on Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 01:23:25PM +0700, Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim (rms46@vlsm.org) wrote: > Hello: > > I am a lay debian user with minimum operating experience. > Would someone please inform me, which manual to read for > fixing a REMOTE debian system (i.e. ca. 10000 miles from my > place)?
ssh is good, but sometimes there's nothing like being there. > First the good news: > - I can reboot the system (and login again into it) > - It is not a production system (so no worries for ruin it) > > The Bad News is: > - many anomalies occurs, e.g. the "named" sometimes dies. Log messages? Why are you running named? While it can be useful, often a caching DNS is fully sufficient. > - not much information is available about the history of > the system. Hardware specs are most useful. > - When I try to "update" (in dselect) it complains that > "mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/hda as a > block device" > despite there are only /dev/sda, /dev/hdb, and /dev/hdc > on the system. Check /etc/fstab to see if you've got /dev/hda listed -- it should probably be /dev/hda[1234], or similar. Post your /etc/apt/sources.list? > The current kernel is 2.4.6 and /etc/apt/sources.list > points to woody (with commented potato). -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org Free Dmitry!! Boycott Adobe!! Repeal the DMCA!! http://www.freesklyarov.org
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