RE: Failed boot from rescue floppy

I get the same problem on a Dell Optiplex DGX 5133 trying to install the slink release. Fortunately, I still have an earlier rescue disk for Debian 2.0.21 which I used to boot with and then used slink's base floppies to install from. Seemed to work ok. > -Original Message- > From: dormat [

RE: Unidentified subject!

Is your current directory on a NFS filesystem when you do su? Are you having NFS problems at the same time? I've seen this problem in these circumstances as the su tries to get the current directory but can't as the remote server is down/unreachable. Hope this helps. Rgds, Andy Chittenden Email:

RE: Automate UPPER to lower case directory

WARNING: I have had files disappear on me when using such a script when the target filesystem is on a Win32 machine. It is safer to rename them via an intermediate name: for file in $* do to=`echo $file | tr [:upper:] [:lower:]` mv $file $to.newone;mv $to.newone $to done Rgds, And

RE: NIS

We're using NIS with hamm and slink with no problems. Our NIS server runs on Netware (don't blame me - that's corporate MIS for you!). We did have problems at one stage which meant we had to set the ypserver's address in /etc/yp.conf. Rgds, Andy Chittenden Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax:

RE: More robust filesystem?

Is anybody working on a journalling/resilient file system for Linux? Rgds, Andy Chittenden Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax:+44 1753 661011 Multimedia Development, Madge Networks Ltd Wexham Springs, Framewood Road, Wexham, Slough SL3 6PJ, England