Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 03 April 2015 02:22:52 Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Thu, 2 Apr 2015 20:37:18 -0400 > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 02 April 2015 19:20:50 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Thursday 02 April 2015 22:35:29 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > /home is just a directory on / here since the broken > >

Re: zfs, autofs dependencies

2015-04-03 Thread Mimiko
On 01.04.2015 17:55, Reco wrote: > No, the problem is related to the Debian indeed. As ZFS is used as an > LVM here, so you might as well replace those fancy/dev/zvol/* with > something conventional, and the problem will still remain. > > Consider the following /etc/fstab. > > /dev/sda1 /backup

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-03 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 03:16:15 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 03 April 2015 02:22:52 Reco wrote: > > Hi. > > > > On Thu, 2 Apr 2015 20:37:18 -0400 > > > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Thursday 02 April 2015 19:20:50 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > On Thursday 02 April 2015 22:35:29 Gene Hes

debian 8

2015-04-03 Thread Pol Hallen
I read that at 25 april (https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2015/03/msg00016.html) should be available latest debian version. Someone known if will be a LTS of debian 7? Thanks! Pol -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-03 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 03 April 2015 08:47:11 Reco wrote: > > I assume only by mounting a new drive at some temporary location, copying > > all the installed data from /home to it, then fixing fstab to mount that > > drive on top of the existing /home directory?  I have done that in the > > past, but not in the

Re: debian 8

2015-04-03 Thread Pol Hallen
Check this page, they say that squeeze LTS was a real success, and they will consider doing an LTS for wheezy. But it's handle by another community and they need some help. So may be you can give a hand to see a wheezy LTS someday ;) thanks for help! Maybe a day I will able to help developers :-

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-03 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 10:01:43AM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 03 April 2015 08:47:11 Reco wrote: > > > I assume only by mounting a new drive at some temporary location, copying > > > all the installed data from /home to it, then fixing fstab to mount that > > > drive on top of the e

Re: debian 8

2015-04-03 Thread Bret Busby
On 03/04/2015, Pol Hallen wrote: > I read that at 25 april > (https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2015/03/msg00016.html) > should be available latest debian version. > What are the expected differences between Debian 7 and Debian 8? Will Debian 8, when released, provide the "GNOME Cla

Re: debian 8

2015-04-03 Thread Bret Busby
On 03/04/2015, Bret Busby wrote: > On 03/04/2015, Pol Hallen wrote: >> I read that at 25 april >> (https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2015/03/msg00016.html) >> should be available latest debian version. >> > > > What are the expected differences between Debian 7 and Debian 8? > > Will

Re: debian 8

2015-04-03 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 17:41:44 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: > On 03/04/2015, Pol Hallen wrote: > > I read that at 25 april > > (https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2015/03/msg00016.html) > > should be available latest debian version. > > > > > What are the expected differences between Debian

Re: debian 8

2015-04-03 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 17:44:56 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: > On 03/04/2015, Bret Busby wrote: > > On 03/04/2015, Pol Hallen wrote: > >> I read that at 25 april > >> (https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2015/03/msg00016.html) > >> should be available latest debian version. > >> > > > > > > Wh

Re: debian 8

2015-04-03 Thread Pol Hallen
What are the expected differences between Debian 7 and Debian 8? Will Debian 8, when released, provide the "GNOME Classic" interface? no problems about differences (but I hate systemd). I've many (and many and many) productions server (with compilated inside source and other harden and tips).

re-set time/date

2015-04-03 Thread Racla Grillyz
Hi, during installation (of Wheezy) I picked the wrong time zone respect to my own. So: where does that information live in the system? How can I set it to a new one? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact lis

Re: debian 8

2015-04-03 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 11:49:30AM +0200, Petter Adsen wrote: > On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 17:41:44 +0800 > Bret Busby wrote: > > > On 03/04/2015, Pol Hallen wrote: > > > I read that at 25 april > > > (https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2015/03/msg00016.html) > > > should be available l

Re: re-set time/date

2015-04-03 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 03:02:08AM -0700, Racla Grillyz wrote: > > Hi, during installation (of Wheezy) I picked the wrong time > zone respect to my own. > > So: where does that information live in the system? > How can I set it to a new one? Short version is - run 'dpkg-reconfigure tzdata'

