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Debian Install problems (Win xp User)

Posted: 13 Aug 2006 12:39 AM PDT

polk wrote: 
I tried the latest Ubuntu but it will not boot (Live CD) on my machine!
I installed the previous kubuntu on my machine but it will not let you
log in as root and I could therefore not configre the adsl. Not very
good in my eyes! That is why i was going to debian.

Simon

off subject, format 2nd harddrive???

Posted: 12 Aug 2006 04:20 PM PDT

lorentsonci wrote:
 

Sure

Just run mkfs.ext3 on the partitions.

Your hard drive will most likely be /dev/hdb, /dev/hdc or /dev/hdd depending
upon which IDE controller / master or slave.

for example: mkfs.ext3 /dev/hdb1

for more inforamtion type man mkfs at the command prompt.

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sendmail and multiple smart relay servers

Posted: 12 Aug 2006 07:15 AM PDT

The Natural Philosopher wrote:
 

Amen. Sendmail configuration has improved vastly over the past 5 years, but
it's still under a huge burden of legacy workarounds and operational models
that have broken down over the last 20 years. I'd go straight to postfix for
any remotely unusual or interesting server setup these days.

Linux no threat to Microsoft

Posted: 11 Aug 2006 08:43 PM PDT

On 2006-08-12, news.cogeco.ca <com> wrote: 

Either this is a troll, or it's in the wrong newsgroup (col.advocacy
would be best; col.misc a distant second).

[rest of lengthy troll snipped]

--keith

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cron.deny and cron.allow

Posted: 11 Aug 2006 01:09 PM PDT

Unruh wrote: 

I like setting the modes to 644 for files like that (since I don't mind if
users read it!), and putting under RCS source control so that any editing I
do of it gets tracked. 

suse 10

Posted: 11 Aug 2006 05:40 AM PDT

com wrote: 

Read the manual pages on "mount.smb" or "mount.cifs", whichever SuSE is
using. I also believe that the YaST tool supports mounting and unmounting
CIFS directories from a Windows server.

Now, getting a working MP3 player onto SuSE 10 is left as an adventure for
the user.

reiserfs permissions

Posted: 10 Aug 2006 08:14 AM PDT

Bill Marcum wrote:
 
That fixed it. The hair I pulled out will grow back eventually ...
Thank you!
Roby

mirroring drives

Posted: 10 Aug 2006 08:05 AM PDT

HASM wrote: 

Me too.

 

A newbie try to install a PCMCIA wireless card

Posted: 09 Aug 2006 11:31 PM PDT

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Oops. Make that http://www.linuxgazette.net/

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GRUB Problem: Can't Boot off my USB Disk

Posted: 09 Aug 2006 05:40 PM PDT

Noelle wrote:
 


I've never managed to get grub booting off the USB.
It will be interesting to hear if you achieve it.

I have however managed to get the 700Mb knoppix CD
image booting from a 2Gb USB stick.
I first let DSL linux install its booter into a small
partition of its own. It uses Sys Linux as the booter
and FAT16 (note!) on its part to make things work.
The remaining space I divided into 2 more FAT16 partitions.
One partition just big enough + 10% for the knoppix
image taken from the knoppix livecd. The remaining
partition is for all the data that I was going to carry
on the drive.
Then I teased the boot menu files in the first partition
to give DSL boot and knoppix boot options.

need advice to choose which linux .. . install USB camera to a limited HD of 3.2 G space

Posted: 09 Aug 2006 05:00 PM PDT

Carleton.CA (Michael Black) writes:
 
 
 

cross posting is fine. It is not always obvious which is the best group to
post to. For example you say SUSE, I say a single boot disk like Knopix or
MandrivaOne. Others say other things, and each will probably see him in a
different group.

However, I agree that what you call multi posting is not helpful

 
 
 

Linux is getting easier to install?

Posted: 09 Aug 2006 02:12 PM PDT

RonB wrote: 

I've never had a TNT2 card (skipped that generation entirely), but
AFAIK it should work with the nv driver. X video drivers are not
distribution-specific, so if you look at the XFConfig86-4 file for one
of the distros where you get it working, I'll bet it's using that same
driver. Which means the problem is not that driver per se, but the way
in which Debian is configuring X (configuration does differ between
distributions). That doesn't help solve your problem, but at least you
know a bit more about it!

What are the symptoms? Black screen? No pointer? Freezing/hanging?
Screen full of garbage?
 

Rick Moen has already picked up on the DSL issue - it's not a short-cut
to Debian, it's a liveCD distro. But let me pick up on something else -
welcome to the hideous world of X terminology. Download this

http://www.simson.net/ref/ugh.pdf

and as well as having a laugh, read the chapter on X (p123-) and you'll
see that it's all a bit weird. So I wouldn't be at all surprised if you
had actually missed something configuring your window manager on DSL,
even though it seemed like you were doing everything right. The window
manager doesn't actually set the resolution, that's set on the xserver,
so that may be your problem. What you need are "mode" lines in
/etc/X11/XF86Config-4, but exactly what those lines should say depends
on your monitor and video card models.

You'll probably find that installing Debian makes it easier to get this
sorted out. The command

dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

should walk you through all the steps of setting up your X server,
including monitor refresh rates, preferred resolution etc. It should do
this anyway during installation, but if for some reason it doesn't
(which means you have a debconf issue) you can instigate it manually
with the above command.

Enjoy, it's all good fun,

CC

what is the Redhat / ES 3 equivalent of "passwd -s"

Posted: 08 Aug 2006 12:46 PM PDT

"didds" <com> writes:

 
 
 

 
 

And if you told us what passwd -s was supposed to do, maybe we could tell
you how to impliment what you want, even if the Linux passwd does not have
an -s option.

 

does password history exist in Linux 2.4.21-32/RedHat AS 3

Posted: 08 Aug 2006 01:46 AM PDT


Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: 

thanks Nico - I have found a solution now as it happens but your time
spent in answering is appreciated.

cheers

ian

udev crash FC5 boot

Posted: 08 Aug 2006 12:36 AM PDT

Thanks! That worked...

xask wrote: 

linux and wireless connection

Posted: 07 Aug 2006 05:01 PM PDT


Davide Bianchi wrote: 


Thanks for your tip indeed. Any useful link to describe how to install
and use bluetooth and wireless on Fedora or linux in general?

Thanks again,
Amit