Advice needed to upgrade a xen domU from sarge to etch

2007-08-15 Thread Peter Colton
be OK. aptitude purge fail2ban Then : Edit /etc/apt/sources.list and change sarge to etch. aptitude update aptitude upgrade aptitude install libc6-xen aptitude dist-upgrade Regards peter colton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Advice needed to upgrade a xen domU from sarge to etch

2007-08-15 Thread Peter Colton
Hello all, I said that gplhost had not replied to my email about help with a domU dist-upgrade. They did reply but the reply was in my gplhost account. So all OK now, regards peter colton On Wednesday 15 August 2007 16:18, Peter Colton wrote

Re: Squeezing video

2007-03-11 Thread Peter Colton
, should you lower the quailty of the mp2 and go for the standard download this file from your hosting or leave the quality alone and check out the torrent world. Regards peter colton Hi! I've almost no experience with video and various formats. I have 250MB video

Re: jigdo and its files

2006-12-15 Thread Peter Colton
On Friday 15 December 2006 02:29, Peter Colton wrote: Hello all, I been using jigdo for the dvd images of Etch testing over the last couple of mouths. From : http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/i386/jigdo-dvd/ The jigdo files I downloaded where in the format

jigdo and its files

2006-12-14 Thread Peter Colton
-1.template : and so on But now there is more jigdo files in the format of : debian-testing-i386-DVD-binary-1.jigdo debian-testing-i386-DVD-binary-1.template So the question is whats the difference ? and which format of jigdo file do I use ? Regards : peter colton

Re: jigdo and its files

2006-12-14 Thread Peter Colton
On Friday 15 December 2006 02:53, Alan Ianson wrote: On Thu December 14 2006 18:29, Peter Colton wrote: Hello all, I been using jigdo for the dvd images of Etch testing over the last couple of mouths. From : http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/i386/jigdo-dvd

Re: Greetings and a minor rave!!

2006-12-11 Thread Peter Colton
hello andy, A document that is very handy Debian Reference apt-get install debian-reference-en link for file brower : /usr/share/doc/Debian/reference/reference.en.html regards : peter colton On Monday 11 December 2006 19:08, andy wrote: Hi all I'm new to Debian

Re: dedicated debian hosting

2006-12-05 Thread Peter Colton
Hello Tom, Check out gplhost for their debian xen packages. http://www.gplhost.com/hosting-vps.html Regards peter colton Tom Allison wrote: Can anyone direct me towards debian based dedicated server hosting companies? I might

Re: Reporting brute force ssh login attempts

2006-11-15 Thread Peter Colton
-brute-force-attacks/ http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/fail2ban.htm regards peter colton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Reporting brute force ssh login attempts

2006-11-15 Thread Peter Colton
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 21:00, Shri Shrikumar wrote: Hi Peter, Peter Colton wrote: A handy tool I use to cut down on ssh brute force attacks is fail2ban : You can install it from backports.org. Add the backport url to your sources.list http://www.backports.org/dokuwiki/doku.php

Why is the debian BitTorrent tracker down ?

2006-11-07 Thread Peter Colton
soon. Regards peter colton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dvdbackup error

2006-10-14 Thread Peter Colton
On Monday 09 October 2006 08:17, Fred J. wrote: Hello fred, growisofs -Z /dev/hdx -dvd-video -udf /path-to-iso replace x with the letter for the dvd drive. Regards peter colton Peter Colton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello fred

Re: dvdbackup error

2006-10-08 Thread Peter Colton
look in the file /etc/fstab for the info of the x in hdx for your dvd drive. regards peter colton On Sunday 08 October 2006 20:23, Fred J. wrote: Hi I am using dvdbackup under testing, it is giving some errors I did not expect and don't know whats

Re: bittorrent proxy

2006-10-01 Thread Peter Colton
hellohendrik, Have a look at torrentflux its in testing. Package: torrentflux (2.1-3) web based, feature-rich BitTorrent download manager TorrentFlux is a PHP based BitTorrent controller that runs on a web server. It can manage all of your BitTorrent downloads from

Re: slow dns lookup

2006-08-17 Thread Peter Colton
Get Automatically From ISP : yes or no or Use These DNS Servers: thats the option I take and place my isp dns ip here. The client I use for the mailing list is kmail. I just use reply or reply to mailing list Regards peter colton On Tuesday 15 August 2006 21:16

Re: slow dns lookup

2006-08-17 Thread Peter Colton
is a debconf-based interface for configuring Ethernet devices on your system. It supports both manual and DHCP-based configurations. Regards peter colton On Tuesday 15 August 2006 21:16, Tyler Smith wrote: Hi Peter, That's exactly what's happening: etch:/home/tyler

Re: kiosk firefox in debian?

2006-08-17 Thread Peter Colton
InactivityScript http://www.eng.uwaterloo.ca/twiki/bin/view/Linux/InactivityScript Regards peter colton On Thursday 17 August 2006 12:37, Wei Hu wrote: Does anyone know how to set a kiosk FireFox in Debian? I'd like to make FireFox meet the following in Debian: 1) when Debian

Re: slow dns lookup

2006-08-15 Thread Peter Colton
with slow dns resovles and the problem was my netgear router giving out the gateway ip. So the machine could dns resolve from the router. Regards peter colton On Monday 14 August 2006 04:20, Tyler Smith wrote: Hi, I've got a minor problem with name resolution (I

Re: Corrupt ISO downloads

2006-07-14 Thread Peter Colton
Hello Austin, Try downloading the sarge net installer by bittorent, The torrent method is a lot bitter for the job of large files and kinder on the host server bandwidth useage. http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r2/i386/bt-cd/ regards peter

Re: Limiting bandwidth used

2006-06-30 Thread Peter Colton
hello Kjell, have a look at the link below, it may be able to give you a starting point for packet shaping for your situation. http://www.littleyojik.co.uk/computers/traffic_shaping.html regards peter colton On Friday 30 June 2006 13:49, Kjell Rune

Re: Skype alternatives (was: sound proble for KsCD/Skype/xmms in Debian Sid)

2006-06-22 Thread Peter Colton
peter colton On Thursday 22 June 2006 01:14, Jason Spiro wrote: All, I have problems with Skype too. Does anyone know of a good open-source VoIP program that will let me talk with my cousin in the U.S. who uses Windows? I believe both of us are behind firewalls. I prefer not to open

Re: immigrate Debian from an older disk to a newer one?

2006-06-21 Thread Peter Colton
/mitch/notebook/clone_partition/view all the best but test the method first. Regards peter colton On Wednesday 21 June 2006 04:13, Wei Hu wrote: I'm planning to replace my older disk (13G) with a larger/newer hard disk (750G) and to maintain

Re: how to compile sarge's default kernel

2006-06-19 Thread Peter Colton
Hello Serena, Hope the link below can be of help. http://qref.sourceforge.net/Debian/reference/ch-kernel.en.html regards peter colton On Monday 19 June 2006 21:45, Serena Cantor wrote: I load /boot/config-2.4.27-2-386 to xconfig

Re: Command Line and Video Capture/Tuner Cards

2006-06-07 Thread Peter Colton
hello Martin, the app streamer may be what your looking for. Description: capture tool (images / movies) A tool to capture single/multiple images or record movies from a video4linux device. Regards peter colton On Wednesday 07 June 2006 20:44

Re: xmms is not playing a steam link

2006-06-04 Thread Peter Colton
hello -HS, I just check the music link out with xmms on sarge and all ok. regards peter colton On Monday 05 June 2006 00:07, H.S. wrote: Hi, The Winamp links on this page: http://desi-radio.com/servers.php are not playing in xmms

Re: raid 1

2006-05-29 Thread Peter Colton
hello Jacek, Check out the howto link for a raid1 install from sarge installer. http://nepotismia.com/debian/raidinstall/ It may help you get the raid 1 up and running Regards peter colton On Monday 29 May 2006 16:15, jacek wrote: Hi

Re: Torrent client for CL

2006-05-08 Thread Peter Colton
and btdownloadheadless. A handy tool to use with these clients is screen http://www.hn2.org/docs/tbg/screen.html You can setup the torrent download in screen then logout and its still runing in the background. Regrads peter colton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: curses/CLI bit torrent app

2006-05-08 Thread Peter Colton
the torrent download in screen then logout and its still runing in the background. Regrads                  peter colton

Re: New user need some help

2006-04-27 Thread Peter Colton
be of help to you. http://qref.sourceforge.net/Debian/reference/reference.en.html Regards peter colton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: distributions: UBUNTU vs DEBIAN

2006-04-20 Thread Peter Colton
and debian at debconf5 http://www.nixnuts.net/debconf5/mpeg1/0714/02-Ubuntu_Talk-Mark_Shuttleworth.mpeg Regards peter colton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

help needed to setup logrotate

2006-03-29 Thread Peter Colton
howto links. Regards peter colton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: help needed to setup logrotate

2006-03-29 Thread Peter Colton
-r--r-- 1 root adm 233472 2006-03-30 02:29 /var/log/bttrack.log Regards peter colton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: help needed to setup logrotate

2006-03-29 Thread Peter Colton
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Re: DVD ISO files

2006-02-22 Thread Peter Colton
the base system and the rest of the install is then over the net. One more way if you want the dvd imags is to use ftp instead of http to do the download. Regards, peter colton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: DVD ISO files

2006-02-22 Thread Peter Colton
On Wednesday 22 February 2006 17:03, Peter Colton wrote: On Wednesday 22 February 2006 16:00, Travis Crook wrote: Hi all, I'm new to the list and to Debian itself (but not necessarily new to linux). I would like to install it and try it out, but I have some questions. I have

Re: Need help installing RAID 0+1

2006-02-20 Thread Peter Colton
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Re: Newly added TV Card disables existing sound card.

2006-02-13 Thread Peter Colton
the AGP slot. This practise was reconmended on the Hauppauge web site. You may be having a problem with IRQ conflicts. Have a look the cards IRQ numbers for the cards lspci -v Regards peter colton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: trouble installing RAID and LVM.

2006-02-13 Thread Peter Colton
On Monday 13 February 2006 20:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 04:24:44AM +, Peter Colton wrote: On Saturday 11 February 2006 14:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While installing debian-testing-amd64-netinst (downloaded 2006 02 03) When I got to the point where I get

Re: trouble installing RAID and LVM.

2006-02-11 Thread Peter Colton
the install with the sarge installer that should be of intrest to you. http://nepotismia.com/debian/raidinstall/part1.html Start the install with the expert26 option and then pick the md module for the a raid enabled kernel. Regards peter colton

Re: flashplugin-nonfree No new version is detected

2006-02-08 Thread Peter Colton
On Wednesday 08 February 2006 17:40, Chris Lale wrote: Peter Colton wrote: Hello all, I have been trying to install flashplugin-nonfree but it looks like the flash package is not there. below is the out put of the command : sudo aptitude reinstall flashplugin-nonfree

flashplugin-nonfree No new version is detected

2006-02-04 Thread Peter Colton
flash installed. Do I just wait and see if the flash package turns up at macromedia.rediris.es.  Or is there a flash package I could downlaod from else where. which I could install locally.                    Regards                            peter colton

Re: Newbie needs help with LAN set up

2006-01-26 Thread Peter Colton
all the best and have a look at shorewall, Regards peter colton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mencoder

2006-01-26 Thread Peter Colton
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Re: CD/DVD burning

2005-12-14 Thread peter colton
://linuxgazette.net/issue83/stoddard.html all the best from peter colton Rodney D. Myers wrote: On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 00:20:25 +0100 steef [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fritz Wettstein wrote: Which tool do you recommend for burning/authoring dvds? *growisofs* (dvd) *cdrecord

Re: software RAID

2005-12-08 Thread peter colton
://nepotismia.com/debian/raidinstall/ all the best from peter colton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Useful GUI apps on low-mem computers?

