Re: Booting a sparc10

Sun, as far as I know, doesn't work their disklabels like x86 machines do. One thing I've found that you have to have is a type 5 partition (Whole disk) that encompasses the entire drive. Then create your partitions. You may be able to boot off a floppy, then add the partition through fdisk (IIR

Re: SCSI CDR+CD-ROM setup help needed (off-topic)

Since you say the CDR is terminated, I'm assuming it's last on the SCSI chain. The "Term Power" jumper on the CDR is the jumper that sets termination on or off on the device. With that jumper shorted, the CDR is a terminating device on the chain, so in your current setup, it should be the last dev

Re: IBM Ultrastar U2W problems

One thing you may want to check is the cable. That's one of the biggest trouble-makers when dealing with SCSI problems, especially in Linux, from what I've noticed. Low quality or older cables are notorious for giving headaches, especially with high-speed SCSI. Another thing I would recommend is

Re: New Install

A block device is generally a physical storage device, such as a hard drive of CD-ROM drive. Assuming your system is based on IDE storage, your CD drive will be /dev/hdX where X=the IDE device number. The naming convention is simple once you get the hang of it: Primary Master=hda; Primary Slav

RE:

The source tarball (from www.samba.org) comes with a script (mksmbpasswd.sh) to do so. In 2.0.2, the default location for this file is /usr/local/samba/private/smbpasswd. I may have just gotten lucky, but the samba 2.0.2 debs from potato installed the smbpasswd file by default (I think). As for

RE: Sound Access

Dave, If I recall correctly, it's "adduser audio username" I had the same prob when i set up my machine Dave Harden wrote: > Hi guys - > > I'm a old linux junkie [slackware then Redhat], but new Debian user. > Looks like by default the audio devices are only accessible by root - > what's th

Re: help for samba.conf

I just managed to fix a similar problem myself. I could see the Samba server from the Windows machines, but couldn't browse the shares, although i thought everything was set up right. I had to add encrypted password support for the Win98 boxen on the network. Then I added the following lines t