On Sat, 2004-12-11 at 09:43 +1300, Rob Wood wrote: > Hello CLUG, > Rob Wood (Woodsey) here. I attended the meeting on 04December > (introduced myself as marine engineer), it was great to meet everyone > for the first time. I was amazed how helpful and welcoming everyone > was, thanks for that. Sorry I had to leave early, but found both > presentations very interesting. Rik's site "infohelp" is a fantastic > utility. > > I probably won't be able to attend again as I have to move to Auckland > due to my girlfriends job, but before I go, would you guys mind if I > ask a few questions? > > Well I'll ask them anyway. > > I have tried several Linux distributions in the past couple of years > and got to various stages of success. My most successful was with > Mandrake 9 with which I actually got online and managed to print > something. That was just before coming to New Zealand from the UK. I > still consider myself a raw beginner so I am going back to basics. > > I presently have Smoothwall 2 as a firewall which connects to an ADSL > router. Since receiving e-mails from the group, I have heard talk of > IPCop. Is this a similar thing? Is it better or worse? On Smoothwall, > I can't get the DMZ pinhole to work with my server so the server has > to connect straight to the router. It's probably my fault but would > IPCop do this better?
IPCop is a fork of smoothwall (ie some of the smoothwall team git ticked off and went their own way as ipcop). The two are now internally quite different. I have no problems pinholing with ipcop and recommend it thoroughly. > > I have Ubuntu on my laptop (kindly given out at the meeting), dual > booting with WinXP but it doesn't like my laptop pnp BIOS and only > boots every other time with lots of fatal error messages. I can't find > a way to disable the pnp BIOS. Is there any other workaroud? There are various options you can pass to your kernel which may deal with this. If we you could post the error messages it would be easier. immediately after a boot you can use dmesg to get the kernel messages as diaplayed on starttup. type: dmesg > dmesg.out this will create a file called dmesg.out in your current directory. After that you can open it in any editor and cut and paste the relevant bits into an email program of your choice. > > Can anyone reccomend a distro well suited for use on a home run web > server to run Apache2. My hardware is primitive so I envisage a small > distribution without any "whistles and bells" I'm running on Win2000 > at present but I'm not happy with it. > There was a small server optimised linux floating about the other day, but I cannot remember its name. a good place to look is http://www.distrowatch.com > I downloaded Xfree window package for my experimental/learning linux > box (486 with TINY Linux) and have a file that looks like a zip file > under windows but has the name XTinyBin.tar What do I do with this > now? (polite answers only please) > first of all take a look at what is inside by moving to the dirsctory where you downloaded it and typing tar ft XTinyBin.tar|less this will give you a paged output of the file listing of whats inside. use <spacebar> to page thru. To finish viewing press q (for quit) (if less is not on your system use tar ft XTinyBin.tar|more ) > Any help with these questions would be welcome. > > Cheers ~ Woodsey > > > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.802 / Virus Database: 545 - Release Date: 26/11/2004 -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
