Re: My Debian/MacMini web pages

2005-08-13 Thread Ashesh Datta
On 8/8/05 8:19 pm, "curby ." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Apple likes to make the Apple way very easy, and the nonApple way > somewhat obfuscated. To boot from a CD (such as a Debian installation > CD), hold down the c key as the machine boots up. If that doesn't > work, you might have a bad CD.

Re: My Debian/MacMini web pages

2005-08-12 Thread Ashesh Datta
On 9/8/05 3:48 pm, "Daniel R. Killoran,Ph.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is the hard way to do it. Instead, in OS-X, launch NetInfo > (Bootdisk->Applications->Utilities->NetInfo Manager) and select the > "Security" menu. One of the selections allows you to unlock the root > account & set it

Re: My Debian/MacMini web pages

2005-08-08 Thread Ashesh Datta
On 8/8/05 10:10 am, "Dean Hamstead" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > macosx has the same locked root as ubuntu > > to enable root, log in as an user with admin privileges. > then open a shell > sudu bash > > put in your password > youll then be in a bash shell as root, > you can then go > passwd >

Re: My Debian/MacMini web pages

2005-08-08 Thread Ashesh Datta
On 4/6/05 8:55 pm, "Paul J. Lucas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've just completed a set of web pages describing how I > configured Debian Linux on my Mac Mini. However, most of the > material isn't Mini-specific. It includes things like > configuring NFS, IMAP, and SMTP servers as well as sett

Re: Re: (subtitle: Britannia Rules the Waves)

2004-04-19 Thread Ashesh Datta
on 18/4/04 1:46 pm, David Pye at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > b) This is an English list, so writing in English would be appreciated. I suspect Mr David Pye is living in the past, still hankering for Britain's long lost colonies, but he should harbour no such hope about Iraq (Churchill tried that i

Re: Debian installation from CDs in iMac

2003-03-21 Thread Ashesh Datta
On 18/3/03 11:48 pm, "Jeffrey Matt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Depending on the model iMac: > > Tray Loading - there's a hole on the right hand side of the CD tray > face. Stick a paperclip in their and it'll pop open. > > Slot-Loading - Same trick, but stick the paperclip in on the far right

Debian installation from CDs in iMac

2003-03-18 Thread Ashesh Datta
Hi! I am rank beginner (albeit a 70 year old pensioner), ignorant of Unix, and my first brush with Linux - as well as Unix - has been to try to install Debian in iMac from a set of 7 CDs (cynics might say I'm trying to jump in at the deep end). In the meantime - while my effort of getting Debian

Spam in the works?

2003-01-20 Thread Ashesh Datta
Title: Spam in the works? Is this a spam? -- Ashesh -- Forwarded Message From: Mervyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 09:47:52 -0600 To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Subject: We Can Fix Your Credit. ispwk Resent-From: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Resen