Re: Troubles with ZIP-100 and LS-120.

1999-02-14 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Antonio A. Rivas Ojanguren wrote: > During start up linux detects the LS and assings it to 'hdb' but I'm > unable to mount it so I can't read or write floppies. By the way, I'll > thank any tip on how to configure the kernel to redirect /dev/fd0 to the > LS unit. If you wish

Re: Network doesn't work

1999-02-14 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > AAAH!!! > > Well I made it back from Frye's and bought a Netgear Fast > Ethernet NIC, a Netgear Fast Ethernet Hub, and I'm still > using the Linksys pcmcia fast ethernet NIC for my laptop. > > I recompiled my desktop kernel to recognize the Tulip module > for

Re: [Fwd: HELP FOR A POOR FRENCH STUDENT WHICH TRY TO INSTALL LINUX]

1999-02-14 Thread Antonio A. Rivas Ojanguren
Hello: I'm a poor spanish newbie in this waters but I don't see any reply to your message in the list, so here is my help: I can't say so much about your system 'cos I'm a PC user, but this could help: 1.- See the Linux Hardware Compatibility HOWTO to check if all your hardware is supported. You

Network doesn't work

1999-02-14 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
AAAH!!! Well I made it back from Frye's and bought a Netgear Fast Ethernet NIC, a Netgear Fast Ethernet Hub, and I'm still using the Linksys pcmcia fast ethernet NIC for my laptop. I recompiled my desktop kernel to recognize the Tulip module for the new NIC. It was detected, etc. I ifconfi

Troubles with ZIP-100 and LS-120.

1999-02-14 Thread Antonio A. Rivas Ojanguren
Hello list: I've got a ZIP-100 parallel port dirve and a LS-120 internal unit. I've installed Slink (kernel 2.0.36) but I couldn't set up the ppa.o module for the zip during the installation (I'll thank any help on this matter. The lp.o module was installed with the default parameters). The probl

Anyone messed around with Appletalk?

1999-02-14 Thread Richard
Does anyone know anything about Appletalk? We have a Mac user here and I was wondering how hard it would be to setup Debian so he may access resources etc. Is there some documentation on this ? there doesn't seem to be a Howto or anything. Thanks. Richard.

Re: slink install messed up hamm partition

1999-02-14 Thread John Bagdanoff
Hi, Brandon Sorry I didn't see your message sooner. What I ended up doing is reverting the slink setserial back to the hamm one, and that took care of the problem. I think I'll leave well enough alone, but will save your message for a future attempt. Thanks John B Brandon Mitchell wrote: > On

Re: System.map

1999-02-14 Thread Pollywog
On 14-Feb-99 Alec Smith wrote: > Look in /boot. That's where the System.map is on my Debian boxes. Thanks, just came to Debian from OpenLinux, and that filesystem is very different. -- Andrew

qt

1999-02-14 Thread Cuno Sonnemans
hello, I have some problems installing qt. I get the following errors when I install qt: kernel/qimage.cpp :614: X11/Xlib.h no such file or directory " ": : X11/Xutil.h " " " " ": : X11/Xos.h " " " I don't understand it. I

Re: System.map

1999-02-14 Thread Alec Smith
Look in /boot. That's where the System.map is on my Debian boxes. On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Pollywog wrote: > Where does Debian put System.map? I just recompiled a kernel, but my first > kernel did not have a System.map. I know some distributions put them in / but > some don't. > > thanks > > --

Re: slink install messed up hamm partition

1999-02-14 Thread John Bagdanoff
Hi, John That was a stock 0setserial, just with the change to irq3 as I mentioned before. When I updated packages from slink, setserial (_2.14-3) was one that I upgraded to. So I reverted to the hamm setserial (_2.12-6) and now the change to irq3 stays permanent. I didn't upgrade the kernel, I'm

System.map

1999-02-14 Thread Pollywog
Where does Debian put System.map? I just recompiled a kernel, but my first kernel did not have a System.map. I know some distributions put them in / but some don't. thanks -- Andrew

Re: Can I use an IDE Wearnes 622 CD-Writer Under Linux??