2005-11-04 Thread peter colton
hello Mitch, have a look at the link below it should give your some good pointers to get the boxs up and running. http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=9973 all the best from peter colton On Wednesday 02 November 2005 15:56, Mitch Wiedemann

Re: Hello I'm new to Linux, anybody can tell me the best way of learning it. I'm interest in realtime applications

2005-10-26 Thread peter colton
hello Eduardo, have a look at the link below its from mark shuttlework foundation linux learning the ubuntu peaple. hope it get you on your gnu/linux way. http://learnlinux.tsf.org.za/moodle/ peter colton On Monday 24 October 2005 18:29, Exal de

LinuxBasic.org is now offering a free Linux class

2005-08-26 Thread peter colton
- Yours' sincerely peter colton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: monitor PC2000 F17 69T technical informations?

2005-08-21 Thread peter colton
all the best, from peter colton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Java and Konqueror?

2005-08-20 Thread peter colton
peter colton On Saturday 20 August 2005 05:04, Bill Day wrote: This link should help http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-java-faq/ch11.html On Friday August 19 2005 8:32 pm, Curt Howland wrote: Please copy me on the reply, I cannot keep up with message traffic

Re: Bittorrent can't open some .torrent files

2005-08-08 Thread peter colton
peter colton

Re: cups in debian??

2005-08-01 Thread peter colton
Reference - Debian System installation hints for the packages you will need for cups printer setup. http://qref.sourceforge.net/Debian/reference/ch-install.en.html#s-cups all the best peter colton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: RealPlayer 10 for Debian?

2005-07-13 Thread peter colton
On Wednesday 13 July 2005 00:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello Benjamin, check out http://www1.apt-get.org for RealPlayer. all the best, peter colton Dear friends: Is there a special Debian package for RealPlayer 10? Since

Re: Printing in CUPS -- almost there!

2005-07-13 Thread peter colton
the install the Recommended packages and all work well. http://qref.sourceforge.net/Debian/reference/ch-install.en.html#s-cups bye for now. peter colton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Software RAID with Debian Installer

2005-07-11 Thread peter colton
On Monday 11 July 2005 02:57, Luke Pacholski wrote: Hello Luke Here is a link for a raid1 howto. hope it dose the job. http://nepotismia.com/debian/raidinstall/ all the best from. peter colton I am currently

Re: dvd-iso images

2005-07-06 Thread peter colton
machine. Then open them with a bittorent client. http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r0a/i386/bt-dvd/ all the best peter colton Hey, Pls let me know what I am doing wrong... From official debian site I get info that there is latest release iso-dvd images

Re: Help loading Debian

2005-07-03 Thread peter colton
On Sunday 03 July 2005 02:43, Jim Kern wrote: Hi jim. In the burning software you are using look for burning a .iso image option. Thedebian-31r0a-i386-netinst.iso file is read to burn. all the best peter colton Yes I am burning the image

Re: nvidia kernel + AMD processor = problems with sound tv tuner

2005-07-03 Thread peter colton
On Sunday 03 July 2005 23:09, Michael Bonert wrote: I had the problem that after I installed the nvidia driver I could not use xawtv I sovled this by using the argument xawtv -noxv peter colton I installed the nvidia kernel (details below) and after

Re: mail server

2005-07-02 Thread peter colton
/ all the best peter colton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help loading Debian

2005-07-02 Thread peter colton
it. Anyway I hope you can point me in the right direction. Jim hello jim Are you burning the cd image as a .iso file ? not a data file. all the best peter colton ps will knoppix boot from the cdrom drive if so you should be able

Re: mdadm: raid not working after stop/reboot

2005-06-29 Thread peter colton
, Have a look at the link for a debian software raid built from the sarge installer. Hope it can be of help. If you using a initrd kerenl if so have a look at /usr/share/doc/mdadm/rootraiddoc.97.html Part II. RAID using initrd and grub all the best peter colton

Re: Trouble configuring LVM after RAID1 on Sarge -- help

2005-06-28 Thread peter colton
be of help. http://nepotismia.com/debian/raidinstall/ bye for now peter colton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cannot burn 612MB iso

2005-06-25 Thread peter colton
On Saturday 25 June 2005 04:27, Kudret Güler wrote: hello Kudret Here is how I take a md5sum off a cd rom. md5sum /dev/hdc path-to-md5sum-output my cd drive is on /dev/hdc so change to suit. all the best peter colton Hi, Trying to write 612

