Re: Installation

2012-09-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-09-16 at 22:42 +0200, lee wrote: > Camaleón writes: > > > On Sat, 15 Sep 2012 20:59:30 +0200, lee wrote: > > > >> Camaleón writes: > >> > >>> Debian people has done a marvelous work with thteir documentation and > >>> this step (Partitioning) is very well explained there¹ (even it

Re: Removing deb-multimedia pkgs w/o removing everything

2012-09-16 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 16 sep 12, 17:13:05, Rob Owens wrote: > > I haven't tried this, but it seems like it would work: > > 1) Remove the deb-multimedia packages using dpkg instead of apt Unless I'm mistaken this needs --force-depends > 2) Remove deb-multimedia from sources.list > > 3) apt-get install -f

Re: Bug#687804: installation-reports: users are not able to review external documentation while stuck in the installer

2012-09-16 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting lee (l...@yun.yagibdah.de): > Package: installation-reports > Severity: wishlist > > Dear Maintainer, > > this is a feature request: It would be nice if users would have at > least a web browser like lynx and an irc client available while they > are using the installer. There has been/c

Re: Dual-Monitor help

2012-09-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 03:16:55AM +0200, lee wrote: > Nelson Green writes: > > > have no choice but to run a GUI of some type. I would like to learn to do so > > with a minimal footprint if you would be willing to share some tips. I find > > my primary use of the GUI is email, the web apps I hav

Re: Installation

2012-09-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 04:21:37PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > PS: libmp3lame0 is a replacement for gstreamer0.10-lame and it's in the > official repositories? > Yes it is in the official repositories, and presume its a replacement, not sure if it is a "direct replacement, you will have to ch

Re: [ask] awk - passing for loop bash variables to awk

2012-09-16 Thread Cam Hutchison
Morning Star writes: >here is the desired output: >line_1 >line_2 >line_3 >here is what i do: >cat input | for (( i=1;i<=3;i++ )); do gawk -v var=$i 'NR == var { print}'; >done >but, the result is always: >line_1 When awk runs, it reads its input until EOF. In your loop, the first run of awk

Re: Satellite P870 issues - Video + ethernet [SOLVED]

2012-09-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 08:53:21AM +1000, Julian DeMarchi wrote: > > I still can't use the nvidia card, but I think these features will come > with time. Patience... :-) Is the GT630M not supported? -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppress

Re: Removing deb-multimedia pkgs w/o removing everything

2012-09-16 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 12:53:46PM -0400, Ed Jabbour wrote: > I'd like to remove packages gotten from deb-multimedia and replace > some from the Debian repos. However, removing them will also remove a > bunch of libs and kde progs. E.g., apt-get remove libavcodec53 > yields: > > 0 upgraded, 1

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-16 Thread lee
Camaleón writes: > On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 00:30:23 +0200, lee wrote: > >> trying out chromium, I have found that both seamonkey and chromium are >> able to play arbitrary videos found on youtube. I used to have >> libflashplayer.so in the ~/.mozilla/plugins directory which used to play >> such vide

Re: Installation

2012-09-16 Thread lee
Camaleón writes: > On Sat, 15 Sep 2012 20:59:30 +0200, lee wrote: > >> Camaleón writes: >> >>> Debian people has done a marvelous work with thteir documentation and >>> this step (Partitioning) is very well explained there¹ (even it has a >>> separate Appendix!). >>> >>> ¹http://www.debian.org/

Re: Installation

2012-09-16 Thread lee
Camaleón writes: > On Sat, 15 Sep 2012 20:45:38 +0200, lee wrote: > >> Camaleón writes: >> >>> Lee, one of my argumentation points was based precisely in this premise >>> ("untechie users do not install their OSes¹") so if you want to discuss >>> a different thing based on your own experience b

Re: Installation

2012-09-16 Thread Weaver
On Sun, September 16, 2012 7:51 am, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 15 Sep 2012 14:20:16 -0700, Weaver wrote: > >> On Sat, September 15, 2012 8:15 am, Camaleón wrote: > Newbie Installation of Debian Squeeze 6.0.5 i386 Netinstall disc. >>> >>> IMO, newbies should go for CD or DVD installation disc i

Re: Preseed for Wheezy - Multi-disk Alternative

2012-09-16 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 13:11:12 -0400, Tom H wrote: >> On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Camaleón wrote: >>> On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 23:10:52 -0700, ray wrote: >>> From what I have read, it looks like preseeding is only good for one disk. So I

