On Wed, 23 Dec 1998, Geoffrey Deasey wrote:
: I have a dual PII 333 running debian 2.0 and it seems to just stop
: for about 2-3 seconds, randomly. Anyone have any idea what this is ?
:
: Regards, | Debian GNU/ __ o
: .| R L / /
On Wed, 30 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[ snip ]
: To be honest, It's been a while since I played with that system and I had
: forgotten that the 2740 installed uses aic7xxx. I was too quick to call
2740s are notoriously spastic if there are other SCSI drivers linked
into the kernel. I'
On Sat, 2 Jan 1999, Akop Pogosian wrote:
[ snip ]
: > > Dec 31 04:39:49 debian icmplogd: destination unreachable from
: > > [209.44.32.73]
:
: I have no idea what that IP address is. It just starts pinging me once I
: establish a ppp session.
Here's who to ask if you want to find out:
boh
A quick glance at the web site doesn't indicate that Secure Mailer
(Wietse Venema's software) has been packaged yet. Anyone know if it has
been? Has anyone used it? If so, I'm interested in comments, good or
bad.
TNX,
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MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD
mailto
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote:
: [ about choosing a cd-writer ]
: > Stay away from IDE CDR's... I recommend Yamaha SCSI or Trax-Data SCSI units
: > etc.. The names that seem to be in the fore front on Technology
:
: Hmm, I know several people who are using a Philips 3610 rewr
Since non-us.debian.org is down, does anyone have recommendations for
other non-us mirrors easily accessible from the central US? http sites
preferred but I can live with ftp.
Thanks,
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On Sat, 23 Jan 1999, Nidge Jones wrote:
:
: I use CRT from windows from time to time to access my Debian 2.0 install.
[ snip ]
: However, if I then Maximise the CRT window (or resize by dragging the edge
: of the box), to get a bigger display, Linux still shows the out put as
: 80x25?
:
On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, Nidge Jones wrote:
[ snip ]
: The man at the garage doesn't say that everyone else's car is OK does he
: when you take yours there cus it's fucked..., he locates and solves the
: problem?
:
: So why have a million people mailed me with "mine's OK" ? Please stop
: send
On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Andrew Ivanov wrote:
: > Now, under 2.0.34, I have good sound... but I can't mount my fat16
: > partition or my cdrom... I get the 'you must specify partition type'...
: > I try vfat for the /dev/hda1 , and it tells me it is not supported...
: > Help
:
: You may
On Tue, 26 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: In a message dated 1/26/99 10:06:20 AM Central Standard Time,
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
:
: > Every package in the base installation has to be potentially /necessary/
: > for the installation process itself, not just desirable, i.e.
: > ess
On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
: On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 01:42:25PM +0100, E.L. Meijer Eric" wrote:
: > >
: > > This is an unusual checking by my machine (this is all I could
cut&paste),
: > > has anything gone wrong here?
: >
: > [ output of regular fsck check ]
: >
: > Th
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Graham Ashton wrote:
: I just tried setting up SSI on apache on my hamm box, but found to my
: dismay that very few modules are compiled in by default;
:
: humbug:root> apache -l
: Compiled-in modules:
: http_core.c
: mod_so.c
:
: I notice that the shared object
Hi,
As the subject suggests, I'm curious about running my logfile analyzer
directly after the logfiles are rotated. It appears that I do this by
defining the variable APACHE_POST_SCRIPT in /etc/apache.cron.conf
HOWEVER:
Running the analyzer can take a long time! I use logresolve, then the
anal
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Ed Cogburn wrote:
: Steven Feinstein wrote:
[ snip dselect de-selected my custom kernel ]
: Dselect may have interpreted your kernel as being earlier/older
: than the one on the CD, and thus did an 'update' automatically.
: In any case, you can use the 'hold' featu
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Jyrki Malinen wrote:
: If KDE will be included to Debian, how about GNOME??
It's already mostly present in slink. I managed to install it, and I'm
an idiot when it comes to X.
I also did manage to break it pretty good when I installed some potato
stuff - so I guess it's im
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Nathan E Norman wrote:
: On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Ed Cogburn wrote:
:
: : Steven Feinstein wrote:
:
: [ snip dselect de-selected my custom kernel ]
:
: : Dselect may have interpreted your kernel as being earlier/older
: : than the one on the CD, and thus did an
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Richard Hall wrote:
: Is there a tool for reading the oodles of documentation in /usr/doc, or do
: I just have to go in there, gunzip, and more?
