Kernel SCSI for Adaptec 1505

1999-12-09 Thread Bill Leach
First, while subscribed to a number of debian lists, I am not currently subscribed to debian-user so please reply to me or cc me. Thank you. I have tried to build (yet another new kernel) for a machine that has the now usual pri/sec ide and a new Adaptec 1505 scsi card. The card is recognized b

Re: Can't boot from hard disk

1999-08-08 Thread Bill Leach
Well since you are "grasping at straws"... 1. You did _run_ lilo after changing /etc/lilo.conf, yes? 2. What does rdev /boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36 give you? (although your "root=/dev/hda1" should over-ride) 3. Should you have the argument "compact" in your lilo.conf? 4. You don't have one of thos

Re: How does one activate sound on Slink

1999-08-08 Thread Bill Leach
This is a case where you most definitely want to read the HOW-TOs! The normal distribution kernels are compiled without sound support. The reasons are probably multiple, such as smaller size but in addition sound hardware is so "non-standard" that it is probably counter productive to even try to di

Re: [Debian: Install] In relation to Debian FAQ 9.4

1999-08-08 Thread Bill Leach
I have NOT used dpkg-split but looking at the man page (man dpkg-split)... You probably want to create a directory (as root): mkdir /var/lib/dpkg/parts Copy the part files from the floppies to this location. If there are MSDOS floppies and you already have mtools then "cd /var/lib/dpkg/parts" fol

Re: [Debian: XFree86] Minimal requirements

1999-08-07 Thread Bill Leach
Hi Michelle; I don't believe that Linux (any distribution) and XFree will both fit on your ZIP disk. You can not install X without "graphic card dependencies". That is, to display X sessions on your computer there must be an xserver that "knows how" to speak to your graphics hardware. OTOH, you

Re: a quick scsi question

1999-08-05 Thread Bill Leach
While thinking in terms of absorbing is probably not too bad an idea, it is also misleading. The terminating resistors do indeed absorb energy (as does any shunting resistance). The SCSI bus terminating resistance is the same as the "Thin-net" coaxial cable ethernet termination. The "problem" is

Re: Potato

1999-07-28 Thread Bill Leach
I have been using potato for many months on a couple of machines but unfortunately they have NOT been upgraded since the perl changes. The machines have NOT crashed even once in many months of operation. One has a 2.2.5, another a 2.2.6, and yet another a 2.2.10 kernel. On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at

Re: apt-get: upgrade one package to particular version?

1999-07-23 Thread Bill Leach
I too am woefully ignorant of apt... You should not need however to put on hold any package installed using dpkg if the package that was obtained is a later release than listed in the available. I have done this nearly countless times without ever using hold and no problem has ever come up. On

Re: kernel panic while mounting root fs

1999-07-23 Thread Bill Leach
Andrew; I suppose that my first thought would be to BIOS differences... Have you already checked for "memory holes" and "shadow memory"? What is the size difference between the two kernels? While I am ignorant of the majority of the differences between 2.0- and 2.2- kernels is there any chance t

Re: Diald auth problem & documentation

1999-07-22 Thread Bill Leach
The reason that you should not remove the "auth" option in the ppp/options file is that any and every upgrade will overwrite your changes. The "proper" location for the "noauth" entry is in the /etc/ppp/peers/ provider (or whatever name you are using for the particular provider with whom you are t

Re: Setting up Debian with sound

1999-07-22 Thread Bill Leach
Someone has posted a sequence of steps to use the build a kernel and in looking them over they do appear correct however... Install the kernel build package called "kernel-package" (in slink it is debian/dists/slink/main/binary-i386/misc/kernel-package_6.05.deb for the PC). This package is THE w

Re: Lynx Problems

1999-07-20 Thread Bill Leach
I'm in danger of displaying and attitude here... I use netscape but consider it to be the worst piece of software that I have on any Linux box of mine. GUI web browsers that I have used on Linux are all junk in my opinion! Lynx OTOH is a "typical" UNIX program. I have never seen Lynx crash, han

Re: 3rd Call for help - Lost network card after Potato Upgrade

1999-07-18 Thread Bill Leach
Hi Doug; I would suggest that you do through the debian-user and debian-devel message archive lists (ie: on debian.org). You have probably "been hit" by the "perl problem". An "apt-get upgrade" may or may not (at this point) bring things to a "sane" point. Those of us that are using "potato"

Re: poff quesition.....