Re: Removing deb-multimedia pkgs w/o removing everything

2012-09-16 Thread Sharon Kimble
On 15 September 2012 19:45, Dmitriy Matrosov wrote: > On 09/15/12 21:38, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> >> On Sb, 15 sep 12, 12:53:46, Ed Jabbour wrote: >>> >>> I'd like to remove packages gotten from deb-multimedia and replace >>> some from the Debian repos. However, removing them will also remove a >

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2012-09-16 Thread Steve R
Hi, Hoping someone can help me figure out how to pass the live-media device to the linux kernel from GRUB, if the live-media is itself on a LUKS encrypted device. Details below ... I am trying to use Grub 2.00 (with Luks support enabled) to boot a Debian-live system from an encrypted LUKS parti

Debian-live systems with encrypted live-media device - what do you specify for the live-media boot parameter?‏

2012-09-16 Thread Steve R
Apologies: Forgot to add a subject line. Hi, Hoping someone can help me figure out how to pass the live-media device to the linux kernel from GRUB, if the live-media is itself on a LUKS encrypted device. Details below ... I am trying to use Grub 2.00 (with Luks support enabled) to boot a

Re: Outgoing firewall and CNAMES

2012-09-16 Thread Tom Grace
On 12/09/12 17:59, Lists wrote: > I use an outgoing policy of deny on webservers, and allow explicitely > what I need them to connect to. This has never posed a problem, until > today. I need to allow a website to pull in a feed from another site, > hosted on amazon's elastic cloud thingy. The p

Re: Preseed for Wheezy - Multi-disk Alternative

2012-09-16 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 13:11:12 -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 23:10:52 -0700, ray wrote: >> >>> From what I have read, it looks like preseeding is only good for one >>> disk. So I am looking for alternatives. >> >> Where did you get th

Re: Preseed for Wheezy - Multi-disk Alternative

2012-09-16 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 23:10:52 -0700, ray wrote: > >> From what I have read, it looks like preseeding is only good for one >> disk. So I am looking for alternatives. > > Where did you get that impression? :-? > > I think preseeding should be able t

Re: ntpd crashes.

2012-09-16 Thread Mauro
On 16 September 2012 17:46, Camaleón wrote: > Try by appending the "-x" argument at the "/etc/default/ntp" file from > the server that crashes. If your thoughs are correct, this could mitigate > the time difference. I've uninstalled ntp and installed openntp from squeeze backports. I hope this w

Re: ntpd crashes.

2012-09-16 Thread Camaleón
El 2012-09-16 a las 00:17 +0200, Mauro escribió: (resending to the list) > On 15 September 2012 16:47, Camaleón wrote: > > On Sat, 15 Sep 2012 15:43:04 +0200, Mauro wrote: > > > >> I think ntpd crashes are because my server lost time. > > > > How can that be? If ntpd daemon is running, the serve

Re: [Conclusion] Looking for an emacs replacement

2012-09-16 Thread Stefan Monnier
> (if (>= emacs-major-version 20) > (menu-bar-mode -1)) I recommend testing (fboundp 'menu-bar-mode) instead. > (if (>= emacs-major-version 21) > (if window-system > (tool-bar-mode -1))) And here I recommend testing (fboundp 'tool-bar-mode) and calling the function regardless of

Re: Storage server

2012-09-16 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 16. September 2012 schrieb Stan Hoeppner: > On 9/16/2012 7:38 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > I have always recommended to leave at least 10-15% free, but from a > > discussion on XFS mailinglist where you took part, I learned that > > depending on use case for large volumes even more

Re: Installation

2012-09-16 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 15 Sep 2012 23:33:40 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sat, 2012-09-15 at 15:15 +, Camaleón wrote: >> Come on... if they are currently browsing the web and getting e-mails >> in their inbox they should already know what a proxy is. > > No, they don't know. Then they can read the docs

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-09-16 at 14:37 +0200, lee wrote: > flashgot I installed something called DownloadHelper, but never used it. $ pacman -Qi firefox Name : firefox Version: 15.0.1-1 Architecture : x86_64 $ pacman -Qi flashplugin Name : flashplugin Version: 11.2.202.

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-16 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 00:30:23 +0200, lee wrote: > trying out chromium, I have found that both seamonkey and chromium are > able to play arbitrary videos found on youtube. I used to have > libflashplayer.so in the ~/.mozilla/plugins directory which used to play > such videos. I have removed it for

Re: Installation

2012-09-16 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 15 Sep 2012 14:20:16 -0700, Weaver wrote: > On Sat, September 15, 2012 8:15 am, Camaleón wrote: >>> Newbie Installation of Debian Squeeze 6.0.5 i386 Netinstall disc. >> >> IMO, newbies should go for CD or DVD installation disc instead. > > If they are going to get all their updates from

