Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-08 Thread Schlacta, Christ
On Feb 8, 2014 10:27 PM, "David Christensen" wrote: > > On 02/08/2014 09:54 PM, Anubhav Yadav wrote: >> >> You mean to say, I should remove my hdd, boot my laptop using a usb, >> and then connect the hdd live into the laptop? >> Can it further damage the hdd? > > > YES! > > And, damage the motherb

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-08 Thread Anubhav Yadav
> YES! > > And, damage the motherboard. > NO! I was waiting for someone to reply. Thanks! Now, If I remove my hdd and plug it in the dell laptop and then boot the laptop? Can I try that? And then maybe connect a live usb to that? Will it work? -- Regards, Anubhav Yadav Imperial College of Engin

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-08 Thread David Christensen
On 02/08/2014 09:54 PM, Anubhav Yadav wrote: You mean to say, I should remove my hdd, boot my laptop using a usb, and then connect the hdd live into the laptop? Can it further damage the hdd? YES! And, damage the motherboard. I should give this a try! NO! If you want to hot-plug hard dr

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-08 Thread Anubhav Yadav
> What happens if you post the laptop, then engage the hard drive after you > boot into a Linux live usb? You mean to say, I should remove my hdd, boot my laptop using a usb, and then connect the hdd live into the laptop? Can it further damage the hdd? I should give this a try! -- Regards, Anub

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-08 Thread Anubhav Yadav
> Don't give up yet. Have you a friend who could let you look at your > hard-drive yourself? I have got a friend's laptop (Dell) right now in my room, so I am thinking of removing my hdd and putting that hdd on the dell laptop and trying to get into a linux boot using the hdd. > > And, sorry to

Re: reprinting a completed print job

2014-02-08 Thread Brian
On Sat 08 Feb 2014 at 17:15:39 -0500, John Lindsay wrote: > I am running a HP Laserjet P1606dn on Debian 6. I want to reprint a > 'completed job'. I can see the completed job in the print queue but > I do not see any way to reprint it? Any ideas? Documentation for cupsd.conf is in 'Online Help' a

Re: How to block kernel updates

2014-02-08 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 08 February 2014 23:40:59 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 08 feb 14, 22:43:41, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > I'm quite happy to let it go on upgrading itself as it has so > > far.  If I mess with it I shall only cause myself problems.  The > > developers know way more than I do! > > Installing n

Re: How to block kernel updates

2014-02-08 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 08 feb 14, 22:43:41, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > I'm quite happy to let it go on upgrading itself as it has so far. If > I mess with it I shall only cause myself problems. The developers > know way more than I do! Installing newer kernel packages might actually be safer than upgrading the s

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-08 Thread Schlacta, Christ
On Feb 8, 2014 12:26 PM, "Anubhav Yadav" wrote: > > > On 9 Feb 2014 01:41, "Schlacta, Christ" wrote: > > > > If it was a Windows system they connected your drive to, they probably didn't actually give it a good checking . A new hard drive can be had for between $50 and $150 depending on your need

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-08 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 08 February 2014 10:21:07 Anubhav Yadav wrote: > Something really bad happened. I went to format all my partitions > from the windows 8 installation menu (Bootable usb) and when I went > to format boot partition of windows 100 mb,the installer hanged > (typical of windows) After waiting

reprinting a completed print job

2014-02-08 Thread John Lindsay
I am running a HP Laserjet P1606dn on Debian 6. I want to reprint a 'completed job'. I can see the completed job in the print queue but I do not see any way to reprint it? Any ideas? John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: postfix: maildir-style delivery with external MDA?

2014-02-08 Thread Markus Schönhaber
07.02.2014 20:05, Andrei POPESCU: > I tried using pipe(8), by reusing the already existing definition in > master.cf > > maildrop unix - n n - - pipe > flags=DRhu user=vmail argv=/usr/bin/maildrop -d ${recipient} > > > and setting > > mailbox_transport =

Re: How to block kernel updates

2014-02-08 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 08 February 2014 20:48:14 Tom H wrote: > On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Saturday 08 February 2014 12:29:30 Tom H wrote: > >> On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 6:32 AM, Lisi Reisz > >> > > > > wrote: > >>> On Saturday 08 February 2014 09:40:43 Chris Bannister wrote: >

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-08 Thread David Christensen
On 02/08/2014 02:21 AM, Anubhav Yadav wrote: Something really bad happened. ... No problem. Part of the FOSS hobby is breaking your toy and then having to fix it. :-) First, looking back on this thread, I see a meta-problem. Please read these (adjust for context): http://www.email

Re: USB wireless network adaptor

2014-02-08 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 2/8/14, Manikandan M wrote: > > I'm having a HP laptop running wheezy. The built-in wireless adaptor wasn't > working fine. So bought a Asus usb-n10 wireless adaptor. installed the > drivers and it works fine. > But once i shutdown or restart my laptop, its not working. The lsusb > command show

Re: How to block kernel updates

2014-02-08 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 08 February 2014 12:29:30 Tom H wrote: >> On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 6:32 AM, Lisi Reisz > wrote: >>> On Saturday 08 February 2014 09:40:43 Chris Bannister wrote: AFAIUI, if the package has a different name, as newer releases

Re: How to block kernel updates

2014-02-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2014-02-08 at 16:55 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > Had I wanted it not to upgrade, would I have needed to search > out the metapackage and remove it? Or hold it, of course. No need to hold the package, removing it should be all that's needed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ.