1999-07-18 Thread Bill Leach
Yes; but /usr/local/bin should precede /usr/bin and /bin. On Sat, Jul 17, 1999 at 02:49:29PM -0600, David Karlin wrote: > > Better write your own poff version, which does the stuff you want and > > then calls poff and place it into /usr/local/bin. > > > > If you change poff directly, the changes

Re: PPPuzzles

1999-07-18 Thread Bill Leach
This is true but also please try to appreciate the nature and the magnitude of the problem. Almost every distribution of Linux (and for that matter UNIX) have critical differences in the fine details of how certain tasks are accomplished. There is almost NO task that has only one "right" way to

Re: Mail prgs (exim)

1999-07-17 Thread Bill Leach
Well, that is because exim (nor sendmail, smail, etc.) does not "do" POP2/3 (or IMAP). The MTAs (exim, etc.) use SMTP or the UNIX pipe to process mail. To pick up mail from an ISP when you are an "intermittent" connection calls for a protocol such as POP and that function is supplied by another

Re: Procmail and Pine

1999-07-17 Thread Bill Leach
If you are using exim you can edit /etc/exim.conf and insert: In the "TRANSPORTS CONFIGURATION" section: procmail_pipe driver = pipe command = "/usr/bin/procmail -d ${local_part}" In the "DIRECTORS CONFIGURATION" section: procmail: driver = localuser transport = procmail_pipe I _believe_

Re: Re-installation

1999-07-10 Thread Bill Leach
Hi Max; Happy to hear that you got things working. I can tell you that I have certainly "turned the air blue" a few times while trying to do something with Linux/Unix (mostly with Unix come to think of it). One of the biggest and most frustrating things that you will likely experience in the Lin

Re: unable to install - new user

1999-07-09 Thread Bill Leach
Read the installation HOWTOs! One suggestion that I can think of is that there are machines with BIOS related problems. The installation HOWTO tells you about some BIOS setting that might cause problems. Note that some of these problem may only affect some kernel versions and configurations. Al

Re: automagic ftp sessions?

1999-07-08 Thread Bill Leach
As usual, there is more than one way to do things in Unix/Linux... Have you looked at cron? (man cron) crontab -l lists any current cron job schedules and crontab -e allows you to edit the crontab (cron table). Basically, you would write a script to do the ftp operation, mark the script as exec

Re: Thanks

1999-07-07 Thread Bill Leach
Hi Max; Yes, if you want to use /dev/hda5 as the /usr directory then you must choose to initialize "another partition" during the installation otherwise all of the files normally destined for /usr (quite a few) will be copied to /usr on the root filesystem. If you were to later initialize /dev/hd

Re: Why is Windows faster ?

1999-07-07 Thread Bill Leach
No flames to you:-) My personal experience differs from yours. However, recognize that X is a network GUI as opposed to Windowz which is an "integral" GUI. Even on a single workstation X is running as a client/server model. Essentially every keystroke, mouse event, screen draw action, etc. m

Re: Basic networking

1999-07-06 Thread Bill Leach
I have purchased several "hub kits" at 100Mb that sold for the same price as 10Mb kits (same number of ports/same brand). I suspect that from a manufacturing standpoint that the 10Meg stuff is "obsolete". OTOH I still agree with you in that there is no point in paying a premium for a 100Meg hub

Re: win98 and samba

1999-07-06 Thread Bill Leach
Chris; I "upgraded" a machine and installed a new win98 on my network. No special action on the Linux side was required. I suppose that I should say NO action of any kind was required on the Linux side of things (the new machine had been defined before it was added). I do use encrypted passwords

Re: debian-user split

1999-07-06 Thread Bill Leach
Hi George! Been awhile! Nice to see that you are still around and still providing the wonderful, thoughtful and kind assistance that I remember from the past! As a "contrary" comment... IF newbie question could be directed to a "newbie group" then I believe that the suggestion would be useful.