Re: BitTorrent Clients and X

2005-06-23 Thread peter colton
for the man bittornado is broken. So dpkg -L bittornado Then you can track down the man you want. all the best peter colton and here is a couple of torent links. http://www.mininova.org/ http

Re: lilo / raid1 / mbr problem

2005-06-23 Thread peter colton
On Thursday 23 June 2005 09:20, Dirk Bonenkamp - Bean IT wrote: Here is a link that should be of use to you with setting up raid1 from a debian install. http://nepotismia.com/debian/raidinstall/ bye for now peter colton Hi All

Re: Misc. Newb Help

2005-06-17 Thread peter colton
the non-free section to your apt source url. For the nvidia drive. all the best. peter colton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian Sarge DVD Download Limit?

2005-06-13 Thread peter colton
bittorent. as its better on bandwidth and when the iso image is download its integrity will be check by bittorent mdsum all the best peter colton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian Sarge DVD Download Limit?

2005-06-13 Thread peter colton
. All so the bittorent client needs its ports setting up the same as the router 1 to 10005 again all the best peter colton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: woody-sarge failed: out pf disk space

2005-06-11 Thread peter colton
. all the best peter colton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: woody-sarge failed: out pf disk space

2005-06-11 Thread peter colton
On Saturday 11 June 2005 17:20, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 04:46:22PM +0100, peter colton wrote: On Saturday 11 June 2005 16:49, Hendrik Boom wrote: After 18 hours of upgrading on my very slow 100 MHz Pentium, it ended up producing an unending stream of multilog

Re: Problems using bittorrent

2005-06-10 Thread peter colton
://www.mininova.org/ All the best torrents to you peter colton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Can't burn CDs at a reasonable speed (cdrecord, 2.6.11 kernel).

2005-06-02 Thread peter colton
peter colton I'm running a Debian testing system with the 2.6.11-1-686 #1 kernel and packages cdrecord 2.01+01a01-2 and mkisofs 2.01+01a01-2. The machine is Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz with 1GB RAM and a new CD/DVD-burner (IDE on /dev/hda; the hard drive is SATA and appears

Re: External modem

2005-05-30 Thread peter colton
On Monday 30 May 2005 17:38, Muhammad Ali wrote: Hello Muhammad. Here are the steps I take to setup a dialup connection. If the box as a ethernet card installed you will need to set up the system for a static ip address for that ethernet card. The ethernet card static ip needs no gateway

Re: md5 problems - sarge

2005-05-24 Thread peter colton
check the image integrity of the cd. Let the install run upto the network config part of the install and then use the Go Back option to take you to the main menu of the installer. There you will see the Check intregrity option. all the best peter colton

Re: Kernel Panic on my new custom kernel

2005-05-12 Thread peter colton
On Thursday 12 May 2005 06:07, John Foster wrote: Kernel Panic on my new custom kernel hello Jon. when you compile the new kernel did you use the --initrd option. by for now peter colton pgp9iC5wGQoCb.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ide- cd-writer fails under sarge(2.4.27-ct-1)

2005-05-05 Thread peter colton
cdrecord and take the option If you make cdrecord SUID, you can allow users in the cdrom group to burn CD-ROMs without needing any additional privileges. all the best peter colton pgppSKuzKlWMA.pgp Description: PGP

Re: Kernel 2.6.8 won't boot

2005-01-04 Thread peter colton
hi reza. have a look at the line debian:/usr/src/linux# cp /root/config .config It should be some thing like cp /boot/config-X-X-X-X /usr/src/linux/.config where -X-X-X-X is the version of the runing kernel. and run make oldconfig before make menuconfig with patching

Re: unsubscribe mydebianbox@yahoo.co.uk

2004-01-10 Thread peter colton
On Sunday 11 January 2004 00:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2004 : Issue 117 Today's Topics: Re: www.gnu.org, glibcbug, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ Michael D Schleif [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Re: 2.6 and devfsd[ Nate Duehr