On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 11:03:01PM +, Dougie Nisbet wrote:
>
> Most things I try say that the GLIBC 2.2 package library or whatever is not
> installed. I try various permitations of apt-cache search and apt-get install
> and reinstall and fix to try get things working again, but most things,
I've installed potato a few times on this particular PC, and for various
reasons, I wanted to do a clean re-install. I repartitioned and off we went.
Everything went smoothly and I soon had a working system.
I wanted to access reiser filesystems (version 2) created by another linux
distro, so
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 08:50:41AM -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:
> Hello to all!
>
> I am installing potato 2.2r2 from the distribution CDs in a new machine which
> has the 3c905c NIC. After selected the 3c59cx module and complete a minimal
> installation, I can't put the NIC to work. I sear
Hello! its me again!
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 08:50:41AM -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:
> Hello to all!
>
> I am installing potato 2.2r2 from the distribution CDs in a new machine which
> has the 3c905c NIC. After selected the 3c59cx module and complete a minimal
> installation, I can't put t
Hello to all!
I am installing potato 2.2r2 from the distribution CDs in a new machine which
has the 3c905c NIC. After selected the 3c59cx module and complete a minimal
installation, I can't put the NIC to work. I searched in the archives and I
found that this was already a problem with other pe
I just finished installing Potato v. 2.2r3. My motherboard is the Intel
815EEA, and X recognizes neither the onboard video nor my ATI Radeon 64MB
DDR AGP. Am I correct in saying that I have to upgrade to Woody in order to
take advantage of my video card, or can I simply install xFree86 4.1/4.2?
check your logs, everything you find in the directory /var/log, for
system info on what might be wrong. also, check your bios settings
regarding onboard or AGP video. apropos the modem, if it's truly a
winmodem, dump it. it's not your fault. it has to do with proprietary
issues being held back from
I just finished installing Potato v. 2.2r3. My motherboard is the Intel
815EEA, and X recognizes neither the onboard video nor my ATI Radeon 64MB
DDR AGP. Am I correct in saying that I have to upgrade to Woody in order to
take advantage of my video card, or can I simply install xFree86 4.1/4.2?
A
I'm a week or three late replying to this message, but I just thought I'd
put in my two bits on the issue. I don't know if my experience will be of
any help to anyone but I'll do a brain dump nonetheless.
I successfully installed Debian Potato on a Proliant 2500 with a pair of
Compaq Smart 2/P PC
Hello,
I have had two messages in kern.log since installing potato 2.2-r3
yesterday. First, brief background: Gateway Solo 9300 with a 450 Mhz
Pentium, 288 MB RAM, 12 GB IDE hd and IDE CDROM. Phoenix BIOS 16.53.
Windows 98 currently resides on /dev/hda1, but I haven't added it back
to lilo yet.
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 01:17:22PM -0700, Scott Fraser wrote:
> Afternoon folks,
>
> I am in the process of configuring a new Debian server, and have been
> informed that I have to use a SMC (Western Digital 8013 ISA) NIC. We do
> have these NICs running under Red-Hat Linux in-house, but I have
>
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 01:17:22PM -0700, Scott Fraser wrote:
> Afternoon folks,
>
> I am in the process of configuring a new Debian server, and have been
> informed that I have to use a SMC (Western Digital 8013 ISA) NIC. We do
> have these NICs running under Red-Hat Linux in-house, but I have
>
Afternoon folks,
I am in the process of configuring a new Debian server, and have been
informed that I have to use a SMC (Western Digital 8013 ISA) NIC. We do
have these NICs running under Red-Hat Linux in-house, but I have
convinced the powers that be, to let me migrate from RedHat to Debian.
He
I also had the problem listed below.
I tracked the problem to /etc/inittab
there was a temp /etc/inittab tring to run /sbin/termwrap
but I found the real inittab at /etc/inittab.real
just,cp /etc/inittab.real /etc/inittab
I just inst
David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 14:45:40 +0100
[...]
> Quoting Robert Cymbala ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
[...]
> > Just now I did a fresh install of potato (2.2r2) from CD and chose
> > these tasks:
> > [*] Dialup Dialup utilities
> > [*] Laptop
Quoting Robert Cymbala ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> AFTER SEARCHING through about 18 months of debian-user archives and
> not finding a related thread, here's a question that's been on my mind
> looking for a high-level answer.
I don't know about high-level; I can only make some observations.
