On Friday 25 December 2009 20:22:12 Kwaku Obeng wrote:
> I have been trying to download the DVD packs so I
> can practice the tutorials on the site but always end up with a corrupt
> copy which I am unable to boot from
Are you burning them correctly? Incorrect burning is the most usual reason
fo
Kwaku Obeng :
>
> My name is Kwaku Obeng and a Ghanaian by birth. I read about Debian a few
> months ago on website and I have been trying to download the DVD packs so I
> can practice the tutorials on the site but always end up with a corrupt copy
> which I am unable to boot from. I therefore
On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 12:04 AM, Brad Rogers wrote:
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> On Thu, 24 Dec 2009 18:32:08 +0100
> Merciadri Luca wrote:
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> Hello Merciadri,
>
>> copied in /destination/. Using cp -i is not a good idea, as there
>> could be something like ~5000 file
On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Girish Kulkarni wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I want to access files on my mobile phone (Nokia 2323) via Bluetooth
> from my laptop (Dell Inspiron 640m) that runs Lenny. The Bluetooth
> Applet on my GNOME desktop gives me this error message:
>
> Couldn't display "obex:/
Hello. I have a case when the client software only speaks non-SSL
protocol and wants to access a server that only offer SSL protocol.
Image a case when a sensitive server admin only offer IMAPS access to
the emails where the email software can only talk plain IMAP, a frequent
case in mobile phone I
On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 05:19:13PM EST, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> Is it possible to tell Grub2 to use the UUID of the partition
> /boot/grub resides instead of its default (hd0,1) notation? The reason
> I ask is that I am using a custom kernel that treats all drives as sda,
> but Debian's Grub2 pukes
Hi,
I have not investigated all the postings ...
On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 11:20:49PM +0100, Merciadri Luca wrote:
> I re-tried exactly the same thing, but with the same contents on both
> HDDs (proved with a diff). I had to use
>
> # cp --recursive --update .[a-zA-Z0-9]* /mnt/mymnttosdc5
The ro
Paul Cartwright put forth on 12/25/2009 6:56 PM:
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18548960 2009-12-25 05:58
> linux-image-2.6.31.9_custom.1.0_i386.deb
18MB? Yikes! Am I reading that correctly? My latest custom kernel is:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root src 1.5M Dec 8 13:29
linux-image-2.6.31.1_custom.greer.sa
Klistvud put forth on 12/25/2009 2:59 PM:
> Dne, 25. 12. 2009 20:29:39 je Hartwig Atrops napisal(a):
>> Hi.
>>
>> Why don't you mount the new disk on /home/merciadriluca/ ?
>>
>
> I second that. To elaborate a little: it's quite common to copy the
> entire contents of your current /home to a new
Hello List,
Celejar wrote:
On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 21:55:35 +0800
Jerome BENOIT wrote:
Hello List,
I have just migrated from Lenny to Squeeze on my MacBook, so from Bluez 3.x to
Bluez 4.x:
I can no more use my wireless MightyMouse, and so far I cannot figure out how
to get it back.
Any hint i
On Fri December 25 2009, Celejar wrote:
> > How about: build a kernel with everything as modules, boot it, look at
> > the output of lsmod, then build a kernel with (at least) those modules?
>
> Probably a good idea, but note that connecting kernel module names with
> the relevant kernel config opt
On Fri December 25 2009, Celejar wrote:
> Absolutely. I'm just warning you to be prepared for a lot of very
> frustrating "why can't the kernel find my root filesystem?" and "why
> has this piece of HW / SW suddenly stopped working".
right.. I get it..
>
> One thing I'd recommend, although I've
On Fri December 25 2009, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> You've just passed the first milestone, and seem to be continuing down the
> right path in your kernel building journey. :)
after editing that file, and doing the steps, I now have my first custom
kernel:
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Sorry. This:
sda is the disk that boots and is the disk with the / filesystem on it. And the
/home dir, and your current home directory /mnt/merciadriluca.
should say "your current home directory /home/merciadriluca"
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On Dec 25, 2009, at 3:20 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote:
> I re-tried exactly the same thing, but with the same contents on both
> HDDs (proved with a diff). I had to use
>
> # cp --recursive --update .[a-zA-Z0-9]* /mnt/mymnttosdc5
I believe this would copy all files beginning with a '.', followed b
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Glenn English writes:
> I always just say 'cp -a .* ' in addition to what you
> already did to copy (recursively) everything beginning with a period. If
> there are switches to do this, I've missed them in my reading of the man page.
Hope you will
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I re-tried exactly the same thing, but with the same contents on both
HDDs (proved with a diff). I had to use
# cp --recursive --update .[a-zA-Z0-9]* /mnt/mymnttosdc5
as there were already many files in /dev/sdc5 (obviously mounted in
/mnt/mymnttosd
On Dec 25, 2009, at 2:40 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote:
> You were right. I just made a diff, and folders beginning with a dot
> were not copied. I was simply using
> $ cp --recursive --update *.* [...] [...]
