ings. Good for me, since at my current place
of employment, I support various quantities of Fedora, Red Hat Linux,
Red Hat Enterprise, CentOS, SuSE, Debian, Ubuntu, FreeBSD, NetBSD,
OpenBSD, Solaris, Mac OS X, NT4, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, and a
small handful of other wac
On Feb 27, 2007, at 8:59 AM, Tom Buskey wrote:
Most people seem to be doing just one distribution. Is anyone else
doing multiples?
Similar. FC6/Ubuntu LTS/WinXPPro on the primary laptop, OS X Tiger
primary desktop, in-house servers running FC version x, CentOS.
Commercial servers running
OSX On my Macbook (with a WinXP Parallels VM for work stuff)
Ubuntu Server on my colo server
Ubuntu Server on my home server (file/print)
KnoppMyth on my new MythTV box in the basement
and a mix of CentOS and Fedora at work
I also have an old Dell laptop for a "backup" that runs Wi
On Tuesday 27 February 2007 09:59 am, Ben Scott wrote:
> LVM (which I use extensively) is really nice for trying multiple
> distributions. Virtualization (VMware, Xen, etc.) is making that
> practice obsolete, but at least right now, IME, a VM is still not the
> same as running something "on the
d of
printing. They run uLinux.
I also have various old Sun systems, Macintosh 68k systems, PCs and an SGI
Indy that I might run every now and then.
I use Knoppix for rescue and similar purposes on a semi-regular basis.
And they're awesome to give out to people asking 'Hey, what's this
On Tuesday 27 February 2007 08:59 am, Tom Buskey wrote:
> Most people seem to be doing just one distribution. Is anyone else doing
> multiples?
Debian Stable on my desktop.
Debian Stable on my laptop.
Debian Stable on home firewall/router/VPN endpoint.
Kubuntu on wife's laptop and Win2K on wife's
White Box Enterprise Linux, a RHEL clone.
I've got a TiVo and a LinkSys WRT54G, both of which run Linux (and
are entered into the Linux Counter (http://counter.li.org) as such!).
I use Knoppix for rescue and similar purposes on a semi-regular basis.
The GNHLUG server (liberty.gnhlug.org)
Just Debian at home & work, and one of the FC's on a webserver... and
the FC will go away shortly, I don't have enough knowledge of weird
corners to keep it uncrufted under the onslaught of "hey I'm
installing foo" from the guy I was sharing the server with, who's just
competent enough to be dange
On 2/27/07, Star <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Next on the adgenda... Gnome is so much better than KDE because...
Oh sure. Ben spends a half an hour crafting 'the perfect intro' to
flame city, and what do you respond with?
A one liner.. Shoulda known part II would suck. :-)
--
-- Thomas
__
Most people seem to be doing just one distribution. Is anyone else doing
multiples?
I'm running:
Xubuntu on my laptop (I wanted to learn some debianisms)
WinXP on the family PC
MacOSX on the family Macintosh
Fedora on my home server (I grew up w/ RedHat/Mandrake after starting w
On 2/26/07, Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 2/26/07, Bayard Coolidge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What I was referring to was the quagmire of interdependencies in some
> packages that make it difficult/impractical to update to new versions
> conveniently.
Libraries enable code re-use.
At this point, the subject line has become something of an in-joke,
although I will concede I may be the only one "in" on it.
Oh no! Actually, I should have known better than to be sipping coffee while
opening this thread... Ah well, that's why there's a stack of keyboards
over there...
An
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 09:04:46PM -0500, Ben Scott wrote:
> On 2/26/07, Dan Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Whats scarier? vim /etc/config_file.config or kate
> >/etc/config_file.config? Its not that scary, you don't need to edit many
> >many config files.
>
> "Scary" from the point of view
I wouldn't mind making a presentation, it can't be right away though.I
could do it sometime. What other things do you want to know? I will work
on a presentation, so I won't answer them via email.
Dan
Ben Scott wrote:
On 2/26/07, Dan Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Whats scarier? vim /etc/
On 2/26/07, Dan Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Whats scarier? vim /etc/config_file.config or kate
/etc/config_file.config? Its not that scary, you don't need to edit many
many config files.
"Scary" from the point of view of P17T [1].
1. PDOTLREBTWWLLAPACTT [2]
2. People doing ordinary task
Libraries enable code re-use. Now programmers don't have to
continuously re-invent the wheel; they can build on the word of
others. Shared libraries mean you only have to update one .so to fix
a bug or security hole; you don't have to rebuild/update everything
that uses it. Sounds like a win,
On 2/26/07, Bill Mullen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
suggested in the past that something like a cross between BSD ports
> and RPM might be a good solution for many problems. Something that,
> with one simple command, could automatically download all the needed
> source packages, configure, bui
On 2/26/07, Neil Joseph Schelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Why does everything have to be a flame war? Your response fits in a flame
war, but not his.
Actually, my response was more like a desultory, goalless rant (very
similar to ESR's original post, in fact). To be a proper flame, I
have t
On Monday 26 February 2007 06:34 pm, Ben Scott wrote:
> On 2/26/07, Paul Lussier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > If esr moves to Debian and sticks with stable he won't have *these*[1]
> > problems.
>
> You can screw up just about any system, including one running Debian
> stable
He made a poi
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 06:34:36PM -0500, Ben Scott wrote:
> On 2/26/07, Paul Lussier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >and they don't make into testing without going through unstable for a
> >while.
>
> I thought things only had to be in "unstable" for seven days,
> without any issues being filed a
On 2/26/07, Bill Mullen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
suggested in the past that something like a cross between BSD ports
> and RPM might be a good solution for many problems. Something that,
> with one simple command, could automatically download all the needed
> source packages, configure, build
I discovered that my network interfaces
were no longer configured.
The really funky part is that I'm fairly sure that I had not run any
apt-get upgrade's since the last time I booted the system into Linux,
and it was working fine then. On the off chance that I had upgraded
my ker
On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 17:22:06 -0500
"Ben Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In response to the source/binary discussion:
>
> Building from source *does* bypass a lot of problems. It has been
> suggested in the past that something like a cross between BSD ports
> and RPM might be a good solut
"Thomas Charron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> I feel sorry for the ubuntu-devel list when he hits his first dpkg
>> circular dependency.
>
> The dependency couldn't be met. The package maintainer screwed up,
> and had it dependent on a version of a package that wasn't available.
This ill
On 2/26/07, Bayard Coolidge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What I was referring to was the quagmire of interdependencies in some
packages that make it difficult/impractical to update to new versions
conveniently.
That is another aspect to this disgusting mess.
I tried building GNOME from source
No, that's not what I was referring to as nonsensical - I do understand
the legal issues around DVD thoroughly, as much as I detest them.
What I was referring to was the quagmire of interdependencies in some
packages that make it difficult/impractical to update to new versions
conveniently. (I hav
On 2/26/07, Bayard Coolidge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
... the last dozen or two that I've tried don't seem to do
the trick, and there's no x86_64.rpm available.
Good luck with that. A lot of video playback on Linux depends on
ripping the libraries out of MS Windows. And since those are all
On Monday 26 February 2007 09:52 am, Bayard Coolidge wrote:
> I'm still trying to get DVDs to play on my x86_64-based SuSE 10.2
> system; Kaffeine complains that the DVD is encrypted, and neither it nor
> VLC can make use of libdvdcss-1.2.8-2.network.i386.rpm or
> libdvdcss2-1.2.9-1.i386.rpm. I sus
nt. I don't know, and won't
attempt to speculate on, ESR's specific issues with Fedora but I can
understand some of his frustration. Fedora, SuSE, and the other major
distros shouldn't be aimed solely at very savvy developers, but should
be installable by newbies. I'm not a n
However, the "build most things from source" solution is not without
issues itself. It it slower than binary packages (imagine installing
the first GNOME package this way -- please wait while we build the
world from source). It's largely incompatible with the world of
closed-source, binary-only
ty your cs
skills are", adoption of Linux for regular users is going to continue to be
low.
Actually, I suspect ESR was just pissed that his system was screwed
up, and ranted in the general direction of Fedora because that's what
he happened to be using. How his system got screwed up, I expect
I don't love the style of ESR's comments, but I think that maybe some folks
on the list are missing his point. I believe he is trying to express that as
long as installing software has anything to do with how "rusty your cs
skills are", adoption of Linux for regular users is going to continue to b
Nigel Stewart wrote:
Without disagreeing with your points about how open source is
"supposed to work", I think doing better repo quality control
would be a good direction for things to go. There doesn't seem
much point in letting a repo get into a inconsistent state and
letting that flow downst
For somebody whose CS isn't as rusty as mine - I think one should be
able to setup a dedicated process to watch a repo and build graphs of
dependencies and preemptively find this kind of breakage. Comments?
Yes, you probably could, but that's what the million monkeys on the
Internet are doing
d go file a bug at bugzilla.redhat.com.
Granted I've had mixed success with that avenue.
Were I desperate I'd grab an SRPM and edit a SPEC file. That's clearly
not something most users know how to do.
Fedora is not aimed at "most users." Fedora is not meant to be
On 2/24/07, Bill McGonigle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Feb 24, 2007, at 10:02, Thomas Charron wrote:
> The dependency couldn't be met. The package maintainer screwed up,
> and had it dependent on a version of a package that wasn't available.
Ah, OK, thanks for the correction.
Still, if I hit
switching to Ubuntu.
I recently switched from Fedora Core to Kubuntu, and so far, so good.
I couldn't agree more about the stagnation of rpm. For quite a while
I've felt that there souldn't actually be a need to extract all the
files into the filesystem. It ought to be a matter
On Feb 24, 2007, at 10:02, Thomas Charron wrote:
The dependency couldn't be met. The package maintainer screwed up,
and had it dependent on a version of a package that wasn't available.
Ah, OK, thanks for the correction.
Still, if I hit that problem I'd go file a bug at
bugzilla.redhat.co
On 2/23/07, Bill McGonigle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
My translation: "I couldn't figure out a dependency so I went
deleting system packages without knowing or checking what the
consequences would be and I didn't know how to recover from that
point. That's terribly embarrassing, but rather than
My translation: "I couldn't figure out a dependency so I went
deleting system packages without knowing or checking what the
consequences would be and I didn't know how to recover from that
point. That's terribly embarrassing, but rather than ask for advice
or autodopeslap, I'll make a big
Jerry,
> It is also interesting that the Huffman algorithm was published in a
> number of computer science books and was originally published in 1952.
As you know, publication of the algorithm has nothing to do with the
protection of a patent as long as it was done after the patent was
taken.
L
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 19:31:33 -0500
"Jon 'maddog' Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > It's friggen insane that they're choosing to enforce the patent NOW,
> > after so many years.
> >
>
> No, I call it the "Unisys theory".
>
> Many years ago Hoffman encoding was used for the AT&T pack(1) c
On 2/22/07, Thomas Charron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Oh, please. Do you really think Thomson is going to agree to
license for perpetual unlimited distribution to other parties? If
they did, then *everyone else* could use the same license, and their
*entire revenue stream* from MP3 would evap
> It's friggen insane that they're choosing to enforce the patent NOW,
> after so many years.
>
No, I call it the "Unisys theory".
Many years ago Hoffman encoding was used for the AT&T pack(1) command.
AT&T used it, BSD used it, Sun used it, etc. and it had been published
in many books. It
> Some of
> which are local in Massachusetts and are, needless to say, very large.
>
Yes, and right now I would think they are shaking in their boots.
The good news is that the Alcatel/Lucent vs MS battle seems as much a
grudge match as a revenue stream at this point.
>Alcatel-Lucent's Ambrus d
On 2/22/07, Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 2/22/07, Thomas Charron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> http://www.mp3licensing.com/royalty/software.html
> 50,000$ one time up front fee, and they can solve the issue of an
> Open Source MP3 player. For everyone.
Oh, please. Do you really th
> 50,000$ one time up front fee, and they can solve the issue of an
> Open Source MP3 player. For everyone.
>
It was inadvertent that my news article about the $1.5 billion dollar
settlement on MP3 technology crossed your email about mp3 licensing, but
I did want to point out that I do not thi
On 2/22/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Speaking of MP3s and "being sued to smithereens".
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6161480.html?tag=nl.e589
And it could not have happened to nicer people...
QQ
Thanks for the link, I wasn't aware of that particular news article.
I
On 2/22/07, Thomas Charron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
http://www.mp3licensing.com/royalty/software.html
50,000$ one time up front fee, and they can solve the issue of an
Open Source MP3 player. For everyone.
Oh, please. Do you really think Thomson is going to agree to
license for perpetua
On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 17:21 -0500, Ben Scott wrote:
> On 2/22/07, Thomas Charron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > And be able to do some core desktop features. Like say.. Play MP3
> > files.. :-D
>
> In order for Red Hat (or the "Fedora Project"; I'
On 2/22/07, Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 2/22/07, Thomas Charron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> And be able to do some core desktop features. Like say.. Play MP3
> files.. :-D
In order for Red Hat (or the "Fedora Project"; I'm not sure about
l
On 2/22/07, Thomas Charron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
And be able to do some core desktop features. Like say.. Play MP3
files.. :-D
In order for Red Hat (or the "Fedora Project"; I'm not sure about
legal status there) to include MP3 support in their distribution, th
r than blank denial.
Fedora as a distribution has stayed pretty "pure" with respect to not
shipping what is defined by them to be "free". Other distributions have
been a little less restrictive in this sense, and this causes these
distributions to be somewhat easier to install
roprietary multimedia formats
with any attitude other than blank denial.
Fedora as a distribution has stayed pretty "pure" with respect to not
shipping what is defined by them to be "free". Other distributions have
been a little less restrictive in this sense, and this ca
On 2/22/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I find Alan to be too much like ESR to put any stock in his words. This is,
afterall, the same guy that censored the kernel changelog back in 2.2.20
because he didn't like the DMCA
Oh common, that was friggen hilarious!
--
-- Thom
-- Original message --
From: "Jon 'maddog' Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I could not agree with you more, which is why I sent my email.
I like reading the source. It gives it a nice context, and the humor value of
the replies is worth the time.
> I liked Alan Cox'
On 2/22/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 11:39 -0500, Thomas Charron wrote:
> On 2/22/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Right up till the:
> "That was said by Eric Raymond who belongs to another movement"
> -
On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 11:39 -0500, Thomas Charron wrote:
> On 2/22/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I could not agree with you more, which is why I sent my email.
> > I liked Alan Cox's response the best.
>
> Right up till the:
>
> "That was said by Eric Raymond who
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:26:34 -0500
"Chris Linstid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Isn't this the same guy that made such a huge deal a few years ago
> about getting a "phone interview offer" from Microsoft? He wrote some
> offensive letter back to the recruiter saying he was an idiot for
> trying t
esponse.
But, this also points out that the Linux community is a free market. If
we don't like SuSE, we can chose Mandrivia, Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, or
a number of distros.
The free market also exists in the Windows environment, you can get any
flavor of Windows as long as it is Microsoft
On Thursday, Feb 22nd 2007 at 10:51 -0500, quoth Ben Scott:
=>On 2/22/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
=>> I prefer to read the original source from the original target:
=>> www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-February/msg01006.html
=
On 2/22/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I could not agree with you more, which is why I sent my email.
I liked Alan Cox's response the best.
Right up till the:
"That was said by Eric Raymond who belongs to another movement"
- Richard Stallman
N
Chris
On 2/22/07, Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 2/22/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I prefer to read the original source from the original target:
> www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-February/msg01006.html
His complaints s
I could not agree with you more, which is why I sent my email.
I liked Alan Cox's response the best.
md
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On 2/22/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I prefer to read the original source from the original target:
www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-February/msg01006.html
His complaints seem rather vague and lacking in any kind of goal.
