ystem
will not boot into DOS. XP has a disk management tool of its own but I
don't trust it. For one thing it tells me that the size of my disk is the
amount that is filled an that I have zero free bytes I don't want any
part of it.
What do we do for a "lossless" XP in
nd-editing configuration files that are not in /etc/ mostly). Where do
I go for information on this?
Thank You,
Eric Dickner
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And how can I tell if I have a plain i686 machine or
an i686-smc one?
Thanks,
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I downloaded hundreds of packages through an online
"apt-get dist-upgrade" from a fast mirror and then
from the central download site; I assumed that they
were being installed by apt as it went along (it tok a
day and a half by modem) but it seems only bits and
pieces were installed.
The bits and
--- Thomas Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The following command will reinstall all packages on
> your system:
>
> COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l | awk '/^ii/ {print $2}' | xargs
> apt-get --reinstall
> install
>
> -- Thomas Adam
So I should just give up on using "apt-get
dist-upgrade" and try to go b
--- Bill Marcum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Have you tried "aptitude"?
>
I bet it is in that mass of .debs that are downloaded
but not installed I am sure it is a much needed
improvement to "dselect"
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--- Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What distribution did you START with?
"Woody", 2.2.20-idepci, from CD's I purchased.
>What distro is your sources.list pointing to?
"testing" from the main station. I ran "apt-get
dist-upgrade" pointing to a mirror at MIT but it was
missing some
--- Justin Guerin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If that's the case, then the new KDE / Gnome should
> "just work".
Yes...but that is the least of my problems now. I have
another thread going about some other more serious
issues after this "apt-get dist-upgrade".
> What is
> leading you to beli
--- Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 04:21:08PM -0700, Eric
> Dickner wrote:
>
> > ... I got all the
> > packages...the problem is they sit in the
> > /var/cache/apt/archives directory uninstalled,
> except
> > for a
--- Tim Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> It works fine when you go from one (former) stable
> release to another,
> though you would probably have to enter it several
> times.
>
Tim,
I am going from stable to testing so that may be the
problem. My instinct was that iterating through those
--- Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I'm an idiot, and I gave you bad advice.
>
> dpkg -r /var/cache/apt/archives would work and would
> resolve the
> dependencies (and would take a long time).
>
Carl,
It went through everything, and I'm not sure that the
above would do anything diffe
I'm trying to install libc6 and it wants all of the X
stuff shutdown. I can't recall the command to do
this, but I thought there was one that brought the
whole thing down for you...
For whatever reason my /etc/init.d scripts give errors
or don't work when I try to do "gdm stop" et al.
Thanks,
Is there a package that will take one from Woody to
Sarge complete with the libc6 and all the rest?
I'm running into a lot of trouble with the separate
packages and I can't do a network apt-get because of
trouble compiling the modem driver...
Thanks,
ejd
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Hello,
"wvdial" seems to be doing the wrong thing; instead
of sending the Username and Password it seems confused
and tries things like "ppp" and "pppd" when prompted.
I tried to remove them hoping to handle the prompts by
hand (which I'd like to do anyway...) but it won't
dial then.
Am I doing
>
> Change woody to sarge in your /etc/apt/sources.list
> apt-get update
> apt-get dist-upgrade
I received the above instructions from this mailing
list. The bottom lines seem to be a little different
from the documentation but it is the top line that
lost me, and the docs didn't help.
I have
Hello,
I must have deleted this somehow screwing with my
system. There is a link from /etc/rcS.d/S35devpts.sh
over to it that is broken.
Can someone please post this script for me?
Thanks,
ejd
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I got a BCMSM 4212 to work on Debian 2.2.20-idepci
with the driver .rpm from Dell but it seems to hang up
after a minute or so of idle time. I used "pppconfig"
to set no hang-up at all for idle time, and it seems
to be sort of a random period, ranging from 50 seconds
to two minutes.
If it's doing
Hello,
I have a Woody 2.2.20-idepci system running on a Dell
that I am trying to upgrade to 2.4.x (Sarge, or
testing) with mixed results.
At first I felt that I should download source and
recompile the kernels, and I did that, but those
kernels did not match any Debian patched headers,
which I ne
--- Michael Marsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > It immediately went through my dependency tree and
> > gave me a list of packages to "apt-get -f
> install". I
> > thought the power of "apt-get" was that it figured
> out
> > what packages you needed and got them
> automatically?
>
> Did you try
Hello,
For my modem-connected machine it is a ginormous
download, some 500 Meg...
Will I, or some kind of disconnnect at the ISP, ruin
the whole thing? Can I then issue the command again
and will it recognize the packcages it already got?
Will it check these downloads for errors with an md5
or
Hello,
For the 2.4.27 kernel there are a variety of
sub-releases, such as kernel-image-2.4.27-1-686 that
match up with header packages.
Where is the source that these are compiled from?
There is only a generic kernel-source-2.4.27 package
available. And if I am interested in using the source
I
Hello,
During a reinstall onto a dual boot partitioned hard
drive I have twice in a row been stopped during the
unpacking of the packages selected using 'tasksel'.
