After I re-lilo'ed the box with the help of this list I sent a printjob successfully from a Windows box on the network. Also was and am able to see the Debian laptop on the network in the Windows nethood. However now after a reboot (cabling change etc.) I can't print to it. Can't open SWAT from the browser on the Windows box. Can ping both ways. Was able to authenticate to SAMBA, but can't SSH. I guess some of the hundreds of upgrades changed some config files and moved stuff around. I recall a bunch of prompts asking about keeping scripts or going with the package maintainer's new configs - I choose to upgrade on all of these. I'm guessing something network/firewall-y changed. Poked around in all the config and log files I could remember to look at and that I found. Everything looks good...
What do I run/view to see if SSH and SWAT all open / listening? netstat -a shows swat listening but I don't see ssh there. /etc/shh/sshd_config looks okay /etc/network/interfaces looks fine can I re-run the swat and sshd setups? After I get my ssh and swat and samba's hp1200 on lpt1 working my next challenge is to get the USB working and share a Epson printer off that :-) Below is a sort of extra background... TIA, - Zake --> From: high_desert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --> Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 4:02 PM --> To: Debian Laptop Listserv --> Subject: RE: Debian repair reload drama howto? --> --> --> My LILO RECOVERY --> --> http://www.toms.net/rb/ --> http://www.linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/LILO-crash-rescue-HOWTO-1.html --> --> 1. downloaded, uncompressed, installed to floppy, tomsrtbt --> 2. booted box off tomsrtbt floppy --> 3. fdisk -l (to see which device is boot and which is /) --> 4. mkdir rootpartition --> 5. mount /dev/hda1 /rootpartition --> 6. cat /rootpartition/etc/fstab (to see if /boot, /usr, /var, --> etc. are on --> other partitions) --> 7. mount /dev/hda3 /rootpartition/home/share --> 8. vi /etc/fstab --> a. added lines: --> b. /dev/hda1 /rootpartition ext2 1 1 --> c. /dev/hda3 /rootpartition/home/share ext2 1 1 --> 9. cat /etc/fstab (to check vi) --> 10. mount -a --> 11. chroot /rootpartition /sbin/lilo -q --> 12. man chroot --> 13. chroot /rootpartition /sbin/lilo --> a. Warning: '/proc/partitions' does not exist, disk scan bypassed --> b. Added Linux * --> c. Skipping vmlinuz.old --> 14. exit --> 15. hard reboot --> --> SUCCESS! Now I don't have to recreate my CUPS, SWAT, fileshare, --> and SAMBA --> WiNS and PDCE stuff! --> Thanks for the pointers, great ideas, and bonus info --> [email protected] --> -----Original Message----- --> From: high_desert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --> Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2006 1:13 PM --> To: Debian Laptop Listserv --> Subject: Debian repair reload drama howto? --> --> --> Had a Debian file and print server running for like two years, serving a --> handful of home Linux, MAC, and Windows clients. December I --> upgraded the OS --> and apps all to the latest stable version. The only thing I can --> think I did --> 'sub-optimally' was run the entire process via ssh (the server --> is an older --> laptop and was shoved in behind some printers on a shelf where --> it was very --> uncomfortable to open it and balance it and type.) and one --> prompt for the --> kernel or PCMCIA or NIC drivers asked if I wanted to skip restarting --> something - I said not to restart it, as I wasn't clear if I could --> reestablish the ssh session to finish the upgrade. There was --> some message --> about possibly corrupting something - but no back out options, --> so. Anyway it --> now boots to "LI". While I saw references here and there to --> rescue disks I --> didn't find any for the current Debian version, and the few --> homemade ones I --> found didn't work. Pulled the network card to see if that would --> bypass the --> blockage. Though I think I booted off CD before, it won't do it --> now. Nothing --> in the BIOS on that either. Physically it can house either a CD or a --> floppy - not both at once. I tried booting for repair / reinstall via --> network floppies, but it won't load the NIC floppy. Tried --> different media --> and download sites to no avail. Now it's been sitting for a new --> weeks, dead. --> Figured I'd revisit this three day weekend. I can recreate the CUPS/SWAT --> config, user names, etc.. All the files on there are also --> stored in at least --> one other place. --> --> Now I was thinking of pulling the hard drive and copying --> whatever onto it --> and then returning it to the laptop and booting it, to then --> load a new OS. I --> have the hard drive out and in an external USB hard drive thing. --> --> Question: What do I copy onto it to do this? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
