Re: Debian 2.0 Question

1998-04-30 Thread Stephen Carpenter
you knowsince I have started using linux...I think my system as crashed probably about 6 times give or take... most all fo them were hardware! Once I had exactly the problem you describe...my system was running... doing "its thing" and power went out (while I wasn't home) then came on again 2 d

Re: Debian 2.0 Question

1998-04-30 Thread Michael Acklin
At 10:58 AM 4/30/98 -0400, you wrote: > >I hate crashes/...had one too many myself > I did want to clear one thing up. It wasn't Debian that crashed. I had a power off/on that caused the crash. Apparently, sendmail was delivering a message right in the middle of the power spike and to

Re: Debian 2.0 Question

1998-04-30 Thread aqy6633
> The question I have is looking at the /binary-i386 Disk section, there > all > the files and 2 I am not sure about. This is resc1440tecra.bin and > drv1440tecra.bin. What exactly is the "tecra"? Do I need it for installing > Debian 2.0? I checked the list archives and couldn't find anythin

RE: Debian 2.0 Question

1998-04-30 Thread Mark Ciciretti
The Tecra files are for the Toshiba Tecra series of laptops. I'm not really sure what is the difference between them and thee standard boot disks. You don't need to do a clean install. I just downloaded the hamm base packages and used dpkg to upgrade. Look at http://www.gate.net/~storm/FAQ/libc

Debian 2.0 Question

1998-04-30 Thread Michael Acklin
Hello Everyone, I have been using Debian 1.31 for some time now, but had a bad crash last Monday and was going to go ahead and upgrade to Debian 2.0 from the Frozen Distribution. I know I am pre-mature but, thought this was a good time, seeing how my system is hosed as it is. I do have ba

Re: Another Debian 2.0 Question - GMT

1998-04-15 Thread Bob Hilliard
"Oliver Elphick" wrote: > Use tzconfig to set your timezone. > > Then set your clock right with date. > > Finally, use hwclock --hctosys --utc to set your hardware clock to the > current Universal time. If you want to use local zone time instead of GMT (for instance if your machine is dua

Re: Another Debian 2.0 Question - GMT

1998-04-15 Thread Oliver Elphick
Carroll Kong wrote: > Okay... this is getting semi-annoying, I do not know why my clock >automagically changes back about 4 hours behind.. maybe 5. My local clock i >s >fine, it worked fine in Debian 1.3R6, but after installing Debian 2.0 >(upgrading), it changed into some odd ti

Another Debian 2.0 Question - GMT

1998-04-15 Thread Carroll Kong
Okay... this is getting semi-annoying, I do not know why my clock automagically changes back about 4 hours behind.. maybe 5. My local clock is fine, it worked fine in Debian 1.3R6, but after installing Debian 2.0 (upgrading), it changed into some odd time. I think it has something to do w