Hi
last year, i installed debian sarge with the debian 3 installer. the
installation was flawless. however i noticed that the CD ROM & the CD
burner did not have SCSI emulation enabled. how do i go about enabling the
SCSI emulation for both drives?

also, when it came to the part about setting up the EXIM mail server, i
chose not to do anything at the time, however since then, i found that i
need to set it up in order for KMail to work. i vaguely remember that there
was a command for dpkg to set it up, but i dont remember exactly what it
was.
any help is appreciated.

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On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 16:26:55 -0500, fatboy <ding@bat.com> wrote in
alt.os.linux.debian:

> Hi
> last year, i installed debian sarge with the debian 3 installer. the
> installation was flawless. however i noticed that the CD ROM & the CD
> burner did not have SCSI emulation enabled. how do i go about enabling the
> SCSI emulation for both drives?

Short answer: you probably don't need SCSI emulation if you're using a
2.6 kernel. If you haven't got a 2.6 kernel, apt-get...

> also, when it came to the part about setting up the EXIM mail server, i
> chose not to do anything at the time, however since then, i found that i
> need to set it up in order for KMail to work. i vaguely remember that ther
e
> was a command for dpkg to set it up, but i dont remember exactly what it
> was.
> any help is appreciated.

# dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config


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Peter J Ross wrote:


>
> Short answer: you probably don't need SCSI emulation if you're using a
> 2.6 kernel. If you haven't got a 2.6 kernel, apt-get...

i am running this on a older box with a AMD K6 processor @ 500mhz
it is currently running kernel 2.4.27
synaptic shows several 2.6.* kernels. which one should i use that wont break
the system.


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On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 16:26:55 -0500, fatboy wrote:

> Hi
> last year, i installed debian sarge with the debian 3 installer. the
> installation was flawless. however i noticed that the CD ROM & the CD
> burner did not have SCSI emulation enabled. how do i go about enabling the
> SCSI emulation for both drives?

It's been a while but.....

It seems like when I apt-get installed k3b, it asked if I wanted to set up
SCSI emulation and just did it for me.

There are many here that know more than I do. I hope they can tell me if
my memory is failing. ;-)

Steve

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fatboy wrote:


> also, when it came to the part about setting up the EXIM mail server, i
> chose not to do anything at the time, however since then, i found that i
> need to set it up in order for KMail to work. i vaguely remember that
> there was a command for dpkg to set it up, but i dont remember exactly
> what it was.
> any help is appreciated.
>

I use Kmail without EXIM and have done so for several years.  Why do you
need to set up EXIM?  Do you want to have a central post office for several
machines or just one machine with several users?  EXIM is one of the first
pacakage I remove after a fresh install as on our home network there is no
need for it.

kegwasher

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kegwasher wrote:

 
>
> I use Kmail without EXIM and have done so for several years.  Why do you
> need to set up EXIM?  Do you want to have a central post office for
> several
> machines or just one machine with several users?  EXIM is one of the first
> pacakage I remove after a fresh install as on our home network there is no
> need for it.
>
> kegwasher


i was under the impression from the installer that in order for me to be
able to have any email capabillity that i needed to have a MTA installed &
configured.
so....your saying that i can safely remove exim from my debian installation
without it affecting KMail & my isp's pop3 server.
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cultures which practice ethical cooperaton. Perhaps that's why it threatens
unethical business practices which feed on the unknowing."
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Vice president of the former IOSO,

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fatboy wrote:

>
> i was under the impression from the installer that in order for me to be
> able to have any email capabillity that i needed to have a MTA installed &
> configured.
> so....your saying that i can safely remove exim from my debian
> installation without it affecting KMail & my isp's pop3 server.


If you are connecting to the mail server at your ISP then no you do not need
to have a local MTA installed.  Just go into Kmails setup and set your
ISP's data into the receive and send tabs and all should work.

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On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 20:24:11 -0500, fatboy <ding@bat.com> wrote in
alt.os.linux.debian:

> Peter J Ross wrote:
> 
>
> i am running this on a older box with a AMD K6 processor @ 500mhz
> it is currently running kernel 2.4.27
> synaptic shows several 2.6.* kernels. which one should i use that wont bre
ak
> the system.

kernel-image-2.6.8-2-386 or -686 ought to work. There is no longer a
separate k6 binary for the 2.6 kernel.

If your new kernel is unsatisfactory, you'll be able to reboot with
your old kernel as long as you haven't removed it. I suggest checking
your LILO/GRUB configuration before rebooting just to make sure that
it will be available.

/etc/lilo.conf
or
/boot/grub/menu.lst

If you're feeling adventurous, you can always try compiling an
optimised kernel from source.

Some CD/DVD software (e.g. X-CDRoast) will still warn you about the
lack of SCSI emulation even with a 2.6 kernel, but this warning can
safely be ignored.

PJR :-)
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