Re: 5.4 fail to install from DVD

2009-12-05 Thread Antonio Silvestri
Hi, this step does not appear. First page is choose language then keyboard type then Installation method from here I have installed only via network. It seems that DVD is not recognized after booting. Bye Antonio

Re: SL forums

2009-12-05 Thread feddds
Well Troy, I might be a creazy guy but I tried to install vlc on my box now, and gave me conflict with famous lib.flac.8 on atrmps repository. Odd, yestarday I did it without problem on muy dad`s box. Tried your way and went OK! I really prefer VLC but Xine is fine too. Also found very easy

Re: 5.4 fail to install from DVD

2009-12-05 Thread feddds
Hola Antonio, Try CD media. Worked great on my installations. I have made 5 in this week. No problems at all. Good luck. Feddds. 2009/12/5 Antonio Silvestri antonio.silves...@ca.infn.it: Hi, this step does not appear. First page is choose language then keyboard type then Installation

Any 'best' hard drives and incremental backup approaches to home systems?

2009-12-05 Thread William Shu
Hi, I would be grateful for feedback on the following. At some point in time, I preferred to backup data and software on disks on separate machines so as to be able to have incremental backups. Use of CD/DVD R or RW was not adequate, as they frequently went bad, kept incoherent trail of updates

Re: one-sided ssh connection, restricted access to X.

2009-12-05 Thread William Shu
Thanks Miles, Will implement solution for #2 ASAP.. For #1, the settings are the defaults obtained when installing from DVD (x86) -- enforcing, I think. Or is there a more specific setting I should search for? (can only access machine on working day, earliest.) William. --- On Sat, 12/5/09,

RE: Any 'best' hard drives and incremental backup approaches to home systems?

2009-12-05 Thread Neil Aggarwal
What is the best approach to handle incremental backup data, if hard disks are not that reliable this days? (This is a home system, and tape drives and variants are out!) That depends on the size of your data. How big are we talking about? For me, I use Subversion to keep full history of

Re: one-sided ssh connection, restricted access to X.

2009-12-05 Thread Steven Timm
Put the output of ssh -v in E-mail, it should say what is allowed. Steve On Sat, 5 Dec 2009, William Shu wrote: Hi, Please for help on two [related] problems (I'm probably missing something glaring!): 1)  On my newly installed SL54 on a machine *not* connected to the internet, I tried to