Re: host info missing

1999-07-06 Thread Bill Leach
Peter; Don't know what is going on with your machines but (at least) two of my potato based machine DO have the host information present for logins from remote machines. On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 04:29:15PM +1200, Peter Dobcsanyi wrote: > Hi, > > After I moved from 'slink' to 'potato' I have notice

Re: E-mail for dummies - part 2

1999-07-05 Thread Bill Leach
Exim does permit header manipulations including rewrite.

Re: [off topic] Mail with no destination?

1998-05-19 Thread Bill Leach
But Art, what I am talking about is a message with _NO_ headers even so much as hinting at the _destination_ for the message. Fetchmail, errored out (rightfully so as far as I am concerned) because is was presented with a message that had no destination! I say 'rightfully so' since it is pretty ob

[off topic] Mail with no destination?

1998-05-17 Thread Bill Leach
I had my first 'fetchmail failure'. Fetchmail error-ed out when retrieving mail from my ISP night before last. The fetchmail error was something along the lines of "no valid domain name for sender". Upon starting netscape and configuring it to POP mail from my ISP, I let netscape pull down the e

Re: Fwd: Re: dselect oddities

1998-05-17 Thread Bill Leach
Steve, it is not unreasonable to want dselect (or apt) to be configurable such that you can choose to have it not do anything that you do not explicitely request it to do. I have maintained a partial mirror of debian for quite some time now and still would find it handy if dselect were to have a m

Re: dselect oddities

1998-05-17 Thread Bill Leach
Manjo; I am interpreting what you are saying as meaning that _every time_ I run dselect, I have to choose hold (=) to prevent dselect from upgrading automagically. Now since I KNOW that this is not correct, ie: I frequently run dselect and I do not 'rechoose' hold to prevent updating what I aske

Re: Problem with ppp-2.3.3-5 and authentication

1998-05-08 Thread Bill Leach
me of your system. I don't think that there is any interaction between PAP or CHAP and your account password (as in /etc/passwd). On Thu, May 07, 1998 at 04:17:11PM +1100, James Whitwell wrote: > On 6/5/98 1:18 AM Bill Leach wrote: > >My question would be, if Mr. Whitwell'

Re: Supressing duplicate email

1998-05-08 Thread Bill Leach
There are several. Be aware that there is a condition where you can loose mail using the 'supress duplicate email' scripts (mentioned in the man pages for procmail IIRC). On Thu, May 07, 1998 at 11:21:23AM -0700, Mike Schmitz wrote: > Does anyone have a procmail recipe to supress duplicate email?

Re: Install problem - kernel problems with Adaptec 2740 EISA card

1998-05-08 Thread Bill Leach
I had essentially the same symptoms with an Adaptec 2840 (I believe that is the correct model number). I did try a kernel compiled with only the AIC7XXX SCSI support and had no change in symptom. I tried the 1.3.1 disks and the hamm disks (the aic7xxx only kernel disk was tried only with the hamm

Re: how to set up headless machine?

1998-05-06 Thread Bill Leach
Of course the machine's own ROMs determine if it can even boot without a keyboard (that is not AFAIK not a Linux issue). Given that you can boot without a keyboard, then all you have to do is set up to run a 'getty' type daemon on the serial port. Amiga computers (m68k) for example will boot wit

Re: compiling kernel

1998-05-05 Thread Bill Leach
It is in the package 'bin86' On Tue, May 05, 1998 at 08:36:53PM +0200, Christian Herold wrote: > Hi! > > I've got a problem concerning Debian 1.3.1: > > I wanted to compile the kernel (2.0.9) and while making zImage, the > following error occured: "as86 not found" > Could you please explain me

Re: Compiled new Kernel now I can't boot

1998-05-05 Thread Bill Leach
Hi Keith; I don't remember the 'mapping' for the device numbers now but I think that 03:01 is the first partition on the first IDE drive. Is that really where your root partition is located? If not, then you can patch the correct boot device/partition into the kernel with the 'rdev' command. If

