Re: The curious case of openjdk-6-jre-headless_6b24-1.11.1-3_amd64.deb in d7.01alpha

2012-05-16 Thread shirish शिरीष
at bottom :- On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On 16.05.2012 04:06, shirish शिरीष wrote: >> >> On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 1:19 AM, Adam D. Barratt >> wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, 2012-05-16 at 00:30 +0530, shirish शिरीष wrote: On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 11:55 PM, shirish श

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-16 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Bjørn Mork writes: > No, you don't. On a default Debian system you need to be a member of > the "floppy" group. From /lib/udev/rules.d/91-permissions.rules : Yeah but you are not a member of that group by default surely? > You mean that they allow you to burn a CD but not write to a USB > stic

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-16 Thread Bjørn Mork
Timo Juhani Lindfors writes: > Wookey writes: >> And the USB-stick process is not as simple as it might be because you >> have to find the HD-media files and then _also_ find an iso image to >> put on. It's no wonder newbs are still downloading CD/DVD images. > > You also need to have root acces

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-16 Thread Bjørn Mork
Timo Juhani Lindfors writes: > Bjørn Mork writes: >> No, you don't. On a default Debian system you need to be a member of >> the "floppy" group. From /lib/udev/rules.d/91-permissions.rules : > > Yeah but you are not a member of that group by default surely? No, that decision should be left to

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-16 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 05/16/2012 06:10 AM, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > Bjørn Mork writes: >> No, you don't. On a default Debian system you need to be a member of >> the "floppy" group. From /lib/udev/rules.d/91-permissions.rules : > > Yeah but you are not a member of that group by default surely? $ debconf-sho

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-16 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 16 May 2012 07:53:55 -0300 Ben Armstrong wrote: > On 05/16/2012 06:10 AM, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > > Bjørn Mork writes: > >> No, you don't. On a default Debian system you need to be a member of > >> the "floppy" group. From /lib/udev/rules.d/91-permissions.rules : > > > > Yeah bu

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-16 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Bjørn Mork writes: > I fail to see how burning to a local user's CD is any better, but yes, > if that is a consideration then they need some system to tie the rights > to console access. I believe ConsoleKit and the replacement > systemd-loginctl attempts to solve such problems. Yes, I believe u

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 09:00:29PM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: >[Steve McIntyre] >> The major win with dd onto a raw device is that you can specify the >> block size. For most USB sticks, using a block size of 4MB or so is >> going to be *much* faster than using the default for dd (512 bytes) >>

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-16 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Bjørn Mork wrote: > On a default Debian system you need to be a member of > the "floppy" group. Ferenc Wagner wrote: > What about recommending /dev/disk/by-id/usb-X instead? I understand that the instructions about creating a Debian installation medium shall be usable on as many systems as

Re: What installer images should we provide for s390 and s390x?

2012-05-16 Thread Philipp Kern
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 02:20:08PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > We had a brief discussion back in April about s390/s390x CD images, > but I'm still not clear on what people would like me to do here. > > At the moment, on all other arches we currently create: > > * small CDs (businesscard and n

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-16 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Steve McIntyre] > You're not measuring the time taken to sync to the flash drive > either, so all you're going to be seeing is the speed of writing to > cache. Huh, I figured the 'sync' call at the end of each test run covered that. > I've done lots of work with USB flash and MMC/SD cards over