[techtalk] vmware

2000-10-25 Thread antonxie
dear all,   wmware looks real cool... I manage to get it installed I have configured one virtual disk for Win98 using /u01/win98 but unfortunately my /u01 is partitioned as ex2... therefore when I installed win98 it said that I have an hpfs or ntfs on that partition... how can i cure this pr

Re: [techtalk] Help! Au secour! Mayday!

2000-10-25 Thread Kath
Firewall is easy enough.  Lemme point you to the things that showed me how to do it:   http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO.html http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/network/ipchains.html   You are using RH6.1, so I'm guessing your kernel is already compiled how it needs to be, so

Re: [techtalk] Help! Au secour! Mayday!

2000-10-25 Thread Conor Daly
On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 12:20:38PM +0800 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, antonxie thought: > Kath, > > I'm deep in hotwater now... > my boss has been asking me to set upa firewall for two weeks > and he hasn't seen a firewall going > can you please guide me thru on how I could get a fir

[techtalk] RE:Need a good backup/disaster recovery software program

2000-10-25 Thread Brian Sweeney
I would recommend the O'Reilly book "Unix Backup&Recovery"; very helpful, has lots of different scenarios, and goes through many of the various backup utilities, including which ones do "bare-metal" recoveries. If you don't have the time, I think someone already recommended Arkeia, but I would ad

Re: [techtalk] Help! Au secour! Mayday!

2000-10-25 Thread Tricia Bowen
The following has excellent step by step instructions: Linux Online - Firewall and Proxy Server HOWTO: Setting up http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Firewall-HOWTO-4.html -tricia On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, antonxie wrote: |Kath, | |I'm deep in hotwater now... |my boss has been asking me to set upa

Re: [techtalk] Subscribe Discussion

2000-10-25 Thread Tricia Bowen
here is a list of women related mailing list: http://www.lazygirl.com/techwomail.html On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, antonxie wrote: | Dear all, | |Is there any other discussion group like this that you guys been |participating in? |I would love to be there and listenIt helps me alot just to read a

Re: [techtalk] windoze-based distros

2000-10-25 Thread Lilly S.
I've used Mandrake for Linux, and I should say, I'm not overly impressed. It just installs it in a directory under Windows, and then when you need to boot into that, the computer actually shuts down, and reboots into that. I didn't like that very much. VMWare is supposed to solve that problem, tho

Re: [techtalk] windoze-based distros

2000-10-25 Thread Alain TESIO
Hello, I'm using Mandrake for Linux, I can boot from Windows 98 without restarting the computer using loadlin.exe, I just need to shutdown windows and I type "linux" at the DOS prompt. (maybe a shortcut with the right parameters would work) My file 'linux.bat' looks like that : loadlin vmlinuz r

[techtalk] laptops and drivers

2000-10-25 Thread Jill Cote
Hi I am new with Linux, although I have been reading this list for a few months. I have installed Red Hat 3 or 4 times on a workstation. But, I am interested in buying a laptop and running Linux. Can anyone suggest a better vendor, concerning the availibilty of drivers. Or does anyone have oth

RE: [techtalk] laptops and drivers

2000-10-25 Thread Davida Schiff
Hi Jill, We bought several notebooks (Red Hat pre-installed) from tuxtops. Good price and good customer support.http://www.tuxtops.com/ HTH Davida -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jill Cote Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 11:19 AM

RE: [techtalk] windoze-based distros

2000-10-25 Thread Angela Nash
Without something like VMWare, there is no other way to do it. VMWare works great. I use it to run Win98 when I'm in Linux to do somethings. I've also used it to test other Linux distros. Jason -Original Message- From: Lilly S. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2

Re: [techtalk] laptops and drivers

2000-10-25 Thread Phil Savoie
Hi Jill, I had a Compaq pressario laptop before my Dell Inspiron 7500. On both I was able to load and install RedHat and Mandrake. The Compaq had no probs with drivers but the Inspiron had a problem loading the audio driver only in Mandrake. That being said, it did finally recognize the audio

