Re: unique install question? (Squeeze audio install using the Wheezy-di from a USB drive)

2012-06-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi Karen :) I suspect that 30GB won't be enough space to install all packages from all DVDs. Btw. I was a musician too and I was a radio producer too and there's still DR DOS for my Atari's 80286 hardware emulator installed. I guess that having those less things in common I still can forecast that

Re: unique install question? (Squeeze audio install using the Wheezy-di from a USB drive)

2012-06-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
PS, OT: I preferred Xfce, but the more up to date Xfce is, the more serious issues do appear on my machine. For Debian stable Xfce still should be reliable, but for current Ubuntu and Arch I experience it as a PITA at the moment. GNOME2 is very good, but even if it should be provided by stable (dun

mdadm error - superfluous RAID member

2012-06-13 Thread Steve Dowe
Hi, I'm trying to re-use an older server, installing squeeze (6.0.5). I'm using software RAID and LVM on the machine (details below). But I must be doing something wrong with the disk set up stage in the installer, as when it boots I see an error flash up quickly: error: superfluous RAID

Re: unique install question?

2012-06-13 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Tuesday 12 June 2012 5:55:21 pm Karen Lewellen wrote: > ...it is also the bit that does not work, which is why I asked here. > Karen, who is playing catch up, and profoundly appreciative of all the > wisdom shared here today. > Karen, Have you contacted U of Toronto for help with your problem

Re: unique install question? (Squeeze audio install using the Wheezy-di from a USB drive)

2012-06-13 Thread Brian
On Wed 13 Jun 2012 at 10:57:42 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 13/06/12 04:35, Brian wrote: > > > > By the time the choosing a mirror stage is reached with a netinst image > > or the first CD the base files (Stable or Testing versions) have been > > installed in /target. > > Instead of just h

Re: Problem with Dovecot

2012-06-13 Thread Keir Snow
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 10:35 PM, Camaleón wrote: > Okay, now the next step I'd do is reading from Exim's logs to discover > what has been happening with the message (rejected, removed, on-hold, > pending, deferred, unroutable...), but Exim logs are under "/var/log/ > exim4/*", take a look at fil

Re: unique install question? (Squeeze audio install using the Wheezy-di from a USB drive)

2012-06-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 10:29 +0100, Brian wrote: > > The OP has all the Squeeze CD/DVDs... why on earth do they need to > > connect to the internet? > > As is made clear in this thread - she doesn't and it would not benefit > her. Since she's willing to install 40 media players, because she's inte

Re: corrupted screen after freah debian squeeze alpha1 boot

2012-06-13 Thread Martin Ždila
This solved my problem: http://osdir.com/ml/debian-boot/2011-10/msg00234.html On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Martin Ždila wrote: > Hello > > I've installed fresh debian squeeze on my laptop. After selecting > image to boot from grub I first see standard 80x25 console but after > few lines the

Re: Turn Off Screen Saver

2012-06-13 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-12, Paul Nulandorn wrote: > > Each time I boot into my old user the output of xset -q reverts to : > > DPMS (Energy Star): > Standby: 600Suspend: 600Off: 600 Well if it isn't a system-wide setting, have you looked in ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile or ~/.Xdefaults? The dpms t

Re: unique install question? (Squeeze audio install using the Wheezy-di from a USB drive)

2012-06-13 Thread Brian
On Wed 13 Jun 2012 at 10:27:22 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > PLoP will also allow you to boot from a CD/DVD that's not supported by > the BIOS (pre-1998 BIOS) Plop claims not be able to boot a USB CD/DVD drive: http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager/full.html#l_usbinfo However, with a bit of ing

resize pictures received by mailserver

2012-06-13 Thread Randall
hi all, have a question, not really debian specific, but looking for the tools available in debian to do the job. as follows: i'm trying to set up a private synchronised mailinglist/forum. (thinking of a combination of mailman and tiki forum) and i want to avoid having huge pictures showin

Re: resize pictures received by mailserver

2012-06-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Half OT: Modern MUAs usually support options how to handle pictures. Evolution for example provides - Never load images from the Internet - Load images only in messages from contacts - Always load images from the Internet If your mailing list/forum should be for photograph or something similar, peo

Re: resize pictures received by mailserver

2012-06-13 Thread Lars Noodén
I'm not sure it would be a good idea to try to use mail as a surrogate for a file system, especially not a mailing list. You could use MIME Defang to strip the attachments, but it has other capabilities, too: http://www.mimedefang.org/faq /Lars -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ..

