Re: upgrading from stable to woody

Goswin Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Ted Goodridge, Jr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The woody alpha install images have that nasty loop bug with the base > > pkg. > > Ted > > Still? > > Sid/unstable too? You can install till your in that loop and then > replace the faulty deb w

Re: upgrading from stable to woody

"Ted Goodridge, Jr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I know this has been asked before, but what are , in general terms, the > way of upgrading an entire system to woody? I have to install stable > first (on an alpha...due to woody install glitches), Hmm, what's wrong with the woody installation?

Re: building a bootable iso woody image using floppy images

"Ted Goodridge, Jr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How can I build a bootable cd image with the 4 *.bin files for alpha... > (root, rescue, drivers 1 and 2). I want to do a net install but have > had trouble with floppies... The short answer is "isomarkboot". Check out the script from debian-cd:

Re: Preparing debian install for alpha (multia) on an i386?

Cormac McGuinness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I recently got a DEC Multia and would like to install debian on it. > Is there any way I can install (or at least prepare) a hard disk > with all the necessary alpha binaries while the hard disk is sitting > connected to an i386 box ? You can prepar

Re: parallel zip and scsi-kontroller conflict

Joerg Plate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > a scsi-controller and a harddisk are recognized as "/dev/sda". > If I try to use the zip-drive "insmod ppa" fails (maybe > because it wants to be "/dev/sda", too). I had similar problems when having the zip driver as a module. After compiling it into the

Maintaining a Debian mirror via "floppy net"

Hi, I have a PC at home running Debian with no connection to the net. To keep it up-to-date, i have a mirror of ftp.debian.org. It is quite some work to update it; currently I do it by taking my Packages file, making sort and diff and grep till I have the new Packages, get them via wget, put them

Re: adduser and user names containing 8 bits chars

On Thu, 21 Aug 1997 20:52:34 +0200, Laurent Bonnaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >i'm using the latest adduser package from bo-updates and i found that >it does not accept user names containing 8 bits chars. I'm talking >about a user's full name (first name + family name), not short name >(login na

Re: man gives segmentation fault

On Fri, 8 Aug 1997 05:50:27 +1000 (EST), you wrote: >> > I am running Debian 1.3.1, and recently trying to run man gives a >> > segmentation fault when run as a normal user (but not when run as root): >> > >> > % man man >> > Segmentation fault >> >> This happened to me too. I did not try any

Re: Mouse and mounting problems

oon... >I've also tried to mount my floppy drive. I wrote the following at the >command line: >mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy >and I got the message: >mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device >How do I cure this one? This *should* work. Maybe the disk was not ok, or you have two drives? -- Falk Hueffner [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: X

d in XF86Config. Press ctrl-alt-keypad+ and - to cycle between them. Bye, Falk -- Falk Hueffner [EMAIL PROTECTED]