Re: Debian newbie questions

2001-09-12 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
>1. Cannot boot without the boot disk. >I'm using the same partitions that I used successfully >with Mandrake. hda1 is windows, hda2 is the swap, hda3 >is Linux. I installed lilo as the boot loader in the >hda3 partition. > >When I restart, System Commander only gives me the >options for Windows or

Re: debian newbie questions -- security

2001-05-13 Thread Bud Rogers
On Sunday 13 May 2001 11:52, Alexander Steinert wrote: > > 3) I want to have a system that is as secure as possible without > > sacrificing usability. Where can I get good guidance on securing Debian? > > I > > Not only for that you might want to take a look at > > http://www.infodrom.ffis.de/De

Re: debian newbie questions -- security

2001-05-13 Thread Alexander Steinert
> 3) I want to have a system that is as secure as possible without > sacrificing usability. Where can I get good guidance on securing Debian? I Not only for that you might want to take a look at http://www.infodrom.ffis.de/Debian/doc/index.html Stony

Re: debian newbie questions -- security

2001-05-11 Thread Willi Dyck
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 12:02:28PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > I believe there is a "Securing Debian HOWTO" somewhere, but I haven't > seen it. It might give you some info. http://joker.rhwd.de/doc/Securing-Debian-HOWTO a really nicely written HOWTO MfG/Regards, Willi -- ...is a register

Re: debian newbie questions -- security

2001-05-11 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 10:11:45AM -0500, Young, C Bryan wrote: > informed and preferably unbiased position (hard to come by in forums where > GNU/Linux or BSD are discussed), I'd MUCH appreciate it. I use FreeBSD and Debian at work, and am often forced to deal with security issues on Redhat. IMH

Re: Debian Newbie Questions

1999-08-03 Thread Patrik Magnusson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Cindy - just use dselect as root user. If you haven't used it before, > you'll have to acquire your package list. First choose "Access" then > "apt" as the method. (Oh, be connect to the 'net when you do this :) > When aske