On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 15:03, Matthew Gregan wrote:
> > The man for tar sux. I eventually figured out how to create a tar
> > with the content of a folder (\home\don) so that I could restore my
> > email.
>
> Not surprising--you'll be using GNU tar. If you want detail, read the
> info page for tar. This is documented quite clearly in the man page.
Actually I was using it from a command line.
The man doesn't provide obvious examples.
I found the answer eventually (tar -cf don.tar \home\don ) but not
untill I'd used a pkzip syntax 'tar \home\don' which resulted in
everything goting to stdout (my screen).
> In both of the above cases, you're using backslashes where you should be
> using slashes. If you're using backslashes on the command line, you'll
> definitely be having problems. Pay more attention to important details.
Years of habit... sorry replace("\", "/")
Sorry if I didn't make clear that I'd worked it out... it was just a
general feed back comment.
> > I have yet to workout how to log on as root.
>
> Why would you want to?
When I attempted to add the evolution package as 'don' it told me I
didn't have enough rights. The package manager didn't give me the
option to logon as root or su.
> Log on as a normal user, then open a terminal
> and su to root.
su to root in terminal doesn't seem to pass the entire session root
access.... I did think of that and try it - failed.
That's when I went hunting for a way to log on as root.
Are you saying that it's not possible to log on as root?
> > When ever I do a warm boot I loose the onboard lan card. The only way
> > to get the network card back is to cold boot.
>
> Look at the output of dmesg after a cold boot. Compare the results to
> the output from dmesg after a warm boot. Look particularly for anything
> that mentions your network card, and the lines surrounding that.
dmesg can be really long - can anyone tell me what I should be filtering
on and give me some pointers on how to filter? I recall you use grep
for this, but I don't recall all the right parameters, if there's a grep
expert in the house I'd love a pointer or to.
> If would also be easier for us if you posted more details, like the type
> of network card and the version of the Linux kernel you're running.
Yes, sorry, how do I find out the card type?
It's just the one that's embeded on the mdb.
Cheers Don
