On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, you wrote:
> Sorry John. I remembered that after I shut off my computer.
> Next time, I'll be more descriptive.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Enjoy the Olympics.
>
> Roman
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> John Rye
> Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 11:28 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [newbie] Yahooooooooooooooo - Party at Fred's Tonight!!!
>
>
>
> Well folks I bit the bullet.
>
> Decided on a marathon tonight in honour of the upcomming Olympics.
>
> Started at 6.00pm and downloaded Kernel-2.2.16 (1.5 hrs!!! Good line
> tonight !!)
>
> And installed same.. all 'looked' ok, so a reboot was attempted and
> dam me if it didn't work!!
>
> Roman on Sun 10 said install and reboot!!!
>
> Forgot to tell us we newbies needed to tweak the bootloader eh?
>
> 8.00pm downloaded Bastille-1.1.0 after reading an article at/on
> http://www/enteract.com about Armouring Linux. Sat down and read the
> Ipchains HOWTO yet again.
>
> 10.00pm - decide that a backup might be in order - so /etc and /home
> copied to a spare chunk on the other HDD and beast rebooted to that
> other opsys where a cd was written (That's another bullet yet to be
> tasted.)
>
> 11.30pm Sore eyes - bored with infer-mercials - reboot to Linux
> untar Bastille and go for it - answered all the questions eventually
> between reading man pages and hoping I got it right..
>
> 00.45AM - all looks good - reboot - and hope.
>
> 00.47AM - I'm up and running - so attempt to get to the Net.
> 01.30AM - success - line has deteriorated even more - only getting
> around 1.2kbs transfer, lots of ppp timeouts - I have to deal with
> that later.
>
> Get the mail - yup worked - answered/responded to 20-odd.
> Go surfing - water is bloody cold this time of morning - try grc.com
> get lots of triggers from portsentry even at 1.2kbs
>
> 02.30 - logout and check logs - yup I'm all happy
>
> What a relief it's been..
>
> Now all I have to do is make suitable sacrifices to any diety we/you
> care to name so that I don't stuff it all up.
>
> Cheers
>
> John
geesh, u call this success :)
>
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