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Posted: 12 Feb 2004 08:07 AM PST

D. Scott wrote:
 
I want to thank all of your for your help It has helped tremendously.
I am relieved to hear that I can just install a second HD, instead of
having to buy a larger one and partitioning (and going through that BS
of re-installing windows).

I am definitely looking forward to exploring the wonders and SECURITY of
linux.

Again, thank you.

Darlene

debian 3.0r2: smbfs fails and module not present

Posted: 12 Feb 2004 07:49 AM PST

Thank you for your reply!. (See other questions below:)
 

Wouldn't the default install be the vanilla package with smbfs support?
With smbfs selected in dselect I don't understand why that doesn't come up
as a dependency problem. Very confusing.

Also, I guess I thought the other kernels were considered unstable options
because if 2.4.x was OK for everything it would have been the default
install. This different kernels for different things is foreign to me.
 
 
 

I did install 2.4xxx on the clone test box I have. It didn't seem to make a
difference but then I'm not sure exactly what I installed. Maybe I
installed a 2.4x without smbfs support or do all 2.4x kernels have smbfs
support?

I'm doing a new install on a Duron 1k box now so I'll try it there to see if
it works. I just selected to add 2.4.18-12.1 during the initial install
selection of dselect. If OK then I'll upgrade the existing Pentium box.

Thanks!

manpages encoded in utf-8 , 7 bit ascii wanted

Posted: 11 Feb 2004 11:53 AM PST

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 18:27:03 +0100, nospam55 <yahoo.no> wrote: 

Nroff (troff, etc.) are markup languages used to format text for printers.
a
Have you opened a manpage in zless to see what it looks like?

(go to /usr/share/man/man1)

With the right post-processor, they CAN display on a terminal instead of
a sheet of paper....

Bring up a man page and then look at the output of top or ps aux and
checkout the various utilities involved in displaying it on your terminal.


The plain text versions are hardly larger than the gzipped nroff, and display
much faster. I prefer them that way.

HTH

AC


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Woody, EHCI ... HOW?!?

Posted: 11 Feb 2004 01:18 AM PST

Sorry for replynig to my own posts ... this is just for deja to
confirm I got there ... the last problem was mere stupidity: my
development and production machines run on different architectures
(586/686) and I forgot to change that ...

So, ultimately, the solution to the dummy_do_dep issue seems to be to
remove whatever the offending file in the debian/ directory is (or
removing the whole directory which appears to work quite well for me),
followed by calling make-kpkg.

[Snip]pets of what Rudolf Potucek <acs.ucalgary.ca> wrote:
: Hmm ... ok, it seems that deleting the debian/ directory from the source
: tree will do the trick ... I guess there is information from previous
: compiles saved there ... aargh ...

: Well, one more step: I managed to get my kernel package but now it starts
: loading the kernel but never unpacks it ... I wonder why ...

: Rudolf

: [Snip]pets of what Rudolf Potucek <acs.ucalgary.ca> wrote:

: : Ok, so running a Woody stock kernel (2.4.18), I got a 2.4.24 kernel
: : source, but now I am running into the following problem:

: : I run 'make menuconfig'
: : followed by 'make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version smp kernel-image'

: : which leads to an error message along the lines of "unknown target
: : dummy-do-dep" ... what is the problem there?

: : TIA,

: : Rudolf


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Installing linux on an USB HDD

Posted: 09 Feb 2004 11:13 PM PST

>>I don't know how experienced you are, but you could use www.linuxbios.org? 

But fun! It really kicks ass..
You can make it in <30 seconds from power on up to FireFox. On an older PC!

Bye,
Kevin

Need with sound card

Posted: 09 Feb 2004 07:25 PM PST

Hi

I followed all the instructions on the alsa website. And the card was found.

The problem I see is that it shows 2 number sin the sound card :

8338B
8738

But there seems to be just one driver for them.

Hence when I try using the alsa config - there is no option for SPDIf and
also it gets up in 4 channel mode while my card is a 6 channel acrd


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Is RH 7.2 schedule policy different of RH 9 ???

Posted: 09 Feb 2004 06:00 PM PST

> Yes, the system can lose ticks in that case. Enabling 


So, how could i test it?

I tried to disable DMA using:

root> hdparm -d0 /dev/hdc3

/dev/hdc3:
setting using_dma to 0 (off)
HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Invalid argument
using_dma = 1 (on)
===========

Irq masking i have no idea.

If i upgrade my kernel to a 2.4.24, will i lose(can't run) my
appications that required my 2.4.20-8 for instalation?

Speedtouch330 USB ADSL modem

Posted: 09 Feb 2004 04:07 AM PST

Try everything found on web last night, it looks like the microcode is ok
but still cannot connect to the internet!
"Conny" <se> wrote in message
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330 
http://www.google.se/search?q=%22Speedtouch+330%22+linux&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&h
l=sv&meta= 

How do I create a recovery for grub or lilo multiboot setups

Posted: 08 Feb 2004 01:35 PM PST

Newer kernels now being distributed are so big, many won't fit on a 1.44Mb
floppy.

LILO "mkrescue" now supports an option, "--iso", to create a bootable CD that
can be burned with 'cdrecord'. Of course, your system must support booting
from an El Torito Bootable CD in 2.88Mb floppy emulation.

--John



On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 22:55:00 +0100, Timothy Truckle <de>
wrote: