Thanks for your response!
I tracked the problem down to ECC failures. Here is what happens: first time
after format, the ftape gives ECC failures, but taper (the app I was using)
told me that it saw unknown data, and asked me if it should overwrite it...
before I made the connection between the E
On May 29, Bruce Perens wrote
>
> From: Che Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Pretty much everything went well -- the biggest surprise was that
> > the base disks, although there were 5 of them, offered *much* more
> > functionality this time around than ever before. Having elvis was
> > lovely
>
> Tha
From: Che Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Pretty much everything went well -- the biggest surprise was that
> the base disks, although there were 5 of them, offered *much* more
> functionality this time around than ever before. Having elvis was
> lovely
That's not Elvis, it's an Elvis impersonator! If I
>From where did you obtain this source code? If you got it from MIT ...
well, all I can say about that is the last time I tried it, the Linux
target in the Makefile was hosed. I ftp-ed 2.6.3i from Norway or
Finland (I forget :) and used the -DUSA switch in the Makefile. Since I
had RSAREF from M
I friend of mine has an adaptec 1542CP SCSI adapter, and we're using
the standard 1542 driver that comes along with the linux distribution.
The adapter is recognized just fine, however when using a SCSI CDROM
through the adapter we get the following error message:
Warning: running low on SCSI DMA
On Wed, 28 May 1997, Joey Hess wrote:
> Martin Schulze:
> > rwhod distributes it's information on _every_ interface which is
> > broadcastable. This includes loopback and eth0, and also sl0 and I
> > suppose ppp0, too. So if you run rwhod you should start it before
> > your link is up and before i
> > What I am saying is that after I start mgetty for /dev/ttyS1, I
> > cannot access /dev/ttyS1 (like dailing to my isp using chat) anymore
> > which is not what the manual of mgetty suggests.
try putting the word "lock" in /etc/ppp/options.
also check your /etc/ppp/options and /etc/mgetty/mget
I added an extra section for orphaned packages. It might be
incomplete.
Sven
Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux
Sven Rudolph, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
$Id: packages.sgml,v 1.42 1997/05/29 21:58:50 sr1 Exp sr1 $
1. General Questions
1.1. Before r
Good afternoon. Being that there are many PGP postings
on this list, I must assume that others have been able
to get PGP compiled successfully...
The following error occurrs when doing "make linux":
gcc -o pgp pgp.o crypto.o keymgmt.o fileio.o mdfile.o more.o armor.o mpilib.o
mpiio.o genprime.
Hi,
I had been working hard for 4 days in order to install a new distrib of
Linux. I am not a beginner and the situation is the following:
- the target computer is remote, it has no display nor keyboard. All I
can do on the target computer is to switch it on, and to wait that
the network is es
Well, I brought myself to install 1.3 fresh on a computer of mine.
Pretty much everything went well -- the biggest surprise was that
the base disks, although there were 5 of them, offered *much* more
functionality this time around than ever before. Having elvis was
lovely, and I really appreciated
Just a question, is anyone running faxrunqd from the mgetty-fax
package?
Regards
Joey
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Hello,
Somewhere along the line, my tricks (hacks?) for doing server-side
inclusion of standardized (and separately changeable) headers and footers
on web pages broke. I admit to not knowing the _right_ way to do it,
having stolen lots of bits and pieces along the way and learning
origin
> I've just volunteered to maintain the list of consultants wanting
> to offer paid support to people running debian systems. I am
> unaware of anyone else currently doing so. If someone is
> already doing such, please contact me.
>
> Once this list is assembled, it will be put on both the debia
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hello all!
>
> Just wondering if anyone out there has gotten any of the
> PCMCIA Ethernet/Modem cards working under Debian/Linux on
> a laptop? I'm looking at buying one.. but, of course I would
> like to buy a brand that I should be able to get to work
> under Debia
Marcus Brinkmann:
> I started to use leafnode today. It installs smoothly, and then I had to
> install a news reader (NNTP client). I first tried knews, but I didn't get
> any news (following the /usr/doc/leafnode/INSTALL, I started fetch, knews and
> then fetch again).
