Re: Booting from an SD card?

2010-05-30 Thread Mark Allums
On 5/30/2010 5:46 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: My wife has an early eeepc with a 4GB SSD running Xandros. She would like to change the OS so that she can install other software easily. I have a newer eeepc with a 160GB HD that came with the OS that must not be named and now also has Eeebuntu 3.0.

autoexpect?

2010-05-30 Thread hadi motamedi
Dear All I have received a new debian server that does contain 'expect' but it does not contain 'autoexpect' . Is there any way to add 'autoexect' to it? Thank you

Re: Automatic partial archive mirroring

2010-05-30 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Celejar writes: >Cameron Hutchison wrote: >> Is there some way to do an >> intelligent partial mirror of the archive of what is installed on other >> boxes, without too much overhead of managing a package list? (i.e. I dont >> want to have to manually update some package list on my lenny box whe

driver for Lite-on iHAS324-98 DVD writer

2010-05-30 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
Does anyone know where I can find a linux driver for the Lite-on iHAS324-98 DVD writer? I'm trying to install Debian on a brand-new, assembled-from-parts workstation, and I'm getting a complaint about this. Interestingly, the DVD reader is recognized well enough to boot from the Debian DVD I inse

Re: Automatic partial archive mirroring

2010-05-30 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 31 May 2010 04:09:19 - Cameron Hutchison wrote: > Celejar writes: > >Cameron Hutchison wrote: > > >> Is there some way to do an > >> intelligent partial mirror of the archive of what is installed on other > >> boxes, without too much overhead of managing a package list? (i.e. I don

Re: Automatic partial archive mirroring

2010-05-30 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Celejar writes: >Cameron Hutchison wrote: >> >and then have the gateway box get those packages. >> >> hmmm. How? Is there an existing tool that will do this? Doing it >> manually (in a script) would require too much work (essentially >> implementing apt-get -d dist-upgrade against a specifie

Re: Squeeze and mobile broadband...

2010-05-30 Thread emigrant
On Sun, 2010-05-30 at 21:01 -0500, lrhorer wrote: > > Yep, it's a Huawei E220. If you will look on the link I sent you, you > will see it there. It's a "flip-flop" device, also called "Zero-CD". > When first inserted into a USB port, it is a drive device, similar to a > USB "thumbdrive

Re: problem running kernel compiled on different machine

2010-05-30 Thread H.S.
H.S. wrote: > H.S. wrote: >> I am testing a patch for the Debian kernel (regarding the firewire bug I >> reported earlier in this list). I have been sent the patch and I >> followed the Debian way of compiling the kernel after patching the source. >> >> The kernel was compiled (and the deb created)

Re: Ugrade from Lenny to Squeeze on old PC Box - fsck died with exit status 8

2010-05-30 Thread Paul Chany
Celejar writes: > On Fri, 28 May 2010 10:30:03 +0200 > Paul Chany wrote: > >> Andrei Popescu writes: >> >> > On Fri,28.May.10, 10:07:38, Paul Chany wrote: >> >> Sven Joachim writes: >> >> > >> >> > The new kernel is probably using libata instead of the old IDE >> >> > drivers, which means tha

Re: problem running kernel compiled on different machine

2010-05-30 Thread Cameron Hutchison
"H.S." writes: >I am testing a patch for the Debian kernel (regarding the firewire bug I >reported earlier in this list). I have been sent the patch and I >followed the Debian way of compiling the kernel after patching the source. >( Here's is the installation error -->> ) > Hmm. There

Re: problem running kernel compiled on different machine

2010-05-30 Thread H.S.
Cameron Hutchison wrote: > "H.S." writes: > You can ignore these two errors. You are installing the kernel on a > different machine to the one you built on, so those links do not work. > That is why it deletes the links. Okay. >> Anybody know why I am getting this error? Also AFAIK, a 32 bit k

Re: [ squeeze ] Grub2 RAID1 LVM2 boot failure

2010-05-30 Thread Antonio Perez
d.sastre.med...@gmail.com wrote: > On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 05:44:22PM -0400, Tom H wrote: >> On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 7:06 AM, David Sastre Medina >> wrote: >> > >> > Grub2 is failing to boot a softRAID1 + LVM2 squeeze box. I use an equivalent setup and it was all automatically setup correctly wi

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-30 Thread Tom H
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 11:46 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Tom H put forth on 5/28/2010 10:55 PM: >> On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 9:50 PM, Stan Hoeppner >> wrote: >>> Roger Leigh put forth on 5/28/2010 11:39 AM: >> For the most part, grub is a vast improvement over LILO, and except for the od

Re: Squeeze and mobile broadband...

