Re: [expert] Mandrake in low mem machine.

2001-12-24 Thread tester
Michael Viron wrote: >>1. boot off the _Second_ install CD and choose an alternate install >>image, most likely 2.2.19. >> > >The second install CD? That CD #2 (-ext) on the download set, or is this >part of a set you have to purchase? > >Michael > >-- >Michael Viron >Registered Linux User #81

Re: [expert] Mandrake in low mem machine.

2001-12-24 Thread Michael Viron
>1. boot off the _Second_ install CD and choose an alternate install >image, most likely 2.2.19. The second install CD? That CD #2 (-ext) on the download set, or is this part of a set you have to purchase? Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems & Administration

Re: [expert] Bastille firewall

2001-12-24 Thread Lee Roberts
At 04:23 PM 12/24/2001 -0500, Mark Weaver wrote: > >The ports that get opened and closed what ever the case/need may be is done >primarily in the bastille-firewall.cfg file. It's within config block #3 >that this happens and on these lines: > >TCP_PUBLIC_SERVICES="22 20 21 25 80 443 53 109 110 1

Re: [expert] SCSI Boot Problem

2001-12-24 Thread Larry Sword
"C.H. Close" wrote: > > Hi Larry, > > Thanks for your reply. Are you saying that the initrd image is run > before the cards SCSI bios gets loaded I hadn't thought of this; but > then what is the difference between powering off at the switch and > pulling the mains plug. If I shut down vi

Re: [expert] Mandrake in low mem machine.

2001-12-24 Thread Nelson Bartley
Civileme, Is what you've just mentiond documented somewhere?!?! I tried repeatdly to install off of the 8.1 discs (disc 1) and I could not get it to install on my 133 w/ 64MB of EDO ram and 1.3GB HD. It would have errors out the wazzoo w/ the 2.4 No mater How much I tried (and believe me I TRIED

Re: [expert] SCSI Boot Problem

2001-12-24 Thread C.H. Close
Hi Larry, Thanks for your reply. Are you saying that the initrd image is run before the cards SCSI bios gets loaded I hadn't thought of this; but then what is the difference between powering off at the switch and pulling the mains plug. If I shut down via the PC switch (its an ATX system)

Re: [expert] Mandrake in low mem machine.

2001-12-24 Thread tester
On Mon, 2001-12-24 at 15:46, Michael Viron wrote: > As far as I know, it will not install with anything less than 32 MB ram. I > could be wrong, however. > > Michael > > -- > Michael Viron > Registered Linux User #81978 > Senior Systems & Administration Consultant > Web Spinners, University of

Re: [expert] Mandrake in low mem machine.

2001-12-24 Thread Michael Viron
As far as I know, it will not install with anything less than 32 MB ram. I could be wrong, however. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems & Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 10:42 AM 12/25/2001 +1100, you wrote: > >Hi, > >My fr

[expert] Mandrake in low mem machine.

2001-12-24 Thread Steve Kieu
Hi, My friend has a pentium 100Mh box with only 16Mb ram. I need an advice on how to install mandrake 8.1 on this machine, is it possible? Probably I need to install in text mode? By the way I would like to ask if any one has the same problem, that is if I install Mandrake using the recommende

Re: [expert] Bastille firewall

2001-12-24 Thread D. R. Evans
On 24 Dec 01, at 12:21, Lee Roberts wrote: > At 09:59 AM 12/24/2001 -0700, D. R. Evans wrote: > > > >It took me a non-trivial amount of time to figure out what was going on, > >and then remove all the Bastille rulesets so that I could put my own > >iptables firewall in place. > > Wouldn't iptab

Re: [expert] Bastille firewall

2001-12-24 Thread Mark Weaver
On Mon, 24 Dec 2001 11:18:07 -0500 (EST) Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> studiouisly spake these words to ponder: > On Mon, 24 Dec 2001, Mark Weaver wrote: > > If you want to get bastille-firewall running, in Mandrake Control Center there is >a firewall config utility that gets the process started. It