The first run of fetch is t
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Benjamin T. White) writes:
> xrdb: can't run '/lib/cpp -traditional -Dlinux -D__i386__ -DPOSIX-SOURCE
> ...extensive option list generated by xrdb...
This is a known problem with older versions of xrdb. There was a
memory allocation bug that *sometimes* caused it to cr
>
>
> I've got a new project and I need a refresher on TCP/IP to get it done.
> Can anybody help me with where I might find answers/documentation/sample
> solutions, etc. on the following:
>
> I have a company that wants to move to TCP/IP only. They need to connect
> to 3 locations an
Good morning.
Well, to followup to my request for assurance yesterday,
I went back and wiped the file systems, installing from
scratch all over again. Luckly, I'm still in the playing
around stage, and didn't have anything that couldn't be
downloaded again.
When I tried to shortcut the process b
(off-topic, but I try to answer 10 off-topics for every one I ask!)
I'm getting a new PC with an ASUS motherboard with the new
Intel TX chipset. I ordered a ps/2 mouse, but the parts list
mentions a USB connector so it may be that the ps/2 mouse
connects to it (I know nothing of USB).
Anybody kno
Hello all!
Just wondering if anyone out there has gotten any of the
PCMCIA Ethernet/Modem cards working under Debian/Linux on
a laptop? I'm looking at buying one.. but, of course I would
like to buy a brand that I should be able to get to work
under Debian. If anyone has any testimonial stories
Have tried unsuccessfully to use Partition Magic to boot a DOS
partition and/or my Linux partition on my second hard drive (first
drive is Win95 only), and to hide the DOS partition on the second
drive from Win95 so drive letters stay the same. Partition magic says
"error writing drive 1" when I tr
I've just volunteered to maintain the list of consultants wanting
to offer paid support to people running debian systems. I am
unaware of anyone else currently doing so. If someone is
already doing such, please contact me.
Once this list is assembled, it will be put on both the debian
web site a
> How can I have both ipx and ethernet on the same system?
Uh, that's like asking why you can't talk French on the phone. You can!
You just have to know French.
Ethernet is the communications medium. (i.e. telephone system)
IPX is the communications protocol. (i.e. the language spoken on th
> b/c Intel is putting the PPro out to pastor doesn't make it a bad
I like that... ... I'm sure there are a lot of pastor's out there
who'd love to get their hands on PPro's
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I used to find new uploads on ftp.debian.org in debian/Incoming, but now
this directory now has a message in it but no other files:
"Do NOT upload files here!
This is the WRONG directory to upload files into
Upload into /home/Debian/ftp/private/project/Incoming"
Unfortuna
> Subj: RE: Connecting to Novell network
> On Sun, 25 May 1997, Michael Hill wrote:
>[. . .]
>
> Did you configure /etc/ipx.conf?
> Kendall
>
How can I have both ipx and ethernet on the same system?
I have difficulty having ipx configured and enabled without
conflict between eth0 and the ip
Hello!
I started to use leafnode today. It installs smoothly, and then I had to
install a news reader (NNTP client). I first tried knews, but I didn't get
any news (following the /usr/doc/leafnode/INSTALL, I started fetch, knews and
then fetch again).
In the second try, I installed trn, overridin
WHOOPS! Sorry everyone. I was showing people how to do username
completion in Eudora and forgot I'd used my debian-users address book as an
example.
Damn. Sorry for the waste of bandwidth.
Adam.
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> My 'deluser' is lost also. Any hints on that?
Use userdel from the passwd package.
I believe userdel is better than the deluser that used to come with
the adduser package, so deluser was removed.
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On Wed, 28 May 1997 21:19:49 +0200 (CEST), joost witteveen wrote:
>> I upgraded to (pre-)debian-1.3 and lost my xload!
>>
>> Grepping "Contents" tells me that it should be contained in Package
>> xcontrib, but there is no "xload" in the xcontrib-package.
>>
>> Where is it gone?
>
>$ dpkg -S xloa
Hello all,
After installing 1.3 several times I found that I always end up with vi
pointing to elvis-tiny, regardless of what version of vi I pick. Now I am
not at all sure as to what package a bug report should be filed against.