> Just
Robert Cymbala wrote:
> I don't get it. Why does dselect "want" to install so much, whereas
> the operating-system install (from Rescue Disk boot to the "Have Fun!"
> message) did not?
Dselect installs all standard priority packages by default. The task
system does not (in the version of debian y
AFTER SEARCHING through about 18 months of debian-user archives and
not finding a related thread, here's a question that's been on my mind
looking for a high-level answer.
Just now I did a fresh install of potato (2.2r2) from CD and chose
these tasks:
[*] Dialup Dialup utilities
Thanks, Bob.
When I looked at modconf it indicated that the lp module was now
in the kernel--probably because I followed Sebastiaan and Mike's
suggestions. My next task will be to reboot and see if it stays
there.
Regards,
Doug.
On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 11:39:38AM -0500, Bob Underwood wrote:
>
Doug Hespe wrote:
> Thanks Sebastiaan and Mike: insmod lp.o did the trick.
> My next task will be to work out a way of getting this to happen
> automatically on boot-up, probably in one of the rc scripts.
For kernel modules to load at boot time check out /etc/modules in
man modules. And
Thanks Sebastiaan and Mike: insmod lp.o did the trick.
My next task will be to work out a way of getting this to happen
automatically on boot-up, probably in one of the rc scripts.
regards,
Doug.
On my system, to get around this situation, I installed the paraport modules
during the initial install and used modconf later to add lp.
bob
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Doug Hespe wrote:
>
> I have just installed potato on a machine which happily
> ran slink before. During the install it refused to
> I'm not sure how to recover/restart the install, and don't see a
> troubleshooting section in the fine manual that covers this contingency.
> Running dselect shows a much more detailed package listing than was
> displayed during the install dialogs. Is it possible to run a command
> to run throu
To quote Ken Irving <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
# I'm not sure how to recover/restart the install, and don't see a
# troubleshooting section in the fine manual that covers this
contingency.
# Running dselect shows a much more detailed package listing than was
# displayed during the install dialogs. Is it
This is probably not a bug, but my careless fingers caused the 2.2r2
installation sequence to bail, leaving me at a login prompt. I'm
sending this note in the interest of maybe improving the installation
sequence for other clumsy new* users. (* new to Debian; I've used SuSE
and RedHat for a few
>
> At bootup, if the printer is on, parport detects the
> printer correctly-- see attatched dmesg log-- but when
> I try to cat testfile > /dev/lp0 or lp1, bash complains
> that no such devices exist.
You need the lp module. Do lsmod to see if its loaded. If not try
modprobe. I am assumi
Hi,
perhaps lp.o is compiled in the kernel. In order to print you need (on an
ordinary i386): parport.o parport_pc.o lp.o
Try insmodding there three (in this order) and see what it does.
Hope it helps,
Sebastiaan
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Doug Hespe wrote:
> I have just installed potato on a machin
I have just installed potato on a machine which happily
ran slink before. During the install it refused to
load the lp module---
>Error installing lp module
>/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/lp.o:init_module:Device or resource busy
>Hint: this error can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including
To quote Jon Pennington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
# csj wrote:
# >
# > The first of two questions: Is it OK to specify woody as the apt
source after
# > a fresh potato installation (I just grabbed, as someone suggested,
the 2.88mb
# > floppy install image)? I want to have woody with the least number of
> The first of two questions: Is it OK to specify woody
> as the apt source after a fresh potato installation
I did and it worked fine. The commands (after specifying Woody in
/etc/apt/sources.list) are "apt-get update" and then "apt-get upgrade".
This will only upgrade the packages you currently
csj wrote:
>
> The first of two questions: Is it OK to specify woody as the apt source after
> a fresh potato installation (I just grabbed, as someone suggested, the 2.88mb
> floppy install image)? I want to have woody with the least number of
> downloaded packages.
Sure. I'd recommend changing
The first of two questions: Is it OK to specify woody as the apt source after
a fresh potato installation (I just grabbed, as someone suggested, the 2.88mb
floppy install image)? I want to have woody with the least number of
downloaded packages.
Second question: where is the best place to get t
I have faced the same problem with a fresh installation
with Linux Central binary CD distribution. Downloading
a fresh base system and installing from hard disk made
no difference.
Secondly, the lp module is also not being configured on
doing a Configure of the Installed kernel.
