[expert] Comcast Switchover (DHCP Problem)

2002-01-05 Thread ryan_steffes
Here in South Jersey we have not officially made the switch. However, Friday morning without warning my cable modem stopped working. Previous set up: Cable Modem || (eth1 STATIC IP) Linux || (eth0 Internal IP) Switch = Win 98 || || Win Me Reading up on how the change went down (and after

Re: [expert] 686.rpm's

2001-09-17 Thread ryan_steffes
Is the benefit enough to actually bother going through and rebuilding? All the rpm's with mandrake 8.1 are 586, since I'm running a PIII is it worth it to rebuild, uninstall the old one and reinstall the new one? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] Changing mounts and partitions

2001-09-15 Thread ryan_steffes
Ok, it looks to me from reading the how-to I should be able, at least for usr and var, simply be able to partition a nice big section for them on the new drive and simply copy it all over and change the fstab and everything is hunky-dory. Is that right? Ry Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [expert] Changing mounts and partitions

2001-09-15 Thread ryan_steffes
Well by just trying it, the answers seems to be, Yes, Yes you can. I did: cd /usr cp -a . /new vi /etc fstab (changed the mount point for hdb3 from /new to /usr) mv /usr /usr2 mkdir /usr Then I rebooted and everything came up fine. Can anyone give me anything that may cause a problem in the