Re: Storage server

2012-09-16 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 9/16/2012 7:38 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > I have always recommended to leave at least 10-15% free, but from a > discussion on XFS mailinglist where you took part, I learned that > depending on use case for large volumes even more free space might be > necessary for performant long term

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-16 Thread lee
Bob Proulx writes: > Frank McCormick wrote: > > Chrome is the nonfree version. It is nonfree because it includes > Flash and probably other nonfree things. Chromium is the free version > and does not have Flash nor any other nonfree thing embedded. That is > the specific difference between Ch

Re: Installation

2012-09-16 Thread lee
Andrei POPESCU writes: > On Du, 16 sep 12, 02:12:28, lee wrote: >> >> Then tell them about them and give them a working system before and >> during the installation so that they can read the documentation at their >> leisure. > > I think there is a non-zero amount of users that will not bother t

Re: Problematic install - cannot find mirror

2012-09-16 Thread lee
Lisi writes: > Thanks, Chris. This is obviously sensible advice and I was just about to > start downloading CD1 when Brian's post arrived and solved the problem. I do > like this list! You might want to try installer from here some time: http://www.debian.org/CD/live/ DHCP isn't the greate

Re: Installation

2012-09-16 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 15 Sep 2012 20:59:30 +0200, lee wrote: > Camaleón writes: > >> Debian people has done a marvelous work with thteir documentation and >> this step (Partitioning) is very well explained there¹ (even it has a >> separate Appendix!). >> >> ¹http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch06s03.

Re: Installation

2012-09-16 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 15 Sep 2012 20:45:38 +0200, lee wrote: > Camaleón writes: > >> Lee, one of my argumentation points was based precisely in this premise >> ("untechie users do not install their OSes¹") so if you want to discuss >> a different thing based on your own experience because my user-case >> does

Re: new version of "less" pager

2012-09-16 Thread David
On 15/09/2012, Bob Proulx wrote: > Austyg wrote: >> v451 of "less" is desirable because it adds support for GNU regular >> expressions. > > Hmm... It does say that in the upstream changelog. > > I am unfamiliar with GNU regular expressions. How are they different > from either POSIX regular expr

Re: Storage server

2012-09-16 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi Kelly, Am Samstag, 15. September 2012 schrieb Kelly Clowers: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > On 9/14/2012 11:29 AM, Kelly Clowers wrote: > >> On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Stan Hoeppner > >> wrote: > >>> On 9/13/2012 5:20 AM, Veljko wrote: > On Tue, Sep 11

Re: Storage server

2012-09-16 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 14. September 2012 schrieb Stan Hoeppner: > On 9/14/2012 7:57 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Am Freitag, 14. September 2012 schrieb Stan Hoeppner: > >> Thus my advice to you is: > >> > >> Do not use LVM. Directly format the RAID10 device using the > >> mkfs.xfs defaults. mkfs.xfs

Re: Grub2 with multiple Debians

2012-09-16 Thread Dmitriy Matrosov
On 09/16/12 00:45, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 15 sep 12, 19:03:28, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Sat, 15 Sep 2012 13:39:29 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: I've solved this by having one grub in the MBR and installing each grub in the corresponding first sector of the partition. Not recommended by grub

Re: Problematic install - cannot find mirror

2012-09-16 Thread Brian
On Sun 16 Sep 2012 at 12:15:18 +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Sunday 16 September 2012 12:01:28 Brian wrote: > > > > ftp.uk.debian.org has the IP address 83.142.228.128 so if > > > >wget http://83.142.228.128/ > > > > gets you the file it might indicate you have a DNS problem. > > > > The nameserver

Re: networking with virtual machine

2012-09-16 Thread James Allsopp
Hi, I think I had a similar problem. To solve the problem first you need to set up a bridge, there's instructions in lots of places on how to do this, auto br0 iface br0 inet static address 192.168.1.2 network 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 #broadcast 192.168.0.255 gatewa

Re: Problematic install - cannot find mirror

2012-09-16 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 16 September 2012 10:13:50 Christofer C. Bell wrote: > On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Lisi wrote: > > I am doing a net install. I cannot find a usable mirror. I have tried > > at least 4 in the UK and 2 in Holland. So I can progress no further. > > Even if I were to download CD1 an

Re: Problematic install - cannot find mirror

2012-09-16 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 16 September 2012 12:01:28 Brian wrote: > On Sun 16 Sep 2012 at 10:08:50 +0100, Lisi wrote: > > > First check your network connectivity by switching to console 2/3 and > > > doing > > > > > >wget http://debian.mirror.cambrium.nl > > > > > > You should get an index.html file. > > > > N

Re: Problematic install - cannot find mirror

2012-09-16 Thread Brian
On Sun 16 Sep 2012 at 10:08:50 +0100, Lisi wrote: > > First check your network connectivity by switching to console 2/3 and > > doing > > > >wget http://debian.mirror.cambrium.nl > > > > You should get an index.html file. > > No, I didn't. :-( Now all I have to work out is where next?? ftp.