1999-02-14 Thread robbie
Hi On Mon, Feb 15, 1999 at 11:16:59AM +1300, Richard wrote: > > I have been having so much trouble getting CD's to write on my Crapdoze box > I am wondering how hard it would be to get it to work on my Linux system. > > Perhaps there is a FAQ or documentation on how to get my breed of writer > w

Can I use an IDE Wearnes 622 CD-Writer Under Linux??

1999-02-14 Thread Richard
I have been having so much trouble getting CD's to write on my Crapdoze box I am wondering how hard it would be to get it to work on my Linux system. Perhaps there is a FAQ or documentation on how to get my breed of writer working? Can it be done? Richard.

Re: XF86 Setup

1999-02-14 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
Hi, On Sun, 14 Feb, 1999 à 09:07:36AM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote: [...] > old config file to the new one and was back in business. I guess the > setup program attempts to use the highest dot clock for the card > possible without exceeding the monitor's sync frequencies. (the mga right > tried

Re: Mounting a floppy drive (still)

1999-02-14 Thread David B. Teague
On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, J K wrote: > Hi again! > > A question: > I finally mounted my floppy drive with > mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy, > but when I try to ls a floppy, I get this error msg about 20 times: > "directory sread (sector 0xd) failed" > What am I doing wrong? Your mount command wor

mySQL.

1999-02-14 Thread Chris Wong
Okay, I've installed mySQL using apt. Now, I'm wondering, it's running, but how do I do a "crash-and-burn" test with it? I'm also wondering if the version is the same as the one on www.mysql.org. Another funny thing, I'm not too sure on what this does. I mean, how does a user "us

Mounting a floppy drive (still)

1999-02-14 Thread J K
Hi again! A question: I finally mounted my floppy drive with mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy, but when I try to ls a floppy, I get this error msg about 20 times: "directory sread (sector 0xd) failed" What am I doing wrong? Thanks again,

Re: where is "rc.local"

1999-02-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Pollywog wrote: > I just jumped over to Debian from another distro. I am trying to find my way > around, but I cannot find "rc.local", the Debian version of it. There is no rc.local. All the "rc"-type files are in /etc/init.d and are invoked by symlinks in /etc/rcx.d. What

Re: screen setup and vim

1999-02-14 Thread shaul
> > Oops, sorry about my lack of knowledge. Could someone explain to me what > screen is?? > screen - A screen manager with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation. screen is a terminal multiplexor that runs several separate "screens" on a single physical character-based terminal. Each virtual terminal

Re: Is my locale wrong?

1999-02-14 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Tapio Lehtonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > I keep getting error messages about locale. My locale is set like this: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/Work/Debian-doc/ddp $ set | grep LC > LC_CTYPE=finnish.iso88591 Please use LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.iso8859-1 instead. LC_CTYPE=fi_FI is also possible.

where is "rc.local"

1999-02-14 Thread Pollywog
I just jumped over to Debian from another distro. I am trying to find my way around, but I cannot find "rc.local", the Debian version of it. Also, I have a newer Exim package to install, but I cannot figure out how to get dselect to install from /usr/src thanks -- Andrew

Re: Dselect CD-ROM help

1999-02-14 Thread Kent West
On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Terence E. Kane wrote: > Gang: > > I have started to install Linux using dselect and the cd-rom method. On > the menu when I select [A]cess and select cd-rom it puts me in a screen > that asks for a block device name > What is this? I haven't found anything in any of the in

Re: 96% packet loss on my network

1999-02-14 Thread Kent West
On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Jay Barbee wrote: > At 2/14/99 01:36 PM -0500, Brandon Mitchell wrote: > >On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: > > > >> I plugged in my other laptop using the same pcmcia NIC and > >> wire. Same amount of packet loss. > >> > >> Do I conclude that it's either my hub o

Re: Dselect CD-ROM help

1999-02-14 Thread Andrei Ivanov
devices in Linux are named as follows: /dev/hda for master on primary IDE /dev/hdb for slave on prim. IDE /dev/hdc for master on sec. IDE /dev/hdd for slave on sec. IDE Now, just you need to know where your cdrom is. --- And

