Re: PCL only printer

2004-02-19 Thread Jack Carroll
On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 02:20:28PM -0800, Paul Yeatman wrote: > Hi, I recently inherited an HP Deskjet 932C printer. Apparently this > only uses the PCL printer language. As I need to be able to print > postscript for this to be of much use to me, I've been struggling to > make this happen. > >

Re: Why Linux, Why Debian

2004-02-19 Thread Jack Carroll
On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 06:34:25AM +1100, bob parker wrote: > On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 10:09, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > > > > 9) Does the gentoo configurability deliver significantly better > > performance? Is the added step of compilation too much of an > > inconvenience? > >

Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?

2004-02-19 Thread Jack Carroll
On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 10:24:44AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On 2004-02-18, Anthony Campbell penned: > > I'm trying to run ssh between two computers but I get: > > > > "connect to host port 22: Connection refused." > > > > I have portmapper turned off for security, but is it essent

Re: Creating a hardware Firewall

2004-02-16 Thread Jack Carroll
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 11:49:54AM -0500, Bojan Baros wrote: > Hello. > > I am looking into creating a firewall for my home network. So far I > have a simple Internet router (Netgear) that protects my win and deb > boxes, but I would like to replace it with something more substantial. I

Re: recommended reading?

2004-02-16 Thread Jack Carroll
C'mon, guys, quit snarling at each other. The only dumb question is the one you don't ask. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sarge installer: unsure what images needed

2004-02-16 Thread Jack Carroll
There's a new sarge installer??? Can anybody tell me where it resides? Is there documentation with it? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Floppy installer fails to load modules

2004-02-10 Thread Jack Carroll
Thanks, guys for all the clues so far. Looks like the next step is to spend tomorrow evening reading the docs you suggested, then build an install kernel on one of my working machines. I have Libranet 2.7 and 2.8.1 on everything, and a bare Debian 3.0 on one machine's /dev/sdb. -- To U

Re: recommended reading?

2004-02-08 Thread Jack Carroll
I took a run down to the bookstore tonight to look at "Debian GNU/Linux Bible", on the strength of the recommendation on this thread. I found it rather dated, and I didn't think it went into as much useful detail as "Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 Unleashed". Admittedly, that's dated too, but I did

Re: Floppy installer fails to load modules

2004-02-08 Thread Jack Carroll
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 04:15:07PM -0500, David Clymer wrote: > > This sounds like a problem with the installation instructions. Has > > anybody successfully done an install from floppies on a system that needs > > modules to be loaded? Do I need to build a custom kernel and install that > >

Re: Old x486 as thin client

2004-02-08 Thread Jack Carroll
> On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 11:04:56AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > I have always wanted to do this. How do you have the 486s run an > X server without an OS? Or do they get a base Debian install? You need at least a minimum OS installed to provide an infrastructure for X. A li

Floppy installer fails to load modules

2004-02-07 Thread Jack Carroll
Didn't find anything about this in the archives. I want to install Woody or Sarge on two older machines that have SCSI CD-ROMs and SCSI hard disks. Neither can boot from a CD. I've always booted installation programs from floppies in the past. I downloaded the boot floppy