Re: redhat 5.1 question

2004-07-14 Thread Dan Jenkins
Fred wrote: On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 17:55, Dan Jenkins wrote: c.e.smith wrote: Can anyone remember the graphical program that allowed you to view files and the directories that was available in redhat 5.1 and 6.0 etc. It was similar to the rudimentary dos shell program of days gone by. I hav

Re: Installing on a USB drive

2004-07-14 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Jul 14, 2004, at 20:52, Tom Buskey wrote: Knoppix boots from CD and will store $HOME and your setting to an USB drive too. With encryption. Knoppix is probably the right route. You can use it to install Debian onto pretty much anything it can mount. A generic USB mass storage device ought

Re: Any Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee area folks on this list?

2004-07-14 Thread Stephen Ryan
On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 15:56, Bill McGonigle wrote: > Hi, Folks, > > If anyone on this list is in the Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee area and is > interested in participating in a reconstituted DLSLUG, please get in > touch. I'd like to perhaps have a meeting this month. I'd be interested; I can'

Re: Installing on a USB drive

2004-07-14 Thread Tom Buskey
Bruce Dawson wrote: Has anyone found a distribution that will install on a USB drive? So A little googling & viola: http://linuxconsole.sunsite.dk/ http://www.pcquest.com/content/linux/104010505.asp http://featherlinux.berlios.de/usb-instructions.htm There are of course floppy based linuxen that mi

Re: Installing on a USB drive

2004-07-14 Thread ksandre
Bruce Dawson wrote: Has anyone found a distribution that will install on a USB drive? Slackware 10.0 appears to do it, though I have not tried it myself. From the ChangeLog.txt: "isolinux/initrd.img, rootdisks/install.*: Added support for installing from USB or IEEE1394 CD/DVD drives. F

Installing on a USB drive

2004-07-14 Thread Bruce Dawson
Has anyone found a distribution that will install on a USB drive? So far, I've tried Libranet, Fedora Core 2, and Debian 3. None of them recognized the USB drive at install time. (But if I Alt-F2, then I can fiddle around with modprobe and get things limping along, but only on Libranet). I'm looki

Re: SLUG meeting tonight 7pm Morse hall 301 Topic is CVS

2004-07-14 Thread Nigel Stewart
Tonight the SLUG meeting topic will be CVS revision control system software. Geez. Another notice on the same day as the meeting. I'd have wanted to be there. I'd have brought a demonstration of Subversion... If I may chime-in on that... I would have planned to drive from Lebanon i