Dselect CD-ROM help

1999-02-14 Thread Terence E. Kane
Gang: I have started to install Linux using dselect and the cd-rom method. On the menu when I select [A]cess and select cd-rom it puts me in a screen that asks for a block device name What is this? I haven't found anything in any of the instructions that tells me what to do with this. I can't mo

Re: 96% packet loss on my network

1999-02-14 Thread Jay Barbee
At 2/14/99 01:36 PM -0500, Brandon Mitchell wrote: >On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: > >> I plugged in my other laptop using the same pcmcia NIC and >> wire. Same amount of packet loss. >> >> Do I conclude that it's either my hub or the wires? > >Why kind of wire, I seem to remember t

Re: 96% packet loss on my network

1999-02-14 Thread Jay Barbee
I would say yes.. if you "other laptop" works fine in other endpoints. You can try replaceing the patch cord with a new one. Also if you are in a building with pre-existing wiring, you might want to look at distances. I am not sure if you are wanting FastEthernet, but you will need to make sure

Re: Lost libc5 stuff after upgrade from hamm to slink

1999-02-14 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Thanks Bob! That did the trick. I only had the libc5 package loaded. When I loaded the xlib6 and xpm4.7 everything started working again. Thanks again for your help! Doug Bob Nielsen wrote: > > On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I was in the process of ge

Re: 96% packet loss on my network

1999-02-14 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: > I plugged in my other laptop using the same pcmcia NIC and > wire. Same amount of packet loss. > > Do I conclude that it's either my hub or the wires? Why kind of wire, I seem to remember them labled class 3 through 5 and needing a class 5 for 100

SPARC Ssystem Server 630MP - Internet Server? or 80lb. Boat Ancher

1999-02-14 Thread Lance
Greetings, I have recently aquired a SUN SPARC 630MP which I have been able to clean up, repair, and make fully functional. My desire was to install Linux on the unit and adapt it as an Intranet/Internet Web Server. The unit has 4 CY605c processors, 64mb RAM, CDROM, Tape Drive, 3 Hard drives

Re: 96% packet loss on my network

1999-02-14 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
I plugged in my other laptop using the same pcmcia NIC and wire. Same amount of packet loss. Do I conclude that it's either my hub or the wires? Thanks NatePuri Jay Barbee wrote: > > Paul, > > Have your tried to plug another system on this endpoint to verify that is > it not wiring or a bad

Re: libgnomeui.so.0: undefined symbol

1999-02-14 Thread Mike Gerber
> I just installed gnome 0.99.3 from potato and I've been having some > problems running a few gnome apps like gnotes and gmc. They give the > error "/usr/lib/libgnomeui.so.0: undefined symbol: > argp_program_version" i've got the exactly same problem...

XF86 Setup

1999-02-14 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I upgraded my video card from an S3Virge to a Matrox Millenium with 8meg. After running SF86Setup and vidtune I couldn't get a full width display. After some head scratching I copied the mode line from my old config file to the new one and was back in business. I guess the setup program attempts

Re: Circuit design software?

1999-02-14 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
You can try GEDA (it's somewhere on the www.seul.org), but it is still "in statu nascendi". On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Andrei Ivanov wrote: > Afternoon all. > Is there any circuit design software for Linux? > I need to find a replacement for the program that my prof. wants me to > useand I would ha

Re: 96% packet loss on my network

1999-02-14 Thread Jay Barbee
Paul, Have your tried to plug another system on this endpoint to verify that is it not wiring or a bad port form the hub? It would just be a quick check to make sure you are not spinning your wheels on the IRQ problem. You could have a bad cable or be out of range. At any rate, just my $.02.

Re: 96% packet loss on my network

1999-02-14 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
Hmm... Do you have any idea what I can do about this? (i.e., get a different hub)? Looks like I'm going to have to buy some hardware at Frye's Electronics. On a totally different note... Do you know of any Finnish people with that last name 'Puri?' My father has this theory whereby our clan (

Re: Lost libc5 stuff after upgrade from hamm to slink

1999-02-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: > Hello, > > I was in the process of getting my system into a good configuration to > install my sound card. In the process of doing this, I switched from > the hamm distribution to the slink. Everything seemed to work ok during > the dselect thin

Lost libc5 stuff after upgrade from hamm to slink

1999-02-14 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Hello, I was in the process of getting my system into a good configuration to install my sound card. In the process of doing this, I switched from the hamm distribution to the slink. Everything seemed to work ok during the dselect thing, but when I finished, my wordperfect 8 nolonger functioned.

