etch installer hanging on packages

Hi all, We've been using preseeds with etch since December for testing. Recently, something has broken these installs. I suspect the recent key switch on the repositories. The installer goes through all steps and does everything correctly, getting network, grabbing preseed.cfg, partitionin

Re: SMBCLIENT PROBLEM

available again. > > How can I restore connections without restarting? > As root you can # umount /net/XXX then smbmount will work fine for the next mount. As someone else has noted, the potato versions work much better (though I still get this problem occasionally). Kevin -- Dr K

Re: UK Freeserve Connection

' > # modeminit > ' ' ATZ > # ispnumber > OK-AT-OK ATDT08450796699 > # ispconnect > CONNECT \d\c > # prelogin > > #ispname > island-phase.fsnet.co.uk > # isppassword > my correct password in this line > # postlogin > __ Hope the above helps. Kevin -- Dr Kevin Scott Philips Corporate Intellectual Property Cross Oak Lane, Redhill Tel: +44 1293 815281 Surrey RH1 5HA Fax: +44 1293 815060 UKE-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using Computer Modern PS fonts with LaTeX?

oduces weird output, nothing like what TeX produces. > > Ron Seems normal to me, using pdflatex included in tetex 1.0-5 from potato. Kevin -- Dr Kevin Scott Philips Corporate Intellectual Property Cross Oak Lane, Redhill Tel: +44 1293 815281 Surrey RH1 5HA

Problems with smbmount

I'm using smbmount-2.1.x (from smbfsx 2.0.3-1) in a slink system with kernel 2.2.9 and some potato stuff. (smbfs is compiled as a module, and CONFIG_SMB_WIN95 is not set.) I use it to mount shares from our NT domain, which generally works fine. However, I have a couple of problems: 1. Sometimes

More hard disk woes (repeat)

the better option given its age - Pentium 100 vintage). Does anyone have any idea whether the above points to controller or disk failure, or know how I could determine which was at fault? Thanks for any pointers, Kevin -- Dr Kevin Scott Philips Electronics UK Limited Patents and Trade Marks

Re: Easy X exit manager....

quite general. It contains: === #!/bin/sh # # Script called from tkmgr. It kills xdm and runs a remote X session # on a given machine. When this terminates, xdm is restarted. # if [ $# != 1 ] then echo "Usage: $0 m

More hard disk woes

any idea whether the above points to controller or disk failure, or know how I could determine which was at fault? Thanks for any pointers, Kevin -- Dr Kevin Scott Philips Electronics UK Limited Patents and Trade Marks Department Tel: +44 1293 815281 Cross Oak Lane, Redhill Fax

Problems with 2.0 upgrade (hardware?)

n. If anyone has come across these problems I'd like to know, especially if they have some solutions other than a complete re-install. I'd also like to know how to do something to those block special files! Thanks for any pointers, Kevin Dr Kevin Scott Philips Electronics UK Limited Paten

Failing to print using lpr and nprint

I'm trying to set up lpr to print to a remote netware printer. Following the instructions in /usr/doc/HOWTO/Printing-HOWTO.gz I added the following entry to /etc/printcap: jeremy:\ :lp=/dev/null:sh:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/jeremy:\ :if=/var/spool/lpd/nprint-jeremy:\ :l

Re: R.I.P

ldn't quite believe that it could be designed this way, but you never know - it would take too much time to track it down more precisely! If anyone else has had this occur it would be interesting. Kevin Dr Kevin Scott Philips Electronics UK Limited Patents and Trade Marks Department Tel

man gives segmentation fault

her puzzled, so any ideas gratefully received! Thanks, Kevin Dr Kevin Scott Philips Electronics UK Limited Patents and Trade Marks Department Tel: +44 1293 815281 Cross Oak Lane, Redhill Fax: +44 1293 815060 Surrey RH1 5HA, UK E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

tk script to reboot etc from xdm login screen

=== #!/bin/sh # # Script called from tkmgr. It kills xdm and runs a remote X session # on a given machine. When this terminates, xdm is restarted. # if [ $# != 1 ] then echo "Usage: $0 machine" else /etc/init.d/xdm stop w

Re: turning off computer

Kevin Dr Kevin Scott Cordless Communications Group Philips Research LaboratoriesTel: +44 1293 815281 Cross Oak Lane, Redhill Fax: +44 1293 815500 Surrey RH1 5HA, UK E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Colour inkjet printers

and the HP 820CXi and 870CXi. I presume the main issue is how well Ghostscript manages to drive the printers, and whether all the driver options can be accessed without running under Windows. Thanks for any comments, Kevin Dr Kevin Scott Cordless Communications Group Philips Research

kernel-image-2.0.23_0 in Debian 1.1.14

that anyone else has encountered, or do I need to dig deeper myself? Thanks for any pointers, Kevin Dr Kevin Scott Cordless Communications Group Philips Research LaboratoriesTel: +44 1293 815281 Cross Oak Lane, Redhill Fax: +44 1293 815000 Surrey RH1 5HA, UK