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Re: modversions.h ?

2000-01-20 Thread Gary Hennigan
Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 20-Jan-2000 aphro wrote: > > if the program you are compiling requires 2.2.x i suggest re linking > > /usr/include/linux to /usr/src/linux/include/linux (i think thats > > right) .. rename /usr/include/linux > > That is the action I was considering, but I

Re: slink -> potato

2000-01-20 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Hi, > > My box running slink here would like to do the > potato upgrade but I'm concerned that it might run > out of disk space: > > Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on > /dev/hda1 29663

Re: PS/2 Mouse Port

2000-01-20 Thread Mike Werner
On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 07:55:50AM +0930, Terri and Glen Kondos wrote: > I'm having trouble figuring out what device I should use for my PS/2 port > mouse. I have a Microsoft PS/2 mouse and notice on boot up the Linux > recognizes that there is a PS/2 mouse port. When configuring /etc/gpm.conf, I

Re: PS/2 Mouse Port

2000-01-20 Thread aphro
try /dev/psaux that is the 'standard' port to use for 99% of ps/2 mice. nate On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Terri and Glen Kondos wrote: gkondo >I'm having trouble figuring out what device I should use for my PS/2 port gkondo >mouse. I have a Microsoft PS/2 mouse and notice on boot up the Linux gkondo

Re: modversions.h ?

2000-01-20 Thread Pollywog
On 20-Jan-2000 aphro wrote: > if the program you are compiling requires 2.2.x i suggest re linking > /usr/include/linux to /usr/src/linux/include/linux (i think thats > right) .. rename /usr/include/linux That is the action I was considering, but I did not think it should be done with 2.2.x kerne

Re: apt changes mount status of /usr ?!?!!

2000-01-20 Thread Alexander List
On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > Obviously, apt seems to fiddle around with mount during the upgrade > > procedure, /usr is mounted ro after the upgrade!!! > > rm /etc/apt/apt.conf Well, must have been an attack of stupidity when I installed the example apt.conf without checking i

Re: making a pine deb?

2000-01-20 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ron Farrer) wrote: >Does anyone have a diff that I could use to make a deb of pine 4.21? >I've got the source tarball all unpacked and ready to go, but I'd rather >not have to create all of the debian files needed to make a deb. >You can skip the usual, mutt's better try it inste

Re: Question: how to use an LDAP backend for logins

2000-01-20 Thread Joseph A. Martin
On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Konrad Mierendorff wrote: > Could you please send me the HOWTO as well. (Or an URL if it is online) > I'm planning to do a similar setup soon, for twenty machines though. > If you know any webpages on the topic you could also send them to me. I will collect some links this ev

PS/2 Mouse Port

2000-01-20 Thread Terri and Glen Kondos
I'm having trouble figuring out what device I should use for my PS/2 portmouse. I have a Microsoft PS/2 mouse and notice on boot up the Linux recognizes that there is a PS/2 mouse port. When configuring /etc/gpm.conf, I don't know what device to use for the mouse. Couldn't find a HOWTO on

Re: don't want x as default startup

2000-01-20 Thread eric k. wolven
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- mpx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: mpx: Got this from the list: type: more /etc/inittab (look for line that says "id:N:initdefault) ("N" is a number) Remember # type: cd /etc/rcN.d type: ls (look for file "S999xdm") type: rm S99xdm This will remove the default

slink -> frozen upgrade .. problems encountered

2000-01-20 Thread Alex Perry
Following the freeze, I changed the sources.list on one of my machines from stable to frozen and did a dist-upgrade to see how it would get on. The trick with the interim perl version didn't work. Apt managed to leave me with three base package versions installed but the program itself missing. -

Re: modversions.h ?