More to the point, wh
One of the responses was pretty good:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-February/msg01051.html
Regards,
--kevin
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On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 09:29 -0500, Michael ODonnell wrote:
> Eric Raymond rants:
>
> "After thirteen years as a loyal Red Hat and Fedora user, I reached
> my limit today, when an attempt to upgrade one (1) package pitched
> me into a four-hour marathon of dependency ch
Eric Raymond rants:
"After thirteen years as a loyal Red Hat and Fedora user, I reached
my limit today, when an attempt to upgrade one (1) package pitched
me into a four-hour marathon of dependency chasing, at the end of
which an attempt to get around a trivial file conflict rendere
On 1/8/07, Todd Littlefield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If I remember correctly, underscores are not allowed in names. Only
a-z, 0-9 and the hyphen character are acceptable.
Right. Internet names should contain only those characters, and
begin and end with a letter or number (dashes in the mi
If I remember correctly, underscores are not allowed in names. Only
a-z, 0-9 and the
hyphen character are acceptable. I can't quote the RFC, but someone here
probably can ;-)
Python wrote:
(For Your Information - it may save you some grief)
amanda would not backup my laptop. There were no u
(For Your Information - it may save you some grief)
amanda would not backup my laptop. There were no useful error messages
in the amanda log. I finally ran tcpdump to monitor the chit-chat and
discovered that reverse lookup for my LAN (192.168.0.x) numbers was not
working.
host 192.168.0.5
Ho
On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 11:27 -0400, Ben Scott wrote:
> On 8/4/06, Python <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I've been unable to to install packages from the fedora core
> > repositories (and mirrors).
>
> FWIW, I booted my FC5 install, and yum Worked For Me(TM).
On 8/4/06, Python <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've been unable to to install packages from the fedora core
repositories (and mirrors).
FWIW, I booted my FC5 install, and yum Worked For Me(TM). The
fedora-core.repo file does contain a URL that looks like the URL that
was giving
I've been unable to to install packages from the fedora core
repositories (and mirrors). Here's an example of what happens:
# yum install hexedit
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/os/RPMS/hexedit-1.2.12-3.2.i386.rpm:
[Errno -1] Header is not complete.
Tr
Any shot you could email us the output of "iptables -L" with the firewall on?
-N
On Saturday 17 June 2006 03:30 pm, Glenn Shaw wrote:
> I have been setting up Synergy on a computer running FC5. With the
> firewall disabled is works OK and sees the Server. When I restore the
> firewall it says it
I have been setting up Synergy on a computer running FC5. With the
firewall disabled is works OK and sees the Server. When I restore the
firewall it says it can not see the server and connect with it. I have
port 24800 entered as a trusted service. I tried rebooting after making
the firewal
Hi all,
This week I got a Buffalo LinkStation Home Server, which is basically
a NAS type device that exports a SMB mount point. I have a Fedora Core
3 system which is able to mount the device using smbmount but is
unable to write more than 2G to it. At first I thought this was a
LinkStation issue
> port, so that might be a good idea.
I'm comming back to my original theme. FC5 install can't
access the files using http, but konqueror on knoppix has no trouble.
It's hard to believe that Fedora team didn't test the net install at
all, so perhaps it has so
Jason Stephenson writes:
> ... It must have something to do with that machine having an AT
> keyboard port and I'm using an AT/PS-2 adapter to connect it to the
> KVM.)
At keyboard and PS/2 keyboard use the same electrical and
signalling protocol. An adapter is just connectors and wir
Ben Scott wrote:
Perhaps, an upgrade or a switch to a different firewall software is in order.
What are you using now?
Currently, it is a relatively old release of IP Filter (ipf) from
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ that was hacked up by the OpenBSD
folks before the licensing "clarif
On 3/23/06, John Abreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just a minor nit; PASV mode wasn't invented to deal with firewalls; if I
> recall correctly, it was part of the ftp spec early on, and its intended
> purpose was for server-to-server transfers.
Ah. Interesting. I stand corrected.
On 3/23/06
n't working. Perhaps, an upgrade or a switch to a different
firewall software is in order. I seem to recall FTP proxy working
properly when I used ipfw.
Sorry, I didn't add much to help the OP. I've never tried a Fedora FTP
install. I've done it with Slackware, OpenBSD an
Ben Scott wrote:
Since that obviously sucks for any number of reasons, passive mode
was created. PASV has the *server* listen on an ephemeral port, which
it tells the client about. The client then connects to that port for
the data channel.
