Re: PXE install, without internet?

2014-01-24 Thread Anubhav Yadav
> set the proxy on the pxe server to localhost:3142 using > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/90proxy or (/etc/apt/apt.conf) > I did the above and now on my PXE server I have 12 gb of packages cached. What I want to do is when I boot the other computers via network, (ie the boot from tftp on my PXE server) I w

Re: audio dropouts still

2014-01-24 Thread Klaus
Just realised that yesterday's reply didn't go to the list. Sorry. On 23/01/14 22:15, Zenaan Harkness wrote: 'Tis. Which dist are you running, sid, jessie or wheezy? Minutes earlier, Klaus had scribbled this: JFTR: my X220 is a type 4290-FC1, cpu i5-2540, 8GB ram, up-to-date SID, 3.12-1-amd64

Re: Using loop devices in Debian

2014-01-24 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 24 ian 14, 11:50:25, David wrote: > > So where you have several dvd iso files, then ordinarily you would > need several separate loop mounts. Unless you create a filesystem in > one huge file, copy all the iso's into it, and then loop mount that > huge file. That sounds like a very ugly ide

Re: Confused about dist-upgrade

2014-01-24 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 23 ian 14, 23:47:11, Brian wrote: > On Thu 23 Jan 2014 at 17:52:00 -0500, Bob Bernstein wrote: > > > At any rate, to move from, say, squeeze, to wheezy, my approach > > would be to edit my sources.list, replacing all instances of > > "squeeze" with "wheezy", and then running > > > > # apt-

Re: apt.conf wheezy 7.1

2014-01-24 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 23 ian 14, 17:45:57, james gray wrote: > I am trying to set up apt.conf. As I tried to explained to you after the private reply, in most cases you don't need to touch those options of apt.conf. Could you please explain what problem do you think you would be solving by adjusting apt.conf?

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade on shutdown ?

2014-01-24 Thread Joel Rees
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 10:40 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > apt-get upgrade seems to have less "reboot requiring" updates. > > There ought be a way to schedule a dist-upgrade, to occur the next > time I shutdown my computer - not on hibernate/suspend or even logout > (I work on cmd line here and th

Re: Confused about dist-upgrade

2014-01-24 Thread Brian
On Fri 24 Jan 2014 at 11:54:12 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > The recommended way is specific to each release and thoroughly > documented in the Release Notes. Which is where I got what I wrote from: If the system being upgraded provides critical services for your users or the network[2], y

Re: PXE install, without internet?

2014-01-24 Thread Klaus
On 24/01/14 08:44, Anubhav Yadav wrote: When I get on the network mirror page on the installation of client, I try the following http://{PXE_IP_Address}:3142 but it just won't work. Didn't we have a recent thread about this? I seem to remember that there might be a bug in the current install

Re: PXE install, without internet?

2014-01-24 Thread Anubhav Yadav
On 24 Jan 2014 16:02, "Klaus" wrote: > > On 24/01/14 08:44, Anubhav Yadav wrote: >> >> When I get on the network mirror page on the installation of client, I >> try the following >> >> http://{PXE_IP_Address}:3142 >> >> but it just won't work. > > > Didn't we have a recent thread about this? I see

Re: apt conf

2014-01-24 Thread Selim T. Erdogan
james gray, 22.01.2014: > > the machine i am engaged with = Intel 64 bit. > > Ivy Bridge i3-3110M 2.4 GHz > > from z reason in berkeley. good machine. > > #dpkg --print architecture > > amd64 I don't know if this confused you, but it's actually correct. Intel 64-bit processors use amd64. (T

Re: Using loop devices in Debian

2014-01-24 Thread Richard Owlett
David wrote: On 24 January 2014 01:04, Richard Owlett wrote: As I DO NOT have high speed internet available I have purchased a set of Squeeze DVD's. My impression is that I should be able to copy the set of DVD's to a flash drive and access as loop device to save physically handling DVD's whe

Re: Using loop devices in Debian

2014-01-24 Thread Richard Owlett
David wrote: I forgot to mention that an alternative approach could be to serve the dvd or mounted iso file contents from another machine on your LAN rather than from a flash drive. No LAN exists. In answer to related questions, others have unsuccessfully suggested virtual machines. Instal

Re: Using loop devices in Debian

2014-01-24 Thread Richard Owlett
Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 24 ian 14, 11:50:25, David wrote: So where you have several dvd iso files, then ordinarily you would need several separate loop mounts. Unless you create a filesystem in one huge file, copy all the iso's into it, and then loop mount that huge file. That sounds like

Re: ssh login problem from one particular client

2014-01-24 Thread Craig L.
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 09:20:09PM -0200, André Nunes Batista wrote: > On Thu, 2014-01-23 at 14:07 -0600, Craig L. wrote: > > > > When I tried to reconnect, it took almost 60 seconds for the password > > prompt to > > show up. Ever since then this problem occurs from my machine to either of > >

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade on shutdown ?

2014-01-24 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 1/24/14, Joel Rees wrote: > On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 10:40 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: >> apt-get upgrade seems to have less "reboot requiring" updates. >> >> There ought be a way to schedule a dist-upgrade, to occur the next >> time I shutdown my computer - not on hibernate/suspend or even logo

Re: apt conf

2014-01-24 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 10:54 PM, james gray wrote: > > #apt.conf > > the quandary: How to express Intel 64 bit processor for the Architecture and > Architectures plural for the apt.conf file in Debian software speak. > > doing www-network search is just as dizzy. > > Architecture > > Architecture

Re: Confused about dist-upgrade

2014-01-24 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 6:47 PM, Brian wrote: > On Thu 23 Jan 2014 at 17:52:00 -0500, Bob Bernstein wrote: >> >> At any rate, to move from, say, squeeze, to wheezy, my approach >> would be to edit my sources.list, replacing all instances of >> "squeeze" with "wheezy", and then running >> >> # apt-

Re: Confused about dist-upgrade

2014-01-24 Thread Brian
On Fri 24 Jan 2014 at 12:52:05 -0500, Tom H wrote: > On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 6:47 PM, Brian wrote: > > On Thu 23 Jan 2014 at 17:52:00 -0500, Bob Bernstein wrote: > >> > >> At any rate, to move from, say, squeeze, to wheezy, my approach > >> would be to edit my sources.list, replacing all instance

Re: Confused about dist-upgrade

2014-01-24 Thread Brad Alexander
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 4:31 PM, Robin wrote: > Were those users using Debian stable? I use Sid so I usually > dist-upgrade as long it isn't going obviously affect my system, i.e > removing applications I want to keep. > My process on sid is apt-get update && apt-get upgrade && apt-get dist-up

Problem with vmware-install.pl

2014-01-24 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
I have installed Debiat Testing in VMware Player on 64 bit Win 7 Laptop. All went well until I ran vmware-install.pl. Unfortunately I got an error message during the execution of the installer: Using 2.6.x kernel build system. make: Entering directory `/tmp/modconfig-b2vEG8/vmhgfs-only' /usr/b

gambas3 does not work in Sid

2014-01-24 Thread sp113438
Hi, I get this: $ gambas3 ** Oops! Internal error! ** ** Cannot find interface of library 'gb.geom' ERROR: #27: Cannot load component 'gb.geom': cannot find component ** Program aborting. Sorry! :-( ** Please send a bug report at gam...@users.sourceforge.net I sent the bugreport and the answer

Re: gambas3 does not work in Sid

2014-01-24 Thread Brian
On Fri 24 Jan 2014 at 20:58:40 +0100, sp113438 wrote: > I get this: > > $ gambas3 > > ** Oops! Internal error! ** > ** Cannot find interface of library 'gb.geom' > ERROR: #27: Cannot load component 'gb.geom': cannot find component > ** Program aborting. Sorry! :-( > ** Please send a bug report

Re: gambas3 does not work in Sid

2014-01-24 Thread Kruppt
On 2014-01-24, sp113438 wrote: > Hi, > > I get this: > > $ gambas3 > > ** Oops! Internal error! ** > ** Cannot find interface of library 'gb.geom' > ERROR: #27: Cannot load component 'gb.geom': cannot find component > ** Program aborting. Sorry! :-( > ** Please send a bug report at gam...@users.s

Re: Using loop devices in Debian

2014-01-24 Thread David
On 25 January 2014 01:00, Richard Owlett wrote: > David wrote: >> >> I forgot to mention that an alternative approach could be to serve the >> dvd or mounted iso file contents from another machine on your LAN >> rather than from a flash drive. > > No LAN exists. Just in case I wasn't clear, "your

Re: Using loop devices in Debian

2014-01-24 Thread David
Sorry for replying to myself again with further thoughts ... Another option to consider is to partition your hard drive and copy all the DVD/iso contents there, and then tell the installer to read the files from there while it is installing to a different partition on the same hard drive. Why am

Re: gambas3 does not work in Sid

2014-01-24 Thread sp113438
On Fri, 24 Jan 2014 20:20:30 + Brian wrote: > On Fri 24 Jan 2014 at 20:58:40 +0100, sp113438 wrote: > > > I get this: > > > > $ gambas3 > > > > ** Oops! Internal error! ** > > ** Cannot find interface of library 'gb.geom' > > ERROR: #27: Cannot load component 'gb.geom': cannot find compon

Re: gambas3 does not work in Sid

2014-01-24 Thread Brian
On Sat 25 Jan 2014 at 00:15:48 +0100, sp113438 wrote: > On Fri, 24 Jan 2014 20:20:30 + > Brian wrote: > > > On Fri 24 Jan 2014 at 20:58:40 +0100, sp113438 wrote: > > > > > I get this: > > > > > > $ gambas3 > > > > > > ** Oops! Internal error! ** > > > ** Cannot find interface of library