2000-01-20 Thread aphro
if the program you are compiling requires 2.2.x i suggest re linking /usr/include/linux to /usr/src/linux/include/linux (i think thats right) .. rename /usr/include/linux the program is probably looking for something 2.1/2.2/2.3 specific and debian's default headers in /usr/include dont cut it for

Re: Ethernet card dies unexpectedly

2000-01-20 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
José Luis Gómez Dans wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 07:42:18AM -0800, aphro wrote: > > what kind of machine is it on? i had a similar problem on an old P100 IBM > > machine it wouldnt work with any PCI NIC for longer then 10-15 minutes, > > This is an Athlon 550 MHz. I have downloaded

RE: slink -> potato

2000-01-20 Thread Lewis, James M.
> Hi, > > My box running slink here would like to do the > potato upgrade but I'm concerned that it might run > out of disk space: > > Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on > /dev/hda1 296633 24881332500 88% / > /dev/hda3 6751

Re: Question: how to use an LDAP backend for logins

2000-01-20 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
"Joseph A. Martin" wrote: > Very possible. Again, I will have a HOWTO in the works within a week > or two. I will send you info as I work on the sections. Could you please send me the HOWTO as well. (Or an URL if it is online) I'm planning to do a similar setup soon, for twenty machines though. If

Using the mirror package

2000-01-20 Thread Timm Gleason
I have been using the mirror package for some time now, but I am finding that recently, it has not been removing the older packages under the potato distribution. I am now the proud holder of many multiple copies of many different packages. Is there a way to remove those extraneous packages since m

Re: how many users per apache proc?

2000-01-20 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
aphro wrote: > > thanks for all the replies ..i have a better idea ..sorta :) earlier i > caught my server with 18 active connections running on only 2 processes(18 ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ > idle servers) running Apache/1.3.9 (Unix) mod_perl/1.21

Re: Yamaha YMF 724

2000-01-20 Thread Leszek Gerwatowski
On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 05:41:35PM +0100, Andreas Sliwka wrote: > Hi, > > I got a new board with an Yamaha YMF 724 on board. How can I get this > chip to play sound? I'm afraid you cannot without money. Yamaha has de

RE: modversions.h ?

2000-01-20 Thread Pollywog
On 20-Jan-2000 Pollywog wrote: > What is the story behind modversions.h ? > > I am using kernel 2.2.14 and I don't have this file, but I see it is listed > for kernel-headers package 2.2.13. I built a custom kernel and I am not > using > the default Debian kernel image. oops it does appear that

slink -> potato

2000-01-20 Thread Mark Symonds
Hi, My box running slink here would like to do the potato upgrade but I'm concerned that it might run out of disk space: Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/hda1 296633 24881332500 88% / /dev/hda3 675175 343296 297003

HELP: dhcp client probs

2000-01-20 Thread Albert Hurd
I am running Debian 1.3.1, soon to be updated to 2.1.  I am having problems with dhcpcd which I would like to resolve before I upgrade. On @home the cable connection is rather routinely dropped.  Running dhcpcd as root doesn't help, the only remedy I have found is to close down and reboot into Wi

modversions.h ?

2000-01-20 Thread Pollywog
What is the story behind modversions.h ? I am using kernel 2.2.14 and I don't have this file, but I see it is listed for kernel-headers package 2.2.13. I built a custom kernel and I am not using the default Debian kernel image. gcc -L../lib -I../include/ -Wall -O6-c -o bcreencrypt.o bcreenc

Re: max processes

2000-01-20 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
aphro wrote: > > mieren >My common sense tells me that that depends on your hardware. > > dual p2-233 128MB .. Well, my common sense was a bit lazy yesterday, but now it is perfectly aware of the fact that it depends on the processes as well :-) But as my common sense produces rather stupid answ

making a pine deb?

