Re: [CentOS] DKMS

2008-04-27 Thread Kai Schaetzl
John wrote on Sat, 05 Apr 2008 16:52:03 -0400: > But 75% don't know how to. All they know is they downloaded the cds. > Took them a week to figure out how to make a bootable install disk. Then > finally 24 hours to install the OS. Six hours to get on the Internet. > Another 5 hours to setup email.

Re: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-04-27 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 26 April 2008, Anne Wilson wrote: > Message: 11 > Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:57:25 +0100 > From: Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch? > To: CentOS mailing list > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > The support page for the Dell Dimen

RE: [CentOS] DKMS

2008-04-27 Thread Robert Becker Cope
Kai Schaetzl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > CentOS is *not* for users new to Linux or Unix-like operatings > systems. It isn't. Full stop. Hopefully what you mean is that it isn't designed specifically for users that are new to Linux. It is a perfectly fine distribution for those wanting to learn

Re: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-04-27 Thread D Steward
On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 16:57 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > ... it's quite possible that it doesn't read DVDs. My Packard > Bell of similar age sometimes can read one, sometimes can't, but it's not > really supposed to, I think. It will depend upon the DVD drive and the type of DVD. Many DVD-Rom dr

RE: [CentOS] DKMS

2008-04-27 Thread John
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Becker Cope Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2008 8:51 AM To: centos@centos.org Subject: RE: [CentOS] DKMS Kai Schaetzl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > CentOS is *not* for users new to Linux or Unix-like opera

Re: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-04-27 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 27 April 2008 13:38:50 Lanny Marcus wrote: > On 26 April 2008, Anne Wilson wrote: > > Message: 11 > > Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:57:25 +0100 > > From: Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch? > > To: CentOS mailing list > > Messa

Re: [CentOS] DKMS

2008-04-27 Thread Ned Slider
Robert Becker Cope wrote: Kai Schaetzl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: CentOS is *not* for users new to Linux or Unix-like operatings systems. It isn't. Full stop. Hopefully what you mean is that it isn't designed specifically for users that are new to Linux. It is a perfectly fine distribution fo

[CentOS] f/oss routing solution?

2008-04-27 Thread Rogelio
I'm looking for an open source router solution, and someone from the list recently recommended zebra (www.zebra.org). I haven't yet identified all my needs, but I'm guessing that it will do all my routing needs for a, say, class C set of IP addresses, particularly if I ever have to do anything BGP-

Re: [CentOS] f/oss routing solution?

2008-04-27 Thread Finnur Örn Guðmundsson
> I'm looking for an open source router solution, and someone from the list > recently recommended zebra (www.zebra.org). I haven't yet identified all > my > needs, but I'm guessing that it will do all my routing needs for a, say, > class C set of IP addresses, particularly if I ever have to do any

Re: [CentOS] DKMS

2008-04-27 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Kai Schaetzl wrote on Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:31:14 +0200: > John wrote on Sat, 05 Apr 2008 16:52:03 -0400: Hm, just to clarify, I don't know where this message came from, I wrote it weeks ago. It must have been on hold and accidently released much too late. Obviously, it doesn't make sense to add

Re: [CentOS] DKMS

2008-04-27 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 7:24 AM, Ned Slider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's easy > to forget there is now a whole generation of computer users who have known > nothing but the GUI and completely missed out on DOS or CP/M, and never > owned a Spectrum/Commodore/BBC Micro etc. Wow, Ned, I never t

Re: [CentOS] DKMS

2008-04-27 Thread Ned Slider
Akemi Yagi wrote: On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 7:24 AM, Ned Slider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It's easy to forget there is now a whole generation of computer users who have known nothing but the GUI and completely missed out on DOS or CP/M, and never owned a Spectrum/Commodore/BBC Micro etc. Wow,

Re: [CentOS] f/oss routing solution?

2008-04-27 Thread Max Hetrick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Finnur Örn Guðmundsson wrote: > You might also want to look at http://www.vyatta.org/ They seem to > have a nice solution although i have not tried it. My company just replaced a Cisco PIX firewall appliance with some IBM hardware running Vyatta.

Re: [CentOS] f/oss routing solution?

2008-04-27 Thread Ramon Nieto
Try quagga (www.quagga.net), it is based on zebra, as you can see on the site the last version was released 9/2007, the last version of zebra it's from 9/2005.Check this url  http://www.openmaniak.com/quagga.php it is a good tutorial.--- El dom 27-abr-08, Rogelio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:De:: R

[CentOS] kernel-vm repo

2008-04-27 Thread Clint Dilks
Hi People, I have downloaded http://dev.centos.org/~tru/kernel-vm/5/RPMS/i386/kernel-vm-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5.i686.rpm but was just wondering if these kernel-vm rpms are in a yum repository. Previous post

Re: [CentOS] kernel-vm repo

2008-04-27 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 4:04 PM, Clint Dilks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi People, > > I have downloaded > http://dev.centos.org/~tru/kernel-vm/5/RPMS/i386/kernel-vm-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5.i686.rpm > > but was

Re: [CentOS] kernel-vm repo

2008-04-27 Thread Clint Dilks
Akemi Yagi wrote: On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 4:04 PM, Clint Dilks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi People, I have downloaded http://dev.centos.org/~tru/kernel-vm/5/RPMS/i386/kernel-vm-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5.i686.rpm

Re: [CentOS] dmidecode for CentOS 2.1? [hardware serial number and type]

2008-04-27 Thread John Newbigin
rpm -qf /usr/sbin/dmidecode kernel-utils-2.4-6.1.EL CentOS 2 is not dead yet. dmidecode does exist and should work fine. John. Simon Jolle wrote: Hi CentOS users I have here old CentOS 2.1 server on IBM Xseries 336. How to see serial number and machine type? It seems that "dmidecode" is not

RE: [CentOS] DKMS

2008-04-27 Thread John
It was a Bounced message. John -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kai Schaetzl Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2008 2:31 PM To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] DKMS Kai Schaetzl wrote on Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:31:14 +0200: > John wrote on Sa

RE: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-04-27 Thread John
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2008 10:03 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch? On Sunday 27 April 2008 13:38:50 Lanny Marcus wrote: > On 26 April