installing debian, doesnt find scsi controller

2001-08-03 Thread Ron Bettle
Ok, im pretty sure this is just a boot parm that i am not finding. Im trying to install libranet(based on debian) on my system here. Adaptec 2940-UW, 4 scsi disks and a scsi cdrom. Once it gets past the first boot messages and into the installation. It always prompts me to install special modules

How do you logout of a screen session?

2001-06-28 Thread Ron Bettle
Hey im using screen to ease the remote administration of my tribes2 server. I figured out how to connect and all. But how do i disconnect? ctrl-c kills screen and the tribes2 server. i read man screen. It said C-a is the logout. I must be doing something wrong because i couldnt figure that out. An

Re: ReiserFS + 2.4.4

2001-05-01 Thread Ron Bettle
Sounds fool proof(your plan that is). hdparms and reiser, havent done this yet myself. I would think it would work fine though. I dont think hdparms cares whats actually on the disk. heh rm -fr the directories before copyin, even with a tar backup would scare me =). Hope it works for you let us

Re: adding users via the web

2001-05-01 Thread Ron Bettle
www.webmin.com webmin is very nice. I reccomend using it with SSL though. The extra security is always nice. "Mike Egglestone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > HI... > Does anyone know of a utility where > an admin can add linux users via a web browser? > Perhaps also... that the user could ch

Re: ReiserFS + 2.4.4

2001-05-01 Thread Ron Bettle
You will need the reiserFS utils, get these rom reisers site. Its not difficult more time consuming than anything. What needs to happen is this. Say your /usr is it own partition. You need a 'spare' partition that is as big as /usr. Then you unmount the 'spare' format it as reiser (mkreiserfs /