Re: Best distro for 133mhz pc

2002-09-29 Thread Andrew Errington
Hi, I set Peanut up on a P200. I had the devil's own job installing it, but I eventually did it. It is quite a nice distro, but I don't have much experience of alternatives, all I know is it's optimised for lower-spec machines. My PC had 80Mb RAM, but the more the merrier. IMHO the GUI was too

Re: CLUG Meeting Wednesday 2nd October-trouble shooting

2002-09-29 Thread Adrian Stacey
Christopher Sawtell wrote: Why don't we explicitly invite said mother along for the evening? She'd then see that we are not the kind of people who would do her son any harm, and she just might have an interesting evening out. Now that's desperate... g,dr

Web forums for CLUG

2002-09-29 Thread Christopher Sawtell
Greetings list. I have just set up a trio of www based forums for folks to use as an alternative to the email list. My motivation is that I have seen, on many occasions, people asking questions which have been answered in quintuplicate or more by people saying essentially the same thing.

Re: Web forums for CLUG

2002-09-29 Thread Ben Devine
What about setting the forum so the posts are put into the forum but if u put OT in the subject it gets put Social Chatters that would work very well if the original thread in the list is a thread the forum and reply in the list are replys in the forum.Sought of like a web interface which

Re: CLUG Meeting Wednesday 2nd October-trouble shooting

2002-09-29 Thread Zane Gilmore
A gold coin is the usual donation. To pay for hall hire etc. Ben Devine wrote: Wooo HOOO, See you on Wendsday!!. Do we have to bring a donation? If yes what is the usual Donation, Thanks, Ben ___ Get the FREE email that

Re: Harvey Norman CD-Rs: Chemistry Capacity

2002-09-29 Thread Philip Charles
On Sat, 28 Sep 2002, Helmut Walle wrote: Hi I just put one of the el-cheapo CDs into the drive, and cdrecord says Disk type:Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar) My understanding is that this means short term storage only. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street,

Re: Best distro for 133mhz pc

2002-09-29 Thread Chris Hellyar
Pick a distro... As long as you've got more than 32Mb of ram, (64 better.. 128 even better) and enough disk space (1.2Gb drive or bigger, ish) you will be able to run any of the major distros, you'll just have to remove some of the default daemons and configuration to make it usable. You'll

Re: Harvey Norman CD-Rs: Chemistry Capacity

2002-09-29 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Sun, 29 Sep 2002 21:33, Philip Charles wrote: On Sat, 28 Sep 2002, Helmut Walle wrote: Hi I just put one of the el-cheapo CDs into the drive, and cdrecord says Disk type:Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar) My understanding is that this means short term storage

Re: Web forums for CLUG

2002-09-29 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Sun, 29 Sep 2002 21:17, Ben Devine wrote: What about setting the forum so the posts are put into the forum but if u put OT in the subject it gets put Social Chatters that would work very well if the original thread in the list is a thread the forum and reply in the list are replys in the

Re: mount r/w In Rescue

2002-09-29 Thread Trev
Thanks everybody for your help with mount r/o in rescue, reiserfsck --rebuild-tree on / fixed it. :-). Cheers Trevor C Falconer wrote: On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 15:38, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: ``mount /mount-point -o remount,rw'' This will certainly fail on a rescue system as it

Re: Not Booting with Reiserfs

2002-09-29 Thread Trev
Thanks everybody for your help with MDK, reiserfsck --rebuild-tree on / fixed it. I also ran it on /home and /usr my other reiserfs partitions. I only have 2 files in /lost+found one is 1.3 M, and 11 html files in /home/lost+found C Falconer wrote: Are you using devfs? have you installed

Re: Harvey Norman CD-Rs: Chemistry Capacity

2002-09-29 Thread Philip Charles
On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Sun, 29 Sep 2002 21:33, Philip Charles wrote: On Sat, 28 Sep 2002, Helmut Walle wrote: Hi I just put one of the el-cheapo CDs into the drive, and cdrecord says Disk type:Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar)

Re: Web forums for CLUG

2002-09-29 Thread Follower
If you're interested in this sort of thing, another approach (but somewhat different) is GMANE: GNU Mail To News And Back Again http://www.gmane.org/ Phil.

