Re: Networking borked on new squeeze install[solved]

2012-04-12 Thread Mat Enders
Solved someone on another list remembered for me that I had this same problem several months ago where existing machines on the network could get out but not new ones. Rebooting the Netopia gateway solved the problem. Thanks to those who responded. -- Mathew E. Enders "Where once Samba and Apa

Re: Networking borked on new squeeze install

2012-04-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 09 apr 12, 22:38:59, Mat Enders wrote: > Here is a stumper. I just completed a brand new installation of > Debian, during installation it could not reach the repositories so > only a base installation was completed. > > I am logged directly into the machine not via ssh. Network appears to

Re: Networking borked on new squeeze install [SOLVED]

2012-04-10 Thread Mat Enders
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 2:39 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 10/04/12 12:38, Mat Enders wrote: >> Here is a stumper.  I just completed a brand new installation of >> Debian, during installation it could not reach the repositories so >> only a base installation was completed. >> >> I am logged direc

Re: Networking borked on new squeeze install

2012-04-09 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 10/04/12 12:38, Mat Enders wrote: > Here is a stumper. I just completed a brand new installation of > Debian, during installation it could not reach the repositories so > only a base installation was completed. > > I am logged directly into the machine not via ssh. So you've proven the NIC

Re: Networking borked on new squeeze install

2012-04-09 Thread Brad Alexander
Ugh. What does route show? It sounds like your route to your gateway is b0rked. --b On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 12:00 AM, Mat Enders wrote: > On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 11:34 PM, Brad Alexander wrote: >> Sounds like a dns problem, Mat. Can you ping a network address outside >> your borders? I like to k

Re: Networking borked on new squeeze install

2012-04-09 Thread Steve Mayer
On Apr 9, 2012, at 7:38 PM, Mat Enders wrote: > Here is a stumper. I just completed a brand new installation of > Debian, during installation it could not reach the repositories so > only a base installation was completed. > > I am logged directly into the machine not via ssh. Network appears to

Re: Networking borked on new squeeze install

2012-04-09 Thread Mat Enders
On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 11:34 PM, Brad Alexander wrote: > Sounds like a dns problem, Mat. Can you ping a network address outside > your borders? I like to keep several in the back of my head for that: > GTE/MCI/VZN's dns servers are 4.2.2.1, 4.2.2.2 and 4.2.2.3. Google's > are 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4.

Re: Networking borked on new squeeze install

2012-04-09 Thread Brad Alexander
Sounds like a dns problem, Mat. Can you ping a network address outside your borders? I like to keep several in the back of my head for that: GTE/MCI/VZN's dns servers are 4.2.2.1, 4.2.2.2 and 4.2.2.3. Google's are 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4. Can you ping them by address? what does the search and/or domain

Networking borked on new squeeze install

2012-04-09 Thread Mat Enders
Here is a stumper. I just completed a brand new installation of Debian, during installation it could not reach the repositories so only a base installation was completed. I am logged directly into the machine not via ssh. Network appears to have configured correctly via dhcp. ifconfig says I ha

Re: New Squeeze install fails to boot (not even to grub)

2011-06-05 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 04 Jun 2011 16:33:35 -0700, Johnathan Ritzi wrote: > Problem solved (I think). After digging some more, I realized that after > the install the only partition marked bootable was /dev/sda6 (Linux > root). As you installed GRUB into the MBR, that makes sense. > I used fdisk to make /dev/

Re: New Squeeze install fails to boot (not even to grub)

2011-06-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2011-06-04 at 15:33 -0700, Johnathan Ritzi wrote: > [snip] Just to experiment, I went into fdisk, deleted all my new > partitions (leaving just the Windows ones) [snip] > I'm not even getting to the grub boot screen, so something is wrong > even before the point. Reinstalling grub to the Ma

Re: New Squeeze install fails to boot (not even to grub)

2011-06-04 Thread Johnathan Ritzi
Problem solved (I think). After digging some more, I realized that after the install the only partition marked bootable was /dev/sda6 (Linux root). I used fdisk to make /dev/sda2 also bootable (the main Windows partition) and grub (and everything else) came up fine. I believe the original set up wa

New Squeeze install fails to boot (not even to grub)

2011-06-04 Thread Johnathan Ritzi
(posted this to a Linux forum, cross-posting here as recommended by the install guide troubleshooting instructions) I recently purchased a new Lenovo Thinkpad T420i and am having problems installing the latest version of Squeeze from CD. After receiving the laptop, I started it up, configured Wind

Re: uid & gid problem restoring ubuntu made backup to new squeeze install

2011-05-29 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 1:17 AM, Brian Ryans wrote: > Quoting Juan R. de Silva on 2011-04-21 16:36: >> I preserved the user names for both of users in a new squeeze >> installation but UID and GID are different. So, by simply using 'cp - >> a' (or rsync) I would run

