similate a replacement
disk/partition into a say, how md rebuilds the mirror, etc.
Which LVM documents cover that aspect of LVM?
Thanks,
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Daniel B. wrote:
Can dhcpd be configured to pass on (to DHCP clients on a local,
private (NATted) network) the DHCP server machine's current domain
name server addresses (given to the machine by PPP (etc.))?
What happens when your server's current name serv
rge version) doesn't seem to say.)
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Cameron Hutchison wrote:
Daniel B. wrote:
Are there any instructions for proceeding from having downloaded
the source package files and _not_ having unpacked things?
(I think my current state is as if I had done
apt-get source --download-only xfree86
(I didn't actually do --dow
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
Daniel B. wrote:
How do you rebuild a Debian package from source _with_ local
modifications?
The instructions I've seen all extract source (original plus
patches) and build in one step, not giving a chance to make
local edits.
I frequently do this with coup
How do you rebuild a Debian package from source _with_ local
modifications?
The instructions I've seen all extract source (original plus
patches) and build in one step, not giving a chance to make
local edits.
Thanks.
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Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 12:26:33AM -0500, Daniel B. wrote:
Kelly Clowers wrote:
On Nov 12, 2007 7:24 AM, Daniel B. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Kelly Clowers wrote:
On Nov 11, 2007 7:46 PM, Daniel B. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've been having troubl
Kelly Clowers wrote:
On Nov 12, 2007 7:24 AM, Daniel B. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Kelly Clowers wrote:
On Nov 11, 2007 7:46 PM, Daniel B. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've been having trouble finding out the text-mode resolutions of
video cards. Does anyone know of a good co
Jochen Schulz wrote:
Daniel B.:
Kevin,
And setting vga=771 or similar in your kernel options?
Yes. I've been using vga=10 in my kernel options (via LILO) to set
the virtual console text mode resolution at boot time.
I am not absolutely sure, but I don't think vga=10 gives
Kelly Clowers wrote:
On Nov 11, 2007 7:46 PM, Daniel B. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've been having trouble finding out the text-mode resolutions of
video cards. Does anyone know of a good compilation of that
information?
Here is a list of modes:
http://en.wikiped
Kevin,
Kevin Mark wrote:
On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 10:46:53PM -0500, Daniel B. wrote:
I've been having trouble finding out the text-mode resolutions of
video cards. Does anyone know of a good compilation of that
information?
Relatedly, are they any good tutorials on switching from
f the feature of having textual virtual
consoles generated using hardware graphics mode?
Thanks,
Daniel
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(if you have any vfat partitions listed in /etc/fstab).
Unless it has been fixed (the Sarge version has not), fsck.vfat
SUCKS.
(Not if I could only figure out what part of my kernel still
sucks and keeps causing more filesystem corruption...)
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Frank Terbeck wrote:
Mike McClain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Frank Terbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
for FILE in `ls *$1` ; do
...
b) it breaks on filenames with spaces (and other special characters).
...> Using 'for i in `ls *`'-type loops breaks this and is one of the
main reasons w
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 03:44:33PM -0700, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
...
My system (Debian Etch) has been recently compromised and I deleted most of the
suspicious files. However I am not sure about these. Is it safe to delete them
or do you think some process expects
Steve Lamb wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
Not to mention that such actions are counterproductive. If someone
is tortured into confessing to a crime, it is always suspect.
Yes, but that isn't exactly what is going on, is it? What's going in is
called, if I recall correctly, the
s. keeling wrote:
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
If the list is getting RTFM questions, it also means that the manuals are
just not good enough to be understood. So probably trying to improve the
Or people aren't finding the documentation.
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Paul Johnson wrote:
Cloudless sky with negligable wind is an absence of weather.
Nope. That sounds like clear weather to me.
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Greg Folkert wrote:
...>
The Celsius Thermometer wil drop significantly slower the the Fahrenheit
one.
Only if it has more insulation. Otherwise, the temperature drops at the
same speed. Of course, yes, the _numbers_ change at different rates.
:-)
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Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
yeah, but Oregon still doesn't trust me to pump my own gas. Of course,
with some of the crap I see around here, that's probably a good thing.
