Network issue with WOODY

2003-07-03 Thread Robert Webb
Hi all, I tried searching the archives with no luck. I have a standard load of Debian running and am constantly having problems with the network not responding when trying to connect to the box. No matter waht I try to hit, smtp ssh web, it will not respond unless I try and re-connect many t

Re: HDD vs. RAID (was Re: Lilo Q)

2002-06-10 Thread Robert Webb
Dave Sherohman wrote: [snip] Any sort of true hardware RAID setup (beware the hybrids, since this doesn't apply to them) will interact with the rest of the system as a single device. The question of whether to put the individual drives on separate controllers or not doesn't apply, since the d

Re: SCSI will not compile into kernel

2002-06-09 Thread Robert Webb
after having replaced the source, so that you won't have to set the old configuration options manually. Cheers, Stephan On Fri, 07 Jun 2002 14:07:28 -0400 Robert Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi everyone. I am trying to compile a 2.4.18 kernel and am running into >

Re: SMP working

2002-06-07 Thread Robert Webb
Brooks R. Robinson wrote: | check for this . I looked in the /proc directory and did a cat of cpu | but it only showed one processor at 500MHZ. | | Am I looking in the wrong place??? Greetings, A cat of /proc/cpuinfo should give a listing for each cpu. I get two for the two on my bo

SCSI will not compile into kernel

2002-06-07 Thread Robert Webb
Hi everyone. I am trying to compile a 2.4.18 kernel and am running into problems when the SCSI section tries to complete. I downloaded the kernel from kernel.org and have tried many time to get it to work. Can anyone give me an idea as to what I may be doing wrong?? The error I get when doing m

SMP working

2002-06-07 Thread Robert Webb
I just loaded up Woody on a new machine that has two 500MHZ Pentium III processors. I am trying to determine if the build I loaded is recognizing both processors. My problem is I have no clue as to where to check for this . I looked in the /proc directory and did a cat of cpu but it only showe

Re: How to install Debian from CD ROM

2002-06-05 Thread Robert Webb
Ok. I am in the process of installing Woody myself. I see where you are talking about. You are at the point in which the kernel and modules are installed from the cd. Just before you get to the module config. I have one question I can think of asking. That is when you boot the cd and you

Re: How to install Debian from CD ROM

2002-06-05 Thread Robert Webb
If you are trying to do the network install did you load the driver for you NIC card?? And if you selected a NIC driver did it actually load? It sounds like Debian isn't recognizing your network... Robert Jim wrote: I've downloaded the Debian CD a couple of times but can't install it on a ne

Re: howto install from Internet

2002-06-05 Thread Robert Webb
If you don't mind a little reading try the link below. http://www.debian.org/distrib/floppyinst irado furioso com tudo wrote: I donot wish to down/burn any *iso. Many persecs ago it was possible to just make 2 floppies and, directly connected to the Internet, install the whole Debian. While I

Re: in case you missed this from ponik

2002-06-04 Thread Robert Webb
This would be easy to do. If I create an account on my domain and honestly subscribe to the list and then set all the email to that address to be fowarded to a second address everything for any list server would look to be ok. If I were the one that did it in this case I would register the ema

Re: the desperate, boring

2002-06-04 Thread Robert Webb
I agree. I have luckily been able to set my mail server to just discard his messages. But my log is filling up!!! Robert Quenten Griffith wrote: I have wrote to him three times now ,we need to do something 100's of spam replys is really annoying to go through. irado furioso com tudo wrote:

Re: Calendar/scheduling softwae fro debain?

2002-06-03 Thread Robert Webb
Rico -mc- Gloeckner wrote: On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 07:45:48PM -0500, Elizabeth Barham wrote: [...] Netscape/iPlanet has a server and to the best of my knowledge, it impliments all or some of these standards. Ignoring the Fact, that

Re: networking with a DSL router

2002-06-02 Thread Robert Webb
Patrick Albuquerque wrote: On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 07:50:05PM -0400, Robert Webb wrote: Patrick Albuquerque wrote: Hi all, I bought an Ovislink SR-500 router/switch, but can't configure it. It has a default address of 192.168.1.254, and I'm supposed to be able to co

Re: networking with a DSL router

2002-06-02 Thread Robert Webb
Patrick Albuquerque wrote: Hi all, I bought an Ovislink SR-500 router/switch, but can't configure it. It has a default address of 192.168.1.254, and I'm supposed to be able to configure it via telnet at port 333. Unfortunately I can't even ping it. My internet connection is up on ppp0/et

Re: what causes this error

2002-05-30 Thread Robert Webb
justin cunningham wrote: mysqladmin: CREATE DATABASE failed; error: 'You have an error in your SQL syntax near 'whateverunamethedatabase' I can complete every function with msyqladmin except create and drop. What am I doing wrong. I've read all the docs online, sent similar emails with no re

Re: word to the wise about Netscape 7/Mozilla

2002-05-24 Thread Robert Webb
Quenten Griffith wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I know this doesn't really have much to do with Debain, but I thought I would warn some people just in case. I went ahead and d/l the new Netscape 7 RC1 and installed it in my home dir. I had heard there was some problem

Re: Problem with kernel-image-2.4.18-686-smp_2.4.18-5_i386 from testing

2002-05-23 Thread Robert Webb
I am new to Linux but doesn't your /boot/initrd.img-2.4.18-686-smp file need to be -rwxr-xr-x This is the way mine is Ken Causey wrote: I'm running into trouble trying to boot using kernel-image-2.4.18-686-smp_2.4.18-5_i386 from testing, Linux version 2.4.18-686-smp ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: Software RAID question

2002-05-18 Thread Robert Webb
installer you're using - how versed ya are about installing "anythng" - doing it right and testing it... the tricky part..more confusing/conflicting info and howtos.. http://www.1U-Raid5.netc yaalvinOn Fri, 17 May 2002, Robert Webb wrote: Hi, Thanks for the info. But my iss

Re: Software RAID question

2002-05-17 Thread Robert Webb
f hda or hdd... and use md0 stripped to md1for scsi... life's simpler...c yaalvinOn Fri, 17 May 2002, Robert Webb wrote: Is it possible with the newer kernels to actually boot to a software raid?? I have a machine with 4 SCSI drives and I want to be able to RAID 1 the drives in pairs. On

Software RAID question

2002-05-17 Thread Robert Webb
Is it possible with the newer kernels to actually boot to a software raid?? I have a machine with 4 SCSI drives and I want to be able to RAID 1 the drives in pairs. One pair for the / and the second pair for /var only. But everything I have read to date says you cannot do this. TIA Robert

Re: debconf problem during upgrade

2002-05-17 Thread Robert Webb
Also just use something like the "ALT" key instead of the spacebar. You shouldn't have a problem then. Joey Hess wrote: Eric Richardson wrote: I think there is a problem with debconf or whatever the interface is that is used to answer questions during upgrade from potato to woody.The

Re: jpeg

2002-05-16 Thread Robert Webb
well, at least you are getting th OK from the wife to buy some new hardware. That doesn't happen too often. :-) Ted wrote: Ted wrote: Hi.. Can anyone please help..My son is currently wandering around India and he has sent me mail with an attachment kaur_jpeg..This jpeg opens at the bott

SCSI Transfer rate

2002-04-21 Thread Robert Webb
. Sectors= 8380080 [4091 MB] [4.1 GB] sym53c876-0-<3,*>: FAST-5 WIDE SCSI 10.0 MB/s (200 ns, offset 15) SCSI device sdd: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 8380080 [4091 MB] [4.1 GB] which states that it is only 10 MB/s. Is there something I need to change to correct this or is this normal?