Updating not working as expected

2014-02-08 Thread Jon N
Hi, I installed Jessie on a new computer about 2 months ago. I needed Jessie to support my network interface. Since then I noticed that I seeing almost no updates in Synaptic, or when using apt-get. During the same period on my old computer (also running Jessie) see packages almost constantly u

USB wireless network adaptor

2014-02-08 Thread Manikandan M
Hi, I'm having a HP laptop running wheezy. The built-in wireless adaptor wasn't working fine. So bought a Asus usb-n10 wireless adaptor. installed the drivers and it works fine. But once i shutdown or restart my laptop, its not working. The lsusb command shows the wireless adaptor, but the adaptor

Re: How to block kernel updates

2014-02-08 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 08 February 2014 12:29:30 Tom H wrote: > On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 6:32 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Saturday 08 February 2014 09:40:43 Chris Bannister wrote: > >> AFAIUI, if the package has a different name, as newer releases > >> of kernels do, then APT won't consider it an update, it

Re: what are the names in Debian

2014-02-08 Thread Robin
On 8 February 2014 16:32, Roelof Wobben wrote: > Hello, > > I liket the elegance-colors theme for gnome and as far as I know it it's not > avaible for debian, > > So i try to compile it myself. > > But it has three dependencies which I cannot find the appropiate name in > Debian. > > gtk3-devel >

what are the names in Debian

2014-02-08 Thread Roelof Wobben
Hello, I liket the elegance-colors theme for gnome and as far as I know it it's not avaible for debian, So i try to compile it myself. But it has three dependencies which I cannot find the appropiate name in Debian. gtk3-devel vala glib2-devel Can anyone tell me what the names in Debian ar

more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-08 Thread Gary Dale
I'm running Jessie on an AMD64 Gigabyte 970A-D3P board with an FX6100 processor. I had 2x4G DDR3 sticks in it but some of the programs I use were causing excessive thrashing. I added a 1x8G DDR3 stick (got a good price on it, much cheaper than adding 2x4G) which resolved the thrashing problem.

Re: Vertical sync in GNOME 3

2014-02-08 Thread Paul Cartwright
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/08/2014 08:59 AM, David Glover-Aoki wrote: > I have significantly improved, if not solved, the problem. > > I created the directory /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d (which is not present by default) and created a .conf file inside it containing the followin

Re: Vertical sync in GNOME 3

2014-02-08 Thread David Glover-Aoki
On Fri, 7 Feb 2014 18:00:12 + David Glover-Aoki wrote: > I'm having problems with tearing. When you drag windows around quickly, or > play any video, severe vertical tearing is obvious. I have significantly improved, if not solved, the problem. I created the directory /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d

Re: How to block kernel updates

2014-02-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2014-02-08 at 13:54 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sat, 2014-02-08 at 07:48 -0500, Tom H wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 5:24 AM, Ralf Mardorf > > wrote: > > > On Sat, 2014-02-08 at 10:02 +, Joe wrote: > > >> > > >> The risk is about having that happen without noticing. Generally,

Re: How to block kernel updates

2014-02-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2014-02-08 at 07:48 -0500, Tom H wrote: > On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 5:24 AM, Ralf Mardorf > wrote: > > On Sat, 2014-02-08 at 10:02 +, Joe wrote: > >> > >> The risk is about having that happen without noticing. Generally, I > >> keep an eye on what sid is updating, but even this long afte

Re: How to block kernel updates

2014-02-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2014-02-08 at 13:46 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sat, 2014-02-08 at 07:29 -0500, Tom H wrote: > > linux-image won't be bumped up to a later kernel version if you don't > > have "linux-image-" installed. > > Let's make a real job of it. > > Metapackage: > http://packages.debian.org/sid/

Re: How to block kernel updates

2014-02-08 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 5:24 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sat, 2014-02-08 at 10:02 +, Joe wrote: >> >> The risk is about having that happen without noticing. Generally, I >> keep an eye on what sid is updating, but even this long after a >> release, it's still tens of megabytes a day. I don't c

Re: How to block kernel updates

2014-02-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2014-02-08 at 07:29 -0500, Tom H wrote: > linux-image won't be bumped up to a later kernel version if you don't > have "linux-image-" installed. Let's make a real job of it. Metapackage: http://packages.debian.org/sid/linux-image-amd64 dep: linux-image-3.12-1-amd64 If you don't install

Re: How to block kernel updates

2014-02-08 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 6:32 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 08 February 2014 09:40:43 Chris Bannister wrote: >> >> AFAIUI, if the package has a different name, as newer releases of >> kernels do, then APT won't consider it an update, it is just >> another package. > > aptitude has just upgrade

Re: How to block kernel updates

2014-02-08 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 08 February 2014 09:40:43 Chris Bannister wrote: > AFAIUI, if the package has a different name, as newer releases of > kernels do, then APT won't consider it an update, it is just > another package. aptitude has just upgraded me automatically from 3.10-x bpo to 3.11-x bpo then to 3.12

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-08 Thread Anubhav Yadav
> Someone asked how much RAM you have. How much? 1G is not enough with Gnome 3. > > More than 4G is more than is necessary under many "normal" loads, but > if you don't have 4G, 4G is reasonable. If you can add memory or > replace what you have and have the money to spare. I have 8 GB ram :) > Wh

Re: How to block kernel updates

2014-02-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2014-02-08 at 10:13 +, Joe wrote: > As Chris and others have said elsewhere, one partition is generally OK > on a workstation. You might keep /home on a separate one, to make > reinstallation a little easier if it becomes necessary, but if you're > keeping valuable data in /home, you sh

Re: How to block kernel updates

2014-02-08 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
On 02/08/2014 11:52 AM, Roelof Wobben wrote: > >> Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 22:40:43 +1300 >> From: cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz >> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >> Subject: Re: How to block kernel updates >> >> On Sat, Feb 08, 2014 at 08:55:50AM +, Joe wro

Re: How to block kernel updates

2014-02-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2014-02-08 at 10:02 +, Joe wrote: > The risk is about having that happen without noticing. Generally, I > keep an eye on what sid is updating, but even this long after a > release, it's still tens of megabytes a day. I don't check all of them I always read all package names before upda

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-08 Thread Anubhav Yadav
Something really bad happened. I went to format all my partitions from the windows 8 installation menu (Bootable usb) and when I went to format boot partition of windows 100 mb,the installer hanged (typical of windows) After waiting for say half an hour, I hard-rebooted the laptop and it was stuck

Re: How to block kernel updates

2014-02-08 Thread Joe
On Sat, 8 Feb 2014 09:52:17 + Roelof Wobben wrote: > > > Im not the average newbie and Im running jessie now. > > Can anyone tell me a good partition scheme for a 80G disk so im not > running again in problems. > As Chris and others have said elsewhere, one partition is generally OK on a

Re: How to block kernel updates

2014-02-08 Thread Joe
On Sat, 8 Feb 2014 22:40:43 +1300 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sat, Feb 08, 2014 at 08:55:50AM +, Joe wrote: > > On Sat, 8 Feb 2014 15:10:09 +1300 > > Chris Bannister wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 10:07:34PM +, Joe wrote: > > > > You can also remove any kernel metapackage e.g.

RE: How to block kernel updates

2014-02-08 Thread Roelof Wobben
> Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 22:40:43 +1300 > From: cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: How to block kernel updates > > On Sat, Feb 08, 2014 at 08:55:50AM +, Joe wrote: >> On Sat, 8 Feb 2014 15:10:09 +1300 >> Chris Ban

Re: How to block kernel updates

2014-02-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Feb 08, 2014 at 07:57:51AM +, Roelof Wobben wrote: > Oke, > > I will do a re-install of my 80G box. > > What will be a good partition scheme for normal desktop use? Did you read my previous post? I'd just give it the whole disk - one partition. Although, you may want a separate hom

Re: How to block kernel updates

2014-02-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Feb 08, 2014 at 08:55:50AM +, Joe wrote: > On Sat, 8 Feb 2014 15:10:09 +1300 > Chris Bannister wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 10:07:34PM +, Joe wrote: > > > You can also remove any kernel metapackage e.g. linux-image-amd64. > > > Apt will not normally attempt to replace what

Re: How to block kernel updates

2014-02-08 Thread Joe
On Sat, 8 Feb 2014 15:10:09 +1300 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 10:07:34PM +, Joe wrote: > > You can also remove any kernel metapackage e.g. linux-image-amd64. > > Apt will not normally attempt to replace whatever kernel you have > > installed, as it is a bit risky, and as

Re: harddrives with built-in NAND fkash

2014-02-08 Thread Fabrice Vaillant
On 02/08/2014 02:45 AM, Ric Moore wrote: On 02/07/2014 04:39 PM, Fabrice Vaillant wrote: I have used the same kind of drive as a main drive on my laptop. While I have no proof that the extra nand where used, I tend to think they were. There wasn't any extra drive showing in gparted or other too

Re: harddrives with built-in NAND fkash

2014-02-08 Thread Rick Thomas
On Feb 7, 2014, at 1:25 PM, Ric Moore wrote: > Do they require any special formating or partitioning to take advantage of > the 8 gigs of built-in "NAND flash"? I'm looking at a Seagate "Solid State > Hybrid drive - ST2000DX001 > > Thanks for any info and/or suggestions. Ric Fabrice Vaillant