Re: dosfslabel finds problem, e2fsck does not

2010-07-20 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 20:09:27 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 10:43:46PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 15:58:59 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 07:23:31PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at

Re: Using Arial Narrow in OpenOffice.org

2010-07-20 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:15:57 +1000, David Purton wrote: > Is it presently possible to use the "Arial Narrow" font in Open Office > under sid? > > It appears to be installed ok (along with Arial): > > $ fc-list :family=Arial (...) Mmm... I get: s...@stt008:~$ fc-list :family="Arial Narrow" Ari

Re: Marc mailing list archives

2010-07-20 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:33:25 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:13:36 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > >> Does anyone know what has happened to the Marc mailing list archives. >> >> I go to marc.info (which seems to be what most url's point at) and it >> appears the domain name is up f

Using Arial Narrow in OpenOffice.org

2010-07-20 Thread David Purton
Is it presently possible to use the "Arial Narrow" font in Open Office under sid? It appears to be installed ok (along with Arial): $ fc-list :family=Arial Arial,Arial Narrow:style=Narrow,Normal,obyčejné,Standard,Κανονικά,Regular,Normaali,Normál,Normale,Standaard,Normalny,Обычный,Normálne,Navadn

Re: amd64 does net detect my wired and wireless nic at installation

2010-07-20 Thread Linux Zero
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Re: amd64 does net detect my wired and wireless nic at installation

2010-07-20 Thread Linux Zero
Hi, it was solved in the bellow link.. http://comcap.free.fr/x200s.html Good luck, and don't for get to replay back if success!!! Regards, Bassel From: Wolodja Wentland To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Mon, July 19, 2010 5:22:18 PM Subject: Re: amd64 d

Re: dosfslabel finds problem, e2fsck does not

2010-07-20 Thread Thomas H. George
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 10:43:46PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 15:58:59 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 07:23:31PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 11:25:42 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > > My system, Squeeze, can

Re: No sound from Flash, but other methods work well

2010-07-20 Thread H.S.
On 17/07/10 02:02 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: Hi, My Google-fu must not be up to snuff, because I've Googled much without any luck. USB Audio 32-bit Sid ALSA 1.0.23+dfsg-1 Flash 10.1r53 (from adobe.com) Iceweasel 3.6.4-1 (experimental) vlc 1.1.0 users are in group audio Sound plays fine from local

Re: When is best time to upgrade lenny to squeeze

2010-07-20 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Tue July 20 2010, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > back to the original question on the thread:) so, considering that I only > > have 4 packages installed from backports, what is the squeeze schedule, > > and I assume now is too early to upgrade? > > Yes.  Wait until the official release announ

Re: When is best time to upgrade lenny to squeeze

2010-07-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 20 July 2010 05:55:37 Paul Cartwright wrote: > back to the original question on the thread:) so, considering that I only > have 4 packages installed from backports, what is the squeeze schedule, > and I assume now is too early to upgrade? Yes. Wait until the official release announceme

Re: Debian virus/spy-ware detection and detection technique.

2010-07-20 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 01:28:00 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: > >> What are you afraid of? I mean, what is your main concern? > > Spying, programs modifications. I have seen already unexplainable weird > things - one text file was in size - zero - that neve

Re: dosfslabel finds problem, e2fsck does not

2010-07-20 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 15:58:59 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 07:23:31PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 11:25:42 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > My system, Squeeze, cannot install the latest kernel image because > > > dosfslabel finds a pro

Debian on HTC P3600

2010-07-20 Thread Clinton Wright
To whom it may concern, I have a friend that has a HTC P3600 Windows Mobie Phone and I was wondering if it were possibe to develop a version of debian that will suppor this phones processor. The phone has a Samsung s2442 ARM processor which your debian arm does not support. Can a version be made f

Re: grub1 manual

2010-07-20 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:13:44 -0400, Tom H wrote: > http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/legacy/grub.html Oh... that's great! I only can thank Mr. Bruce Dubbs (or the person/team responsible for getting back the online GRUB legacy manual) for this. Sincerely, thanks! :-) Greetings, -- Cam

Re: Marc mailing list archives

2010-07-20 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 12:57:26PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > On 20/07/10 12:26, Paul Cartwright wrote: > >On Tue July 20 2010, Alan Chandler wrote: > >>Does anyone know what has happened to the Marc mailing list archives. > >> > >>I go to marc.info (which seems to be what most url's point at) a

Re: dosfslabel finds problem, e2fsck does not

2010-07-20 Thread Thomas H. George
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 07:23:31PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 11:25:42 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > My system, Squeeze, cannot install the latest kernel image because > > dosfslabel finds a problem that prevents the installation of linux-base. > > > > Trying to re

Re: Debian cd supporting ext4.