Re: re-set time/date

2015-04-03 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 03/04/15 12:02, Racla Grillyz wrote: > > Hi, during installation (of Wheezy) I picked the wrong time > zone respect to my own. > > So: where does that information live in the system? > How can I set it to a new one? > > Thanks > > dpkg-reconfigure tzdata -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:t

Re: debian 8

2015-04-03 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 13:08:29 +0300 Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 11:49:30AM +0200, Petter Adsen wrote: > > On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 17:41:44 +0800 > > Bret Busby wrote: > > > > > On 03/04/2015, Pol Hallen wrote: > > > > I read that at 25 april > > > > (https://lists.debian.org/debian

Re: re-set time/date

2015-04-03 Thread Racla Grillyz
Thanks, it worked like a charme. Just want to point out that I checked on the official debian manual/reference from the official website, and I did not find such an information. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: debian 8

2015-04-03 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 12:17:37PM +0200, Petter Adsen wrote: > On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 13:08:29 +0300 > Reco wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 11:49:30AM +0200, Petter Adsen wrote: > > > On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 17:41:44 +0800 > > > Bret Busby wrote: > > > > > > > On 03/04/2015, Po

Re: re-set time/date

2015-04-03 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 12:24:42PM +0200, Racla Grillyz wrote: > > Thanks, it worked like a charme. > Just want to point out that I checked on the > official debian manual/reference from the official website, > and I did not find such an information. Every time you upgrade tzdata - apt

Re: debian 8

2015-04-03 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 13:28:25 +0300 Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 12:17:37PM +0200, Petter Adsen wrote: > > On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 13:08:29 +0300 > > Reco wrote: > > > > > Hi. > > > > > > On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 11:49:30AM +0200, Petter Adsen wrote: > > > > On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 17:4

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-03 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 03 April 2015 10:35:49 Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 10:01:43AM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Friday 03 April 2015 08:47:11 Reco wrote: > > > > I assume only by mounting a new drive at some temporary location, > > > > copying all the installed data from /home to it, the

Re: debian 8

2015-04-03 Thread Reco
On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 12:37:15PM +0200, Petter Adsen wrote: > > Oh I see. Consider this link then: > > > > https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/amd64/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html > > > > Especially chapter 2.2.2, which talks about GNOME 3.14. > > > > Funny thing is - chapter 2.2.2 does

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-03 Thread Reco
On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 11:43:31AM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > Is mnt an alias to 'mv'? Or 'mount -o bind'? Or something else? > > No, mnt is mnt > > $ man mnt I've tried it before writing my last e-mail. And, there's a reason I asked. That reason is: $ man mnt No manual entry for mnt Moreo

Re: Xorg -configure fails with "created screens does not match number of detected devices"

2015-04-03 Thread venkat
On 02-04-2015 20:06, Floris wrote: Op Thu, 02 Apr 2015 12:32:48 +0200 schreef venkat : Looks good. The right driver is used. Add a Screen and Monitor selection to the Xorg.conf Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "gma500_gfx" Mo

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-03 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 03 April 2015 12:09:47 Reco wrote: > On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 11:43:31AM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > Is mnt an alias to 'mv'? Or 'mount -o bind'? Or something else? > > > > No, mnt is mnt > > > > $ man mnt > > I've tried it before writing my last e-mail. > > And, there's a reason I aske

CORRECTION Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-03 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 03 April 2015 10:01:43 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 03 April 2015 08:47:11 Reco wrote: > > > I assume only by mounting a new drive at some temporary location, > > > copying all the installed data from /home to it, then fixing fstab to > > > mount that drive on top of the existing /home d

Re: free cloud

2015-04-03 Thread Dan Purgert
On Thu, 02 Apr 2015 22:17:02 +0200, Pol Hallen wrote: > Hey all :-) > > I looking for a free cloud with almost rsync server-side (or other good > services to automatically sync data) no http/s transfer. > > What's the best online (and free or chip cost) service? > > thanks! > > Pol Probably n

Re: debian 8

2015-04-03 Thread Brian
On Fri 03 Apr 2015 at 17:41:44 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > What are the expected differences between Debian 7 and Debian 8? > > Will Debian 8, when released, provide the "GNOME Classic" interface? Would gnome-session-flashback suit you? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.deb

Re: debian 8

2015-04-03 Thread Brian
On Fri 03 Apr 2015 at 17:44:56 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > Oh, and, will Debian 8 be able to run software (such as printer > drivers) that run on Debian 6? Definitely. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@

Re: re-set time/date

2015-04-03 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 03/04/15 12:24, Racla Grillyz wrote: > > Thanks, it worked like a charme. > Just want to point out that I checked on the > official debian manual/reference from the official website, > and I did not find such an information. > > You didn't try very hard, did you? This list is not intende

Re: free cloud

2015-04-03 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 11:56:10 + (UTC) Dan Purgert wrote: > On Thu, 02 Apr 2015 22:17:02 +0200, Pol Hallen wrote: > > > Hey all :-) > > > > I looking for a free cloud with almost rsync server-side (or other > > good services to automatically sync data) no http/s transfer. > > > > What's the b

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-03 Thread Brian
On Thu 02 Apr 2015 at 20:37:18 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 02 April 2015 19:20:50 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Thursday 02 April 2015 22:35:29 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > /home is just a directory on / here since the broken > > > installer will not do it any other way. > > > > I know that

Re: re-set time/date

2015-04-03 Thread mudongliang
On Fri, 2015-04-03 at 03:02 -0700, Racla Grillyz wrote: > Hi, during installation (of Wheezy) I picked the wrong time > zone respect to my own. > > So: where does that information live in the system? > How can I set it to a new one? You can reset it from the "Date & Time Settings" in the graphic

Re: free cloud

2015-04-03 Thread Dan Purgert
On Fri, 03 Apr 2015 14:24:04 +0200, Petter Adsen wrote: > [...] > > Then you could set up something like OwnCloud... So, not being nearly as deep in the "roll my own solution" as some people around here ... I've learned something now too :) Now I just need to get a less bad box as a server (h

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 03 April 2015 03:47:11 Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 03:16:15 -0400 > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 03 April 2015 02:22:52 Reco wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > > > On Thu, 2 Apr 2015 20:37:18 -0400 > > > > > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > On Thursday 02 April 2015 19:20:50

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 03 April 2015 05:01:43 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 03 April 2015 08:47:11 Reco wrote: > > > I assume only by mounting a new drive at some temporary location, > > > copying all the installed data from /home to it, then fixing fstab > > > to mount that drive on top of the existing /home d

Re: free cloud

2015-04-03 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 12:55:12 + (UTC) Dan Purgert wrote: > On Fri, 03 Apr 2015 14:24:04 +0200, Petter Adsen wrote: > > > [...] > > > > Then you could set up something like OwnCloud... > > So, not being nearly as deep in the "roll my own solution" as some > people around here ... I've learned

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 03 April 2015 05:35:49 Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 10:01:43AM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Friday 03 April 2015 08:47:11 Reco wrote: > > > > I assume only by mounting a new drive at some temporary > > > > location, copying all the installed data from /home to it, t

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-03 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 03 April 2015 14:03:38 Gene Heskett wrote: > But you mentioned cleaning out /home when mounting another partition over > it, but I'd need a tutorial on how to do that since the .home dir, once > the 2nd drive is mounted oin top of it, isn't accessible. FWIW, I've > large boatload of stuff

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-03 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 03 April 2015 14:09:37 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 03 April 2015 05:01:43 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Friday 03 April 2015 08:47:11 Reco wrote: > > > > I assume only by mounting a new drive at some temporary location, > > > > copying all the installed data from /home to it, then fixing f

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-03 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 09:03:38AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/installer-amd64/cur > > > >rent /images/ > > > > > > I'll get that when the new drives arrive. > > > > > > > Besides, nobody forbids you to create a separate filesystem for > >

Re: Xorg -configure fails with "created screens does not match number of detected devices"

2015-04-03 Thread David Wright
Quoting venkat (venka...@vortexindia.co.in): > Tried various options today and finally modified xorg.conf with below settings > made my X server start with multiple displays enabled. > > > Section "Device" >   Identifier "Intel GMA3600" >   Driver "modesetting" >   BusID "PCI: 0: 2: 0 >   Option

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-03 Thread The Wanderer
On 04/03/2015 at 09:25 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 03 April 2015 14:03:38 Gene Heskett wrote: > >> But you mentioned cleaning out /home when mounting another >> partition over it, but I'd need a tutorial on how to do that since >> the .home dir, once the 2nd drive is mounted oin top of it,