No clues on th
I just installed the base system of potato from the binary-i386 iso
image disk 1. Once it goes through the install of the base system,
I get the following error on boot.
/bin/sh: /sbin/termwrap: No such file or directory
/bin/sh: exec: /sbin/termwrap: cannot execute: No such file or directory
INI
> VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd
>Known problem of linux 2.2.16 and some 2.2.17pre's.
>Update linux to 2.2.17 or even 2.2.18pre.
this newbie wants to know whats name of what I need. have browsed
metallab's potato
list but can't locate the kernels ]
TIA
robert
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd
Known problem of linux 2.2.16 and some 2.2.17pre's.
Update linux to 2.2.17 or even 2.2.18pre.
moritz
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/* Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* http://hp9001.fh-bielefeld.de/~moritz/
* PGP-Key available, encryp
Have installed deb2.2 twice trying to correct the following error:
VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd
This is after the base2.2.gz is loaded and being installed. Have tried
using install from cd
and install from floppys
tia
robert
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i did a fresh format/partition/install of potato from iso/cd install;
after poking around a bit* i found that mysql needed zlib1g-dev
(zlib.h i think) and even though
apt-get check
reported all was lovely, i had to manually
apt-get install zlib1g-dev
anyhow.
is it a bug? is it me?*
Stuart Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Sorry to reply to myself, but I've come to the conclusion after further
> testing that my floppy drive is 100% busted and I'm not going to be able
> to do anything useful off it. I also can't (practically) replace it. I
> do have a fully functioning Red
At 09:45 AM 9/14/00 -0400, you wrote:
Sorry to reply to myself, but I've come to the conclusion after
further
testing that my floppy drive is 100% busted and I'm not going to
be able
to do anything useful off it. I also can't (practically) replace it.
Bugger!
Go buy a
From: Stuart Ballard [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 10:20 AM
To: Anderson, Tim TL33E
Subject: Re: Potato install fails to load ROOT image
"Anderson, Tim TL33E" wrote:
>
> Floppy dri
Sorry to reply to myself, but I've come to the conclusion after
further
testing that my floppy drive is 100% busted and I'm not going to be
able
to do anything useful off it. I also can't (practically) replace it.
I
Floppy drives are about $10 now aren't they?
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 04:41:33PM -0400, Stuart Ballard wrote:
> Sorry to reply to myself, but I've come to the conclusion after further
> testing that my floppy drive is 100% busted and I'm not going to be able
> to do anything useful off it. I also can't (practically) replace it. I
> do have a
Stuart Ballard wrote:
>
> I'm trying to install potato from floppies (onto a laptop that doesn't
> have a CD drive). 100% reliably and repeatably, I get the following
> messages when I insert the ROOT floppy:
[snip]
> I've obtained this exact same error across 3 different root floppies
> (the thir
Julio Merino wrote:
>
> Maybe all your floppies have phisical errors... hey, that could
> happen, it happened to me. Try to buy new floppy disks.
>
> If this don't work, try to clean the floppy drive; get it out of the
> laptop and clean it internally (BE CAREFUL). If this doesn't solve the
> pro
Maybe all your floppies have phisical errors... hey, that could
happen, it happened to me. Try to buy new floppy disks.
If this don't work, try to clean the floppy drive; get it out of the
laptop and clean it internally (BE CAREFUL). If this doesn't solve the
problem, I could say yo to buy a new o
I'm trying to install potato from floppies (onto a laptop that doesn't
have a CD drive). 100% reliably and repeatably, I get the following
messages when I insert the ROOT floppy:
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 799
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 799
invalid c
> Does the simple install as described in Debians HOWTO actually work, or
> wasn't it included in this distribution?
>
I am not sure what exactly do you mean by "Debians HOWTO", but the
installation process that is described on www.debian.org and on the
documentation section of the Debian CDs
Subject: Debian 2.2 Potato install
Date: Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 09:58:46PM +1000
In reply to:Reg
Quoting Reg([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
reg> Does the simple install as described in Debians HOWTO actually work, or
reg> wasn't it included in this distribution?
reg>
reg> I
Does the simple install as described in Debians HOWTO actually work, or
wasn't it included in this distribution?
I have ready every mail in this subscription, I have seen questions on
Zope, apache, squid answered promptly, but this simple question on Debian
has been ignored.
Is this some sort of
At 8:01 AM -0500 20/8/00, John Hasler kindly responded:
Exactly what happens when you start pppd with 'noauth'?
