Re: Installing Debian from a DOS partition SOLVED

> > Here's an extremely inelegant way: > > 1) install Woody base using floppies > > Get those here: > http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/i386/ch-appendix.en.html#s-obtain > (Go to the section called 11.2.3.4.1 Base System Images:) > Various driver disk images are in sections above this on

Re: Installing Debian from a DOS partition

Hi Kev, > it less. The easiest way to install it would be to remove the drive, get > a 2.5" to 3.5" ide converter (less than $10 US) and mount it in a > desktop pc. Install on that, and then put it back in the laptop. Then > you can start fiddling with X and such. If you want I can send you my >

Re: OT: Re: Firewalling: best approach?

;> in each config file you edit so you can fully understand what each >> step is really doing! > > Taken from: http://www.cyberdogtech.com/firewalls/firewall/ > > Take a look at that website it has a couple of nice tips... also read > the conf files, that should help alot

OT: Re: Firewalling: best approach?

Hi, Listen I don't want to be an ass... No really.. I don't! But would the use shorewall not make it easier? Or even the IPcop distribution? Seriously, I'd like to know the reasoning behind choosing the manual route instead of a easier automated one. Thanks, Mark Bradley Alexander wrote: > I a

Installing Debian from a DOS partition

Hello List, I recently got my hands on a Toshiba Libretto 110CT. Which is a very small laptop, with no cd player, just a pcmcia floppy disk that only works under DOS, because the Linux kernel does not have the drivers for it. I've finally been able to upload files to and from the DOS partition us

Re: DNS: inverse lockup returning multiple host names --- allowed or not allowed?

Don't request read receipts when you post to this mailing list please? Thanks loads. . wrote: Hi, I'm trying to find out if it is allowed to have several hostnames being returned from inverse DNS queries (example see below). RFC 1034 and RFC 1035 don't seem to answer that question. Exampl

Re: Lost an LVM group after dist-upgrade. I'm quite lost.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Raymond A. Meijer wrote: > No sorry my bad > > I meant 'fdisk -l /dev/hdb' of course!!! Ok, that's cool, here you go: ams-it:/home/mark# fdisk -l /dev/hdb Disk /dev/hdb: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders U

Re: Cupsaddsmb only running "setdriver"

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Reader, If you have these same problems, I've got the answer from the CUPS people themselves. Here is the link for that posting: Later, Mark -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: Gnu

Re: Lost an LVM group after dist-upgrade. I'm quite lost.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Raymond A. Meijer wrote: > What does 'fdisk -l /dev/hdb1' say then? > I get: ams-it:/home/mark# fdisk -l /dev/hdb1 Disk /dev/hdb1: 200.0 GB, 200047002624 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24320 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 by

Re: Lost an LVM group after dist-upgrade. I'm quite lost.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Raymond A. Meijer wrote: > Does: > > # lvmdiskscan > > give you any clues? Hmmm, I get this: ams-it:/home/mark# lvmdiskscan /dev/hda1 [1.40 GB] /dev/sda1 [ 15.30 MB] /dev/hda2 [ 18.63 GB] /dev/hda3 [ 91.74 GB] LVM p

Re: Screen Resolution (DeLL)

Lee Braiden wrote: >>SubSection "Display" >> Depth x # and "x" beeing -> 1, 4, 8, 15, 16 or 24. >> (I'd go for >>16, just as pretty, but a faster system.) > > > On this, 16 is good enough for general work, but bear in mind that it can be > inadequate for graphical work. Als

Re: Screen Resolution (DeLL)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: in this section: > Section "Screen" > Identifier "Default Screen" > Device "Generic Video Card" > Monitor "Generic Monitor" > DefaultDepth24 > SubSection "Display"

Lost an LVM group after dist-upgrade. I'm quite lost.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello All, I sure do hope someone has got pointers for me: Before I did an apt-get update ; apt-get dist-upgrade, I had a /dev/hda3 and /dev/hdb1 inside a volume group called "software". After the upgrade the volume group "software" dissapeared prob

Re: Cupsaddsmb only running "setdriver"

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 M. Maas wrote: > > amsprint:/home/mark# cupsaddsmb -U root -v -a > Password for root required to access localhost via SAMBA: > Running command: rpcclient localhost -N -U'root%keepitsimple' -c > 'setdriver Test2 Tes

Re: Encrypting the hard disk?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nardis Dome wrote: > Hi, > > try cryptoloop > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Cryptoloop-HOWTO/ I've always understood that Cryptoloop was less secure then DM-crytp? Something called a "watermark" made it pretty much useless? ... Searching through archi

Re: Encrypting the hard disk?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 klkl lklk wrote: > Hi all, > I would like to know how to heavily encrypt my hard drive, or at least > my home dir. Windows offers such encryption(EFS), and while Linux is > the giant in security, it should also work there... > > Thank you > > Hi,

Re: Cupsaddsmb only running "setdriver"

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I do not have the foggiest as to why my email arrived twice... Sorry about that! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCpZglmHLz+zAEfmERAm+XAKCJyZho86

Cupsaddsmb only running "setdriver"

Hi All, I downloaded a fresh cd (Debian 3.1) to install a Printserver with. I've come to the bit that I can run cupsaddsmb, and expected it to run smbclient to add the drivers to the print$ share, and then rpcclient to do the "addriver" part and finaly the "setdriver" part. Unfortunatly, it is d

Cupsaddsmb only running "setdriver"

Hi All, I downloaded a fresh cd (Debian 3.1) to install a Printserver with. I've come to the bit that I can run cupsaddsmb, and expected it to run smbclient to add the drivers to the print$ share, and then rpcclient to do the "addriver" part and finaly the "setdriver" part. Unfortunatly, it is d

Re: wireless card for a laptop

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 dbp lists wrote: > Any reccomendations for what works well for a wireless card for a laptop? >>From my web searching, I've come up with two candidates: the Netgear > WG511 and the Hawking HWC54G. > Hi, I've recently bought a new netgear WG511. But

Re: Background question

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lee Braiden wrote: > > The proprietary nvidia drivers display the nvidia logo rather than the > checked > pattern. I suspect it simply draws an image on the screen before making it > visible. > > Maybe if you set your X startup scripts to immedia

Re: Background question

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wackojacko wrote: >> You can't. I believe it is hardcoded in the depths of X. (Perhaps >> the newer >> X stuff from X.org might do something differently) > > > Just installed X.org and can report that it doesn't solve this problem, > sorry. > > Wa

Re: Background question

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mr Mike wrote: > > > Holy cow.. I just read this a couple of weeks ago and actually found the > image... it's actually a 'x' on a light-gray background that is tiled on the > screen I'm not sure what would happen if you were to mess with it

Re: kernel installation problem

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 jenea wrote: > Hi! > > I tried to build a new kernel and install it following the steps > described in > http://www.digitalhermit.com/linux/Kernel-Build-HOWTO.html > All goes ok till I get to > > " To create the initrd, do the following: > >

Re: Background question

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 M. Maas wrote: > Hello List, > > Between the boot splash and the graphical login manager, there is a > screen with a black and white checkerd background and a big black > "X" which is the mouse. > > Does anyone know h

Background question

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello List, Between the boot splash and the graphical login manager, there is a screen with a black and white checkerd background and a big black "X" which is the mouse. Does anyone know how to change this background to something prettier, as to make

Re: DHCP Mac address

Jochen Schulz wrote: Yes, I think every DHCP server allows that. If you're not too familiar with these things, I suggest you use dnsmasq which primarily is a DNS server (as the name suggests), but it can also act as a DHCP server. This makes it possible to do DNS resolution for DHCP clients (even w