Re: RH7.2 install

2002-03-28 Thread Angus D Madden
Matthew J. Brodeur, Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 08:54:30AM -0500: I did just install 7.2.92b (Skipjack) on two machines and had them boot to X with no problem. However, when I swapped the video card in one and booted, it stopped at a text login with no indication of even trying X. The

Re: Java Runtime Environment?

2002-03-28 Thread Angus D Madden
[EMAIL PROTECTED], Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 03:09:16PM -0500: Anyone know of a decent JRE for Linux (preferably one I can apt-get install :) apt-get install jdk1.1 superfluous If you are looking for something that works with mozilla, I'd recommend running mozilla as root, and going to

Re: Java Runtime Environment?

2002-03-28 Thread Angus D Madden
[EMAIL PROTECTED], Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 03:38:44PM -0500: Hmmm, thought I did that. Yup, dpkg -l jdk1.1 show it's there. Thought that was just a dev kit though, not the JRE. Aren't they separate things? In the package description: This package contains Sun's Java Runtime Environment,

Re: RAID Problems

2002-03-27 Thread Angus D Madden
Kurth Bemis, Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 09:06:14AM -0500: I got the configure utility from adaptec's site...found the array and formatted it with all 0's. Then I figured that debian 22r4 would find it ok. nope it only finds the 3 drives and asks me which one would I like to partition and use.

Re: NIS stuff

2002-03-27 Thread Angus D Madden
Robert Casey, Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 08:49:11AM -0500: Hello again, I'm still working on getting NIS tuned the way we want it but I'm having trouble finding the info. I need. Once again I'm fairly new to Unix and brand new to Redhat linux. Basically, I get documentation

Re: RAID Problems

2002-03-27 Thread Angus D Madden
Kurth Bemis, Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 11:14:14AM -0500: but if the card is a hardware RAID card then the kernel shouldn't care or see the individual drives, right? It should see one large volume. am i correct in assuming that? No, you will still need the driver support in the kernel. Once

Re: RAID Problems

2002-03-27 Thread Angus D Madden
Kurth Bemis, Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 11:21:17AM -0500: hrm.maybe I should look at another card. any suggestions? What distro do you want to use? If you want to use Debian (which I highly recommend), I would go for woody instead of potato. Debian potato is too dated right now. You'll

Debian Woody (Was: Re: RAID Problems)

2002-03-27 Thread Angus D Madden
James R. Van Zandt, Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 09:10:53PM -0500: I ordered a Woody disk last night for $5.95. Only a single disk, but supposed to be enough to get started, and you can get the rest over the network. (The full woody distribution apparently will take 8 CDs!) If you have a fast

Re: Cross Yahoo off the list of free e-mail services!

2002-03-21 Thread Angus D Madden
David Roberts, Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 11:10:10AM -0500: Yeah - I saw it as well. Guess it is still free if you want to use your favorite browser to access your Email via their login page, but no more Pop'ing it. I wonder if enough people will leave to make them reconsider? Doubtful as I bet

Re: Benefits of owning a domain (was Re: Cross Yahoo off the list of free e-mail services!)

2002-03-21 Thread Angus D Madden
Mark Komarinski, Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 01:45:37PM -0500: I have ATTBI/M1/Comcast cable modem and am using TZO.COM as the DNS provider for wayga.org. All of wayga.org (web, e-mail, etc) is sitting in my basement along with a client that hits TZO with my current IP address. If ATT changes my

Re: Cross Yahoo off the list of free e-mail services!

2002-03-21 Thread Angus D Madden
Dana S. Tellier, Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 02:10:52PM -0500: Hmmm... I think I have to disagree with you a bit on this one. While it *does* cost more to provide web access, I don't think it would make them profitable at all. It *would* make them very unpopular, however. I would make a

Re: Benefits of owning a domain (was Re: Cross Yahoo off the list of free e-mail services!)

2002-03-21 Thread Angus D Madden
Paul Lussier, Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 03:39:56PM -0500: You forgot one important thing: Affordable, high speed, always-on internet access. I could easily afford to register my own domain, but without xDSL or cable modem access to the net, what good is it? A dial-up connection

Re: slide show software

2002-03-21 Thread Angus D Madden
Mansur, Warren, Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 08:15:11PM -0500: Hi, Does anyone know if there is a kind of slide show software available on Linux? I just subscribed to digitalblasphemy.com and want to download all of the pictures there, and then have them continuously displayed on a monitor,

Re: Two quick questions.

2002-03-20 Thread Angus D Madden
Paul Lussier, Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 06:05:09PM -0500: Unfortunately, this does not work for modules installed via Debian's apt-get mechanism, since these all install under the standard install-base hierarchy, not the 'local' tree, which is where modules above and beyond the core set get