Re: [techtalk] Gumpish Routing Question

2001-05-08 Thread James Sutherland
On Wed, 9 May 2001, Neale Green wrote: > Hi Folks, Hi! > As of last night, I have a major routing problem with my Net connection which > the ISP CLAIMS isn't at their end. I use the ISP for connection, and DNS, but > not for any Proxy (or other) services. The same way I usually use ISPs - espe

RE: [techtalk] botched newbie kernel compile

2001-05-08 Thread Julia Coolman
Thanks a bundle, Brian, Telsa and everybody else. After a bit of rearranging /boot, my beloved suzuka boots happily from either kernel. I am still a bit confused about the modules. I'm not where to go from 'make modules; make modules_install' to get to 'insmod'. (Suzuka runs debian woody, for t

RE: [techtalk] botched newbie kernel compile

2001-05-08 Thread Brian Sweeney
'Lo again all... > I leave in the "prompt" and "timeout" lines but include > > password= > > and "restricted" in the default image section > > This has the effect of booting to the default kernel after the timeout but > allowing other options if required but only if the password is supplied. > T

[techtalk] newbie network problems

2001-05-08 Thread Eunice Roberts
All, I just installed Caldera OpenLinux 2.4. I'm trying to run a little network but having lots of problems. My Setup: I have and ibm thinkpad, an old mac powerbook, and my lovely new linux box. I have a (dynamic) dsl connection (Cisco 675 external router). Plus 10baseT ethernet hub. The pr

Re: [techtalk] Gumpish Routing Question

2001-05-08 Thread Samuel Tesla
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sounds like the gateway just isn't forwarding packets. What you probably want to do is check /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward It's probably set to zero, so all you need to do is: # echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward On redhat 5.2 you can add th

Re: [techtalk] Gumpish Routing Question

2001-05-08 Thread Eric R. Turner
# for interface information (i.e. IP addresses, # netmasks, gateways, etc...) run this /sbin/ifconfig # for routing information run this /bin/netstat -route # to list the DNS servers run this cat /etc/resolv.conf Hope that helps, Eric R. Turner On Wed, 9 May 2001, Neale Green wrote: > > H

[techtalk] Gumpish Routing Question

2001-05-08 Thread Neale Green
Hi Folks, As of last night, I have a major routing problem with my Net connection which the ISP CLAIMS isn't at their end. I use the ISP for connection, and DNS, but not for any Proxy (or other) services. I know that I SHOULD be able to chase it down and fix it myslef, but I'm having a Forre

Re: [techtalk] Win 98 question....

2001-05-08 Thread Conor Daly
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 06:22:02AM -0500 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, Kriselda Jarnsaxa thought: > This evening, my hubby and I found ourselves needing to reformat the c drive > on our "other" laptop. Unfortunately, the laptop doesn't recognize the > DVD-ROM drive and we don't have a "premad

Re: [techtalk] botched newbie kernel compile

2001-05-08 Thread Conor Daly
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 11:30:57AM -0700 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, Brian Sweeney thought: > Julia- > > Check out /etc/lilo.conf. Mine looks something like this: > > delay=1 > boot=/dev/hda > map=/boot/map > install=/boot/boot.b > prompt # I comment these > timeout=50 # lines out for sec

Re: [techtalk] botched newbie kernel compile

2001-05-08 Thread Telsa Gwynne
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 11:30:57AM -0700 or thereabouts, Brian Sweeney wrote: > Julia- > So, to sum it all up: ... > As a side note, did you want to run make modules and make modules_install? > Check out the modules.txt file in the Documentation directory of your linux > src dir for more info

Re: [techtalk] botched newbie kernel compile

2001-05-08 Thread Jeff Dike
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I 'make bzImage'd, replaced /vmlinuz (which appears to have been a > symlink to something in /boot) with /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/ > bzImage0 and ran lilo, then tried to reboot. Someone else said it, but it bears repeating. If you have a booting kernel, DO NOT TOU

Re: [techtalk] Win 98 question solved

2001-05-08 Thread Kriselda Jarnsaxa
Thanks, everyone, for the great suggestions! We got lucky and were able to borrow a boot disk from a friend of ours and it worked well enough that we got the system up and running. I've made a list of all the suggestions and will be keeping them on hand in case of further emergencies, though --