I like less. Just put this line in your .bash_profile (or /etc/profile)
eval $(lesspipe)
and less will have no trouble
On Fri, 29 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: I have a 386 16Mhz with 5 megs ram. I've got an older SMC 8013WC network
: adapter for it. My question is once I get the card in the machine where do i
: get drivers for the card and how do I tell that it is working? I'm trying to
: set it up a
On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, M.C. Vernon wrote:
: On Mon, 1 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
:
: > I knew dpkg did the install, but where does it track what it did? Is
there a
: > dpkg log somewhere?
:
: dpkg -l lists packages installed.
: dpkg --get-selections produces an output which you coul
On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Anthony Campbell wrote:
: On 02 Feb 1999q, Gary L. Hennigan wrote:
: >
: > 'Fraid I can't help you with that. I usually just download the raw
: > kernel source and use make-kpkg to get a kernel-image*.deb. I've never
: > had a need to build the kernel-source and kernel-h
On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, M.C. Vernon wrote:
: Dear all,
:
: Yesterday I had the rather disconcerting happening of my machine
: running a massive DOS in my abscence. I have an NE2000 card, and compiled
: a 2.2.1 kernel at 00.05 on Thursday morning, then went to bed. I then got
: up at about
)
-- Forwarded message --
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 22:36:41 -0600 (EST)
From: Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Debian User
Subject: Re: Severe DOS under 2.2.1
On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, M.C. Vernon wrote:
: Dear all,
:
: Yesterday I had the rather disconcerting hap
On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote:
: On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Nathan Duehr wrote:
:
: > The 2.2 kernels no longer need the route add -net statements. They set
: > this up automagically... (:
:
: this works for all routes or just for 127.0.0.0?
:
: I'm process of upgrading
Sorry for the off-topic post, but I've got a mountain of Prac V.34
modems and I need an AT command reference (cable modems have spoiled me
:)
Anyone have an on-line favorite?
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Strange what I'm doing; pppd works fine :)
I'm trying to write a daemon (in perl) that monitors the "health" of the
next hop on an ethernet port (think DSL or cable connection), and dials
a provider when the connection goes down. To do this, I need to invoke
pppd from my prgram ... pppd forks and
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Brad wrote:
: On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Nathan E Norman wrote:
:
: > I'm trying to write a daemon (in perl)
:
: Isn't Perl wonderful? At the moment, i'm working on a CD ripper using
: cd-diskid, perl-tk, cdparanoia, id3, and bladeenc and CDDB.pm. It
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Patrick Olson wrote:
[ snip ]
: > No, I labeled them Debian 1.0 when I created them. I might have
: > mislabeled
: > them, though.
:
: If they are really Debian 1.0, I would really suggest getting a newer
: Debian! The first Debian I saw was 1.3, so I don't even know
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote:
: Hi there,
:
: I was wondering if there' s a way to run e2fsck w/out booting the
: machine... I know I'd have to remount my / partition as read-only, run
: e2fsck & remount the partition as rw, but I can't seem to be able to do
: the fi
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote:
: > Did you go to single user mode before you tried to remount root
: > read-only? Have you more than one e2fs partition?
:
: The answer is 'nope' to both, and I think you've just got it... should have
entered
: single mode BEFORE trying th
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Julian Taylor wrote:
[ snip ]
: Debian, admittedly, is one of the most primitive Linux
: installations I've ever used. Among the problems are
: the fact that no matter what you tell it during
: installation about your intended configuration, it
: sets everything up not
On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
[ snip ]
: > I switched to the tulip driver as James Lewis suggested, and it loads
: > with no messages (de4x5 gave me messages about requiring irq11), and I
: > still get this message from the netwrok start.
:
: Ok, well if that's helping you n
On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote:
[ snip ]
: hawkins:~# cat /etc/init.d/network
: #! /bin/sh
: ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
: route add -net 127.0.0.0
: IPADDR=134.161.248.148
: NETMASK=255.255.255.0
Try "NETMASK=255.255.0.0"
: NETWORK=134.161.248.0
: BROADCAST=134.161.248.25
On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Nico De Ranter wrote:
:
: Howdy,
:
: I believe somebody posted a message about this some time ago
: but I couldn't find it in the archives (actualy I don't know
: what to look for :-). I want to build a router using a PC
: running Linux. Unfortunately there aren't en
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Andrew Hodgson wrote:
[ your line wrap doesn't ]
: I have just tried to install Debian on a machine with an Adaptec AHA 2940
SCSI adapter. When I run install from DOS (or boot from the rescue floppy) the
machine hangs after detecting the SCSI adapter. The last message on t
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Jinghua Liu wrote:
: I couldn't install Debian because the boot kernel hangs up at the
: SCSI card(2940). There are thousands of bug reports about this.
:
: Are the debian people still working? Why didn't they try to do anything
: about it?
They're all playing Unreal?
On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Hans van den Boogert wrote:
: At 06:25 PM 8/26/99 -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote:
: >make (menu)config
: >make-kpkg clean
: >make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image
: >dpkg -i ../kernel-image-2.2.12_custom.1.0_.deb
: >
: >These four steps work fine for me (though I'm
On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Brad wrote:
: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
:
: On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Alex V. Toropov wrote:
:
: > Is ther any way to clear console window (text mode) before login promt ?
: >
: > After comp. starts I see (at tty1) login promt at screen bottom and last
: > outpu
On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Dave Sherohman wrote:
: Dave McFadden said:
: > I can sucessfully create hda4 out of the empty space, but trying to mount
it as /usr /etc /temp etc. only replaces my existing directory rather than
extend that space... entirely reasonable, but it's not what I need right now
On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, rick wrote:
: I'm helping a friend set up Debian as a firewall/router for his
: LAN. Troubles with the partition table or BIOS or something.
:
: fdisk sez:
:
:/root# fdisk /dev/hda
:
:Command (m for help): p
:
:Disk /dev/hda: 32 heads, 63 secto
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: Hi,
:
: I'm setting up to upgrade my system to potato (while I sleep :) and know
: that there's not enough room in /var/cache/apt/archives/. I've got another
: partition to work with and could either symlink that dir to the new
: partition, or
On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Marc Mongeon wrote:
: How do I disable the password-checking feature of passwd? I'm willing
: to accept moderately complex passwords that passwd wants to throw
: out. `man passwd` gives me nothing, and I'm not certain where else to
: look-- is this the doings of PAM?
Run
On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Ron Stordahl wrote:
: Richard said:
:
: > That puts you a cd behind :) The single-floppy is a downloaded floppy,
: which then sucks the rest off the net without even having a cd drive. And
: the floppy costs a lot less :)
:
: True, but incredibly slow, unless you hav
On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Daniel Barclay wrote:
: > From: Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
: >
: > On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Marc Mongeon wrote:
: >
: > : How do I disable the password-checking feature of passwd? I'm willing
: > : to accept moderately complex p
On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Andrei Ivanov wrote:
: > Hi
: >
: > Does anyone know where i can download the debian package ssh (secure shell)
: >
: > thanx
:
: Its not availible from debian or any other distro. You needto do a quick
: search on the net.it's somewhere in Finland :)
Absolutely
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Jim Ziegler wrote:
: On Fri, 03 Sep 1999, Tom Kuiper wrote:
: > While booting an AST Premmia LX P/60 from a resc1440.bin or
resc1440-safe.bin
: > disk (images from the official 2.1 CD-ROM) the booting hangs during the
SCSI
: > initialization. It gets this far:
: > ...
Just got an invoice from ARIN ... it's in Excel 97 format. Does it
bother anyone else that an Internet Standards body uses a non-standard
file format in their email? It sure bothers me.
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On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Marcin Kurc wrote:
[ snip ]
: If you want to install potato, make your /etc/apt/sources.list look like
this:
:
: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
: deb http://non-us.debian.org/ unstable non-US/main
:
: or use any of the debian mirr
On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, James D. Freels wrote:
: I would like to take advantage of the apparent better performance of
: NFS-server capability of the new kernel. I have built my kernel
: 2.2.12 with nfs-server capability. I cannot find any documentation on
: this capability (howto, etc.) The hel
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Matus "fantomas" Uhlar wrote:
: HEllo,
:
: can anyone tell me where does dpkg store its preinstall and postinstall
: scripts when installing packages ?
/var/lib/dpkg/info iirc
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On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, William T Wilson wrote:
: On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
:
: > That is correct. However dpkg is not necessarily the only program
: > which executes scripts from within /var.
