Re: how to get a bash shell with the new install floppies (Re: new boot floppies being uploaded)

1996-12-13 Thread Shaya Potter
On Fri, 13 Dec 1996, Craig Sanders wrote: > > On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, Shaya Potter wrote: > > > > 1. ftp is still missing from the base install set. This makes it > > > difficult to install a custom compiled kernel. Actually impossible > > > if you don't have your kernel available on an nf

Re: how to get a bash shell with the new install floppies (Re: new boot floppies being uploaded)

1996-12-12 Thread Daniel Stringfield
On Fri, 13 Dec 1996, Craig Sanders wrote: > i've had the dubious pleasure of running into the same problem on > a variety of machines (mainly because the hardware supplier seems > completely unable to provide the same motherboards in each new batch of > machines). 486 motherboards are starting to

Re: how to get a bash shell with the new install floppies (Re: new boot floppies being uploaded)

1996-12-12 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, Shaya Potter wrote: > > 1. ftp is still missing from the base install set. This makes it > > difficult to install a custom compiled kernel. Actually impossible > > if you don't have your kernel available on an nfs mount or floppy > > disk. > > Don't know what yo

Re: how to get a bash shell with the new install floppies (Re: new boot floppies being uploaded)

1996-12-12 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, Daniel Stringfield wrote: > On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: > > > > MBR doesn't work for me. No matter what I do, I can not get a machine > > > to boot linux from the hard disk if MBR is in the master boot record. > > > > Can you figure out why? > > What BIOS do

Re: how to get a bash shell with the new install floppies (Re: new boot floppies being uploaded)

1996-12-12 Thread Shaya Potter
On Thu, 12 Dec 1996, Craig Sanders wrote: > this fixes most of the problems i had with the 1996-12-7 set. I'm still > having a few problems with the new disks: > > 1. ftp is still missing from the base install set. This makes it > difficult to install a custom compiled kernel. Actually impos

Re: how to get a bash shell with the new install floppies (Re: new boot floppies being uploaded)

1996-12-12 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: > > MBR doesn't work for me. No matter what I do, I can not get a > > machine to boot linux from the hard disk if MBR is in the master > > boot record. > > Can you figure out why? no, the only thing remaining for me to try is to NOT use the Maximise optio

Re: how to get a bash shell with the new install floppies (Re: new boot floppies being uploaded)

1996-12-12 Thread Daniel Stringfield
On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: > > MBR doesn't work for me. No matter what I do, I can not get a machine > > to boot linux from the hard disk if MBR is in the master boot record. > > Can you figure out why? What BIOS do you have? (Brand and bios date) I think this may end up being th

Re: how to get a bash shell with the new install floppies (Re: new boot floppies being uploaded)

1996-12-12 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ftp is still missing from the base install set. Might not get fixed in 1.2, I'm out of space. > MBR doesn't work for me. No matter what I do, I can not get a machine > to boot linux from the hard disk if MBR is in the master boot record. Can you figure

how to get a bash shell with the new install floppies (Re: new boot floppies being uploaded)

1996-12-11 Thread Craig Sanders
I'd submit the following as a bug report, but i don't know what package/version to assign it to. IMO that should be documented on the installation disks, a notice saying "if you find any bugs then send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following details:." On Sun, 8 Dec 1996, Bruce Perens

Re: new boot floppies being uploaded

1996-12-10 Thread Bruce Perens
The configuration file is changed - I think you have to copy /usr/lib/keymaps/es.map into /etc/kbd/default.map . I'm surprised the package didn't do this for you while upgrading. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP

Re: new boot floppies being uploaded

1996-12-10 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hello. I had Debian 1.1 updated with many rex packages. I upgraded my kbd package from kbd_0.91-6.deb to kbd_0.91-12.deb and the following happened: My /etc/kbd/config CONSOLE=/dev/tty0 TERM=linux KEYMAP="es.map" SOFTFONT="iso01.f16" disappeared! And now I

Re: new boot floppies

1996-06-06 Thread Brian C. White
> Does this imply that dftp (or the functionality thereof) has been > merged into dselect? That would be good. No. 'dpkg-ftp' is a method for dselect to read from an FTP site in much the same way that it would read from an NFS mount or CD-ROM. This seems only fair since 'dftp' has added the

Re: new boot floppies

1996-06-03 Thread Bruce Perens
> Does this imply that dftp (or the functionality thereof) has been > merged into dselect? That would be good. There is an experimental package called dpkg-ftp which provides "dselect" with another "installation method" called "ftp". When you install this, you can select the "ftp" installation me

Re: new boot floppies

1996-06-03 Thread Bill Wohler
Bruce Perens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > dselect's FTP method Does this imply that dftp (or the functionality thereof) has been merged into dselect? That would be good. Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ph: +1-415-854-1857 fax: +1-415-854-3195 Say it with MIME. Maintainer of comp.mail.m