Is it that they don't trust you to pump the gas safely, or is it
protectionism for gas-station worker as I think it was in
Mike McCarty wrote:
... If power fails during a write, and the drive
scribbles on the disc in a spiral pattern as the head moves
toward the parking area, that particular disc is hosed.
But the disks almost surely don't scribble on the disk in a spiral
pattern. (They'd detect that power is fail
Chris Bannister wrote:
On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 09:54:19PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
That is not it. The point is that if a fetus at 22 weeks can survive,
who gets to decide when the fetus is actually alive. I say we err on
the side of caution and say that it is alive from the moment of
Greg Folkert wrote:
DO NOT USE THE TERM "ex-Marines" it insults. The correct term is
"Former-Marines".
Sorry. You don't get to re-define English. "Ex-something" means
"former something." If someone's a former Marine, he or she is
also an ex-Marine.
Daniel
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Wulfy wrote:
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
Ooh. Don't even get me started on nuclear power. Cheap, clean,
virtually unlimited. We can't use it *because* of the conservationists
and environmentalists.
Regards,
-Roberto
Decommissioning nuclear plant... storage of nuclear waste... clean?
h
Freddy Freeloader wrote:
...
... Any message
that has been deleted in Icedove/Thunderbird/SeaMonkey is recoverable,
at least up until the time the folder is compacted or the Trash folder
is emptied, from the Trash folder. After that happens then, no, the
message is not recoverable. What is
Steve Lamb wrote:
Dave Sherohman wrote:
OK, one more time: Delete by default does not have to mean delete
*immediately* by default. Look at the underlined text above. I already
explicitly stated that I didn't mean immediate deletion and that delete-
on-folder-change or delete-on-exit are prob
Steve Lamb wrote:
...
And before we get into this again I only have to ask one question. If a
single file is such a bad thing why is it MySQL (and other) databases don't
store records per file but, instead, per table? You'd think the corruption
problem would be just as bad for them. And y
Dave Sherohman wrote:
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 02:30:48PM -0500, Daniel B. wrote:
Dave Sherohman wrote:
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 12:36:55PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
I was complaining solely about the use of "compact" to mean "delete".
Are you confusing the logical
marc wrote:
Daniel B. said...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 09:27:40AM -, marc wrote:
...
And the user can also provide their own CSS too, should they wish.
Right. But the reader shouldn't have to re-write a page's style sheet
just to be able to read it co
Joe Hart wrote:
...
Sorry to butt in here, but I think a point needs to be made. A large
number of modern websites do not allow the viewer to choose how to view
the page. If the browser window is too large, empty space will appear
on both sides. If the browser window is too small, the view wi
Dave Sherohman wrote:
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 12:36:55PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
...
I was complaining solely about the use of "compact" to mean "delete".
Are you confusing the logical level (what the user almost always deals
with) with the physical level?
At the logical level, the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 09:27:40AM -, marc wrote:
Daniel B. said...
...
Please note another problem with PDF: The page size and layout
are fixed.
Not really a problem, more of a feature of the format; the idea being
that a PDF renders the same regardless of the
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 10:09:30PM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote:
...
Pdf can have internal links as well as a table of contents that one can
click on. On the other hand, one needs X to read it and a postscript
capable printer to print it (yes I know...).
Please note
Greg Folkert wrote:
On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 17:28 -0500, Daniel Barclay wrote:
H.S. wrote:
The website ... suggests I either download Firefox or
IE 6 or 7, all for Windows. They do not support any non-Windows browser
at all!
Firefox runs on Linux. Or do you mean that website says or implies
Chris Bannister wrote:
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 11:42:22AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
Raju's point about employment with capitalone is entirely
different. CapitalOne is not (at least ostensibly) a web content
company. As such they can (IMO) be somehwat forgriven for having
non-compliant
Mark Williamson wrote:
BUS=="usb", SYSFS{product}=="Palm Handheld*", KERNEL=="ttyUSB[013579]",
Shouldn't you be matching [13579]? Matching the 0 as well will match
the first serial pipe to the handheld, not the second. On my Palm zire
I can only hotsync to the second...
...