:
: It seems to me that what we have here is a classic case of trying to fix
I'm attempting to build the UCD snmp lib for slink since I'm reluctant
to upgrade our prodution servers to potato (and libc 2.1). In the
potato pkg list libucdsnmp3.6 depends on libc6 >=2.1; am I screwed? (I
admit to not investigating fully whether libucdsnmp3.6 needs libc 2.1
...)
When I attemp
On Sat, 11 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 06:24:44PM -0400, William T Wilson wrote:
: > Note that when moving filesystems it is best to use either tar or cpio.
: > cp will get things subtly wrong much of the time.
: What does cp get wrong? I havmoved entire systems
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Richard E. Hawkins wrote:
: justin jabbered,
:
: > I also get "no daemon present" with this command but printing
: > nevertheless works. I think a second lpd daemon is spawned when you
: > start printing.
:
: There seem to have been ongoing problems with lpd in slink
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Adrian Thompson wrote:
: Hello,
:
: Linux fdisk doesn't see past 1024 cylindars, I have a 20.4GB HD which
: requires over 2000 cylindars. As well I have win95 on hda1, I want to
: put linux on hda2, however lilo doesn't sit well in a FAT32, or screws
: up because of
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Marcin Kurc wrote:
: I don't think so
:
: On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 10:14:20PM -0300, Baltazar Quinterno wrote:
: > Thats a chance, but i was thinking in adding the new one to the same mount
: > point is that posible.??
You could use software RAID and combine your old di
On Tue, 14 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: Installing a 2.2.9 kernel in place of 2.0.36 kills my network card and
: connections, since the card is a token ring (Olicom). This card is ID'd as
: eth0 under the old kernel, but the 2.2.x kernels use tr0. So the problem
: doesn't surprise me.
On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Aaron Solochek wrote:
[ snip ]
: Its a slink system, running 2.210
Try a different kernel. We experienced problems with 2.2.10 on heavily
loaded servers.
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On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Mark Phillips wrote:
[ snip ]
: I tried rebooting. The floppy light comes on straight away (and stays
: on) and the system tries to boot from the floppy but fails, so goes on
: to the hard drive.
Sounds like the cable is reversed. Flip it over at the drive, and/or at
th
On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Chrisopher D. Judd wrote:
: > On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Mark Phillips wrote:
: >
: > [ snip ]
: >
: > : I tried rebooting. The floppy light comes on straight away (and stays
: > : on) and the system tries to boot from the floppy but fails, so goes on
: > : to the hard
On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Marcin Kurc wrote:
: Still not working for me.
:
:
: On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 02:58:53AM -, Pollywog wrote:
: >
: > On 24-Sep-99 Pollywog wrote:
: > >
: > > On 24-Sep-99 Marcin Kurc wrote:
: > >> Since yesterday apt-get cannot connect to non-us.debian.org, how
Uh, sorry ...
Today someone posted an /etc/apt/sources.list file that was quite
complete. I printed it and deleted it. My printer is cursed. The
email isn't in the archives yet. Could someone repost it to me?
TIA :)
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mailto
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, B. Szyszka wrote:
: > > Well I can't afford to just go out and get a new harddrive, especially
since
: > > the two that I have no have more than enough space. Is there a way to
: > > run a check on the harddrive that could prove whether or not the
harddrive
: > > itself
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Salman Ahmed wrote:
:
: (1)
: Running Debian 2.1, I noticed sth odd about a couple of
: environment variables (I am running XFree-3.3.3.1-2).
:
: First of all :
:
: HOSTTYPE=i386-linux
:
: I have a Celeron 300A processor and have installed a new
: 2.2.12 ke
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Salman Ahmed wrote:
[ snip ]
: Nathan> It's faster to use a "UNIX domain socket" when all traffic is
: Nathan> local as you avoid some of teh overhead of an IP stack. Why
: Nathan> waste those milliseconds?
:
: Would you be willing to explain the technicali
On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, David Kanter wrote:
: Is this bad: having a stable box (i.e., Slink) but using apt to
: update some files from the "unstable" tree?
Depends on what "bad" means to you:
o It should be alright in the sense that apt will take care of
dependencies for you, so there should be n
On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Russell Nelson wrote:
: So who *knows* what I'm running now, and whether it corresponds to
: anything remotely resembling Official Debian 2.0. Somebody remind me
: again how .deb is the perfect packaging format, sublime in all the
: details of its creation, without flaw i
On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, Darxus wrote:
: On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, peter karlsson wrote:
:
: > > you can use dselect and use "H" on the package. This will hold the
package
: > > and prevent "accidental" upgrading.
