Re: how to stuff up your day

2002-04-30 Thread Adrian Stacey
I used the Dark Star Resque Disk, Tom's was to be my next try... Christopher Sawtell wrote: > Adrian Stacey wrote: > >> Well I tried to get the CD in but those floopy drives are too small ;) > > > > http://www.toms.net/rb/ > > Works a treat! > > >

Re: how to stuff up your day

2002-04-30 Thread Christopher Sawtell
Adrian Stacey wrote: > Well I tried to get the CD in but those floopy drives are too small ;) http://www.toms.net/rb/ Works a treat!

Re: how to stuff up your day

2002-04-30 Thread Adrian Stacey
Well I tried to get the CD in but those floopy drives are too small ;) None of my servers have CD ROM drives, waste of resourses to me, like a server withh S3 video... no point Adrian V K wrote: >>BTW, I got a good emergency booter off the web, helped when I messed >>with the C libs - (yeah

Re: how to stuff up your day

2002-04-30 Thread Jeremy Bertenshaw
TED]> > Subject: how to stuff up your day > > As typical boot scripts do in floppy distros, it wrote from scatch new > versions of : > > /etc/passwd > /etc/profile > /etc/resolv.conf > /etc/networks > > as well as a whole lot of other crap. Luckily I had stayed logg

Re: how to stuff up your day

2002-04-30 Thread Nick Rout
> What's wrong with the rescue system on your distro install CD? > I.e. insert CD, boot, instead of "install" select "rescue". > Come to think of it, your floppy thing might not be as bloated. > > Debian had a little bootable CD a while back. In my case there was no cd drive -- Nick Rout <[EMAI

Re: how to stuff up your day

2002-04-30 Thread V K
> BTW, I got a good emergency booter off the web, helped when I messed > with the C libs - (yeah, another story). Yell if you're interested, > nice basic linux system on a floppy... What's wrong with the rescue system on your distro install CD? I.e. insert CD, boot, instead of "install" select

Re: how to stuff up your day

2002-04-30 Thread Chris Hellyar
Ahhh, I remember the days... Back when I ran the BBS I ran the system on a netware 3.11 server... Two drives, SYS and VOL1... I got hold of a (Huge) 300Mb drive for VOL1, and diligently made two backups of the old 120mb VOL1 data to my Jumbo 120 date drive... And promptly re-formatted SYS so I c

Re: how to stuff up your day

2002-04-30 Thread Adrian Stacey
You're right, it looks as though it DID stuff up your day... Robert Fisher wrote: > I have just set up KMail for the first time. > > Is there a way to see "toolbars" at the top of an open email? > > Rob > > >

Re: how to stuff up your day

2002-04-30 Thread Adrian Stacey
Nick Rout wrote: > This story is almost too embarrassing to tell, but there is an important > moral so here goes: > > I was fiddling with a floppy distro (toms rt bt) to see how it works, > and with a view to putting drivers for my net card onto it for an > emergency booter (long story in itself

Re: how to stuff up your day

2002-04-30 Thread Robert Fisher
I have just set up KMail for the first time. Is there a way to see "toolbars" at the top of an open email? Rob

Re: how to stuff up your day

2002-04-29 Thread Ben Aitchison
On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 04:28:34PM +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > as well as a whole lot of other crap. Luckily I had stayed logged in as > root, and had some backups of the most important files (/etc/passwd was > a REAL worry until I realised there was a backup of it dated [date You really should be

how to stuff up your day

2002-04-29 Thread Nick Rout
This story is almost too embarrassing to tell, but there is an important moral so here goes: I was fiddling with a floppy distro (toms rt bt) to see how it works, and with a view to putting drivers for my net card onto it for an emergency booter (long story in itself). I put the floppy in my se