Re: Kernel installation woes on Athlon 1100: "hda: lost interrupt".

2004-05-14 Thread Herbert Xu
-k7 > > and they all get stuck on "hda: lost interrupt" while trying to boot. I > thought any 386 kernel ought to be upward-compatible with an Athlon, > and a k7 ought to be ideally suited for it. Any ideas what's wrong? Try booting with noapic. -- Visit Openswan at h

Re: why must Debian call Taiwan a "Province of China"?

2004-04-07 Thread Herbert Xu
Katipo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But it doesn't stop there. After the Han, > which is the group that make up approx. 46% of the population, Han makes up 92% of the population, not 46%. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert X

Re: Unable to unmount /initrd during startup

2004-04-02 Thread Herbert Xu
ng sid (fully up2date) with the 2.6.4 kernel http://bugs.debian.org/239029 -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: Initrd problems

2003-12-09 Thread Herbert Xu
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 10:23:14AM +1100, Lewis Shobbrook wrote: > > # Examples: > # > # ext2 > # wd io=0x300 > FastTrak.o Try just "FastTrak". -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Initrd problems

2003-12-09 Thread Herbert Xu
unged through what little info I can find and have struck a bit > of an impasse. > > Can anyone offer any advice on how to do this correctly? Please show me the contents of the files that you've modified under /etc/mkinitrd. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.o

Re: kernel 2.4.22 on testing

2003-11-12 Thread Herbert Xu
TK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > network card drivers. I manually tried "insmod via-rhine" but got a > "unsolved symbols" errors. Looking into /boot, the kernel file is You should use modprobe instead of insmod. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://w

Re: kernel image install error

2003-11-11 Thread Herbert Xu
Failed to create initrd image. > > can anyone help with this? ldd is screwed. Does ldd /bin/bash work? If not, please file a bug against libc6. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http:

Re: apt-move and local "obsolete" files

2003-10-25 Thread Herbert Xu
rs-1debian1 optional main/l/lm-sensors- The fourth column must contain the source package name or it won't work. The third column should be a section name but it is optional. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PR

Re: Enable ACPI on kernel-image-2.4.22?

2003-10-21 Thread Herbert Xu
Damien Solley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > #211594). However, when I boot with "acpi=on" as a kernel argument, I > get no ACPI. There is an off-by-one bug that breaks acpi=on. Try acpi=force instead. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Em

Re: diffs between kernel-source-2.4.22 and source of kernel-image-2.4.22?

2003-10-19 Thread Herbert Xu
it is loaded automatically by the initrd image. Unless you did the same with your package that would not happen. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://

Re: diffs between kernel-source-2.4.22 and source of kernel-image-2.4.22?

2003-10-18 Thread Herbert Xu
in a black screen. I can use vga=normal, so I know it You need to compile VESAFB into the kernel. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.a

Re: booting problems after installing lm-sensors kernel modules from sid / can't mount root fs

2003-09-20 Thread Herbert Xu
ime there was some error >> about "unsupported optional features". > > Any idea about this then? It means that your rescue floppy does not support ext3. ext3 filesystems requiring a journal recovery cannot be mounted as ext2. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org

Re: getting the initrd to load

2003-03-04 Thread Herbert Xu
r even ext2/ext3. Check out the MKIMAGE setting in mkinitrd.conf. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To UNSUBS

Re: Problem with kernel 2.4.20

2003-02-27 Thread Herbert Xu
bug in initrd-tools 0.1.37 and 0.1.38. Installing 0.1.39 and regenerating the initrd image should fix the problem. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://

Re: Problem with kernel update

2003-02-26 Thread Herbert Xu
ian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problem with kernel update

2003-02-25 Thread Herbert Xu
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Re: kernel 2.4.20-686 installation

2003-02-01 Thread Herbert Xu
urned an error code > (1) The testing version has been broken for ages and won't be fixed until glibc moves into it. You can work around it by doing apt-get install dash ln -sf dash /bin/sh dpkg --configure dash ln -sf bash /bin/sh -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.deb

Re: initrd -- what exactly is it?

2003-01-31 Thread Herbert Xu
e system. Uncompress it with gunzip before mounting it. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To UNSUBS

Re: How have I misconfigured DHCP?