2000-01-20 Thread Ron Farrer
Hello all; Does anyone have a diff that I could use to make a deb of pine 4.21? I've got the source tarball all unpacked and ready to go, but I'd rather not have to create all of the debian files needed to make a deb. You can skip the usual, mutt's better try it instead bit as I DO use mutt. It's

Re: Lilo

2000-01-20 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
Mats Johansson wrote: > And the problem is that the LILO prompt comes up on the on screen and > the boot prompt also comes up becouse i use the prompt option but i > can't typ anything it is very strange and when scroll look is down it > come up alot of *interrupted* messages as it should but i

Re: non-US

2000-01-20 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Konstantin Kivi) wrote: >ëÁË ÎÁÐÉÓÁÔØ ÓÔÒÏÞËÕ × sources.lst >ÄÌÑ potato ÐÒÏ non-us? >ôÁÍ ËÁËÏÅ ÔÏ ÓÅÊÞÁÓ ÎÅÔÒÉ×ÉÁÌØÎÏÅ ÒÁÚÂÉÅÎÉÅ It would have probably been more useful in English (as that's the primary language of most of the debian-* lists), but I assume you're looking for the

Re: non-US

2000-01-20 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Konstantin Kivi wrote: > ??? ??? ? sources.lst > ??? potato ??? non-us? > ??? ? ?? ?? ? ? deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable non-US/main non-US/contrib non-US/non-free > > -- > Sincerely yours, Konstantin Kivi <[EM

Re: Boot

2000-01-20 Thread Dave Blears
On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 07:34:40AM -0800, aphro wrote: > the problem is the kernel on the debian cd is too old to run on athlon, > its probably running linux 2.2.12, i hear 2.0.36 works but if you use > 2.2.x i believe you need 2.2.13 or newer. slink/2.0.36 locks at detecting the ide controller

non-US

2000-01-20 Thread Konstantin Kivi
Как написать строчку в sources.lst для potato про non-us? Там какое то сейчас нетривиальное разбиение -- Sincerely yours, Konstantin Kivi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

gs/magicfilter on a hp lj3

2000-01-20 Thread Lewis, James M.
I need to make magicfilter (ljet3-filter) or gs leave a bit more left margin. The lj3 has about .25 in that can't be written on and the output gets cut a little. Does anyone know how to make gs and/or magicfilter leave more left margin? At the moment, I can use a2ps with the --margin option but

Re: ncp (novel) wrongly locked

2000-01-20 Thread aphro
if you want lsof (its useful) id suggest grabbing it and recompiling it: lsof 4.43 (latest revision at ftp://vic.cc.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/lsof) you probably need the kernel source for the kernel you are running to compile it. nate On Thu, 20 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hawk > hawk >

Re: potato - where's lp

2000-01-20 Thread John Lapeyre
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 06:44:25AM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > > One last question is potato now linked to frozen? > > Should I change my sources.list to point to frozen or > > potato instead of unstable now? As a rule of thumb, you should keep using potato, as it is more urgent to get

RE: char-major-6

2000-01-20 Thread Lewis, James M.
> What is char-major-6? Where do I find this information so I don't have > to bother clueful people about it? > > TIA, > Try /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt jim > -- > Nathan Norman > MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ww

dropping libc 2.1 into stable for some development work possible?

2000-01-20 Thread Britton
I have been told that I probably need the features of glibc 2.1 for some of the development I am doing, however, I don't want to risk an upgrade to unstable at the moment. Is it possible to get the upstream library, install it in /usr/local, and then compile certain packages against it (static

Re: Remote xterm trouble

2000-01-20 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is anyone else having remote xterm trouble? If I log in to my Debian > laptop, running potato, from my SGI, running IRIX 6.5, via an xterm > the terminal is almost unusable. It seems to lose track of the > cursor. For example, if I fire up dselect and I

char-major-6

2000-01-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
What is char-major-6? Where do I find this information so I don't have to bother clueful people about it? TIA, -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)

Re: ncp (novel) wrongly locked

2000-01-20 Thread hawk
aphro added, > did u check lsof? it would show if something is using that partition..i > just checked one of my machines and saw that one partition was in use, > just because i started a program on which forked to the > backgroupd(vpnd) it is not"using" the partition at all but lsof shows it > as

Re: mail confusion

2000-01-20 Thread aphro
fetchmail sends mail by resending it through the local SMTP server, try to telnet to your smtp server (telnet localhost 25) chances are you dont have a SMTP server running, or it is firewalled nate On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Paul wrote: skin >It`s a long story but in order to install fidogate I replac

