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Re: [Alug] Mandrake install problems
by Ricardo Campos 26 Jun '02

26 Jun '02

> It will boot from c drive into Linux, apparently with no problem, giving me > access to the CD player (using mount/dev and so on). I would like to ask how > to then reinstall the entire OS, from the CD, starting from Linux. Is there > a simple command that will start the install? If you root around on the first CD there should be a folder called "images", with .img files. You could then make a floppy boot disk for Mandrake and do it using that. If you are in Windows, you can use rawwrite.exe (in dosutils on the CD), if you are in Linux: su to root mount the cdrom insert floppy disk, then do this command:- dd if=/mnt/cdrom/images/cdrom.img of=/dev/fd0 when it is done copying files, issue "reboot" or "shutdown -r now" with the floppy in the drive, and hey presto, the install will begin. Ricardo -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Re: [Alug] Debian Install
by Ricardo Campos 26 Jun '02

26 Jun '02

> I believe progeny also uses some > type of auto-installer, that could be another avenue for Paul to look at. ...You can d/l a Debian 3.0 (Woody) Progeny installer ISO at:- http://archive.progeny.com/progeny/pgi/ I haven't tried it personally, though. -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Mandrake install problem
by Russell Ward 26 Jun '02

26 Jun '02

Whilst installing Mandrake from a CDROM the machine crashed, at the config X Windows stage (the long list of video cards). One result is that 'startx' doesn't work , server error no. 2. I posted a couple of weeks ago on this topic. Thanks to those whose responded. I have since tried installing the various XFree86 packages, but with no success. My idea now is simply to reinstall the entire OS from the CD, but I no longer have Win 98, so could someone tell me what command to use to start the install again? Again, I am new to Linux, so please excuse my sounding clueless..... Russell _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp.

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Re: [Alug] .sit files
by Ricardo Campos 25 Jun '02

25 Jun '02

> Whats wrong with Mac Users? They have a strange look in their eyes. They smell funny. They spend all day on photoshop designing things. ;) It was a tongue-in-cheek gesture, this mac user is my beloved eldest sister, and most of my partners have been artists and therefore Mac users. But Mac users still smell funny, though. *giggle* >These I think are stuffit files see > http://www.stuffit.com they do Linux binaries (see the > download section) but these have a buy or evaluate option. Yeah, that was what I was trying to avoid. It seems macutils doesn't have it, and I dislike adding things that aren't .debs ... (unsit isn't in Woody) I think I'll ask her to zip it. I'm sure she can do that (famous last words)... -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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.sit files
by Ricardo Campos 25 Jun '02

25 Jun '02

Does anyone know a linux app that can uncompress Mac .sit archives? Darned Mac users... ;) -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Re: [Alug] ALUG early July @ King's Lynn
by Ricardo Campos 25 Jun '02

25 Jun '02

>So, who else is coming >and what are we looking at this time? Well, I'm up for it. Anyone keen on presenting a round-the-table discussion or a talk? Ricardito -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Re: [Alug] samba and win2k
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 25 Jun '02

25 Jun '02

Ricardo wrote: > http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.2-Manual/custom-guide/samba-… > Thanks, Ricardito: Not encryption, no. I've always had the smb config file set to encrypted passwords. It has let me access the share again now...I unmapped the drive, typed in the IP address instead of the name, tried that, unmapped that and went back to the name in the path, and it worked this time. Fishy. I feel it may be something in the win2k end, it worked fine under ME and 98. Mmmm, never mind, someone has just brought me another coffee...... Jenny.

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Re: [Alug] samba and win2k
by Ricardo Campos 25 Jun '02

25 Jun '02

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.2-Manual/custom-guide/samba-… Ignore the fact it's Redhat... this may help? -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Re: [Alug] Suggestions: newsletter, IRC and name changes?
by Ricardo Campos 25 Jun '02

25 Jun '02

>If you want to be European, you could try Anglian Linux Und Gnu... ;-) Some of us use *BSD's, some of us may even use GNU/Hurd,some of us even use Megadoohickey 9's, but pretty much all of us use Linux. However, I think most people were attracted to the list because it was a *Linux* user group. I think a name change would be confuzing and detrimental. Of course, that doesn't mean we can't talk about GNU/Hurd, *BSD's, Slowarse, Megadoohickey 10 AND Linux! ;) -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Re: [Alug] Debian Install
by Paul Tansom 25 Jun '02

25 Jun '02

Seem to have done a reply instead of a group reply, so for those interested... ----- Forwarded message from Paul Tansom <paul(a)whaletales.co.uk> ----- Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 17:53:33 +0100 From: Paul Tansom <paul(a)whaletales.co.uk> To: Ashley <ashley(a)ashleyhowes.com> Subject: Re: [Alug] Debian Install User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <BB868511-8688-11D6-AD7A-000A27B68E6C(a)ashleyhowes.com>; from ashley(a)ashleyhowes.com on Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 10:08:07AM +0100 Yup, Storm went under, but you may well still be able to get a copy (I have one that I may make available when I get my Linux shop on line). There was also Progeny from Ian Murdoch himself, but that has ceased production now - or to be more accurate, it has been merged back into the main Debian development. I think I may have a copy of that too somewhere. As for doing it the hard way, well I'm one of those odd bods that doesn't consider the Debain way hard. I always do a minimal install - never choosing any packages during the install process - and then apt-get whatever I need. Apart from not being a funky graphical installer it lacks nothing IMHO. Most configuration options are easily handled. Of course the hardware config is the tricky bit as you mention, but when you run modconf (or when it is run for you on install) there is little to fear it trying a module. If it doesn't detect a compatible device then in won't be loaded in. Having said that pretty much all my installs are for servers, so they tend not to have complex graphics/sound setups, although my first proper Debian install was onto my Dell laptop which involved switching sources to testing to get XFree 4 to support my graphics card - but then my first proper Linux install involved an immediate kernel recompile to get token ring support for my network card, so I'm used to be awkward!!! On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 10:08:07AM +0100, Ashley typed the following... > On Sunday, June 23, 2002, at 04:58 AM, Syd Hancock wrote: > > > Paul > > > >> Does Debian come with a pretty graphical installer that automatically > >> probes > >> and configures most of the hardware ?? > >> Or does Debian have to be installed the hard way.... > > > > Storm Linux may help. AFAIK it was a debian-based distro and should at > > least get a system up and running even if not everything is working > > first time round e.g. sound card. If not still available I have a copy. > > I think Storm Linux went belly-up, if I remember correctly. The > newgroup has only a handful of postings this year: > http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&group=alt.os.linux.storm > > and http://www.stormix.com/ is unavailable. The only reference I can > find online is Storm Linux 2000, which is 2 years out of date. > > -- > > Ashley T. Howes Ph.D. > http://www.ashleyhowes.com > > "When all the animals of this world are gone, man will die of loneliness" > > > _______________________________________________ > main(a)lists.alug.org.uk > http://www.anglian.lug.org.uk/ > http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/main > Unsubscribe? See message headers or the web site above! > ...and that's all Ashley wrote I'm afraid -- Paul Tansom: - contact paul(a)aptanet.com for more information Internet and Intranet Solutions -- http://www.aptanet.com/ ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Paul Tansom: - contact paul(a)aptanet.com for more information Internet and Intranet Solutions -- http://www.aptanet.com/

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