Re: boot from CD ?

1998-11-13 Thread John B. Fink
On Fri, 13 Nov 1998, Christian Hammers wrote: > Hi > > Is the 2.0_r1 CD image bootable ? I have to burn it here on work and > I don't know how to make a bootable CD out of it. > > As far as I understand, I need to make an El-Torento(?) CD-Rom, i.e. > one .raw file which contains a boo

source code for /bin/login?

1998-11-12 Thread John B. Fink
Hi folks, Due to an extreme amount of idiocy at the place where I work, I have need to modify the /bin/login program so that instead of displaying this -- adler login: it will display this -- login: I have looked through the /etc/login.defs file but can see no options to eliminate displaying

Re: Debian and AMI MegaRAID

1998-11-12 Thread John B. Fink
On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Fabio Belletti wrote: > > We have a dual Pentium II server with AMI Mega RAID Controller but > we don't know if it works with Debian Linux 2.0 because the 'recently > released' Linux driver from AMI seems to work only with the latest Red Hat > version (5.2) or the p

Re: Debian and AMI MegaRAID

1998-11-12 Thread John B. Fink
On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Fabio Belletti wrote: > > We have a dual Pentium II server with AMI Mega RAID Controller but > we don't know if it works with Debian Linux 2.0 because the 'recently > released' Linux driver from AMI seems to work only with the latest Red Hat > version (5.2) or the p

roll your own boot disk/MegaRAID info

1998-10-23 Thread John B. Fink
Hey folks, I've got a brand spankin' new Dell PowerEdge 6100 server with the works, four processors, 86 gigs of RAID-5 space, one gig of memory. So I'm happy, my boss(es) want me to put Debian on it, I'm even more happy. However, I've got a bit of a problem related to the RAID card -- to the bes

Re: configuration of network card

1998-10-09 Thread John B. Fink
On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, Wilson Tuma wrote: > Hi > > I have asked this question b4 and did not get any satisfactory answer. So I > will ask it in way that might make you people understand it better. > > I just bought a Network Card 3com905B-TX. This card model is not listed > under modconf. Wha

Re: Re(2): Newbie questions

1998-10-07 Thread John B. Fink
On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Adrian Gudas wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >other=/dev/hda1 > > label=dos > > table=/dev/hda > > > >in /etc/lilo.conf then run lilo at the prompt it will allow you to > >boot dos from the LILO: prompt by typing dos (to get a list of options > >press the tab key

legality of mailing Debian CDs from US to overseas?

1998-10-05 Thread John B. Fink
Hey folks, I've just started a scheme for sending Debian x86 CDs (the "binary-i386.raw" images) free of charge to educational/non-profit institutions and affiliates -- http://adler.lib.muohio.edu/~jbfink/debian-giveaway. As of today I've sent out seven CDs -- three to US addresses, one to Canada