LVM/btrfs - Was: Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-03 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 09:15:42 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 03 April 2015 05:35:49 Reco wrote: > > But doing it correct way would probably require using LVM > > (snapshots), and LVM is one of those things that are either used > > from the start, or not used at all. > > Tried twice back when

Re: re-set time/date

2015-04-03 Thread Brian
On Fri 03 Apr 2015 at 13:30:35 +0300, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 12:24:42PM +0200, Racla Grillyz wrote: > > > > Thanks, it worked like a charme. > > Just want to point out that I checked on the > > official debian manual/reference from the official website, > > and I did

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-03 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 09:15:42AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I see at least one (minor) complication in such approach, and that is > > the user who uses such home right now. I mean, copying files that are > > being written to right now is kind of … unpredictable as far as > > results are

Re: A question about deleting a big file structure from a big disk in Jessie: Why does this work? I'm really worried.

2015-04-03 Thread David Wright
Quoting Paul E Condon (pecon...@mesanetworks.net): > On 20150402_2135-0500, David Wright wrote: > > I do get occasional I/O errors on USB transfers, which can make the > > disk readonly, but sometimes make it disappear altogether (ie it > > gets unmounted, not remounted). > > All of my file system

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-03 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 09:36:33AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > On 04/03/2015 at 09:25 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Friday 03 April 2015 14:03:38 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > >> But you mentioned cleaning out /home when mounting another > >> partition over it, but I'd need a tutorial on how

Re: re-set time/date

2015-04-03 Thread Racla Grillyz
> You didn't try very hard, did you? This list is not intended as a > replacement for google! > > LMGTFU: http://bit.ly/1NGl5FG I would rather say "I didn't _google_ very hard" -- has it turned to be mandatory? Debian has its own documentation [1], and if something (quite basic) is missing on it

Re: LVM/btrfs - Was: Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-03 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 03:40:58PM +0200, Petter Adsen wrote: > On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 09:15:42 -0400 > Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 03 April 2015 05:35:49 Reco wrote: > > > But doing it correct way would probably require using LVM > > > (snapshots), and LVM is one of those things that are

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-03 Thread Brian
On Fri 03 Apr 2015 at 09:09:37 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 03 April 2015 05:01:43 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Friday 03 April 2015 08:47:11 Reco wrote: > > > > I assume only by mounting a new drive at some temporary location, > > > > copying all the installed data from /home to it, then fi

Re: re-set time/date

2015-04-03 Thread Brian
On Fri 03 Apr 2015 at 15:54:03 +0200, Racla Grillyz wrote: > > You didn't try very hard, did you? This list is not intended as a > > replacement for google! > > > > LMGTFU: http://bit.ly/1NGl5FG > > I would rather say "I didn't _google_ very hard" -- has it turned to > be mandatory? Debian has i

Re: LVM/btrfs - Was: Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-03 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 17:05:43 +0300 Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 03:40:58PM +0200, Petter Adsen wrote: > > This ties in nicely with something I'm sitting here and wondering > > about right now. I'm preparing to upgrade my home server to Jessie > > today, and at the same time I wan

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 03 April 2015 09:29:15 Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 09:03:38AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/installer-amd64 > > > > >/cur rent /images/ > > > > > > > > I'll get that when the new drives arrive. > > > > > > > > > Besi

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 03 April 2015 09:36:33 The Wanderer wrote: > On 04/03/2015 at 09:25 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Friday 03 April 2015 14:03:38 Gene Heskett wrote: > >> But you mentioned cleaning out /home when mounting another > >> partition over it, but I'd need a tutorial on how to do that since > >>

Re: Debian and FQDN lookup

2015-04-03 Thread Brian
On Thu 02 Apr 2015 at 16:47:56 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Alex Mestiashvili wrote: > > >> and as far as I see it simply asks the DNS about the hostname using > > >> getaddrinfo. > > > > > > But, with stock nsswitch.conf, it issues uname(2) syscall first, goes > > > to /etc/hosts second, and if i

Re: LVM/btrfs - Was: Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-03 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 04:31:22PM +0200, Petter Adsen wrote: > > Resizing just works, as long as you don't forget the correct order for > > changing the filesystem and the volume. I.e. > > > > 1) Enlarge - volume first, filesystem last. > > 2) Reduce - filesystem first, volume last. > > I