Both times the error was a 'busy' coming from the
'hda' device. I think that is the CD-ROM, right?
The machine will get stuck polli
Oh yeah, and it reset the clock on the Windows side to
Greenich time. I am pretty sure I didn't screw up the
choice there, but I could be wrong about that...
ejd
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--- Andrea Vettorello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> Could be a fault flat cable, or a dying HD. You can
> test the latter
> downloading an utility from the manufacturer of your
> HD to check it.
> Oh, and the CD-Rom could have problem to read disk
> too, specially if
> dust has accumulated on
Hello,
I saw the message "hardware clock bug" during a
package inflating and ever since then Linux has been
crashing.
The Windows side of the disk seems to run fine but has
strange times. Does anyone know what can be done
about this? Is the hardware broken and Linux just
less able to deal with
Hello,
I am able to download the Packages file from
"http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib
non-free" but it is large, about 3.1 Meg I think.
When my version of apt tries to process this list it
gives this error:
"Out of MMap memory"
or something like that. Of course, I tried to get a
--- Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Check the archives or try google. That question
> comes up every month!
> --
Yeah, my bad, that was an easy one. I had just
updated my kernel and thought the problem might be
there. But maybe the frequency of the question should
be telling the pe
Hello,
I am unable to load the module agpgart.o on a
2.4.18-686 kernel. I just let it autoprobe for the
parameters but it wants me to provide them. It is for
an i845 Intel graphics controller on the 0:2:0 PCI
buss.
Does anyone know how to form them?
Thanks.
ejd
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Hello,
I have a text file that I burned onto a CD on a
windows machine. I used "mcopy" with the t, a and T
options to try and get rid of those "^M" characters (I
forget if that is the line feed or carriage return).
They seem to be gone if I look at the result with
"more" or an X text editor, but
--- David Jardine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you're putting something on to a windows machine,
> wouldn't
> mcopy automatically use the dos CR-LF?
I was trying to remove the CR-LF so the /etc/hosts
file lookup wouldn't be messed up. I never did get
"mcopy -T" (or any option or combinatio
--- Jason Rennie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Another thing you could try: 'apt-get dist-upgrade'.
> That *should*
> bring your entire system up-to-date with the current
> Sarge.
>
> Jason
Jason,
Have you tried it yourself? I had a terrible
experience with it and would not recommend it; many
--- David Jardine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 11:26:55PM +0100, Richard
> Lyons wrote:
> > Wouldn't
> >$ tr '\r\n' '\n' < dosfile > unixfile
> >
> > do it?
>
> For me that doubles each newline, but I can't see
> why. But
>
> $ tr -d '\r' < dosfile > unixf
--- Ralph Seichter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I also tried "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree82", but
> I there is no
> 1920x1200 resolution which I could choose (only
> 1920x1440 pixels are
> available, which is too big). Are there some
> configuration options
> which I overlooked?
I don't thi
--- Dan Davison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I answered yes to the
> question resulting from dpkg -i about making
> modifications to lilo...
>
> Dan
This was a mistake. It shouldn't be but it is and the
same thing happened to me. I was forced to use the
boot floppy to boot and then went to the
And I'm having no luck. Nothing seems to be where the
rpm wants it to be. Is there anything I can do to
make this rpm work?
Is there anyone that knows where this module compiled
for debian is?
It's part of a native driver for the i810 Intel
Extreme Graphics Controller. Maybe someone knows
so
Or should I recompile first to 2.4 and then to 2.6?
Thanks,
ejd
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I didn't have any trouble mounting my floppy drive as
file system type "auto" with 2.2.x, but since my
upgrade "mount" insists that I provide a file system
type. I tried "msdos" but it tells me the kernel
doesn't support that type.
What might be going on?
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I am using XFree86, but I'm not sure if the problem
isn't with the Debian (2.4.27) configuration.
Or is it a problem with how I've configured XFree?
The KDE control center seems to think that the wheel
is there and working fine.
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Original Message:
I think the msdos module is not loaded. Mount does not
autoprobe for
this file system by default. It checks
/proc/filesystems, and msdos is
only listed if the driver has been loaded. You can
solve the problem by
either
- loading th
--- Eric Dickner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> When I recompiled my 2.2.x kernel to 2.4.27 I
> followed
> the generic instructions rather than using a
> package.
> I was forced to skip the "mkinitrd" step as there
> was
> no file where the instructio
I can't seem to get apt-get to see some .deb files I
have copied to the hard drive. I followed the
instructions given in the APT HOWTO exactly but they
don't seem to be very well written, at least in this
section (2.2 How to use APT locally).
I make a directory /root/debs, put the debs there and
--- Eric Dickner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "To use the packages, finally, add:
>
> deb file:/root debs/
> "
>
> NB that there in no '#' here...does that mean to
> "add"
> that line to something else?
