Re: May I have a document about manually preparing a Debian system?

2010-09-19 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Customing d-i is so hard. Many things confused me on the documents. Cannot I just start with debootstrap? On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 10:16 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 02:31:21 -0400 (EDT), "Magicloud Magiclouds" wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: >>

Re: Iomega 2TB USB drive

2010-09-19 Thread Lisi
On Saturday 18 September 2010 22:50:05 John Lindsay wrote: > Here is my 'fstab' > > > # /etc/fstab: static file system information. > > # > > #             > > proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0 > > /dev/hda1       /               ext3    errors=remount-ro 0      

Re: [solved] Re: rsync issue

2010-09-19 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina writes: >>> In rsync manual I coudn't find a solution to what I want. I wish to copy >>> all my home directory into another machine with the --delete option, but: >>> >>> 1) I dont't want hidden files, i.e.: `.*' to be copied; >>> >>> 2) on the other hand, there are some symlinks,

Strange `No space left' on usb pendrive

2010-09-19 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Hi all. When I try to copy more than 40MB onto an empty new 2GB usb pendrive, I get an inexplicable `No space left on device' error message: `11022008699.jpg' -> `/mnt/pendrive-carolina2/11022008699.jpg' `11022008700.jpg' -> `/mnt/pendrive-carolina2/11022008700.jpg' cp: cannot create regular fil

Re: Strange `No space left' on usb pendrive

2010-09-19 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-09-19 10:26 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > When I try to copy more than 40MB onto an empty new 2GB usb pendrive, I get an > inexplicable `No space left on device' error message: > > > `11022008699.jpg' -> `/mnt/pendrive-carolina2/11022008699.jpg' > `11022008700.jpg' -> `/mnt/pendrive-carol

Re: Iomega 2TB USB drive

2010-09-19 Thread John Lindsay
Lisi wrote: On Saturday 18 September 2010 22:50:05 John Lindsay wrote: Here is my 'fstab' # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # proc/proc procdefaults0 0 /dev/hda1 / ext3errors=remount-ro 0

Re: Iomega 2TB USB drive

2010-09-19 Thread John Lindsay
Lisi wrote: On Saturday 18 September 2010 22:50:05 John Lindsay wrote: Here is my 'fstab' # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # proc/proc procdefaults0 0 /dev/hda1 / ext3errors=remount-ro 0

Re: Strange `No space left' on usb pendrive

2010-09-19 Thread Erwan David
Le Sun 19/09/2010, Rodolfo Medina disait > Hi all. > > When I try to copy more than 40MB onto an empty new 2GB usb pendrive, I get an > inexplicable `No space left on device' error message: > > > `11022008699.jpg' -> `/mnt/pendrive-carolina2/11022008699.jpg' > `11022008700.jpg' -> `/mnt/pendrive

Re: Iomega 2TB USB drive

2010-09-19 Thread John Lindsay
John Lindsay wrote: Lisi wrote: I don't know whther it is at all relevant, but your fstab appears to be trying to mount two different drives on the same mount point (/). Lisi Actually it is the 'mtab' that shows the two '/dev/sda1' entries. I'll try editing it and see what damage I

Re: Does the HDCP crack have any implications for Debian?

2010-09-19 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 19/09/10 06:04, Mark Allums wrote: > On 9/18/2010 4:55 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> I'm very >> happy with the performance I get by simply copying the bluerays I buy to >> hard drive, and I prefer keep my media on hdd. > > > This bears some explanation. Are you watching stuff from Blu-Ray on a

Re: Strange `No space left' on usb pendrive

2010-09-19 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On 2010-09-19 10:26 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > When I try to copy more than 40MB onto an empty new 2GB usb pendrive, I get an > inexplicable `No space left on device' error message: > > > `11022008699.jpg' -> `/mnt/pendrive-carolina2/11022008699.jpg' > `11022008700.jpg' -> `/mnt/pendrive-carol

Re: What tool would convert map coordinates ?

2010-09-19 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Bernard writes: > I need to convert map coordinates from Lambert II + to decimal > degrees. I found a tool which works online on a web site, but the I use the proj command for my coordinate conversions. I have no idea if it supports what you need. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ..