Re: Internet from Windows/NT thru Linux

1998-05-05 Thread Bill Leach
he logical location for the additional rules. If not, I'd rather like to know why not as well as where they should be placed. On Wed, May 06, 1998 at 12:11:14AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Tue, May 05, 1998 at 09:44:56AM -0400, Bill Leach wrote: > > The file '/etc/init.d/

Re: Internet from Windows/NT thru Linux

1998-05-05 Thread Bill Leach
Correction... I have not found any reference to a configuration tool that would work on my system! I did try 'dotfile ipfwadm' a couple of time but it did not work for me and I have not yet attempted to find out why not. On Tue, May 05, 1998 at 08:01:00AM -0600, Rick Macdonald wro

Re: recompiling kernel

1998-05-05 Thread Bill Leach
Hi Gerald; Though I noticed your original posting I did not then comment for it being too much of a 'blind leading the blind' situation. What I did notice is that the lines you quoted: On Tue, May 05, 1998 at 12:25:40AM -0700, G. Crimp wrote: [snip] > if hash encaps 2> /dev/null; then \ > obj

Re: x-fer /home to new drive?!

1998-05-05 Thread Bill Leach
This should be relatively easy... Partition the drive with fdisk (cfdisk or whatever) under linux. 'fdisk /dev/sda' probably You might want to think about putting a swap partition on this new drive also. It _should_ be a noticable improvement if you swap much. You probably do not do a great d

Re: Netmeeting via Linux

1998-05-05 Thread Bill Leach
You have to have a kernel compiled with IP Forwarding and Masquerading enabled (the default for most kernels is _disabled_). Then configure ipfwadm (in /etc/init.d/netbase), see man 8 ipfwadm. On Tue, May 05, 1998 at 12:14:25PM +0800, Paul Guidera wrote: > Can anyone please point me in the right

Re: Problem with ppp-2.3.3-5 and authentication

1998-05-05 Thread Bill Leach
Well Art don't feel too silly, what you said is essentially correct (except for the chatscript stuff of course). The ppp protocol does not itself have a 'host/user' concept, it is a peer to peer protocol. In practice there typically are differences when PAP or CHAP are involved but again the diff

Re: Internet from Windows/NT thru Linux

1998-05-05 Thread Bill Leach
The file '/etc/init.d/netbase' has the commands for setting up you IP-Masquerading. The defaults that I have seen are always to deny. I have looked and not found any reference to a configuration tool so I just added the necessary commands directly to the file. In any event, check what you current

Re: crt1.o problem

1998-05-05 Thread Bill Leach
I show crt1.o in '/usr/lib' and in '/usr/i486-linuxlibc/'. and: bash-2.01$ dpkg -S crt1.o libc5-altdev: /usr/i486-linuxlibc1/lib/crt1.o libc6-dev: /usr/lib/crt1.o (deleted lines where 'crt1.o' was a substring) On Tue, May 05, 1998 at 06:27:20AM +0700, Michael Acklin wrote: > Hello, > > I

Re: non-free software

1998-04-02 Thread Bill Leach
I am more than just a little amazed at parts of this thread... The 'Official Debian' position is not only clear it is also the ONLY rational possition given the terms of Debian's own license. Encouraging CD producers to review the licenses in non-free and make their own decisions is sane. As far

Re: sdram and linux

1998-03-30 Thread Bill Leach
It sounds a lot like memory that is not fast enough (or not enough wait states). It might also be some sort of "addressing error" that does not show up in Win. Also, did you tell lilo that you have more than 64M of memory? -- best, -bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EM

Re: kernel-package instructions questions

1998-03-30 Thread Bill Leach
No, follow the kernel-package instructions (though I think that your doing a make dep won't actually hurt anything, you'll just be doing something manually that make-kpkg clean will do anyway). -- best, -bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Hi im Sandra

1998-03-29 Thread Bill Leach
s all a lot of trouble (and expense) for the ISP but they are doing it. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Sun, 29 Mar 1998, Bill Leach wrote: > > : In addition, I have personally received many messages from AOL > : concerning abuse reports and while I can not prove the assertions, it

Re: libc6-dev dependencies

1998-03-29 Thread Bill Leach
Someone else will correct me if I have not really understood this correctly. As I understand it, the issue is that the kernel header files are pretty volatile but that the overwhelming majority of applications written deal with pretty 'standard' kernel functions. The header files were 'breaking'

