[CLUE-Tech] Debian install on alpha.

[Dave Anselmi]

Sean LeBlanc wrote:

> Did you get any CD support working? Were you not able to boot
> from CD, BTW, or did you just go straight to booting from floppy first?

Well, the CD works in Linux.  I don't have any bootable CDs, so I didn't try
that.  Almost all my debian installs are boot from floppy, install off the net.

When you tried to boot from a CD, are you sure you had the right device?  Mine
seems to be SCSI ID 4, or dka4 from the SRM prompt.  SRM seems much less willing
to tell me what devices are what, but I haven't worked on it much.

You might also try checking the terminators on the SCSI bus.  There's one at the
end of the cable inside, and one on the SCSI connector on the back.  If that
doesn't help, and the CD works otherwise, thank the BSD folks for giving you a
bad image.

I notice that debian has boot floppies for generic, Jensen, and Nautilus types
of alphas.  FreeBSD only has one CD image.  Maybe that has something to do with
it.

Dave



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On Sat, 15 Dec 2001, Charlie Oriez wrote:

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> On Saturday 15 December 2001 11:11, you wrote:
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> > I've been using Vipul's Razor, it's a distributed spam filtering
> > program. It's got a pretty high success rate.
> >
> > It might be tricky to set up with Netscape if you pull mail off
> > your POP server with Netscape, but if you pull mail with
> > fetchmail/procmail it's very easy to set up. AFAIK procmail
> > shouldn't have any problems putting mail in Netscape mailboxes... I
> > think they're in standard mbox format. (Is that right? Been a while
> > since I messed with it.)
>
> procmail works on the server side, and doesn't care what your
> ultimate client is.  I've pulled post-procmail email using Eudora,
> Netscape, Yahoo, and kmail.

I think you may be confused about all the ways procmail is used.

It depends on how you set it up. It doesn't care what your client
is, but it does care what mailbox format you use. It also depends on
whether you're talking about setting up a /etc/procmailrc for all
users or .procmailrc for yourself.

I've used pine (mbox) and Sylpheed (MH) recently. They both use
very different mailbox formats. AFAIK Netscape uses the mbox format
as well.

Obviously, if you're stuck on a Windows box you don't use procmail
to filter directly into your mailbox.

What I'm doing is pulling mail from multiple accounts using fetchmail,
then filtering with procmail directly into a mailbox. Procmail cares
very much what type of mailbox the mail is going to be stored in
when it's acting as a filter prior to placing the mail in a mailbox
which is (obviously) what I'm talking about.

> procmail generally makes no changes to the mail format, though you do
> have the capability to insert a header to flag suspected spam.

I'm not talking about changes to the mail itself, I'm talking about
whether the mail is placed into an mbox-type format or MH format.

It's not limited to changing headers, either. You can simply /dev/null
SPAM or place it into a SPAM folder... procmail is *very* flexible.

Zonker
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