Re: Definition of COUNTRY (Was: Resignation)

2004-05-06 Thread Dale Amon
a right to decide for themselves, individually. What someone else thinks about their choice is not relevant and is not any of the UN's business, the ISO's business, or your or my business. -- ------ Dale Amon [EMAIL PROTECTED]+44-

Re: Definition of COUNTRY (Was: Resignation)

2004-05-06 Thread Dale Amon
On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 12:19:05AM +0800, Wang WenRui wrote: > Around 16 o'clock on 06 May, Dale Amon wrote: > > The only authority on what is a nation are the people > > who live there. When in doubt, ask them. > Can you ask them all? vote? Just make sure you hav

Re: Definition of COUNTRY (Was: Resignation)

2004-05-06 Thread Dale Amon
it > > ougha be true. > > Stop refering to Google. The only world authority are the United-Nations. The only authority on what is a nation are the people who live there. When in doubt, ask them. D.Amon, Belfast, Northern Ireland -- ------

Re: why must Debian call Taiwan a "Province of China"?

2004-04-10 Thread Dale Amon
actor in Casablanca. So here in Northern Ireland you have two choices; Irish and British. They are *not* British on the Andersontown Road, and they are *not* Irish on the Shankill Road. -- ------ Dale Amon [EMAIL PROTECTED]+44

Re: E-mail virus attached account disabling warning

2004-03-05 Thread Dale Amon
#x27;t find anyone dumb enough to open the attached virus. -- ------ Dale Amon [EMAIL PROTECTED]+44-7802-188325 International linux systems consultancy Hardware & software system design, security and networking, systems

Bug#229863: Beta 2 boot cd problem with NForce2 MB

2004-01-27 Thread Dale Amon
If worst comes to worst, drive out here and I could probably netboot you into an initial sarge system. -- ------ Dale Amon [EMAIL PROTECTED]+44-7802-188325 International linux systems consultancy Hardware & software system d

Re: discover and ISA detection

2004-01-02 Thread Dale Amon
On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 10:35:41AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Dale Amon] > > Virtualy every machine I have here (other the he laptop and > > NeXT's) uses ISA. My primary workstation uses an ISA > > SCSI card. My firewall and firewall test machines are all ISA. &

Re: discover and ISA detection

2004-01-02 Thread Dale Amon
On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 10:35:41AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Dale Amon] > > Virtualy every machine I have here (other the he laptop and > > NeXT's) uses ISA. My primary workstation uses an ISA > > SCSI card. My firewall and firewall test machines are all ISA. &

Install assistance needed in Berkeley area

2004-01-02 Thread Dale Amon
ned_dodds isat yahoo.com or just reply to this thread since I've included him. It takes longer to reach me directly because I use a white list and dump the other thousand a day into a holding pen. -- -- Dale Amon [EMAIL PROTECTED]+44

Re: discover and ISA detection

2004-01-01 Thread Dale Amon
time to come yet. -- -- Dale Amon [EMAIL PROTECTED]+44-7802-188325 International linux systems consultancy Hardware & software system design, security and networking, systems programming and Admin &quo

Bug#225216: installation-reports: installation stops when installing the base system

2003-12-28 Thread Dale Amon
one cost me an afternoon one day a month ago... -- ------ Dale Amon [EMAIL PROTECTED]+44-7802-188325 International linux systems consultancy Hardware & software system design, security and networking, systems pr

Bug#225216: installation-reports: installation stops when installing the base system

2003-12-28 Thread Dale Amon
That has to be fixed too. -- -- Dale Amon [EMAIL PROTECTED]+44-7802-188325 International linux systems consultancy Hardware & software system design, security and networking, systems programming and Admin

Bug#225216: installation-reports: installation stops when installing the base system

2003-12-27 Thread Dale Amon
On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 12:00:53PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > This is the aptitude problem, and should be fixed in the next day (or > two?) It also need libsigc++ to satisfy aptitude. Hope they're fixing both. -- ------ Dale Amon

Re: Ancient archives?

2003-12-25 Thread Dale Amon
Tstation back then! -- -- Dale Amon [EMAIL PROTECTED]+44-7802-188325 International linux systems consultancy Hardware & software system design, security and networking, systems programming and Admin &

Re: Ancient archives?

2003-12-25 Thread Dale Amon
On Thu, Dec 25, 2003 at 03:09:27PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > http://archive.debian.org/ Thanks. That is exactly what I was looking for. -- -- Dale Amon [EMAIL PROTECTED]+44-7802-188325 International linux syst

Re: Ancient archives?

2003-12-25 Thread Dale Amon
irrors of the final state of historical debian releases. -- -- Dale Amon [EMAIL PROTECTED]+44-7802-188325 International linux systems consultancy Hardware & software system design, security and networking, system

Ancient archives?

2003-12-25 Thread Dale Amon
Is anyone aware of where I could find old CD images or mirrors? ie, for slink, potato, etc? -- -- Dale Amon [EMAIL PROTECTED]+44-7802-188325 International linux systems consultancy Hardware & software system de

Re: 2.6 debian-installer

2003-12-18 Thread Dale Amon
given the nature of ISA... -- ------ Dale Amon [EMAIL PROTECTED]+44-7802-188325 International linux systems consultancy Hardware & software system design, security and networking, systems programming and Admin

Re: init, pivot_root, chroot, etc ...

2003-12-16 Thread Dale Amon
The best place to discuss this is linux-crypto. -- -- Dale Amon [EMAIL PROTECTED]+44-7802-188325 International linux systems consultancy Hardware & software system design, security and networking, systems program

Re: Fwd: Install Report from a Linux newbie - some comments

2003-11-18 Thread Dale Amon
> time in getting what you want, good luck. Otherwise maybe > you should consider re-installing woody, and if you upgrade > just upgrade to sarge (testing), not sid. -- -- Dale Amon [EMAIL PROTECTED]+44-7802-188325 I

Re: Have there been changes in the lilo package?

2003-11-17 Thread Dale Amon
or message Fatal: Empty map section. If this is the case at system build time, there will be no map or boot.b files created and and placed in /boot. They appear to be generated in sid and sarge rather than installed as in woody. -- --

Re: Have there been changes in the lilo package?

2003-11-17 Thread Dale Amon
because there are no boot.* files installed. They are not listed in the lilo.list for sid or sarge, so where do they come from now? -- -- Dale Amon [EMAIL PROTECTED]+44-7802-188325 International linux systems consultancy

Re: Have there been changes in the lilo package?

2003-11-17 Thread Dale Amon
Oh, and I can pin down that the whole build/install/boot sequence still worked as of Tuesday morning last week. So whatever happened seems to have happened since then. -- -- Dale Amon [EMAIL PROTECTED]+44-7802-188325

Re: Have there been changes in the lilo package?

2003-11-17 Thread Dale Amon
arget system, booted off an NFS root. The system on /mnt was built directly from a base.tgz created by debootstrap/pbuilder plus my own scripts that build and install the kernel. -- -- Dale Amon [EMAIL PROTECTED]+44-7802-1

Re: Have there been changes in the lilo package?

2003-11-17 Thread Dale Amon
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 02:09:09PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Dale Amon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have my own system build scripts and somewhere in the > > last two weeks 'something' changed. When I rsync my > > master onto a target sy

Have there been changes in the lilo package?

2003-11-17 Thread Dale Amon
lling /boot/map? -- ------ Dale Amon [EMAIL PROTECTED]+44-7802-188325 International linux systems consultancy Hardware & software system design, security and networking, systems programming and Admin "

Bug#220182: netcfg: Please re-order the TCP/IP configuration

2003-11-13 Thread Dale Amon
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 05:58:42PM +, Alastair McKinstry wrote: > Hi, > > If we do reorder the questions to > > -IP address > -Netmask [guessed from ip address] > -Gateway [guessed from previous answers] > -DNS servers > -Machine name > -Domain name > > Then it may also be possible to retri

Re: [WOODY] Need sugestion for Floppy-Install

2003-11-04 Thread Dale Amon
eeswan. They're perfectly reasonable machines for those sorts of jobs. I do recommend you install the way I do though: I do use an NFS boot floppy and rsync the system onto the harddrive. They nearly fall over if you attempt a dselect... -- ----

Bug#217503: Evil autopartkit should _NEVER_ _NEVER_ try to overwrite an unknown partition table

2003-10-27 Thread Dale Amon
rocess. > > But then, nobody really cares about that, I believe one of the rules of the Hippocratic Oath is: "Do No Harm." It's as valid for programmers as for surgeons. -- ------ IN MY NAME:Dale Amon, CEO/

Re: cvs commit to debian-installer/retriever/choose-mirror/debian by mckinstry

2003-10-13 Thread Dale Amon
on choose-mirror and forgot my local > hacks to these files. > > Sorry, > Alastair Ah, someone in my part of the world... I'm just outside of town. -- ------ IN MY NAME:Dale Amon, CEO/MD No Mushroom clouds ove

Bug#215205: language-chooser: Language order shouldn't be alphabetical

2003-10-12 Thread Dale Amon
On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 01:56:46PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Dale Amon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > And if I'm a german living in america? Then you'd go to the normal alphabetical listing just as you would have to now, while 99% of the users in that TZ had the ri

Bug#215205: language-chooser: Language order shouldn't be alphabetical

2003-10-12 Thread Dale Amon
On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 03:18:46PM +0200, Javier Fern?ndez-Sanguino Pe?a wrote: > > I would suggest adopting a policy for the language order. Of course, > > determining the "most important" languages is a very delicate thing as > > everyone would like to have his own language listed on the first pa

Re: How I installed Sarge using netinst CD

2003-09-09 Thread Dale Amon
On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 01:15:48PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > This problem was solved in a recent upload of the shadow package: > > shadow (1:4.0.3-9) unstable; urgency=low > [...] > * And last, but not least, what's undoubtedly going to be the >most popular change: md5 p

Re: How I installed Sarge using netinst CD

2003-09-09 Thread Dale Amon
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Re: Laptop: system hangs

2003-09-02 Thread Dale Amon
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 01:10:40PM +0200, Matthias P. Wuerfl wrote: > OK. Su to root is no problem. What i meant was "what do i have to type > to get information about what was detected during startup?". What i need > is the linux-translation of "Hey Knoppix, what did you detect?". I > thougt o

Re: Laptop: system hangs

2003-09-02 Thread Dale Amon
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 11:44:15AM +0200, Matthias P. Wuerfl wrote: > Knoppix (2003-07-26-BETA) starts fine. Where can i see what it has > detected? Or, alternatively, is it a good Idea to simply take knoppix? I You can su to root in an xterm. Password is null. Also, you can go to virtual consol

Multiple problems on woody->sarge upgrade path

2003-08-14 Thread Dale Amon
Perhaps these are temporary problems, but I've had two showstoppers on upgrading on an IBM Thinkpad T22. The first item I worked around just by disabling the script. I had a devil of a time tracking it down through the rcS boot phase... * screen-cleanup changes the video mode back to normal fro

Re: Multiple problems on woody->sarge upgrade path

2003-08-14 Thread Dale Amon
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 05:27:25PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 05:17:33PM +0100, Dale Amon wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 08:47:58AM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 02:48:07PM +0100, Dale Amon wrote: > > > > Perhap

Re: Multiple problems on woody->sarge upgrade path

2003-08-14 Thread Dale Amon
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 08:47:58AM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: > On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 02:48:07PM +0100, Dale Amon wrote: > > Perhaps these are temporary problems, but I've had two > > showstoppers on upgrading on an IBM Thinkpad T22. > > > [snip upgrade prob

Re: The new ordering of newt frontend buttons

2003-07-30 Thread Dale Amon
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 01:18:38PM +0200, Martin Sj?gren wrote: > > Also, in some languages, eg. Irish (Gaeilge), my second language, > > there are no words for yes/no! (Instead you have to phrase things > > in terms of something like, "Do you want me to partition your > > disk? ", and make sure y

Re: Woody can't find an Adaptec 3200S RAID Volume

2003-07-02 Thread Dale Amon
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 11:41:53PM +0100, Dale Amon wrote: > Although you may want to do the mkfs manually and then use > rsync to do the copy instead of dd. Much faster. Or if not faster, at least you don't have to worry about difference in partition sizes and you don't needles

Re: Woody can't find an Adaptec 3200S RAID Volume

2003-07-02 Thread Dale Amon
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 04:58:49PM -0400, Dan DeVoe wrote: > Right now it looks like my best bet is something close to that, although a > ltitle easier: install to an IDE disk, build a custom kernel on that with > the necessary drivers, then dd over the install from the IDE disk to the > now existi

Re: Woody can't find an Adaptec 3200S RAID Volume

2003-07-01 Thread Dale Amon
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 12:26:32PM -0400, Dan DeVoe wrote: > If I need to load a custom driver from adaptec, how on earth do I even go > about doing this? It looks like they supply a kernel patch and module, and > I'm unsure about how to go about getting those to work with a debian > install CD. D

Re: Woody can't find an Adaptec 3200S RAID Volume

2003-07-01 Thread Dale Amon
On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 11:27:19AM -0400, Dan DeVoe wrote: > OK guys, this one has me stumped pretty bad. I'm trying to boot an IBM > Netfinity 4500R (type 8656 if anyone cares) with an Adaptec 3200S RAID > card with a RAID volume of 42.37GB on it (6x9GB). Does it require FUSION MPT? -- To UNSU

Re: Missing CPAN Bundle

2003-06-06 Thread Dale Amon
On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 08:22:22AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > Sounds like you have just perl-base installed, not perl (which will pull > in perl-modules, which will pull in CPAN.pm). Perhaps you skipped both > the tasksel and dselect stages, both of which would have arranged for > Priority: stand

Missing CPAN Bundle

2003-06-05 Thread Dale Amon
Out of curosity, does anyone here know why I might end up with a new installed system that is missing the CPAN perl module? I can't even seem to find it on the Debian package search engine. Seems strange, as it is part of the standard Perl release... I've installed one manually, but I'm just curi

Re: discover on 486dx

2003-03-21 Thread Dale Amon
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discover on 486dx

2003-03-20 Thread Dale Amon
just confirmation from someone that this is indeed the case. -- -- IN MY NAME: Dale Amon, CEO/MD No Mushroom clouds over Islandone Society London and New York. www.islandon

Re: runlevel problem, lame request for help...

2003-03-14 Thread Dale Amon
ailing? Are you using a journaled file system? If not look into /lost+found and see if you lost some files. If so, just replace them or reinstall the package they come from. -- -- IN MY NAME: Dale Amon, CEO/MD No Mushroom