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debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2002 : Issue 812
Today's Topics:
Help requested: internal iomega atap [ Tomasz Kosinski <mickle@escape.com> ]
Re: Extirpating framebuffer [ Edward Guldemond <thedebategod@yifa ]
Re: Mail-Followup-To [ bob@proulx.com (Bob Proulx) ]
Re: Help requested: internal iomega [ Jerome Acks Jr <jracksjr@bellatlant ]
Re: Solved with CUPS (was Re: apsfil [ Patrick Wiseman <pwiseman@mindsprin ]
Re: Tomcat4 : specific settings for [ Tom Cook <tom.cook@adelaide.edu.au> ]
Re: routing pop3 mail to user accts [ Tom Cook <tom.cook@adelaide.edu.au> ]
Re: Virus and file /proc/kcore [ Tom Cook <tom.cook@adelaide.edu.au> ]
Apache and mod_perl, fastcgi, speedy [ mdevin <mdevin@ozemail.com.au> ]
Just installed Woody, problem with r [ christenpet <christenpet@snip.net> ]
when is kernel 2.4.19 likely to be i [ Oliver George <ogeorge@bigpond.net. ]
Re: Just installed Woody, problem wi [ Paul Winkler <pwink@attglobal.net> ]
failed upgrade, urgent help needed [ John Griffiths <john@capmon.com> ]
Determining kernel configuration fro [ "Steve Dondley" <s@dondley.com> ]
failed upgrade, urgent help needed [ John Griffiths <john@capmon.com> ]
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Subject:
Help requested: internal iomega atapi zip drive
From:
Tomasz Kosinski <mickle@escape.com>
Date:
10 Aug 2002 19:35:12 -0400
To:
debian-user@lists.debian.org
I recently compiled (and recompiled and recompiled, etc) a new kernel,
2.4.18, hoping to be able to use my internal iomega atapi zip drive,
which I was able to use before I crashed my harddrive and had to
reinstall from scratch about a year ago.
I tried with jazip and scsi emulation enabled and ide/atapi disabled,
per the jazip faq: "...you need to turn on kernel support for "SCSI
emulation", "SCSI Support", and "SCSI Generic Support". You also need to
turn off "IDE/ATAPI Floppy Support"".
If I understand correctly, my zip drive should then show up as sda in
the boot messages, but I don't see it (and jazipconfig reports: no
device found)
I also tried the reverse, scsi support disabled ide/atapi
enabled. Should I then see a "hdc"?
In any event, I'm not sure what the ide0 or ide1 drives are? anything to
do with this.
Sorry for the question if there is an obvious answer, but I don't see
it. Any help very much appreciated by this SIMPLE END USER. Thanks (boot
messages follow),
Tomasz
BOOT MESSAGE WITH SCSI EMULATION ENABLED:
Aug 4 20:51:56 localhost kernel: ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
Aug 4 20:51:56 localhost kernel: ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
Aug 4 20:51:56 localhost kernel: hda: Maxtor 32049H2, ATA DISK drive
Aug 4 20:51:56 localhost kernel: hdb: ATAPI CD-ROM DRIVE 36X MAXIMUM, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
Aug 4 20:51:56 localhost kernel: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Aug 4 20:51:56 localhost kernel: hda: 40021632 sectors (20491 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=2491/255/63
Aug 4 20:51:56 localhost kernel: hdb: ATAPI 36X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, (U)DMA
Aug 4 20:51:56 localhost kernel: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
Aug 4 20:51:56 localhost kernel: Partition check:
Aug 4 20:51:56 localhost kernel: hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
Aug 4 20:51:56 localhost kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
Aug 4 20:51:56 localhost kernel: FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
Aug 4 20:51:56 localhost kernel: plip: parport0 has no IRQ. Using IRQ-less mode,which is fairly inefficient!
Aug 4 20:51:56 localhost kernel: NET3 PLIP version 2.4-parport gniibe@mri.co.jp
Aug 4 20:51:56 localhost kernel: plip0: Parallel port at 0x378, not using IRQ.
