Re: Wierd passwd problem

2003-12-06 Thread Derek Chew En-Hock
Hello Florian, yupe, that seems to be the reason.. thx man! Friday, December 5, 2003, 8:57:50 PM, you wrote: FE Hello Derek! FE On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 04:44:44PM +0800, Derek Chew En-Hock wrote: I got a particular weird passwd problem with one particular debian machine that I am using

Wierd passwd problem

2003-12-05 Thread Derek Chew En-Hock
Hi Guys, I got a particular weird passwd problem with one particular debian machine that I am using... apparently, whether you input a password with a special character, the system still thinks its the same as the password without the special character... for example, if my password is

Re: Using an IDE CD-writer via scsi emulation

2003-11-10 Thread Derek Chew En-Hock
Hello Otto, I don't know how much this will help, but these are the exact steps I used to get my IDE CDRW working in debian... maybe you can run down these step again and see whether you missed anything? 1) Add SCSI Emulation support by running 'modconf' and selecting the 'ide-scsi' module 2)

Re: Problems installing Debian on PIII using Adaptec 2400A RAID 5 array as boot drive

2003-09-09 Thread Derek Chew En-Hock
With a heavy heart, I attempted install Redhat 9 on my machine and it automatically detected the Adaptec 2400A and installed flawlessly... I guess installing Debian on this machine maybe beyond my current abilities... Does anyone know of a way I can extract the drivers from the Redhat disc or

Re: Problems installing Debian on PIII using Adaptec 2400A RAID 5 array as boot drive

2003-09-09 Thread Derek Chew En-Hock
Hello Oliver, good to hear from you again... let me get you straight, first I repeat the Debian Installation as I previously did from the original Woody CDs (Boot of CD, Use Modules Floppy to access RAID Array, Install Debian but don't reboot)... then what I need to do is to transfer a copy of

Re: Problems installing Debian on PIII using Adaptec 2400A RAID 5 array as boot drive

2003-09-07 Thread Derek Chew En-Hock
Hey Guys, I still having big problems with this machine... I tried redoing the setup again this time using EXT3 for the root partition incase I messed up something else but still no go... did quite a fair bit of google groups searching but no one else seems to have this issue... don't tell me I

Problems installing Debian on PIII using Adaptec 2400A RAID 5 array as boot drive

2003-09-04 Thread Derek Chew En-Hock
Hi Everyone, been using Debian for about 7 months now and loving every minute of it... so far, I managed to install Debian on more than 10 machines (some my own, some in the office and some for friends whom I'm trying to encourage to use Linux) and so far besides some quirks, the experience has

Re: Problems installing Debian on PIII using Adaptec 2400A RAID 5 array as boot drive

2003-09-04 Thread Derek Chew En-Hock
Its actually a ATA RAID Card which uses DPTI2O Drivers... and I know its bootable as the machine used to be running Microsoft Small Business Server and it used the RAID Array as a boot disc... another thing is the Adaptec Diagnostic CD uses a strip down version of Linux to run... so I know that

Re: debian

2003-06-24 Thread Derek Chew En-Hock
Hello alex, I have been using Debian for almost 3 months now and I have to admit I was a little taken back by the Debian Installer in the beginning... but man, I love it now... its so simple yet powerful and it lets me decide on the actual flow of the installation... I still remember once I

Re: howto add kde v3.x to woody ???

2003-06-17 Thread Derek Chew En-Hock
Hello Michael, I had some problem initially on getting KDE 3.1 onto my Woody Debian system until I read some newsgroup posting (including one about a KDE 3.1 Installation Jihad) and found out the best method... 1) If you are doing a clean Debian installation, make sure you don't tick the desktop