Re: ppp/chat: BLACKLISTED after (many) tries

2000-01-20 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 12:26:19AM +0100, Konrad Mierendorff wrote: > Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > > Some modems can be configured to believe they're in the wrong country and > > ignore the blacklisting thing. > > ALMOST ALL modems can be switched off and on again :-) > And this is legal! > > A

Re: mail confusion

2000-01-20 Thread Gary Hennigan
Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It`s a long story but in order to install fidogate I replaced my > perfectly working exim with sendmail. Now when I try to collect my mail > with fetchmail I get: > > reading message 1 of 10 (1598 header octets) > fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed The a

mail confusion

2000-01-20 Thread Paul
It`s a long story but in order to install fidogate I replaced my perfectly working exim with sendmail. Now when I try to collect my mail with fetchmail I get: reading message 1 of 10 (1598 header octets) fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed fetchmail: IMAP> A0007 LOGOUT fetchmail: IMAP< ) f

Re: Epplet question

2000-01-20 Thread John Miskinis
Thanks for your reply. I will try it :) The logout thing might be interesting. I usually just do "init 0" as root to turn of my machine. The CTRL-ALT-DELETE is basically the same as selecting the "Logout" option from the mouse button 1 menu. I wanted to add another note, that someone on #E sugg

Re: stable innd is segfaulting

2000-01-20 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miquel van Smoorenburg) wrote: >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Eventually I traced the problem to innd itself dying when innxmit tries >>to submit articles to it. The tail of an strace looks like this >>(apologies for the long lines):

rsync:"@ERROR: chroot failed"

2000-01-20 Thread Gerhard Kroder
i run into problems using rsync to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: chroot failedr debians ftp archive, which worked for a while. but now all i get is this error message: "@ERROR: chroot failed". i don't even know who makes this error. i tried to do it manually, as follows: > sh-2.03$ LOGFILE=rsync.debian.log >

Re: ncp (novel) wrongly locked

2000-01-20 Thread aphro
did u check lsof? it would show if something is using that partition..i just checked one of my machines and saw that one partition was in use, just because i started a program on which forked to the backgroupd(vpnd) it is not"using" the partition at all but lsof shows it as having the mount point a

Re: Athlon kernel compilation blues

2000-01-20 Thread José Luis Gómez Dans
I have been trying to put everybody's suggestions on compiling the kernel. Now, I have traced the problem to the initialization of modutils in in rcS. Basically, depmod -a > /dev/null segfaults and then a variety of kernel not being able to use NULL pointers pop up, eventually halting the

help using 3COM PCMCI Ethernet card 3CCE589ET

2000-01-20 Thread Frank Mattes
Hi, I have installed debian 2.1 new on my thinkpad. PCMCIA ethernet support worked with out any modification when I used a Dayna CommuniCard. However installing debian with a 3COM Megahertz Ethernet Card Model 3CCe569ET did't work. Does anybody can help me how to set up debian that I can use th

ncp (novel) wrongly locked

2000-01-20 Thread hawk
I'm using the ncpfs to use space on networked novell drives. It works most of the time with most applications, but it has a tendency to halfway dismount itself on errors. Some I can reproduce, but they all involve manually dismounting then remounting. This time, though, it wrongly concluded

Re: apt changes mount status of /usr ?!?!!

2000-01-20 Thread Clyde Wilson
Check out /etc/apt/apt.conf. If you remove the lines that remount /usr ( 2 I think ) everything should work fine. On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Alexander List wrote: > > Obviously, apt seems to fiddle around with mount during the upgrade > procedure, /usr is mounted ro after the upgrade!!! > > On anoth

system

2000-01-20 Thread Hutchinson, Floyd
I just install Debian Linux on a Dell 133Mhz with 16MB of ram. However after I install debian and reboot when it ask me to reboot it stop booting at the message line Partition check the came back with a error message. Irq timeout: status=0x50 {driveready seek complete} and hangs again.

