Re: IP Forward Problems

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 01:07:06PM +, Gerard Hooton wrote: > Hello, > Fist my system: > > Linux uepc004 2.6.24-1-686 #1 SMP Thu May 8 02:16:39 UTC 2008 i686 > GNU/Linux > > Network: > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:30:48:29:e9:40 > inet addr:143.239.184.13 Bcast:143.239

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

> isn't that a reason for top posting, if you have already read the > previous emails, don't you want to just get to the new information with > out having to read the stuff you just read in the previous email ? Well if the bottom-poster just leaves the cited text without any sort of cleaning, i.e.

help: can no longer ssh into my vps server!

I installed some packages an hour ago and then rebooted the remote system (my VPS system) and now I can no longer ssh back into it! ssh is my *only* access to my vps server so this is really upsetting. It isn't ssh problem because I checked and my website (which I host on my vps system) is also now

Re: Lenny won't install on an old Pentium that used to run Etch.

On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 19:00 -0400, Chris Jones wrote: > On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 04:39:51PM EDT, Robert Hodgins wrote: > > > Any ideas to diagnose what is going on or to get the installation to > > complete would be appreciated. > > Not sure.. but have you tried (re)installing etch.. just to make

Re: Advice about ext3, please (An experiment & results)

>> So, yes, unplugging your USB key while it's still mounted is to be >> avoided, and even more so while it's being written to. > The OP asked about about a USB external HDD, not a key. I have not > tested the theory, but I have always understood that keys are > particularly vulnerable. To phy

Re: USB stick checkup - is heavy daily use taking its toll?

> I have been using a run-of-the-mill 8GB SanDisk Cruzer Micro for nightly > backups for c. 6 months and I am curious as to wear and tear. I wouldn't worry about it unless you intend to keep doing it for 10 years without ever getting a new stick. Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to deb

Re: Lenny won't install on an old Pentium that used to run Etch.

> Yup, I did a reinstall of Etch. I just did a minimal install this time > (unchecked all the options in tasksel). I was able to get througt the > base install and right up to the installation of GRUB and the reboot and > could log in. In other words, no surprises. Etch is installable. > I've not

Re: Ext3 for flash drive

Sam Leon wrote: Mark Allums wrote: Benjamin M. A'Lee wrote: On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 08:23:43PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: Masatran / Deepak, R.: Recently, I re-partitioned my flash drive. I made one FAT32 partition, and one Ext3 partition. Is ext3 on a flash medium really a good idea? At l

Re: how to get past apt-get errors? is there a manual workaround?

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 03:26:39PM -0600, will trillich was heard to say: > Hi debianites -- a question for DPKG and APT experts: > > We're stuck with apt-get and haven't found a way past it yet -- any > ideas would be welcome: > > Our postgresql-client-7.4 is missing its libpq.so.3 file, which

why pop out this window "the platform you are running is not supported by this tool"?

My box is debian sid amd64 with desktop gnome, when i performance some admin on the system by click on a item in System-Administration, it pops out a window to let me choose my platform, then i choose the debian gnu/linux, unstable/testing. why it always makes me to choose, can't it detect it autom

setting up firefox to use usbdisk java?

I need to access my VPS's VNC over the web but when I try to connect it says I need a plugin and prompts me to manually install a Java Runtime Environment (JRE). I only have like 10MB of space on the ramdisk I run (I use LiveCD since my hard disk controller died and my BIOS is not USB-aware) so I d

Re: Old versions of Debian

Robert Hodgins!! Thanks a lot Ata LISolutions.org On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Robert Hodgins wrote: > On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 15:36 +0500, Ata ur Rehman wrote: > > Dear All > > > > I'm new to this list. I'm looking for CD/DVD images for Debian 4.0 r7 > > but I could not find. Can someone h

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

Sander Marechal wrote: Actually, top posting makes some sense in a corporate environment. There is no mailinglist or archive to see the entire discussion there. Suppose you are discussing something with a coworker over e-mail. With top posting every reply carries the entire thread. Want to involv

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 10:04:29PM -0700, Ken Teague wrote: > There's nothing more painful when reading e-mail than to start from the > very bottom, read the message, then begin to read each reply upwards. It > becomes really bad when some replies are more than a page long because > you now hav

Question about HighPoint RocketRAID 4320

Hi I was wondering if any one is using this or any other high point controller. I am looking at buying one of these, wondering about other peoples experiences Alex -- NOTICE: Anyone seen smoking will be assumed to be on fire and will be summarily put out. signature.asc Descrip

why sid cannot install openoffice?

here is the error message: StarLiu:~# i openoffice.org-writer Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution th

Re: Ext3 for flash drive

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:38:35PM +0100, Jens Van Broeckhoven wrote: > Masatran / Deepak, R. wrote: > >Recently, I re-partitioned my flash drive. I made one FAT32 partition, and > >one Ext3 partition. The problem is that when I transfer files from my > Why so many difficult answers? > If you nor

Local Repo

I have seen many How to's regarding Local Repositories, but I don't know if it covers all architectures including ARM. What I'm trying to do is to setup a Server on my network which will have a local repo for my two NSLU2 and maybe if it's not too big(40GBs the actual size of the HHD) will hold al

Re: Local Repo

* Victor Padro (2009-03-12): > I have seen many How to's regarding Local Repositories, but I don't know if > it covers all architectures including ARM. They do. [...] > Is there any documentation you guys can point me to? I found this very useful: See the instructions at t

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