Howdy; I now have MD 8.2 (single boot, no other OS) on this old clunker and it seems everything works... ....well mostly......
....sort of. Specs: ABit BX6 Rev.2 PIII 500 MHz 512 MB SDRAM Riva TNT 16 MB Soundblaster Live! Value Digital (2) Maxtor HDD 13 GB (original) and 60 GB Liteon 40X CD-ROM Mitsumi CD-R/RW Internet connection via cable modem & NIC (10/100) No LAN (stand alone machine.) Partitioned thus: /boot (ext2) (500 MB, too big probably but I ain't short on drive space ;-)) /, swap, /usr, /var, on 13 GB drive, /home and /store (MP3s, pictures, other personal junk) on 60 GB using Reiser FS (all but swap of course) The network configured at install, sound works, XFree 4.2 did what it was supposed to do. E-mail and the rest of the trivial crap installed and configured as it should, but... I remembered reading that 8.2 doesn't include "Tiny Firewall" as previous versions did so, I requested "Guarddog" while picking packages. It's there but how the devil do I configure it? I've been here: http://www.simonzone.com/software/guarddog/manual2/ and the first thing I see says that there should be access through Configuration/Networking/Guarddog which is supposed to be there and isn't. I'll read some more to find why it isn't where it's supposed to be but even from a terminal (superuser mode), or the console as root I can't access the program. Just get error messages. re: "An error occurred while reading the protocol database." Details: "XML Parse error: Line: 674, Column: 52 , , tag mismatch Line: 674, Column: 52 , , error while parsing element Line: 674, Column: 52 , , error while parsing content" 3 repetitions of this (4 total) then: "Line: 674, column: 52 , , error while parsing main element" Second silliness that I'm sure is something simple: I can read and write to preformatted floppies but can't get a CD to open in either drive. Even as 'su' "You do not have enough permissions to..." What have I messed up? Hints would be greatly appreciated. TIA Charlie
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