>
> What would be these appropriate switches to achieve this?
I always just say 'cp -a .*
Is it possible to tell Grub2 to use the UUID of the partition
/boot/grub resides instead of its default (hd0,1) notation? The reason
I ask is that I am using a custom kernel that treats all drives as sda,
but Debian's Grub2 pukes on it. Specifically, installing and updating
Grub results in "/dev/
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Bill Merriam writes:
> Your preferences may be in "hidden" directories, directories whose name
> starts with a period. ls -a will show them. Did the method you used to
> copy your home directory contents copy everything? cp *.* will not copy
> every
On 12/25/2009 03:54 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote:
> Thanks for all your answers. I tested the no-symlinks-are-used option,
> by merely mounting my new HDD into /home/merciadriluca/. It worked,
> but not as much as I wanted. After being logged, my
> /home/merciadriluca/'s content was the content of the
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Bill Merriam writes:
> Kudos for the use of Latin in a question, especially Latin used in
> philosophy. Linux is very big on the use of abstraction, and separates
> the concepts of disks, file systems, and directories. Unlike Windows
> they are n
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Thanks for all your answers. I tested the no-symlinks-are-used option,
by merely mounting my new HDD into /home/merciadriluca/. It worked,
but not as much as I wanted. After being logged, my
/home/merciadriluca/'s content was the content of the new HDD
Hi.
> Concerning the first answer: let's say that I copy everything from
> /home/merciadriluca/ on the new HDD. If I mount the new HDD on
> /home/merciadriluca/, will the (previous) content of
> /home/merciadriluca/ be overwritten?
No, nothing will be erased. Umount your new disk - the old data w
On Friday 25 December 2009 02:48 pm, Merciadri Luca wrote:
> Thanks for the two answers. They are both really nice. The first
> appears to be even `cleaner.' I thought my session would never boot if
> my folder was `nowhere.'
>
> Concerning the first answer: let's say that I copy everything from
>
Hi folks,
My name is Kwaku Obeng and a Ghanaian by birth. I read about Debian a few
months ago on website and I have been trying to download the DVD packs so I
can practice the tutorials on the site but always end up with a corrupt copy
which I am unable to boot from. I therefore wish to make an a
On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 10:35:59 -0500
Tony Nelson wrote:
> On 09-12-25 09:04:42, Celejar wrote:
> > On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 05:07:55 -0500
> ...
> > > this is the "learning" part.. knowing what you need, what you MIGHT
> > > need, and what you don't have to have to make it work..
> >
> > Absolutely.
On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 21:55:35 +0800
Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> Hello List,
>
> I have just migrated from Lenny to Squeeze on my MacBook, so from Bluez 3.x
> to Bluez 4.x:
> I can no more use my wireless MightyMouse, and so far I cannot figure out how
> to get it back.
>
> Any hint is welcome.
htt
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Thanks for the two answers. They are both really nice. The first
appears to be even `cleaner.' I thought my session would never boot if
my folder was `nowhere.'
Concerning the first answer: let's say that I copy everything from
/home/merciadriluca/ on
On 12/25/2009 11:49 AM, Merciadri Luca wrote:
> Hi,
>
> After some data manipulation, I now have a free ext3 disk. My aim is
> to put the entire content of my /home/merciadriluca/ in it, at the
> place of on the HDD where /etc/, /sys/, and other stuff resides.
>
> The problem is that I have a lot o
Dne, 25. 12. 2009 20:29:39 je Hartwig Atrops napisal(a):
Hi.
Why don't you mount the new disk on /home/merciadriluca/ ?
I second that. To elaborate a little: it's quite common to copy the
entire contents of your current /home to a new disk or partition, and
then modify your fstab so as t
Hi.
Why don't you mount the new disk on /home/merciadriluca/ ?
Did I miss something?
Hartwig
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On Friday 25 December 2009 11:49 am, Merciadri Luca wrote:
> Hi,
>
> After some data manipulation, I now have a free ext3 disk. My aim is
> to put the entire content of my /home/merciadriluca/ in it, at the
> place of on the HDD where /etc/, /sys/, and other stuff resides.
>
> The problem is that I
Thank You for Your time and answer, (sorry for long reply) Boyd:
>Depends on how you got the package. There is a "chain of trust" between
>your apt keyring and the package contents. The Release and Packages files
>have detached signatures, which APT verifies to ensure they are trusted and
>no
Hi, Sven.
On Friday, 25 December 2009 09:53:53 +0100,
Sven Joachim wrote:
> > Sorry to send this message twice, but I thought that for some reason
> > it had not arrived at the list. Although it seems that both messages
> > arrived with a delay of six hours. This can be due to some
> > moderation
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Hi,
After some data manipulation, I now have a free ext3 disk. My aim is
to put the entire content of my /home/merciadriluca/ in it, at the
place of on the HDD where /etc/, /sys/, and other stuff resides.
The problem is that I have a lot of apps and
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Hi.
I am using Debian Lenny, w. kernel 2.26-2-686-bigmem.
I have a MGE UPS ProtectionCenter 675. It works under Windows XP, and
physically works.
It has a USB which is linked with this computer. The first problem is:
# lsusb
Bus 008 Device 002: ID 1
Thanks to Everyone, I was able to install the lame package right after
upgrading my sources.list with the multimedia repository.
Alan Ianson wrote:
On 24/12/09 11:19:12 AM, Bernard wrote:
Hi to Everyone,
On my older Sarge system, I used 'lame' to encode wav files to mp3.
However I can't f
On 09-12-25 09:04:42, Celejar wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 05:07:55 -0500
...
> > this is the "learning" part.. knowing what you need, what you MIGHT
> > need, and what you don't have to have to make it work..
>
> Absolutely. I'm just warning you to be prepared for a lot of very
> frustrating "w
Hello List,
I have just migrated from Lenny to Squeeze on my MacBook, so from Bluez 3.x to
Bluez 4.x:
I can no more use my wireless MightyMouse, and so far I cannot figure out how
to get it back.
Any hint is welcome.
Thanks in advance,
Jerome
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On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 05:07:55 -0500
Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Thu December 24 2009, Celejar wrote:
> > > relating to doing so. When compiling one's first custom kernel one
> > > should start with _ONLY_ the functionality one needs. Then build things
> > > up from there as you need more abiliti
--- On Fri, 12/25/09, Girish Kulkarni wrote:
> From: Girish Kulkarni
> Subject: Re: Copying only files that are not into the destination
> To: "Debian-user"
> Date: Friday, December 25, 2009, 5:41 AM
> On Thu, 24 Dec 2009, Brad Rogers
> wrote:
> >> copied in /destination/. Using cp -i is not a
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 11:12:16PM -0500, vr wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:19:53 -0500, Pobega wrote:
>
> > Is there any reason why you can't do this with the standard installer?
> > Seems like it would be pretty simple to do in partman.
>
> That's what I've been trying but after I reboot the i
On Fri, 25 Dec 2009, Bret Busby wrote:
Hello.
In upgrading my Debian 5 system on this computer, the upgrade (using
Synaptic) hung, so I went to a console session and used shutdown -r now, as
the GUI was no longer usable, and Debian 5 was thus broken.
After several hours of repairs, the sys
Hello.
In upgrading my Debian 5 system on this computer, the upgrade (using
Synaptic) hung, so I went to a console session and used shutdown -r now,
as the GUI was no longer usable, and Debian 5 was thus broken.
After several hours of repairs, the system was again bootable, with
gnome having
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 09:26:24PM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote:
> Things have changed in the area of text-mode console fonts between
> Lenny and Squeeze. And I'm not happy about it.
http://www.debian.org/intro/help.en.html
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Paul Cartwright put forth on 12/25/2009 4:07 AM:
> this is the "learning" part.. knowing what you need, what you MIGHT need, and
> what you don't have to have to make it work..
You've just passed the first milestone, and seem to be continuing down the right
path in your kernel building journey.
On Thu December 24 2009, Celejar wrote:
> > relating to doing so. When compiling one's first custom kernel one
> > should start with _ONLY_ the functionality one needs. Then build things
> > up from there as you need more abilities from you kernel. ;)
>
> But I'd add that it's very easy to disabl
On Thu December 24 2009, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> > make[1]: Leaving directory
> > `/home/pbc/Documents/software/linux-2.6.31.9/linux-2.6.31.9/Documentation
> >/lguest' make: *** [debian/stamp/build/kernel] Error 2
>
> http://cakebox.homeunix.net/wordpress/?p=100
THAT I can follow!
my googling didn'
On Thu December 24 2009, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> Remember what many of us have said: "Building a custom kernel is as much
> about learning as it is about accomplishing". Becoming proficient at
> building a custom kernel can take a while, sometimes months, sometimes
> years, depending on one's apti
Dne, 10. 12. 2009 18:39:55 je Anirban Patra napisal(a):
HiI 've tried to install Debian 5 version but the problem is
that* DVD
is not detected by my PC.* I 've tried in other PCs , there it is
running
ok. But in my PC, other linux version (*SUSE 10,FEDORA 10) are running
fine*.
The firs
On 2009-12-25 07:55 +0100, Daniel Bareiro wrote:
> Sorry to send this message twice, but I thought that for some reason it
> had not arrived at the list. Although it seems that both messages
> arrived with a delay of six hours. This can be due to some moderation of
> the list?
This list is not mo
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