Ronin

What part has you confused? They said to install bittornado and then to go to suprnova.org to look for whatever you are wanting to download. Seems pretty straightforward. :)

That's all fine and dandy for you guys. You want to log on as root be our guests, My problem is that you're saying its ok as it's our system can give new users the mistaken idea that it's ok to do this. And it is, sort of, if you know what the heck you're doing if you dont it's a nice fast easy way to royally bugger up your system. And seeing as we're supposed to be a help forum we should at least try to set a good example for the new kids. And if you have to ask how to log on as root you're obviously not ready to do so and shouldn't be. Now that I may have started this squabble all over again, I swear that wasnt my intention it's coffee time.

Please dont do that. Its that painful red for a reason. It's a reminder that you're not supposed to be logged on as root, no need to do so. Any work that needs to be done as root can be done logged on as your users through a term.

Why don't you just dl it off the mandrake site, or do a network install for that matter? You do have a internet connection as you made it here. :P I've done it on dialup, it's not fun as doing it on broadband but it does work.

Did you do a menu update after adding that to the menu?

I gave up mucking about what used to be the recommended way to install Debian here and went and got the Sarge Beta 4 installer. It's not quite as easy on the head as Mandrakes but much easier then the normal archaic Debian installer.

Have you tried setting the mouse as /dev/input/mice? I run Debain testing and am using a cordless MS mouse and that's what mine is set at and works like a charm.

Is the ident daemon running? Never mind its windows machines it runs be default on those as I recall. Ok then is 113 forwarded back to the correct machine that you are ircing from? If you have to have ident running on the firewall try using fakeidentd perhaps? I believe I had to go with that one when I ran ident on my firewall.

Well thats helpful. Not.

This weekend I installed Knoppix 3.4 to my hardrive as a stepping stone to installing Debian. It all went smoothly, once that is, I figured out that it was no longer knx-hdinstall but knx2hd. I then edited the /etc/apt/sources.list so it was looking to sid mirrors. I then did apt-get clean and apt-get update, all without a problem. I then did apt-get dist-upgrade which is where it all fell apart on me. On doing the apt-get dist-upgrade I got the following: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these. The following packages have unmet dependencies: testdisk: Depends: libntfs5 (>= 1.9.0) but it is not installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f. I do apt-get -f install I get the following: Unpacking libntfs5 (from .../libntfs5_1.9.0-1_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libntfs5_1.9.0-1_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/libntfs.so.5.0.0', which is also in package ntfsprogs dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libntfs5_1.9.0-1_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Does anyone have an idea as to what I can do to fix this so I can do the dist-upgrade?

Normally updating to say sid from woody or sarge one changes the sources.list to sid and does: apt-get update apt-get upgrade apt-get dist-upgrade. If I install Knoppix 3.4 to the harddrive do I still do those commands or do I have to keep it up to date differently now?

Heh, here we go again. ;-) You could add yourself to I believe the wheel group which will give you more rights. But why not just run the correct and accepted way? You run your day to day use with your user account and when you need root access you open a term, type su, then the root password and anything opened from that term will be run as root.

It is about choice and options but there ares good choices and then there's risky ones. Logging on and even worse running as root is dangerous in my opinion. Just because an option exists or something can be done doesn't mean one should do it. edited by anon.

Yes there is but its highly not recommanded to do which is why its not an option. Log on as your user, open a terminal and type su -, then the root password when asked. Anything you then open or do from that terminal will be done as root. To edit files from the terminal you can use vi, nano, pico, joe. vi is installed by default the rest will have to be installed.

A simple way using apt-get would be to go to http://www.backports.org/ and go to installation. They have information on setting up your sources list to install the 2.6 kernel.

With the 'cdrecord' command. First, get your cd burner device address with 'cdrecord -scanbus'. The address is three numbers separated by commas, like 1,3,0. Once you have that, here's the command: cdrecord -vv dev=x,x,x speed=x filename.iso

Also from the original post: As this will be a dedicated server, I would like to use a dedicated server distro, so please don't post about the Uber-box, Coyote Linux or similar solutions. I'm looking for a built-for-the-kill free (or cheap) server solution with a good interface. Now if thats changed and he's looking for a dedicated firewall I'm back with my original suggestion then, IPcop. To misquote wimamp, it kicks that llamas @$$.

iphitus I earlier suggested IPcop or Smoothwall but upon reading SoulSes original post again I still think you and I are on the wrong track. They are looking for a combination firewall and server. Both the distros you and I suggested are dedicated barebones firewalls and using them for anything at else is at best a security risk. *cough* IPcops better *cough* :D

Have you checked out IPcop and its father Smoothwall? I prefer IPcop but they are both excellent firewalls. Opps, never mind neither of those will work for you. I just reread your post before hitting send and you want it to be a server also. The 2 I sugested are firewalls and firewalls only.

Thats what I did when I reinstalled recently. I also did the Mail directory just to be on the overly safe side but I'm sure it has nothing to do with Evolution. And also welcome to the windows free zone. It's more fun here.

Thats due to something on your part that your either not doing or not doing correctly. :) My dad does the exact setup as you with the exception of using BootMagic he goes with lilo. When he messes one or the other up trying out things he just takes his cd's out and reghosts the whole box. It boots up fine and he can choose either OS. Have you tried not using a 3rd party bootloader and using one of the native linux ones then ghosting the box and seeing what happens?

If you are a member they are easily accesable. I suspect that you're not so you're going to have to wait with the rest of us "freeloaders" for about a monthish for the official final real release.

Right port? Is the port open and forwared back from the router/firewall? Can you ssh locally? As in ssh 127.0.0.1 or ssh 127.0.0.1 -p port number?

Thank you Chris. I've been going nuts trying to do updates/installs since they screwed up the mirrors. Not to mention afraid to try anything to deep as there was no way to get packages, until now.

I suspect this could be the problem: /home/root/setiathome It's not normally /home/root/ but just /root if that makes sense this early morning.