Hi everyone,
Yesterday I tried to install Ubuntu on a friends PC - a much needed
conversion as I see it - he's a devout windows junkie (but keen to try
linux :)...
So it got about 20 seconds into the install process, chose language
and so on, then had a fatal error (still in the
On Sun, January 30, 2005 9:21 pm, Hugo Vincent said:
Hi everyone,
Yesterday I tried to install Ubuntu on a friends PC - a much needed
conversion as I see it - he's a devout windows junkie (but keen to try
linux :)...
So it got about 20 seconds into the install process, chose language
and
Thanks Nick,
On 30/01/2005, at 9:35 PM, Nick Rout wrote:
snip
I thought we could try a network install (either over the internet or
off my laptop?) but i couldn't find any instructions on how to do
that.
can someone please point me in the right direction?
apparently there is no network install
On Sun, January 30, 2005 9:47 pm, Hugo Vincent said:
Thanks Nick,
On 30/01/2005, at 9:35 PM, Nick Rout wrote:
snip
I thought we could try a network install (either over the internet or
off my laptop?) but i couldn't find any instructions on how to do
that.
can someone please point me in
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 11:35:36 +1300
yuri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 11:28:48 +1300, Jim Cheetham wrote:
Some people prefer to work from the command
line, even if they're in an X session, so a method of elevating privs
that also preserves $DISPLAY and X auth is useful.
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 11:35:36 +1300
yuri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 11:28:48 +1300, Jim Cheetham wrote:
Some people prefer to work from the command
line, even if they're in an X session, so a method of
elevating privs that also preserves $DISPLAY and X
auth is
For the last couple of years a group of us have run mini-installfests
for those wanting gentoo on their computer.
The Gentoo install, while well documented and not really difficult,
tends to daunt some people as its very command line oriented, and it
helps if you know how a linux distro fits
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 11:43:29 +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
so you can run an X app after su'ing in an xterm? thats unusual because
unless you take some explicit step other users (incl root) are not
allowed to access your X server.
Sometimes, when Julia is logged in as herself and I want to check my
Hi,
This is my first post to the list. I've been lurking and reading mostly to get a
feel for the conversation going on, most of it over my head but all of it
interesting :)
Anyway, I'd definately be keen in this Gentoo installfest. I have been playing
around with installing 2004.3 on my
On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 12:10:00PM +1300, yuri wrote:
Sometimes, when Julia is logged in as herself and I want to check my
email, instead of logging her out, I start an xterm, type su yuri,
my password, then kontact and it starts up my mail client as an X
app.
here is why this might work:
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 12:03:37 +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
[Snip blah blah Gentoo yadda yadda 2005.0 rhubarb rhubarb binaries]
Anyway, just an indication of interest is all i'm after at this stage.
I'd be keen.
Yuri
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On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 00:23:02 +0100, Martin Bähr
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On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 12:10:00PM +1300, yuri wrote:
Sometimes, when Julia is logged in as herself and I want to check my
email, instead of logging her out, I start an xterm, type su yuri,
my password, then kontact
I might be keen too, been thinking about giving it a go for a while now.
Lance
-Original Message-
From: yuri
Sent: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 12:33:54 +1300
To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz
Subject: Re: Gentoo installation-fest?
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 12:03:37 +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
[Snip
I have set up a new backup server here, and I'd managed to save a password
into XP's password list. Unf the password was incorrect. I searched
everywhere to find and remove the saved password from the XP box. It no
longer saves them in pwl files in c:\windows.
In the end I had to run
Actually sux was discussed on this list some months ago, yuri mentioned
it - i thought at first that it was a SuSE'ism, but on investigation
that is not so.
SuSE's version of sux is 100% made by SuSE. I bet several people had the
same idea and all called it sux.
Some distros have the
Next problem is why nfs can't deal with 80 Gb files...
suspenders:/belt/aghs-server/1# l
ls: 2005-01-28-Friday.bkf: Input/output error
Older versions of NFS are restricted to 32 bit filepointers and
therefore 4GB filesizes. You'll have to upgrade, though I don't know
which version is
On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 01:39:45PM +1300, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
Some distros have the functionality of sux built into su, eg Redhat and
as Yuri says Mandrake. This is a bad idea for security as in effect this
transfers security to the target user by granting unlimited access to
the X server.
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 01:56:03 +0100, Martin Bähr wrote:
On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 01:39:45PM +1300, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
Some distros have the functionality of sux built into su, eg Redhat and
as Yuri says Mandrake. This is a bad idea for security as in effect this
transfers security to the
Vik Olliver wrote:
I dunno, I bought the thing with a 3 1/2 enclosure and PSU for less
than that. NZ$48 inclusive from Easycomm if I recall correctly.
Flashcards are shipping a 2.5 USB2 drive enclosure for around $26 at
the moment, I've just bought a couple for running backups :-)
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 14:06, Jim Cheetham wrote:
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No power needed, although if you want (suggested for long data
transfers) you can string on a second USB cable (supplied), that's used
only for power.
