Re: Potato on a Dell PowerEdge 2500
On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 01:20:09PM +0200, Emil Pedersen wrote: > I belive it's because 24xx uses Perc3/Si while 25xx uses Perc3/Di as > scsi/raid controler (correct me if I'm wrong). Anyway, I've made a new > install-image using the original 2450 disk which you could try. A few > people have tried it (including myself), and as far as I know it have > worked for them. > > If you want to try it, it should be available at: > > http://emil.its.uu.se:8080/DELL/potato-inst-2.2.19+aacraid.dd Thanks a lot, I'll try it. -- Christian Surchi | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] FLUG: http://www.firenze.linux.it | Debian GNU/Linux: http://www.debian.org Vermouth always makes me brilliant unless it makes me idiotic. -- E.F. Benson
Potato on a Dell PowerEdge 2500
I installed perfectly potato on a Dell PowerEdge 2450, but boot disks by Kevin Traas (www.merilus.com/~kevin/aacraid.html) seems not to work with a PE 2500. How can I solve? TIA Christian -- Christian Surchi | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] FLUG: http://www.firenze.linux.it | Debian GNU/Linux: http://www.debian.org The easiest way to get the root password is to become system admin.
Re: SourceForge
On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 05:45:14PM +0100, Patrick Schnorbus wrote: > I´ve a problem with SourceForge. I have a registered project and I want to > login via ssh to upload my project´s website but something goes wrong. I read > the documentation but I´ve know idea why there is this problem. Can anybody > help me? http://sourceforge.net/contact.php -- Christian Surchi | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] FLUG: http://www.firenze.linux.it | Debian GNU/Linux: http://www.debian.org -> http://www.firenze.linux.it/~csurchi <-- BASIC is the Computer Science equivalent of `Scientific Creationism'.
Re: gzipped readmes in /usr/doc/*
On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 09:25:25PM -0700, S. Champ wrote: > what is the command to read these README documents, without having to first > use > a command to un-gzip the same? You can use zmore, zless and also zgrep with gzipped files. bye Christian -- | Christian Surchi | www.firenze.linux.it/~csurchi| www. | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | gnu. | | FLUG: www.firenze.linux.it | Debian GNU/Linux: www.debian.org | org | No man is an island if he's on at least one mailing list.
Re: Filtering Email in Pine
On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 10:38:29AM -0500, adam.edgar wrote: > The Unix machine I get my mail on has only a few mail clients to choose > from and Ive chosen pine for my use. Im new to it and have tried to > discern how to set up a filter so that the mail from this list goes to a > seperate folder if any one know how to do this I would be thankful for > their help. I suggest mutt as mail client and not pine. You can filter what you like with procmail! :-) bye Christian
Re: emacs_20.6
On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 03:37:53PM +0200, Goeman Stefan wrote: > I want to install emacs_20.6. It seems that this also needs the package > emacsen-commen 1.4.10 but this package does not seem to be present. (only > the package emacsen-commen 1.4.9 is present). > How should I install emacs_20.6 Now emacsen-common 1.4.11 is in the archive. I had the same problem, but now it works. bye Christian
Re: Using apt offline
On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 01:57:31PM +0100, Moore, Paul wrote: > 1. apt-get dist-upgrade --download-only on one machine > 2. Transfer the downloaded files to all machines > 3. apt-get dist-upgrade --no-download on all the machines. try apt-zip! bye Christian
Re: Newsgroups
On Thu, May 11, 2000 at 07:06:31PM +, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > I want to start subscribing to newsgroups and wondered if anyone could > recommend a really good news group application, one with a good GUI if > possible. I like slrn! bye Christian
Re: Linux Anti-virus program for Windows
On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 10:06:41AM -0700, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > Hi all Debian users, > anyone knows the name of an Anti-Virus program to install in my Debian > server and protect my Window client machines? http://mclink.linuxberg.com/conhtml/sys_scanners.html Try another linuxberg mirror, this is in Italy. bye Christian
Re: What is libz1?
On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 11:50:43AM -0700, Mark I Manning IV wrote: > dont know what libz1 is but there is an unofficial potato cd on > ftp://ftp.kando.ro :) ftp.kando.hu ! bye Christian
Re: Debian
On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 10:22:45PM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > So, what's exactly the meaning of "Debian?" Is it a made up name or what? > It's nice to have "Debian" in a dictionary, but it doesn't explain the > meaning of the word. DEBra and IAN Murdock! bye Christian
Re: text editor for the rest of us
On Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 12:01:45AM +0900, Julian Stoev wrote: > Pico can be rebuilt from pine396-src > But there is somthing better - nano. It is a pico clone. Available in > woody/potato > You may try also ee. I am writing this from ee now. You can also use jpico, it's joe with pico keys and something more. :) Install joe packages and you have joe, jpico, jstar and jmacs. bye -- | Christian Surchi | www.firenze.linux.it/~csurchi| www. | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | gnu. | | FLUG: www.firenze.linux.it | Debian GNU/Linux: www.debian.org | org | Measure with a micrometer. Mark with chalk. Cut with an axe.
