Re: It's MY computer, not Bill's!

- WinNT 4.0 (did not test) Works like a charm. - Linux 2.x (Installed caldera openlinux 2.4 and RedHat with x on my debian woody, no complaints) Add Suse, Turbo, Trustix, and Mandrake to that list. Sam Morgan

CDrecord DEVICE

I have the following instructions from http://www.astaro.com/doc/burn-howto_en.html The most efficient and easiest way is to type the following command: cdrecord -v dev=DEVICE fs=4096k -eject -pad -useinfo -dao -data Astaro_Security_Linux_ISO_IMAGE (or easier: cdrecord -v dev=DEVICE -data

dselect problems

dselect says access method is already locked .??? how do I unlock it? this was due to my attempted installing bluefish from a .deb file on the hd not I can't get back in to make it look on the web sites? Sam Morgan

Re: dselect problems

mike polniak wrote: SamBozo Debian User wrote: dselect says access method is already locked .??? how do I unlock it? deslect is still running. so find it and kill -9 -- LINUX~~nobody owns it~~everybody can use it~~anybody can improve it thanks ... I missed that ... I had

incorrect memory

I have just completed my 1st kernal compile. Things seem fine except for my memory. I have 256m originally (b4 the compile) it was all recognized. Now only 64m is recognized. I have done the append=mem=256M on another box when the bios didn't recognize the memory correctly. But since this use to

Re: incorrect memory

ktb wrote: On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 06:41:59PM +, SamBozo Debian User wrote: I have just completed my 1st kernal compile. Things seem fine except for my memory. I have 256m originally (b4 the compile) it was all recognized. Now only 64m is recognized. I have done the append=mem=256M

Re: Kernel upgrade

Did you install off a CD? If so just snag the kernel source off that. Read - http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-kernel.html That should answer a lot of questions. http://home.xnet.com/~darogers/debian_university.txt helped me make it thru. Sam Morgan When you upgrade to 2.4.2 read -

Re: incorrect memory

I don't really know, maybe someone who does will chime in here. Just a thought after you compiled your new kernel did you rerun /sbin/lilo before you booted? If not, I'd take the append line out and rerun lilo, boot and see if everything is fine. Just a thought. kent yep I ran lilo after

Re: incorrect memory

Nate Amsden wrote: did you change any bios settings or perhaps do a flash upgrade? i have seen that certain bios settings do affect how much memory linux can see(although i haven't been able to track down exactly which ones). i have 3 mainboards in 3 different servers with slightly

Bluefish install

Hi all, I want to install bluefish 0.6.1-1 however there are dependancy problems. I might have a shot at doing this on my old Mandrake box ... but with Debian 2.2 I have no clue. I tried looking with dselect but had no luck. Yes I know there is an earlier version but I don't like the

VMware install

Here is the error: - Trying to find a suitable vmmon module for your running kernel. None of VMware's pre-built vmmon modules is suitable for your running kernel. Do you want this script to try to build the vmmon module for your system (you need to have a C

Re: Nameservers

All is joy, Browsing tasksel I looked at the info on the DNS packages. dnsutils - Utilities for Querying DNS Servers was one of the entrys. I tried an apt-get install dnsutils error was it was already installed. So I thought I'd try removal and reinstallation. After apt-get remove

Nameservers

I have a new install of debian 2.2 potato on another box. It has the same nameserver entrys in /etc/resolve.config ... as this box has. But it won't resolve ip's. I had to use ftp://207.XXX.XXX.XXX/debian potato main as my entry in /etc/apt/sources.list just to get apt-get update would

Re: Nameservers

Nate Amsden wrote: SamBozo Debian User wrote: I have a new install of debian 2.2 potato on another box. It has the same nameserver entrys in /etc/resolve.config ... as this box be sure its resolv.conf not resolv.config nate my bad resolv.confis the file in question also

Re: CDROM device..

William Leese wrote: okay, this.. is stupid question.. being completely spoilt by Redhats simplicity.. i'm unaware of which device /dev/cdrom was linked to. ..can someone, give me a hint? William -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: CDROM device..

Ah Cmd Line Magic ... I am continuly awestruck. Now if I could just remember all this stuff. But I go the next best thing Linux in a Nutshell and Running Linux race ya to see who's wares out 1st Sam ktb wrote: On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 03:05:16PM +, SamBozo Debian User wrote: William

Rebooting is foolish ....

Hello to the group, Recently there were comments made as to the foolishness of rebooting just to reset an edited config file. How about a list of the cli entrys that would have accomplished this? Are there different ones for different config files? SHUP something? blabla

Rebooting woes ..was.. Rebooting is foolish ....

Nate Amsden wrote: try avoid rebooting whenever possible. i had a bad experience with rebooting not too long ago. a sun ultra 10..up for about 130 days..shut it down to move a UPS, it never came back up. spent the next 15-20 hours rebuilding it. nate I Have had a simular experience

Linuxconf

I have my Deb box on a 192.168.1.xxx network which deb setup during install. I recently needed to change over to direct access (bypassing the intranet) to the internet. I went into linuxconf and made the changes. No Joy ... internet was inaccessable. I have done this on a mandrake box and it