Aug 4 20:51:56 localhost kernel: PPP generic driver version 2.4.1
Aug 4 20:51:56 localhost kernel: PPP Deflate Compression module registered
Aug 4 20:51:56 localhost kernel: Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
Aug 4 20:51:56 localhost kernel: agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 96M
Aug 4 20:51:56 localhost kernel: agpgart: Detected Intel 440BX chipset
Aug 4 20:51:56 localhost kernel: agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe0000000
Aug 4 20:51:56 localhost kernel: [drm] Initialized tdfx 1.0.0 20010216 on minor 0
Aug 4 20:51:56 localhost kernel: [drm] AGP 0.99 on Intel 440BX @ 0xe0000000 64MB
Aug 4 20:51:56 localhost kernel: [drm] Initialized radeon 1.1.1 20010405 on minor 1
Aug 4 20:51:56 localhost kernel: SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
Aug 4 20:51:56 localhost kernel: scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
Aug 4 20:51:56 localhost kernel: es1371: version v0.30 time 20:36:27 Aug 4 2002
Aug 4 20:51:56 localhost kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
Aug 4 20:51:56 localhost kernel: usb.c: registered new driver hub
Aug 4 20:51:56 localhost kernel: uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1
Aug 4 20:51:56 localhost kernel: uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xe000, IRQ 10
Aug 4 20:51:56 localhost kernel: usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
Aug 4 20:51:56 localhost kernel: hub.c: USB hub found
Aug 4 20:51:56 localhost kernel: hub.c: 2 ports detected
******************************************
BOOT MESSAGE WITH IDE/ATAPI ENABLED:
Aug 5 20:41:08 localhost kernel: ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
Aug 5 20:41:08 localhost kernel: ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
Aug 5 20:41:08 localhost kernel: hda: Maxtor 32049H2, ATA DISK drive
Aug 5 20:41:08 localhost kernel: hdb: ATAPI CD-ROM DRIVE 36X MAXIMUM, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
Aug 5 20:41:08 localhost kernel: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Aug 5 20:41:08 localhost kernel: hda: 40021632 sectors (20491 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=2491/255/63
Aug 5 20:41:08 localhost kernel: hdb: ATAPI 36X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, (U)DMA
Aug 5 20:41:08 localhost kernel: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
Aug 5 20:41:08 localhost kernel: ide-floppy driver 0.97.sv
Aug 5 20:41:08 localhost kernel: Partition check:
Aug 5 20:41:08 localhost kernel: hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
Aug 5 20:41:08 localhost kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
Aug 5 20:41:08 localhost kernel: FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
Aug 5 20:41:08 localhost kernel: plip: parport0 has no IRQ. Using IRQ-less mode,which is fairly inefficient!
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Subject:
Re: Extirpating framebuffer
From:
Edward Guldemond <thedebategod@yifan.net>
Date:
Sat, 10 Aug 2002 20:07:50 -0400
To:
debian-user@lists.debian.org
On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 10:22:50PM +0200, David Jardine wrote:
I'd like to have the latest 2.2 kernel but without the
framebuffer thing. Can I remove it from the kernel I have?
Can I find out which is the latest kernel that doesn't
include it? Or can I be persuaded that it really is a
good thing?
You could always install the kernel sources, copy the config file for
that kernel from /boot, and just strip out the part about the
framebuffer. If you use kernel-package and do it the Debian way, you'll
be all set.
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Subject:
Re: Mail-Followup-To
From:
bob@proulx.com (Bob Proulx)
Date:
Sat, 10 Aug 2002 19:13:40 -0600
To:
Debian-User <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
David Jardine <david@jardine.de> [2002-08-10 20:16:10 +0200]:
| But isn't the "From" header controlled by the exim.conf rewrite
| option?
Only partially. First mutt creates the header. Then, if the rewrite
rule matches, exim can rewrite it. However, the rewrite rule doesn't
apply to the Mail-Followup-To: header.
And here I was, thinking that email was one thing that I _had_ got
working reasonably cleanly in all the time I'd spent struggling
with debian. Ah well, back to the drawing board...
Remember, there is always something more to do on the computer. :-)
But isn't there something messy here? Couldn't both exim and
mutt insist on there being an EMAIL environment variable set,
thus making exim's rewriting rules and mutt's "from" variable
superfluous?
Well, no, actually. Exim does not get any environment variables from
the user. Exim starts up at boot time and runs as a daemon in the
background. Programs like mutt talk to exim to send mail. Exim is an
MTA or mail transport agent. The MTA will talk to other MTAs and hand
off the mail from host to host until it arrives at the final
destination. So environment variables won't work there.
It sounds to me like you are trying to "do a lot" with your system.
Which is great. But that also means that you will have to do more
configuration. From the discussion it looks like you are 'one' on
your machine and then are having exim rules to change that. Which is
all fine. But it means you now have a special configuration which has
corner cases such as you found. By choosing to map in exim it means
you now have a dependency and mutt now needs to know who you are
mapping to and can't just fill it in with who you are now. But if you
follow the suggestion and tell mutt your from address as it gets
translated then you should be fine.
As a counter example I believe I am using a more normal configuration.
(Depending upon your definition of normal.) My login here is 'bob'
and that is what appears in the mail header From: line. Mutt puts a
from header with my name as a comment based upon my GECOS field entry
from /etc/passwd and my login here at my machine and away it goes.
Well, that is about all there is to it. Hope that was not too much
excitement for you. :-)
I do not do any special configuration for a From: line in mutt. I do
not do any special address rewriting in the MTA. Well, actually there
is a little bit more. I have Postfix (my MTA) masquerade the headers
to hide my local machine name and rewrite the headers to look like
they are from the domain itself. But that is it.
Bob
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Subject:
Re: Help requested: internal iomega atapi zip drive
From:
Jerome Acks Jr <jracksjr@bellatlantic.net>
Date:
Sat, 10 Aug 2002 21:54:21 -0400
To:
debian-user@lists.debian.org
On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 07:35:12PM -0400, Tomasz Kosinski wrote:
[snip]
In any event, I'm not sure what the ide0 or ide1 drives are? anything to
do with this.
ide0 and ide1 are two ide buses on motherboard. hda and hdb will be on
ide0; hdc and hdd (if you have them) will be on ide1.
I think you need to add kernel boot parameter "hdc=ide-scsi" or
"hdd=ide-scsi" depending on which device is your zip drive. You may
need to add sd_mod to /etc/modules.
[snip]
BOOT MESSAGE WITH SCSI EMULATION ENABLED:
Aug 4 20:51:56 localhost kernel: ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
Aug 4 20:51:56 localhost kernel: ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
Aug 4 20:51:56 localhost kernel: hda: Maxtor 32049H2, ATA DISK drive
Aug 4 20:51:56 localhost kernel: hdb: ATAPI CD-ROM DRIVE 36X MAXIMUM, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
Aug 4 20:51:56 localhost kernel: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Aug 4 20:51:56 localhost kernel: hda: 40021632 sectors (20491 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=2491/255/63
Aug 4 20:51:56 localhost kernel: hdb: ATAPI 36X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, (U)DMA
Does your zip drive have power? Is the ide ribbon cable loose? I would
expect it to appear in hardware list. Check ide and power cable
connections.
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Subject:
Re: Solved with CUPS (was Re: apsfilter problem)
From:
Patrick Wiseman <pwiseman@mindspring.com>
Date:
Sat, 10 Aug 2002 22:39:13 -0400 (EDT)
To:
debian-user@lists.debian.org
On Sat, 10 Aug 2002, I wrote:
On Sat, 10 Aug 2002, I wrote:
I've been trying to set up my HP895Cse.
I decided to try CUPS and it seems to be working. The installation told
me I need multicasting in the kernel, so I'll do that.
Now to see if it works with rlpr from other machines in my small
LAN; although it occurs to me, since it's 'net-based, that maybe I just
need to install the clients on this machine?
Well, duh, that's the whole point of CUPS :) But it took longer than
necessary to be able to print from my laptop to my server, because the
_Debian_ CUPS defaults aren't the standard CUPS defaults - in particular,
the Debian setup presumes that you're printing _only_ from 127.0.0.1 and
_disables_ printing from another IP address. But a bit of RTFMing got me
there eventually.
The initial setup on the server machine was pretty much seamless with
CUPS; it printed nicely immediately after setup. It was only the network
stuff which gave me difficulty.
Patrick
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Subject:
Re: Tomcat4 : specific settings for Context
From:
Tom Cook <tom.cook@adelaide.edu.au>
Date:
Sun, 11 Aug 2002 12:40:43 +0930
To:
debian-user-list <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
On 0, Dominique Deleris <dominique.deleris@bluewin.ch> wrote:
Hello list,
I would like to setup some specific settings per Tomcat
Context. Debian flavour for Tomcat automatically detects all apps
deployed in <CATALINA_HOME>/webapps and sets up all needed
settings : there is no <Context> entry in server.xml for the
different applications.
Now I woul like to setup the "reloadable" attribute for a
specific application in Tomcat : how should I do, since I can not
find anything related to my application Context in Tomcat config
files...
I am a little shaky on Tomcat configurations (I usually use
jboss/jetty - check it out, it's got very cool reloading features) I
understand that you can add a context section to the tomcat
configuration for your application and then tomcat will use that
instead of automagically deploying your application.