2003-01-14 Thread Herbert Xu
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Re: Compiling a kernel on an UltraSparc?

2002-12-21 Thread Herbert Xu
red). -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &q

Re: cannot boot OldLinux

2002-12-14 Thread Herbert Xu
On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 12:46:05PM -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > # Needed for debian kernel packages > initrd = /initrd.img This should be in the image section. You need to load initrd.img.old for vmlinuz.old. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: H

Re: shell game

2002-12-07 Thread Herbert Xu
ring > shopt -s nullglob > if [ -n "$(echo /path/to/*.jpg)" ] ; then ># Do stuff because .jpg files exist > fi Here's how you can do it in a POSIX shell: set -- /path/to/*.jpg if [ -e "$1" ]; then # Do stuff because .jpg files exist fi -- Deb

Re: modifying initrd.img

2002-12-05 Thread Herbert Xu
1.23 and regenerate the initrd image: mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd.img-xxx /lib/modules/xxx lilo -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herb

Re: Kernel panic booting woody 2.4.18 "root=301"

2002-11-23 Thread Herbert Xu
the kernel thinks the disk is called, or if it doesn't see it at all. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey

Re: ide-scsi and initrd

2002-11-23 Thread Herbert Xu
David P James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Herbert Xu was roused into action on 2002-11-23 16:11 and wrote: >> David P James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>>options ide-cd ignore=hdb >>>alias scd0 sr_mod >>>alias scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi

Re: ide-scsi and initrd

2002-11-23 Thread Herbert Xu
-scsi is not going to work. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: UNIX shells - Bourne and C

2002-11-10 Thread Herbert Xu
a reference for that, it's from memory which may be > faulty). Please don't spread FUD. I certainly am not aware of any missing features relevant for shell scripts. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Problem with mkinitrd

2002-11-05 Thread Herbert Xu
eed to install the latest bash from unstable. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: Problem with mkinitrd

2002-11-05 Thread Herbert Xu
device What version of initrd-tools are you using? Please show me the content of /etc/fstab and /proc/filesystems. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://g

Re: Enterprise Kernel

2002-10-20 Thread Herbert Xu
tion when it > comes to the enterprise...maybe calling it > kernel-image-2.4.18-868-smp-enterprise or something... The latest -smp kernel in unstable supports up to 4GB. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page:

Re: Fwd: Bug#164498: mkinitrd doesn't seem to create the correct initrd image

2002-10-14 Thread Herbert Xu
9 broke automatic module loading while linuxrc is running... -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: SOLVED: idiosyncratic "ln" not making hard links

2002-10-11 Thread Herbert Xu
e ln on anything will result in that error. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: Text console flicker during kernel load

2002-10-02 Thread Herbert Xu
as well? -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: cramfs: wrong magic, kernel panic

2002-09-30 Thread Herbert Xu
:46 I'm afraid this means that your root fs has been corrupted so it can't be mounted. You may be able to recover it by booting from the resuce disk and perform an fsck on the partition. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} &l

Re: awk segfault on make menuconfig to build kernel

2002-09-23 Thread Herbert Xu
[menuconfig] Error 1 See http://bugs.debian.org/81487/ The quick solution is to use gawk instead of mawk. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.

Re: ReiserFS to EXT3

2002-09-04 Thread Herbert Xu
his. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

Re: FW: kernel source patching

2002-09-02 Thread Herbert Xu
get back to the pristine source from a binary package without downloading the whole thing, download the diff file for that kernel-source package with apt-get --diff-only, and apply it with patch -R. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAI

Re: Help me!! Kernel Panic!!

2002-08-31 Thread Herbert Xu
Jerome Acks Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 11:52:55PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: >> This should not be necessary. In fact, it's probably a bug if your >> box doesn't work without it. > > Is your statement in reference to putti

Re: Help me!! Kernel Panic!!

2002-08-31 Thread Herbert Xu
In fact, it's probably a bug if your box doesn't work without it. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: EXT3 questions

2002-04-30 Thread Herbert Xu
ur then this is a known problem. The only way around it is to use pivot_root. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.

Re: booting problems - new machine, kernel 2.4

2002-04-19 Thread Herbert Xu
bian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why 2.2 kernel instead of 2.4

2002-04-17 Thread Herbert Xu
ion > systems to 2.2.20. 2.2.19 in Debian's stable is just as secure as 2.2.20, please read the changelog. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.a

Re: FW: Kernel identification

2002-04-13 Thread Herbert Xu
has been removed due to the zlib security hole. Just install 2.4.18 instead. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey

Re: traceroute errors

2002-04-12 Thread Herbert Xu
ernel, and UDP checksums (which are also disabled when rtnetlink is unavailable) are optional. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http:/

Re: kernel recompile takes the "work" out of "network"

2002-04-10 Thread Herbert Xu
You can use the de4x5 driver instead. Please mail me if you'd like to help getting it fixed. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au

Re: Upgraded to kernel 2.4.18, and pcmcia cards no longer work.

2002-03-30 Thread Herbert Xu
nd it by putting isapnp into /etc/modules so that it is always loaded. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt --

Re: dosemu: com port problem partially solved

2002-03-21 Thread Herbert Xu
Try running dosemu with -D+a -o file to see what the problem is. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: Pump and Dhclient

2002-03-18 Thread Herbert Xu
nux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: Kernel 2.4, 8 megs of ram and kernel panic

2002-02-16 Thread Herbert Xu
hat's a lot). Yes, but you'll need to setup a custom initrd image. Please refer to mkinitrd.conf(5) for details. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PG

Re: [Re: Kernel 2.4.17 (smp) problems]

2002-02-07 Thread Herbert Xu
> Feb 5 23:14:29 mathura kernel: probable hardware bug: restoring chip > configuration. Try booting with "noapic". -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~h

Re: How to enable EXT3 FS on 2.4

2002-02-04 Thread Herbert Xu
sg but just on console screen. > 2. dmesg contain "cramfs: wrong magic" That's a harmless warning and will go away once mkinitrd starts using pivot_root. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home

Re: How to enable EXT3 FS on 2.4

2002-02-04 Thread Herbert Xu
mkinitrd automatically. > I greped source of lilo and I only see "fstab" in configuration scripts > (liloconfig, lilo_find_mbr) which are not used and will not be affected > by my fstab edit. Try grepping /usr/sbin/mkinitrd. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.

Re: a problem with pcmcia-modules-2.4.17 in sid

2002-02-02 Thread Herbert Xu
lso in package kernel-image-2.4.17-386 This is because the kernel-image package already contains a set of PCMCIA modules. The fact that it's occupying the same namespace as the ones from pcmcia-modules is a bug which will be resolved soon. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.de

Re: How to enable EXT3 FS on 2.4

2002-02-02 Thread Herbert Xu
of course. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: How to enable EXT3 FS on 2.4

2002-02-01 Thread Herbert Xu
une2fs -j -i 0 /dev/hda2 # ... For all EXT2 FS which moves to EXT3 > # cd /etc; mv fstab fstab.old > # sed 's/ext2/ext3/g' fstab mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd.img-2.4.17-686-smp /lib/modules/2.4.17-686-smp lilo > # shutdown -r now -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.o

Re: Upgrade to 2.4.17 Problem

2002-02-01 Thread Herbert Xu
( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: initrd and kernel 2.4.17

2002-01-24 Thread Herbert Xu
is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: trying to run VMwareworkstation 3.0.0-1455..says I have wrong kernel headers

2002-01-05 Thread Herbert Xu
an GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: Unable to compile a bootable kernel, or, how do I make a romfs?

2001-11-08 Thread Herbert Xu
Timothy J. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I never had these problems prior to moving to initrd stuff. 8( So stop using it. Custom kernels do NOT need initrd. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

debian-user@lists.debian.org

2001-10-23 Thread Herbert Xu
Joachim Trinkwitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Gerhard Kroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > README says: >> >>cd /usr/lib >> >>mkdir -p dosemu freedos >> >>ln -s ../freedos dosemu

debian-user@lists.debian.org

2001-10-18 Thread Herbert Xu
an GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: shell script kommands

2001-09-19 Thread Herbert Xu
ere are $i object(s) in array var[]." or you could do #!/bin/sh eval $( sed -n "=;s/\([^']*\)\('*\)/'\1'\"\2\"/gp;$=" | sed -n ':s;N;s/^/var/;s/\n/=/p;n;$s/^/cnt=/p;bs' ) echo "there are $cnt object(s) in

Re: apt-move .exclude file question

2001-09-17 Thread Herbert Xu
layout. That means you need to use the old "section/package" notation. For example, the eyesapplet line should be written as */eyesapplet* or */games/eyesapplet* The next apt-move release will support pools. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu

Re: vmware: kernel-source vs. kernel-headers

2001-09-02 Thread Herbert Xu
compiling the modules for a precompiled kernel image, you should use its corresponding kernel-headers package. Otherwise, you need to go with the kernel source tree where you built your kernel. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <

Re: 2.4.7 kernel boot hangs with "cramfs: wrong magic"

2001-08-16 Thread Herbert Xu
mount -nt proc proc /proc > echo using_dma:0 > /proc/ide/hda/settings > echo using_dma:0 > /proc/ide/hdb/settings > umount -n /proc > EOF -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 2.4.7 kernel boot hangs with "cramfs: wrong magic"

2001-08-16 Thread Herbert Xu
t -n /proc EOF -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: 2.4.7 kernel boot hangs with "cramfs: wrong magic"

2001-08-15 Thread Herbert Xu
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 09:11:04PM -0400, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > > > I tried the -386 kernel package. I no longer get "cramfs: wrong magic". Please give 2.4.8 a go. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PR

Re: 2.4.7 kernel boot hangs with "cramfs: wrong magic"

2001-08-14 Thread Herbert Xu
On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 10:46:12PM -0400, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > > The disk light is off. In that case please try the -386 kernel package. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.

Re: 2.4.7 kernel boot hangs with "cramfs: wrong magic"

2001-08-12 Thread Herbert Xu
If it is, you need to turn DMA off on your IDE disks. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: dosemu mystery

2001-08-05 Thread Herbert Xu
the tmp directory for you. The reason you can't write to it is because it's readonly (see dosemu.conf). -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: dosemu

2001-06-24 Thread Herbert Xu
either dos or xdos. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: Tmpfs questions

2001-06-22 Thread Herbert Xu
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 01:15:15PM -0600, Stefan Srdic wrote: > > Just another question, would it be more efficient to use a ramfs instead of a > tmpfs to mount /tmp onto? No. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Tmpfs questions

2001-06-22 Thread Herbert Xu
n GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: Grub: Does it allow for modularized kernel fs

2001-06-11 Thread Herbert Xu
der to run vgscan/vgchange. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: Kernel images

2001-05-20 Thread Herbert Xu
thin a week. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: apt-move question

2001-05-15 Thread Herbert Xu
e them, too? Set up sources.list entries for them and list them in APTSITES. After that you can do apt-move get to tell apt-move about these packages. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://g

Re: Creating an initrd

2001-05-09 Thread Herbert Xu
kes initrd images. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: Creating an initrd

2001-05-09 Thread Herbert Xu
ut! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: trouble booting 2.4.4

2001-05-07 Thread Herbert Xu
ons on how it can be improved? -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: make-kpkg broken?

2001-04-22 Thread Herbert Xu
an GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: Woody, 2.4 Kernels, Ramdisks and ReiserFS

2001-04-20 Thread Herbert Xu
rnel-image package) > compiled as a module? Yes. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: high characters in file names change in new potato vs. current slink

2000-08-10 Thread Herbert Xu
Daniel Barclay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can someone tell me what I need to do to fix the following problem? ls --show-control-chars -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apa

Re: Fwd: Bug#61223 acknowledged by developer (Unresolved symbols after setting up kernel-image)

2000-03-29 Thread Herbert Xu
can answer that one. > * Compact and regular kernels are the same, except the former has fewer > drivers They are configured differently, thus the checksums which are part of the symbols are different. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>

Re: telnetd can't get ttys

1999-11-25 Thread Herbert Xu
blem with the version in potato (from pidentd). -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: telnetd can't get ttys

1999-11-25 Thread Herbert Xu
ebian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: telnetd can't get ttys

1999-11-25 Thread Herbert Xu
lnetd requires you to have Unix98 ptys or it won't work as you've observed. Tradition ptys must be operated as root. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: ash - options to `echo' command

