Re: Debian not included in Infomagic's June LDR (plus a little advocacy)

As mentioned below, Infomagic put 1.3.1 on the CDs because they couldn't wait for 2.0. It was really a hassle because they still sent out the first set (at least) with packaging stating that 2.0 was in the collection. I took it to my folks' house to load on their new computer 2 weeks after

Re: mount drive through internet?

The NFS connection is rather sluggish and can be prone to security problems (like FTP isn't?). There was a kernel mirror that could be mounted via NFS *or* Samba at one time, but I think it was they turned those off because of abusers. Now only http and ftp can be used for that site. IIRC,

Re: Protecting root security

I suppose it you used cfs (as another poster suggested), you could keep someone from reading your disk. But you couldn't keep them from wiping it clean with fdisk and being generally destructive. I'm not a security guru, but I think it's still one of the most important rules to remember: physical

Re: Error in kernel compile

I had identical problems compiling the same kernel on my potato system. I was only successful after I reinstalled gcc2.7.2.3 and made sure /etc/alternatives pointed cc at it (dont forget to go into the top level Makefile to change the compiler to cc). Lance Hoffmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I