Problems with defrag

1997-06-20 Thread Giuliano Procida
Try this: # e2defrag /dev/mydisk I know, the defrags are not named exactly consistently with the fscks. Ideally defrag should be renamed and replaced by a script that says "use defrag.foo for foo file systems"; the script could then be upgraded to use file(1) if there was interest. Giuliano. -

Re: Problems after update from debian 1.1.3 to 1.2.

1997-03-21 Thread Giuliano Procida
[xrdb/cpp problems] Take a look at http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/5812.html which has a workaround that you can use until this bug is fixed. Giuliano Procida.

Re: Locate

1997-03-09 Thread Giuliano Procida
up.sh and it is this script that is supposed to run updatedb for the first time and then delete itself. The current install disks for Debian installation have a bug which leaves the setup.sh script unexecutable; you may find it still exists on your system with mode 0. Does this explain anything in your (Pete's) case? Giuliano Procida.

Re: Diskless install

1997-03-05 Thread Giuliano Procida
Hi. Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > I just installed Debian on my 486 and thought I'd try to do it > without disks. I got as far as the point were it wanted to install > the kernel, but couldn't go any further. Is there any reason why > there is no drivers.tgz and perhaps kernel.tgz? There is actually

Fresh Debian on UMSDOS?

1997-03-05 Thread Giuliano Procida
I will send details. You will need to download 9Mbyte of files. Giuliano Procida. A note on VFAT. The long file names used by Linux will be provided completely separately from those under Win95 which uses a different technique. Thus long file names on one system will be a mess on the other. Th

Umsdos?

1997-02-19 Thread Giuliano Procida
Gertjan Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ah, you make it sound so easy ;-) I can't seem to get this right. I Nor could I for a long time! > copy the kernel to the file linux and run ./rdev.sh. This script tries > to run "rdev /mnt/linux /dev/ram0" - and there is no /dev/ram0. Why does > the

Umsdos support?

1997-02-18 Thread Giuliano Procida
Hi. > I've posted this question here before and didn't receive a single > reply. Hopefully I'm more lucky this time.. I want to install Debian > to an Umsdos partition. The installation disks don't seem to allow > me to do that. That's right. > - Does Debian not support installing to umsdos