Re: Perl/io/dpkg-ftp and start-stop-daemon (again(again)).

1997-03-07 Thread Randy Dees
I am getting this same problem - I got it after pointing dselect from 1.2.2 at unstable. My fix is to reinstall from base disks in unstable; but I certainly understand not wanting to do this. I was ready to reinstall my system anyhow - but would like to know the answer too. > When at

Re: Perhaps someone can help me

1997-02-28 Thread Randy Dees
> I'm looking for the pgp encryption facility. > I've install all if the debian packages I can and > my system seems void of pgp. > > Where can I find it ? Look on one of the international mirrors listed from www.debian.org. It is not available from the US sites. Randy

CD read problems installing with NEC t130

1997-02-24 Thread Randy Dees
Friends in the Debian world; I am having problems installing Debian 1.2.3 from my new CD. First, I could not write the resq disk at all and get a bootable floppy. I FTP'd the installation set and wrote floppys with rawrite2 that work; now I am having trouble getting the installation to work.

Initial Installation

1997-02-18 Thread Randy Dees
I am having some trouble writing the resq1440 disk to upgrade to Debian 1.2.3 from my existing Slackware system. I did read the installation manual, and got the message about disks - but now I have gone through a box or more of brand new Sony disks (not all from the same box) and am having a hard

Re: How do access hda, fd0, etc. ?

1997-01-15 Thread Randy Dees
> > In Debian linux, I have certian files that I down-loaded via. a terminal > > emulator in dos, and it is on my dos partition, which is hda. How do I > > access this drive and my flopply drive fd0 in linux? > > You need to mount these partitions. You can use some empty > directory to use as mou