Re: CD-ROM problems

1999-02-14 Thread Dave Swegen
One thought - have you got a cd player on your desktop? Some of them grab the eject function. If so you have to use the cd players eject function. Just a thought... Cheers Dave On Sun, Feb 14, 1999 at 15:42 +, Nathan & Dena Blair wrote: > Hi all, > > I am experiencing problems with m

CD-ROM problems

1999-02-14 Thread Nathan & Dena Blair
Hi all, I am experiencing problems with my CD-ROM drive under Linux. The drive is a Memorex CD-322E (aka Dysan) IDE that is on /dev/hdc. The problem is I can't eject the drive once it's been mounted. I can supposedly umount it ok (no error messages show up or anything), but if I press the eject

Re: apache-ssl & eperl : problems SOLVED

1999-02-14 Thread Mike Gerber
> > AddType application/x-httpd-eperl .phtml > > Action application/x-httpd-eperl /cgi-bin/nph-eperl > > but my apache says "invalid command Action". > Here's what I use to run .sql files through mysql: > Action www-sql /cgi-bin/www-mysql > Maybe you can adopt this. than

Re: 96% packet loss on my network

1999-02-14 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
Paul Nathan Puri wrote: > The Port status section of the leds remains light on the 100 > section for both cards. > > The Network Utilization section of the hub leds consistently > blinks, on the 1% led of the 100 section; after every 13th > blink, both the 100 and the 10 blink together. > > Does

Re: Sound card suggestion

1999-02-14 Thread Frozen Rose
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Randy Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >What I'd love to have is some advice on a no-hassle sound card. The card >doesn't have to put out great sound -- most any noise will do. By far the >highest priority is for the card to mesh seamlessly with Linux. Anyone h

Re: iso9660

1999-02-14 Thread wtopa
Subject: iso9660 Date: Sun, Feb 14, 1999 at 03:05:42PM +0800 In reply to:Bal K. Paudyal Quoting Bal K. Paudyal([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Hellou Friends, > > My recent Red Hat installation (don't know how to check the kernel version > yet!), says iso9660 file system not supported

RE: DSelect and ftp

1999-02-14 Thread Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven
> > That'd definitely be a problem, but I'm not sure how it'd come about; why > > would a modem respond to `ATZ' with `NO CARRIER'? > > Simple enough - the modem wasn't in command mode, it was at the end of > the previous dial Oh, of course. Didn't think of that. > (that failed) but somehow the

please help re:creating more disk space

1999-02-14 Thread claydona
When I installed Debian I alotted about 200mb of hd space on hda5 for /usr. I've installed so much that I've started to run out of space. What I was planning to do was to move the bulky linux source packages to a temp directory somewhere under /var and use ln to create links to them. What p

Re: Sound configuration not in initial install

1999-02-14 Thread robbie
On Sun, Feb 14, 1999 at 12:21:44PM +0100, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > >> "r" == robbie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > r> On Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 07:05:36PM +0100, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > >> Why bother with this. You should recompile your kernel anyway (to > >> get a slim version that o

Re: iso9660

1999-02-14 Thread ivan
Debian's a great distro - even comes with iso9660 support built into the installation kernel. You might want to try it :) Recompiling the kernel should work. Check out news://linux.redhat.misc if you need further assistance. At 03:05 PM 2/14/99 +0800, Bal K. Paudyal wrote: >Hellou Friends, > >

Re: iso9660

1999-02-14 Thread Tom Pfeifer
iso9660 support can be either compiled directly into the kernel, or it can be compiled as a module. When compiled directly into the kernel it is always available, while in the case of a module, the module must be loaded (inserted into the kernel) before it can be used. The command 'lsmod' will list

Re: Sound configuration not in initial install

1999-02-14 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "GB" == George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: GB> Huh? Just about every commercial Unix has audio support by GB> default. When was the last time you installed Solaris? Can you choose between different soundcards, when you buy Solaris? Anyway, the 2.2 kernel has modular sound support, so

GPL, was: Sound configuration not in initial install

1999-02-14 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "GB" == George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: GB> As an aside, did you know that the GPL can be used to PREVENT the GB> distribution of software? The GPL ENSURES the distribution of binary AND source. It prevents binary-only distribution. So what? This is a core element of this license.