Re: gambas3 does not work in Sid

2014-01-24 Thread Joel Rees
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 8:15 AM, sp113438 wrote: > On Fri, 24 Jan 2014 20:20:30 + > Brian wrote: > >> On Fri 24 Jan 2014 at 20:58:40 +0100, sp113438 wrote: >> >> > I get this: >> > >> > $ gambas3 >> > >> > ** Oops! Internal error! ** >> > ** Cannot find interface of library 'gb.geom' >> > ERR

Viber on Debian

2014-01-24 Thread Man_Without_Clue
Hi all, Has anyone successfully installed Viber opn Debian? Completely lost man -- 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/52e306d1.1010...@gmail.com

fastest linux distro

2014-01-24 Thread tom arnall
I am looking for the fastest Linux distro for the following purposes. System: Dell latitude D630 dual core 2g memory most used applications: icewm gnome-terminal vim perl chrome browser transmission Currently I am running ubuntu 12.04. I am unhappy with the speed of it. Any info/suggestion

Re: Using loop devices in Debian

2014-01-24 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 1/24/14, Richard Owlett wrote: > Having read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loop_device, I suspect > using a loop device will alleviate some of my problems. Let's make sure we're not in XY problem territory. > I'm doing a series of installs to find an optimum configuration > for my personal nee

Re: Using loop devices in Debian

2014-01-24 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 1/25/14, David wrote: > Sorry for replying to myself again with further thoughts ... So you should be! My god! Another Debian user trying to be helpful ... what has the world come to!! Next we'll be offering further assistance to those who get stuck... > Another option to consider is to parti

Is your osspd working?

2014-01-24 Thread T o n g
Hi, Any of you are still using /dev/dsp as I do? Is your /dev/dsp (osspd) still working? OSS Proxy Daemon is a Linux userland OSS sound device (/dev/[a]dsp and /dev/mixer) implementation using CUSE. Currently it supports forwarding OSS sound streams to PulseAudio and ALSA. I'm using Ubuntu

Re: fastest linux distro

2014-01-24 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 1/25/14, tom arnall wrote: > I am looking for the fastest Linux distro for the following purposes. > > System: > Dell latitude D630 > dual core > 2g memory > > most used applications: > icewm > gnome-terminal > vim > perl > chrome browser > transmission > > Currently I am running ubuntu 12.04.

Re: fastest linux distro

2014-01-24 Thread doug
On 01/24/2014 09:17 PM, tom arnall wrote: I am looking for the fastest Linux distro for the following purposes. System: Dell latitude D630 dual core 2g memory most used applications: icewm gnome-terminal vim perl chrome browser transmission Currently I am running ubuntu 12.04. I am unhapp

fastest linux distro

2014-01-24 Thread tom arnall
Zenaan, thanks for the rundown. very helpful. i'm running icewm btw. i can't imagine using ubuntu's bloatware manager, altho' i do use gnome-terminal, initially (10 years ago) because i didn't know any better, now because i don't have the time to relearn with xterm. how does icewm compare to xfc

Re: fastest linux distro

2014-01-24 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 03:17:29PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > Oh, and add the Debian multimedia repository to your package sources > (gives you MMX instructions and other goodies and plugins all compiled > into nice Debian packages for you)! I wouldn't be so quick to recommend the deb-multi

Re: fastest linux distro

2014-01-24 Thread Go Linux
On Fri, 1/24/14, Chris Bannister wrote: Subject: Re: fastest linux distro To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Friday, January 24, 2014, 11:21 PM I wouldn't be so quick to recommend the deb-multimedia third party repository considering the p

Re: fastest linux distro

2014-01-24 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 09:30:55PM -0800, Go Linux wrote: > > On Fri, 1/24/14, Chris > Bannister wrote: > > Subject: Re: fastest linux distro To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Friday, January 24, 2014, 11:21 PM > > > I wouldn't be so quic

Re: fastest linux distro

2014-01-24 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 1/25/14, Chris Bannister wrote: > to my ISP being regarded as legit. :(> Oh wow! You have your own ISP ... no wonder you are so knowledgeable :) > On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 03:17:29PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: >> Oh, and add the Debian multimedia repository to your package sources >> (giv

Re: fastest linux distro

2014-01-24 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 1/25/14, tom arnall wrote: > i'm running icewm btw. i can't imagine using ubuntu's bloatware > manager, I'm a bit of a command line junkie actually ... I have alii (aliases?) for aks = apt-cache search and akw = apt-cache show, since I use them so often, and agi for apt-get install. There was

Re: Viber on Debian

2014-01-24 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 1/25/14, Man_Without_Clue wrote: > Has anyone successfully installed Viber opn Debian? What's viber? Is it libre? Or is it proprietary? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: fastest linux distro

2014-01-24 Thread Go Linux
On Fri, 1/24/14, Chris Bannister wrote: Subject: Re: fastest linux distro To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Friday, January 24, 2014, 11:34 PM On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 09:30:55PM -0800, Go Linux wrote: > > ---