Re: Unidentified subject!

2000-01-20 Thread Jan Ludewig
On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 09:03:22AM -0500, Jan Ludewig wrote: > unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] sorry, i should not use mailing-list-handling scripts in alpha-state. Jan

Unidentified subject!

2000-01-20 Thread Jan Ludewig
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Re: Athlon kernel compilation blues

2000-01-20 Thread Dänzer
--- José_Luis_Gómez_Dans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 07:56:43AM -0800, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > This is not needed anymore with 2.95.2 > > > > On the contrary, if you want to build apps with strict aliasing, you have > to > > add -fstrict-aliasing. > > So what

Yamaha YMF 724

2000-01-20 Thread Andreas Sliwka
Hi, I got a new board with an Yamaha YMF 724 on board. How can I get this chip to play sound? mfg -- Andreas Sliwka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ICQ goff:

Re: Athlon kernel compilation blues

2000-01-20 Thread José Luis Gómez Dans
On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 07:56:43AM -0800, Michel Dänzer wrote: > This is not needed anymore with 2.95.2 > > On the contrary, if you want to build apps with strict aliasing, you have to > add -fstrict-aliasing. So what flags should I use for compiling the kernel then? I don't really know

Re: Remote xterm trouble

2000-01-20 Thread Gary Hennigan
Roger Pittman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 02:16:36PM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote: > > Is anyone else having remote xterm trouble? ... > > I am. Remote boxes are Ultra 1's, AXi's, and AXMP's, running > Solaris 2.6 or 7. Worked fine until a recent apt-get run. If I > te

Re: Ethernet card dies unexpectedly

2000-01-20 Thread José Luis Gómez Dans
On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 07:42:18AM -0800, aphro wrote: > what kind of machine is it on? i had a similar problem on an old P100 IBM > machine it wouldnt work with any PCI NIC for longer then 10-15 minutes, This is an Athlon 550 MHz. I have downloaded the newest driver version (1.08 as oppos

Re: Athlon kernel compilation blues

2000-01-20 Thread Dänzer
--- José_Luis_Gómez_Dans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/2.95.2/specs > gcc version 2.95.2 2116 (Debian GNU/Linux) > > Optimization is set to O2. However, I also issue the > -fno-strict-aliasing option, as recommended by > /usr/doc/gcc/REA

Re: Athlon kernel compilation blues

2000-01-20 Thread José Luis Gómez Dans
--- Begin Message --- I'm using standard stuff found in potato. gcc -v returns: Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/2.95.2/specs gcc version 2.95.2 2116 (Debian GNU/Linux) Optimization is set to O2. However, I also issue the -fno-strict-aliasing option, as recommend

Re: slink mirror

2000-01-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Timothy C. Phan wrote: : Hi Nathan, : : Many thanks for you support. I guess you are right about : large sites. : : I finally try to mirror the debian.crosslink.net and got : the complete slink (i386) minus the source mirrored. : : So I'll try to upgrade

Re: Ethernet card dies unexpectedly

2000-01-20 Thread aphro
what kind of machine is it on? i had a similar problem on an old P100 IBM machine it wouldnt work with any PCI NIC for longer then 10-15 minutes, the network would die as well..my solution was to just use an ISA card. you could also try upgrading the driver.. check NASA's site-- i forget the URL g

Re: slink mirror

2000-01-20 Thread Timothy C. Phan
Hi Nathan, Many thanks for you support. I guess you are right about large sites. I finally try to mirror the debian.crosslink.net and got the complete slink (i386) minus the source mirrored. So I'll try to upgrade my 1.3.1 to slink this weekend. Again, thank you! Nathan E Norman w

Re: Athlon kernel compilation blues

2000-01-20 Thread aphro
what compiler are you using? what optimization do you have the kernel set to? nate On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, [iso-8859-1] Jos? Luis G?mez Dans wrote: j.l.go >Dear all, j.l.go >I have an Athlon 550 MHz system in which I installed Potato. j.l.go >It's all good with the installation boot disks a