Tom
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Subject:
Re: routing pop3 mail to user accts on a dialup machine
From:
Tom Cook <tom.cook@adelaide.edu.au>
Date:
Sun, 11 Aug 2002 12:42:44 +0930
To:
debian-user@lists.debian.org
On 0, Charles Lewis <lewisc@delta.swau.edu> wrote:
Is it possible to download email from several POP3 accounts on a dial-up ISP
and route them to user accounts on my linux box? I currently have postfix as
my mta.
fetchmail is what you want. You can set up local to remote user
mappings with it.
Tom
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Subject:
Re: Virus and file /proc/kcore
From:
Tom Cook <tom.cook@adelaide.edu.au>
Date:
Sun, 11 Aug 2002 12:47:04 +0930
To:
debian-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
On 0, Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org> wrote:
Hash: SHA1
(Please turn on your line wraps to something around 72 columns)
On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 08:56:03AM -0400, colemw@cox.net wrote:
I did a virus scan with clamscan and then f-prot. Clamscan notified
me of one virus: V801 in file /proc/kcore. Going to this file it is
VERY large (in fact takes up the majority of my partition). I can't
seem to rm or shred this file. f-prot called it a W32 virus? But
neither application will remove the file. It has permissions set at
'-r--------' with owners root.root. What does this file do? Is
there any way to get rid of the virus without wiping the partition
which is /? Let me know if you need more info.
My guess is this is the kernel core. Don't worry too much about
anything in /proc, it's a virtual filesystem containing information
about what's going on, and does not take up disk space. I'm going to
hazard to guess your virus scanner saw itself when it scanned /proc.
Be aware there are a total of five viruses for Unix, three of those
for Linux specifically, and those three target long-since-outdated
versions of Red Hat.
Possibly you should figure out how to tell your virus scanner not to
scan /proc.
Tom
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Subject:
Apache and mod_perl, fastcgi, speedycgi
From:
mdevin <mdevin@ozemail.com.au>
Date:
Sun, 11 Aug 2002 13:41:33 +1000
To:
Debian-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
I am a little confused about what the differences are between mod_perl,
fastcgi and speedycgi.
I have just installed Apache and gotten it working with the basic debian
packages: apt-get install apache apache-common
So after looking in the LoadModules directives in the httpd.conf file I
noticed there was no fastcgi.
I thought I should have the fastcgi module so that I could speed up any
perl scripts I use for the site. But now I am confused as to which is
best (most appropriate for my uses) and whether I need more. There are
too many options :)
So can someone guide me here? I plan on having some fairly basic cgi
scripts for dynamic content on my site. I don't plan on hacking the
apache code or anything hard core like that.
So what is the best package to install? And what LoadModule directives
do I need to put in the httpd.conf file to make it work.
For example, I originally had this:
<IfModule mod_perl.c>
Alias /perl/ /www/perl/
<Location /perl>
SetHandler perl-script
PerlHandler Apache::Registry
Options +ExecCGI
</Location>
<Directory /www/perl/>
AllowOverride None
Options ExecCGI
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
SetHandler perl-script
PerlHandler Apache::Registry
</directory>
</IfModule>
But I am now thinking that fastcgi is what I need, because mod_perl
sounded as though it was for writing new apache modules or something
a bit beyond me at present.
Any advice is welcome.
Thanks.
Mark.
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Subject:
Just installed Woody, problem with refresh rate
From:
christenpet <christenpet@snip.net>
Date:
Sat, 10 Aug 2002 23:43:45 -0400
To:
Debian-User <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
I'm trying Linux again after being away from it for a couple of years.
My first attempt back then was with Slink, but I couldn't get the
internet connection to work properly.
Woody installed so easily, and I'm able to use Mozilla now. But my
problem is with the refresh rate of my screen. The screen has a bad
flicker at 37.8KHz/60Hz. I remember from Slink that I had to run
XF86Config and supply the horizontal and vertical scanning ranges. Mine
are 31.5-70 KHz and 50-120 Hz. Under Windows my refresh rate was
53.5/85. I tried running dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 because I
noticed that I had not supplied the video card ID and monitor ID. But
the problem still exists. Has anyone had a similar problem? Any
thoughts on how to fix it?
Thanks,
Peter Christensen
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Subject:
when is kernel 2.4.19 likely to be in unstable?