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-03 Thread David Wright
Quoting Gene Heskett (ghesk...@wdtv.com): > > > On Thursday 02 April 2015 19:20:50 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Thursday 02 April 2015 22:35:29 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > /home is just a directory on / here since the broken > > > installer will not do it any other way. > > > > I know that it has been

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 03 April 2015 10:23:58 Brian wrote: [...] Here we go again... > Why bother? The ISO from LinuxCNC installs within 15 minutes and will > provide separate / and /home partitions and a swap partition of any > chosen size. That's when done properly, of course. Compare that with > the convo

Re: re-set time/date

2015-04-03 Thread Racla Grillyz
> Nothing is missing. But we all miss things at some time or the other. :) > 9.4.5. System and hardware time My fault :) Bye -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debi

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 03 April 2015 10:52:06 David Wright wrote: > Quoting Gene Heskett (ghesk...@wdtv.com): > > On Thursday 02 April 2015 19:20:50 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Thursday 02 April 2015 22:35:29 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > /home is just a directory on / here since the broken > > > > installer wi

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-03 Thread David Wright
Quoting The Wanderer (wande...@fastmail.fm): > On 04/03/2015 at 09:25 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Friday 03 April 2015 14:03:38 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > >> But you mentioned cleaning out /home when mounting another > >> partition over it, but I'd need a tutorial on how to do that since > >> t

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 03 April 2015 11:38:02 David Wright wrote: > Quoting The Wanderer (wande...@fastmail.fm): > > On 04/03/2015 at 09:25 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Friday 03 April 2015 14:03:38 Gene Heskett wrote: > > >> But you mentioned cleaning out /home when mounting another > > >> partition over i

Re: debian 8

2015-04-03 Thread Curt
On 2015-04-03, Petter Adsen wrote: > It will bring you an improved version of the traditional panel. You can > still edit the panel to add more applets, by using the hidden alt+right > click combination. " > The alt+right click combination is hidden? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-re

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-03 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 03 April 2015 15:31:38 Gene Heskett wrote: > And don't forget, that when > the cp is done, to look at it with an ls -l to make sure I still own my > stuff.   That is the point of the p in -Rpu. It preserves permissions. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debia

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-03 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 03 April 2015 15:35:37 Gene Heskett wrote: > > It's not quite this simple if /home isn't a separate partition to > > begin with, but is just a directory under the root partition, which I > > believe Gene stated is the case he's dealing with. > > That is correct, the installers partitioner

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-03 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 03 April 2015 16:53:53 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 03 April 2015 11:38:02 David Wright wrote: > > Quoting The Wanderer (wande...@fastmail.fm): > > > On 04/03/2015 at 09:25 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > On Friday 03 April 2015 14:03:38 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > >> But you mentioned cle

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 03 April 2015 12:01:18 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 03 April 2015 15:31:38 Gene Heskett wrote: > > And don't forget, that when > > the cp is done, to look at it with an ls -l to make sure I still own > > my stuff. > > That is the point of the p in -Rpu. It preserves permissions. > I'l

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-03 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 03 April 2015 16:01:05 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 03 April 2015 10:23:58 Brian wrote: > [...] > > Here we go again... > > > Why bother? The ISO from LinuxCNC installs within 15 minutes and will > > provide separate / and /home partitions and a swap partition of any > > chosen size.

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-03 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 03 April 2015 16:31:02 Gene Heskett wrote: > And I > cannot understand why that is not possible with this installer. It is. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: ht

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 01:28:56PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Thu 02 Apr 2015 at 20:37:18 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Thursday 02 April 2015 19:20:50 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Thursday 02 April 2015 22:35:29 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > /home is just a directory on / here since the broken >

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-03 Thread The Wanderer
On 04/03/2015 at 10:35 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 03 April 2015 09:36:33 The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 04/03/2015 at 09:25 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: >>> /home is a mount point, not a partition. You don't mount >>> anything over it, you mount something on it. So you mount your >>> new home p

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-03 Thread Brian
On Fri 03 Apr 2015 at 11:01:05 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Go ahead Brian, I'll wait right here while you do that. It is only the partitioning which is giving a problem. 1. Choose 'Manual' on the 'Partition disks' page. 2. Choose a disk and hightlight 'FREE SPACE'. Press the ENTER key. 3. Cre