... (I'm not su
Francisco Zabala wrote:
> ... Please, any comments (such as the one
above) that you feel beneficial for ALL Debian users who read this
list, please feel free (and encouraged) to submit them to the whole
list (as opposed to the individual user), as I am certain we can all
benefit from it.
So _yo
José Alburquerque wrote:
...
As far as I know, lilo and grub are mutually exclusive because both are
boot-loaders that use a disk's mbr to boot up operating systems.
LILO certainly isn't restricted to using the MBR. I've been using
it on a floppy for years. (The floppy is a physical "boo
Francisco Zabala wrote:
...
Couldn't imagine how simple coloring would generate so much hatred
(with so much passion).
To help your weak imagination, consider this possible explanation:
Because the message sender effectively reached into Greg's
computer and rudely told the his mail reader t
Douglas Tutty wrote:
..
Since the spam doesn't seem to be targeted specifically to *N*X system
users, it may be safe to think that their targeted audience mostly is
running *doze. Sind *doze people can't handle .ps files easily there's
less incentive for the spammers to send .ps files.
So the
Florian Kulzer wrote:
[ I accidentally sent this message when it was only half finished; here
is the full text. Sorry for the noise. ]
On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 22:53:17 -0500, Daniel B. wrote:
Where is the configuration or auto-detection of whether a video display
device is a CRT or an LCD
Where is the configuration or auto-detection of whether a video display
device is a CRT or an LCD?
I've been getting strange color fringes around text when anti-aliasing
is turned on. It seems that something thinks my display device is an
LCD panel, when actually it's a CRT.
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charles norwood wrote:
On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 10:27 -0400, Daniel B. wrote:
...
Also, given that the spurious characters appear at different places in
the printout when I try again suggests that something random is going
on (dropped or extra characters in the output stream), which
I wrote:
Since I upgraded to Debian Sarge and kernel 2.6.8 (2.6.8-2-k7-smp),
I've been getting lots of errors in my printouts.
The error pattern is that at multiple, seemingly random positions in
the middle of the printout, there is a spurious "d" character...
...
Because plain-text document
Marty wrote:
Daniel B. wrote:
[With] Debian Sarge and kernel 2.6.8 ... I've been getting lots of
>> errors in my printouts. ... at multiple, seemingly random positions
>> ... there is a spurious "d" character...
...
This applies to files that go through the mag
Since I upgraded to Debian Sarge and kernel 2.6.8 (2.6.8-2-k7-smp),
I've been getting lots of errors in my printouts.
The error pattern is that at multiple, seemingly random positions in
the middle of the printout, there is a spurious "d" character, and
frequentlyright after the "d" there som
David Baron wrote:
On Thursday 27 July 2006 00:38, Daniel B. wrote:
...
I have had similar problems with an Asus A7M266-D motherboard with multiple
kernel versions (2.2 through 2.6, I think).
From what I've been able to gather, my motherboard's IDE controller (AMD
768?) is bugg
Greg Madden wrote:
...
John Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...
I have two IDE drives ... the motherboard is quite old.
...
I get the following error messages from dmesg:
...>> hde: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hde: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError Bad
charles norwood wrote:
On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 10:27 -0400, Daniel B. wrote:
...
Also, given that the spurious characters appear at different places in
the printout when I try again suggests that something random is going
on (dropped or extra characters in the output stream), which doesn't
Felipe Sateler wrote:
Daniel B. wrote:
Can anyone help with this? I got absolutely no replies when I
posted it before. Now the problem is much worse, with dozens
of errors per page, maybe evening averaging one error per line
of text (when printing a plain-text file).
I'm taking a _
Can anyone help with this? I got absolutely no replies when I
posted it before. Now the problem is much worse, with dozens
of errors per page, maybe evening averaging one error per line
of text (when printing a plain-text file).
Thanks.
---
Since I upgraded to Debian Sarge and switched to CUPS for printing, I've
been getting lots of errors in my printouts.
The error pattern is that somewhere in the middle of the printout, there
is a spurious "d" character, and right next to the "d" (I think after it)
there is a column or two of erron
Since I upgraded to Debian Sarge and switched to CUPS for printing, I've
been getting lots of errors in my printouts.