Re: Hi im Sandra

1998-03-29 Thread Bill Leach
Let me start by saying that I have no particular love for AOL. AOL has proven to be a real PITA for me several times (including necessitating my putting together a Windoz box to access one of their accounts for business purposes). However, having said that, I believe that AOL is a 'responsible' I

Re: .xsession

1998-03-29 Thread Bill Leach
I'm sure I dont' understand your question... > 2) Where can I look for documantation about customizing the X > windows (not neccesarily the window manager) ? > It seems to me that most of the documantation is about the > instalation of Xfree86 and the window manager customization. fvwm2 i

Re: missing /usr/X11R6/lib/i486-linuxaout libs

1998-03-29 Thread Bill Leach
Maybe you just need to remove the symlinks. I notice that my /usr/X11R6/lib/i486-linuxaout directory is empty (hamm). Randy Edwards wrote: > >When it rains, it pours! :-) > >Does anyone know what package contains the various libraries found > in /usr/X11R6/lib/i486-linuxaout? I'm missi

Re: Installing Mouse Driver

1998-03-29 Thread Bill Leach
After you do the 'insmod' then do o a 'cat /proc/modules' and you should see an entry like: psaux 11 which indicate that the mouse module is indeed loaded and known to the kernel. For gpm to work you need either: /dev/psaux (or /dev/mouse and a link from /dev/mouse to /d

Re: netstd_3.03 problem, KDE problem

1998-03-29 Thread Bill Leach
The 'normal' default for dpkg is "--force-overwrite". This is disabled in hamm (frozen) currently to make detection of just the sort of error that you encounted easier to find. Check the bug list and report if it is not already there. You can use dpkg --install --force-overwrite or you can go t

Re: Installing Mouse Driver

1998-03-29 Thread Bill Leach
John is probably right (insmod psaux). Where exactly did the 'device in use' message show up? -- best, -bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] from a 1996 Micro$loth ad campaign: "The less you know about computers the more you want Micro

Re: help ?

1998-03-29 Thread Bill Leach
I think that you need the file 'lmemroot.bin' to do the installation (see the intallation text files). Also, please turn off your 'html' mail feature. > Regis Hautière wrote: > > My system(386 with 6Mo of RAM) stop during the installation from the > rescue disk after the floppy drive detection.

Re: Installing Mouse Driver

1998-03-29 Thread Bill Leach
You are probably using debian version 1.3 or earlier and have a ps2 style mouse. Your message is not clear to me but... If you move the mouse when in a console, does a mouse curson appear on the screen? Where did the error message you listed come from? If you received that message when X-Window

Re: EXIM Help

1998-03-29 Thread Bill Leach
Did you turn off fetchmail's rewrite option? Also you can tell exim: sender_unqualified_hosts = localhost in it's configuration file (see the fetchmail FAQ) -- best, -bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] from a 1996 Micro$loth ad campai

Re: Missing X file only required for version 332

1998-03-26 Thread Bill Leach
> bash: /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA: unable to exec > cannot find file or directory That sounds like it is a bash error report and not an error reported by XF86_SVGA. I am not sure why you are not getting a better message though it might have some to do with the amount of indirection involved in sta

Re: Autoup script is dangerous?

1998-03-25 Thread Bill Leach
As usual YMMV but yes Autoup.sh is safe to run on a running machine. Personnally, I would suggest that you do 'shut everything down' since replacing something as critical as libc might be a bit 'chancy' while you have the possibility of tasks being launched. Janos Bujtar wrote: > > Hello ! > >

Re: install troubles continue

1998-03-25 Thread Bill Leach
Thanks to Nathan and Scott for the correct information. Though I have used both zImage and bzImage kernels I had forgotten the comments (re bzImage). I also hope that my comments did not cause anyone a problem. The offset mentioned is just a (once handy anyway) means of putting a kernel on a dis

Re: Missing packages in hamm

1998-03-25 Thread Bill Leach
Humm, I don't see xlib6_ at all. Many of the packages that are 'missing' can be found in: debian/project/orphaned -- best, -bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] from a 1996 Micro$loth ad campaign: "The less you know about computers the mo