Re: uid & gid problem restoring ubuntu made backup to new squeeze install

2011-05-27 Thread Brian Ryans
Quoting Juan R. de Silva on 2011-04-21 16:36: > I preserved the user names for both of users in a new squeeze > installation but UID and GID are different. So, by simply using 'cp - > a' (or rsync) I would run into problem of their mismatch. > > Is there a simple and q

Re: uid & gid problem restoring ubuntu made backup to new squeeze install

2011-04-22 Thread Arnt Karlsen
from /etc needed to be restored. > > I preserved the user names for both of users in a new squeeze > installation but UID and GID are different. So, by simply using 'cp - > a' (or rsync) I would run into problem of their mismatch. > > Is there a simple and quick way t

Re: uid & gid problem restoring ubuntu made backup to new squeeze install

2011-04-22 Thread Klistvud
stored. I preserved the user names for both of users in a new squeeze installation but UID and GID are different. How different? In Debian, the user numbers start at 1000 and go upwards. The user 1000 will be the first user you created (usually gets created during the installation of the OS).

Re: uid & gid problem restoring ubuntu made backup to new squeeze install

2011-04-21 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 18:54:38 -0400, George Standish wrote: > On 21/04/11 06:16 PM, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > >> ..Debian uses the same values as Ubuntu does. Good. > > I'm sure you mean, Ubuntu uses the same as values as Debian does ;) You were reading my thoughts. :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: uid & gid problem restoring ubuntu made backup to new squeeze install

2011-04-21 Thread George Standish
On 21/04/11 06:16 PM, Juan R. de Silva wrote: ..Debian uses the same values as Ubuntu does. Good. I'm sure you mean, Ubuntu uses the same as values as Debian does ;) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...

Re: uid & gid problem restoring ubuntu made backup to new squeeze install

2011-04-21 Thread Juan R. de Silva
ed > to be restored. > > I preserved the user names for both of users in a new squeeze > installation but UID and GID are different. So, by simply using 'cp - a' > (or rsync) I would run into problem of their mismatch. > > Is there a simple and quick way to resolve it

uid & gid problem restoring ubuntu made backup to new squeeze install

2011-04-21 Thread Juan R. de Silva
I'm in the process of moving from Ubuntu to Debian. I've installed squeeze and want to restore some of 2 users home files and directories from a backup made in Ubuntu. There are also some files from /etc needed to be restored. I preserved the user names for both of users in a n

Re: new squeeze

2010-09-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Jo, 16 sep 10, 21:12:39, AG wrote: > > Windows will automatically wipe the entire HD clean during > installation, I'm not a fan of Windows, but this is just not true, at least not with every version until Windows XP. It will screw up grub though, so have a boot disk handy if you didn't inst

Re: new squeeze

2010-09-16 Thread Doug
On 9/16/2010 4:12 PM, AG wrote: On 10/09/10 03:30, Doug wrote: I just downloaded debian-testing i386 Net Inst and burned the .iso onto disk. Before I do something silly, I want to make sure that this is designed to live with other os's on the hd. (I remember one older version of Ubuntu that took

Re: new squeeze

2010-09-16 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 17/09/10 04:15, James Zuelow wrote: > LOL. If anyone thinks this thread has been extremist or hateful, you need to > get out more. :) *nod > That being said, I think some people have lost track of the thread. What are you trying to say James? :-) Surely every post has focused on solving

Re: new squeeze

2010-09-16 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 17/09/10 02:48, Tom H wrote: > On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 11:05 PM, Scott Ferguson > wrote: >> >> And you probably don't see pro-Ubuntu posts/whines on a Debian mailing >> list as trolling either... ;-p > Not at all. Definitely not whining. > ;-p I didn't take you comment on Ubuntu as whining

Re: new squeeze

2010-09-16 Thread AG
On 10/09/10 03:30, Doug wrote: I just downloaded debian-testing i386 Net Inst and burned the .iso onto disk. Before I do something silly, I want to make sure that this is designed to live with other os's on the hd. (I remember one older version of Ubuntu that took over the drive, and wiped ever

RE: new squeeze

2010-09-16 Thread James Zuelow
LOL. If anyone thinks this thread has been extremist or hateful, you need to get out more. :) That being said, I think some people have lost track of the thread. Tom H is the one who said, and I'll paraphrase here: "If you use the debian installer, and it asks you if you want to use the ent

Re: new squeeze

2010-09-16 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 11:05 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: >  On 16/09/10 12:17, Tom H wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 6:04 AM, Klistvud wrote: >>> Dne, 15. 09. 2010 11:36:48 je Lisi napisal(a): I find the hand-holding, suitable-for newbies, so-called-easy Ubuntu installer utterly i

Re: new squeeze

2010-09-16 Thread Angus Hedger
On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 22:17:19 -0400 Tom H wrote: > On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 6:04 AM, Klistvud > wrote: > > Dne, 15. 09. 2010 11:36:48 je Lisi napisal(a): > >> > >> I find the hand-holding, suitable-for newbies, so-called-easy > >> Ubuntu installer utterly incomprehensible. > > > > +1 > > I find b

Re: new squeeze

2010-09-15 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 16/09/10 12:17, Tom H wrote: > On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 6:04 AM, Klistvud wrote: >> Dne, 15. 09. 2010 11:36:48 je Lisi napisal(a): >>> I find the hand-holding, suitable-for newbies, so-called-easy Ubuntu >>> installer utterly incomprehensible. >> +1 > I find both your statements utterly incompr

Re: new squeeze

2010-09-15 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 6:04 AM, Klistvud wrote: > Dne, 15. 09. 2010 11:36:48 je Lisi napisal(a): >> >> I find the hand-holding, suitable-for newbies, so-called-easy Ubuntu >> installer utterly incomprehensible. > > +1 I find both your statements utterly incomprehensible! :) I only use the Ubunt

Re: new squeeze

2010-09-15 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 1:03 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:22 AM, Scott Ferguson >> wrote: 2010/9/13 Jes�s M. Navarro : > On Friday 10 September 2010 21:17:24 Tom H wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 11:25 PM, Miles Fidelman >>> Now if you consider it user

Re: new squeeze

2010-09-15 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 15. 09. 2010 11:36:48 je Lisi napisal(a): I find the hand-holding, suitable-for newbies, so-called-easy Ubuntu installer utterly incomprehensible. +1 That said, however, I don't think the main question here should be "what kind of users is d-i targeted for". I think the crucial issue

Re: new squeeze

2010-09-15 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 15 September 2010 06:03:54 Scott Ferguson wrote: > Hand-holding installations have been discussed to death - the general > consensus seems to be if you want hand-holding use one of the "less > pure" Debians (Ubuntu et al). > If you want choice use the Debian installer - it may wipe an

Re: new squeeze

2010-09-14 Thread Scott Ferguson
> On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:22 AM, Scott Ferguson > wrote: >>> 2010/9/13 Jes�s M. Navarro : On Friday 10 September 2010 21:17:24 Tom H wrote: > On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 11:25 PM, Miles Fidelman >> Now if you consider it user error to give the default answers, when you >> actually

Re: new squeeze

2010-09-14 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:22 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> 2010/9/13 Jes�s M. Navarro : >>> On Friday 10 September 2010 21:17:24 Tom H wrote: On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 11:25 PM, Miles Fidelman > Now if you consider it user error to give the default answers, when you > actually want to sa

Re: new squeeze

2010-09-14 Thread Scott Ferguson
> 2010/9/13 Jes�s M. Navarro : >> On Friday 10 September 2010 21:17:24 Tom H wrote: >>> On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 11:25 PM, Miles Fidelman Now if you consider it user error to give the default answers, when you actually want to save the current install, then your anwer is accurate. >>> I do

Re: new squeeze

2010-09-14 Thread Tom H
2010/9/13 Jesús M. Navarro : > On Friday 10 September 2010 21:17:24 Tom H wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 11:25 PM, Miles Fidelman >> > >> > Now if you consider it user error to give the default answers, when you >> > actually want to save the current install, then your anwer is accurate. >> >> I

Re: new squeeze

2010-09-14 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 14. 09. 2010 01:53:07 je Jesús M. Navarro napisal(a): > install. With Ubuntu's installer, aimed at a less technical crowd, the > default is to do a side-by-side install. Seems much saner (and proper) to me. +1 -- Regards, Klistvud Certifiable Loonix User #481801 http://bufferoverflow.

Re: new squeeze

2010-09-13 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi: On Friday 10 September 2010 21:17:24 Tom H wrote: > On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 11:25 PM, Miles Fidelman > [...] > > Now if you consider it user error to give the default answers, when you > > actually want to save the current install, then your anwer is accurate. > > I do. It's a PEBKAC. With d-

Re: new squeeze-again, solved

2010-09-10 Thread Doug
On 9/10/2010 3:01 PM, Rob Owens wrote: On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 02:32:40PM -0400, Doug wrote: On 9/10/2010 8:22 AM, Rob Owens wrote: On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 11:32:20AM +0100, Joao Ferreira gmail wrote: On Fri, 2010-09-10 at 01:59 -0400, Doug wrote: Trying to install. I come to the partitioner

