Hi all, Thank you for your nice words, I am indeed getting further and further in the prcess of learning Linux. It is however tough, especially for people who were brought up with MacOS.
Charles Dostale, thanks for your comments so far. I will give it a try today (I am an addict at the moment...). Yesterday I tried to install Suse PPC Linux 7.3, but I was not successful. They say they have the easiest to install distro out there. Well, it looks easy, but the installation program could not mount my root ext2 partition to /mnt and that was my first error message. Then I forced the installation to proceed and the result was that after 11% of the 1st CD, I recieved error messages for each new program that had to be installed. It is not much of a succes story either. I wonder how long it will take to recieve help from them... Anyway. I will install Mandrake 8.2 once more and try to setup the network again. I will keep y'all informed... I also run a website on Linux on Macs and yesterday I recieved a mail from somebody who visited my website and also reads the articles on the MaX List and was very interested. He was also looking forward to seeing my article about networking with Linux on (old) Macs, which will be published in 'MacFan' next issue. Well, these kind of nice mails get me going. I then know I am not doing this all for nobody... :-) (or in Dutch... voor Jan Lul). Jeroen Diederen Larry Blodgett wrote: > I am trying to figure out what you question is.... > > Are you trying to set this machine up as a firewall router with two > NIC cards? Are you allowing eth0 to DHCP and eth1 to service your > private lan? Have you configured eth1 to 192.168.1.1? Usually eth0 > is the primary external connection. It is uncertain what damage you > may have done to prevent network access. You may need to reinstall to > clear this up (I know you don't want to hear that). Trying to fix > unknown damage is a very difficult task. Setting up a firewall router > is not a trivial (newbie) task either. > > In general I applaud your efforts. I think you have learned a great > deal in the process. The problem you will find with Linux is you > have the power to configure anything you want and you have the power > to mess up your system. > > What did you get with the "ifconfig -a" ? > -- MaX-list is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... / Buy books, CDs, videos, and more from Amazon.com \ / <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/lowendmac> \ Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> MaX-list info: <http://lowendmac.com/linux/max.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/max-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
