Lilo..

1998-04-29 Thread matthew.r.pavlovich.1
I am getting a quirky bug with lilo. I have a 4gig Wide SCSI drive that is set to scsi id 0. I can partition the disk, write to the disk, read, mount it as /, but I cannot boot from it (The boot flag is set on the first primary partition). I have an adaptec 2940UW controller w/ 2.0.33. Lilo runs

Re: I have a question about Debian

1998-04-27 Thread matthew.r.pavlovich.1
Debian is a distribution of Linux, which is a UN*X clone for the PC. It is also and operating system. Windows95 is also considered and operating system by some. The operating system controls things like memory, disk, and other hardware. You can have two operating systems installed on a computer

xfont3d/xfpovray

1998-04-13 Thread matthew.r.pavlovich.1
I wish to become a package maintainer, I stubbled across several really nice applications. They are xfont3d and xfpovray. If no one else is planning on making the applications into packages, then I will go ahead and do it. These would be ready as soon as the code freeze is lifted, ie debian 2.1.