Re: "Failed to assemble all arrays" during initramfs

2010-04-03 Thread J R
Hi mdadm error messages could be misleading. First you should check if array is correctly assembled (/proc/mdstat). If so I think some filesystem/device mapper/lvm/crypto modules are missing from your initramfs. Do you encrypt your array or use lvm? -- J

Hal and xorg

2009-05-14 Thread J R
What is the status of hal and xorg integration? Are package maintainers going to make hal rekomended package or leave it as is (depends)? On BTS* #515214 is marked wontfix, but wiki page** says it might be changed. JR * http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=515214 ** http://wiki.debian

Unidentified subject!

2001-04-16 Thread J R
Hello and good day. I am having a hard time installing my drivers for the internet on my Debian linux os. I am new to this all, and was wondering what a step by step guide would be to installing the internet drivers and the Xwindows. I have a @home At&T cable modem with my Windows 98. Is the

Re: how to use the X chooser?

1997-07-01 Thread J . R . Blaakmeer
On Mon, 30 Jun 1997 15:41:22 -0400 , Joey Hess wrote: > I'm trying to set up a machine as an xterm, so I want it to run the chooser > on bootup and then xdm... the Xaccess file seems to indicate that if you > make it contain just this line, it'll work: > > * CHOOSER BROADCAST > > But if I mak

Re: How to change default font

1997-06-30 Thread J . R . Blaakmeer
On Sun, 29 Jun 1997 18:45:48 -0500 , Gary L. Dolan wrote: > I just dl'ed 1.3, and the default font on bootup needs to be changed. I barely > recall that when I installed 1.2, there was a config question about the fonts, > but I have no idea how or where to make the change in 1.3. The setfont progr

Re: [Q] How to create a FTP only account.. for...

1997-06-29 Thread J . R . Blaakmeer
Please do not Cc: to my e-mail address. I will only get the same message twice. On Sun, 29 Jun 1997 15:50:25 -0400 (EDT) , System Account wrote: > > Ok this is what i have setup right now > >***/etc/passwd*** > miller:passwd:5000:5000:Miller:/ftp/./web/miller:/bin/true > > the /bin/true

Re: [Q] How to create a FTP only account.. for...

1997-06-28 Thread J . R . Blaakmeer
> > Hi all Hi > regarding this subject... I have used /bin/true for ftp-only > accounts but i need to go one step farther. I have a /home/webusers > directory where i have user accounts who with web space only. Right now > they ftp in and put there html files there. But the thing is they

Re: Multiple kernels & /System.map

1997-06-21 Thread J . R . Blaakmeer
On Fri, 20 Jun 1997 15:36:17 -0700 , Stephen Zander wrote: > > Is there some way to pass an alternate name from /System.map (or > /boot/System.map) to the kernel at boot? I'm mucking with a > custom kernel but want to leave the 2.0.30 image safely intact. > I've setup lilo.confto recognise /vmlin

Elvis problems in X (was: Re: No Termcap)

1997-06-16 Thread J . R . Blaakmeer
On Mon, 16 Jun 1997 21:22:55 +0200 (MET DST) , Santiago Vila Doncel wrote: > > Debian uses ncurses instead of termcap, which is considered "obsolete". > Just replacing -ltermcap by -lncurses will do the trick. I have a question about elvis, rxvt and termcap. I think the Debian package of elvis st

Re: ftp only user account?

1997-06-05 Thread J . R . Blaakmeer
On Wed, 4 Jun 1997 19:45:15 -0400 , Joey Hess wrote: > How can I set up a user account that can only ftp in, and is restricted to > their home directory in a chroot environment? Add the user to /etc/passwd and put it in a group called 'ftponly' (or make up a name, but this is the easiest to rememb

Re: Help me to build a fileserver!!!

1997-06-03 Thread J . R . Blaakmeer
On Tue, 03 Jun 1997 13:36:03 PDT , Eliezer Figueroa Puello wrote: > I heard that Linux can to use the IPX protocol. I think that maybe I > can to configure Linux to emulate a novell network server and then > configure the windows 95 computers as novell network clients. I'm > writing this let

Re: 2 ethernet cards and loadlin

1997-06-03 Thread J . R . Blaakmeer
On 03 Jun 97 16:40:49 -0500 , Chris Brown wrote: > > I am trying to get my machine to use 2 3c509 ethernet cards > booting from loadlin. Looking at the loadlin docs I think the > command line should be: > > "loadlin vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 ether=10,300,eth0 ether=11,310,eth1 ro" > > eth0

Re: bind output in /var/adm/debug

1997-05-27 Thread J . R . Blaakmeer
On Tue, 27 May 1997 03:30:24 -0700 (PDT) , Douglas L Stewart wrote: > I'm seeing a lot of warnings in /var/adm/debug because NS and MX records > are pointing to CNAME's. Is this not allowed? If it's not, could someone > point me to a reference that says that it's not, so I can point it out to > t

Re: fixes for delgroup

1997-05-15 Thread J . R . Blaakmeer
On Wed, 14 May 1997, George Bonser wrote: > I fixed a couple of things in /usr/sbin/delgroup (but did not save the > file first so I could make a diff). The changes are minor and at the top > of the file. > > was: > > if [ -f /etc/gtmp]; > > changed to: > > if [-f /etc/gtmp]; then You're rig

Re: problems with update announcements

1997-04-28 Thread J . R . Goncalves
> > Hi, > > > > The announcements are made when the packages are uploaded to the > > Incoming directory. They stay there until they are processed. > > This can take from some hours to days. If you wait a few days > > you will find them at ftp.debian.org after they had been mirrored > > from maste

Re: problems with update announcements

1997-04-28 Thread J . R . Goncalves
> > When I checked out ftp.debian.org I found that not only was that version > not there but that the only version on the site seemed to be in > experimental. > > This seems to indicate that there is something wrong with the announce > list as it is in a lot of cases not worth reading. > > Comme

Multiple copies of the same message from Rick Jones in debian-user.

1997-04-28 Thread J . R . Goncalves
Hi, Is anyone else getting repeated messages like the one below from Rick Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>? I have received these messages in the past 48 hours. I think there is a problem with the debian-user list or with Rick's address. Thanks. Ramos. > On Sat, 26 Apr 1997, Rick Jones wrote: > > >

Re: kernel 2.1.3x?

1997-04-22 Thread J . R . Goncalves
> Anyone having much luck with 2.1.3x? > I'm running 2.1.29 and it's fine, except that the nfs module doesn't insert. > But no luck with 2.1.33 or 2.1.35; both have lots of missing symbols > on all the hardware drivers, probably relating to PNP support. > The same is true here. I can run 2.1.29 b

Re: No automatic PST->PDT time change?

1997-04-08 Thread J . R . Goncalves
> I'm up-to-date with "unstable", and my clock magically changed over night. > I don't have this problem! I'm in MDT now. > > RickM... My clock changed from GMT to BST (British Summer Time), but when I use mail to send messages the Date field on the message still shows the time in GMT. The s

Re: xemacs and emacs

1997-04-08 Thread J . R . Goncalves
The maintainers of these two packages reached an agreement on how to make possible to install both without any conflicts. They uploaded corrected versions to master.debian.org/Incoming but for some reason they were not transferred to Bo. I downloaded these two packages from Incoming and installed