Up-gradation problem with gnome 2.14

2012-06-13 Thread Joy Sankar Sengupta
I want to upgrade my machine which has gnome 2.14 version to latest version.Its getting some error while upgrading the system using system update. Best Regards, Joysankar Sengupta

Re: Up-gradation problem with gnome 2.14

2012-06-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 16:55 +0530, Joy Sankar Sengupta wrote: > Its getting some error while upgrading What information might be missing to get useful replies ;)? If the error messages should be to large for an email please use http://paste.debian.net/ , http://pastebin.com/ or similar. Hth :p,

Re: Up-gradation problem with gnome 2.14

2012-06-13 Thread Joy Sankar Sengupta
>From Desktop->Administrator->Update manager I have launched the update manager window.After few seconds the window is disappeared. >From console I am getting following errors: student@client:~$ su Password: client:/home/student# apt-get update Err http://http.us.debian.org etch Release.gpg Coul

Re: resize pictures received by mailserver

2012-06-13 Thread Randall
On 06/13/2012 01:12 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: thanks for the input: Half OT: Modern MUAs usually support options how to handle pictures. Evolution for example provides - Never load images from the Internet - Load images only in messages from contacts - Always load images from the Internet in my

Re: resize pictures received by mailserver

2012-06-13 Thread Randall
On 06/13/2012 01:15 PM, Lars Noodén wrote: I'm not sure it would be a good idea to try to use mail as a surrogate for a file system, especially not a mailing list. You could use MIME Defang to strip the attachments, but it has other capabilities, too: http://www.mimedefang.org/faq /Lars

Re: resize pictures received by mailserver

2012-06-13 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 13/06/12 12:45, Randall wrote: > hi all, > > have a question, not really debian specific, but looking for the tools > available in debian to do the job. > > as follows: > > i'm trying to set up a private synchronised mailinglist/forum. > (thinking of a combination of mailman and tiki forum)

Re: resize pictures received by mailserver

2012-06-13 Thread Randall
On 06/13/2012 02:36 PM, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 13/06/12 12:45, Randall wrote: hi all, have a question, not really debian specific, but looking for the tools available in debian to do the job. as follows: i'm trying to set up a private synchronised mailinglist/forum. (thinking of a combi

Re: Up-gradation problem with gnome 2.14

2012-06-13 Thread Alberto Fuentes
cat /etc/resolv.conf ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4fd8904d.6050...@qindel.com

Re: Up-gradation problem with gnome 2.14

2012-06-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 17:30 +0530, Joy Sankar Sengupta wrote: > client:/home/student# apt-get update > Err http://http.us.debian.org etch Release.gpg > Could not resolve 'http.us.debian.org' Since Firefox is able to reach http://http.us.debian.org/ here and ping http.us.debian.org returned "PIN

Re: Up-gradation problem with gnome 2.14

2012-06-13 Thread rjc
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 01:00:54PM BST, Joy Sankar Sengupta wrote: > E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room > E: Error occurred while processing libzeroc-ice34-dbg (NewVersion1) > E: Problem with MergeList > /var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_sid_ > main_binary-i386_Packages > E: The packa

Re: Problem with Dovecot

2012-06-13 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 10:41:53 +0100, Keir Snow wrote: > On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 10:35 PM, Camaleón wrote: > >> Okay, now the next step I'd do is reading from Exim's logs to discover >> what has been happening with the message (rejected, removed, on-hold, >> pending, deferred, unroutable...), but

Re: Turn Off Screen Saver

2012-06-13 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 07:47:25 +1000, Paul Nulandorn wrote: > On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 20:31 +, Camaleón wrote: >> How about the values for "Screen Saver"? > > Screen Saver: > prefer blanking: yes > allow exposures: yes > timeout: 600 > cycle: 600 This setting can be also making

Re: Up-gradation problem with gnome 2.14

2012-06-13 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 16:55:09 +0530, Joy Sankar Sengupta wrote: (please, no html messages, thanks...) > I want to upgrade my machine which has gnome 2.14 version to latest > version. You want to upgrade your current Debian system or your GNOME version? The former can be possible (with some "buts

Re: what causes "slogin -X" to not generate a "$DISPLAY" variable on the server?

