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

2005-08-13 Thread Mrs Amarjeet 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

2005-08-09 Thread Daniel R. Killoran,Ph.D.
On Aug 8, 2005, at 5:10 AM, Dean Hamstead 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 change your root password. then y

Re: My Debian/MacMini web pages

2005-08-08 Thread Maximilian Gerlach
> I suppose ubuntu is certainly worth a try, It is. :) > but my immediate problem is > preparing a hard disk partition for Linux in Mac mini. Try it with the OS X Install CD/DVD. Pop it in, press 'C' during boot (starting from when you hear the chime) and then search the menubar for the 'harddis

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 curby .
On 8/8/05, Ashesh Datta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > my luck! So the only return for the investment of my hard-earned 399 GB > pound sterling at the moment seems to be to be able to use Microsoft > Internet Explorer to read about the latest happenings in Iraq. Hopefully on OSX you would use Safar

Re: My Debian/MacMini web pages

2005-08-08 Thread Paul J. Lucas
On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, Ashesh Datta wrote: > On 4/6/05 8:55 pm, "Paul J. Lucas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > http://homepage.mac.com/pauljlucas/personal/macmini/ > > But where is it now? Exactly in the same place. - Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: My Debian/MacMini web pages

2005-08-08 Thread Dean Hamstead
> However, if Paul (or some other kind soul on the list) could let me on > the secret of how to circumvent the "No hard disk detected for > partitioning" > message from Debian installer (or mac-fdisk), I could get started as I > have > some experience of installing Debian (as well as SuSE and Y

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: My Debian/MacMini web pages

2005-06-06 Thread Pierre Rochard
This is exactly what I've been looking for (the NFS part). Thank you so much! Pierre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: My Debian/MacMini web pages

2005-06-04 Thread Jack Malmostoso
Ciao Paul J. Lucas, nel tuo messaggio dicevi: > Comments (probably to me rather > than the entire mailing list) welcomed. Kudos to you, very nice work. Bookmarked. -- On Oct 5 1991, 8.53 AM; Linus Benedict Torvalds said: >I can (well, almost) hear you asking yourselves "why?". Hurd will b

My Debian/MacMini web pages

2005-06-04 Thread Paul J. Lucas
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 setting up a two-node cluster and a