Re: install troubles continue

1998-03-25 Thread Bill Leach
Unless I am misunderstanding something here (easily possible) the only difference between zImage and bzImage kernels is the inclusion of the boot sector code at the beginning of the file. If you use lilo or loadlin then you don't want the bzImage but if you cat or dd the kernel image to a floppy t

Re: xdm, X, fvwm2 : newbie questions

1998-03-25 Thread Bill Leach
I don't even know 'how far back' this was (bo, rexx?) but I do know that at one time, I had to 'kill' gpm to run X and there was a note somewhere in the gpm stuff about the problem. > Really, this has never been a problem for me. The only problem I had with > X11 and a ps2 mouse is related to Star

Re: Win95 as a terminal

1998-03-25 Thread Bill Leach
The short answer is 'yes'. One way would be to set up a ppp link on both the windoz box and the linux box (easy on Linux, don't know about windoz). Basically though, I would guess that if you can tell the Windoz dialer to make a connection without it issuing modem command then it should also be e

Re: minimum reqd. files to run X-win on hamm

1998-03-25 Thread Bill Leach
There are probably better ways to do this (so I'll be watching for other answers too) but you can just do a 'more /var/lib/dpkg/available' and take a look at the 'depends' and 'recommends' sections for 'xbase' and the appropriate 'xserver'. You can also just run dselect. Make sure that it is a 'c

Re: xdm, X, fvwm2 : newbie questions

1998-03-25 Thread Bill Leach
With a ps2 style mouse, it is either use gpm for both consoles and X or kill gpm to run X (for whatever reasons they will not co-exist on a ps2 style mouse). > I've never seen the advantages of using /dev/gpmdata as I have never > had any problems getting my mouse to work correctly in X11. YMMV >

Re: RESC1440.BIN

1998-03-24 Thread Bill Leach
You are right in that it call for an option in the docs (though the option is 'bs=512'). However, I have pretty much always just specified the 'if', 'of' and they work. -- best, -bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] from a 1996 Micro$lo

Re: RESC1440.BIN

1998-03-24 Thread Bill Leach
Well I just copied resc1440.bin to a floppy last night. Did you use?: dd if=resc1440.bin of=/dev/fd0 Mike Santner wrote: > > I was attempting to install Debian from floppy but the RESC1440.BIN is > too large to fit on a 1.44 disk. This seems to make installation > impossible. Am I doing someth

Re: more or less Newbies?

1998-03-23 Thread Bill Leach
The 'bug' mentioned in 'more' when used with man pages is IMHO not a bug. More does 'back-scroll' when viewing man pages because it is not possible to 'back-scroll' a pipe. 'Less' does not 'show' this characteristic behaviour of pipes because less creates its' own buffer containing the entire con

Re: Attn: Newbies Re: Random "Broken Pipe"

1998-03-23 Thread Bill Leach
I think that it is mostly historical (just about every Unix system since about 1970 has had 'more'). There are some other reasons that are now at least mostly not applicable. For example, 'more' will work on a printing terminal but I believe that 'less' will not. There might be other VDTs that c

Re: Mutt 0.89.1-4 [hamm]

1998-03-21 Thread Bill Leach
Did you look on a NON-US mirror site? The pgp stuff can not be posted on U.S. based sites because the U.S. Govt. is paranoid that somehow the U.S. defense department will be destroyed if a cryptographic system (available worldwide) is imported into the U.S. and then exported. Norbert Veber wrote

Samba, Passwords & PAM -- Help (hamm)

1998-03-21 Thread Bill Leach
Need help. I set up Samba to let me network a Windoz 3.11 box (yuck) with my main debian Linux machine: Pentium 48MB Kernel version 2.0.30 smbd Version 1.9.16p11 Passwords do not seem to work. If I set /etc/samb.conf so that the various services are 'public' then those services are available and

Re: newbie setup of ppp Thanks connected (network unreachable)

1998-03-09 Thread Bill Leach
Ok, I'm sure we can work through this... Your /etc/nsswitch.conf file probably needs to have something like this (this is from the hamm distribution but I believe that bo is similar): # /etc/nsswitch.conf # # Example configuration of GNU Name Service Switch functionality. # Information about this f

Re: Mirror problem!