Excuse the laborious detail, I'm feeling my way fairly blindly here...
I have a couple of xterms up for the exercise, su'd as root on both,
with minicom running in the first.
I d
Ross Hamilton writes:
> Everything seems OK at the other end - I get a message: "Entering PP
> session", then notification of my assigned assigned dynamic IP and MTU
> numbers, followed by an encouraging-looking stream of garbage... but
> after a short time the connection drops with a "NO CARRIER"
Hi people,
I decided to repartition my drives and install potato from scratch
using my hot-off-the-press CD set, but am now having problems
negotiating a PPP connection with my ISP under the new configuration.
Issuing "pon", the modem dials out, I/O LEDs flash briefly, then
nothing. Attempts
Hi,
I have been trying to install a copy of Potato, from last Sunday
(July . The install is causing problems - first it gave me a bad
lenght error when unzipping and installing the kernel and drivers
(drivers.tgz). I solved this by copying the CD to a linux partition on
another hard drive (not
Well you're the second person to report seeing this problem.
Stephen Starling wrote:
> Had to use potato because I have an Athlon (tried
> slink, it hangs, did research here and found that the
> kernal was too old). So Potato installs fine up to and
> including "The Moment of Truth"
>
> Then it a
Had to use potato because I have an Athlon (tried
slink, it hangs, did research here and found that the
kernal was too old). So Potato installs fine up to and
including "The Moment of Truth"
Then it asks to set MD5? then Shadow? then root
password?
That's where I set it, it asks to confirm by re
Hi --
I recently installed a machine with debian. I only have one problem
with the install.. I can't ping.. whenever I try to ping:
<3 bleh:~ >ping 127.1
ping: socket: Protocol not supported
traceroute has this error also:
bleh:~# traceroute 127.1
traceroute: icmp socket: Protocol not suppo
On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 12:45:47PM -0700, Chris Baker was only
escaped alone to tell thee:
> sjk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I am having a terrible time trying to get potato to install on a machine
> > with an aic7880 scsi controller. The current rescue.bin hangs at loading
> > sym53c41
sjk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am having a terrible time trying to get potato to install on a
> machine with an aic7880 scsi controller. The current rescue.bin hangs
> at loading sym53c416 - just after the aic78xxx mods. I have tried
> compiling a new kernel with the options listed in the ins
On Tue, 30 May 2000, Ron Stordahl wrote:
> When doing 'Configure Device Driver Modules' under 'misc' I find
>
> "parport - (No description available)"
> "parport_pc - PC-style hardware"
>
>
> Seems likely the later would be the typical parallel port at x'0378' irq 7.
> If so it would
When doing 'Configure Device Driver Modules' under 'misc' I find
"parport - (No description available)"
"parport_pc - PC-style hardware"
Seems likely the later would be the typical parallel port at x'0378' irq 7.
If so it would not be so hard to say so seems to me.
But what is 'parpo
When doing 'Configure Device Driver Modules' under 'misc' I find
"serial- ( no description available)"
Is this likely to be the typical 2 serial ports??? If so seems like it
should say soas it is it leaves me wondering.
Ron
I've downloaded a cd-image of the potato 1st test cycle. Installation goes
ok, but with potato there are tasks instead of profiles. The manual claims
it's still possible to select a profile. I can't find it. Is it a glitch in
the manual or am I doing something wrong?
Harry ten Berge
I am having a terrible time trying to get potato to install on a
machine with an aic7880 scsi controller. The current rescue.bin hangs
at loading sym53c416 - just after the aic78xxx mods. I have tried
compiling a new kernel with the options listed in the install doc -
and the install begins, but 1
On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 03:11:56AM -0700, Ed Slocomb wrote:
>
> If I run out of ways to kill time at work, I'll do what other debian users
> do when they want a thorough X config-- I'll go out on the net and beg users
> of other distros and similar hardware for relevant snippets of their
> XF86Co
On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 08:09:41PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > > Hint: use /dev/gpmdata as your Pointer for X.
> >
> > Why? I've got gpm running to use the mouse on the console, and in
> > my XF86Config the pointer section uses /dev/mouse, which is linked
> > to /dev/psaux. And everythi
> > Hint: use /dev/gpmdata as your Pointer for X.