It is a *very* good idea to connect both. I have had one disk that would not
spin up at
On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 02:04:34PM +1300, yuri wrote:
If you trust the members of your household, having lax security for
convenience on the home side of the firewall, but with a darn good
firewall between the LAN and the internet is an okay solution - even
if it makes the
Yeah - they're very good. Most laptop drives can be powered fine from a USB
port (my 10 Gb hitachi works fine)
However I could not power it from an unpowered USB hub, even with nothing
else in the hub. The answer was to plug the drive directly into a USB port
on the machine.
And even a 2 Gb
On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 14:17 +1300, Lee Begg wrote:
It is a *very* good idea to connect both. I have had one disk that would not
spin up at all without both connected. Or better yet use an AC
converter/power plug.
Excellent suggestion. It is also a good idea to use a powered USB hub
when
How are you going to do this? I'm happy to build an install server that
all can use, and bring it along. It'll be a bit of a learning process for
me. I wan looking at sorting out a quad ethernet card for this box, but it
requires a riser, which I haven't got. Even so, 100Mbit should be faster
than
Has anyone had any experience installing the Gentoo dist. to an external
usb drive. I've got a 40gb usb drive that I've made a 10 gb partition in
that I would like to install bootable linux on. That way I could easily
do a one time boot menu from my laptop to boot from the usb device. I'd
like to
On Mon, January 31, 2005 1:29 pm, C. Falconer said:
[snip]
suspenders:/belt/aghs-server/1# l
Love the naming convention!
:^)
Steve
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On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 15:40:37 +1300 (NZDT)
Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How are you going to do this? I'm happy to build an install server that
all can use, and bring it along. It'll be a bit of a learning process for
me. I wan looking at sorting out a quad ethernet card for this
The Laptop is a Dell 9100 which has usb2 ports. The drive is a Lacie
databank (2.5 inch drive, usb2 powered by the usp port). The dell BIOS
allows selection of a onetime bootmenu when the machine goes through the
POST. Basicly, by pressing F12 at that point, a boot device (including
usb) can be
ok i know what you mean now, my IBM does the same...very handy f you
push the button on time.
of course the prefeerable treatment is to ditch the OS it came with
It wil be an interesting project.
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 20:16:00 -0700
David Hole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The Laptop is a Dell
Yeah - its just for me to use, not for public consumption.
Its four 300 (okay, 287 Gb) drives in a raid0. I also have weekly tape
backups as an off-site.
-Original Message-
From: Steve Holdoway [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, 31 January 2005 3:49 p.m.
To:
Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
Maybe, but I'm unconvinced. There's a market for both, and open source
doesn't deliver any interactive encyclopedia like the one I was
referrring to. However you missed the point: Companies are starting to
not only release their products for 'blows but also for Linux. The
On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 17:05 +1300, Robert Himmelmann wrote:
Though those dictionaries are an important step they are not the first one.
The first software that I installed on my computer besides that which
came on the RedHat discs was propriety: a bunch of TrueType fonts :)
--
Michael
I suppose most
windows-users don't pay for most of the software they should pay for.
Kazaa is a good example for their attitude.
This is a different attitude, it's I'll take for free as much as I
get. It's utterly amazing how much bugware, as in spyware, people are
willing to load onto their
I think it would be best to have free versions of every program.
Unfortunately that is a bit too idealistic, and so what you are saying
is right: Commercial software is better than nothing.
Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
I suppose most
windows-users don't pay for most of the software they should pay
Nick Rout wrote:
Anyway, just an indication of interest is all i'm after at this stage.
I might come just for watching and helping. I have always been using
SuSE and so I don't have any experience with a 'real' installation. I
would like to try Gentoo, but my 40Gb-laptop-hd is already filled
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 12:03, Nick Rout wrote:
For the last couple of years a group of us have run mini-installfests
for those wanting gentoo on their computer.
I'd be happy to help out again.
Should we be putting a lower limit on the cpu speed?
If so, what?
--
Sincerely etc.,
Christopher
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 19:11, Robert Himmelmann wrote:
Nick Rout wrote:
Anyway, just an indication of interest is all i'm after at this stage.
I might come just for watching and helping. I have always been using
SuSE and so I don't have any experience with a 'real' installation. I
would like to
On Sun 30 Jan 2005 14:19:28 NZDT +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
http://gmane.org http://marc.theaimsgroup.com
I don't think theaimsgroup archives this list. Or can you be more
specific?
Any other archives (so I can add them to
http://volker.dnsalias.net/linux/lists-nz.html)?
Thanks,
Volker
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On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 19:59 +1300, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
On Sun 30 Jan 2005 14:19:28 NZDT +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
http://gmane.org http://marc.theaimsgroup.com
I don't think theaimsgroup archives this list. Or can you be more
specific?
Any other archives (so I can add them to
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