This article was first written in October 2004 for the BeezNest technical website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/180).Starting from Debian Sarge, the Samba version which ship with Debian is 3.0.x.
This article was first written in July 2004 for the BeezNest technical website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/142).To use Bonding Ethernet for High-Availability (fail-over) on Debian (Woody, Sarge or Sid with a 2.4.x kernel) you need to:
This article was first written in April 2004 for the BeezNest technical website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/117)This article reports the successful use of a Trust 750 LCD FamilyC@m digital camera under Linux Debian Sarge. The FC 750 got to work pretty easily. It uses USB Mass Storage and stores its pictures in jpeg format. To use it, first install hotplug (apt-get install hotplug). Then start it. I didn't find a way to start it manually (but didn't look for long) so I know rebooting the system did work for me.
This article was first written in February 2004 for the BeezNest technical website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/109)It seems I've been pretty lucky to upgrade without any major problems, but hey! If I was, why wouldn't you… Before starting the upgrade, please note that it could need up to around 1GB (depending on the packages you already have installed) hard disk space to store the packages and then install them.
This article is now deprecated (initially written in 2003) but we are re-publicising just in case it would be useful to someone...Think about a root password and another user (with password). Gather all the network configuration elements you will use for that machine. We will need at least to connect to SSH on this machine, so be prepared to open port 22 on a public IP address on the firewall.