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 03 April 2015 12:03:37 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 03 April 2015 15:35:37 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > It's not quite this simple if /home isn't a separate partition to > > > begin with, but is just a directory under the root partition, > > > which I believe Gene stated is the case he's de

Re: debian 8

2015-04-03 Thread Bret Busby
On 03/04/2015, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 11:49:30AM +0200, Petter Adsen wrote: >> On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 17:41:44 +0800 >> Bret Busby wrote: >> >> > On 03/04/2015, Pol Hallen wrote: >> > > I read that at 25 april >> > > (https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2015/03/msg0

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 03 April 2015 12:16:33 Lisi Reisz wrote: [...]> > The installer IS NOT BROKEN. And someone did give you step by step > instructions, which you ignored. No, they were printed and followed to the letter, at least twice. > Also ask you for step by step > information on what you had done

Re: debian 8

2015-04-03 Thread Bret Busby
On 03/04/2015, Petter Adsen wrote: > On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 17:41:44 +0800 > Bret Busby wrote: > >> On 03/04/2015, Pol Hallen wrote: >> > I read that at 25 april >> > (https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2015/03/msg00016.html) >> > should be available latest debian version. >> > >> >> >> W

Re: debian 8

2015-04-03 Thread Bret Busby
On 03/04/2015, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 12:17:37PM +0200, Petter Adsen wrote: >> On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 13:08:29 +0300 >> Reco wrote: >> >> > Hi. >> > >> > On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 11:49:30AM +0200, Petter Adsen wrote: >> > > On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 17:41:44 +0800 >> > > Bret Busby

Re: debian 8

2015-04-03 Thread Erwan David
Le 03/04/2015 11:58, Pol Hallen a écrit : >> What are the expected differences between Debian 7 and Debian 8? >> Will Debian 8, when released, provide the "GNOME Classic" interface? > > no problems about differences (but I hate systemd). > > I've many (and many and many) productions server (with co

Re: debian 8

2015-04-03 Thread Bret Busby
On 04/04/2015, Bret Busby wrote: > On 03/04/2015, Reco wrote: >> Hi. >> >> On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 12:17:37PM +0200, Petter Adsen wrote: >>> On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 13:08:29 +0300 >>> Reco wrote: >>> >>> > Hi. >>> > >>> > On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 11:49:30AM +0200, Petter Adsen wrote: >>> > > On Fri,

Re: debian 8

2015-04-03 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 03.04.2015 um 19:09 schrieb Erwan David: > Le 03/04/2015 11:58, Pol Hallen a écrit : >>> What are the expected differences between Debian 7 and Debian 8? >>> Will Debian 8, when released, provide the "GNOME Classic" interface? >> >> no problems about differences (but I hate systemd). >> >> I've

Re: debian 8

2015-04-03 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, 4 Apr 2015 01:10:21 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: > >> > > > On 03/04/2015, Pol Hallen wrote: > >> > > > > I read that at 25 april > >> > > > > (https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2015/03/msg00016.html) > >> > > > > should be available latest debian version. > >> > > > > > >>

Re: debian 8

2015-04-03 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 03.04.2015 um 19:16 schrieb Michael Biebl: > Am 03.04.2015 um 19:09 schrieb Erwan David: >> "systemd is shipped as a technology preview in Debian 8" >> >> What does this mean ? If we want stable, and no tech preview, no part >> of it is installed ? > > It means, that you were pointed at the w

Re: debian 8

2015-04-03 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, 03 Apr 2015 19:16:30 +0200 Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 03.04.2015 um 19:09 schrieb Erwan David: > > Le 03/04/2015 11:58, Pol Hallen a écrit : > >>> What are the expected differences between Debian 7 and Debian 8? > >>> Will Debian 8, when released, provide the "GNOME Classic" interfac

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-03 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 03 April 2015 17:41:05 Gene Heskett wrote: > If that isn't broken, its a matter for you and me to argue about over a > couple hand coolers, on me of course. :) No, it isn't broken. You have trouble with it. So you need help. I have no problem with that. But accept help. Answer ques