Re: [ask] awk - passing for loop bash variables to awk

2012-09-16 Thread Morning Star
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > $ for (( i=1;i<=3;i++ )); do gawk -v var=$i 'NR == var { print}' input ; done > > You're asking awk to read lines from a file, so you need to give the > file over to awk. The above gives you the output you're looking for. > The bash po

Re: Storage server

2012-09-16 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Samstag, 15. September 2012 schrieb Bob Proulx: > Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Am Freitag, 7. September 2012 schrieb Bob Proulx: > > > Unfortunately I have some recent FUD concerning xfs. I have had > > > some recent small idle xfs filesystems trigger kernel watchdog > > > timer ... > > > due

Re: [ask] awk - passing for loop bash variables to awk

2012-09-16 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 3:44 AM, Morning Star wrote: > Hi guys, > I get a difficulty to produce the desired output using awk. i want to > use for loop bash variable as the input to the awk variable > here is the illustrated input: > > line_1 > line_2 > line_3 > line_4 > line_5 > line_6 > line_7 >

Re: [ask] awk - passing for loop bash variables to awk

2012-09-16 Thread Morning Star
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 3:53 PM, Teemu Likonen wrote: > Maybe not what you are asking for but one can get the desired output > with these: > > $ awk 'NR >= 1 && NR <= 3 { print }' inputfile > > $ head -n3 inputfile > > $ sed -n 1,3p inputfile > thanks, Teemu. i already know that, but

Re: [ask] awk - passing for loop bash variables to awk

2012-09-16 Thread Morning Star
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 4:14 PM, emmanuel segura wrote: > awk '/line/ {print; if(FNR % 3 == 0){exit}}' var > thanks, emmanuel. i already know that, but right now i need to understand how passing for loop bash variables to awk works. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.

Re: [ask] awk - passing for loop bash variables to awk

2012-09-16 Thread Morning Star
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 3:59 PM, Alex Hutton wrote: > I would do : > cat input | head -n3 > thanks, alex. i already know that, but right now i need to understand how passing for loop bash variables to awk works. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Problematic install - cannot find mirror

2012-09-16 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Lisi wrote: > > I am doing a net install. I cannot find a usable mirror. I have tried at > least 4 in the UK and 2 in Holland. So I can progress no further. Even if I > were to download CD1 and install from it, the first thing I would want to do > would be to u

Re: Problematic install - cannot find mirror

2012-09-16 Thread Lisi
Hi, Brian! Thanks for this. On Sunday 16 September 2012 00:04:05 Brian wrote: > On Sat 15 Sep 2012 at 23:28:49 +0100, Lisi wrote: > > I am getting a long list of error messages in pairs. I have copied one > > pair, but am not sure in which order they should go, so I may have copied > > the second

Re: [ask] awk - passing for loop bash variables to awk

2012-09-16 Thread Teemu Likonen
Morning Star [2012-09-16 15:44:05 +0700] wrote: > I get a difficulty to produce the desired output using awk. i want to > use for loop bash variable as the input to the awk variable here is > the illustrated input: > here is the desired output: > line_1 > line_2 > line_3 > > here is what i do: >

[ask] awk - passing for loop bash variables to awk

2012-09-16 Thread Morning Star
Hi guys, I get a difficulty to produce the desired output using awk. i want to use for loop bash variable as the input to the awk variable here is the illustrated input: line_1 line_2 line_3 line_4 line_5 line_6 line_7 line_8 line_9 line_10 here is the desired output: line_1 line_2 line_3 here i

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-16 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/16/2012 2:22 AM, Mark Allums wrote: On 9/15/2012 11:48 PM, lee wrote: Hmmm. They are saying I'm participating in a test and seamonkey supports Video-Tag and WebM (whatever that is) and doesn't support h.264. They are saying chromium supports all of it. How do I get h.264 support in seamo

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-16 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/15/2012 11:48 PM, lee wrote: How do I get h.264 support in seamonkey? It will probably happen eventually, but h.264 has patents, so it may not happen soon. You can always add it yourself through a plugin. But you may have to *write* the plugin yourself, and it may not be legal in some

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-16 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/15/2012 11:48 PM, lee wrote: Peter Viskup writes: there is something like HTML5 already out. Try to have a look on http://www.youtube.com/html5 and then search for HTML5 support for your favorite browser and you will get an answer. Hmmm. They are saying I'm participating in a test and