>
> Why? I've got gpm running to use the mouse on the console, and in
> my XF86Config the pointer section uses /dev/mouse, which is linked
> to /dev/psaux. And everything works just fine. Worked just fine
> when I was running slink, worked just
On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 10:23:07AM -0400, Mental wrote:
> On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 03:11:56AM -0700, Ed Slocomb wrote:
> > I just installed the frozen potato, and the cold spud tried to make me use
> > xf86config to generate my XF86Config file. I outsmarted the icy tuber by
> > hitting ctl-C and th
Hello Jonathan,
On Fri, 12 May 2000, Jonathan Gift wrote:
> Does the install procedure on Potato require you dig up the monitor's
> frequency rate, etc,
Yes it does. You can of course always choose one of the least demanding
modes for the hardware (640x480, 16 colours (in fact this is what
XF8
On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 03:11:56AM -0700, Ed Slocomb wrote:
> I just installed the frozen potato, and the cold spud tried to make me use
> xf86config to generate my XF86Config file. I outsmarted the icy tuber by
> hitting ctl-C and then saying "no" every time it asked me again, and then
> I used t
On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 10:00:47AM +0200, Jonathan Gift wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does the install procedure on Potato require you dig up the monitor's
> frequency rate, etc, or can you just select the resolution an bitmap mode as
> in 1152x864 and 24 bit?
>
I just installed the frozen potato, and the co
Hi,
Does the install procedure on Potato require you dig up the monitor's
frequency rate, etc, or can you just select the resolution an bitmap mode as
in 1152x864 and 24 bit?
Thanks;
Jonathan
lem in the install
software which should be corrected before potato is released? Maybe that
too late but I want to report this in case there is time.
Or is this the wrong place to report this?
By the way this potato install has many of the slink install querks fixed.
Ron
On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Rick Macdonald wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Bruce Sass wrote:
> > the latest Potato boot floppies release. 2.2.11 was just released (last
> > night) and fixes some (all?) of the modconf related problems. There was
> > also an upload of new pcmcia packages a day or two ago (c
On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Bruce Sass wrote:
> 2.2.11 was just released (last night) and fixes some (all?) of the
> modconf related problems. There was also an upload of new pcmcia
> packages a day or two ago (check incoming.debian.org if they are not
> in the ftp archive yet). I'd give bf-2.2.11 a tr
On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Bruce Sass wrote:
> > I couldn't find any work-around so I've just asked on the boot list. I may
> > have to load slink, then just upgrade to potato (and build my own 2.2.14
> > kernel). That should work, shouldn't it? It looks like just the boot
> > floppies are mismatched, w
On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Rick Macdonald wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Bruce Sass wrote:
> > On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Rick Macdonald wrote:
> > > Trying to install potato from scratch on a NEC Versa 4050H (P90MHz),
> > > depmod reports unresolved symbols for all the pcmcia modules. I have
> > > zircom and 3
On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Bruce Sass wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Rick Macdonald wrote:
>
> >
> > Trying to install potato from scratch on a NEC Versa 4050H (P90MHz),
> > depmod reports unresolved symbols for all the pcmcia modules. I have
> > zircom and 3com pcmcia NICs, but I can't get the modules
On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Rick Macdonald wrote:
>
> Trying to install potato from scratch on a NEC Versa 4050H (P90MHz),
> depmod reports unresolved symbols for all the pcmcia modules. I have
> zircom and 3com pcmcia NICs, but I can't get the modules for either to
> load because of this unresolved sym
Trying to install potato from scratch on a NEC Versa 4050H (P90MHz),
depmod reports unresolved symbols for all the pcmcia modules. I have
zircom and 3com pcmcia NICs, but I can't get the modules for either to
load because of this unresolved symbol problem. Without the NIC, I can't
get past the bas
Germano Leichsenring wrote (on 7 Apr 00, at 16:52):
> Hi, did you try this?
>
> update-modules ; depmod -a ; /etc/init.d/pcmcia start
I did the depmod and start--didn't know about update-modules (why
update them? they're brand new) but I'll try it, thanks!
Tony
-- Tony Crawford
-- [EMAIL PROT
Hi, did you try this?
update-modules ; depmod -a ; /etc/init.d/pcmcia start
This might solve -- or might not.
--
Germano Leichsenring
Kobe University
Boy, I sure do pick loser subject lines! (was: Order of installation -
potato/pcmcia.) Second try:
Hi gang!