Re: Harvey Norman CD-Rs: Chemistry Capacity

2002-09-29 Thread Rex Johnston
On Sun, 2002-09-29 at 22:46, Philip Charles wrote: On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Sun, 29 Sep 2002 21:33, Philip Charles wrote: My understanding is that this means short term storage only. Got any idea how short term is defined? Not really, but personally I would not

Re: Re: Harvey Norman CD-Rs: Chemistry Capacity

2002-09-29 Thread Jeremy Bertenshaw
AFAIK, cd's only have a usable life of about 30 years before the die, not sure about cd-r's, probably even less. Not that great as a long term backup solution :-( jeremy. From: Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2002/09/29 Sun PM 10:03:35 GMT+12:00 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Philip

Re: Re: Harvey Norman CD-Rs: Chemistry Capacity

2002-09-29 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 08:21, Jeremy Bertenshaw wrote: AFAIK, cd's only have a usable life of about 30 years before the die, not sure about cd-r's, probably even less. Not that great as a long term backup solution :-( I have some standard audio CDs I bought about 20 years ago, they still play

Re: Best distro for 133mhz pc

2002-09-29 Thread Bill Evans
I have a Pentium 133 with 32MB RAM running Redhat 7.0. It copes ok with Gnome, but I have not actually used it for much as yet. I installed Redhat 7.3 on it, but it froze up when I tried to use Gnome. Bill Hi, I set Peanut up on a P200. I had the devil's own job installing it, but I

Re: Need help with fstab

2002-09-29 Thread Bill Evans
I have no experience with Mandrake, and no knowledge of supermount - and for that matter very little knowledge of Linux at all - but since no one else has come up with any suggestions could I hesitantly suggest that perhaps part of the problem might be that there is no leading / in

Finding duplicates files + copy/move date stamp

2002-09-29 Thread Trev
Help!. I have a mess with my files and backups about 1.5G, they are spread over 3 different partitions because i don't have the room, only 13G total for all the systems, maybe an unlucky number. But now i have unlimited backup space, a CD R/W :-) those disks can't crash, i hope, all my files

Re: Finding duplicates files + copy/move date stamp

2002-09-29 Thread Tim Wright
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Tim Wright wrote: uniq -d -W1 This command prints out all duplicated items, looking only at the first field, which is any characters before a '.', space or tab. oops, I lied. uniq will compare the filename only (the bit before the first whitespace), but will only

Re: Need help with fstab

2002-09-29 Thread Nick Rout
On Sun, 29 Sep 2002 17:46:55 -0400 Matt Agnew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm clueless as the none and supermount - none is to do with disk labelling, there is no label allocated to this device. supermount is some sort of auto mounting program that mounts and unmounts removable disks. ro

Re: Need help with fstab

2002-09-29 Thread Nick Rout
By the way, have you typed man mount at a command prompt?

Re: Need help with fstab

2002-09-29 Thread Nick Rout
ops silly me, man fstab. although man mount will help too. On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 15:20:48 +1200 Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By the way, have you typed man mount at a command prompt? -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Experimental up2date server

2002-09-29 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
Hello, I've installed an experimental up2date server at www.phys.canterbury.ac.nz WARNING: the default update interval is 120 min. If you decide to try it please make it once per day, more is pointless and it overloads the server! 1. Currently available only from within the UOC campus

Re: Finding duplicates files + copy/move date stamp

2002-09-29 Thread Helmut Walle
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Trev wrote: ... I want to find duplicate files in the same partition and rm them, some may have the same name but have a different size/date/time. ... Hi Trev, Besides the find solution proposed by Tim there is one more really nice tool for finding duplicates based only