1999-10-21 Thread Herbert Xu
On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 04:50:38PM -0500, Gregory T. Norris wrote: > > I'm afraid that I'm not familiar with the SuS. Could you give me a URL > for this? http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/toc.htm -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email:

Re: ash - options to `echo' command

1999-10-21 Thread Herbert Xu
, I guess I should start filing `bashism' bug-reports against scripts > which start out `#! /bin/sh' and make use of `echo -n' or `echo -e'? Yes, options are not supported under the SuS. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>

video card driver (fwd)

1997-06-05 Thread Herbert Xu
t! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://greathan.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://greathan.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: xterm color

1997-01-08 Thread Herbert Xu
you don't want it for the world. -- Debian GNU/Linux 1.2 is out! { http://www.debian.org/ } Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> { http://greathan.apana.org.au/~herbert/ } PGP Key: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or any other key sites -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mai

Re: deliver and biff and comsat

1996-12-11 Thread Herbert Xu
ing like that. Just install biff and uncomment the comsat line in /etc/inetd.conf and you're on your way. -- Debian GNU/Linux 1.1 is out! { http://www.debian.org/ } Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> { http://greathan.apana.org.au/~herbert/ } PGP Key: [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Please do not use Qt (fwd)

1996-11-24 Thread Herbert Xu
be a first to put a wrapper > around Qt calls, if you so desired, either. I don't mind individual programs such as nethack using Qt. What I dislike is people putting in a lot of time and effort developping things like kde on top of a non-free toolkit like Qt when there are viable free

Re: Please do not use Qt (fwd)

1996-11-24 Thread Herbert Xu
ink of what would happen if you weren't allowed to release modified versions of X and that company which has taken over X decided to make X non-free. -- Debian GNU/Linux 1.1 is out! { http://www.debian.org/ } Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> { http://greathan.ap

Re: Please do not use Qt (fwd)

1996-11-22 Thread Herbert Xu
forward this to the cdrom producers/Debian people. Oh come on, who cares if you can distribute them on CD's, when they can stop releasing any new versions under this license any time they feel like it? Let's simply forget about QT. -- Debian GNU/Linux 1.1 is out! { http://www.debian.or

Re: xv requires libtiff3

1996-11-18 Thread Herbert Xu
gt; Am I looking in the wrong place or something? > > Did you have a look at ftp.sgi.com? > /sgi/fax/source/tiff-v3.4-tar.gz should work. Please don't. Get the proper deb file from ftp.debian.org. -- Debian GNU/Linux 1.1 is out! { http://www.debian.org/ } Emai

Re: X11 bashing

1996-11-18 Thread Herbert Xu
Qt forbids anybody from modifying their source code. So what if they changed their license when they've gained enough momentum? -- Debian GNU/Linux 1.1 is out! { http://www.debian.org/ } Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> { http://greathan.apana.org.au/~herbert/ } PGP K

Re: X is painful

1996-11-18 Thread Herbert Xu
k. I agree that this is very diffcult. But the Debian developers should do their best at getting Debian programs to cooperate. -- Debian GNU/Linux 1.1 is out! { http://www.debian.org/ } Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> { http://greathan.apana.org.au/~herbert/ } PGP Key:

Re: X is painful + GPLed solution

1996-11-18 Thread Herbert Xu
on-free software (in particular, they do not allow any modified version of the library to be distributed). -- Debian GNU/Linux 1.1 is out! { http://www.debian.org/ } Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> { http://greathan.apana.org.au/~herbert/ } PGP Key: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or

Re: XFree86 3.2 Initial Reports

1996-11-18 Thread Herbert Xu
le to customise things if they want to. But if you don't have a pretty default, people will simply say that Debian looks ugly! -- Debian GNU/Linux 1.1 is out! { http://www.debian.org/ } Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> { http://greathan.apana.org.au/~herbert/

Re: xconsole stops logging

1996-11-13 Thread Herbert Xu
it. Right now I have a simple C program that resembles tail but reopens the fifo when the other side reopens it. This in addition to a simple script and xterm replaces the functionality of xconsole nicely. -- Debian GNU/Linux 1.1 is out! { http://www.debian.org/ } Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>

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