From:
Oliver George <ogeorge@bigpond.net.au>
Date:
11 Aug 2002 13:55:16 +1000
To:
debian-user@lists.debian.org
Hi,
Can someone tell me when the new kernel image (2.4.19) is likely to
appear in debian/unstable?
cheers, Oliver.
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Subject:
Re: Just installed Woody, problem with refresh rate
From:
Paul Winkler <pwink@attglobal.net>
Date:
Sat, 10 Aug 2002 23:10:11 -0500
To:
Debian-User <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
The actual refresh rate used will depend upon the video card, monitor
and resolution you select. The configuration file,
/etc/X11/XF86Config-4, contains the information about your video card
and monitor. If you examine it you should see this information. In my
case it looks like this -
Section "Device"
Identifier "Matrox Mystique 220"
Driver "mga"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Sony MultiScan 17sf II"
HorizSync 31-65
VertRefresh 50-120
Option "DPMS"
You can edit this file manually and enter the correct horizontal and
vertical refresh frequencies if they are in error. If you make any
changes you will have to restart the xserver for them to take effect.
Paul Winkler
On Saturday 10 August 2002 10:43 pm, christenpet wrote:
I'm trying Linux again after being away from it for a couple of
years. My first attempt back then was with Slink, but I couldn't get
the internet connection to work properly.
Woody installed so easily, and I'm able to use Mozilla now. But my
problem is with the refresh rate of my screen. The screen has a bad
flicker at 37.8KHz/60Hz. I remember from Slink that I had to run
XF86Config and supply the horizontal and vertical scanning ranges.
Mine are 31.5-70 KHz and 50-120 Hz. Under Windows my refresh rate
was 53.5/85. I tried running dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86
because I noticed that I had not supplied the video card ID and
monitor ID. But the problem still exists. Has anyone had a similar
problem? Any thoughts on how to fix it?
Thanks,
Peter Christensen
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Subject:
failed upgrade, urgent help needed
From:
John Griffiths <john@capmon.com>
Date:
Sun, 11 Aug 2002 15:18:16 +1000
To:
debian-user@lists.debian.org
hi, i've just tried to upgrade from a potato box running the 2.4.7 kernel
from the adrian bunk source
I think we fouled up upgrading apt-utils and didn't realise until we were
upgrading the kernel to 2.4.18
on boot lilo starts up but then we get a string of messages about kernel
modules and then it dies (kernel panic).
i'm making a boot floppy now
but any advice as to how to fix the problem would be massively appreciated
(i tried the IRC channel but didn't get much help)
Thanks
John
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Subject:
Determining kernel configuration from binary kernel installation
From:
"Steve Dondley" <s@dondley.com>
Date:
Sun, 11 Aug 2002 01:34:22 -0400
To:
<debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Hi,
I'm having a problem getting a wireless PCI card driver (linux-wlan-ng)
installed on my Debian/Woody system.
The driver requires that it get compiled with the source code of the kernel.
The problem is I have only the binaries for my kernel (2.4.14-k6). I tried
downloading the 2.4.14 kernel from kernel.org and ran a "make config" on it
as well as "make deb" and then compiled the driver with it. However, when I
start the driver, I get a lot of "unresolved symbols" errors. According to
the FAQ for the driver, this is most likely because I didn't configure the
2.4.14 kernel the same way as the 2.4.14-k6 when it was compiled.
My question is this: how can I find out which configuration settings my
current kernel was compiled under so that I can configure the downloaded
kernel sources properly and get my driver compiled?
I hope this makes sense and that I'm on the right track with this. I'm
pretty new to Linux and am open to suggestions for a different approach to
getting this driver installed.
Thanks.
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Subject:
failed upgrade, urgent help needed
From:
John Griffiths <john@capmon.com>
Date:
Sun, 11 Aug 2002 15:36:05 +1000
To:
debian-user@lists.debian.org
well i have to get this thing going again today, and I did backup the data,
so i guess it's a re-install job unless anyone has any bright ideas.
the rescue disk is kenel panicking as well to add joy to my day
____________________
hi, i've just tried to upgrade from a potato box running the 2.4.7 kernel
from the adrian bunk source
I think we fouled up upgrading apt-utils and didn't realise until we were
upgrading the kernel to 2.4.18
on boot lilo starts up but then we get a string of messages about kernel
modules and then it dies (kernel panic).
i'm making a boot floppy now
but any advice as to how to fix the problem would be massively appreciated
(i tried the IRC channel but didn't get much help)
Thanks
John