moves dot files to different directory

2002-06-28 Thread Henning, Brian
hello all- I have the task of moving all my hidden files to another directory. how can i select only these files and not the standard files. ls .* doesn't seem to work. thanks, brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

fetchmail

2002-06-18 Thread Henning, Brian
Hello- what protocol does fetchmail use to fetch mail from hotmail? thanks, brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

dd boot floppy to cd image

2002-06-14 Thread Henning, Brian
Hello- I have a grub boot floopy that has no file system. It just boots into grub. I want to be able to put this floppy boot section onto a cd image to burn to a cd. I don't really care if the cd image has a file system or not. I just want it to boot grub. I am pretty sure I need to use dd to pull

debian/freebsd

2002-06-10 Thread Henning, Brian
Hello- I have one hard drive that I want to have freeBSD and debian Linux exist on. I want freebsd in a primary partition and I want linux and linux swap in the logical partitions in the extended partition. Every time I try to install debian, it corrupts my freebsd partition. After that is corrupt

advansys scsi controller

2002-06-05 Thread Henning, Brian
Hello- I am having problems with my advansys scsi controller on boot. What happens is it goes through and looks for devices on each of the 7 scsi chains 2 times each. I don't know if it is the wrong driver that is loading or what. I thought i could pass in a kernel command on boot. boot:

advansys scsi controller

2002-06-05 Thread Henning, Brian
Hello- I am having problems with my advansys scsi controller on boot. What happens is it goes through and looks for devices on each of the 7 scsi chains 2 times each. I don't know if it is the wrong driver that is loading or what. I thought i could pass in a kernel command on boot. boot:

partition problem

2002-06-05 Thread Henning, Brian
Hello- I am trying to use grub to boot my debian parition and it will not recognize /vmlinuz . This partition is ext2 on partition 8. The funny thing is when i did the install I did it on partition 12. I have a few other operating systems on this machine and that is why I have so many paritions. I

mount freebsd slice

2002-05-31 Thread Henning, Brian
Hello- Is it possible to mount freebsd ffs partitions (slices) from debian? If so can you point me to some documentations on how to do it? thanks, brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

dialup server

2002-05-21 Thread Henning, Brian
Hello- I am trying to set up a dial up server with mgetty so friends can log in to my computer over ppp. I want them to be able to log in and to be able to ftp files from my machine to theirs. I think i am close to getting my machine configured. I think i am having problems giving them an ip

advansys

2002-05-19 Thread Henning, Brian
Hello- I have an advansys scsi card that is causing me a little bit of trouble. It is giving me an error on boot scsi : aborting command due to timeout. I thought i had it figured out when i did the install i passed the kernel this info linux advansys=0xAC00 i did verify that that is the correct