Re: Scsi errors

1996-09-26 Thread Charles A. Schuman
> > Make sure you have the shortest cable possible, and good termination. > > Other than that, try another scsi cable. > > Tim The SCSI spec for SCSI-III (Specifically, bus rates up to 20 Mhz) state that the total length of the SCSI bus should not exceed 3 metres when using four or less devices

Unidentified subject!

1996-08-22 Thread Charles A. Schuman
On Wed, 21 Aug 1996, Ninoles, Fabien: DGSE wrote: > For myself (I have a look-alike partitions table), I prefer > to boot with a floppy and rerun LILO on my MBR. You will > set it by replacing your boot line by boot=/dev/sda who > will write on your sda MBR, in place of /dev/sda2 who > would wri

#1, make it boot! Engage.

1996-08-21 Thread Charles A. Schuman
This is my original post cas> I've a kernel on the /dev/sda2 partition in the /boot directory, cas> and it's called vmlinuz. My boot partition doesn't seem to be set cas> correctly, because it's not booting /dev/sda2 as root. Instead, it cas> displays "Loading Linux ", then "boot: " and t

Re: Solved: mouse problem (running both gpm and X)

1996-08-19 Thread Charles A. Schuman
On Mon, 19 Aug 1996, Mark Phillips wrote: > You may recall I posted, complaining that I had to kill gpm before I > could get X to run. I solved the problem by changing the mouse device > over to /dev/ttyS0 (whereas before it was /dev/cua0). Now things work > fine! > > Am I right in thinking th

#1, make it boot. Engage.

1996-08-19 Thread Charles A. Schuman
My number one stumbling block with Linux seems to be making it boot. I've a kernel on the /dev/sda2 partition in the /boot directory, and it's called vmlinuz. My boot partition doesn't seem to be set correctly, because it's not booting /dev/sda2 as root. Instead, it displays "Loading Linux ...

Good Times

1996-08-16 Thread Charles A. Schuman
Re: Virus, Internet: Good Times On Fri, 16 Aug 1996, Terry Eck wrote: > I remember reading about this several months ago. It was the opinion > of most people at the time to be just a joke. Anyone know for sure > if it is anything other than a joke? > Terry Either it is an obvious joke or now y

Re: User-friendliness (was: Re: dselect returns error code)

1996-08-16 Thread Charles A. Schuman
Quotes from Heiko R. Selber and Dale Scheetz. > [ Problems with dselect ] > I am slowly approaching the point where I expect a > "general protection violation(TM)" from Debian. > I consider this a bad sign. Debian, compared to the install I have done with Redhat 3.0.3 (Picasso) and 3.0.4 (Rembra