Re: Debian 2.x , MCA 3COM Etherlink/MC?

1998-10-16 Thread Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan
On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Tapio Lehtonen wrote: > How should I proceed to get the Ethernet working? I would prefer to have > it already during the initial installation, so I can install using FTP > and NFS. well the first question is do you know if there is any linux support for the card at all? if the

Re: Debian 2.[01] -- Only rudimentary support for Laptops?

1998-10-15 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, John! Thanks for reminding me about that. Part of the reason I forgot is that there is no direct link to it from main Web page. Perhaps FAQ-O-Matic deserved it's place on Main page. Sasha. > kushni> > kushni>If there were some Debian oriented database, where one could > kushni>add his ex

Re: Debian 2.[01] -- Only rudimentary support for Laptops?

1998-10-15 Thread John Lapeyre
On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Alexander Kushnirenko wrote: kushni> kushni>If there were some Debian oriented database, where one could kushni>add his experience about installation of Debian on some kushni>unusual hardware, I would add mine about ThinkPad 380XD. THERE IS ! FAQ-O-MATIC ! (Ex

Re: Debian 2 frozen problems

1998-05-15 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Thu, May 14, 1998 at 07:49:08AM -0500, W Paul Mills wrote: > > Have a 5.1gb hda with fat32. Can I mount/read it? How? > I believe this requires a 2.1.xx kernel OR a patched 2.0.xx kernel. The 2.0.33-8 kernel in hamm *is* such a patched 2.0.33 kernel. Nils -- *--

Re: Debian 2 frozen problems

1998-05-15 Thread Oliver Elphick
W Paul Mills wrote: >On Wed, 13 May 1998, Eddie Seymour wrote: >> My /usr/lost+found directory has numerous "#12345" type files. Can't >> seem to find way to remove them. Permissions start with c,s, or b. >> Chmod doesn't reference this. These are not real `files' but device pointers. c =

Re: Debian 2 frozen problems

1998-05-15 Thread W Paul Mills
On Wed, 13 May 1998, Eddie Seymour wrote: I do not use *frozen*, but perhaps I can help with parts of this. > Being a raw debian novice the following have tripped me: > When booting I get "Unable to load charset 437". Where do I find it > and put it to quiet this error. > > I tried to mount a pa

Re: Debian 2, What will it Have

1998-04-13 Thread Tamas Papp
> > I am sorry, but I think that my correction is important: XFree86 will > > remain under old BSD-like license, NOT GPL. Making XFree86 GPL'ed would > > cause > > a majot disaster for Linux. > Actually I think your correction is irrelevant. The point is that > XFree86 will remain free, which was

Re: Debian 2, What will it Have

1998-04-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Apr 12, 1998 at 05:42:18PM -0400, Alex Yukhimets wrote: > > > i did have a question about Xfree, it is my understanding that x will not > > > be free after a new version? > > > > X is going to split. There will be Open Group's X11R6.(>=4) which you can > > still obtain free but can not dis

Re: Debian 2, What will it Have

1998-04-13 Thread aqy6633
> > i did have a question about Xfree, it is my understanding that x will not > > be free after a new version? > > > > allan > > X is going to split. There will be Open Group's X11R6.(>=4) which you can > still obtain free but can not distribute for money without buying a > License and there will

Re: debian 2

1998-02-19 Thread Wiria A Kusuma
hi Bill.., I'll try my best to explain, I had no problem installing both bo and hamm, several machaine running them, couple of weeks ago I downloaded base2_0.tgz, drv1440.bin and resc1440.bin time stamped 2/1/98 ^ from ftp1.us.debian.org/debian/I

Re: debian 2

1998-02-19 Thread Bill Leach
Please provide a little more information. Are currently running Linux? What distribution, version? What sort of machine do you have (in particular is it a laptop/notebook)? Do you have any PnP stuff in the machine? Otherwise, the direct answer to your question is Yes, at least a couple of hund