Disk geommetry, was Re: Kernel Upgrade: Why?

1999-04-21 Thread debian-user list
On Tue, Apr 20, 1999 at 10:05:00AM +0100, Graham Ashton wrote: > On Tuesday 20 April, Richard Harran wrote: > > Would I see a performance increase if I made sure my linux partition > > was on the outside of my disk? Would I be even better putting my swap > > partition as far out as possible? > >

diald + ipmasq + samba

1998-08-23 Thread debian-user list
Hello. I'm trying to set up a debian 2.0 box as a server in a small office, using samba to serve files to a few win95 boxes, and ipmasq and diald to connect to the rest of the world via modem, intermittantly. I can get each of the parts to work individually without trouble, but various things go

Re: PCMCIA question

1998-06-15 Thread Debian User List Account
On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Ian Stuart wrote: > To get a PCMCIA card to work, you need to remake the kernel, and the > PCMCIA modules, and then reinstall the kernel. > > For this, you'll need the kernel source and the pcmcia source. installing the kernel source is ok (2.0.32-5 from hamm), but how sho