Re: debian 8

2015-04-03 Thread Bret Busby
On 03/04/2015, Brian wrote: > On Fri 03 Apr 2015 at 17:41:44 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > >> What are the expected differences between Debian 7 and Debian 8? >> >> Will Debian 8, when released, provide the "GNOME Classic" interface? > > Would gnome-session-flashback suit you? > I have no idea. In

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-03 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 03 April 2015 17:58:39 Gene Heskett wrote: > > The installer IS NOT BROKEN. And someone did give you step by step > > instructions, which you ignored. > > No, they were printed and followed to the letter, at least twice. > > > Also ask you for step by step > > information on what you had

Re: debian 8

2015-04-03 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, 4 Apr 2015 01:05:31 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: > > https://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/ppc64el/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html > > > >> Will Debian 8, when released, provide the "GNOME Classic" interface? > > > > From the above: > > > > "If you want to keep an interface closer to

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-03 Thread David Wright
Quoting Gene Heskett (ghesk...@wdtv.com): > I knew it would degenerate to this. Back then I asked for howto's, got > and printed several, all of which failed to produce the desired results, > I assume because steps done were not all recorded. https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/02/msg0015

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 03 April 2015 12:25:01 Chris Bannister wrote: [...] > > > > > > > > I know that it has been said before, but there may be people new > > > > to the list reading this. I used the same "broken" installer, > > > > and my /home is separate from /. > > > > > > > > Lisi > > > > > > I appreciat

Re: debian 8

2015-04-03 Thread Brian
On Sat 04 Apr 2015 at 01:26:35 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > On 03/04/2015, Brian wrote: > > On Fri 03 Apr 2015 at 17:41:44 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > > > >> What are the expected differences between Debian 7 and Debian 8? > >> > >> Will Debian 8, when released, provide the "GNOME Classic" interface

Re: debian 8

2015-04-03 Thread Bret Busby
On 04/04/2015, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Sat, 4 Apr 2015 01:10:21 +0800 > Bret Busby wrote: > >> >> > > > On 03/04/2015, Pol Hallen wrote: >> >> > > > > I read that at 25 april >> >> > > > > (https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2015/03/msg00016.html) >> >> > > > > should be available l

Re: debian 8

2015-04-03 Thread David Wright
Quoting Michael Biebl (em...@michaelbiebl.de): > Am 03.04.2015 um 19:16 schrieb Michael Biebl: > > Am 03.04.2015 um 19:09 schrieb Erwan David: > > >> "systemd is shipped as a technology preview in Debian 8" > >> > >> What does this mean ? If we want stable, and no tech preview, no part > >> of it

Debian 7 and Debian 8 and bootloader

2015-04-03 Thread Bret Busby
Hello. Do Debian 7 and Debian 8 (when it is to be released), and a bootloader such as GRUB, allow yet, for more than one version of Debian, to be installed on a system, and, to be selectable options for the bootloader? -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .. "So once you do know wh

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 03 April 2015 12:32:47 Brian wrote: > On Fri 03 Apr 2015 at 11:01:05 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Go ahead Brian, I'll wait right here while you do that. > > It is only the partitioning which is giving a problem. > > 1. Choose 'Manual' on the 'Partition disks' page. Check > 2. Choose a

Re: re-set time/date

2015-04-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 01:30:35PM +0300, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 12:24:42PM +0200, Racla Grillyz wrote: > > > > Thanks, it worked like a charme. > > Just want to point out that I checked on the > > official debian manual/reference from the official website, > > and I

Re: debian 8

2015-04-03 Thread Curt
On 2015-04-03, Bret Busby wrote: > I guess the sharpness and brightness, have dulled for me, over the > years (too many years). > And Cloris Leachman never got on Lassie. Sheesh. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Re: re-set time/date

2015-04-03 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, 4 Apr 2015 07:02:05 +1300 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 01:30:35PM +0300, Reco wrote: > > Hi. > > > > On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 12:24:42PM +0200, Racla Grillyz wrote: > > > > > > Thanks, it worked like a charme. > > > Just want to point out that I checked on t

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 03 April 2015 12:32:47 Brian wrote: > On Fri 03 Apr 2015 at 11:01:05 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Go ahead Brian, I'll wait right here while you do that. > > It is only the partitioning which is giving a problem. > Re-reading this again... > 1. Choose 'Manual' on the 'Partition disks'

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