Martin Würtele wrote:
On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 10:19:52AM -0800, Bill Wohler wrote:
>>I got an IBM Thinkpad T20 and would like to do my small part to
>>improve the world by replacing the Windows on it with Debian.
>>Would love to hear any stories from other travelers who have
>>embarked upon thi
>> On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> I got a few friends who are interested in (trying)linux. For TRYING
>> purposes I want them to use a debian based Linux. I love using debian
>> 2.2
>> and I am pretty new my-self(1.5 year). I think it might be a little
>> to overwelming for
>> On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 08:40:19AM -0800, Mike Egglestone wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all...
>>> I'm looking for a web site that would have
>>> a nice list and basic description of debian commands.
>>> Anyone know of such a place?
>>>
>>> or even just linux commands for that matter...
I know this isn
For some reason, it's taking 30+ seconds to SSH into a server that's
powering a small LAN to respond to my SSH attempts with the UserID and
password prompt. I don't really remember it taking this long before,
but I'm not sure. Takes a decent amount of time to respond even after I
type in th
On 12/19/00 6:44 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>I want to set up printing (preferably using magicfilter) for an HP
>Laserjet 5N. Since I don't see this printer listed in the magicfilter
>setup, which one works best with this printer?
Maybe ljet4 or ljet4l? Did you check out
On 12/19/00 5:25 PM, Bob ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>I have two questions (for now): What is the permissions setting for the home
>directories. I suspect it should be something like rwx-- or
>rwxrwx--- if
>the group is unique to the specific username. Is this correct?
They'll work if yo
On 12/11/00 5:49 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
>>Hi,
>>I know this is not really Debian related, but I started wondering.
>>Often I see terms like OT and AFAIK. What do they mean?
>>I guess OT means something like 'unusual' and AFAIK gives me a dangerous
>>feeling.
>>Just wonde
I've been fooling around with a 2.2 Debian distribution on a ThinkPad
T20 (company laptop, *cough*), and the network transfers on my home
LAN are really slow. After spending a few hours going through Deja
and various HOW-TO's, I'm running out of hairs to pull...
- The file transfers work fi
For more info, there's a number of good articles on using cron via
LinuxToday. Use the Search function for cron.
Steve
On 12/4/00 4:55 PM, Phil Brutsche ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
If 2.0.5 works I would say stick with it. You only really need 2.0.7 if
you have any Win2k machines that need to connect to the samba server.
Ah. Actually, we're starting work with a few consultant types who
come in with Win2K lapt
I set up X on my ThinkPad T20, and although X works fine after some
tweaking, I'm having troubles with xdm.
The xlogin comes up after my laptop has booted, but I can't get past
the login phase. When I enter the correct userID and password, the
screen flickers, freezes briefly, and then send
I was upgrading various packages and upped samba from 2.0.5 to 2.0.7
while maintaining the original smb.conf. Although the upgrade went off
without a hitch, I was never able to reconnect my Win9x machines back to
the server. When I got rid of 2.0.7 and replaced it back with 2.0.5,
everything
On 11/8/00 8:29 AM, John Covici ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>You might want to an interface line in your samba configuration file
>(smb.conf) such as
>interfaces=192.168.0.1/24
>and you may need a
>socket address = specification.
>
>This is what I have been using.
I know that this is a late reply
On 11/18/00 3:21 PM, urbanyon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>i am using a cdrom that came with the book 'learning debian gnu/linux'
>(oreilly). various packages that even the book tells i need are not on
>there.
I've done installations from that CD before on LAN network connected
systems successf
On 11/18/00 5:06 PM, urbanyon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>> Ah. What a crappy book. It was my first Debian book, and install,
>> too.
>
>:-) Can you suggest a better book? it's nice to have a reference.
>From this newbie's standpoint, I didn't think the O'Reilly book was all
that bad as
On 11/18/00 4:26 PM, Alson van der Meulen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>try 5,10,15 * * * * sunkcost /bin/tar -cf /home/sunkcost/test.tar
>/home/sunkcost/test.txt
>
>you forgot a *, so cron tried to interpet sunkcost as day of week, which
>doesn't really work
Oops. This was a mistake on my part in
ghtforward setup, but I'm stuck. Can somebody give me some help
here?
TIA,
--SC
Hey all,
I'm looking for a U.S. Linux-based hosting service for personal use.
Nothing fancy, but just a place where I could set up a personal web site
/ e-mail, remotely (and securely) log-in, etc. Would be cool if I could
fool around with a mySQL and PHP set-up over there too.
Admittedly,
I have apparently solved the problem with my large disk, though not in an
entirely satisfactory way.
I noticed that fdisk will not allow a partition to begin AFTER cylinder
1024, be it a logical or a primary partition.
I therefore had my last partition start before cyl 1024 and all error
messages h
Sorry for the second post of the day, but I am really desperate.
I have just obtained a new hard disk, a Western Digital AC21200
2484cyl, 16heads, 63 spt, and I re-installed Debian passing the hd
geometry at boot time.
I keep having the same problem, eg fdisk will report warnings about the
disk bei
Hi,
I am having serious problem in having Debian recognize my hard disk
properly. When launching fdisk I obtain the message
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 2484.
This is larger than 1024, and may cause problems...
[as a matter of fact, installation of LILO on the MBR fails]
The
Hello,
I am a installing Linux for the first time.
The log file after booting from the Bootdisk and rootdisk
shows like this:
<4>Console: 16 point font, 400 scans
<4>Console: colour VGA+ 80x25, 1 virtual console (max 63)
<4>pci_init: no BIOS32 detected
<4>Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 33.18 Bog
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