What am I doing wrong? I copied linux, install.bat, base2_2.tgz,
driver2_2.tgz, loadlin.exe etc. etc. to a DOS partition on my Toshiba
4080 XCDT, then booted from a DOS floppy and ran in
It's not clear to me where you are in the installation process. Given
that your post has been sitting here all day without response, I'd
suggest it would be quicker and easier to restart the installation.
Until you start installing and configuring packages on your system, you
really haven't invest
Howdy,
I'm installing a new PC with Debian potato. Unfortunately when
I was asked to choose between Simple and Advanced installation
I choose Advanced but after seeing the list of possible packages
I changed my mind :-). How can I rerun the installation without
having to reinstall the whole sys
I don't know about the cd, but I had to make a couple of boot disks, a
rescue, boot image, and three driver disks, and the potato install
process used dhcp to configure my network, and did everything else over
the net, it was great.
-Aaron Solochek
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Christian Pernegger
Hello everyone!
I haven't been subscribed to this list for a long time (and I didn't post a
lot even then because I was new to Linux at the same time...)
Anyway, here I am. I've had surprisingly much success with setting up my Slink
box, but the included X-Free doesn't support my new Matrox, SMP
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 03:25:33PM -0500, Jameson Burt wrote:
> Last week I installed potato on a new computer.
> Before the first reboot, I selected one of the category of packages.
> After the first reboot, install let me select more packages, but exited
> prematurely. One possible reason would
Last week I installed potato on a new computer.
Before the first reboot, I selected one of the category of packages.
After the first reboot, install let me select more packages, but exited
prematurely. One possible reason would be that /var was limited to the
size of /, 128MB, so apt-get may have
I found it... the link is below.
ftp://ftp.iteso.mx/.1/debian/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/base/dpkg_1.6.9.deb
Note that the problem goes away on upgrade to 1.6.11...
So this information isn't really relavent anymore.
--
Jonathan Nieder
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I found it... the link is below.
ftp://ftp.iteso.mx/.1/debian/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/base/dpkg_1.6.9.deb
-Aaron Solochek
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Aaron S. Hawley wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Aaron Solochek wrote:
>
> > Oh... I manually dpkg'ed the perl debs and that fixed it. but worth
>
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Aaron Solochek wrote:
> Oh... I manually dpkg'ed the perl debs and that fixed it. but worth
> noting as a bug.
has this bug been reported? it really sucks.
i've looked, and looked and can't find a related bug report
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Aaron S. Hawley -> Aaron.Hawley @ uvm.edu -> http
Oh... I manually dpkg'ed the perl debs and that fixed it. but worth
noting as a bug.
But, where can I get the older dpkg packaes so that I don't hit that wall?
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Aaron Solochek wrote:
> I just got to the point of first dselect on a fresh potato installation.
> I get the fo
I just got to the point of first dselect on a fresh potato installation.
I get the following errors:
debconf: Perl may be unconfigured (It then lists files it can't find and
such)
E: Write error - write (32 Broken Pipe)
E: Failure running script dpkg-preconfigure --apt
Then it runs the standard
I'm having odd problems with a fresh potato install. I installed from
the 2.2.7-2000-02-13 floppies yesterday (03/02/2000) and this is not an
upgraded from Slink.
System info:
HP Vectra XA6 Series 5xx
Via Rhine NIC (working fine, this doesn't appear to be a NIC problem)
Custom kerne
Hi!
I tried to install potato on a Compaq Armada M700 notebook and experienced some
problems (I think I solved them, this is just for documentation purposes):
- When installing base2_2.tgz there is a broken pipe:
zcat base2_2.tgz | tar x
which hangs almost instantly, according to tar, the
I'm trying to install potato to a new machine to be used as a squid
box. (I know potato is beta/frozen). I'm having the following issues:
1) during the install, after the first reboot, I'm getting an error with
init. Specifically, the install process puts a line in inittab that says
to respawn
I upgraded my slink system to potato and the 2.2.14 kernel. All is well so
far except for smb serving files to a Win95 box. I can access the Win95
shares, bit Win95 can't access my Linux box. This happened after the
potato install before I switched to the new kernel from 2.0.34.
I get th
Thanks for all the replies. The problem was as
described and subsequently solve.
FRED
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On 18/1/2000 Irving Frederick wrote:
I just installed a base potato system using the
current disk downloads
from the Debian FTP site. All went well until I
tried to mount my cdrom
drive. I was given an error message to the effect
that the cdrom device
does not exist. I then went to my /dev direc
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