pending > I wouldn't be surprized if you got a lot of errors from that, but it Actually, this didn't do anything. It thought about it for a few minutes, and took me back to the prompt. ;-) > dpkg -iBOR /cdrom/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-i386 > That should just reinstall all packages that are registered to be > installed on your system. Yes. Well, as an update. The kernel crash problem was not reproducible (easily) with a recompiled 2.0.34. But I did once experience the crash. I reset the computer and it didn't happen the second time. So I don't know what's wrong with kernel in the rescue disk. I also enabled initrd in the kernels I built. This did not fix the problem I had with the boot sequence where it tries to mount the root fs. The error message is something like: RAMDISK: Compressed file system found on block 0. Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on device 01:00 I can ctrl-alt-del my way out of this. But enabling ramdisk and initrd didn't help. What is odd is that install.bat says the root device is /dev/ram, and the rescue disk says the root device is /dev/ramdisk0. Neither of these exist in my /dev directory. The Debian 1.1 boot/root does have /dev/ramdisk0, though. I'll try this and let you know if it is the problem. Now my system is back where it was, before all of this started. I do have a few questions about the new Debian version. 1. How do I set my hostname? Everywhere the hostname should appear, the string "(none)" is placed there instead, no qoutes. 2. Two files, fstab and resolv.conf were not created. I had to manually create these myself. What did I do wrong that they weren't created? 3. When I first got my system up, before installing a lot of optional package, the nfsd and mountd were started. I do not remember it asking me whether I want these services started. After I installed everything I wanted, it didn't start these services anymore. nfsiod is still a process though. Is this normal? 4. I get this error in my /var/log/xdm-errors System: `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp -w 1 -R/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb -xkm -m us -em1 "The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:" -emp "> " -eml "Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server" keymap/xfree86 compiled/xfree86.xkm' What is causing this? How can I stop it from writing this to xdm-errors? 5. I'm using fvwm2 as my window manager. I added the following to my .fvwm2/post.hook. Key Left C R Scroll -100 0 Key Up C R Scroll +0 -100 Key Right C R Scroll +100 +0 Key Down C R Scroll +0 +100 I tried a bunch of other letters besides 'R', and it still doesn't allow me to flip to another virtual screen. I have setup the FvwmPager to be 3 by 3 screens. So I should be able to switch to another screen. I can do it with the mouse, but I positioned the pager at the upper left hand corner and it is sometimes a long distance to move the cursor. How do I setup fvwm2 so I can use ctrl-[arrow] to move between the virtual screens? I should mention that I'm using the XKB extension for my keymap handling. I was having problems with my delete and backspace key with the older version of Debian. I thought maybe this new extension in XFree 3.2.2 would help. It didn't. Or maybe I did something wrong? I have the 101key keyboards. 6. One more thing with fvwm2. I added the following to .fvwm2/post.hook. PixmapPath /usr/X11R6/include/X11/pixmaps But I still do not see any of the pixmaps on the popup menu. How do I setup the configuration files so the pixmaps show up in the popup menus? 7. I installed the scalable fonts for X. Does anyone know how to access these fonts from nedit? For some reason, the font looks really junk in nedit. 8. I installed Xaw3dg. I also enable the scrollbar in xterm. For some reason, the scrollbar foreground and background is black. If it wasn't for the outline of the scrollbar, I wouldn't be able to tell where the scrollbar was located. How do I change the scrollbar colors of xterm? Thanks in advance for any help. --jc -- Jimen Ching (WH6BRR) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