Re: debian
On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 10:12:30AM -0600, Michael Lords wrote: > Are there any ISO images for the installation CDs for the Debian > Distribution? http://cdimage.debian.org bye Christian
Re: zip-util w/ disk-spanning
On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 04:40:40PM +0300, Lehel Bernadt wrote: > I'd suggest rar. rar is non-free and using split is so easy... ;) bye Christian
Re: console-data error
On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 03:19:12PM +0200, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: > But they are not yet out of Incoming, so you have to get the newest there > (e.g. from ftp://llug.sep.bnl.gov/pub/debian/Incoming/). Now incoming.debian.org. bye Christian
Re: Mail: Netscape and double-trouble
On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 12:46:31AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > I'm using potato, and just discovered the first mail clients I tried (mutt > and balsa) don't provide any filtering. So I figured I'd try netscape's mail. I hate netscape for mail. I don't know balsa, but mutt can filter. However you should use procmail for filtering. bye Christian
Re: Simple text screen editor
On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 02:29:33PM +0200, Stephan Engelke wrote: > Some options are: > > * pico - used to be included with pine, I think it's available seperately > now. Use nano, free and pine-independent. :) > * joe - a mixture of Wordstar- and Emacs-compatible keystrokes... joe is very light and powerful, there are already emacs-oriented, wordstar-oriented, pico-oriented configurations (jmacs, jstar, jpico) too. bye Christian
Re: are there other file managers besides gmc?
On Sun, Apr 02, 2000 at 04:39:05AM +, John Carline wrote: > Personally I like fvwm95. It's very configurable and on my box uses less > memory than > any other. But since we each our own style, go to the following link and > pick one > you like. > > www.PLIG.org/xwinman He asked a file manager, not a window manager. :) -- | Christian Surchi | www.firenze.linux.it/~csurchi| www. | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | gnu. | | FLUG: www.firenze.linux.it | Debian GNU/Linux: www.debian.org | org | Stupid nick highlighting Whenever someone starts with "stupid" it highlights the nick. Hmm. -- #Debian
Re: firewall advice
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 07:53:42AM +0100, Ron Rademaker wrote: > Corel = Debian, they just made it a bit easier. No, Corel = Corel and Debian = Debian, they just made it a bit bugged. > Use ipchains i'd say! Yes, Corel is always Linux. :) ciao Christian
Re: Limiting user access in ftp, ssh, samba, etc... 'passwords'
On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 05:34:45PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > read the rest of my message! yes i am familier with it, its fine for > *nix users and for the paranoid on lessor OSes, but when it comes to > telling *users* of say MacOS to give up thier pretty GUI drag and > drop, point and drool ftp clients for scp (which works completly > different, and to them is very clumsy (which it is on a GUI)) your not > going to get a very desireable response. I don't use mac, but I saw a nice interface to ssh and scp too, in mac style. Its name is Nifty telnet, if I remember correctly. > only the most powerful and invulnerable BOFH could pull off a forced > migration from ftp -> scp ;-) I don't think so. I saw a departmentet leaving telnet/ftp for ssh/scp. Ftp must be only anonymous. If you give instruments for transition, is is really possible. :-) bye Christian -- | Christian Surchi | www.firenze.linux.it/~csurchi| www. | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | gnu. | | FLUG: www.firenze.linux.it | Debian GNU/Linux: www.debian.org | org | There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about. -- John von Neumann
Re: What are these errors?
Please, no attached images in list, you can paste the log in your message. No gif, please! bye Christian -- | Christian Surchi | www.firenze.linux.it/~csurchi| www. | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | gnu. | | FLUG: www.firenze.linux.it | Debian GNU/Linux: www.debian.org | org | I cannot believe that God plays dice with the cosmos. -- Albert Einstein, on the randomness of quantum mechanics
Re: buy debian linux
On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 12:33:10AM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ÀÌ ¸ÞÀÏÀ» ¹Þ´Â »ç¶÷ÀÌ Çѱ¹¾î¸¦ ÇÒÁÙ ¾Æ½Ã´Â ºÐÀÌ ¾úÀ¸¸é ÁÁ°Ú±º¿ä > Á¦°¡ ¹°¾î º¼°ÍÀº µ¥ºñ¾È ¸®´ª½º ¾¾µð ¼¼Æ®¸¦ ±¸ÀÔÇÏ°í ½Í´Ù´Â°ÍÀÔ´Ï´Ù. > ±¸ÀÔÀÌ °¡´ÉÇÑ Çѱ¹¾î »çÀÌÆ®¸¦ °¡¸£ÃÄ Áֽøé ÁÁ°Ú±º¿ä. > ±¸ÀÔÀÌ °¡´ÉÇÑ Çѱ¹¾î »çÀÌÆ®°¡ ¾ø´Ù¸é Á÷Á¢ °Å·¡´Â ¾È µË´Ï±î? > ºü¸¥ ´äº¯ ºÎŹµå¸³´Ï´Ù. Interesting subject, but I have some problems with the concepts you express... ;) bye Christian
Re: Rename files
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 12:34:07PM -0800, brian moore wrote: > rename 's/_/ /g' *.mp3 rename? :o -- | Christian Surchi | www.firenze.linux.it/~csurchi| www. | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | gnu. | | FLUG: www.firenze.linux.it | Debian GNU/Linux: www.debian.org | org | Every program is a part of some other program, and rarely fits.
