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Re: [Alug] Debian install woes.
by MJ Ray 11 Jan '02

11 Jan '02

Bill: > 1.5G Root ReiserFS Hrm? Why would you want to do this? / doesn't normally meet your typical ResierFS performance profile and it's not going to be recoverable with most boot disks. That's just asking for trouble, IMO. > [...] I got the Woody boot disks and tried. Hmm. The kernel uses an old, > forward-incompatible, version of ReiserFS. Boot disks are normally what ends up holding up the releases, IIRC. > OK, install on the Win95 partition and worry about Reiser/LVM later. Nope. Why not? (Wave a tasty problem in front of us and then don't explain.) > Can't use my 2.2 CDs. OK go over the modem. I've got a Xircom RealPort > Ethernet/Modem combo, very nice, but Debian insists on using eth0 in > preference to ppp0. [...] Did you answer "yes" to the bit where it asks you if you want to install the rest of the system over a modem? ;-) Sadly, you need the base system somewhere local in 2.2, but that's probably healthy anyway, so you don't end up with a half-installed base system. > Downloading and compiling at work at the mo, but is there a > *better* way??? Probably. I used my /home partition (which lives forever) for the base files, along with a couple of floppy disks and it went on fine here, but I've the positively bland "small ext2 root, large ext3 home, medium ext3 usr and var" configuration. I'm not that adventurous with my data ;-) -- MJR

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Re: [Alug] Web site
by MJ Ray 10 Jan '02

10 Jan '02

> Your options: > - Idly support this move (most people) > - Pledge to help maintain the wiki when it's online > - Mutiny (feel free) The wiki is now online, but I don't want to put the address anywhere public at all until we have populated it with some more things and some of the problems I have with it have been resolved. If anyone who wishes to help doesn't know where it is, please ask me in private. The "cvs commits" list will become "The Daily Diff" of the web site, showing us what has changed, so even if we allow someone malicious to trash the web site, we should be able to put it back very easily indeed. -- MJR

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Work Experience plz help
by Dryden 10 Jan '02

10 Jan '02

I need help with finding a work experience placement. If any of you could help arrange one or just send me some contact info of possible places. It has to be an IT job and can be anything... programming, web design, network maintenance. As long as its not making people tae or coffee and it involves a computer its good. May be if your making a system that makes tea or coffee and its computer controlled it would be ok ;). oh I'm a BTEC National diploma year 2 student also doing a Cisco CCNA. Its kind of short notice as you can see from below but my last organisation turned round to me and said their department was too full to accommodate me. Which is fine to have left me with out a placement and not much time to find one. Start date: Monday 28 January End date: Thursday 8 February Oh and Kings Lynn, Swafham, Dereham and Norwich kinda way would be good. I cant drive but busses are very helpful(and slow) . Sorry if this seems off topic but I'm running out of places to try with this being so short notice. Would it be more on topic if i asked that it would be good to work with Linux systems. Thanx for your help(i hope!) Dennis Dryden ********************************************************************** IMPORTANT: This email and its attachments are intended for the addressee only and may be confidential. If they have come to you in error you must take no action based on them nor must you copy or show them to anyone; please telephone us immediately. The contents of this email and attachments represent the views of the sender and are not necessarily the representative of the views of The College of West Anglia **********************************************************************

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Work experience placement plzzz
by Dryden 10 Jan '02

10 Jan '02

I need help with finding a work experience placement. If any of you could help arrange one or just send me some contact info of possible places. It has to be an IT job and can be anything... programming, web design, network maintenance. As long as its not making people tae or coffee and it involves a computer its good. May be if your making a system that makes tea or coffee and its computer controlled it would be ok ;). Its kind of short notice as you can see from below but my last organisation turned round to me and said their department was too full to accommodate me. Which is fine to have left me with out a placement and not much time to find one. Start date: Monday 28 January End date: Thursday 8 February Oh and Kings Lynn, Swafham, Dereham and Norwich kinda way would be good. I cant drive but busses are very helpful(and slow) . Sorry if this seems off topic but I'm running out of places to try with this being so short notice. Would it be more on topic if i asked that it would be good to work with Linux systems. Thanx for your help(i hope!) ********************************************************************** IMPORTANT: This email and its attachments are intended for the addressee only and may be confidential. If they have come to you in error you must take no action based on them nor must you copy or show them to anyone; please telephone us immediately. The contents of this email and attachments represent the views of the sender and are not necessarily the representative of the views of The College of West Anglia **********************************************************************

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Work experience placement plzzz
by Dryden 10 Jan '02

10 Jan '02

I need help with finding a work experience placement. If any of you could help arrange one or just send me some contact info of possible places. It has to be an IT job and can be anything... programming, web design, network maintenance. As long as its not making people tae or coffee and it involves a computer its good. May be if your making a system that makes tea or coffee and its computer controlled it would be ok ;). Its kind of short notice as you can see from below but my last organisation turned round to me and said their department was too full to accommodate me. Which is fine to have left me with out a placement and not much time to find one. Start date: Monday 28 January End date: Thursday 8 February Oh and Kings Lynn, Swafham, Dereham and Norwich kinda way would be good. I cant drive but busses are very helpful(and slow) . Sorry if this seems off topic but I'm running out of places to try with this being so short notice. Would it be more on topic if i asked that it would be good to work with Linux systems. Thanx for your help(i hope!) ********************************************************************** IMPORTANT: This email and its attachments are intended for the addressee only and may be confidential. If they have come to you in error you must take no action based on them nor must you copy or show them to anyone; please telephone us immediately. The contents of this email and attachments represent the views of the sender and are not necessarily the representative of the views of The College of West Anglia **********************************************************************

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recompiling something
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 10 Jan '02

10 Jan '02

Hi all, I want to recompile php4 to include odbc support....does anyone know if i can recompile the one I have already installed, or do I have to reinstall the whole program from scratch? (oh please, please, let it be easy!) Thanks, jen.

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Re: [Alug] March Meeting
by MJ Ray 10 Jan '02

10 Jan '02

Syd: > Serious forward planning happening here... At last! ;-) > If we are having the March meeting at Newton Flotman, which I look > forward to, I would prefer it not to be the 24th because that is > school holidays. Can we pencil in sunday March 17th instead? Your venue, so you choose the date, I think. Of course, people may grumble about the date being unsuitable, but you can't please all the people all the time, so only accommodate them if you want to. -- MJR

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Re: [Alug] Next Meeting - Jan 27?
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 10 Jan '02

10 Jan '02

Re: Jan 27 meeting - shall I mail clug? Jen

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Re: [Alug] Something is killing my box each evening, need help
by MJ Ray 10 Jan '02

10 Jan '02

Earl: > I used to have the same problem - it is most likely a video driver issue (My > graphics card is an SiS6386 AGP). [...]

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Re: [Alug] Next Meeting - Jan 27?
by MJ Ray 10 Jan '02

10 Jan '02

> If anyone going to the January (Cheveley) meeting > would like a lift from the Ely/Downham Market/Brandon > area, please let me know and I'll see what can be > done (just hoping I don't get takers from all three). Similarly, anyone from King's Lynn area or along the A134, A1065 who is happy to share a lift can email me off-list... -- MJR

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