Re: Boot

2000-01-20 Thread aphro
the problem is the kernel on the debian cd is too old to run on athlon, its probably running linux 2.2.12, i hear 2.0.36 works but if you use 2.2.x i believe you need 2.2.13 or newer. only thing I can suggest is install to another machine and move the HD over..you can try to make your own boot/roo

Ethernet card dies unexpectedly

2000-01-20 Thread José Luis Gómez Dans
Hi! I'm having some trouble with my ethernet card (a PCI fast ethernet RealTek 8139). Basically, this card sits in 0xe800, IRQ 11 and is perfectly detected by the rt8139 driver. It is configured to work in half duplex mode. When the system boots up, it all works fine, it is connect

Re: Strange LILO question

2000-01-20 Thread Ron Rademaker
> Is there then realy no way to boot the floppy also WITH a DOS filesystem? > Probably not :-( I think there is a way, just not using LILO, but loadlin. You just take a DOS disk boot DOS and make some kind of menu in you're autoexec.bat file with the choice between dos and linux. (For linux you ju

Re: slink mirror

2000-01-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Timothy C. Phan wrote: : Hi Nathan, : : Thanks for the information. I, however, have problem using rsync because : I'm still using 1.3.1 and rsync required libc6. Is there another way around : this. Does 'mirror' is no longer used for mirror site? mirror has t

Enlightenment CVS questions

2000-01-20 Thread Joakim Svensson
Hi all, I would like to try out imlib2 and efm for enlightenment. As a relative newbie how should I do this, or should I do it at all ? Do I need to use CVS and compile myself or is there some sort of debian CVS (my search so far indicates this) that should be used (this means I will compile mysel

RE: Cannot mount cdrom in new potato install

2000-01-20 Thread Irving Frederick
Thanks for all the replies. The problem was as described and subsequently solve. FRED ___ To get your own FREE ZDNet onebox - FREE voicemail, email, and fax, all in one place - sign up today at http://www.zdnetonebox.com

CD's and such for a CD handout?

2000-01-20 Thread Robert L. Harris
I'm trying to organize a CD handout on 2/17 at the local CompUSA. RedHat is going to send me some stuff to hand out and a local vendor is going to bring some things like bumper sticker's, some "tux" dolls, etc. Does anyone know any contacts at debian.org that can send me a cd or so of slink a

bootable CD on non cd booting machine?

2000-01-20 Thread David Teague
List folks and Richard -- The subject line almost says it all: How can I make a bootable CD boot on hardware that does not support booting from a CD? In particular, have the rescue CD from the Atlanta Linux Showcase, but the machine I really want to use it on does not boot from CD. I could p

Re: wrong CD!!!

2000-01-20 Thread David Wright
Quoting dkphoto ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Found a great looking book at the bookstore that had the added bonus of > containing a Debian CD so I wouldn't have to spend the next 10 years > downloading. Only one problem... it only has platform specific files on > it for Wintel boxes. I have a 68K Mac.

Athlon kernel compilation blues

2000-01-20 Thread José Luis Gómez Dans
Dear all, I have an Athlon 550 MHz system in which I installed Potato. It's all good with the installation boot disks and all that. The only problem comes when trying to compile a new kernel other than the one that came with the distro. So I downloaded the sources for 2.2.14 and configured

PPP problem - HELP!!!

2000-01-20 Thread A . Zurek
Hi! I'm pretty new on this list, but I think I my mails wount be too lame for you... (sorry for my bad english) Ok, let's start: I've a problem, and I don't know how to fix this! (nearly every1 has on this list ;)) I have a Debian 2.1 aka "Slink" changed slightely to Potato (all packages rel

Vodoo 2

2000-01-20 Thread erasmo perez
hello people i am in a bit of buying a Vodoo 2 video card, just the last minute question? there seems to be problems with this card, working under X11 ? this has 12 MB thanks a lot erasmo

