Second Best - was Re: Best Hardware

2000-05-28 Thread Rob Lilley
Bart Szszka wrote: Well see, that's what I mean. There's hardware that is great on Windows, but there just aren't any drivers for it in Linux. Or sometimes the second best hardware for Windows ends up being the best option for Linux simply becausethe drivers are more complete. I

re: ISDN and Sprint

2000-05-20 Thread Rob Lilley
Brian Schramm asked: I live in a Sprint controlled area. And Ray Olszewski How does Sprint control an area for ISDN? Good question! I am not sure I really understand how ISDN is provided. I live in an area where Sprint is the telephone company like Bell Atlantic or Bell South are in other

consultant

2000-05-03 Thread Rob Lilley
I am seriously thinking of changing my WinNT LAN at work to Linux. There are connectivity issues, etc. I am seeking an Linux consultant in Northeast NJ. Please email if interested or know of anyone/company. I would rather deal with an individual than a company. My experience with

Emacs - was Re: Mail/news software

2000-05-01 Thread Rob Lilley
Different Strokes for different folks. Emacs - Show a newbie that and you will see the dust as he turns and runs back to the Windows camp smile. Emacs and Linux/Unix for that matter is not for everybody - its there because of and for the growing few that want to learn to swim upstream against

Re: Installing Debian from 2.1.R4 CD's...question

2000-04-30 Thread Rob Lilley
I would have to agree with Ron that the wording is confusing. I am a new user and as such easily confused. In my case the boot up kernel in resc1440.bin* recognized my NCR SCSI adapter, made reference to my SCSI CD-ROM in the boot up messages and went on to partition and mount my SCSI hard

tape drive device

2000-04-29 Thread Rob Lilley
I've installed the base and standard slink distributions, configured them and then went to do a tar archive to my Seagate 4mm SCSI tape drive. Bless me, there is no /dev/st0 to do this to. Are they not supported? Do I have to add another package or rebuild the kernel to get this driver? Rob

Re: install problem

2000-04-29 Thread Rob Lilley
Tony, et al, I just went through problems with the CD-ROM during install myself. I was trying to install the Debian O'Reilly\SGI\VA Linux distribution. The boot kernel didn't recognize my SCSI CD-ROM. I was afraid I was going to have to make lots of floppies to install the base system.

Mounting SCSI CD-ROM during Install

2000-04-28 Thread Rob Lilley
Hi all, I am attempting to install the stable version of Debian 2.1 distributed by O'Reilly. All is fine until install asks me to identify the CD-ROM where the Debian CD is. All of my drives are SCSI and this includes the CD-ROM. The floppy is IDE and I am booting from it (.This disk uses Linux