Someone help me in the right direction for networks - Might be off topic

Hi, I've been asked to set up a network of between 6 and 10 computers, using linux yet i don't know what to do. I've decided to allocate 2 as servers and because we have to run our network with in another network so we are hoping to run the 1 server as a copy of the other one just it will be

Re: Someone help me in the right direction for networks - Might be off topic

Thanks for that you have given me a place to start, am not so tempted just to run ubuntu server and run debian and configure it all myself. Dean On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Didar Hossain didar.hoss...@gmail.comwrote: On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Dean Chester dean.g.ches

How much RAM can debian support?

Hi I'm moving to a Macbook soon(staying with debian tho:p) and apple keep advertising that snow leopard can support 16 exobytes of RAM. Im just wondering how much can 64-bit debian support? Thanks in advance Dean

Gnome not reconizing Keyboard

Hi I started playing with sysvconfig and then rebooted and gnome stopped my keyboard from working was it that i disabled a service or was it an upgrade that has affected the keyboard. I have not changed my xorg.conf file. I can boot in to single user mode and older kernels yet they don't support

Pocket Hard Drive or Keypen to run Linux

Hi Im soon to be buying a new key pen/pocket hard drive that will have a linux distro installed on a partition. What would be the best to go for as key pens only have a certain life and the keypen will be used daily. I know i shouldn't run it as a main OS off the keypen yet im not allowed to

Re: Missing initrd now can't boot

Hi Thanks for that. But i booted in to the GRUB command prompt and loaded a backup of my initrd files with the kernel. And soon as i had i copied them to the correct place. Dean On 3/14/09, Daryl Styrk darylst...@gmail.com wrote: Dean Chester wrote: Hi I was playing with the update-initrd tool

Missing initrd now can't boot

Hi I was playing with the update-initrd tool to try and fix the booting of my system and i deleted the current initrd files. Then my battery died and i can't boot in to debian at all now what should i do? The error that comes up is that it is asking for the initrd file yet that doesn't exist

USplash

Hi I recently installed Usplash for a boot splash screen for my debian system. I have now removed usplash i think its called and the splashscreen still exists. Anyideas on how i can fix this? Dean -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: netbook for debian

On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Michael Pobega pob...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 10:17:00AM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: Hi all, I am thinking of buying a netbook and would like to ask for opinions about good options for use with debian (preferably, alternatively Ubuntu).

[OT I think] Which Distro?

Hi I have been recently looking at other distros to use other than Debian. And i have also been given a new laptop for use in school which i am soon going to be running Linux on. However i don't know what to go for. The 3 options to choose from are Debian(of course), Ubuntu or Fedora. The Laptop

Re: [OT I think] Which Distro?

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Jimmy Johnson field.engin...@gmail.comwrote: Ken Teague wrote: Jimmy Johnson wrote: If you are smart you will give SimplyMEPIS 8.0 a try before you decide. ;) Does that make him dumb, stupid or ignorant if he doesn't? It only means what it says.

Use of Swap Space

Hi I recently noticed that my CPU is at 100% when the temperature of my CPU is high. Taking a look at System Monitor i have also discovered that my swap space is being used while only 13% of the RAM is, why isn't is using the rest of the RAM. Has anyone got any ideas why? Thanks in Advance Dean.

KDE 4

Hi does any one know where i can install KDE4 from its not in sid and in experimental its missing KDEbase so it can't install. I want to run it to compare it to GNOME as ive have been using gnome since August and cannot get used to it(i migrated from OS X btw) so i want to try KDE and KDE 4 is

APT Help

Hi When ever i try to update my SID box i keep getting these errors and it doesn't update does anyone know how i can fix it? Here is the out put in the console: Extracting templates from packages: 100% Preconfiguring packages ... (Reading database ... 267846 files and directories currently

Re: APT Help

GHC6 is already installed on my system apparently. Dean On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Daniel Burrows dburr...@debian.org wrote: On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 07:09:10AM -0800, Djingo Cacadril cacad...@yahoo.com was heard to say: From: Dean Chester dean.g.ches...@googlemail.com When ever i

Re: APT Help

Thanks Daniel that did the trick Dean On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 8:35 PM, Daniel Burrows dburr...@debian.org wrote: On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 03:45:55PM +, Dean Chester dean.g.ches...@googlemail.com was heard to say: GHC6 is already installed on my system apparently. Ah, sorry. I

Re: AMD64 No sound

Hi André I also have a vostro. Do you have to run alsaconf everytime you want sound. As i have this problem do you. Dean On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 6:45 AM, André Neves andrechale...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Lewis. In my Dell Vostro, using amd64, I had to put this in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base to get

Speeding up Debian Boot

Hi Is there anyway i can speed up debians boot time. Its embarrassing that Vista boots up quicker than debian. Dean

Lenny upgrade wanting to delete x11-Common

Hi Im updating from etch on my netbook to lenny and it keeps trying to remove x11-common which it can't and then it fails is there a way to finish this? Dean

Re: ALSA Config

-alloc. I left amsn running by mistake thats why it failed the first time. alsa resume: debian:~# alsa resume debian:~# alsa resume debian:~# alsa resume As you can see its not loading anything. Hope this helps. Dean On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 8:41 PM, Dean Chester dean.g.ches...@googlemail.comwrote

Re: ALSA Config

19:30, Dean Chester wrote: Update: I unloaded alsa with the command: alsa unload. now i can't get it to resume as it doesn't load any modules. I think this info might help us find a solution. Outputs of commands alsa unload: debian:~# alsa unload /usr/sbin/alsa: Warning: Processes using

ALSA Config

Hi, Everytime i boot in to debian(sid im running on a vostro 1400) i have to run alsaconfg. Is there anyway i can get rid of having to do this as it annoying. Dean -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: ALSA Config

-bootlogd-single Dean On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 5:37 PM, J.Keßler webmas...@bananas-playground.net wrote: Hello, is there a *alsa-utils entry in /etc/rcS.d available ? I'm not 100% sure but this can be it. j.keßler Dean Chester wrote: Hi, Everytime i boot in to debian(sid im running

Re: ALSA Config

Thanks for the suggestion yet i have already tried that and just tried it again and it doesn't work. Dean On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Nigel Henry cave.dnb2m9...@aliceadsl.frwrote: On Friday 02 January 2009 17:53, dean.g.ches...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, Here are the results to what

Hibernate - Is it safe?

Hi, At the moment i seem to be putting my laptop in to hibernate and then when i start it up again i boot in to vista. So i ask is it save to keep doing this? Dean -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

How often do the repositories get updated?

Hi I am just wondering how frequently do the repositories get updated for kernels as ive not been able to update to the new kernel 2.6.28. My custom built kernel doesn't work:(. I am running debian sid and i also noticed that the kernel 2.6.27 wasn't put in to the repositories. Thanks in advance