Re: new squeeze

2010-09-10 Thread ceduard0
2010/9/9 Doug > > I just downloaded debian-testing i386 Net Inst and burned the > .iso onto disk.  Before I do something silly, I want to make sure > that this is designed to live with other os's on the hd. (I remember > one older version of Ubuntu that took over the drive, and wiped everything >

Re: new squeeze

2010-09-10 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 11:25 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Tom H wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 10:30 PM, Doug  wrote: >>> >>> I just downloaded debian-testing i386 Net Inst and burned the >>> .iso onto disk.  Before I do something silly, I want to make sure >>> that this is designed to live with

Re: new squeeze-again

2010-09-10 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 02:32:40PM -0400, Doug wrote: > On 9/10/2010 8:22 AM, Rob Owens wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 11:32:20AM +0100, Joao Ferreira gmail wrote: >>> On Fri, 2010-09-10 at 01:59 -0400, Doug wrote: Trying to install. I come to the partitioner. It says there is 261 GB

Re: new squeeze-again

2010-09-10 Thread Doug
On 9/10/2010 8:22 AM, Rob Owens wrote: On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 11:32:20AM +0100, Joao Ferreira gmail wrote: On Fri, 2010-09-10 at 01:59 -0400, Doug wrote: Trying to install. I come to the partitioner. It says there is 261 GB available. (This is empty, unpartitioned and unformatted space, lef

Re: new squeeze-again

2010-09-10 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 11:32:20AM +0100, Joao Ferreira gmail wrote: > On Fri, 2010-09-10 at 01:59 -0400, Doug wrote: > > Trying to install. I come to the partitioner. It says there is 261 GB > > available. (This is empty, unpartitioned and unformatted space, left > > over after cloning drive f

Re: new squeeze-again

2010-09-10 Thread Joao Ferreira gmail
On Fri, 2010-09-10 at 01:59 -0400, Doug wrote: > Trying to install. I come to the partitioner. It says there is 261 GB > available. (This is empty, unpartitioned and unformatted space, left > over after cloning drive from a smaller one.) On-screen instructions say > > [!!] Partition disks >

Re: new squeeze

2010-09-10 Thread Joao Ferreira gmail
On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 22:30 -0400, Doug wrote: > I just downloaded debian-testing i386 Net Inst and burned the > .iso onto disk. Before I do something silly, I want to make sure > that this is designed to live with other os's on the hd. (I remember > one older version of Ubuntu that took over the

Re: new squeeze

2010-09-09 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 10. 09. 2010 04:39:46 je Aaron Toponce napisal(a): On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 10:30:35PM -0400, Doug wrote: > (I remember > one older version of Ubuntu that took over the drive, and wiped > everything else out.) This isn't Ubuntu. :) Well, while it isn't Ubuntu, it's *testing* nonetheless:

new squeeze-again

2010-09-09 Thread Doug
Trying to install. I come to the partitioner. It says there is 261 GB available. (This is empty, unpartitioned and unformatted space, left over after cloning drive from a smaller one.) On-screen instructions say [!!] Partition disks The maximum size for this partition is 261.6 GB Hint: "m

Re: new squeeze

2010-09-09 Thread Miles Fidelman
Tom H wrote: On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 10:30 PM, Doug wrote: I just downloaded debian-testing i386 Net Inst and burned the .iso onto disk. Before I do something silly, I want to make sure that this is designed to live with other os's on the hd. (I remember one older version of Ubuntu that too

Re: new squeeze

2010-09-09 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 10:30 PM, Doug wrote: > I just downloaded debian-testing i386 Net Inst and burned the > .iso onto disk.  Before I do something silly, I want to make sure > that this is designed to live with other os's on the hd. (I remember > one older version of Ubuntu that took over the d

Re: new squeeze

2010-09-09 Thread Miles Fidelman
Aaron Toponce wrote: On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 10:30:35PM -0400, Doug wrote: I just downloaded debian-testing i386 Net Inst and burned the .iso onto disk. Before I do something silly, I want to make sure that this is designed to live with other os's on the hd. (I remember one older version of

Re: new squeeze

2010-09-09 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 10:30:35PM -0400, Doug wrote: > I just downloaded debian-testing i386 Net Inst and burned the > .iso onto disk. Before I do something silly, I want to make sure > that this is designed to live with other os's on the hd. (I remember > one older version of Ubuntu that took ov

new squeeze

2010-09-09 Thread Doug
I just downloaded debian-testing i386 Net Inst and burned the .iso onto disk. Before I do something silly, I want to make sure that this is designed to live with other os's on the hd. (I remember one older version of Ubuntu that took over the drive, and wiped everything else out.) If everything