richcornucopia Posted January 30, 2006 CID Share Posted January 30, 2006 well just fired up my athlon and nothing was showing up on my monitor, went over to restart it and started smelling something. Sure enough it toasted my ram so until I gotta get some more, too bad I just spent most of my money on my upgrade. Edit: I just tried it with the ram im using in this computer and it still didnt work. Do you think I could've fried the motherboard too? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark_Matter Posted January 30, 2006 CID Share Posted January 30, 2006 What fried your ram? There is no way linux fried your ram. Memory doesn't care what os you use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richcornucopia Posted January 30, 2006 CID Share Posted January 30, 2006 I just turned it on and nothing was showing up, it didnt post or anything and it started smelling like fried electronics, i turned it off and my ram was super hot. So I took it out and one of the gold pin things on is all black. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
php Posted January 30, 2006 Author CID Share Posted January 30, 2006 That sucks about your ram... I had that happen to a PCI card once... I ended up using the Bonzai distro, mainly because it's only a 180MB download (also virtually the same as Debian) I'm getting it set up at the moment... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richcornucopia Posted January 30, 2006 CID Share Posted January 30, 2006 I think it might be the whole mobo now cause I tried other ram in it and still couldnt get it to work and the fried ram doesnt work in my other pc. So I guess I lost the motherboard and ram . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark_Matter Posted January 30, 2006 CID Share Posted January 30, 2006 I ran some of the most demanding linux distro's off off 233 mhz machines with 96 megs of ram or less, and though it was sluggish at times never had any real issues. Although my dedicated boxes at serverpronto which both run debian their stats are as follows. Dual AMD Opteron 240 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richcornucopia Posted January 30, 2006 CID Share Posted January 30, 2006 Sounds expensive . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark_Matter Posted January 30, 2006 CID Share Posted January 30, 2006 For both of them it's $500.00 a month. For just one it's $249.95 a month. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richcornucopia Posted January 30, 2006 CID Share Posted January 30, 2006 Wow what are you hosting that you need a package like that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark_Matter Posted January 30, 2006 CID Share Posted January 30, 2006 Well i filled one of them up with customers after just about 2 months getting into the hosting business so with the customers i have on one box it almost pays for itself the other box is for my own personal use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richcornucopia Posted January 30, 2006 CID Share Posted January 30, 2006 Oh got it, your reselling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark_Matter Posted January 30, 2006 CID Share Posted January 30, 2006 My website i actually took down because i don't have any more room to host more people without causing a slow down to existing customers. The site says Under Construction, but that's not the real story real story is no more space. (LOL) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richcornucopia Posted January 31, 2006 CID Share Posted January 31, 2006 So I setup another computer for my server use. A pentium 4 3ghz underclock to 2.1 and 512 of ram, when I try to install debian I get a boot error. It trys to boot from the cd but boot failed just pops up. Anybody else had problems like this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark_Matter Posted January 31, 2006 CID Share Posted January 31, 2006 Last time i heard of this it had something to do with BIOS, i'll start thumbing the debian documentation for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richcornucopia Posted February 1, 2006 CID Share Posted February 1, 2006 Thats allright, I just downloaded and successfully installed ubuntu which I guess is pretty close to debian. Now Im gonna try and install samba. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark_Matter Posted February 1, 2006 CID Share Posted February 1, 2006 Ubuntu is another good choice you will like it also. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richcornucopia Posted February 1, 2006 CID Share Posted February 1, 2006 Should samba be pretty easy to install? Once the download finishes what should I do first to install it? Im such a noob at linux. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark_Matter Posted February 1, 2006 CID Share Posted February 1, 2006 from the command line type apt-get install samba if i remember correctly ubuntu also uses the apt system in the same way as debian. Once samba is installed just type man samba to get more details and instructions learn to love the man command short for manual you will use it often starting out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark_Matter Posted February 1, 2006 CID Share Posted February 1, 2006 There are many GNU/Linux distributions (e.g., Fedora, SuSE, Debian, Mandriva, Gentoo), but Ubuntu distinguishes itself with clarity of focus, simplicity of installation and use, and a development approach that is both transparent and welcoming. By default, Ubuntu includes a core selection of the best desktop software for typical desktop users. Almost everything else, the entire free software universe of applications, is available over the Internet for easy installation directly onto this basic desktop environment. Our package management uses the powerful "APT" package management system, which allows easy installation and clean removal of programs, as well as automatic download of any extra packages required. Ubuntu's core list of officially supported software packages is reduced to only the important applications. This allows for greater quality control. For advanced users, the "Universe" and "Multiverse" archives provide instant access to more applications that are maintained and supported by the Ubuntu community. By focusing on quality, Ubuntu produces a robust and feature rich computing environment that is flexible for use in home and commercial environments. The project has more time to spend on the finer details and is able to release a version featuring the latest and greatest versions of the most popular free software every six months. Ubuntu supports the PC (Intel Pentium, AMD Athlon, and IBM-compatible PCs), 64-bit PC (AMD64, Athlon64, Opteron, EM64T Intel Xeon) and PowerPC (Apple iBook, Powerbook, G3, G4 and G5) architectures. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark_Matter Posted February 1, 2006 CID Share Posted February 1, 2006 richcornucopia is everything going ok? Let us know how things are going, and if you got things running properly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richcornucopia Posted February 2, 2006 CID Share Posted February 2, 2006 Well I have ubuntu up and running and must say I really like, linux has gotten alot better since last when tried it out. Im trying to use apt to install samba but im not sure if I am doing it right. I tried opening it and searching for samba but it doesnt seem to come up, the closest thing I saw was smb4k, is this what I want to install for the fileserver? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
php Posted February 2, 2006 Author CID Share Posted February 2, 2006 use (in the Konsole) apt-get install samba and probably apt-get install swat (web admin for samba... not necessary, but handy) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richcornucopia Posted February 2, 2006 CID Share Posted February 2, 2006 E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (13 Permission denied) E: Unable to lock the list directory ??? Maybe I need to logon to a different username? What is the default password for the root account on ubuntu? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richcornucopia Posted February 2, 2006 CID Share Posted February 2, 2006 Allright, while in the terminal I used sudo -s to get to root and it says samba is already the newest so it didnt update. How do I open samba up now to configure it? Or are there only commands that I can use? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
php Posted February 2, 2006 Author CID Share Posted February 2, 2006 try and see if samba is started... /etc/init.d/samba start the samba config file might be in /etc/samba/smb.conf (the name is smb.conf at any rate) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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