Just out of interest, is there any reason why it shouldn't work going from a
smaller hard disk to a larger hard disk?
I've used something similar to backup a disk image to a file on a larger disk
- sending the output of dd across to another machine by piping it through
netcat, where it's
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This reminds me, Gentoo ebuilds are flexible enough to build directly from
CVS without changing the user commands (I expect this is how E17 is packaged).
In my one brief look at Debian I got the impression that .deb files are
scattered to the
I also think this is a good idea, but maybe not as a public installfest like
the Mandrake/RedHat ones. Just a small gathering of everyone on the list who
wants to try Gentoo (*puts up hand* ;-) or who wants to get updated packages
quickly for their current system (if they're on a modem
Yeah... everyone should have a NIC, and any machine that is not currently
installing should be compiling for others (it can do this no matter what
distro it's currently running, can't it?). I'd probably bring my laptop along
to install on (currently running RH, ugh), but it's slow (P166) - I could
My brother has a VNC server on an NT4 box (the box has no monitor, he connects
to it from his win95 computer) - just to see, I installed xvncviewer (the one
in debian woody, 3.3 I think) and... it just works, no problems. When you say
it does not work... what are you using on the linux client,
Thanks. But.. did you say 'software'? Uh, I think I might give it a miss
(anyone who went to the last auction talked about on this list will know what
I mean, hehe! ;)
Cheers,
Gareth
On Monday 18 November 2002 11:10, Nick Rout wrote:
FYI Bryan Andrews Auctions are running a clearance auction
cool indeed, check out:
http://www.kde-look.org
jeremyb.
From: gjw49 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2002/10/14 Mon AM 12:27:54 GMT+13:00
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Gnome 2 'start' button
I don't know. But (while on the topic) anyone know how to change the kde3
one
On Sunday 13 October 2002 21:06, Keith McGavin wrote:
Great. My apologies to Gareth as I have just realised that I
did make a typo by not specifying irq=10.
no worries :-)
I thought that was funny actually, but you seemed sure of io=xx so I figured
I'd go look for it in the docs sometime,
I don't know. But (while on the topic) anyone know how to change the kde3 one?
:)
Gareth.
On Sunday 13 October 2002 23:54, Chris Hellyar wrote:
Trivia question for those who do a bit of mucking around with gnome...
How do I change the default 'start' button graphic? I'm playing around
On Sunday 13 October 2002 10:50, Keith McGavin wrote:
Hi Gareth,
not as far as I know but I havn't set up modules.conf for quite a while.
no, /etc/modules (not modules.conf) ... or is that just a debian thing? (been
a while since I set up any kind of RH based system... but I thought that was
have you tried rpmfind.net?
you can prolly find a gtop rpm on there...
On Saturday 12 October 2002 12:29, Mark Carey wrote:
Hi,
After installing RH8.0 on my desktop box can any one out there suggest a
replacement to gtop that I previously used in RH7.3 but cant even find
an install rpm for!
On Wednesday 28 August 2002 21:02, Peter Cornelius wrote:
Christopher Sawtell wrote:
vim a.k.a. vi here we come. :-) joe, pico, and nano allowed too.
and Gareth added -
perhaps peter could learn a few things from you ;-)
Capital P, please Gareth. Linux very particular with CLI use.
what's the name of the module?
have you checked whether it's in /lib/modules/* ?
I did a quick search on http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages (box near the
bottom of the page) for sb.o for example, and it appears to be in
kernel-image-2.2.20 ... maybe when you install this it installs a new
On Wednesday 28 August 2002 21:43, David Kirk wrote:
what's the name of the module?
have you checked whether it's in /lib/modules/* ?
I need the sound and sb modules.
If it installed a new kernel, have you rebooted yet?
I have just rebooted my pc and it all works now.
cool (that was a
I second that :)
There must be better ways to prevent mail loops. Setting reply-to: to the
poster instead of the list is just plain annoying. Hand's up who hasn't been
caught out by it (even once)?
guess that makes 4 cents now, we should start collecting ;)
Gareth.
On Friday 09 August 2002
do you have a file called .htaccess in /var/www/cgi-bin ?
On Thursday 01 August 2002 10:10, Chris Bayley wrote:
I have have an out of the box apache install from Mandrake 8.2, I am
trying to get some CGI going but get this on the browser:
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access
On Monday 22 July 2002 12:46, Nick Rout wrote:
Maybe if we try to match up installers to installees before the day.
Now we have some idea of space requirements etc we can also plan here
too. I have been racking my brains for a room on campus bigger than the
ones we had and able to
On Wednesday 17 July 2002 23:09, Nick Rout wrote:
a don't these people run unix anyway?
heh. yeah, true. but there's unix and then there's unix. I run linux, but I
wouldn't mind having a play around with OS X sometime. I expect the same
might be true in reverse for some people?
--On
!!
It is likely that the user of this system will only use FTP from a browser
so I may be OK .
oh...
(you do realise you can use passive mode with command line ftp too right?
after you log in type 'passive'...)
Thanks
Richard S
gjw49 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/16 4:56
On Tuesday 16 July 2002 14:17
Sorry, but I've lived in canterbury all my life. I do know there is another 'Gareth
Williams' (about my age too) somewhere in NZ (north island I think) - I found out ages
ago
when I was out of town once and broke a finger... I went to see a doctor and they
looked
up my medical record on the
Nick Elder CLUG wrote:
Hi,
Just thought I would post a reminder that our next meeting is in seven days
time being on: Wednesday the 26th of June. At 7.30pm, Sydenham commnunity
centre, 23 Hutcheson st.
General Bussiness (some talk about the installfest no doubt)
Talk on Midnight
Nick Rout wrote:
What distros are we going to promote?
Are we going to have a selection of burned cdroms, or do it on demand
while people wait?
Are we going to use the official download cd's for a particular distro,
or patch the cd's with the latest updates? for example redhat 7.3
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nice work!! But there is a typo, bolded below:
PS, I'm prepared to help in any way I can so just let me know...
What should I do before I come?
If you want linux installed to dual boot with windows, you should do the
following before you come:
Christopher Sawtell wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Shouldn't the proper noun Linux be capitalised in all references below??
Absolutely.
d'oh!
=
http://test.linuxnut.co.nz/faq.php#dualboot
Similarly the word saturday on the last line of the second
Paul Swafford wrote:
mention FREE .. its the whole concept.
Perhaps - Do you have MS Windows(R)? well upgrade it for FREE to Linux
and just quickly - parking and access - having to lug (pun intended) a
pc a few hundred metres wouldn't be my idea of a workout.
and yes having
Zane Gilmore wrote:
I have actually also booked the room for a few hours the previous night
and a few hours the following day just in case we need that time.
I personally think we should run the installfest 9-5. Might as well make a day of it,
we'll likely need all the time we can get. And
Zane Gilmore wrote:
I have just been speaking to Mike Dewe who is the I.T. Director here
at the Uni' and he has given us permission to use the internet on the
Varsity network.
I've said that we won't want any more than 500MB of data and that if we
go over that then we will pay for
Adrian Stacey wrote:
Nick Rout wrote:
Out of interest though, what distros do all you other list members
use, and why?
Slakware - because it is...
I've always wanted to try Slackware, but never got around to it... what does it have
to
recomend it?
Cheers,
Gareth
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How do i redirect a domain name say...
blahblah.com to http://tripod.com/members/site/index.html
for example??
or this is done in the dns??
Many Thanks,
Johnno
You could put something like the following:
head
meta
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