Re: [techtalk] laptops and drivers

2000-10-25 Thread Carla Schroder
Hi Jill, I have installed various distros on Micron, IBM, and Compaq laptops. Two warnings: Winmodems and weirdo sound cards. My current fave setup is a Thinkpad 600 with Caldera eDesktop 2.4. Love it. No sound yet, but I haven't tried. Carla Schroder Ace PC Goddess ww

Re: [techtalk] windoze-based distros

2000-10-25 Thread Nicoya
Thanks to everyone for the suggestions. Unfortunately I have to run NT 4.0 and am not in a position to go reformatting /partitioning, etc for a 'traditional' distro, so VMware doesn't seem appropriate. I thought Phatlinux might work, but that's only good for win95 and 98. WinLinux2000 (winlinux2

Re: [techtalk] laptops and drivers

2000-10-25 Thread Kath
My assistant principal at school uses Caldera on a laptop. He certainly likes it :) - kath - Original Message - From: "Carla Schroder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 6:46 AM Subject: Re: [techtalk] laptops and drivers > Hi Jill, > I h

[techtalk] linux mirroring

2000-10-25 Thread Katz
Hi, I have 2 computers exactly the same in hardware. After I installed linux RH6.1 with update kernel 2.2.14, I used GHOST dos program to create a mirror on a dos partition. I managed to put the mirror on the other computer using GHOST under dos , and at the first they seem to be identical, and th

RE: [techtalk] windoze-based distros

2000-10-25 Thread Angela Nash
VMware works fine under NT4 with no partitioning needed. That's the great thing about it. It's an entire virtual machine. It uses a large file as it's partition, and works great with sound and network support. I've run Debian and Mandrake under it, as well as Win98. Jason -Original Messa

Re: [techtalk] windoze-based distros

2000-10-25 Thread Mindi
There is a very expensive route with Citrix but if not everyone needs a mixed environment, don't even look at it. Tarantella is working on their Linux stuff and is more reasonable than Citrix price-wise. And you can set up a linux session with an ASP at www.workspot.com. But, I also have used v

RE: [techtalk] laptops and drivers

2000-10-25 Thread Angela Nash
I run Debian on my Compaq Armada and Mandrake on a Gateway Solo. They both work great. I think Linux handles the dynamic nature of a notebook much better than Windows. Jason -Original Message- From: Jill Cote [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 2:19 PM To: [EMA

Re: [techtalk] laptops and drivers

2000-10-25 Thread Mindi
Impression laptops at http://www.linuxgeneralstore.com/home.php3?prodloci=laptops&javascriptset=0&loci=products also at http://www.emperorlinux.com/ Jill Cote wrote: > > Hi > I am new with Linux, although I have been reading this > list for a few months. I have installed Red Hat 3 or > 4 time

Re: [techtalk] windoze-based distros

2000-10-25 Thread Naomi Hospodarsky
Looked at Peanut yet? It gets good reviews. I've no idea about mixing it with NT tho: http://www.ibiblio.org/peanut/ > > > Has anyone played with any of the distros like Phatlinux that install > > within > > > a widows file system? I have a situation where I can't dual boot, > but I'd > >

Re: [techtalk] linux mirroring

2000-10-25 Thread -sjh-
Not sure exactly what you meant about the dos stuff, but here's the easiest way to copy a drive for use in an identical system without having to mess with ghost. Plug the blank drive in as hdb on the system you've got running. Format it. Then, cat /dev/hda > /dev/hdb. Of course, "this might ta

[techtalk] Samba Server and VMWare Conflict

2000-10-25 Thread antonxie
Dear all,   My Samba Server SMBD Daemon is not running again since I install VMware Can anyone tell me how to cure this problem? The only info I can give is when I do ps -ax | grep smb this is what it showed:   638  ?    SW  0:00    [vmware-samba]   Please help me and thanks in a

[techtalk] Linuxchix Alpha Site

2000-10-25 Thread deb
Hi all... So, the Linuxchix Alpha Site is up and (I think) ready for testing. It's currently living on the new server at one of my currently-unused other domains: http://www.osdi.org It will, of course, move to http://www.linuxchix.org when the alpha and beta testing stages are complete and I