Archive for February 27th, 2003

Recycled Spam

Thursday, February 27th, 2003

A person, unknown to me, by the name of “Lucas Ambe”
, sent this recycled spam to me and 44
unknown people. Interestingly most of those those other 44 folks are
from non-US domains — 

To: (removed)@worldpath.net, (removed)@aq.org,
(removed)@debisschop.net, (removed)@lycos-inc.com,
(removed)@wless-rikerud.moneybin.net, (removed)@predawnia.org,
(removed)@free.fr, (removed)@udel.edu,
(removed)@klaralvdalens-datakonsult.se, postmaster@futureware.at,
(removed)@survival.pnet.pl, (removed)@atosorigin.com,
(removed)@rmki.kfki.hu, (removed)@waldherr.org, (removed)@eink.com,
(removed)@wardr23.fsnet.co.uk, (removed)@uol.com.br,
(removed)@eng.uts.edu.au, (removed)@libero.it,
(removed)@suite3220.com, (removed)@yahoo.com,
(removed)@pluto.linux.it, (removed)@yahoo.com, (removed)@pe.net,
(removed)@pobox.com, (removed)@struyve.be, (removed)@wakkanet.fi,
(removed)@fzu.cz, (removed)@mac.com, (removed)@sh.cvut.cz,
(removed)@pama.cz, (removed)@kempler.net, (removed)@io.com,
(removed)@zeus.usm.edu.ec, marc@nozell.com,
(removed)@iro.umontreal.ca, (removed)@eclipt.uni-klu.ac.at,
(removed)@scdi.com, (removed)@ces.clemson.edu, (removed)@gmx.de,
(removed)@wspse.de, (removed)@wibblific.fsnet.co.uk,
(removed)@imsb.au.dk, (removed)@libero.it,
(removed)@users.sourceforge.net

[... many forwarded headers missing ...]

Subject: Re: if u delete this u hav no heart!

In a message dated 01/06/2003 9:30:27 PM Eastern Standard Time,
LOVEABLE31011 writes:

Hello, My name is Krista Marie and I have anew born baby named Natalie. She
means the world to me, and just resently, the doctors have discovered that
my little Natalie has Brain Cancer. Unfortunatly my husband and I don't have
the money to pay for the bill. But my husband and I have worked out a deal
with AOL and they have agreed to give us 5cents to each person that recived
this e-mail. So please, forward this to everyone you know, and help out my
little Natalie and I.

-Krista Marie

This is the second christian (eagleforchrist) related spam I’ve gotten
recently. I hope this isn’t a trend.

The first was another stranger, “Jim and Chris” ,
sending me this: 

There will be a World Day of Prayer, on 3 March 2003 at 3:03 P.M.  A prayer bad
ly needed to heal this world and bring peace.
Pray you will be able to join everyone.

God Bless You

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Blosxom 2.0 beta *3*

Thursday, February 27th, 2003

Boy, Rael is really crankin’ out the releases — href="http://www.raelity.org/apps/blosxom/download.shtml">blosxom 2.0
beta 3 is out and you’re using it right now.

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Installing Debian while a running Red Hat 8.0 system

Thursday, February 27th, 2003

I’ve been running a triple bootable Compaq Armada M700 laptop –
Microsoft Windows 2000, Red Hat 8.0 and Debian. On the internal disk
is W2k and RH8 a long with my /home partition. A second disk in the
multibay slot had Debian/sarge on it. I recently replaced the second
disk with a new 20G drive and thought it would be simpler to reinstall
debian on the new disk rather than try to restore it from the previous
disk. Here are my step by step instructions on on how I installed
Debian on the second drive while running Red Hat.

I’m also going to try to note all the packages/configurations needed for this d
ebian laptop which other people may find useful.

  • The first thing to do is read the instructions from “chroot
    Debian Install From A Booted System mini-HOWTO”
  • Partition disk as to create a 4G partition (/dev/hdb1) and a 512M
    swap disk (/dev/hdb2), the rest will be carved up later.
    •  mkfs.ext3 /dev/hdb1
 mkswap /dev/hdb2
  • Create a directory for the new partition and then mount it, 
      mkdir /debian-root
  mount -t ext3 /dev/hdb1 /debian-root/
  • Grab the debian potato base 
    
http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/base2_

2.tgz
  • Unpack into a free partition 
     cd /debian-root
 tar zxvf ~/base2_2.tgz
  • chroot into the environment: 
       chroot /debian-root bin/bash
  • create a reasonable fstab for the new partition

    The debian root will be on my 2nd disk. There is also a swap disk
    on the 2nd disk as well as the first (currently used by Red Hat,
    more on that later)

      #
  #     
        

  /dev/hdb1       /           ext3     defaults                       0 0
  /dev/hdb2       none        swap    sw                              0 0
  proc        /proc       proc    defaults                        0 0

    • /proc

  • Set timezone (the dpkg-reconfigure console-data didn’t work for me.) 
       tzconfig
  • (re)configure the debian base

    Copy what in Red Hat’s /etc/resolv.conf into the chroot’ed /etc/resolv.conf

      search americas.cpqcorp.net
  nameserver 16.103.131.242

    Set any proxies if you need them.

    
  export -p http_proxy=http://proxy.compaq.com:8080
  export -p no_proxy=.hp.com

    Consider editing /etc/apt/sources.list if you have a local debian
    mirror that carries ‘potato’

      dpkg-reconfigure base-config

    At this point it will download a bunch of files from the debian mirror
    site.

    I get this error:

    /var/lib/dpkg/info/base-config.postinst: /usr/share/base-config/stage4: No su
    ch
    file or directory

    One thing this doesn’t do is remove /sbin/unconfigured.sh

  • Edit /etc/network/interfaces 
    auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
  • /etc/hostname put some one word in that file for your hostname, in my case
    elephanttalk

  • While at ‘stable’:

        $ apt-get update
    $ apt-get dist-upgrade
  • Edit /etc/apt/sources.list to use ‘sarge’ instead and upgrade to
    sarge…

    
    $ apt-get update
    $ apt-get dist-upgrade

    $ dpkg-reconfigure -a     # just for good measure
  • Install a kernel and bunch of useful tools… 
    $ apt-get install kernel-headers-2.4.20-686 kernel-image-2.4.20-686 aptitude ss
h emacs21

    NOTE: Say no to any lilo configuration. I used grub which is on the
    MBR of the first disk.

  • removed /sbin/unconfigured.sh 
    
 auto lo
 iface lo inet loopback

 auto eth0
 iface eth0 inet dhcp
  • In /etc/grub.conf of the redhat 8.0 system, add this: 
    title Debian/sarge (2.4.20)
        root (hd1,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz ro vga=0f07 root=/dev/hdb1
        initrd /initrd.img

  • reboot
  • to get the network up, I needed to manually type ‘insmod e100′ and then ‘
    ifup eth0′.

  • use tasksel and pick X window system, laptop system and install a
    bunch of stuff.

  • Use dselect and add kdebase. This will require a bunch of other
    packages, add enough that kdebase can be installed.

  • I like the look of kde’s login manager better than xdm, apt-get
    install kdm.

  • apt-get these essential apps: rsync, kernel-pcmcia-2.4.20-686
  • getting networking (wired & wireless) going:

    Add to /etc/modules

         e100               # for builtin 10/100
     yenta_socket       #   pcmcia for Compaq Armada M700

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