The error pattern is that somewhere in the middle of the printout, there
is a spurious "d" character, and right next to the "d" (I think after it)
there is a column or two of erro
H.S. wrote:
Arafangion wrote:
I HATE BLINKING TEXT. I am sure that this sentiment is shared by many
other people.
Agreed. However, in case, the user wants a pair of words flashing for a
few days to attract attention to a special item.
Hmm. Words flashing for a few days. That sounds REALL
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 01:50:27PM -0400, Daniel B. wrote:
Mike McCarty wrote:
Well, I used to work as a watchmaker, and I can't think of any
context where "KB" stands together as written with "K" meaning
"karat".
That's
Mike McCarty wrote:
Well, I used to work as a watchmaker, and I can't think of any
context where "KB" stands together as written with "K" meaning
"karat".
That's not surprising--in SI, the prefix is the scale factor, and
the remainder is the unit. I don't think there are any unit symbols
tha
Willie Wonka wrote:
...
IOW - Is this how one would correctly display these rates ?
1500mbps = 1.5gbps = 187.5mBps = 1.875gBps ?
I think you mean 1500Mbps = 1.5Gbps = 187.5MBps = 1.875GBps
As you can see the capitalized 'B' appears a tad ...'out of place'(?),
but it's likely /very/ necessary
Willie Wonka wrote:
...
1 bit * 8 = 1 byte
^^
I forgot to capitalize my 'B' in "Byte" above
The word "byte" doesn't need to be capitalized. (Were you thinking
of the capitalized letter "B" by itself when it stands for the word
"byte"?)
Daniel
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Willie Wonka wrote:
Serial ATA (SATA) data transfer rate specification = 1500 *mbps* or
*mb/sec* (megabits per second).
No. Megabits be per second is "Mbps" (lowercase "m" means "milli").
Daniel
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I'm having trouble with printing after switching to using CUPS,
foomatic, and gs (gs-esp) in Sarge:
When I try to print plain text, the system cuts off the top two-thirds
of the first line, and the first several characters on the left.
>From the position of the partially printed characters, it
Paul E Condon wrote:
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 12:47:45PM -0500, Daniel B. wrote:
Paul E Condon wrote:
...
I think apt does not recognize "sarge" or "woody" or "etch" etc.
... why? ...
...
I think it is a design flaw, more than an implementation bug.
W
Paul E Condon wrote:
Think OP was trying to use "sarge", not "stable".
Right.
> I think apt does not recognize "sarge" or "woody" or "etch" etc.
Does anyone know why? (Is it a bug in APT tools? Something wrong in my
local mirror? Something else?)
Daniel
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Jon Dowland wrote:
On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 08:22:44AM -0600, Matt Zagrabelny wrote:
there should be hundreds of articles on the internet for how to run an
application from a jar file.
google: execute jar file
Yep: there's hundreds of articles on the _world wide web_ for most
topics discusse
Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Wed, 01 Mar 2006 16:43:54 -0500
"Daniel B." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
When I run "aptitude --target sarge install ...", aptitude doesn't
listen to the instruction to install a version from Sarge; it installs
a version from Testing.
I wrote:
When I run "aptitude --target sarge install ...", aptitude doesn't
listen to the instruction to install a version from Sarge; it installs
a version from Testing. (I have both Sarge and Testing mirrors in
my APT sources list file.)
What needs to be done to get "--target ..." (or APT::D
When I run "aptitude --target sarge install ...", aptitude doesn't
listen to the instruction to install a version from Sarge; it installs
a version from Testing. (I have both Sarge and Testing mirrors in
my APT sources list file.)
What needs to be done to get "--target ..." (or APT::Default-Rel
I'm having trouble with printing after switching to using CUPS,
foomatic, and gs (gs-esp) in Sarge:
When I try to print plain text, the system cuts off the top two-thirds
of the first line, and the first several characters on the left.
From the position of the partially printed characters, it s
Michelle Konzack wrote:
Am 2006-02-23 08:49:04, schrieb Mitchell Laks:
Long ago, in a galaxy far away, I partitioned my 120GB hard drive.
fdisk /dev/hda
Why not use cfdisk?