1998-03-09 Thread Bill Leach
I don't think that what you are getting is exactly a bug in mirror. While not certain about this, I believe that it is a problem experienced by running into the maximum number of ftp users on the mirror's source site. -- best, -bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PR

Re: New web page: Debian Resources

1998-03-09 Thread Bill Leach
Chris, nice job! re: http://schwarz.developer.debian.org/ -- best, -bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] from a 1996 Micro$loth ad campaign: "The less you know about computers the more you want Micro$oft!" See! They do get some

Re: Upgrade...

1998-03-09 Thread Bill Leach
Yes they are related. Look at the autoup.sh script or the Libc5 -> Libc6 upgrade HOWTO. -- best, -bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] from a 1996 Micro$loth ad campaign: "The less you know about computers the more you want Micro$oft!"

Re: newbie setup of ppp

1998-03-09 Thread Bill Leach
Please everyone! The advice to use minicom or seyon is of course good. Recognize however that with at least some ISPs that use CHAP, you can be mislead by the results that you see with a term program. The problem is that some ISPs are monitoring the port such that a carriage return (or newline)

Re: Moved harddisk

1998-03-04 Thread Bill Leach
Yes, the first part of what you have done should be correct for a floppy boot system. The entries in /etc/fstab do HAVE to reference the correct device/partitions. If you are using lilo on the boot floppy then that has to be corrected for the new location also. Hunter H Marshall wrote: > > I h

Re: crt1.c

1998-03-04 Thread Bill Leach
This is just a bit of guessing here. It sounds like your messages have to do with trying to compile crt1.o. However, there are lots of other possibilties. It could be that the makefile uses command/syntax not recognized by GNUmake Do you know what the function of crt1.o is? It is possible that

Re: dpkg thinks my pentium is an i486 ?

1998-03-03 Thread Bill Leach
I'm not so sure that it doesn't. That is certainly well within the capabilities of make itself... Joost Kooij wrote: > > On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, joost witteveen wrote: > > [A very interesting and informative expose, thanks Joost!] > > As it works now (as I understand) the rules makefile effectivel

Re: 80M Thanks, and new question :)

1998-03-03 Thread Bill Leach
If you have successfully run autoup.sh then you need to run dselect (though do read the upgrade howto's, etc.). Autoup.sh is designed to get you to the point where deselect CAN do the upgrade. One of the problems is that with the libc5 --> libc6 upgrade many of the things that dselect/dpkg rely u

Re: Problem

1998-03-03 Thread Bill Leach
Unless I am hopelessly dense (a distinct possibility) the 1024 cylinder 'limit' is a BIOS/ROM specific issue and that there are now motherboards with BIOS/ROMs that no longer impose that limit (and that this situation has existed for a long enough period of time that virtually all newer machines wi

Re: LI instead of LILO:

1998-03-03 Thread Bill Leach
I don't remember the specific meaning of lilo stopping at LI either but as mentioned it is explained in the LILO HOWTO. Answering (at least partially) the question that I think that you are asking... You probably DO NOT need to reinstall. The problem is likely just a lilo configuration problem a

Re: I need help

1998-03-03 Thread Bill Leach
I presume that you installed the 'bo' or stable release (ver 1.3.1) and that you installed close to the latest packages... ppp-on and ppp-off were replaced with /usr/bin/pon and /usr/bin/poff. Have you determined if your ISP uses PAP or CHAP? Do you have to login with a 'username' or 'account' an

Re: disk partitions (part 3) ... :D

1998-03-03 Thread Bill Leach
Hi Helmut; I am not really much of an expert in this sort of problem but would like to see if I can help you to have a little better understanding of what is going on with your system (as best as I understand anyway)... The ROM portion of DOS loads and executes the mbr, including accessing the di

Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-03-03 Thread Bill Leach
Well on my hamm system they ARE the same file (hard link): bash-2.01$ ls -li /sbin/mke2fs 19716 -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 17116 Jan 29 12:56 /sbin/mke2fs bash-2.01$ ls -li /sbin/mkfs.ext2 19716 -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 17116 Jan 29 12:56 /sbin/mkfs.ext2 Bob Hilliard wrote: > > I have