Re: Voice Answering Machine (much better)

1999-02-14 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "NC" == Nuno Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: NC> At the moment, syslog, sounds fine: NC> Feb 14 00:22:42 cavern kernel: isdn_tty: call from xxx , -> NC> RING on ttyI0 This looks good. NC> 1. Which options should I use on isdnctrl ? Callback !? Define EAZ/MSN !? isdnctrl is not use

Re: Sound configuration not in initial install

1999-02-14 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "r" == robbie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: r> On Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 07:05:36PM +0100, Martin Bialasinski wrote: >> Why bother with this. You should recompile your kernel anyway (to >> get a slim version that only has the things you use). With >> kernel-package, this is a breeze. r> I stron

Re: Mounting a floppy drive

1999-02-14 Thread Malcolm Miles
On Sat, 13 Feb 1999 22:12:41 -0800 (PST), you wrote: >Try > >mount /dev/fd0u1440 /mnt -t msdos > >or > >mount /dev/fd0h1440 /mnt -t msdos > >And see if that works. Some fd0 drivers do not work for all floppy >drives. I don't know why. Didn't work either. I tried formatting a few disks. They f

Re: dircolors and LS_COLORS

1999-02-14 Thread Mike Merten
On Sun, Feb 14, 1999 at 05:19:38AM +, Mark Wagnon wrote: > Can anyone tell me what file that the LS_COLORS environment variable is > set? I thought is was in /etc/profile, but it's not there. I'm asking > because I'd like to add the *.bz2 extension so that bzipped files are > the same color as

Re: Sound configuration not in initial install

1999-02-14 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "M" == MallarJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: M> In a message dated 2/13/99 12:09:41 PM Central Standard Time, M> [EMAIL PROTECTED] treff.uni-koeln.de writes: >> Because sound in 2.0 kernels is not modular enough. IO, IRQ etc. have >> to be hardcoded into the kernel. Some option must not be set

new: debian packages for mtv

1999-02-14 Thread Tristan Savatier
I have just made debian packages for mtv (the "famous" MPEG and VCD player for Linux). Those packages have been created on a RedHat system by converting RPM using the debian "alien" package. I would like to have some feedback, i.e. could someone try to install them and tell me if they work fine ?

Re: SB16 ISA/PNP DMA3?

1999-02-14 Thread Daniel Elenius
>my error, dma2 is the one for the floppy, but i think i may have found >why dma3 might not work for sound, i just noticed here (i have a P2) >that my motherboard, if set for a ECP type printer port, it requires >dma3 for itself Yes, it's always different DMA's being used for different things on

RE: Sound configuration not in initial install

1999-02-14 Thread M.C. Vernon
> gain sound. I had several reasons for wanting to learn Linux but as a > musician my stance quickly becomes, "No sound, why bother?" What is your sound card? > I haven't really used Linux since October out of the hope that Slink would > have the updated kernel with it's added multimedia featu

Re: Sound configuration not in initial install

1999-02-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Feb 14, 1999 at 01:25:29AM -0800, George Bonser wrote: > On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 11, 1999 at 09:09:32AM -0600, David Webster wrote: > > > During the drivers installation phase there is no facility for > > > installing sound card info. I find this quite

Re: Help with lilo.conf and booting

1999-02-14 Thread Mike Merten
On Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 09:56:46AM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > I am trying to setup my system to run a zipdrive and printer using > kernel2.2.0. I have installed ppa directly into the kernel and it was > suggested that I add the lines to append below. Dmesg gives me the > message below. Any

Re: question about xawtv

1999-02-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 10:49:30AM -0800, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: > I just install a Hauppage (sp?) tv card. I compiled 2.2.1 to enable > video4linux, and for this card. I also installed xawtv. > > Does anyone have this stuff working? If so please relay some > war stories. Thanks I have a non