: >
: > Yeah, but that's not a very good solution, especially since I need to
: > rem
On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, Salman Ahmed wrote:
[ snip ]
: Oct 2 20:59:12 phoenix tcplogd: auth connection attempt from
: pavlov.midco.net [24.220.0.13]
RTFM /etc/services to find out what auth is, and RTFM `host
http.us.debian.org'. I'm tired of people complaining about "hack
attem
On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Joe Block wrote:
: Hi.
:
: Where do I find the source deb files for packages in potato? I'd like to
install
: postfix on a slink system, but it wants me to upgrade glibc which I'd rather
not
: do. I'm sure that this is only because the postfix deb file was built on a
On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Brian Servis wrote:
: *- On 4 Oct, Mirek Kwasniak wrote about "Re: Getting source deb files"
: > On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 11:59:43AM -0400, Joe Block wrote:
: >> Hi.
: >>
: >> Where do I find the source deb files for packages in potato? I'd like to
install
: >
On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Egon Schmid wrote:
[ snip ]
: This is a Linux ML and I think the default answer should be a Linux
: filesystem. Do all people on the ML read floppies on Windows 95/98/2000 or
: NT? What about installing vmware (www.vmware.com) and use M$ together
: with Debian.
Well, we'
On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, ktb wrote:
[ snip ]
: > How do I force cause the kernel's make config to offer
: > me an iso9660 file system? Or how do I hack the .config to get
: > that fs?
:
: If your looking for iso9660 I think you enable that under "File
: systems." At least in 'make xconfig'
Hi,
We're going to install a new server next week, and I'm interested in any
opinions regarding the stability of 2.2.x kernels. I'm leaning towards
using a 2.1.125 kernel since we're using that elsewhere and it's
extremely stable. I've heard rumors that the 2.2.x kernels are no good
for very bus
On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, David B.Teague wrote:
[ snip ]
: I did and 2.0.34 DOES NOT OFFER ME ISO9660 FILE SYSTEM AS A CHOICE.
: I'm going back to see if by chance the guy who suggested Native
: Language support might be right, in spite of the fact that this
: does not make sense to me.
No-one s
Uh, what does the above message mean? I get it when I'm copying large
numbers of files from one machine to another with rsync ...
kernel 2.1.125 if that matters.
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finger [
On Sun, 18 Apr 1999, Richard Harran wrote:
: I did something really stupid:
: #mv /usr/bash
: (don't ask). Then I exited root, and (of course) I can't log in as root
: to fix it. I'm still logged in as a normal user, but anything using a
: script with /bin/bash or /bin/sh doesn't work
On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote:
: On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Alec Smith wrote:
:
: > The BIOS for Compaq machines is a seperate partition. You'll have to blank
: > out the drive so its got no partitions, install the SoftPaq, then
: > reinstall your OS stuff, being careful not to wipe out t
On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Hans van den Boogert wrote:
[ snip ]
: Next step: who knows where to find a boot floppy using a 2.2.x kernel?
http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/i386/ch-boot-floppy-techinfo.en.html#s-rescue-replace-kernel
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On Wed, 21 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
:
: Hi
:
: I just installed sendmail package and encountered
: a strange problem: there's always a delay of two or
: three minutes before sendmail'startup process
: complete successfully.
Check your DNS config.
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MidcoNet 410
On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Larry Venable wrote:
[ this really belongs on -user; moving it there ]
: Actually, I'm running the mach 64 x server 3.3.2, on an ATI card, using V
: 2.0.34 kernal version. Any help you can give towards the proper boot
: parameters for enabling Linux to see the 2940U2W is
On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Chris Gray wrote:
: I got sold on Debian after reading today's discussion on slashdot.
: However, there doesn't seem to be anything in the Debian web site about
: how one goes about installing from ftp. It only tells me that it is
: possible. So what disk images, etc. do
On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Graham Ashton wrote:
: Just a quickie - can anybody verify that the slink boot floppies contain
: drivers for the adaptec 2940U2W scsi card? I don't want to go out and
: buy 6 boxes that I can't install debian on!
2.0.36 installed easily on a Netfinity 5000 here, which has
On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Stefan Kleijkers wrote:
: Hello,
:
: How easy is it to upgrade a Debian distribution? With RedHat it's very easy,
: you can buy/download a new version and chose UPGRADE in the installationmenu.
: Does Debian have something like that too?
