debian/potato stuff
Hello all,
I have a turbo sparc 5/170 which was running slink r4 for a while. Then I
loaded Solaris 7 for a day. It's mostly a toy so I reformat it at
will. Last weekend I downloaded the potato boot cd and after a few false
starts was able to do a clean load. I had some head scratching over that
"not able to write to /tmp/keyboard" thing. I also expected to be able to
choose the cd from the list of media but later found that I had to choose
previously mounted file system and drill down to the image on the CD. So
as it stands.. its working.
I was very impressed with the apt-get utility. When I was running slink
I had the sparc cds so I just installed stuff directly with dselect. I was
able to load up Samba and Apache and that is fine. I have noticed that
occasionally I end up with Defunct processes on them (I think that I may
just be asking to much out of the machine at one time though). The Sparc's
Internet connection is through a win98 machine which is set up for Internet
connection sharing.
What I have noticed is that occasionally the sparc seems to forget how to
do a name lookup. If I ping an IP address, the win98 computer will
immediately start to dial and it works fine. If I use a name however, it
fails. This was working because I was able to use apt-get. Last night I
tried to do a whois and went nowhere. I have checked the config files in
/etc. I am using my ISP's nameserver and the win98 is setup as the default
gateway.
Any thoughts? I'd read through some more of the man pages but......
The other problem I have is that the man command is not recognizing some of
the man pages which are present on the sparc. If I use the command line
switch to open the file directly it works fine, they just aren't showing up
in the database. Running mandb didn't find them. I tried editing the
config file to point to them (under share) but it didn't like that. What
is the mistake I am making here?
I have one other question about X but I'll hold that till another
time. Perhaps if I can get the man pages working I'll be able to solve it
myself....
Thanks!
Pete Rondeau
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