Just a minor nit; PASV mode wasn't invented to dea
On 3/23/06, Bill Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It was a good try. With the subnetword temporarily isolated
> from the rest of the world, and the server firewall disabled, I could
> ftp from knoppix in passive mode, including data connections ...
Woo who!
> ... but FC5 installer
Ben Scott writes:
> On 3/23/06, Bill Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > An interesting additional data point is that if I tell the ftp
> > client on Knoppix to use passive mode, then I can no longer do
> > transfers.
>
> Ah-ha! I, too, suspect the cause of that problem is also causing
On 3/23/06, Bill Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> An interesting additional data point is that if I tell the ftp
> client on Knoppix to use passive mode, then I can no longer do
> transfers.
Ah-ha! I, too, suspect the cause of that problem is also causing a
problem for the installer. I wou
Ben Scott writes:
> On 3/23/06, Bill Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Both machines are on the inside side of the router, from which
> > point of view I presume that it acts like a switch or hub.
>
> Oh. I believe you are correct, there. So much for that theory. :-/
On 3/23/06, Bill Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Both machines are on the inside side of the router, from which
> point of view I presume that it acts like a switch or hub.
Oh. I believe you are correct, there. So much for that theory. :-/
-- Ben
Ben Scott writes:
> On 3/22/06, Bill Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I've got a box with the iso files on it, mounted via the loop
> > back device, and vsftpd running behind my router.
>
> Is your router between the FTP server and the FTP client? Is the
> router performing
an IP
> address as the server "name".
It has been years since I've done a Red Hat install via FTP, but
back in the RHL 6.x days, a numeric IP address worked.
The Google search
http://www.google.com/search?q=fedora+install+ftp+%22ip+address%22
finds plenty of pages that suggest
I've made enough coasters with the name of an office supply
store printed on them, so I decided to try an ftp install of Fedora 5.
I've got a box with the iso files on it, mounted via the loop
back device, and vsftpd running behind my router. From the target
box, using
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Subject: Re: Are there problems using hardware RAID with Redhat Fedora Core
4?
On 1/19/06, hewitt_tech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I
On 1/20/06, hewitt_tech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dell included some CDs with the new system but not the OpenManage Server
> Administrator disk which is supposed to provide the RAID management
> utilities. I've been poking around the Dell web site looking for the
> required software but so far n
On 1/19/06, hewitt_tech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm installing Fedora Core 4 on a Dell SC1420 server that contains a
> hardware SATA RAID controller and 3 80 GB drives. So far it appears that the
> hardware RAID (Dell Cerc /Adaptec) makes the 3 drives transparent to the
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From: "Neil Joseph Schelly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 7:48 PM
Subject: Re: Are there problems using hardware RAID with Redhat Fedora Core
4?
On Thursday 19 January 2006 07:12 pm, hewitt_tech wrote:
controll
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Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 7:41 PM
Subject: Re: Are there problems using hardware RAID with Redhat Fedora Core
4?
hewitt_tech wrote:
I'm installing Fedora Core 4 on a Dell SC1420 server that contains a
hardware SATA RAID controller and 3 80 GB drives. So far it appears th
On Thursday 19 January 2006 07:12 pm, hewitt_tech wrote:
> controlled from the BIOS. Anyone know of any problems setting up a system
> this way?
I know that's easily the best way to do it, keeping proprietary drivers are
far away from the OS as possible. With the "single" effectively just being
hewitt_tech wrote:
I'm installing Fedora Core 4 on a Dell SC1420 server that contains a
hardware SATA RAID controller and 3 80 GB drives. So far it appears that
the hardware RAID (Dell Cerc /Adaptec) makes the 3 drives transparent to
the OS. That is Linux just saw an ~148 GB driv
I'm installing Fedora Core 4 on a Dell SC1420
server that contains a hardware SATA RAID controller and 3 80 GB drives. So far
it appears that the hardware RAID (Dell Cerc /Adaptec) makes the 3 drives
transparent to the OS. That is Linux just saw an ~148 GB drive and installed on
it wi
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