Does cfdisk give as much control over partitioning (e.g., which partition
numbers to use and where to place part
Jean-Marie Thomas wrote:
>
> On Sunday 26 February 2006 18:27, Daniel B. wrote:
> > What does it take to get the timing right in trying to connect to
> > a Palm OS PDA when using udev?
> ...
> > My PDA is a PalmOne Tungsten T5.
> >
> > I'm running a
s udev work with program likes PilotManager and pilot-link?
>
> (Does udev not properly accommodate for needs of such programs?
> Do those programs make bad (or just old) assumptions about
> devices? Is something else the problem?)
>
> My PDA is a PalmOne Tungsten T5.
>
&g
ystem with udev (Sarge's 0.056-3) and kernel
2.6.8 (Sarge's 2.6.8-16sarge1).
Thanks,
Daniel
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I'm having trouble getting APT::Default-Release to work.
Where is the documentation for it (in Sarge)?
The apt.conf(5) manual page sees to be where it should be documented
(e.g., in its section "The APT Group"). However, that manual page
doesn't mention it, anywhere.
The aptitude(8) manual pa
Levi Waldron wrote:
3. after changing your partition table, you really do have to reboot
- at least this is my best guess as to what the problem was.
Sometimes you can avoid the need to reboot:
If you can unmount every other partition that is on the disk whose
partition table you are modifyi
Glenn English wrote:
On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 16:08 -0500, Daniel B. wrote:
Clive Menzies wrote:
On (15/02/06 12:58), Daniel B. wrote:
What anti-spam method minimizes the network bandwith used by spam
delivery attempts?
sa-exim with spamassassin rejects mail at SMTP time which may solve
Paul Johnson wrote:
It sounds like you're already at a spot where you can't reasonably reduce
bandwidth used by email any further.
Yeah, that seems to be true, unfortunately.
For example, does your network have a caching HTTP proxy? If
not, you're literally flushing bandwidth down the to
Paul Johnson wrote:
On Wednesday 15 February 2006 09:58, Daniel B. wrote:
...
How hard is it to refuse incoming TCP connections to the SMTP port
based on DNSBL, using exim4?
That is easy, and I run my own DNSBL instead of trying to figure out exim4's
ACLs in great depth.
Would ref
Clive Menzies wrote:
On (15/02/06 12:58), Daniel B. wrote:
What anti-spam method minimizes the network bandwith used by spam
delivery attempts?
sa-exim with spamassassin rejects mail at SMTP time which may solve your
problem
I was _already_ talking about rejecting mail at SMTP time
What anti-spam method minimizes the network bandwith used by spam
delivery attempts?
How hard is it to refuse incoming TCP connections to the SMTP port
based on DNSBL, using exim4? Would refusing connections reduce the
overall traffic (maybe even causing spammer machines to think I no
longer run
Paul Dwerryhouse wrote:
On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 10:02:47PM +, David Jarvie wrote:
I have updated my etch installation with the latest updates, which include
kernel 2.6.15 and udev. I find now that when I boot up an older (customised)
2.6.12 kernel, X fails to start up because it can't fin
Mike Bird wrote:
On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 11:23, David Berg wrote:
I'm trying to write a for loop that descends into a list of
directories and runs a command. I can't seem to get the quoting right
though. Most of the directories have spaces and they are making
things difficult for me. Here is
John W. M. Stevens wrote:
Udev was a response to devfs.
Sadly, BOTH systems were poorly thought out.
...
> Udev was the user space devfs, but unfortunately, it was also designed
to cover all of dev, instead of just the sub-set of hot attach/detach
devices that make sense for a "dynamic"
Mark Fletcher wrote:
Daniel B. wrote:
In trying to switch to kernel 2.6(.8) and udev on Sarge, I found that
device node /dev/lp0 (for a parallel-port printer I have) doesn't get
created unless I manually run "modprobe lp".
Is the printer (and/or parallel) port supposed t
I wrote:
John Hasler wrote:
Daniel writes:
Is Sarge's diald supposed to work with kernel 2.6.8 and udev?
Do you really need diald at all? What does it do for you that dial on
demand can't?
I don't know; maybe nothing.
However, I'd like to avoid changing too many things at once. (A
John Hasler wrote:
Daniel writes:
Is Sarge's diald supposed to work with kernel 2.6.8 and udev?