Re: gpg: how to send key to key server
On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 12:48:21PM +0100, Maurizio Boriani wrote: > Greet all, > how can i send my pubblic key to a key server using gpg? > thank a lot in advance. >From gpg man page: --send-keys [names] Same as --export but sends the keys to a key server. Option --keyserver must be used to give the name of this keyserver. Don't send your com plete keyring to a keyserver - select only those keys which are new or changed by you. ciao Christian -- | Christian Surchi | www.firenze.linux.it/~csurchi| www. | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | gnu. | | FLUG: www.firenze.linux.it | Debian GNU/Linux: www.debian.org | org | If an experiment works, something has gone wrong.
Re: Debian Gnu/Linux for Dummies -- Sign of the Apocalypse?
On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 03:27:00PM -0600, Matthew W. Roberts wrote: > Sorry to go off topic, but Aaaack! > > http://www.buy.com/books/product.asp?sku=30576349 And then the same author... o Master Red Hat Linux Visually with CDROM Author: Bellomo, Michael Format: Paperback Our Price: $29.99 o Debian Gnu/Linux for Dummies with CDROM Author: Bellomo, Michael Format: Paperback Our Price: $18.74 o Windows 2000 Administration for Dummies Author: Bellomo, Michael Format: Paperback Our Price: $18.74 o Linux Administration for Dummies With CDROM Author: Bellomo, Michael Format: Paperback Our Price: $18.74 :D bye Christian -- | Christian Surchi | www.firenze.linux.it/~csurchi| www. | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | gnu. | | FLUG: www.firenze.linux.it | Debian GNU/Linux: www.debian.org | org | Trying to establish voice contact ... please yell into keyboard.
Re: unzipping .exe files
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 12:30:21PM -0500, Chris Gray wrote: > Is there any program which is able to unzip the "self-extracting" > archives that end with .exe? unzip does not work. I'm not even sure > that it's not one of those install-shield applications, in which case > I guess I'd be up the creek. I know that shareware (I think) version of pkzip for linux can handle them, but I don't know if is possibile to extract with a free tool. bye Christian -- | Christian Surchi | www.firenze.linux.it/~csurchi| www. | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | gnu. | | FLUG: www.firenze.linux.it | Debian GNU/Linux: www.debian.org | org | You have an ability to sense and know higher truth.
Re: slink leafnode and y2k???
On 28-Dec-99 Mark Brown wrote: > The slink version of Leafnode is very much older than the current > upstream version and the upstream author doesn't know if the version in > Slink is affected. I tried a brief test and nothing seemed to go > spectacularly wrong and nobody else reported a problem when I asked for > testers (it's quite possible that nobody tried), so I left it at that. Now I don't use leafnode, so I couldn't try, but someone told me that leafnode has problem with the state of messages after 31/12/99... :o --- Christian Surchi, [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.firenze.linux.it/~csurchi GPG fingerprint = D1E2 9A9D 1712 0E94 8671 834E 0CFF 30E1 2625 7B68 And on the seventh day, He exited from append mode. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
slink leafnode and y2k???
But... in y2k slink upgrade no new package of leafnode??? What about it? :o Thanks Christian --- GPG fingerprint = D1E2 9A9D 1712 0E94 8671 834E 0CFF 30E1 2625 7B68 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
qt-doc (slink)
I've installed qt-doc package of slink. Now I see a file /variable in the root. kgb:~# dpkg -S /variables qt-doc: /variables This file is empty. I think it's strange, isn't it? :o PLEASE SEND ME A CC BECAUSE I'M NOT SUBSCRIBED TO THIS LIST. TIA. -- Christian Surchi | www.firenze.linux.it/~csurchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] | * LINUX, the choice * [EMAIL PROTECTED] | *of a GNU generation* --- Who is "General Failure" and why is he reading my disk?