2010-07-20 Thread Amrit Panesar
On 7/20/2010 11:15 AM, Sthu Deus wrote: Thank You for Your time and answer, Andrei: The "kmuto installer" was mentioned earlier on the list. Do You know how safe it is? It is save. We assure you. The kumto installer is the main alternative debian installer and is widely used t

Re: Debian cd supporting ext4.

2010-07-20 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 01:15 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Thank You for Your time and answer, Andrei: > > > The "kmuto installer" was mentioned earlier on the list. > > Do You know how safe it is? What do you mean? The "kmuto installer" is an installer for Debian stable releases with up-to-date ke

Re: STORAGE USB

2010-07-20 Thread Amrit Panesar
On 7/20/2010 11:04 AM, Alex PADOLY wrote: Good evening, I shall like knowing how a USB device of storage is managed under Debian and more generally under LINUX. Apparently LINUX seems to assimilate the USB to a shape of SCSI. This is true, linux kernels have been doing that for quite a while no

Re: Debian virus/spy-ware detection and detection technique.

2010-07-20 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: > What are you afraid of? I mean, what is your main concern? Spying, programs modifications. I have seen already unexplainable weird things - one text file was in size - zero - that never has been so for a long time, another, .ods - was partially dama

Re: Debian virus/spy-ware detection and detection technique.

2010-07-20 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Andrei: > > question: I have s live/installable-CD/DVD. I use its normal/rescue > > mode - I do somethings w/ my OS on HDD in order to make it working. > > I had no ability to check its checksum, so, is there a way I can be > > sure that the software I used is "

Re: Debian cd supporting ext4.

2010-07-20 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Andrei: > The "kmuto installer" was mentioned earlier on the list. Do You know how safe it is? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lis

grub1 manual

2010-07-20 Thread Tom H
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/legacy/grub.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktinaw8nmdkksxitvwsbtgjhug5-ey_a8h39oq...@mail.gmail.com

Re: How to reread changed udev rules without rebooting?

2010-07-20 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 10:47:28AM -0800, Greg Madden wrote: > There is a 'udev' script in '/etc/init.d'. maybe doing a restart on it will > do > the trick. 'reload' would also do the trick there. And create less work for the system. It only asks udevd to re-read the rules. -- Tzafrir Cohen

Re: dosfslabel finds problem, e2fsck does not

2010-07-20 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 11:25:42 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > My system, Squeeze, cannot install the latest kernel image because > dosfslabel finds a problem that prevents the installation of linux-base. > > Trying to resolve this I used e2fsck to check each of the disk > partitions and e2fsck

Re: ETA on Debian whois client compatible with new ARIN whois service

2010-07-20 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Jordon Bedwell put forth on 7/20/2010 12:27 AM: > I fail to see the outrage (since there was none, I will note to sugar coat > replies for now on), and I fail to see how you managed to spell my name wrong > (which is somewhat of an insult to be honest). If you knew months ago, why > did you not

dosfslabel finds problem, e2fsck does not

2010-07-20 Thread Thomas H. George
My system, Squeeze, cannot install the latest kernel image because dosfslabel finds a problem that prevents the installation of linux-base. Trying to resolve this I used e2fsck to check each of the disk partitions and e2fsck reported all the partitions clean. However, the result of running dosfsl

Re: Problem Replacing LVM on RAID1 Disk

2010-07-20 Thread Matthew Glubb
Hi Alan, On 20 Jul 2010, at 12:52, Alan Chandler wrote: > Lets take this back to the list - not keep it between us - and I am > subscribed to the list so no need to copy me. Ah. Sorry. I didn't realise I had only mailed you directly. > I don't know. When I have had a problem before, I have ju

Re: Marc mailing list archives

2010-07-20 Thread Alan Chandler
On 20/07/10 12:26, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Tue July 20 2010, Alan Chandler wrote: Does anyone know what has happened to the Marc mailing list archives. I go to marc.info (which seems to be what most url's point at) and it appears the domain name is up for sale. This is Google's cache of htt

Re: Problem Replacing LVM on RAID1 Disk

2010-07-20 Thread Alan Chandler
On 18/07/10 18:30, Matthew Glubb wrote: Hi Alan, Thanks very much for your reply. Lets take this back to the list - not keep it between us - and I am subscribed to the list so no need to copy me. On 17 Jul 2010, at 20:08, Alan Chandler wrote: You don't include the one piece of informati

