Re: need sd card backup on r-pi-3b

2017-09-23 Thread Jonathan Wilson
On Fri, 2017-09-22 at 22:07 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings; > > Trying to dd a copy of the micro-sd card the pi-3b is booting from, to > another micro-sd card in a usb reader/writer, and winding up with > nothing but an empty lost+found directory on it. > > Obviously some sort of a synt

Re: missed keystrokes problem, back with a vengeance.

2017-01-30 Thread Jonathan Wilson
On Sun, 2017-01-29 at 13:10 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 29 January 2017 12:16:52 Jonathan Wilson wrote: > > > On Sun, 2017-01-29 at 08:47 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > Greetings everybody; > > > > > > I am in the process of bringing a nearly

Re: missed keystrokes problem, back with a vengeance.

2017-01-29 Thread Jonathan Wilson
On Sun, 2017-01-29 at 08:47 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings everybody; > > I am in the process of bringing a nearly 70 yo Sheldon lathe back to > life, useing an raspberry-pi 3b for the machine controller. > > However, I have now had 5 different keyboards plugged into it, some > wired, s

Re: Think i've killed my usb flash partitions

2012-09-03 Thread Jonathan Wilson
On Sun, 2012-09-02 at 17:39 +0100, Brian Platt wrote: > Debian was running fine on my nslu2 until I added noatime to my fstab and > rebooted and now it doesn't boot. > > when I inserted the usb flash into another linux machine I get > > Sep 2 17:21:07 homebox kernel: [ 2676.694615] sde: unkno

Re: armhf port, repo and simple image available

2010-08-14 Thread Jonathan Wilson
Hi Konstantinos Margaritis, Excellent news on your set up of a hard float variant. The following is a stream of thought set of questions/observations. I was wondering, do you have any documentation on what you did to create the variant? As in, create the directory structure... create-cross too

Re: Very newbe help/pointers required about building a distribution from scratch

2010-03-15 Thread Jonathan Wilson
On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 21:52 +, Neil Williams wrote: > > http://www.emdebian.org/grip/ > > Why rebuild? What changes are you making to the packages? (Answers to > questions like this should go to the debian-embed...@lists.debian.org > mailing list, not debian-devel.) > > (IMHO - and possibly

Re: Very newbe help/pointers required about building a distribution from scratch

2010-03-15 Thread Jonathan Wilson
Hopefully I have the right To addresses (debian-arm and debian-embedded) as this is the first time I've replied to an email list. On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 14:10 +0100, Hector Oron wrote: > (Add debian-embedded@ as Neil was suggesting) > > Hello, > > 2010/3/10 Jonathan Wilson :

Very newbe help/pointers required about building a distribution from scratch

2010-03-10 Thread Jonathan Wilson
Ok I'm quite a newbe to both Linux and "PC" development, however I know what I want to do but don't know where to start! What I'd like to know is how do I build a distribution entirely from scratch/source like the pro's do. ie. Get all the debian source for the latest arm port (just the source) a