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- Debian Install problems (Win xp User)
- off subject, format 2nd harddrive???
- sendmail and multiple smart relay servers
- Linux no threat to Microsoft
- cron.deny and cron.allow
- suse 10
- reiserfs permissions
- mirroring drives
- A newbie try to install a PCMCIA wireless card
- GRUB Problem: Can't Boot off my USB Disk
- need advice to choose which linux .. . install USB camera to a limited HD of 3.2 G space
- Linux is getting easier to install?
- what is the Redhat / ES 3 equivalent of "passwd -s"
- does password history exist in Linux 2.4.21-32/RedHat AS 3
- udev crash FC5 boot
- linux and wireless connection
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. -- Dancin' in the ruins tonight mail: echo ee.pbz | perl -pe 'y/a-z/n-za-m/' Tayo'y Mga Pinoy |
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. |
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 -- san-francisco.ca.us (try just my userid to email me) AOLSFAQ=http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/cgi-bin/fom see X- headers for PGP signature information |
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. |
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. |
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 |
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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Lew Pitcher wrote: Oops. Make that http://www.linuxgazette.net/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (MingW32) - WinPT 0.11.12 iD8DBQFE2y44agVFX4UWr64RAoRAAJ4za/72LO6yqU9uPq9Mf3v4CAZc8gCfakAx lKFlHpJepINPiLNyxRyyysw= =0htS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |
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 |
Posted: 08 Aug 2006 12:36 AM PDT Thanks! That worked... xask wrote: |
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 |
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