RE: [newbie] Nuke protection?

1999-09-09 Thread Roby, Eric
"Nuking" is the pinging of a machine with an illegal sized packet, or assaults on other ports on the machine. Many windows machines will crash when this happens. I don't know of any such problems with Linux. -Original Message- From: Paul Hendrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

RE: [newbie] Accessing Floppy / CDROM Disks

1999-08-09 Thread Roby, Eric
umount - not unmount -Original Message- From: Michael Chopek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 09, 1999 11:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Accessing Floppy / CDROM Disks Hi folks; At 08:45 AM 8/9/99 -0600, you wrote: type mount /mnt/cdrom or mount

RE: [newbie] fstab

1999-08-06 Thread Roby, Eric
1st, create a directory to mount to - I use /mnt/dos1. Then create and entry like : /dev/hda1 /mnt/dos1 default msdos default 0 0 Then when rebooting the partition at hda1 will be mounted and available at /mnt/dos1. You could also test it by entering "mount

RE: [newbie] RPMs (?)

1999-08-05 Thread Roby, Eric
I loaded it on a Dell 466ME and it is running happily (although of course it is slow). I didn't do anything special, just loaded it from CD. Interesting. Eric -Original Message- From: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 05, 1999 2:49 PM To: