Solution Posted: How to make bootable GRUB CD ( IDE CDRW drive) for Debian 3.1 with 2.4 kernel

2006-04-12 Thread Pabla,Balbir [Ontario]
Title: Solution Posted: How to make bootable GRUB CD ( IDE CDRW drive) for Debian 3.1 with 2.4 kernel Here is the solution, that worked for me to make bootable GRUB CD for Debian 3.1 server with 2.4 kernel having IDE CD-RW ( Dell PowerEdge 2800 3.6 MHZ). This is useful for booting up your s

Making GRUB bootable floppy for emergency and hence then booting up your Debian System... Useful in emergency

2006-04-05 Thread Pabla,Balbir [Ontario]
Herby I am posting the solution, which worked for me. Thanks every body for input especially Mike McCarty. Here are the complete instructions for Debian 3.1 with 2.4.27-2-386 kernel: 1. Create a floppy disk so that you can boot into the grub environment by following : - insert floppy - cd /l

FW: Making Emergency bootable CD on Debian 3.1 2.4.27 kernel

2006-04-05 Thread Pabla,Balbir [Ontario]
Thanks Mike : May be I did not make it clear I want to prepare emergency boot floppy/CD so that on booting from this media, I can get at least root system prompt. 1. I looked at the specified site. I made floppy doing : cd /lib/grub/i386-pc ( I also saw stage1 and stage2 files in /boot/g

RE: Making Emergency bootable CD on Debian 3.1 2.4.27 kernel

2006-04-04 Thread Pabla,Balbir [Ontario]
6 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Making Emergency bootable CD on Debian 3.1 2.4.27 kernel Pabla,Balbir [Ontario] wrote: > 1. On Dell PowereEdge 2800 server (no floppy) on this system, I would > like to make emergency bootable CD so that I can bring up the machine > using OLD kerne

Making Emergency bootable CD on Debian 3.1 2.4.27 kernel

2006-04-04 Thread Pabla,Balbir [Ontario]
Title: Making Emergency bootable CD on Debian 3.1 2.4.27 kernel 1. On Dell PowereEdge 2800 server (no floppy) on this system, I would like to make emergency bootable CD so that I can bring up the machine using OLD kernel in case there is problem in booting using new compiled kernel( I have t

Enabling printer

2006-03-23 Thread Pabla,Balbir [Ontario]
Title: Enabling printer I thought , the command to enable printer is " enable printer_name". Any idea, following not working on Debian 3.2, 2.4 smp kernel. arqiozone:~# enable hpl8n -su: enable: hpl8n: not a shell builtin $ lpstat -p printer hpl8n disabled since Jan 01 00:00 -  

Configuring network printer using gnome/foomatic on Debian

2006-03-14 Thread Pabla,Balbir [Ontario]
Title: Configuring network printer using gnome/foomatic on Debian I have a HP laserjet 8000 DN printer attached to network directly with ip address say 142.xx.xxx.yyy. I want to send print jobs from Debian 3.1 system running 2.4 smp kernel. I tried from gnome window : system tools; printer;

Cannot connect to Debian Server over network

2006-03-13 Thread Pabla,Balbir [Ontario]
Title: Cannot connect to Debian Server over network I am in process of setting up Dell 2800 server with Debian 3.1, 2.4 smp kernel. I can ping/telnet/ftp out, but from other machine I cannot  connect to to this server using ping, telnet/ftp. Any body can help, how these services are set in

Partitioning RAID5 disks into 2 Filesystems

2006-03-08 Thread Pabla,Balbir [Ontario]
Title: Partitioning RAID5 disks into 2 Filesystems Hi : I am setting up DELL Poweredge 2800 server. Installed Debian 3.1 (2.4.27) on first 2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (RAID1). I have configured other 8 drives as RAID5 ( 7 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]  GB SCSI; 1 hot spare). This was done using Cntl-M durin