Re: Is Debian the last OS ?

Patrick, > when I was last at humbug (about 6 months ago) everyone was using > redhat! what happened?? > > Did people like Ashley, matt and the like convert some people!?!? My estimate of 2/5 is based on an understanding of all members, a fair few of whom don't bring their boxes to the meetings

Is Debian the last OS ?

Folks, How common is the "Debian last" practice, that is, try other distributions (including non-GNU/Linux) and then come to Debian to stay? Within Humbug[1], approximately 2/5 of the membership are now Debian users; however, only a few went straight to Debian. For me, Debian is the high point i

Re: current Redhat user evaluates Debian

Folks, On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 11:17:58PM +, montefin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Still, when friends ask me about 'this thing called Linux', I recommend > they go out and buy the latest Red Hat boxed CD set; try Linux; and, if > they like it and want to get serious, switch to Debian, Slackw

Re: ports 1024 and 6000, what are they for?

Paul, > (I'm here to demonstrate my ignorance) We all start out ignorant of the world - it is only be asking questions that this can change ;) > What are port numbers 1024 and 6000 used for? Port 1024 might be squid and port 6000 is probably your X server. To find out for sure, use lsof(8), as

Re: uncompressing kernel

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jake, > i was wondering if someone could help me. i need to install sound > modules into the kernel (2.2.15) and i do have the kernel-source, but it > is compressed in a .bz2 format. i am new to this and my last kernel was > gzipped which i know how

Re: Updating db.root

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Folks, > i'm running my own dns server from my home i would like to update my > db.root file. where do i have to go get an update version of this > file? is this information available from the debian web site? This is not a Debian question. It is

Re: Kernel Panic!..VFS.....

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wilson, > Yes, thank you for reminding me the missing bits (The machine with broken O/S > is > not with me at the moment, I'm sorry that I have not jotted them down > properly). > Now, presuming what you said is right and once I've checked out the

Re: Best way to copy Linux from one drive to another

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Folks, > What is the best way to copy my Debian installation from one disk to another? I suggest dump(8) and restore(8), as in the following example. As dump(8) and restore(8) are filesystem oriented, you will need to repeat this for each filesystem.

Re: Kernel Panic!..VFS.....

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wilson, > When my machine boots up, Linux is auto-probing the hardware, then it > stops and pops up an error message "Kernel Panic..VFS" > > I tried to use a 'rescue' disk and did the e2fsck, but it said the '/' > partition was clean. > I