2010-05-30 Thread lrhorer
> thank you very much Irhorer, That's lrhorer, if you please, not irhorer. > i appreciate you reply. > can you please tell me whether is it possible for me to apt-get before > an internet connection is established? or is it enough i have the cd1 > only? Yes, and probably not. If

Re: How do I fsck an XFS file system in "Squeeze"

2010-05-30 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,31.May.10, 03:20:40, Cameron Hutchison wrote: > lrhorer writes: > > >> lrhorer put forth on 5/20/2010 6:09 PM: > >>> > >>> How can I obtain the XFS file > >>> utilities - particularly xfs-repair - under "Squeeze"? > > >The simple answer to my original question was, "xfsprogs". D

Re: problem running kernel compiled on different machine

2010-05-30 Thread Cameron Hutchison
"H.S." writes: >Here are the grub.cfg stanzas for the current running kernel and for my >compiled kernel respectively: >#the default debian kernel >initrd /initrd.img-2.6.32-trunk-686 >#kernel compiled by me the Debian way >initrd /initrd.img-2.6.32-100528-firewire Two things

Re: [ squeeze ] Grub2 RAID1 LVM2 boot failure

2010-05-30 Thread Tom H
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 7:13 AM, wrote: > On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 05:44:22PM -0400, Tom H wrote: >> On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 7:06 AM, David Sastre Medina >> wrote: >> > >> > Grub2 is failing to boot a softRAID1 + LVM2 squeeze box. >> > >> > r...@sysresccd /root % mdadm --detail /dev/md0 >> > /dev

Re: Force reinstall of /etc files without purge/install cycle?

2010-05-30 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,30.May.10, 20:50:09, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > On 05/30/2010 07:57 PM, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > > > >The purge/install cycle isn't always an option, since in many cases it > >will want to uninstall all of gnome or kde. > > Sorry about splitting this into two emails, but the reason that it >

Re: problem running kernel compiled on different machine

2010-05-30 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-05-31 08:14 +0200, Cameron Hutchison wrote: > "H.S." writes: > >>Here are the grub.cfg stanzas for the current running kernel and for my >>compiled kernel respectively: >>#the default debian kernel >>initrd /initrd.img-2.6.32-trunk-686 > >>#kernel compiled by me the Debian way >>

Re: Automatic partial archive mirroring

2010-05-30 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,31.May.10, 01:40:59, Cameron Hutchison wrote: > > I've looked at apt-proxy, apt-cacher, apt-cacher-ng and approx, but they > all appear to download on demand, not according to a schedule. Maybe apt-zip or apt-offline (not in lenny) can be used for what you need. Regards, Andrei -- Offto

Re: autoexpect?

2010-05-30 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,31.May.10, 05:03:31, hadi motamedi wrote: > Dear All > I have received a new debian server that does contain 'expect' but it does > not contain 'autoexpect' . Is there any way to add 'autoexect' to it? > Thank you $ apt-file search bin/autoexpect expect-dev: /usr/bin/autoexpect Regards, An

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-05-30 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 31 May 2010 01:51:14 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sun,30.May.10, 18:05:43, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> This way I have to think *less* to be sure about the date. No guessing. > > You example shows only dates where it is quite obvious what date format > is used. Let me see... > > -rwx

Re: Booting from an SD card?

2010-05-30 Thread Marc Shapiro
> From: Mark Allums > > On 5/30/2010 5:46 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: > My wife has an early eeepc with a 4GB SSD running Xandros. She > would like to change the OS so that she can install other software easily. > I have a newer eeepc with a 160GB HD that came with the OS that must > not be named

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