Re: boot from CD ?

1998-11-13 Thread John B. Fink
On Fri, 13 Nov 1998, Christian Hammers wrote: Hi Is the 2.0_r1 CD image bootable ? I have to burn it here on work and I don't know how to make a bootable CD out of it. As far as I understand, I need to make an El-Torento(?) CD-Rom, i.e. one .raw file which contains a bootable

Re: Debian and AMI MegaRAID

1998-11-12 Thread John B. Fink
On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Fabio Belletti wrote: We have a dual Pentium II server with AMI Mega RAID Controller but we don't know if it works with Debian Linux 2.0 because the 'recently released' Linux driver from AMI seems to work only with the latest Red Hat version (5.2) or the

Re: Debian and AMI MegaRAID

1998-11-12 Thread John B. Fink
On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Fabio Belletti wrote: We have a dual Pentium II server with AMI Mega RAID Controller but we don't know if it works with Debian Linux 2.0 because the 'recently released' Linux driver from AMI seems to work only with the latest Red Hat version (5.2) or the

source code for /bin/login?

1998-11-12 Thread John B. Fink
Hi folks, Due to an extreme amount of idiocy at the place where I work, I have need to modify the /bin/login program so that instead of displaying this -- adler login: it will display this -- login: I have looked through the /etc/login.defs file but can see no options to eliminate displaying

roll your own boot disk/MegaRAID info

1998-10-23 Thread John B. Fink
Hey folks, I've got a brand spankin' new Dell PowerEdge 6100 server with the works, four processors, 86 gigs of RAID-5 space, one gig of memory. So I'm happy, my boss(es) want me to put Debian on it, I'm even more happy. However, I've got a bit of a problem related to the RAID card -- to the

Re: configuration of network card

1998-10-09 Thread John B. Fink
On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, Wilson Tuma wrote: Hi I have asked this question b4 and did not get any satisfactory answer. So I will ask it in way that might make you people understand it better. I just bought a Network Card 3com905B-TX. This card model is not listed under modconf. What can

Re: Re(2): Newbie questions

1998-10-07 Thread John B. Fink
On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Adrian Gudas wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: other=/dev/hda1 label=dos table=/dev/hda in /etc/lilo.conf then run lilo at the prompt it will allow you to boot dos from the LILO: prompt by typing dos (to get a list of options press the tab key). Hmm Do

legality of mailing Debian CDs from US to overseas?

1998-10-05 Thread John B. Fink
Hey folks, I've just started a scheme for sending Debian x86 CDs (the binary-i386.raw images) free of charge to educational/non-profit institutions and affiliates -- http://adler.lib.muohio.edu/~jbfink/debian-giveaway. As of today I've sent out seven CDs -- three to US addresses, one to Canada,