Re: apache-ssl & eperl : problems

1999-02-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Feb 12, 1999 at 09:56:29PM +0100, Mike Gerber wrote: > i tried to configure my apache to filter .phtml-files through eperl. i > added to srm.conf: > > AddType application/x-httpd-eperl .phtml > Action application/x-httpd-eperl /cgi-bin/nph-eperl > > but my apache says "invalid command A

Re: Sound configuration not in initial install

1999-02-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Feb 11, 1999 at 09:09:32AM -0600, David Webster wrote: > During the drivers installation phase there is no facility for > installing sound card info. I find this quite odd since sound is as > ubiquitous in computing today as ethernet and TCP/IP. The failure to Not on Unix, IMHO. But anyw

Re: Is there a Logon Log?

1999-02-14 Thread Rob Mahurin
I thought for sure he was asking to be pointed to /etc/motd and /etc/issue[.net]. But I don't boot my machine every time I log in, so I could just be wrong. They're handy things to know about, anyway. Rob On Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 05:38:54PM -0600, KTB wrote: > After you boot up > dmesg | less >

Mounting a floppy drive (still)

1999-02-14 Thread J K
Hi again! Another question: 1. I finally mounted my floppy drive with mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy, but when I try to l(i)s(t) a floppy, I get this error msg about 20 times: "directory sread (sector 0xd) failed" What am I doing wrong?

iso9660

1999-02-14 Thread Bal K. Paudyal
Hellou Friends, My recent Red Hat installation (don't know how to check the kernel version yet!), says iso9660 file system not supported by kernel. It can't be like that, because I installed from the cdrom. Is there any way out? Also, the system does not allow me to edit a few files, one I have p

RE: Sound configuration not in initial install

1999-02-14 Thread Cristov Russell
I very much agree with Robbie. We are in a very modern age of multimedia computers (something Bill and the Boys do deserve credit for) and it's very likely that the majority of end-users have sound cards they would like to use. Have this hacker mentality of "well if I Can do it you can too" does

Re: Mounting a floppy drive

1999-02-14 Thread claydona
I have a 'not brilliant" floppy that will sometimes give an error message with mdir a: or mcopy a: . It will often work on the second attempt ie. when the green light is still on and the disk still spinning from the first attempt; good luck angus claydon [EMAIL PROTECTED]

lilo at end of kernel compile

1999-02-14 Thread John Leget
Hello , For some reason at the end of kernel compiles ( running potato and 2.2.1 now ) it complains that it cannot find a lilo signature on my sda2. Funy thing is lilo runs fine invoked manually, and sda2 is the boot partition for it to install ( i use another boot manager for several partition

Re: Mounting a floppy drive

1999-02-14 Thread Orion the Hunter
Quoting Malcolm Miles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Similar thing here: > > end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0 > mount: block device /dev/fd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only > end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0 > end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0 > end_request: I/O erro

Re: Mounting a floppy drive

1999-02-14 Thread Malcolm Miles
Ignore that last message. mtools was already installed. I tried mdir and got the same sort of error messages as below >> end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0 mgm On Sun, 14 Feb 1999 05:12:55 +, you wrote: >apt-get install mtools? > >Malcolm Miles wrote: >> >> On Sat, 13 Feb 1999

Re: Mounting a floppy drive

1999-02-14 Thread Malcolm Miles
apt-get: command not found mgm On Sun, 14 Feb 1999 05:12:55 +, you wrote: >apt-get install mtools? > >Malcolm Miles wrote: >> >> On Sat, 13 Feb 1999 20:17:08 PST, you wrote: >> >> >When I tried to mount my floppy drive using: >> >mount -t msdod /dev/fd0 /a >> >I got these messages: >> >e

Re: Mounting a floppy drive

1999-02-14 Thread Malcolm Miles
On Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:09:25 +0800, you wrote: > >try mounting fd0 without specifying filesystem type. IIRC, the filesystem >will be autodetected. Didn't help. Same errors and then it came back with mount: you must specify the filesystem type. >If it is a win95/98 floppy you *may* need to spec

Re: Mounting a floppy drive

1999-02-14 Thread KTB
This may help. http://www.ssc.com/lg/issue01to08/linux_gazette.html#mounting Kent J K wrote: > Hi again! > > When I tried to mount my floppy drive using: > mount -t msdod /dev/fd0 /a > I got these messages: > end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0 > mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block devi

Re: 96% packet loss on my network

1999-02-14 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
Heikki Vatiainen wrote: > > Paul Nathan Puri wrote: > > I just set up my network (laptop to desktop). I'm running linux on > > both. > > > > I pinged my desktop and it seems there is 96% packet loss there. Why > > would this be? > > > > On both machines there is a fast ethernet NIC, and I have a

dircolors and LS_COLORS

1999-02-14 Thread Mark Wagnon
Can anyone tell me what file that the LS_COLORS environment variable is set? I thought is was in /etc/profile, but it's not there. I'm asking because I'd like to add the *.bz2 extension so that bzipped files are the same color as other compressed files. TIA -- __

Re: 96% packet loss on my network

1999-02-14 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
Brandon Mitchell wrote: > > On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: > > > My ifconfig eth0 output on my laptop is the following: > > > RX packets:2175 errors:0 dropped:192 overruns:0 frame:728 > > TX packets:2590 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > > collisions:0 txq

Re: Mounting a floppy drive

1999-02-14 Thread ivan
try mounting fd0 without specifying filesystem type. IIRC, the filesystem will be autodetected. If it is a win95/98 floppy you *may* need to specify filesystem vfat rather than msdos. I'm not sure on this one. Ivan. At 04:53 AM 2/14/99 GMT, Malcolm Miles wrote: >On Sat, 13 Feb 1999 20:17:08 P

Re: Mounting a floppy drive (and other qustions)

1999-02-14 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
ivan wrote: > > At 07:19 PM 2/13/99 PST, J K wrote: > >Thanks to the people that helped me out with installation! > >Now I have a couple of questions about the basics of Linux. > >I just installed my system, and it works good, except for three things: > > > >1. I can't mount the floppy dri

Re: Mounting a floppy drive

1999-02-14 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
apt-get install mtools? Malcolm Miles wrote: > > On Sat, 13 Feb 1999 20:17:08 PST, you wrote: > > >When I tried to mount my floppy drive using: > >mount -t msdod /dev/fd0 /a > >I got these messages: > >end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0 > >mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device >

Re: Mounting a floppy drive

1999-02-14 Thread Malcolm Miles
On Sat, 13 Feb 1999 20:17:08 PST, you wrote: >When I tried to mount my floppy drive using: >mount -t msdod /dev/fd0 /a >I got these messages: >end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0 >mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device Similar thing here: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0

Mounting a floppy drive

1999-02-14 Thread J K
Hi again! When I tried to mount my floppy drive using: mount -t msdod /dev/fd0 /a I got these messages: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0 mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device Does anyone know what I am doing wrong?

Re: smail -> exim = mail now broken

1999-02-14 Thread Frozen Rose
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kenneth F. Ryder III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >found out that there is no cron job for exim -bd, (DOH!) it helps to be >running your mail daemon. I am not sure why there was no cron job, since >Dselect had done one for smail, when I had that installed Errr

Re: Mounting a floppy drive (and other qustions)

1999-02-14 Thread ivan
At 07:19 PM 2/13/99 PST, J K wrote: >Thanks to the people that helped me out with installation! >Now I have a couple of questions about the basics of Linux. >I just installed my system, and it works good, except for three things: > >1. I can't mount the floppy drive. Does anyone know how t

Re: Mounting a floppy drive (and other qustions)

1999-02-14 Thread William Park
On Sat, 13 Feb 1999, J K wrote: > Thanks to the people that helped me out with installation! > Now I have a couple of questions about the basics of Linux. > I just installed my system, and it works good, except for three things: > > 1. I can't mount the floppy drive. Does anyone know h

Mounting a floppy drive (and other qustions)

1999-02-14 Thread J K
Thanks to the people that helped me out with installation! Now I have a couple of questions about the basics of Linux. I just installed my system, and it works good, except for three things: 1. I can't mount the floppy drive. Does anyone know how to do this, or where I can find out how t

