Adding Drives

2001-10-24 Thread Michael Grover
Does anybody know where I can find info on ading second hard drives? I added the second drive, ran MAKEDEV hdc , ran mke2fs /dev/hdc , added a entry to the fstab file in the /etc directory. But I can not mount it? fstab line = /dev/hdc1 /data ext2defaults 11 when I try to

Re: Adding Drives

2001-10-24 Thread Michael Grover
Ok, I made a dir on hda3 called /data I was then able to mount hdc1. This has me confused? why I need a mount point on hda to get to hdc? Is there a place I can get more info on mount points, etc etc? mike Michael Heldebrant wrote: On Tue, 2001-10-23 at 23:02, Michael Grover wrote

Samba

2001-10-24 Thread Michael Grover
Hi all. Ok, I added my second drive(thanks all for the help), I have it added to my fstab file. I have a share setup in my smb.conf file sharing it. I setup a group that has read and write permission to that drive. My problem is that I want all to be able to create and read and modify files in

Debian Linux

2001-10-07 Thread Michael Grover
Well, after installing and using debian linux(2.2r3) for a few days, I will have to say I like it best. I have used Redhat, Mandrake, SUSE, SlackWare, and a few other Distro's, but none made me feel like I was in control as much as debian does! Debian makes me want to dive in and learn all it's

Boot Process

2001-10-07 Thread Michael Grover
Can Some tell me if there is a link on the debian web site that gives detailed information on the boot process, like when files get started from the init.d directory, etc etc mike...

Man

2001-10-06 Thread Michael Grover
is there any on-line version of the man pages? like for man 5 interfaces I tried man 5 interfaces mike.txt but there was so many control chars that the text file was too hard to read. mike

Re: Man

2001-10-06 Thread Michael Grover
I was wanting it in a text file to print. The -t option will work great! My hat's off to all on this mail group!! Your replies are quick and informative. mike Richard Hector wrote: Michael Grover wrote: I tried man 5 interfaces mike.txt but there was so many control chars

Pon

2001-10-06 Thread Michael Grover
I have configured ppp on my machine to dial out and have setup a fire wall script using ipChains. All my home computers access the internet fine. (soon to have DSL setup, waiting on phone company) All is working good except, I use pon to connect, after I have connetced, It starts wwwoffle. I

Startup

2001-10-06 Thread Michael Grover
In debian I don't find a rc.local file, is there a file that I can use to run some shell scripts at boot? maybe at final boot? thanks, mike

xWindows, HELP....

2001-10-06 Thread Michael Grover
Well, I Configured xwindows ans started it. The first time I ran it I just got a blue screen with mouse pointer. Now when I boot my machine, I get a xWindows login prompt. I can't get to a bash prompt to fix my xWindows config. If I try ctrl+alt+backspace it takes me back to a xWindows login

xWindows

2001-10-06 Thread Michael Grover
Well, I got around my xWindows start up problem. I booted up with cdrom, went into rescue mode, mounted my hard drive, dumped into a shell, and deleted my XF86Config file. I found out why my XWindows was not working, I put /dev/tty0 instead of ttyS0 for my mouse. Now I have a easy question? The

Re: xWindows

2001-10-06 Thread Michael Grover
I don't think I have WindowMaker Installed? what is package Name? mike Karsten M. Self wrote: on Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 05:23:54PM -0500, Michael Grover ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Well, I got around my xWindows start up problem. I booted up with cdrom, went into rescue mode

Packages

2001-10-06 Thread Michael Grover
Is there a way to get a list of available packages from apt-get? mike...

Re: Packages

2001-10-06 Thread Michael Grover
Ok, I found them listed on the Debian web site.. mike Michael Grover wrote: Is there a way to get a list of available packages from apt-get? mike... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Packages

2001-10-06 Thread Michael Grover
How can i get a package into the apt-get list, or install a .deb file? mike...

IPChains

2001-10-06 Thread Michael Grover
I have a IPChains Shell script that I have been using On RedHat and Mandrake for about a year, It works well with debian 2.2 r3 if anybody wants it? mike

Re: IPChains

2001-10-06 Thread Michael Grover
attached is shell script set these three variables accordingly at top of script and run, I am using right now on a dialup connection :-) EXTERNALIP=207.41.66.332 could be 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 for dialup NETWORKIP=192.168.0.50/255.255.255.0 private network

network

2001-10-05 Thread Michael Grover
Ok, I have sucessfully installed my network card :-) A debian doc I downloaded from the www.debian.org web site says that I sould put info need to bring up my eth0 interface in a file called /etc/init.d/network I don't have this file? I did find a file /etc/networking and put it in the top of

Re: network

2001-10-05 Thread Michael Grover
in /etc/network/interfaces ~mark - Original Message - From: Michael Grover [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 7:01 PM Subject: network Ok, I have sucessfully installed my network card :-) A debian doc I downloaded from