Re: [expert] Bastille firewall

2001-12-24 Thread Lee Roberts
At 09:59 AM 12/24/2001 -0700, D. R. Evans wrote: > >It took me a non-trivial amount of time to figure out what was going >on, and then remove all the Bastille rulesets so that I could put my >own iptables firewall in place. Wouldn't iptables -F do the job of clearing all the rules? > >The MC

Re: [expert] Bastille firewall

2001-12-24 Thread Lee Roberts
At 07:36 AM 12/24/2001 -0500, Mark Weaver wrote: > >If you want to close certain ports comment them out in the file >/etc/services. However! a word of caution here. Don't get carried away with >closing ports because if you're not familiar with doing this and you close >the wrong ports BAD thing

[expert] Bash Questions SOLVED

2001-12-24 Thread Ken Thompson
For whatever reason MDK didn't create either the .bashrc or the .bash_profile in my home directory. I copied them from one of the other systems and tweaked a bit and BINGO bash works as expected. -- Ken Thompson, North West Antique Autos Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nwaa.c

Re: [expert] SCSI Boot Problem

2001-12-24 Thread Larry Sword
This is a shoot in the dark. If you installed the scsi after the initial installation of ML then your initrd is not preloading the driver. 1. Make a boot floppy and insure that it works. 2. Check to see what and date your /boot/initrd is, date and format. ML uses a form initrd-2.4.8-34.1mdk

Re: [expert] what writes resolv.conf at boot?

2001-12-24 Thread Ron Heron
Your email was pretty specific, but I just don't get one thing. Is it the LM8.1 client machines that you want to fix? The /etc/resolv.conf will be overwritten by the dhcp server. On your LM8.1 server, you can specify the hosts you wish to use, via the dhcpd.conf file. So, if your problem is th

Re: [expert] Bastille firewall

2001-12-24 Thread D. R. Evans
On 24 Dec 01, at 7:36, Mark Weaver wrote: > > If you want to get bastille-firewall running, in Mandrake Control Center > there is a firewall config utility that gets the process started. It's > called Tiny Firewall. run this wizard and it will configure and start I wish that they had named this

Re: [expert] Bastille firewall

2001-12-24 Thread Scott
On Mon, 24 Dec 2001, Mark Weaver wrote: > If you want to get bastille-firewall running, in Mandrake Control Center there is a >firewall config utility that gets the process started. It's called Tiny Firewall. run >this wizard and it will configure and start Bastille-firewall running. I'd then >

Re: [expert] Problem with external modem

2001-12-24 Thread Ed Tharp
try increasing the timeout periods to greater than 60. under kppp > setup > Misc. also be sure to set under Kppp > setup > device > modem time On Monday 24 December 2001 10:35, you wrote: > On Monday 24 December 2001 02:37, you wrote: > > Paul Stear wrote: > > > I am using KPPP to connect and g

Re: [expert] Problem with external modem

2001-12-24 Thread Paul Stear
On Monday 24 December 2001 02:37, you wrote: > Paul Stear wrote: > > I am using KPPP to connect and gftp for transfers and I keep getting the > > modem disconnected even whilst transferring data. > > I have not been able to find any settings about disconnect if idle. > > Missed much of this discus

[expert] SCSI Boot Problem

2001-12-24 Thread C.H. Close
Hi All, I have Mandrake 8.1 installed on an IBM IDE drive as a dual boot with Win98 (my sons network games need this). Since I did not want MS on my main drive I resurrected an old Adaptec 2940A pci SCSI card and an IBM 4Gig drive to go with it (the card also serves my burner). I sucessfu

Re: [expert] Bastille firewall

2001-12-24 Thread Mark Weaver
On 23 Dec 2001 21:18:08 -0700 Lee Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> studiouisly spake these words to ponder: > I was wondering if anyone else is having trouble blocking ports with > InteractiveBastille? I have all the TCP ports blocked but there are some > UDP ports that I can't seem to block. Is this