Re: Installing Sound Card

1999-02-14 Thread wtopa
Subject: Re: Installing Sound Card Date: Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 11:40:25AM -0600 In reply to:Andrei Ivanov Quoting Andrei Ivanov([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > Well, basicly, it's all been said how to get the card working. > I hope you succeed at that. I was never able to get my card

Re: Can't Mount a Zip Drive

1999-02-14 Thread wtopa
Subject: Can't Mount a Zip Drive Date: Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 01:42:00PM -0600 In reply to:Alex Quoting Alex([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > >I can't mount my zip drive. It is a scsi zip drive and I think my >isa-to-scsi host adapter is working. During boot I get these lines >(

Re: where is /usr/src.linux???

1999-02-14 Thread Randy Edwards
> I am just now trying to compile my kernel for sound as per Marl Wagnon's > recent suggestions, but lo and behold, no /usr/src/linux and on top > of that, the only directory in my /usr/src directory is REDHAT?!?!?! > What's up here? Holy cow! RedHat's advertising campaign is taking over y

Re: slink install messed up hamm partition

1999-02-14 Thread John Hasler
John Bagdanoff writes: > So I don't get the SETSERIAL not found anymore on bootup, but I still > have to reset the irq to 3 before I reconnect to my isp before every > session. > I thought at first this change of behavior was due to installing slink > from my hamm partition, but I also upgraded mo

Re: 96% packet loss on my network

1999-02-14 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: > My ifconfig eth0 output on my laptop is the following: > RX packets:2175 errors:0 dropped:192 overruns:0 frame:728 > TX packets:2590 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 > Interrupt:3 Base addr

Re: 96% packet loss on my network

1999-02-14 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
Paul Nathan Puri wrote: > > My ifconfig eth0 output on my laptop is the following: > > eth0Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:98:04:55:3B > inet addr:192.168.1.1 Bcast:192.168.1.255 > Mask:255:255.255.0 > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX pac

Re: Sound configuration not in initial install

1999-02-14 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Sat, 13 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 2/13/99 12:09:41 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL > PROTECTED] > treff.uni-koeln.de writes: > > > Because sound in 2.0 kernels is not modular enough. IO, IRQ etc. have > > to be hardcoded into the kernel. Some option must not be

Re: smail -> exim = mail now broken

1999-02-14 Thread Kenneth F. Ryder III
I fixed my local mail and retrieval of ISP mail. added / changed local domains (were not set properly by eximconfig, probably a type-o by me) that took care of local mail. found out that there is no cron job for exim -bd, (DOH!) it helps to be running your mail daemon. I am not sure why there

Re: slink install messed up hamm partition

1999-02-14 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Sat, 13 Feb 1999, John Bagdanoff wrote: > So I don't get the SETSERIAL not found anymore on bootup, but I still > have to reset the irq to 3 before I reconnect to my isp before every > session. > > I thought at first this change of behavior was due to installing slink > from my hamm partition

Re: Sound configuration not in initial install

1999-02-14 Thread robbie
On Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 07:05:36PM +0100, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > >> "r" == robbie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > r> Why does debian not include sound modules in the default kernel package? > > Because sound in 2.0 kernels is not modular enough. IO, IRQ etc. have > to be hardcoded into t

Re: where is /usr/src.linux???

1999-02-14 Thread Mark Wagnon
rich wrote: > > I am just now trying to compile my kernel for sound as per Marl Wagnon's > recent suggestions, but lo and behold, no /usr/src/linux and on top > of that, the only directory in my /usr/src directory is REDHAT?!?!?! > What's up here? So I just tried to go to /usr/src and type "ma

Re: Voice Answering Machine (much better)

1999-02-14 Thread Nuno Carvalho
Martin Bialasinski wrote: > NC> Feb 13 17:35:20 cavern init: Id "I0" respawning too fast: disabled > NC> for 5 minutes > > ps ax must show it. > > $ ps ax | grep vboxgetty > 427 ? S0:00 /usr/sbin/vboxgetty -d /dev/ttyI0 > > init tries to start it, but there is something wrong, so vboxgetty

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