Re: Open ports in Debian

2005-11-22 Thread Michael Gregg
port 111 will be used by rpc processes like NIS and NFS. port 113 is identd, used to identify the owner of a connection. port 903... I'm not sure. If you box is up on the world. I would suggest making a iptables(or equivilent) script that will block all but the wanted ports. IE, having

Re: IDE hdd faster than sata? How come?

2005-10-25 Thread Michael Gregg
Also you have to consider that many of the first and some of the second generation SATA drives are simply pata drives with bridge chips. The bridge chips reduce max bandwidth. You are also not going to be able to use things like commang queueing that SATA makes avalible with these dirves. most

Re: help please

2005-10-20 Thread Michael Gregg
On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 20:55 -0700, Ryan Thompson wrote: i want to get debian but i need to know, does it have a media player There are many media players. I prefer mplayer. Mplayer is not in the main tree for political reasons but if you google for mplayer on debian you can get instructions on

Re: Installing to SATA drives (was Re: SATA DVD not recognized)

2005-10-20 Thread Michael Gregg
1) Debian can not be installed on a SATA HD from scratch with a 2.6 kernel. Rather, one has to install with kernel 2.4, _then_ upgrade the kernel. This is so because, under 2.6, SATA is seen as SCSI, and somehow this makes the install program not see the IDE CD drive it is being installed

RE: Debian ISO images of etch (testing)

2005-10-06 Thread michael gregg
You probably want to use the images from: http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/ For i386, more secifically you will probably want: http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/i386/20051002/debian-tes ting-i386-netinst.iso Good luck. -Original Message- From:

Re: How to install under a SATA disk?

2005-10-03 Thread Michael Gregg
I'd suggest buying, or borrowing a usb cdrom to install with. Most motherboards support usb-cdrom booting now. Good luck- On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 02:07 -0700, Han Chunwei wrote: Hi, I have two questions to ask: 1. The cpu of my computer is AMD Athlon64 2800+, which distribution should I