2012-06-13 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 19:04:26 -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: (...) > After running full-upgrade on the servers (they had been out of action > for a couple of months, so it was a fairly large upgrade -- which makes > diagnosing the problem harder...) when I did "slogin -X" from any of the > clients, the

Re: Turn Off Screen Saver

2012-06-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
FWIW I've got the same issue for one Ubuntu install, but with Xfce. I get this for Ubuntu Precise, but somebody at Ubuntu Studio mailing list had this issue some releases earlier. IIRC somebody mentioned to set it by xorg.conf. I'm not trying to solve this issue on my machine, since it's not urgent

Re: what causes "slogin -X" to not generate a "$DISPLAY" variable on the server?

2012-06-13 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 19:12:42 -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: > On Jun 12, 2012, at 1:43 PM, Camaleón wrote: > >> ... mmm, you can >> compare the ... openssh versions > > That got me thinking... > > Looking at a third server (the same i386 Debian Squeeze machine I was > using as a "client" in the prev

Re: Up-gradation problem with gnome 2.14

2012-06-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 13:56 +, Camaleón wrote: > You want to upgrade your current Debian system or your GNOME version? I suspect Debian, not GNOME 2 to the last GNOME 2. However, somebody from the list perhaps has solved the issue: Forwarded Message From: rjc Subject: Re: U

Re: configuring interface & configuring MTA time out

2012-06-13 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 13:44:22 -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: (...) > Until the recent update (a couple of weeks ago) of netscript which > removed ifupdown, the system just always booted quickly on any of its > various network locations. Since then, when I have set Wicd to connect > to one of the

Re: Up-gradation problem with gnome 2.14

2012-06-13 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 16:26:23 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 13:56 +, Camaleón wrote: >> You want to upgrade your current Debian system or your GNOME version? > > I suspect Debian, not GNOME 2 to the last GNOME 2. Then he'll do the best by installing Squeeze because Lenny

how to avoid Setting up ca-certificates-java

2012-06-13 Thread abdelkader belahcene
Hi, each time I install or remove any Package, the following setting is executed, how to avoid it Setting up ca-certificates-java (20100412) ... creating /etc/ssl/certs/java/cacerts... removed untrusted certificate mozilla/ABAecom_=sub.__Am._Bankers_Assn.=_Root_CA.crt . thanks for hel

books on debian of a beginner nature?

2012-06-13 Thread Karen Lewellen
Hi folks, Yes I know about the Linux Documentation project, and that there are howtos that are a part of the system itself, and on line.these are not the sort of books I mean however. I am thinking of external ones, I have a scanner, books with pages smiles. I just searched my local library

Re: books on debian of a beginner nature?

2012-06-13 Thread Lars Noodén
Well, one out there is the Debian Administrator's Handbook publicly available: http://debian-handbook.info/ That covers things at an intro level. Regards /Lars -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas..

Re: books on debian of a beginner nature?

2012-06-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
I don't know this, but it seems to be ok, so I bookmarked it sometime ago, when it was announced on this list http://debian-handbook.info/ . And I don't have the time to search for it now, but there are two brilliant ebooks for bash on English. I still know who recommended those books and will Bcc

Re: Is there a way to use a custom background in terminal mode?

2012-06-13 Thread Camaleón
El 2012-06-12 a las 14:31 +0800, 斟酌鵬兄 escribió: Please, reply to the list not to me... I almost forget about this message. And also remember to keep your writing at the bottom. > On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 4:43 AM, Camaleón wrote: (...) > >> Tried, but seems not work. > >> using fbterm-bi in man

Re: how to avoid Setting up ca-certificates-java

2012-06-13 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 03:59:18PM +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote: >Hi, >each time I install or remove any Package,� the following setting is >executed, how to avoid it >� >Setting up ca-certificates-java (20100412) ... >creating /etc/ssl/certs/java/cacerts... >� remo

Fwd: Re: LXDE background shows my entire /home/USER as icons.

2012-06-13 Thread Mika Suomalainen
Hi, Could you force unsubscribe and ban joe1assis...@gmail.com from Debian-user. That address is sending random email like this to random people on Debian-user when they send something. As you can see, the sender identifies himself as "debian-user@lists.debian.org" and has it as reply-to address

Re: unique install question? (Squeeze audio install using the Wheezy-di from a USB drive)

2012-06-13 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-13, Brian wrote: > > I don't see what you do. Is this a bug in my installer? He said prior to partitioning so I assume once you get into the partitioning dialogue, the installer gives you the opportunity to choose an "expert" install, and once an "expert" you may choose Squeeze as the

Re: LXDE background shows my entire /home/USER as icons.

2012-06-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 18:33 +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > Could you force unsubscribe and ban joe1assis...@gmail.com from > Debian-user. *chuckle* Mika, it's an open list, you don't need to be subscribed to write to the list, so unsubscribing could work, but it also might not work, perhaps he i

Re: LXDE background shows my entire /home/USER as icons.

2012-06-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 17:52 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 18:33 +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > > Could you force unsubscribe and ban joe1assis...@gmail.com from > > Debian-user. > > *chuckle* Mika, it's an open list, you don't need to be subscribed to > write to the list, so

Re: LXDE background shows my entire /home/USER as icons.

2012-06-13 Thread Mika Suomalainen
On 11.06.2012 21:51, Brian wrote: > On Mon 11 Jun 2012 at 18:41:35 +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > >> On 10.06.2012 19:44, Cybe R. Wizard wrote: >>> >>> Cybe R. Wizard >> >> Congratulations, you have found our "friend" joe1assistly whom is >> spamming many users on this list by replying to rando

Re: unique install question? (Squeeze audio install using the Wheezy-di from a USB drive)

2012-06-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 15:45 +, Curt wrote: > On 2012-06-13, Brian wrote: > > > > I don't see what you do. Is this a bug in my installer? > > He said prior to partitioning so I assume once you get into the partitioning > dialogue, the installer gives you the opportunity to choose an "expert"

Re: LXDE background shows my entire /home/USER as icons.

2012-06-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
> >* Having this list as reply-to address > You forgot something, > > * Using debian-user@lists.debian.org as name of sender. No, he doesn't, IIRC at least I received directly from joe's bot, without a bad envelope or anything else that fakes to be Debian list. Btw. no MUA I used, excepted

Re: LXDE background shows my entire /home/USER as icons.

2012-06-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Forwarded Message From: debian-user@lists.debian.org So he doesn't really fake the address, OTOH I agree it's a stupid pseudo-fake. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: unique install question? (Squeeze audio install using the Wheezy-di from a USB drive)

2012-06-13 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-13, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > IIRC it was Scott? who does exactly mentioned this in his kindly > style :D. Options could have sub-options. - Ralf > Yes, I was replying to Brian's inquiry concerning Scott's claim that one can install Squeeze using the Wheezy installer. -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: failures on boot.

2012-06-13 Thread Camaleón
El 2012-06-13 a las 08:50 +0200, Mauro escribió: (sending back to the list) > On 12 June 2012 23:04, Camaleón wrote: > > On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 10:25:47 +0200, Mauro wrote: > > > >> Hello. > >> I'm using debian sid. > >> When I boot the system I have these failures: > >> > >> cleaning up temporary

Re: unique install question? (Squeeze audio install using the Wheezy-di from a USB drive)

2012-06-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 16:14 +, Curt wrote: > On 2012-06-13, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > IIRC it was Scott? who does exactly mentioned this in his kindly > > style :D. Options could have sub-options. - Ralf > > > > Yes, I was replying to Brian's inquiry concerning Scott's > claim that one can

Re: configuring interface & configuring MTA time out

2012-06-13 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 06/13/2012 10:43 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 13:44:22 -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > > (...) > >> Until the recent update (a couple of weeks ago) of netscript which >> removed ifupdown, the system just always booted quickly on any of its >> various network locations. Since the

Re: mdadm error - superfluous RAID member

2012-06-13 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 3:47 AM, Steve Dowe wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to re-use an older server, installing squeeze (6.0.5).  I'm using > software RAID and LVM on the machine (details below).  But I must be doing > something wrong with the disk set up stage in the installer, as when it > boots I

Re: Fwd: Re: LXDE background shows my entire /home/USER as icons.

2012-06-13 Thread Alexander Wirt
On Wed, 13 Jun 2012, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > Hi, > > Could you force unsubscribe and ban joe1assis...@gmail.com from > Debian-user. > > That address is sending random email like this to random people on > Debian-user when they send something. > > As you can see, the sender identifies himself

Re: unique install question? (Squeeze audio install using the Wheezy-di from a USB drive)

2012-06-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
> PS: I won an iPad, I really know what I'm talking about. The iPad is a > PITA and the Win XP SP2 running on Arch Linux virtual box is a PITA too. > Yes, for me Linux is a PITA too, but this pain is nothing compared to > App$e and M$. I'm running VBox + XP to handle the iPad2, for nothing else,

Re: configuring interface & configuring MTA time out

2012-06-13 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 12:32:55 -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > On 06/13/2012 10:43 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 13:44:22 -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: >> >> (...) >> >>> Until the recent update (a couple of weeks ago) of netscript which >>> removed ifupdown, the system just always

Re: Fwd: Re: LXDE background shows my entire /home/USER as icons.

2012-06-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 18:47 +0200, Alexander Wirt wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jun 2012, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Could you force unsubscribe and ban joe1assis...@gmail.com from > > Debian-user. > > > > That address is sending random email like this to random people on > > Debian-user wh

Re: books on debian of a beginner nature?

2012-06-13 Thread keith
[QUOTE]I am thinking of external ones, I have a scanner, books with pages smiles. I just searched my local library for example, and found a debian bible 3 x circle 2005...too dated? Other authors / titles I might find?[/QUOTE] The Debian Administrators Handbook The Debian System How Linux Works

Re: LXDE background shows my entire /home/USER as icons.

2012-06-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 13 iun 12, 18:09:09, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > Btw. no MUA I used, excepted of Wanderlust, enables a user to fake the > envelope, you only can Mutt does, of course :) But it won't work without cooperation from the MTAs. Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and de

Re: books on debian of a beginner nature?

2012-06-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Ponyland? On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 18:02 +0100, keith wrote: > Midnight Commander (MC) is your friend for file management & editing. Are you serious? > .mp3 For musicians MP3 crap? > Mutt is the usual email program, or (e)pine. "Usual MUA" for whom? I won't recommend anything else, even while I'

Re: books on debian of a beginner nature?

2012-06-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Thank you Gustin (Bcc) :) Forwarded Message From: Gustin [...] To: Ralf Mardorf Subject: Re: ebooks Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 11:19:21 -0600 Not Debian specific at all. Anyone writing scripts is likely to already know about these. http://tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html/ h

Re: unique install question? (Squeeze audio install using the Wheezy-di from a USB drive)

2012-06-13 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 21:47:37 -0400 (EDT), Karen wrote in message : > but I am working with very limited information, and have more than > enough room on the 30gig hard > drive I am using for all of the packages. ..oh yeah? ;o) root@celsius:~# du -sch /usr /boot/ /bin/ /etc/ /li* /sbin /var/li

Re: configuring interface & configuring MTA time out

2012-06-13 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 06/13/2012 12:54 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 12:32:55 -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > >> On 06/13/2012 10:43 AM, Camaleón wrote: >>> On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 13:44:22 -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: >>> >>> (...) >>> Until the recent update (a couple of weeks ago) of netscript w

Re: resize pictures received by mailserver

2012-06-13 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 12:45:13PM +0200, Randall wrote: > > is it possible to have all messages received by the mailinglists MTA > scanned for pictures and have these automatically scaled to a > default size before its being redistributed to the receivers on the > mailinglist and subsequently the

Re: LXDE background shows my entire /home/USER as icons.

2012-06-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 20:10 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 13 iun 12, 18:09:09, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > Btw. no MUA I used, excepted of Wanderlust, enables a user to fake the > > envelope, you only can > > Mutt does, of course :) > But it won't work without cooperation from the MTAs.

