Re: Getting Novell Linux Desktop to work

2005-08-01 Thread Daniel Timpson
> I put a PCI NIC in the machine and ran all the system updates via Red > Carpet. I downloaded the drivers from Intel's page, but no success. I > heard that some one at Novell figured it out, once, but I don't know > who or how. > > I don't know if any one here can help, but I just don't know enou

Re: Linux imaging/back-up options

2005-05-09 Thread Daniel Timpson
> In either case, it may be best to do the copy from a live cd or other os, > rather than copying out from under a live system. Yes I agree. This is how I did it. Are there other tools that work at the file system level that are good? Does drive geometry play any part in this at all? Dan .

Linux imaging/back-up options

2005-05-09 Thread Daniel Timpson
I'm curious what others are using to do a bare metal restore of Linux systems. Here is my problem. I just got a new 80G hard drive for my laptop. The existing 60G hard drive contains a windows and Linux partition that I dual boot. All I need to do is transfer the existing data to the new drive.

Re: smtp problem on Suse 9.3

2005-05-04 Thread Daniel Timpson
Is the firewall enabled? Perhaps you are blocking smtp traffic? dan On 5/4/05, Walter Holladay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to set up a Postfix server on Suse 9.3. However, for some > reason smtp is only visible on the local machine. When I run nmap from > the Suse 9.3 machine port 25

Re: Install Debian in 5 minutes

2005-04-13 Thread Daniel Timpson
> Very nice. I run mine off a used 64M camera CompactFlash card. > > http://m0n0.ch/wall > > Ryan How do you do that exactly? That sounds cool. Dan .===. | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | | Don't Fear the Penguin. | | IRC: #utah at irc.freenode.n

Re: Northface U ?

2005-04-08 Thread Daniel Timpson
Another consideration is graduate school. If you want to continue on and get a masters degree it's preferable to attain a BS from a school that is regionally accredited. North Face has a national accreditation. Some state schools and BYU don't recognize degrees that are nationally accredited. D

Making rpms after the fact

2005-04-05 Thread Daniel Timpson
So I'm running NLD (Novell Linux Desktop) and by default it doesn't come with Quanta, a very good editor for web stuff. I decided to go ahead and compile it from scratch. Over an hour later, voila Quanta was installed. Is there any way to make an RPM from the binaries that I just got done compi

Re: Suse Install Issues

2005-02-23 Thread Daniel Timpson
Maybe someone has already asked this but have you verified your media? The checksums, are they good? Dan On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 09:51:27 -0700, Eric Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to like Suse, I really am. But I can't even get it to > install. Every time it dies at the same plac

Re: Novell & Open Source

2005-02-16 Thread Daniel Timpson
For those that don't have DVD drives in there machines, you can mount the dvd iso to a loopback device and then create a symlink to the apache htdocs directory and do HTTP network installs. The live CD's can be used to do network installs. This is the prefered method here at work because if clien