Re: kernel question

2001-03-27 Thread Albrecht Frank
"JACKSON, DEAN" wrote: > > Help my hard drive has sustained very large physical damage. it boots sort > of. as I use a multi processor system I would like to keep my kernel (it was > a pain to configure) > what is the best way of backing up my kernel? and restoring it! > > Dean Jackson > TeleWare

Re: I want to StartX Manually

2001-03-27 Thread Albrecht Frank
Robert Cymbala wrote: > > Dan wrote: > > To Whom It May Concern, > > > > > > I want to start the XServer Manually and not on boot. How do I do > > this. I have looked in the lilo.conf, xfree86.cong, and the inetd.cong > > thinking it was in there, but couldnt find anything. Where is it lo

PPPoE broken with kernel 2.4

2001-03-20 Thread Albrecht Frank
Hello debian users, I realize, that pppoe doesn't work with kernel 2.4. It works fine with kernel 2.2.18pre21 without any changes in the software. Are there any changes necessary in the configs? (other than /etc/ipmasq/rules) My firewall box depends on pppoe and I wanted to upgrade to kernel 2.4 b

Re: Getting rid of Control-M in a file?

2001-03-18 Thread Albrecht Frank
Lars Jensen wrote: > > How do I get rid of Control-M at the end of each line in a dos > text file imported to Debian? > > Thanks for your help, > Lars. > Hi Lars, man recode Greetings Albrecht

Re: can't resolve names, ipchains or dns problem

2001-03-18 Thread Albrecht Frank
Nick wrote: > > Hi list, > > I have an internal network setup behind linux on a single static IP > I am having problem reolving names but can ping IP's numericaly. > > I set up dhcp to allocate 192.168.1.0/24 throught the internal network > Then I setup ipchains very basic, just to get it all go

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V101 #71

2001-03-18 Thread Albrecht Frank
"Raymond L. Zarling" wrote: > > > As you can see, it is the same as everything else; the pre-removal script > (or post-installation script, as the case may be) keeps failing. > > I have also managed to manually download the xserver-xfree86...deb file, and > got it to unpack using apt-get unpack,

Re: Can't install (or remove) xserver-xfree86

2001-03-17 Thread Albrecht Frank
"Raymond L. Zarling" wrote: > > I am trying to install X 4.0 on my (newly installed) debian 2.2.18-pre21-ide > system. I've got it partially-working after creating the missing > [..] > And if I try to remove it, again using dpkg: > > # dpkg remove xserver-xfree86 [..] > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/

Re: Locked up X-windows

2001-03-16 Thread Albrecht Frank
L R Dirienzo Jr wrote: > > Hello all. > > I locked up X-Windows. I had run Red Hat 6.0 on a PC for about a year, and > the install was no problem. I decided to go to debian and the install was > fine, but X-Windows would not run, and it failed because the /dev/mouse file > did not exist. I jus

Re: kernel 2.2.17 boot disk prob! (HELP!)

2000-07-04 Thread Albrecht Frank
Sven Burgener wrote: > > Hi all > > Is there really nobody helping me with this?! :(( > I *need* help, so please... > > TIA > Sven > > On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 11:44:05PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > > Hi debs > > > > I am unable to create a boot disk for my potato box. I just apt-got > > kerne

Re: can't remove "directories"

2000-07-04 Thread Albrecht Frank
Pollywog wrote: [...] > yet. How do I remove the remaining directory with the name "??\?(" ? [...] > -- > Andrew Try it with `find . -name ?\* -exec rm -rf {} \;` But first of all, make copy of your home directory to /tmp and test it! Greetings Albrecht

Re: X-Server configuration

2000-07-04 Thread Albrecht Frank
> Marcel Karras wrote: > > I've a problem configuring the XF86-System or better the X-Desktop. > All works well except the graphic. If I configure the standart > VGA-Server for my Voodoo3-Graphic-Card then I'll only see the desktop > in the resolution 320x204. (written in the config-file) > I've g

Re: problems with modules

2000-07-02 Thread Albrecht Frank
Larry Elmore wrote: > > I just installed 'Woody' and am having odd problems with a couple of > modules. The 'lp' module claims that options passed to it in 'modules.conf' > are bad, yet they are exactly the same options I previously used with > 'Slink': > > options lp io=0x378 irq=7 > >

Re: nfs error

2000-06-28 Thread Albrecht Frank
"Suresh Kumar.R" wrote: > > Hi, > > I am using potato. When I do a simple nfs mount on a client I get the > following error message. > > sahya mountd[228]: authenticated mount request from nila.ece.cet.in:914 > for /mnt (/) > Jun 28 21:39:27 sahya mountd[228]: getfh failed: Operation not permitt

Probs printing PS files with lprng/magicfilter/gs on a NEC P7 (parport)

2000-06-27 Thread Albrecht Frank
Hi out there, I've got Problems to print PostScript files with lprng/magicfilter/gs on a NEC P7 connected to the parallel port. Hardware info: :~ > cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 1 model name : Pentium Pro stepping

Re: SCSI-controller not detected

2000-06-27 Thread Albrecht Frank
> Marcel Karras wrote: > > All but the SCSI-Adapter is correctly detected. I've got an > AdvancePeripherals-Hostadapter. (2931 U2W HOME) The program tries to > > °SYM53C895 (adapter itself) -> UW/U2W, Port number:6300, IRQ level: > 10, Host SCSI-ID: 7 > °Pioneer CD-ROM DR-U11.01 -> U-SCSI, SCSI-

Re: can't install kernel/modules from cd-rom

2000-06-27 Thread Albrecht Frank
Curt Salada wrote: > > Thanks for your help, John. Taking your advice, here's what I found: > > My 2 hard drives appear in the dmesg list as hda and hdb, floppies as fd0 > and fd1. The CD-ROM doesn't appear specifically, but I do get the following > SCSI-related errors in dmesg: > > NCR 53c406