It's absurdly easy to upgrade de
On Thu, 22 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[ snip ]
: >- I don't remember other reasons but GNOME is greater !
: >
: We could argue that... ;)
Please do so somewhere other than debian-user.
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On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, Brian Schramm wrote:
: Sticking with the idea of making Linux (Debian) easier to install, has any of
: the Debian geniuses looked at the Lothar Project? I think it would be easy
to
: start putting into that project and get the Debian distribution better for
it. I
: am
On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, George Bonser wrote:
: On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, Larry de Graaf wrote:
:
: > By the way, are there any known good nfs servers for Slink ?
: >
: > I would appreciate any help.
: > Thanks!
:
: Why would you want NFS rather than FTP? The only benefit is for systems
: that
On 23 Apr 1999, John Hasler wrote:
: Greg Scharrer writes:
: > I am thinking about buying a 56k modem. I have a 28.8k modem. I know not
: > to buy a Winmodem. I have seen ads for ISA and PCI modems. Is one kind
: > better than the other?
:
: Multitech reportedly makes one PCI modem that is
On Sun, 25 Apr 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
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: > IMO it's embarrasing that most PCI modem manufacturers are making them
: > winmodems. Talk about cheap!
:
: I'm not sure this is true. The PCI modem I bought last week is linux
: incompatible; it uses shared memory instead of an I/O a
On Mon, 26 Apr 1999, Allan M. Wind wrote:
[ snip ]
: If you want to spend a bundle on the host adaptor check out
: (the company) DPT? I have no experience with their products
: (drivers and such) but some of their cards are upgradeable to
: (hardware) RAID.
I'll happily recommend DPT for a
On Mon, 26 Apr 1999, Ries van Twisk wrote:
: Thanx for the fast response,
:
: Dell is currently offering a PowerEdge 1300.
:
: 18Gb Ultra-2/LVD SCSI HD.
: Adaptec AIC-7890 Ultra-2/LVD SCSI Controller (inergrated)
This should be supported, especially by newer kernels. I know that the
AIC
Where can I get more information about LDAP? I keep hearing that it's
the way to go for a corporate email directory ... I see that Debian has
an LDAP server packaged. What should I do to learn the ins and outs of
LDAP?
TIA,
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On Tue, 4 May 1999, Clyde Wilson wrote:
: If I install a new system and don't run lilo I sometimes get
: F4A or something close. Is this prompt usable?
It's the prompt from mbr. Docs in /usr/doc/mbr .
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On Tue, 4 May 1999, John Galt wrote:
:
: Most certainly, the "F" is for floppy boot, the "4" is for booting from
: /dev/hda4, and the "A" is for showing all bootable partitions on /dev/hda.
: The only drawback to this prompt is that you are strictly limited to
: /dev/hda--no booting off /dev
On Tue, 4 May 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote:
: And what is it for? I'm interested in learning more. Where can I find
: out more? If someone could explain briefly and then point to some docs
: I'd really appreciate it.
I just asked this question the other day; here's a summary of the
response
On Thu, 6 May 1999, John Galt wrote:
[ snip ]
: binary and avoid the moronic situation altogether (rather curious that
: Debian is the only distro with legal probs in this area, no?)
It's not at all curious if you bother reading the list archives.
Reading the DFSG might now be a bad idea eithe
On Thu, 6 May 1999, BOHICA wrote:
[ snip ]
: Problem:
: On running install.bat from DOS (512Mb FAT partition), I cannot get
: cfdisk to run successfully. The error message reports that "THE
: PARTITION IS CORRUPT!" and then offers to wipe the partition table for
: me and start over - not ex
On Thu, 6 May 1999, Javaherian, Benjamin wrote:
:
: Any idea where I can get the driver for this board?
: It is based on Intel 82558 controller.
As a guess, `modprobe eepro100' should help.
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On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Miguel A. Figueroa wrote:
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: deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable non-US main contrib
: non-free
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US potato non-US/main non-US/contrib
non-US/non-free
Weird, eh?
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On Fri, 8 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: I was under the _impression_ that people in the Linux community were
: supposed to be helpful. Obviously I was mistaken.
[ snip more of the same ]
: I don't want a long, indepth, very indirect discussion of how to manage
: a network or ethernet
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Shao Zhang wrote:
[ snip ]
: 100.100.100.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0
eth0:7
: 100.100.100.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 26251
eth0:11
: 100.100.100.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 2233
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