Re: Iomega 2TB USB drive

2010-09-19 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 18 Sep 2010 17:50:05 -0400, John Lindsay wrote: > I am still trying to get this USB drive to show up as an icon on the > desktop and to show up under the toolbar 'Places' like my 8GB USB memory > stick and my /new-disk hdb (115GB internal drive). Then try by removing (or just #comment)

Re: Strange `No space left' on usb pendrive

2010-09-19 Thread Frank
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 13:15:06 +0200 Rodolfo Medina wrote: > On 2010-09-19 10:26 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > > When I try to copy more than 40MB onto an empty new 2GB usb pendrive, I get > > an > > inexplicable `No space left on device' error me

I got you. was: My lenny picks the wrong resolution whereas squeeze is right

2010-09-19 Thread T o n g
Hi Stephen, This is to confirm that I've read your message thoroughly and take it seriously. However, I can only get back to you in a day or two. Thanks On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 12:49:32 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > OK, I have looked at your files. -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) ht

Re: Viewing Office 2007 files

2010-09-19 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 19/09/10 23:41, T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > It's so annoying that Ms changes its file format again and people started > to jumping ships. I can't view any of the Office 2007 files that people > sent me. What's your solution to it (word and excel)? > > Thanks > OOo. (and send a bitmap screenshot

Re: Viewing Office 2007 files

2010-09-19 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 13:41:40 +, T o n g wrote: > It's so annoying that Ms changes its file format again and people > started to jumping ships. I can't view any of the Office 2007 files that > people sent me. What's your solution to it (word and excel)? OpenOffice 3.x (Go-oo) can handle most o

RE: Viewing Office 2007 files

2010-09-19 Thread Mike Viau
> On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 14:02:27 + wrote: > >> On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 13:41:40 +, T o n g wrote: >> >> It's so annoying that Ms changes its file format again and people >> started to jumping ships. I can't view any of the Office 2007 files that >> people sent me. What's your solution to it (wo

Re: RS232-to-USB adapter with dial-up modem

2010-09-19 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
S D wrote: Hi, I have a RS-232 external dial-up modem that I use from time to time. It works fine when connected through a RS-232 port. I'd like to use the modem with another PC that doesn't have a RS-232 port, so I bought a RS-232 to USB adapter cable. It's a simple inexpensive cable that do

Re: Viewing Office 2007 files

2010-09-19 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 02:02:27PM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 13:41:40 +, T o n g wrote: > > > It's so annoying that Ms changes its file format again and people > > started to jumping ships. I can't view any of the Office 2007 files that > > people sent me. What's your soluti

Re: Iomega 2TB USB drive

2010-09-19 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 19 September 2010 11:23:20 John Lindsay wrote: > Here is the result of 'df > -lh'. > > > Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on > > /dev/sda1              71G   58G  9.8G  86% / [snip] > > /dev/sda1             1.9T  123M  1.9T   1% /mnt Curiouser and curiouser Now w

Re: Iomega 2TB USB drive

2010-09-19 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 19 September 2010 11:29:44 John Lindsay wrote: > Lisi wrote: > > On Saturday 18 September 2010 22:50:05 John Lindsay wrote: > >> Here is my 'fstab' > >> > >>> # /etc/fstab: static file system information. > >>> # > >>> # > >>> proc/proc procdefaul

Re: Viewing Office 2007 files

2010-09-19 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 19 September 2010 15:19:16 Rob Owens wrote: > On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 02:02:27PM +, Camaleón wrote: > > On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 13:41:40 +, T o n g wrote: > > > It's so annoying that Ms changes its file format again and people > > > started to jumping ships. I can't view any of the Of

Re: Viewing Office 2007 files

2010-09-19 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 15:51:26 +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Sunday 19 September 2010 15:19:16 Rob Owens wrote: >> On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 02:02:27PM +, Camaleón wrote: >> > OpenOffice 3.x (Go-oo) can handle most of them (.docx/.xlsx). >> >> And if you're running Lenny, you can get this version in the

[solved] Re: Strange `No space left' on usb pendrive

2010-09-19 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On 2010-09-19 10:26 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> When I try to copy more than 40MB onto an empty new 2GB usb pendrive, I get >> an inexplicable `No space left on device' error message: >> >> >> `11022008699.jpg' -> `/mnt/pendrive-carolina2/11022008699.jpg' >> `11022008700.jpg' -> `/mnt/pendrive

Re: rsync issue

2010-09-19 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina writes: > [...] the following is good for me: > > $ cd > $ rsync -vrtul --delete --exclude='.*' . 192.168.0.2:/home/rodolfo Sorry, it's still bad for me. I want to copy everything but top level hidden files, i.e. hidden files from my home directory. The above command excludes

Re: Iomega 2TB USB drive

2010-09-19 Thread John Lindsay
Lisi wrote: On Sunday 19 September 2010 11:29:44 John Lindsay wrote: Lisi wrote: On Saturday 18 September 2010 22:50:05 John Lindsay wrote: Here is my 'fstab' # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # proc/proc procdef

Re: Viewing Office 2007 files

2010-09-19 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 19. 09. 2010 15:41:40 je T o n g napisal(a): Hi, It's so annoying that Ms changes its file format again and people started to jumping ships. I can't view any of the Office 2007 files that people sent me. What's your solution to it (word and excel)? Thanks You could kindly notify th

Re: Viewing Office 2007 files

2010-09-19 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 19 September 2010 16:00:04 Camaleón wrote: > I've encountered many ".docx" files that cannot be opened with my stock > OOo writer (using lenny here). I've obviously been lucky! Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: Viewing Office 2007 files

2010-09-19 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 16:51, Lisi wrote: >  No need.  The version of OOo in Lenny, 2.4.1, (which is really, of course, > the oxygen version), can read docx files. > OOo 3.0 was much better than 2.x for reading .docx files, and OOo 3.1 was even better. Google For OOo Ninja's articles on the matt

how to use wireless without network-manager or wicd

2010-09-19 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Hi, I run a laptop with lenny and debian kernel 2.6.32 that runs wireless. I connected to the laptop via USB a disk that contains a partition that also has debian kernel 2.6.32 but sid and that doesn't have network manager or wicd installed. How would I get wireless going without them on tha

Re: Viewing Office 2007 files

2010-09-19 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 17:00, Camaleón wrote: > I've encountered many ".docx" files that cannot be opened with my stock > OOo writer (using lenny here). > Camaleón and others, please send to me (in private mail) MSO files that do not display well in Open Office. I will file bugs on the matter an

Re: Viewing Office 2007 files

2010-09-19 Thread Eric Viseur
Must agree with Dotan. OOo 3.2 was a big step forward to a really efficient MSOffice alternative and should really be used instead of older versions when possible. 2010/9/19 Dotan Cohen > On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 16:51, Lisi wrote: > > No need. The version of OOo in Lenny, 2.4.1, (which is rea

Re: how to use wireless without network-manager or wicd

2010-09-19 Thread Eric Viseur
http://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse This will give you a good starting point. Past the wicd instructions you'll see how to configure a wireless card from /etc/network/interfaces. It's basically the same as a wired card plus some extra parameters for the wireless protection. 2010/9/19 hugo vanwo

Re: Viewing Office 2007 files

2010-09-19 Thread Greg Madden
On Sunday 19 September 2010 07:52:09 Klistvud wrote: > Dne, 19. 09. 2010 15:41:40 je T o n g napisal(a): > > Hi, > > > > It's so annoying that Ms changes its file format again and people > > started > > to jumping ships. I can't view any of the Office 2007 files that > > people > > sent me. What'

Re: Viewing Office 2007 files

2010-09-19 Thread T o n g
On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 11:17:19 -0800, Greg Madden wrote: >> > It's so annoying that Ms changes its file format again and people >> > started >> > to jumping ships. I can't view any of the Office 2007 files that >> > people >> > sent me. What's your solution to it (word and excel)? >> > >> > > The be

Re: how to use wireless without network-manager or wicd

2010-09-19 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 19. 09. 2010 19:04:41 je hugo vanwoerkom napisal(a): Hi, I run a laptop with lenny and debian kernel 2.6.32 that runs wireless. I connected to the laptop via USB a disk that contains a partition that also has debian kernel 2.6.32 but sid and that doesn't have network manager or wicd in

Re: Proposed Fluxbox style for Debian

2010-09-19 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 7:01 AM, Dale wrote: > Hi All, > > I have done some more work and now have 2 styles going so people can > choose either the light or the dark. All can be found on the wiki[1] > at the the usual place. > > Comments and/or suggestions more than welcome :-) > > Regards > Dale

ps - Illegal Instruction

2010-09-19 Thread Jerry Stuckle
This is a new install of Lenny on Windows 7 Virtual PC. I basically took the defaults, with a couple of changes to get it to install and get gnome's display correct. I still have several problems, which may be related. The easiest one to find is an "Illegal Instruction" when I run a simple p

Re: ps - Illegal Instruction

2010-09-19 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Jerry Stuckle writes: > I still have several problems, which may be related. The easiest one > to find is an "Illegal Instruction" when I run a simple ps command. > This occurs whether I run as a user or root. So gnome starts but ps fails? Very odd. Please 1) apt-get install debsums 2) debsums