Re: unique install question? (Squeeze audio install using the Wheezy-di from a USB drive)

2012-06-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 19:44 +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: [snip] Since I mentioned already that 30GB aren't that much today and Arnt also didn't explain why, I feel the need to explain what at least is my guess: A packages contains packed, compressed data, that means, that as soon as it's "enpacked"

Re: Is there a way to use a custom background in terminal mode?

2012-06-13 Thread Camaleón
El 2012-06-14 a las 01:14 +0800, 斟酌鵬兄 escribió: Sir, please, reply to the list _not to me_ :-) > On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 11:09 PM, Camaleón wrote: (...) > > >From "man fbterm" it can be read: > > > > *** > > BACKGROUND IMAGE > > FbTerm  doesn't  load  and  parse  any  image file with various >

Re: resize pictures received by mailserver

2012-06-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 13:47 -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > The above command will distort the image. Unproportional scaled pics are common, but they are a PITA! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian

Re: mdadm error - superfluous RAID member

2012-06-13 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 4:47 AM, Steve Dowe wrote: > > I'm trying to re-use an older server, installing squeeze (6.0.5).  I'm using > software RAID and LVM on the machine (details below).  But I must be doing > something wrong with the disk set up stage in the installer, as when it > boots I see a

Re: unique install question? (Squeeze audio install using the Wheezy-di from a USB drive)

2012-06-13 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 10:27:22 +1000, Scott wrote in message <4fd7de6a.6020...@gmail.com>: > On 13/06/12 04:45, Brian wrote: > > On Tue 12 Jun 2012 at 16:52:43 +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > >> On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 11:01:22 +0100, Brian wrote in message > >> <20120612100122.GJ30016@desktop>: > >

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-13 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 18:35:57 -0500 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > Hmm, probably I have to create a raid5 with the four empty 2 TB > > disks attached to the LSI. Then: > > > > ~$ mdadm -C /dev/md0 -n1 -l linear /dev/md1 > > WTF? I also had to add --force to create the array with one raid5. > > Now

Re: unique install question? (Squeeze audio install using the Wheezy-di from a USB drive)

2012-06-13 Thread Brian
On Wed 13 Jun 2012 at 15:45:07 +, Curt wrote: > On 2012-06-13, Brian wrote: > > > > I don't see what you do. Is this a bug in my installer? > > He said prior to partitioning so I assume once you get into the partitioning > dialogue, the installer gives you the opportunity to choose an "exper

Re: unique install question?

2012-06-13 Thread Karen Lewellen
Brian, understood. i did mention to the author at the time that his description was a bit vague, the text I shared is the result of his being more clear. In any case, the best course of action is likely different as you say. Karen On Tue, 12 Jun 2012, Brian wrote: On Tue 12 Jun 2012 at 17:5

Re: unique install question? (Squeeze audio install using the Wheezy-di from a USB drive)

2012-06-13 Thread Brian
On Wed 13 Jun 2012 at 18:30:54 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 16:14 +, Curt wrote: > > > > Yes, I was replying to Brian's inquiry concerning Scott's > > claim that one can install Squeeze using the Wheezy installer. > > I guess Scott holds the water and there will be an o

Re: mdadm error - superfluous RAID member

2012-06-13 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 3:47 AM, Steve Dowe wrote: >> >> I'm trying to re-use an older server, installing squeeze (6.0.5).  I'm using >> software RAID and LVM on the machine (details below).  But I must be doing >> something wrong with

Re: unique install question? (Squeeze audio install using the Wheezy-di from a USB drive)

2012-06-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 20:04 +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > ..in my (grub legacy) experience Pff, you prefer grub legacy too? I'm using GRUB legacy myself, but I suspect newbies need to be able to handle GRUB 2 when installing most common distros?! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@l

what causes these apt-get/aptitude errors?

2012-06-13 Thread Neal Murphy
Any idea what would cause the following errors and how to recover? The system was fine until I installed updates recently. -- Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze Release.gpg Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/contrib Translation-en Err http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ sque

Re: unique install question?

2012-06-13 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 05:14:16 -0400, Mark wrote in message <201206130514.16720.m...@neidorff.com>: > On Tuesday 12 June 2012 5:55:21 pm Karen Lewellen wrote: > > ...it is also the bit that does not work, which is why I asked here. > > Karen, who is playing catch up, and profoundly appreciative of

Re: what causes "slogin -X" to not generate a "$DISPLAY" variable on the server?