Re: 80 MB ram in debian system

1998-03-02 Thread Bill Leach
>From the xconf menu: CONFIG_MAX_16M This is for some buggy motherboards which cannot properly deal with the memory above 16M. If you have more than 16MB of RAM and experience weird problems, you might want to try Y, everyone else says N. Note for machines with more that (sic) 64MB of RAM: in ord

Re: Help with ftp

1998-03-02 Thread Bill Leach
In ftp: mget * However, if you are running Linux on anything then I strongly suggest that you get one of the mirror programs so that dates and symlink are preserved. mget * will copy symlinks by copying the files. So, for example the 6 meg+ kernel source packages will appear multiple times in you

Re: Thanks :)

1998-03-02 Thread Bill Leach
Pine is clearly one of the better documented programs in the world of computing. If you press the '?' key from almost anywhere other than when in 'compose' then pine gives you help. As Remco mentioned the 'h' command is the one that you want to toggle between 'all headers' and 'normal headers'.

Re: Activate Lilo

1998-03-02 Thread Bill Leach
FIRST--READ the Linux-Win95 HOWTOs!! I do have, nor have I ever had Win95 on any machine that I own or control however... When you re-installed Win95, it appears that Win95 rewrote the mbr (Master Boot Record) on your hard disk. This means that the code that lilo installed there was 'blown away'

Re: kernel-source-2.0.33

1998-03-02 Thread Bill Leach
I don't know the answer to that one but one possibility is that the package was present but that the 'Packages' had not yet been replaced. I did not look at the time stamps so I have no idea if that could possibly have been the problem but only that during 'archive maintenance' the various 'Packag

Re: kernel-source-2.0.33

1998-03-01 Thread Bill Leach
For the 'bo' distribution (1.3.1r6) look in: ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/bo-updates/ For hamm look in: ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/hamm/hamm/binary-all/devel/ or: ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/hamm/hamm/binary-i386/devel/ or for that matter: ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/hamm/hamm/bina

Re: Bounced mail from debian-user list (?)

1998-03-01 Thread Bill Leach
Thanks for your posting!! I also just now received a bunch of 'returned mail messages' for messages that I have posted to the debian-users list and have already been sent to my mail account from debian-users. In my case the specific postings for which the 'returned' messages were sent were posted

Re: .deb installation

1998-03-01 Thread Bill Leach
This really should be: dpkg -i /filename1.deb ... /filenameX.deb (or cd to first). Ben Pfaff wrote: > >How can i install the both packages in Linux with the other hard disk >partition mounted or how can install the packages from floppies? > > dpkg -i FILENAME1.deb FILENAME2.deb > > --

Re: trouble with the boot-block..

1998-03-01 Thread Bill Leach
> All this makes sense, of course. What I don't understand is > how something got written to the MBR and why my floppy drive > is ignored now. To clear my SCSI drives 1 and 3, I'll have to > do a low-level format. >From an earlier message, I gathered that you DID tell the installation program to

Re: 2.0.33 kernel and libc6 dependancies

1998-02-27 Thread Bill Leach
Hummm, I have not tried that yet but it should work. When I do a dpkg --status libc6-dev it shows the dependency as kernel-source-2.0.32 (>= 2.0.32-2) so your 2.0.33 should meet that requirement. Damir J. Naden wrote: > > Hi, all -- > > I just recompiled my own version of 2.0.33 kernel, based

Re: Memory Usage Reports

1998-02-27 Thread Bill Leach
This certainly isn't any sort of answer to your question but does anyone know of hand if Linux frees shared code (libraries, maybe fonts) as soon as there is no code using it or does it wait until the memory is actually needed). i did look through some of the loader code and discussions about Linu

Re: Bad blocks

1998-02-27 Thread Bill Leach
Normally you would boot from a rescue floppy for such maintenance activities and mount your filesystem read only. I haven't had to do this in a long time but it also seems to me that you can boot to single user and remount root as read only. FizzyPop wrote: > > I keep getting {DriveReady

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