ipmasq package

1999-11-17 Thread Nick Wesselman
I have the ipmasq package installed, and am currently using it to provide 'net access for both my linux box and my windows box... my question is whether anyone knows if this package sets up any kind of security for me in terms of firewalling... I know that ipmasq-ing is a feature of ipchains and ip

Re: Debian 2.0 booting problem

1999-11-17 Thread Nick Wesselman
I have been having the same problem... the system often hangs right before this process (not showing it), often so long that i get impatient and just power my system down and boot back up, it seems to only hang momentarily every other time i boot... I don't have any PCI slots (it's an old 486 DX2),

Corel Linux

1999-11-06 Thread Nick Wesselman
What exactly does it mean if a distribution is "based on" Debian? Would any packages created for debian work with it? Are new releases "created" when new rew releases of the Debian kernel are? Etc. I'm asking because I've been hearing a lot about Corel Linux and it looks pretty nice... i just rece

Re: Installationsproblem bei Linux (translation)

1999-11-04 Thread Nick Wesselman
I don't know the solution to this guy's problem, but here's a non-literal translation of his problem, in case someone else might be able to help him: He wants to install linux on his PC, so he created a rescue floppy, and can boot from that OK. His problem comes when he needs to select a hard dri