Re: Cloning a Debian hard drive

On 20 Feb, Randy Edwards wrote: >I have a 2.5 gig IDE hard drive all set up and happily running Bo. > I'd like to "clone" this drive onto another to move the new drive into a > different computer and save reinstalling/configuring Debian. > >I've toyed with the idea of using cp, and also of

A20 GATING FAILED

A20 GATING FAILED CAN ANYONE TELL ME HOW TO GET PASSED THIS S.O.S -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Cloning a Debian hard drive

I've had very good success with cp -ax. The x makes it "Skip subdirectories that are on different filesystems from the one that the copy started on", so you have to create the /proc mount point on the new system. (proc is a virtual file system, provided by the kernel, so you don't have to wo

installation problem - aha2920 - at partition time "no disk found"

using the latest rescue disk for a stable system .. adding the boot parameter aic7xxx=extended,no_reset does not help. assistance apprecaited! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Beeping the Speaker

When Michael Beattie wrote, I replied: In bash or sh or ksh - echo ^g^g in perl, print "\007\007"; HTH > > Is it at all possible to beep the PC Speaker via bash? or perl... or > whatever? > > What I want to do is set up my ip-up script, so that fetchmail is run from > it, and there is some s

Re: nis & shadow

When Miquel van Smoorenburg wrotei, I replied: I was wondering why he dangled his ethernet cable out the window. I hope it was properly terminated! And wouldn't there be some sign that the cable had been cut and re-spliced? I guess I'm just way too trusting. > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,

Re: netscape 4.04 and gnuchess and pgp

When Dave Mallery wrote, I responded: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > hi > > i can't find the debian installer for the above netscape... In bo (Opt), I see it as netscape-beta, and gnuchess. I think you need the German (or other foriegn) site for gpg. Has something to do with moro

Re: Dial Script

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Sailer) writes: > I have a web page that people can use to page me on my numeric pager. > It uses a very stupid program (npage) to dial the phone. I was wondering > if someone has a better way, maybe perl, chat, a well written C program, > etc. to do this. Most pager compani

isdnutils, debug scripts

Hi, When my linux starts i get:"isdn_ppp_bind:unable to find appropriate device" This does not really matter 'cause isdn works fine ;-) My question is: Do you know an easy way, to find out, which line in my scripts is axactly causing this error?? The files "var/log/messages" or ".../sys

Re: Viewing bootup message

Lindsay Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 09, 1998 at 09:11:27PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > How can you view the entire list of messeges that show when you boot into > > > linux? It all either scrolls by too fast or too much re

Re: nis & shadow

Well, we've certainly brought this one to its illogical conclusion! Ralph Winslow wrote: > When Miquel van Smoorenburg wrotei, I replied: > > I was wondering why he dangled his ethernet cable out the window. > I hope it was properly terminated! And wouldn't there be some sign > that the cable ha

Re: Kermit: Where is it???

Hi Jesus Duran; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: > > > Greetings all, > > i was looking for Kermit, remember that old thing? I did not find it the > Debian Packages site. I did down load it from www.columbia.edu/kermit/ in > a tar'ed-gz'ed file but had problems when i tried to tar -x it?!?!

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