Re: how to convince that debian is one the three major choices for a stable server environment?

2010-02-24 Thread Ian MacDonald
Hardware platform support is a big part of it, given that the source is for the most part available to any consulting organization to aid in the customization and solution to problems. On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 23:14 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > John Hasler put forth on 2/23/2010 5:20 PM: > > Stan w

Re: boot hangs on pass phrase to unock encrypted root

2010-01-26 Thread Ian MacDonald
On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 01:23 +, mictlan tecutli wrote: > > im usiing a custom kernel, but ive also tried the 2.6.29-2-amd64 from > debian repos and i get the same results. 2.6.29-2-amd64 doesn't seem current for any of the distributions right now. From your versions below (iniramfs, grub) you

Re: boot hangs on pass phrase to unock encrypted root

2010-01-26 Thread Ian MacDonald
On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 05:42 +, k b wrote: > i can no longer boot my computer due to the problem in the subject > line. That is really no fun, so here are a few suggestions. Since you verified the implementation of luks using the live cd, my bet is graphics or input devices 1) If you have bee

Re: Xorg

2006-04-16 Thread Ian MacDonald
Well, I've been running my 7.0 desktop all weekend; Granted I reviewed my dist-upgrade REMOVE, and added-back a few bits after the upgrades A quick look at /var/log/dpkg.log will tell you any bits that have been removed (and may be preventing you from running your X). You should have all your ol

Re: Firewall software for Debian

2006-04-16 Thread Ian MacDonald
In keeping with Easter, and not putting all your eggs in one basket, you might check out fwbuilder too. I can't get away from the fwbuilder GUI and the knobs there. Nice plugins for PIX, Linksys, etc. too. http://freshmeat.net/projects/fwbuilder/ http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/fwbuilder

Samba codepage problem

2004-07-13 Thread Ian Macdonald
Hello-- I quick question, to see if anyone could help me out. I have a home network with two nodes, my laptop and my girlfriend's. I have Debian sarge on my laptop while on my girlfriend's machine is the Latin American Spanish version of Windows ME. I am trying to use Samba tools to allow me to m

Re: Samba and Codepages question (smbmount)

2004-07-07 Thread Ian Macdonald
Bijan writes: >>Now, I believe that the problem is with the last option, "codepage". I >>have tried with codepage=cp437, codepage=cp850, codepage=cp1252, and >>also just the raw numbers, i.e. codepage=437, codepage=850 . However, >>in all of these cases, the filename charset conversion seems to be

Samba and Codepages question (smbmount)

2004-07-07 Thread Ian Macdonald
Hello-- I quick question, to see if anyone could help me out. I have a home network with two nodes, my laptop and my girlfriend's. I have Debian sarge on my laptop while on my girlfriend's machine is the Latin American Spanish version of Windows ME. I am trying to use Samba tools to allow me to m

Re: Directory name completion using bash_completion in unstable (forwarded from Phil Edwards)

2004-02-09 Thread Ian Macdonald
ption to turn it off > while completing the initial command word. And there doesn't seem to > be anything in sid's /etc/bash_completion that tries to set completion > options for the general command word case. > > How is the Debian version doing this? The Debian version p