Do you really need diald at all? What does it do for you that dial on
demand can't?
I don't know; maybe nothing.
However, I'd like to avoid changing too many things at once. (At the
moment
In trying to switch to kernel 2.6(.8) and udev on Sarge, I found that
splay/xsplay fails, saying "Failed to open sound device". Using
strace, I see that opening /dev/dsp is failing:
open("/dev/dsp" ... ) = -1 EBUSY (Device or resource busy).
I'm not knowingly running any sound daemons, so wh
In trying to switch to kernel 2.6(.8) and udev on Sarge, I found that
device node /dev/lp0 (for a parallel-port printer I have) doesn't get
created unless I manually run "modprobe lp".
Is the printer (and/or parallel) port supposed to be recognized
automatically and is /dev/lp0 supposed to be cre
In trying to switch to kernel 2.6(.8) and udev on Sarge, I'm
encountering a problem with diald. It says:
No pty in range pty[p-s][0-9a0-f]
and then fails (saying "Diald is dying with code 1").
Any ideas (what to do to make such device nodes available, or maybe
how to reconfigure diald to use
Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Thu, 09 Feb 2006 16:59:23 -0500
"Daniel B." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...
the documentation that I found did warn me that my
mouse device (/dev/psaux) would change (and therefore gpm and X might
break), but the device the documentation said the mouse
Digby Tarvin wrote:
...
Perhaps I was just lucky and by installing 2.6 from the start
the installation process did everything for me...
Oh--do you mean to installed Debian from scratch (as opposed to
upgrading a previous installation)?
(Mine was an upgrade from Woody to Sarge, and then trying
Where are instructions on how to upgrade to kernel 2.6 (ideally,
specifically in Debian's Sarge release)?
The instructions I've found so far are quite sketchy. (For example,
although I have found instructions that tell me that my mouse is no
longer at /dev/psaux but is now at /dev/input/mouse (o
Digby Tarvin wrote:
I didn't think there was much more to it than just doing a
apt-get intall kernel-image-2.6.8
Actually, there is (or sure seems to be).
As I mentioned, the documentation that I found did warn me that my
mouse device (/dev/psaux) would change (and therefore gpm and X
Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 14:04 -0400, Daniel B. wrote:
...
... the reason I'm using PIO mode
in the first place is because I get massive file system corruption
when I use DMA mode with IDE controllers on my motherboard (Asus
A7M266-D; AMD 762(?) chipset).
.
Andreas Janssen wrote:
...If you use Sarge
(without backported apt from somewhere else!), this problem shouldn'd
occur, because not only apt-key, but the whole GPG stuff is not
implemented in your apt. debmirror seems to be a different issue,
however. It looks like debmirror from Sarge /does/ ch
Florian Kulzer wrote:
David Kirchner wrote:
On 2/2/06, Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
man apt-secure, man apt-key
Neither are found on my Sarge install, and I don't see them in aptitude.
Install the 2006 archive signing key. This has been explained plenty of
times on the l
Hans Ekbrand wrote:
On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 04:50:47PM -0500, Daniel B. wrote:
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 11:10:56AM -0500, Daniel B. wrote:
...
I can't tell if I deleted a key I had before (in purging and/or
re-installing some things I shouldn't h
I wrote:
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 11:10:56AM -0500, Daniel B. wrote:
...when I try to run debmirror to keep my local mirror updated, it
says:
...
[0%] Keeping: dists/sarge/Release.gpg
gpg: Signature made Sat Dec 17 05:46:27 2005 EST using DSA key ID
4F368D5D
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 11:10:56AM -0500, Daniel B. wrote:
...when I try to run debmirror to keep my local mirror updated, it
says:
...
[0%] Keeping: dists/sarge/Release.gpg
gpg: Signature made Sat Dec 17 05:46:27 2005 EST using DSA key ID 4F368D5D
gpg: Can&#
Where does Debian (or debmirror?) store the public key that debmirror
uses to validate Release files?
In upgrading to Sarge, I purged (or upgraded) a few too many things, and
now when I try to run debmirror to keep my local mirror updated, it
says:
...
[0%] Keeping: dists/sarge/Release.gpg
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