RE: [techtalk] botched newbie kernel compile

2001-05-08 Thread Brian Sweeney
Julia- Check out /etc/lilo.conf. Mine looks something like this: delay=1 boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b prompt # I comment these timeout=50 # lines out for security, but I'm paranoid ;-) message=/boot/message default=linux image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.2-2 label=linux

Re: [techtalk] nubie help with bootable iso images

2001-05-08 Thread Nicoya Helm
Thanks for the Nero tips - worked beautifully this time around :) >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 05/08/01 05:14PM >>> >I'm limited to trying to do this on a Win2K box, so... > >I've downloaded the two rh7.0 iso's, and I've burned the first one to a >cd. I followed my burning software (nero)'s instru

Re: [techtalk] botched newbie kernel compile

2001-05-08 Thread Daniel Manrique
> Rebooting using the 2.2.17 that I originally had, and again following the > HOWTO, I 'make bzImage'd, replaced /vmlinuz (which appears to have been a > symlink to something in /boot) with /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage0 > and ran lilo, then tried to reboot. > Currently at boot, after the

Re: [techtalk] botched newbie kernel compile

2001-05-08 Thread Walt
What distribution are you running? Walt -~ Given a thimbleful of facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub. Gordon W. Allport ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailm

Re: [techtalk] Pretty Report Writer Needed for Pointy-Head Boss

2001-05-08 Thread Samuel Tesla
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Depending on what you're looking for Business Objects may be something to look in to. It's not very scalable, but it does what it does very well (which is data mining). - -- -=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=

[techtalk] botched newbie kernel compile

2001-05-08 Thread Julia Coolman
Oh, what's a girl to do? After reading the kernel-HOWTO, I downloaded a 2.4.4 tarball, untarring it into /usr/src. Following the instructions in the HOWTO, I 'make xconfig'ed, 'make dep'ed, and 'make bzdisk'ed. At that point I booted succesfully from that floppy and unamed to verify I was running

Re: [techtalk] Pretty Report Writer Needed for Pointy-Head Boss

2001-05-08 Thread Michelle Murrain
On Tuesday 08 May 2001 12:50 pm, J-Mag Guthrie wrote: > (not mine) Someone I know needs to locate a report writer similar to > Crystal Reports or R&R Report Writer that can (be taught to) deal with > PostgresSQL. Perl-based is adequate, but my friend views Perl as a > write-only language and rath

[techtalk] Pretty Report Writer Needed for Pointy-Head Boss

2001-05-08 Thread J-Mag Guthrie
(not mine) Someone I know needs to locate a report writer similar to Crystal Reports or R&R Report Writer that can (be taught to) deal with PostgresSQL. Perl-based is adequate, but my friend views Perl as a write-only language and rather dislikes messing with other people's abortions. Any help w

Re: [techtalk] nubie help with bootable iso images

2001-05-08 Thread paul . hardacre
>I'm limited to trying to do this on a Win2K box, so... > >I've downloaded the two rh7.0 iso's, and I've burned the first one to a >cd. I followed my burning software (nero)'s instructions for burning iso >images specifically, pretty straightforward. Now I have a cd with >7.0-respin- disc1.is

[techtalk] nubie help with bootable iso images

2001-05-08 Thread Nicoya Helm
okay, i've been itching to get a playbox up at work so that I can work on my linux skills in my spare time. I'd never tried the "from scratch" method (as opposed to just getting a hold of an out-of-the-box distro), so I thought that'd be a good learning practice. I've reached a sticking point

Re: [techtalk] Win 98 question....

2001-05-08 Thread James Sutherland
On Tue, 8 May 2001, Kriselda Jarnsaxa wrote: > This evening, my hubby and I found ourselves needing to reformat the c drive > on our "other" laptop. Unfortunately, the laptop doesn't recognize the > DVD-ROM drive and we don't have a "premade" Win98 boot disk at all. We > tried using the Win98 p

[techtalk] Win 98 question....

2001-05-08 Thread Kriselda Jarnsaxa
This evening, my hubby and I found ourselves needing to reformat the c drive on our "other" laptop. Unfortunately, the laptop doesn't recognize the DVD-ROM drive and we don't have a "premade" Win98 boot disk at all. We tried using the Win98 program from our desktop to make a boot disk, but it ap

[techtalk] quirky computer bugs

2001-05-08 Thread Nicki Fung
Hallo! I was installing win2k/redhat on my machine this weekend and I found a lovely little bug that I thought I'd share just in case anyone else had run into a similar problem. The problem is with win2k and not redhat - but it may be useful to someone on this list. I am sure some of you have