Re: Marc mailing list archives

2010-07-20 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:13:36 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > Does anyone know what has happened to the Marc mailing list archives. > > I go to marc.info (which seems to be what most url's point at) and it > appears the domain name is up for sale. Ugh :-( whois marc.info (...) Last Updated On:20-J

Re: Marc mailing list archives

2010-07-20 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Tue July 20 2010, Alan Chandler wrote: > Does anyone know what has happened to the Marc mailing list archives. > > I go to marc.info (which seems to be what most url's point at) and it > appears the domain name is up for sale. This is Google's cache of http://marc.info/. It is a snapshot of the

Marc mailing list archives

2010-07-20 Thread Alan Chandler
Does anyone know what has happened to the Marc mailing list archives. I go to marc.info (which seems to be what most url's point at) and it appears the domain name is up for sale. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.

Re: amd64 does net detect my wired and wireless nic at installation

2010-07-20 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Tue July 20 2010, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > and it would install the package 2.6.32+27~bpo50+1  ? > > That should work.  I use the aptitude curses interface to make such > changes, since sometimes aptitude needs a bit of help with resolving > dependencies. That shouldn't matter for the k

Re: When is best time to upgrade lenny to squeeze

2010-07-20 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Tue July 20 2010, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > I tend to use queries like this on my mixed system to determine how far > I've drifted from stable.  Right now, on my laptop, 686/1312 packages are > from stable, 100/1312 are from backports, and 526/1312 are from testing. >  Once I'm running "mo

Re: Is it gdm3 that is logging me out?

2010-07-20 Thread Alan Chandler
On 19/07/10 20:42, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 23:50:55 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: On 18/07/10 18:19, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 15:34:22 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: [...] It has happened again whilst I was having lunch today. System had been idle for

Re: amd64 does net detect my wired and wireless nic at installation

2010-07-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 20 July 2010 04:36:15 Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Tue July 20 2010, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > > Wonderful. I would suggest to replace the kernel you have now by one > > from http://www.backports.org as you will receive kernel updates then. > > > > kind regards > > so if I wanted to upg

Re: When is best time to upgrade lenny to squeeze

2010-07-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 20 July 2010 03:56:08 Paul Cartwright wrote: > so if I wanted the LIST of packages that I have installed using backports, > it would be like this? > > $ aptitude search '~S ~i ~Alenny-backports' > i libmysqlclient-dev - MySQL database development files > i A libmysqlclien

Re: amd64 does net detect my wired and wireless nic at installation

2010-07-20 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Tue July 20 2010, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > Wonderful. I would suggest to replace the kernel you have now by one > from http://www.backports.org as you will receive kernel updates then. > > kind regards so if I wanted to upgrade my kernel, and I am using backports, I could do this: # aptitude

Re: When is best time to upgrade lenny to squeeze

2010-07-20 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Tue July 20 2010, you wrote: > > $ printf 'You are ' && \ > > > > > { > > > > > >         [ $(aptitude search '~S ~i ~Alenny-backports' | wc -l) -ge 1 ] > > > || \ printf 'not ' > > > > > > } && \ > > > printf 'using lenny-backports.\n' > > > > You are using lenny-backports. > > The script tak

Re: A "magical" HDD formatting question.

2010-07-20 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Sthu Deus wrote: > Thank You for Your time and answer, Tom: > >> For example for / (assuming that it is sda1) >> >> init 1 >> mount -o remount,ro / >> fsck.ext2 -pf /dev/sda1 >> tune2fs -O >> [has_journal,]large_file,huge_file,extents,dir_index,uninit_bg /dev/sda1

Re: Grub, MBR's on several hard drives?

2010-07-20 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:27:45 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > I recall reading that if the system has multiple hard drives it is a > good idea mbr's on each of the hard drives all pointing to the same root > directory located on one of the hard drives. > > Is this correct? > > If this is correct

Re: amd64 does net detect my wired and wireless nic at installation

2010-07-20 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 20:53 -0400, Bernard Fay wrote: > Thanks Wolodja for pointing to this site.  The installer from Kenshi Muto > worked for me. Now the final test it to make it work with VMware Server. Wonderful. I would suggest to replace the kernel you have now by one from http://www.backpo

Re: usernames that start with capital letter?

2010-07-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 07/20/2010 12:02 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Thanks. This will simply(?) be a generic/guest account on the centrally-located PC. It's the user that will stay logged in so that people have quick access to Google, dict, etc. If it is just a generic guest account then why go wit