2012-06-13 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 13, 2012, at 7:23 AM, Camaleón wrote: Also, while searching for more information on this issue at Google I've found many posts¹, articles and blogs² pointing to a problem with X forwarding and ipv6 though I'm not sure this is going to be the case for this but it can be something to

Re: unique install question? (Squeeze audio install using the Wheezy-di from a USB drive)

2012-06-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 19:04 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Wed 13 Jun 2012 at 15:45:07 +, Curt wrote: > > I may be assuming wrong, but that's how I understood what he said > You've omitted the prefix 'mis' in this sentence. I "mis"understood it in the same way. "Language is a virus from outer spac

Re: configuring interface & configuring MTA time out

2012-06-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 13 iun 12, 13:44:44, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > > Yup, I'm using Wicd. When I'm ready to leave one location to trave to > the next, I choose the next network's configuration from within Wicd. > With the aforementioned /etc/network/interfaces file (set to use DHCP) > Wicd always has me set up

Re: what causes these apt-get/aptitude errors?

2012-06-13 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Neal, Neal Murphy wrote: > W: Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/dists/squeeze/updates/non- > free/i18n/Translation-en_US.gz Error reading from server - read (104: > Connection reset by peer) [IP: 128.31.0.36 80] Looks like a connection problem. Is your internet connection alive

Re: unique install question? (Squeeze audio install using the Wheezy-di from a USB drive)

2012-06-13 Thread Karen Lewellen
Hi, Really? on the radio production with whom did / do you file? For the record, I have the structure for high speed, even in dos. google the ssh2021b package for example. More detail than you need, but my structure is tied up in a legal complaint with a provider here in Canada who is at fault

Re: unique install question?

2012-06-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 20:22 +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > ..knoppix is a good way towards Debian. Can Debian Installer > match it for blind people? Is the OP visually impaired, blind, a dyslexic or just to lazy to read or what ever? I don't know why she likes or needs a screen reader. It's not im

Re: mdadm error - superfluous RAID member

2012-06-13 Thread Gary Dale
On 13/06/12 04:47 AM, Steve Dowe wrote: Hi, I'm trying to re-use an older server, installing squeeze (6.0.5). I'm using software RAID and LVM on the machine (details below). But I must be doing something wrong with the disk set up stage in the installer, as when it boots I see an error flas

Re: unique install question?

2012-06-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 20:38 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 20:22 +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > ..knoppix is a good way towards Debian. Can Debian Installer > > match it for blind people? > > Is the OP visually impaired, blind, a dyslexic or just to lazy to read > or what eve

Re: unique install question? (Squeeze audio install using the Wheezy-di from a USB drive)

2012-06-13 Thread Brian
On Wed 13 Jun 2012 at 20:26:28 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 19:04 +0100, Brian wrote: > > On Wed 13 Jun 2012 at 15:45:07 +, Curt wrote: > > > I may be assuming wrong, but that's how I understood what he said > > > You've omitted the prefix 'mis' in this sentence. > > I

Re: unique install question? (Squeeze audio install using the Wheezy-di from a USB drive)

2012-06-13 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-13, Brian wrote: >> I may be assuming wrong, but that's how I understood what he said (in >> his rather curmudgeonly style). > > You've omitted the prefix 'mis' in this sentence. > You've neglected correcting the rectal-cranial inversion from which you so cruelly suffer. -- To UNSU

Re: what causes "slogin -X" to not generate a "$DISPLAY" variable on the server?

2012-06-13 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 13, 2012, at 11:24 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: I will file a bug report ASAP against openssh-server. It turns out this is bug #422327, which dates all the way back to 2007, and nothing has been done about it. The bug report even suggested a patch (well, not exactly a patch with actual

Re: unique install question?

2012-06-13 Thread Karen Lewellen
Hi, Karen, Have you contacted U of Toronto for help with your problem? From the outside, the university seems to be on the cutting edge of technology and linux development. Not sure even who to start with over there. Can you share a link supporting your feelings? I hunted for a debian

Re: books on debian of a beginner nature?