Re: Strange LILO question

2000-01-20 Thread Ethan Benson
On 20/1/2000 Onno Ebbinge wrote: Yes, that is what I ment, maybe I should put LILO on the hard disk and then set the default boot to the hard disk with an option to boot from A: ??? perhaps, i have never tried it on a floppy (did with a cd and it didnt work) you could add: other=/dev/fd0

Re: 3c575_cb driver

2000-01-20 Thread M. Tavasti
"Kjohn Sasitorn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a sony n505ve and purchased the above ethernet card. I've spent more > than enough hours trying to get debian to work. It works flawlessly in > redhat. I've tried to get slink to recognize eth0. I did upgrade pcmcia-cs > to the newest version,

Re: Strange LILO question

2000-01-20 Thread Onno Ebbinge
At 01:43 PM 1/20/00 +, Ethan Benson wrote: >On 20/1/2000 Onno Ebbinge wrote: > >>Is it possible to set LILO on a DOS floppy disk >>with the default boot for the hard disk and an >>alternate boot for the DOS floppy itself? > >if you mean install the lilo boot sector on the DOS floppy then no, >

RE: Help gettin' X to work...

2000-01-20 Thread Rob Hensley
Rob Hensley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: }Hi, i recently ran 'apt-get install xf86setup xserver-svga' and installed }the svga x server as my default. After configuring it and everything, I }tried to run 'startx', but it didn't exist. So then I went into }/usr/X11R6/bin/ and ran './startx'. That's w

Re: IBM PS/1 Consultant problem

2000-01-20 Thread Bradley Pursley
Actually, I tried that and it worked just fine. My problem was why it couldn't/wouldn't boot from a floppy. > If you've got a DOS partition, why not boot from it > using > loadlin. All that goes on the DOS partition is a > copy of > the kernel, one 32KB file and you may want a .bat > file to

Re: Strange LILO question

2000-01-20 Thread Ethan Benson
On 20/1/2000 Onno Ebbinge wrote: Is it possible to set LILO on a DOS floppy disk with the default boot for the hard disk and an alternate boot for the DOS floppy itself? if you mean install the lilo boot sector on the DOS floppy then no, dosfs does not leave any room for a bootblock, so insta

Re: Question: how to use an LDAP backend for logins

2000-01-20 Thread Joseph A. Martin
> Well, I'm not answering your question but asking you: How to use > an LDAP backend for logins? I can answer this question, but not super quickly. I am planning on writing a Debian specific HOWTO with example config files, explanations, etc. Of course the explanations will require that I go

Strange LILO question

2000-01-20 Thread Onno Ebbinge
Is it possible to set LILO on a DOS floppy disk with the default boot for the hard disk and an alternate boot for the DOS floppy itself? Regards, Onno

One step further (WAS: Re: Advanced hard disk mirroring!)

2000-01-20 Thread Onno Ebbinge
The high quality replies I received (especially from Jens B. Jorgensen) solved my problem. (see http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-0001/msg02027.html) It also gave me an idea: Wouldn't it be great if there was ONE Linux boot-floppy that would mount (SMB or NFS?) a complete files

Re: Is potatoe's exim 3.12-1 OK?

2000-01-20 Thread Mark
Hi, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote: > > I had similar problems when I didn't use an smtp while sending mail to > certain adresses, only I use postfix. My error was: > > (conversation with columbo.hvu.nl[145.89.50.200] timed out while sending > end of data -- message may be sent more than once) > > Ho

Re: IBM PS/1 Consultant problem

2000-01-20 Thread David Wright
Quoting Bradley Pursley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Actually, it wasn't so much that my system was too > small that was causing the problem, but just that it > can't boot Linux from the floppy drive. I could have > theoretically gotten it to work on the drive I had, > but my wife was getting tired

Re: S3 Trio3D

2000-01-20 Thread Robert Varga
On 19 Jan 2000, David Z. Maze wrote: > erasmo perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > EP> more or less one week ago, i see in this lists the report of a S3 > EP> Trio3D video card that refuses to work in SVGA, just accepting VGA > EP> > EP> and now i face the same problem, is there some way to over