I would guess that _alternatives_ is the problem.
Then again, i
On Mon, 26 May 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Everytime I attempt to run some utilities (gs4.03, tmview, etc.) I get a
> > segfault with signal 11. I have no idea what this means and I'm
>
> signal 11 is segmentatio fault, i.e. yor CPU tried to access an invalid
> address.
> Usually this me
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Remco,
The configuration described will *not* do what you want. If a user is
identified as 'local', then delivery via the local mailer will be
attempted *without* reference to mailer tables (or any tables other
than the aliases file and any user database that yo
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Douglas,
RFC 1912 comments about this:
Don't use CNAMEs in combination with RRs which point to other names
like MX, CNAME, PTR and NS. (PTR is an exception if you want to
implement classless in-addr delegation.) For example, this is
strongly disco
I'm building a new debian machine out of scavenged parts.
i've put together an old EISA 486-66 with 8MB with:
- 810MB EIDE on ISA Cirrus Logic 2MB SVGA combo card (Promise IDE chip)
- EISA Adaptec 2742 SCSI controller
- Quantum 4GB Grand Prix drive
- EISA 3Com Etherlink III
I am aware of the Pentium II, but am trying to get away cheap. Just
b/c Intel is putting the PPro out to pastor doesn't make it a bad
chip. I do a lot of processing intesnive tasks .. namely graphics
programming under Windows NT in OpenGL. I am using DCOM to
distribute rendering processes ov
On Thu, 29 May 1997, Steve Hsieh wrote:
> Yes, you can probably continue to use your old driver, but actually any
> new vortex driver will probably work too if you disable bus mastering in
> the driver (assuming you have a 3c905 boomerang). If you've been
> following the vortex list, then you wi
On Wed, 28 May 1997, John Burwell wrote:
> On the way home from college graduation, some good buddies in Memphis
> opted to steal my car loaded with my nearly new Pentium Pro 180
> workstation. Needless to say, I loved this computer, but now I am
> faced with replacing it.
Ouch!
> I have b
> As Debian-1.3 is comming soon, I would like to know if there
> is some problem with the 3com (vortex 3c59x) driver in debian?
There are problems with that driver, and it's not related to debian.
> I have seen a lot of problems been reported in linux-vortex
> list and I'm afraid of u
Hello all,
I am having a problem with getting xrdb to work. Since xrdb is broken, several
other programs
don't get their preferences correctly (i.e. xdm, etc). On starting xrdb (or
any other program
which uses it ) I get the following message:
xrdb: can't run '/lib/cpp -traditional -Dlinux
Mario,
I have a very similar setup, and I had to setup the IP-MASQ machine as a
nameserver. I don't know techincally why this was necessary as on my last
installation I didn't have to. I was having fits until I installed bind,
and it's worked like a charm ever since. I would love an explanation
On the way home from college graduation, some good buddies in Memphis
opted to steal my car loaded with my nearly new Pentium Pro 180
workstation. Needless to say, I loved this computer, but now I am
faced with replacing it.
I have been exploring a number of possibilities for replacement, and
> "Andy" == Andy Mortimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Andy> That's the original emacs, then. Xemacs (formerly Lucid
Andy> Emacs) is a spinoff from FSF emacs, which is mostly
Andy> compatible but has some (IMHO) rather nice features, such as
Andy> highlighting on the console, wh
Dear fellow Debian users,
Sometimes when I try to install a package, it gives me a
"gzip: stdout: Broken pipe: error. Numerous packages do this. Here's
the output from a few:
# dpkg -i offix-*
gzip: stdout: Broken pipe
dpkg-deb: subprocess gzip -dc returned error exit status 1
dpkg: error
On 26 May, David Puryear wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Thanks to everyone, I got few different answers to this. I used answer from
> Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> who wrote:
>
> From my .bash_vars file:
>
> LANG=en_US
> expor
Hi, I have setup a linux box with IP masq, seems to work fine, but when I
do a mod probe for ip_masq_ftp.o and raudio.o and irc.o I get the message
"No dependency information found for module"
I tried recompiling, reinstalling and "make dep" a few times, but I still
get the same error.
PaChi,
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