Hello, On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim 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)? > > 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) > Thats good. From here on you can work like it is your local system. Just log in a couple of times so you have a lot of terminals. In one termial you can dump your syslog (tail -f /var/log/syslog), in another you can edit a config file, while in a third you can start the program. There is really nothing special about a remote computer now. > The Bad News is: > - many anomalies occurs, e.g. the "named" sometimes dies. Add these lines in sources.list: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security/ potato/updates main contrib deb http://security.debian.org/debian-non-US/ potato/non-US main contrib I had named dying before, it was a cache bug or something. > - not much information is available about the history of > the system. Checked all the logs? > - 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. > I do not use dselect, but it seems like you have to visit /etc/fstab to see if you have /dev/hda somewhere. Another possibility is that that is your old cdrom place. Check 'ls -l /dev/cdrom' and see where it points to. If you have in your sources list a cdrom line, it tries to mount it, I think. > The current kernel is 2.4.6 and /etc/apt/sources.list > points to woody (with commented potato). > Uncomment potato. It does not hurd. AFAIK woody still does not contain all potato packages. > May I know, what RTFM to start? > > regards, > Greetz, Sebastiaan
