lilo again

If I may I will give some excerpts of "Running Linux" This is from the /etc/lilo.conf section of the book: ... If you give a partitiondevice name (such as /dev/hda2) instead of a drive device, LILO will be installed as a secondary boot loader on the named partition. (Debian users should always d

Lilo

Does anyone have any idea why Matt Welsh in his book "Running Linux" suggests not putting Lilo on the master partition of the boot disk?

Segmentation Fault

I have the slink version of debian installed an a second hard drive and it was working quite well. At the start of December I recompiled the kernel as I had added a SCSI device to my system and as the kernel was compiling I got an error "Segmentation Fault." These messages are becoming increasing

Printer Trouble

I am having problems getting my printer to print. I am using lprng and magicfilter. The printer is an HP722c and I know from the How-To that is only partially supported. The trouble is that when I issue a lpr I get a message that says the message couldn't be sent. I can't remember the exact syn

Sound Card Problem

My system is an old P5-100 with 48 MB RAM and a pnp modem, pnp on the motherboard CS4232 sound card (this is disabled in WIN 95), and an pnp AWE64 Sound Blaster. The trouble I am having is that pnpdump is not seeing the Sound Blaster. On a friends machine (almost the same except no no onboard sou

Handling raw files

I have figured out how to get the raw tar.gz files for the dpkg package. How do I know where to put these files once I get them ungzipped and untarred? Is there a way for my system to do that automatically? (I know that is what dselect is for but it is currently broke)

Re: dpkg problem

Ok, two choices: 1) Open up /var/lib/dpkg/status, and find the package entries for libc6 and dpkg, then give the full entry (all fields for that package) for each one. 2) Try getting the slink _and_ potato dpkg .deb's, then use dpkg-deb to unpack them so you can try to get a working dpkg.

Re: dpkg problem

Unfortunately I cannot do anything in dpkg other than get the help listings. All I get is the segmentation faults. Ben Collins wrote: > On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 03:57:19PM -0700, Rik Burt wrote: > > In moving from slink to potato I have managed to break dpkg. Whenever I > > run ds

dpkg problem

In moving from slink to potato I have managed to break dpkg. Whenever I run dselect or try to 'force' in dpkg I get a segmentation fault. I believe I have exhausted every man page and all documentation on my system. Does anyone have an idea how I can get dpkg working again at least or at most ma

Dselect Trouble

I am having problems with the apt part of Dselect. I can get it to access an ftp site but as it is updating it gives a segmentation fault in apt update. What gives? I am trying to install the stable (slink) version but I tried the potato version and I had the same problem. When I helped a frie

Motif Software

Where can I find the Motif software. I am aware that it is a commercial product but I don't know where to look for it. I am interested because the Netscape pkg that dselect has requires it for certain versions of netscape.