Re: Debian 1.31 (bo) preferred method of login for ppp connection

1998-06-16 Thread Shaleh
I ppp'ed for a year on bo's ppp. The ISP I worked for originally did the same "login: password:" routine, now we use PAP. It DOES and CAN work. Please let's start at the beginning and see if we can fix this. For starters, try dpkg --purge'ing ppp and then re-installing it. This way you get the

Re: Debian 1.31

1998-05-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, May 08, 1998 at 09:20:59PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Work: LILO controlling Debian and Warp. Followed the simple example found This seems to be messy, as I noted in the Linux+OS2+DOS minihowto (now very out of date, my fault). Someone did tell me they got it to work once. I'm not

Re: Debian 1.31

1998-05-09 Thread kaynjay
It's worked both ways for me. At home, Debian and DOS on the 1st drive, Warp on the 2nd, Boot Manager controlling all. As I recall, I partitioned the 1st drive with Warp's fdisk (including BM), then installed Debian off the 1.3 custom CD. Chose to not have it default, but using LILO. Configured

Re: Debian 1.31

1998-05-08 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, 9 May 1998, Rick wrote: > > With a RH instalation, it gives you the option of writing LILO to the > partition that is holding linux (in my case hda6) and then useing the IBM > boot manager (the one that comes with Partition magik 3) i can select OS at > boot. > > Unfortunatly the IBM boot

Re: Debian 1.31

1998-05-08 Thread Rick
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: 08 May 1998 01:01 Subject: Re: Debian 1.31 >On 7 May, Jeff Noxon wrote: >>

Re: Debian 1.31

1998-05-08 Thread servis
On 7 May, Jeff Noxon wrote: > On Thu, May 07, 1998 at 04:42:23PM -0400, Will Lowe wrote: >> > I want to have the ability to dual boot with Debian and Windows 95 ? (I >> > know with Windows NT and Windows 95 this is possible). Will such thing >> > be possible Debian & Windows 95? > >> Absolutely.

Re: Debian 1.31

1998-05-07 Thread Will Lowe
On Thu, 7 May 1998, Jeff Noxon wrote: > One other thing to keep in mind is the tendency Microsoft software has > to rewrite the boot record (i.e. remove LILO). So always keep a boot > disk handy -- you never know when you'll need it. (Like after that > Win98 upgrade...) Yeah, keep a boot disk

Re: Debian 1.31

1998-05-07 Thread Jeff Noxon
One other thing to keep in mind is the tendency Microsoft software has to rewrite the boot record (i.e. remove LILO). So always keep a boot disk handy -- you never know when you'll need it. (Like after that Win98 upgrade...) :) Jeff On Thu, May 07, 1998 at 04:55:41PM -0400, Will Lowe wrote: >

Re: Debian 1.31

1998-05-07 Thread Will Lowe
On Thu, 7 May 1998, Jeff Noxon wrote: > off the secondary drive? Is there a graceful and free way to do this > without installing LILO in the primary drive's boot sector? I don't think so. But you do boot=/dev/hda root=/dev/hdb1 for your linux kernel stanza and boot=/dev/hda1

Re: Debian 1.31

1998-05-07 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Thu, May 07, 1998 at 04:42:23PM -0400, Will Lowe wrote: > > I want to have the ability to dual boot with Debian and Windows 95 ? (I > > know with Windows NT and Windows 95 this is possible). Will such thing > > be possible Debian & Windows 95? > Absolutely. Lots of us do this all the time. Ve

Re: Debian 1.31

1998-05-07 Thread Will Lowe
> I want to have the ability to dual boot with Debian and Windows 95 ? (I > know with Windows NT and Windows 95 this is possible). Will such thing > be possible Debian & Windows 95? Absolutely. Lots of us do this all the time. Very easy to configure and use.