memdisk with debian live

2008-10-25 Thread Alex Dommasch
Hi folks. I'm new to this list, and pretty new to linux, although I used to do a fair amount of work around unix many years ago, so I have a grasp of some of the fundamentals. I have a Dell Vostro 200 with no OS (well, freedos actually), and I want to figure out how to get linux onto it. I cu

2.4.X kernel

2008-10-25 Thread Maximiliano Marin Bustos
Hi everybody! I'm creating a minimalist distribution which it can runs on an old machine with 64 mb RAM and a core Intel Petium I. My distro will starts a web server, ftp server and ssh server. So i was thinking 2.6.X kernel will be very hard to old machines and 2.4.X kernel is lighter than 2.6.X

Re: Mounting partitions fails

2008-10-25 Thread Daniel Baumann
Daniel Baumann wrote: > since Ronnys user is in all the 'default' groups (namely: audio cdrom > dialout floppy video plugdev netdev powerdev), it must be something > really weird. the name of the group is 'haldaemon'. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: