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RE: [Wlug] WPI Install Fest
by Keller, Tim Sept. 27, 2001

Sept. 27, 2001

Andy, Like usual, I'll volunteer and I'll do the CD's for you. Just let me know what distribution you want and I'll come up with a graphic of some kind. Tim. -----Original Message----- From: Andy Stewart [mailto:andystewart@mediaone.net] Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 11:43 PM To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org Subject: [Wlug] WPI Install Fest Hi Everybody, We will be having an install fest at WPI on Thursday evening, October 4th, from 6 PM to 10 PM in "the Discovery Classroom", aka Higgins Labs room 218. I am mainly aiming this at WPI students, but certainly anybody else who wants to get Linux installed is most welcome to join us. I don't know if I've seen this classroom...could somebody from WPI tell me how many computers we could reasonably accomodate in this room? This is just in case we get overwhelmed with folks requesting installations. I am seeking volunteers to do installations as well as folks who wish to get Linux installed fo the first time. I'll give preference to full installs, but if there are some folks who need to have some piece of Linux configured, we can do that on a space available basis. As in the past, I would like to suggest a $10 donation for installees. This will help to defray the cost of making CDs which you can take with you after the install fest. If you have your own Linux CDs, we'll do our best to get that version installed for you. If you are interested in attending, either as an installer, installee, or voyeur, please send me an e-mail. Thanks! Andy -- Andy Stewart Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

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Thanks for your help
by Tim Trachimowicz Sept. 26, 2001

Sept. 26, 2001

Hey folks! After reading all those replies I took to crafting a message which answered the questions posed to me and went step-by-step through the processes I had done so far. After doing everything, lo-and-behold my NIC actually worked and I was able to get online with my DSL connection. I guess I must've mistyped something somewhere. So, it looks like it works ok now. The *only* snag is that after I rebooted the machine, my settings don't stay. Can anyone help me with that?!? Thanks! --Track _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

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RE: [Wlug] WPI Install Fest
by Keller, Tim Sept. 26, 2001

Sept. 26, 2001

Cool, I'll make a set of cd's with the latest mandrake patches on them, along with the latest redhat/Suse/Debian distributions. I'm also thinking that a set of CD's with: latest kernel: 2.4.10 Mozilla (0.9.4) Star office for linux [would like some input on what else should be put on here (like the latest Wolfenstein MP test :-)] Tim. -----Original Message----- From: Andy Stewart [mailto:andystewart@mediaone.net] Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 8:23 AM To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org Subject: Re: [Wlug] WPI Install Fest On Wednesday 26 September 2001 08:06 am, you wrote: > Andy, > > Like usual, I'll volunteer and I'll do the CD's for you. Cool..thanks Tim! > > Just let me know what distribution you want and I'll come up with a > graphic of some kind. OK...I'll let you know. Brian Conway is bringing 5 sets of Mandrake 8.0 CDs. I'll bring my SuSE CDs for sure. Is the latest Redhat any good? Andy > > Tim. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Andy Stewart [mailto:andystewart@mediaone.net] > Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 11:43 PM > To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > Subject: [Wlug] WPI Install Fest > > > > Hi Everybody, > > We will be having an install fest at WPI on Thursday evening, October > 4th, from 6 PM to 10 PM in "the Discovery Classroom", aka Higgins Labs > room 218. I am mainly aiming this at WPI students, but certainly > anybody else who wants to get Linux installed is most welcome to join > us. > > I don't know if I've seen this classroom...could somebody from WPI tell > me how many computers we could reasonably accomodate in this room? This > is just in case we get overwhelmed with folks requesting installations. > > I am seeking volunteers to do installations as well as folks who wish > to get Linux installed fo the first time. I'll give preference to full > installs, but if there are some folks who need to have some piece of > Linux configured, we can do that on a space available basis. > > As in the past, I would like to suggest a $10 donation for installees. > This will help to defray the cost of making CDs which you can take with > you after the install fest. If you have your own Linux CDs, we'll do > our best to get that version installed for you. > > If you are interested in attending, either as an installer, installee, > or voyeur, please send me an e-mail. > > Thanks! > > Andy -- Andy Stewart Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

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REMINDER: WLUG Group Project
by Andy Stewart Sept. 26, 2001

Sept. 26, 2001

HI gang, This is a reminder about the WLUG group project, where we will install Linux on 4 machines in Lancaster MA this coming Saturday, Sept. 29th. We'll be networking them together, connecting 2 printers and configuring them for access by all machines (including a Windows machine), configuring a modem for dial out, and if time allows, we'll configure a USB scanner. I currently have very few responses. We don't need an army of folks, but 3 - 5 more committed folks would probably do the trick. Please send me an e-mail if you definitely plan to attend. Later, Andy -- Andy Stewart Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org

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WLUG discount on Happy Hacking keyboard
by Andy Stewart Sept. 26, 2001

Sept. 26, 2001

Hi gang, I have no personal connection with this vendor, and I apologize in advance if you consider this spam. The folks at www.pfuca.com who make the Happy Hacking keyboard have extended a $20 discount to WLUG members who wish to purchase any one of their keyboard models. If we (as a group) purchase five, we can get one free (and then fight over it!!!). (Maybe I'll buy one for the raffle...). I am sick of the escape key being in the wrong place and am considering this purchase. If anybody else is interested, please let me know so I can coordinate the group order. Send me e-mail if you are interested in the details. Later, Andy -- Andy Stewart Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org

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NIC's, 486's and a whole lot of frustration.
by Tim Trachimowicz Sept. 25, 2001

Sept. 25, 2001

Hey folks... Ok, I have a beat up Compaq ProLinea 486/50MHz, 16MB RAM, 120MB hard drive, a D-Link 220 NIC and a spare IP addres from my DSL provider. I just installed a fresh Slackware 3.5 install of the "A" and "N" disks. My goal is to set it up as a webserver to host a few web pages I've been working on. Now, I've used Linux before, in my other computer using a Win98/RH6 dual boot system, so I've got a basic understanding of what's going on. However, I was using a modem to get online at that time and everything was all well and good for what I was doing. Now, I'm clueless about setting up this sh-tbox for what I want to do with it. Here are my questions: 1) Is it worth it/can it be done? (This would defintely affect the rest of the questions...) 2) How the hell do I set up my NIC for DSL? I have tried to setup my NIC per some FAQ's, O'Reilly's Running Linux (2nd Edition), Usenet posts and a lame HOWTO from my DSL provider. They all seem to advocate different steps which is confusing and doesn't seem to work.

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coyote linux floppy distro
by Benjamin Zack Sept. 24, 2001

Sept. 24, 2001

Another floppy distro one could use is Coyote Linux. It appears to have a more recent version of the kernel (2.2.19) than the versions of LRP I found(2.2.16). It is based on LRP and has easy install scripts that walk you through the disk creation. There is also a disk creation tool that will run on Windows. It might be worth checking out. FYI, both the Coyote and, I believe, LRP contain exploitable versions of ip_masq_irc, ip_masq_ftp, ip_masq_raudio. Links: http://www.dalantech.com/coyote-faq.shtml#vulnerable http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3117 -Ben

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one last (maling list) hurrah for USA
by Jeff Reed Sept. 20, 2001

Sept. 20, 2001

i would personally like to thank the JINX hackwear company for sincerely expressing exactly how i feel on their front page... check it out... http://www.jinxhackwear.com/ -- //-- Jeff Reed //-- Co-founder / Odd (Job) Guy //-- Metro West Boston Linux User Group //-- jreed(a)linuxbusca.com

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make bzdisk
by cc.noyes Sept. 17, 2001

Sept. 17, 2001

I downloaded the 2.4.9 kernel and built myself a new, up to date kernel, which works fine. I can run 'make bzdisk' and it dd's the kernel to the floppy. When I try to boot the floppy, I get loading ............................................... (lots of dots...) followed by these numbers; 0400 AX:0212 BX:7400 CX:5009 DX:0000 These repeat until I reboot with out the floppy. What's going on???? make bzdisk used to work, should I use another command to create a bootable floppy with the kernel? Thanks, Chuck

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startup scripts & pid
by Bill Mills-Curran Sept. 17, 2001

Sept. 17, 2001

I'm installing an ircd variant (ircd-hybrid-7) on a server at work. I didn't find an rpm for this newer version, so one of the people in my group built it. However, there is no startup script, so we'll have to cook one ourselves. I have a question about storing the pid in /var/run. Does one of the common functions in the functions script (/etc/rc.d/init.d/functions) handle storing the pid, or is that something that most daemons have built-in? I've found shell code for killing processes using the pid from /var/run, but nothing for storing the pid. Another question... Is there a decent template for writing our own script? I hate to reinvent the wheel. (I never seem to get it very round.) Any suggestions? Thanks, Bill

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