RE: ps - Illegal Instruction

2010-09-19 Thread Mike Viau
> On Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 20:15:42 -0400 > > This is a new install of Lenny on Windows 7 Virtual PC. I basically > took the defaults, with a couple of changes to get it to install and get > gnome's display correct. > > I still have several problems, which may be related. The easiest one to > fi

Re: ps - Illegal Instruction

2010-09-19 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/19/2010 7:15 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: This is a new install of Lenny on Windows 7 Virtual PC. I basically took the defaults, with a couple of changes to get it to install and get gnome's display correct. I still have several problems, which may be related. The easiest one to find is an "Il

Re: Proposed Fluxbox style for Debian

2010-09-19 Thread Dale
On 20 September 2010 06:50, Javier Vasquez wrote: > On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 7:01 AM, Dale wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I have done some more work and now have 2 styles going so people can >> choose either the light or the dark. All can be found on the wiki[1] >> at the the usual place. >> >> Comments

Re: ps - Illegal Instruction

2010-09-19 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 9/19/2010 8:23 PM, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: Jerry Stuckle writes: I still have several problems, which may be related. The easiest one to find is an "Illegal Instruction" when I run a simple ps command. This occurs whether I run as a user or root. So gnome starts but ps fails? Very odd

Re: ps - Illegal Instruction

2010-09-19 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/19/2010 8:41 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: And as to the suggestions from other users to try another VM - that's not open for discussion unless you can tell my why the one that comes with Windows 7 doesn't work. It doesn't work because it doesn't work. Microsoft doesn't care if any OS besides

Re: Proposed Fluxbox style for Debian

2010-09-19 Thread Phil Requirements
On 2010-09-18 22:31:06 +0930, Dale wrote: > Hi All, > > I have done some more work and now have 2 styles going so people can > choose either the light or the dark. All can be found on the wiki[1] > at the the usual place. > > Comments and/or suggestions more than welcome :-) > > On 17 September

Re: ps - Illegal Instruction

2010-09-19 Thread Morgan Gangwere
On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 19:48:49 -0500 Mark Allums wrote: > Your problem is probably Virtual PC. Try Virtualbox (free) or VMware > server (free) or VMware Desktop (paid and kind of expensive but much > more usable for newbies than server). Its a known problem. very much a known problem! its some

Re: ps - Illegal Instruction

2010-09-19 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 9/19/2010 10:00 PM, Mark Allums wrote: On 9/19/2010 8:41 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: And as to the suggestions from other users to try another VM - that's not open for discussion unless you can tell my why the one that comes with Windows 7 doesn't work. It doesn't work because it doesn't work

Re: ps - Illegal Instruction

2010-09-19 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/19/2010 10:11 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: As I said - unless you can tell me WHY it doesn't work, it's not open for discussion. The fact you tried it with one distro and don't like Microsoft are NOT valid reasons. I did not say I don't like Microsoft. I tried it with seven distros. Grant

Re: ps - Illegal Instruction

2010-09-19 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 20/09/10 13:11, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > On 9/19/2010 10:00 PM, Mark Allums wrote: >> On 9/19/2010 8:41 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: >> >>> And as to the suggestions from other users to try another VM - that's >>> not open for discussion unless you can tell my why the one that comes >>> with Windows

Re: ps - Illegal Instruction

2010-09-19 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 20/09/10 10:15, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > This is a new install of Lenny on Windows 7 Virtual PC. I basically > took the defaults, with a couple of changes to get it to install and > get gnome's display correct. > > I still have several problems, which may be related. The easiest one > to find i

Re: ps - Illegal Instruction

2010-09-19 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Jerry Stuckle writes: > And as to the suggestions from other users to try another VM - that's > not open for discussion unless you can tell my why the one that comes > with Windows 7 doesn't work. It's fairly difficult to answer such a guestion, especially without source code to Windows 7 :-)

Re: ps - Illegal Instruction

2010-09-19 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 20/09/10 14:12, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > Jerry Stuckle writes: >> And as to the suggestions from other users to try another VM - that's >> not open for discussion unless you can tell my why the one that comes >> with Windows 7 doesn't work. > It's fairly difficult to answer such a guestio

Re: Proposed Fluxbox style for Debian

2010-09-19 Thread Dale
Hi Phil, On 20 September 2010 11:37, Phil Requirements wrote: > The scheme that is called Light does not seem very light to me.  I see > that it has more contrast than the Dark theme, but it still uses a > dark background and dark window titles. Overall, it still looks like a > dark theme to me,