Re: ipchains firewall rules

2000-01-20 Thread Ethan Benson
On 20/1/2000 dyer wrote: Are the deny's perhaps UDP packets? no, they are tcp, I have not yet tried to do anything about udp packets. looking closer at the way portmapper seems to do things, it appears to me that any rpc service that is registered is given a random port, not necessarly pri

Re: don't want x as default startup

2000-01-20 Thread John Gould
Just remove the sym link in the default run level directory in /etc i.e. if the default runlevel is 2, then remove the sym link to S89xdm in the /etc/rc2.d directory. If there's a better way I'm sure others will tell you. You'll find the default run level from /etc/inittab. Hope this helps... Reg

Re: ipchains firewall rules

2000-01-20 Thread dyer
Ethan Benson wrote: > hi, > > > > what i tried was adding 3 new rules to the very beginning of the input chain > > ipchains -I input 1 -p tcp -i ppp0 -d 0.0.0.0/0 53 -j ACCEPT > ipchains -I input 2 -p tcp -i ppp0 -d 0.0.0.0/0 113 -j ACCEPT > ipchains -I input 3 -l -p tcp -y -i ppp0 0.0.0.0/0 :102

Re: Epplet question

2000-01-20 Thread John Miskinis
So How do I make this epplet that gives me the error to not be started ? Hello, I have had problems with epplets coming back, sometimes many copies of them at once. Deleting the files under .enlightenment doesn't get rid of them, so when I want to start "clean", I simply rename the directory

Epplet question

2000-01-20 Thread Joakim Svensson
i list, I have an E epplet question. Perhaps its more suitable to post to the E lists but since I use ljlanes epplet deb I thought I tried here first. I happened to start an epplet (some network monitoring epplet) but since I don't have a network It just returned an error box. My problem now is

Re: don't want x as default startup

2000-01-20 Thread Ethan Benson
On 20/1/2000 mpx wrote: yestarday i installed debian for the first time, and finally i am through this dselect-jungle;-) now i try since a few hours to eliminate this x-as-default-startup-thing. i would like to logon my machine in the console. so i did like i did on my redhat-box, changing in /

Boot

2000-01-20 Thread Nicola Tessari
Hello there, I'm here because my official debian cd (bought at linuxcentral) doesn't boot... After few seconds the booting process in my machine stops at the line: md driver 0.36.3 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAXREL=8 Anyone could tell me which is the problem? I've choosen the hardware checking out if it was sup

Lilo

2000-01-20 Thread Mats Johansson
Hi! I have newly installed Potato on my new IBM hardrive and have got any very strange problem with lilo. And the problem is that the LILO prompt comes up on the on screen and the boot prompt also comes up becouse i use the prompt option but i can't typ anything it is very strange and when s

Question: how to use an LDAP backend for logins

2000-01-20 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi Joseph, Well, I'm not answering your question but asking you: How to use an LDAP backend for logins? What I have: one server with shadow. What I want: to put 2 workstations with central authentication and exported home directory? I have tried (not hardly

Re: how many users per apache proc?

2000-01-20 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, aphro wrote: > i was wondeirng if anyone knew approx how many connection 1 apache process > could handle? just 1? or is it more.. my $0.02: According to Kabir, Mohammed J., Apache Server Administrator's Handbook, IDG Books, pp.68-69, "Apache uses one child s

don't want x as default startup

2000-01-20 Thread mpx
dear debian-users, yestarday i installed debian for the first time, and finally i am through this dselect-jungle;-) now i try since a few hours to eliminate this x-as-default-startup-thing. i would like to logon my machine in the console. so i did like i did on my redhat-box, changing in /etc/init

Re: ftp errors

2000-01-20 Thread Ethan Benson
On 20/1/2000 John Leget wrote: ive been trying to use gftp and im getting the following error "Warning: Cannot parse listing /bin/ls: can't open cache '/etc/ld.so.cache'" and of course remote listings fail ??. but what has /etc/ld.so.cache got to do with this what does this mean ??. this look

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