Re: Quantum Fireball EIDE uncooperative

1997-06-19 Thread Edward McKnight
Jason, I have Seagate and Quantum scsi disks, ~1G each. One of them, I'm pretty sure it's the Quantum, spins up then down again during disk/scsi identification. I don't consider it defective--I'm assuming that the driver is exercising capabilities that the disk has. It spins up again a bit late

Re: April Infomagic LDR & Debian

1997-06-05 Thread Edward McKnight
So they didn't test it. I don't suppose a CD publisher who is distributing other folks' stuff would ever be able to--especially in the absence of a test suite. Their test should be to deliver a pre-press CD to Debian for confirmation. Don't change vendors, change procedures. If InfoMagic can't pla

Re: How do I kill jobs?

1997-05-15 Thread Edward McKnight
> Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 10:19:47 -0700 (PDT) > From: Edward McKnight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: How do I kill jobs? > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > This answ

Re: How do I kill jobs?

1997-05-15 Thread Edward McKnight
This answer invariably comes up on Unix-related lists. This answer suggests that you use a howitzer to blow away what might be only a field mouse. kill -9 is a *last resort*. Study up on signals. Start with no value at all; if that kill doesn't work you progress through stronger and stronger sig

Re: InfoMagic's new LDR

1997-05-12 Thread Edward McKnight
Hi, I've been a buildmaster making deliveries for commercial products in the past and religiously followed a "build-&-install-clean-and -test-before-delivery" method. (See summary at end.) In this case it would map to: create a totally brand new install image (i.e. the bits that the CD people w

Re: what umask?

1997-04-25 Thread Edward McKnight
3 digits: nnn for user, group, world (other) Within each digit are three possible values which mush together: 0 = nothing 1 = eXecute 2 = Write 4 = Read chmod uses these values to confir privelege so giving read-write to owner but total lockout to group & world is % chmod 600 file.foo umas

Re: Partition sizes - again...

1997-04-24 Thread Edward McKnight
If your existing system is about what you want except for partitioning you can figure it out for yourself. This example assumes you're starting with one large partition and want to calculate sizes for the same system using multiple partitions. 1) decide on which partitions to use: - root swa

Re: Converting ascii to ebcdic, and vice versa

1997-04-01 Thread Edward McKnight
There's always dd. --emk > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Apr 1 12:42:16 1997 > Resent-Date: 1 Apr 1997 20:42:46 - > Resent-Cc: recipient list not shown:;@lists.debian.org > X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: "Christian Hudon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 15:54:03 -0500

Motherboard Questions

1997-02-23 Thread Edward McKnight
Hi, I'm running Debian 1.1 (kernel 2.0.6) and am getting ready to drop buck$ into a faster motherboard. (I've read the hardware howto on sunsite and haven't found my questions addressed there.) Pointers to other docs or lists welcome. I'm considering single vs. dual cpu Pentium or PPro boards so: