Re: disk partition schemes

2001-07-05 Thread Torbjorn Pettersson
"Kevin J. Menard, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hey guys (and gals), > > I'm redoing a machine of mine. Was a Mandrake system, but now it's going to > be a debian one ;) > > Basically, I have 20 gigs of space to tinker with (well, there's really 40 > there, but I run a har

Re: disk partition schemes

2001-07-08 Thread Torbjorn Pettersson
Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 5 Jul 2001 16:50, Torbjorn Pettersson wrote: > > /boot : Sector sizes and such already discussed, you will > > discover that you need a separate boot, and then it > > will be to late. You are not

Re: Remote conversion of server from RedHat to Debian?

2002-01-22 Thread Torbjorn Pettersson
Andy Gardner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > OK. Any ideas of the best way to remotely change the linux distro on a > dedicated server from Redhat to Debian? > > No, the machine doesn't have a CD-ROM drive. > > Thanks for any help. Hmm... Since you appearantly don't have "console" access to the

Re: RCS control for config files

2002-07-02 Thread Torbjorn Pettersson
Alex Borges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Heyas debian zealots, > > Ive finnaly come to a point where i think im needing revision control > for my configuration files on some servers > > So i thought id come in and ask you guys if there is some vertical stuff > explicitly for this purpose

Re: backup

2002-12-17 Thread Torbjorn Pettersson
"C. R. Oldham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Amanda sounds promising (everyone is recommending it). > > I'm afraid the reason everyone is recommending Amanda is because that's > all there is. > > We used to use Amanda before we got a tape library and began backing up > all our servers into th

Re: backup

2002-12-17 Thread Torbjorn Pettersson
Bart-Jan Vrielink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 19:50, Russell Coker wrote: > > On Mon, 16 Dec 2002 19:36, C. R. Oldham wrote: > > > We used to use Amanda before we got a tape library and began backing up > > > all our servers into the library. We have a heterogenous network

Re: backup

2002-12-17 Thread Torbjorn Pettersson
Tommi Virtanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 07:29:09PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote: > > Amanda sounds promising (everyone is recommending it). I've asked a colleague > > who's into backups (and who has been using Legato for years) to investigate > > Amanda and write a re

Re: disk partition schemes

2001-07-05 Thread Torbjorn Pettersson
"Kevin J. Menard, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hey guys (and gals), > > I'm redoing a machine of mine. Was a Mandrake system, but now it's going > to > be a debian one ;) > > Basically, I have 20 gigs of space to tinker with (well, there's really 40 > there, but I run a h

Re: disk partition schemes

2001-07-08 Thread Torbjorn Pettersson
Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 5 Jul 2001 16:50, Torbjorn Pettersson wrote: > > /boot : Sector sizes and such already discussed, you will > > discover that you need a separate boot, and then it > > will be to late. You are not

Re: RCS control for config files

2002-07-02 Thread Torbjorn Pettersson
Alex Borges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Heyas debian zealots, > > Ive finnaly come to a point where i think im needing revision control > for my configuration files on some servers > > So i thought id come in and ask you guys if there is some vertical stuff > explicitly for this purpose o

Re: NFS-Problem with Windows and MS-Dos

2001-01-17 Thread Torbjorn Pettersson
Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hallo Debianer, > > I am WaveLAN-Provider in Germany and I use Debian/GNU-Linux 2.1/2.2. > But on one Workstations I run MS-Dos 6.22 with PC-NFS because C-Devel > with DJGPP and on a second WfW 3.11 with XNFS (can mount from File-Manager) > > Now

Re: NFS-Problem with Windows and MS-Dos

2001-01-19 Thread Torbjorn Pettersson
Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > my /etc/hosts.allow has only one entry: > > ALL: LOCAL .michelle-is.de > > and the /etc/hosts.deny has > > ALL: PARANOID > And the machines that are trying to mount all have valid DNS entries, with working reverse lookups from the s