OK, the debian refernce m
I have two kernels running, one 2.2.20 installed from
purchased disks and one 2.4.27 that was created by
recompiling the "old fashioned" way, ie not by a
debian package but from the sources that came from
kernel.org.
The problem is this: running the old linux there are a
few modules installed that
--
Incidentally, if you didn't build your kernel the
Debian way, did you
specifically make the modules? If you didn't, you
won't have modules
to
load, even if you specified them in the config.
Justin Guerin
No, I didn't. I just followed th
I have two kernels on my system, one I bought and
installed from CD's: 2.2.20-idepci, and the other is
2.4.27 that was compiled from sources from kernel.org.
I'm having some hardware issues that I was confident
could be handled by installing modules, but now I'm
not so sure. Close inspection of th
) distributions if/as possible. It may be that
Debian upgrades MUST be done their way and the
"vanilla" way (ie make dep, make bzImage, ...) will
not work right. If that is the case, then so be it,
but I am surprised the old way will not still work...
Thanks again,
Eric Dickner
--- Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Configging a kernel is an arduous process of booting
> and then figuring out
> what you got wrong.
Yes, it is. You guessed correctly when you said that
I might have gotten a "bad config" file from the
vendor of the binaries. "Bad" in that it while
--- Eric Dickner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 15:20:33 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Eric Dickner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Differences between binary images and
> compiled kernels - 5 min
> To: Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
&g
I have an application that was developed on RedHat
that is calling for it. Apparently Debian doesn't
have it yet, at least I can't seem to find it as a
package.
Does Debian lag behind RedHat on a lot of things like
this and if so by how long?
Is it worth getting the .rpm and "alien"'ing it over
--- Eric Dickner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 16:40:45 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Eric Dickner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Will Debian have libstdc++.so.5 soon?
> To: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
> --- John Hasler <[EMAI
--- Stefan O'Rear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Unstable means that the packages actually get
> upgraded. With stable, all
> you get is security fixes.
>
Well, that's good to know. The word has many bad
connotations in spite of its official definition.
> But stable _does_ have libstdc++.so.5; y
I am trying to compile some .src.rpm files. When
I try to do this they look for headers under the
/usr/src/linux link. I installed linux from CD's
originally and they didn't put anything there...I
don't even have that link.
I downloaded a source kernel from kernel.org and many
of the instructions
--- Stefan O'Rear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Nothing.
>
> How to cope:
>
>
> # mkdir /usr/src/linux
> # mkdir /usr/src/linux/include
>
> Now the apps -I/usr/src/linux/include won't do
> anything, but they will
> still find the kernel headers because a set of
> known-good kernel
> headers
--- Andrea Vettorello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> If you
> need some kernel
> header files you'll probably find them installing
> kernel-headers
> packages.
>
>
> Andrea
>
Yeah, putting that empty directory there only made it
insist on specific files. That at least led me to the
proper pack
I installed the kernel_headers_ package and
it created a directory that was called:
/usr/src/kernel_headers_
It seemed a trivial matter to make the link to be:
ln -s /usr/src/kernel_headers_ /usr/src/linux
Yet when I tried to "rmp -rebuild .src.rpm" it
went off looking for something under
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I've decided to buy a PC with Debian Preinstalled.
> Should I go with
> "Stable" Woody or "Development" Sarge?
>
I installed stable woody from purchased CD's (which is
what you will be buying) and have been able to upgrade
it to "Sarge" status by recompiling the
--- Greg Vickers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm new to running X and I'm having a problem
> getting the I810 video card
> on this D845GLVA motherboard to run at 1280x1024 on
> my 17" TFT monitor:
I snipped out part of your log and put '!' around the
warning that states your probl
I have the 2.4.27 kernel running and needed a
kernel_headers_ to compile a native kernel
module (modem driver). The latest headers package
offered for 2.4.x was 2.4.18 which is what I
installed.
I was able to compile the object but when I go to
"insmod" it into the kernel I am told that the versi
--- Eric Dickner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
A foolish question.
Proper version package is in "unstable", something
that I will have to get used to, apparently.
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--- Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> Did you compile the kernel yourself? In that case
> the headers you need
> should be in the kernel source tree.
>
> best regards
> Andreas Janssen
>
Yeah, I did. The instructions from kernel.org told me
not to keep the source there a
When I configged the kernel I had in the .config file
CONFIG_MODVERSION=y
and yet I do not have that modversion.h header file.
I have something called modsetver.h (or something like
that) but no modversion.h
Where is it??
I am trying to use a kernel that is compiled source
from kernel.org. I
Apparently I am not the first person to run into a
problem regarding this particular header. A general
web search revealed that all sorts of people have
tried to compile drivers, found they needed but didn't
have this thing, and then proceded to try all sorts of
hacks.
Are any of these hacks goin
I found a hack that sort of worked...create a file
called include/modversions.h:
#include
This allowed the driver to compile with no problems
but upon "insmod" the kernel complained that while it
was version 2.4.27 the module had been compiled for
version 2.4.18.
Where this version could have c
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