2012-06-13 Thread keith
On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 19:22 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Ponyland? > > On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 18:02 +0100, keith wrote: > > Midnight Commander (MC) is your friend for file management & editing. > > Are you serious? > > > .mp3 > > For musicians MP3 crap? > > > Mutt is the usual email program, or

Re: unique install question? (Squeeze audio install using the Wheezy-di from a USB drive)

2012-06-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 14:34 -0400, Karen Lewellen wrote: > Hi, > Really? on the radio production with whom did / do you file? I'm 45 ½ years old and started professional video and audio engineering in the age of 16. Last time I made radio is years ago and it wasn't professional. I did it with Kla

Re: mdadm error - superfluous RAID member

2012-06-13 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Gary Dale wrote: > > For example, Squeeze has problems with booting from partitioned RAID arrays. > After running update-initramfs and update-grub, I find that the UUID for the > partitions has been replaced with the UUID for the array, so that the boot > fails. Th

Re: unique install question? (Squeeze audio install using the Wheezy-di from a USB drive)

2012-06-13 Thread Karen Lewellen
oh my...what have I started? put a creative challenge to this bunch and the ideas flow. *however* I have the equipment I have for this project, no more, so will need the the knowledgable human first with extra if I am going to spend energy this way. Honestly, I remain amazed, but there is only so

Re: unique install question? (Squeeze audio install using the Wheezy-di from a USB drive)

2012-06-13 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-13, Curt wrote: >> >> You've omitted the prefix 'mis' in this sentence. >> > > You've neglected correcting the rectal-cranial inversion from which you > so cruelly suffer. > Actually I've now reread Scott's article and I agree that I did in fact misunderstand what he was on about, and

Re: unique install question? (Squeeze audio install using the Wheezy-di from a USB drive)

2012-06-13 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 19:59:19 +0200, Ralf wrote in message <1339610359.8093.26.camel@precise>: > On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 19:44 +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > [snip] > > Since I mentioned already that 30GB aren't that much today and Arnt > also didn't explain why, I feel the need to explain what at le

KVM virtual machines and storage.

2012-06-13 Thread Alan Chandler
I currently run a necessary Windows 7 (Home Premium) installation in a VirtualBox virtual machine on my Debian Unstable desktop. Its OK, but I have had the occasional glitch when Debian tries to upgrade by kernel version and for one reason or another the VirtualBox kernel module hasn't kept up

Re: unique install question? (Squeeze audio install using the Wheezy-di from a USB drive)

2012-06-13 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 20:14:16 +0200, Ralf wrote in message <1339611256.8093.31.camel@precise>: > On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 20:04 +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > ..in my (grub legacy) experience > > Pff, you prefer grub legacy too? ..only when I get stuck with v2. ;o) > I'm using GRUB legacy myself,

Re: configuring interface & configuring MTA time out

2012-06-13 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 06/13/2012 02:28 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 13 iun 12, 13:44:44, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: >> >> Yup, I'm using Wicd. When I'm ready to leave one location to trave to >> the next, I choose the next network's configuration from within Wicd. >> With the aforementioned /etc/network/interfaces

Re: unique install question? (Squeeze audio install using the Wheezy-di from a USB drive)

2012-06-13 Thread Brian
On Wed 13 Jun 2012 at 18:42:58 +, Curt wrote: > On 2012-06-13, Brian wrote: > > >> I may be assuming wrong, but that's how I understood what he said (in > >> his rather curmudgeonly style). > > > > You've omitted the prefix 'mis' in this sentence. > > > > You've neglected correcting the rec

Re: unique install question?

2012-06-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 20:56 +0200, Julien Claassen wrote: > Sorry for the haste! >Ubuntu seems to be a good alternative. I certainly have seen it mentioned > a > couple of times on the Orca mailinglist. Hmm, I suspect Ubuntu Studio doesn't support braille for the install. On Wed, 2012-06-13

Re: unique install question? (Squeeze audio install using the Wheezy-di from a USB drive)

2012-06-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 19:43 +0100, Brian wrote: > > "Language is a virus from outer space" > > I cannot find your quote in the Bible or the Guardian. Laurie Anderson. Since she is an academic, it must be truth ;). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subje

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