Re: Which FS for USB Flash Drive

2009-01-27 Thread elijah rutschman
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Kushal Koolwal wrote: > Does anybody have any experience with installing Debian (say Lenny) on USB > flash drives? I would like to install Debian on my PQI 4 GB USB flash drive > but I am not sure which filesystem to use - ext2, ext3, XFS? I've done something like

Re: DD command

2008-12-19 Thread elijah rutschman
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 12:36 AM, rjubio wrote: > How long does a dd command take for an 80 GB IDE hd? I've found that setting a higher blocksize (using the bs= parameter) makes dd go much faster. I usually set the blocksize to about 50 megabytes, depending on available RAM. Regards, Elijah -

Re: Iceweasel not starting

2008-12-04 Thread elijah rutschman
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try this: > > define a new user, any user: > > adduser mickey > > then logon to X as that user that you just added. > > Then try iceweasel again, logged on as that user. That worked! If you were thinking it was my profil

Re: Iceweasel not starting

2008-12-04 Thread elijah rutschman
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 11:46 AM, elijah rutschman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Running: > $ iceweasel --safe-mode Sorry, I meant to type iceweasel -safe-mode, with one dash before 'safe'. The result was the same, no window or output. -Elijah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: Iceweasel not starting

2008-12-04 Thread elijah rutschman
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What does: > > iceasel -safe-mode > > > show? Running: $ iceweasel --safe-mode gives the same result: there is no new window, and no console output. Thanks, Elijah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Iceweasel not starting

2008-12-04 Thread elijah rutschman
e is no helpful console output. $ iceweasel $ $ firefox $ I have tried purging iceweasel and firefox with aptitude, then reinstalling, to no avail. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Elijah Rutschman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Any textual web browser handling javascript?

2008-11-19 Thread elijah rutschman
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 2:05 PM, Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are there any textual web browsers handling javascript? w3m doesn't, nor does > links, so it's not possible to view most webmails. Hello, I believe elinks has javascript support via the spidermonkey javascript engine. H

Re: index.php does not open instead download

2008-11-17 Thread elijah rutschman
Have you restarted apache (or whatever web server you are running) since installing php ? /etc/init.d/apache2 restart Failing that, make sure you have the php apache module installed (libapache2-mod-php5, i believe), then restart apache. If the PHP code is what shows up in the downloaded file, t

power-efficiency & non-x86 desktop systems

2008-11-14 Thread elijah rutschman
ecture, or specifically, which CPU lines are specifically designed to be power-efficient? Are there any non-x86 motherboards with PCI, SATA, USB, etc. that would be powerful enough for moderate desktop use, i.e. web surfing, compiling software packages, and playing movies? Thanks, Elijah Rutschm

Re: small web browser

2008-11-13 Thread elijah rutschman
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:59 AM, lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Dillo didn't work, I tried it. It's not even possible to get the fonts > to a readable size ... And links2 shows text only in a totally messed > up display, same as lynx. For dillo, you can change the font size using a dillor

Re: small web browser

2008-11-13 Thread elijah rutschman
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 2:33 AM, lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Anyway, all these browsers use a lot of memory. I've been using Mozilla > (iceape) for years and lately stuck to it only because I needed the > built-in mail client. Now I have replaced the mail client with claws, > and I'm cur

Re: Windows to Debian secure data transfer over internet

2008-11-12 Thread elijah rutschman
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 6:08 PM, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I am in a situation where a friend of mine wants to send tons of photos > to me. Internet connection being what it is regarding stability, I am > aiming to a method where the photos' transfer can be resumed if the > conne

Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

2008-11-06 Thread elijah rutschman
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 7:00 AM, Michael Ott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > I am looking for a very slim desktop manager. > > The system looking for is a 486 166MHz with 64MB Ram. Hi Michael, Rox Desktop might be what you are looking for, but I don't know the minimum specs, and if I remember

Re: Virtual Box (Sun) + USB

2008-11-04 Thread elijah rutschman
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 9:46 AM, Roberto Chacon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Tengo instalado el VirtualBox que se de Sun, todo funciona sin problemas, > solo que no he podido activar el soporte USB > > He buscado y solo aparaece para VitualBox OSE. > > Alguna idea de como activarlo. Hola, Do

Re: grub with sata drives?

2008-11-03 Thread elijah rutschman
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Thomas H. George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have two sata drives, sda and sdb with the root partition on sdb. I > installed grub on sdb and made the following entries in > /boot/grub/menu.lst: As far as I know, grub doesn't use the Linux /dev/ nodes to access d

Re: Debian installer

2008-10-27 Thread elijah rutschman
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Freddy Freeloader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just out of curiosity, will the ability to create RAID10 arrays ever be > integrated into the installer? > Oh, and while I'm at it, how about raid1 arrays with more than 2 drives? I > did a Lenny install today and cou

Re: old dos and win3.1 games on Debian Etch amd64

2008-10-14 Thread elijah rutschman
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Finally unpacking after my move and I came across some old games I'd > like to play. I had them when my IBM ValuePoint 486 was screaming HOT. > > Now I have an AMD Athlon 3800+ with 1 GB ram, run Debian Etch amd64 with

Re: how to create an image of your debian computer hard drive for cloning

2008-09-30 Thread elijah rutschman
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Hans Ekbrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: [...] > If you can plug the hard disk of the "clean pc" into your existing > system, then I recommend dd. If you need to manually move the data > between the computers then partimaged is handier. If both computers > exists in

Re: etch and a half and the new kernel...

2008-09-22 Thread elijah rutschman
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Michael Habashy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > how can i down load the new kernel with apt-get $ apt-get update && apt-cache search linux-image should give you a list of all the kernel packages available for download from the repositories. Cheers, Elijah