Re: installing/using grub-legacy

On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 11:20:08PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Fri 23 Oct 2015 at 22:37:32 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Friday 23 October 2015 19:51:17 Brian wrote: > > > > > > To be pedantic: GRUB2 and GRUB1 don't exist in Debian. They don't really > > > exist under those names on the GNU websi

Re: installing/using grub-legacy

On Sat 24 Oct 2015 at 20:21:58 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 11:20:08PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > On Fri 23 Oct 2015 at 22:37:32 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > > On Friday 23 October 2015 19:51:17 Brian wrote: > > > > > > > > To be pedantic: GRUB2 and GRUB1 don't exist i

Re: Regarding Hotspot configuration

On Fri, 2015-10-23 at 14:38 -0700, Matt Ventura wrote: > I'm not sure about that, I just told n-m to create a new network, > and it did ad-hoc even though my card supports AP mode. > Can you check in iwconfig to confirm it's actually an AP? iwconfig does say master mode. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidss

Re: installing/using grub-legacy

Hi, various people wrote: > ... > [GRUB, GRUB Legacy, GRUB1, GRUB2, GRUB-PC] Brian wrote: > > > It is a courtesy to use the names used by upstream. Upstream offers the current names "GRUB" = "GRUB 2" for versions above 1.0 and calls the old versions 0.XY "GRUB Legacy". https://www.gnu.org/softw

Re: [OT] Linux for Lettuce

On 2015-10-23, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > Well, Monsanto genes are mostly illegal in Europe, anyway. > (Our patent office granted a patent on human genes. Against the > law. Then it claimed the law prohibited to revoke it. > Finally the patent holder gave it back after too much hate > mail.) >

Re: [OT] Linux for Lettuce

Hi, i wrote: > > Well, Monsanto genes are mostly illegal in Europe, anyway. Curt wrote: > http://www.globalagriculture.org/whats-new/news/news/en/30521.html [patented broccoli] Yep. That's the European Patent Office as we know it. Happy to hand out patents for anything. This is good for economy

Re: installing/using grub-legacy

On Saturday 24 October 2015 10:13:51 Thomas Schmitt wrote: > The name "GRUB1" seems to be an invention of users discussing > the differences between both GRUBs. No. It is its version number, to the nearest whole number. Lisi

Copy all files and folders from USB drive to SATA drive..

Hi everyone. I set up something like NAS for torrent files and installed debian on it. Installed one 4TB internal drive. My files are on USB drive. I'd like to copy all of them from my USB drive to internal drive. Are there any commands to do it in one go? I also formatted internal drive to ext4 f

Re: Copy all files and folders from USB drive to SATA drive..

On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 8:57 AM, German wrote: > Hi everyone. > > I set up something like NAS for torrent files and installed debian on > it. Installed one 4TB internal drive. My files are on USB drive. I'd > like to copy all of them from my USB drive to internal drive. Are there > any commands to

QEMU

Can someone please help me configure QEMU on Jessie as the instructions on the Wiki seem to not apply. The qemu command does not exist in /usr/bin there are dozens of platform specific ones like /usr/bin/qemu-i386 but these dont seem to accept the same args. Also why has qemu-launcher been rem

Re: Regarding Hotspot configuration

So what do I do now? Googling doesn't seem to help with that! -- Regards Himanshu Shekhar IIIT-Allahabad IRM2015006

Re: How to Rezize Partition on LVM

ray a écrit : > I would like to resize the /home partition but it is mounted, and when > umount is run, it errors with 'busy'. > > I used guided partitioning and selected the whole drive with multiple > partitions. The /home now takes up 420 GB. I would like to reduce that > to 20 GB to make r

Re: QEMU

Hi, Andrew Wood wrote: > there are dozens of platform specific ones like /usr/bin/qemu-i386 > but these dont seem to accept the same args. I use for a virtual Debian this script "start_debian_amd64": #!/bin/sh qemu-system-x86_64 \ -enable-kvm \ -m 512 \ -net nic \ -net us

Re: QEMU

On Sat, 24 Oct 2015 16:13:50 +0100 Andrew Wood wrote: > Can someone please help me configure QEMU on Jessie as the instructions > on the Wiki seem to not apply. The qemu command does not exist in > /usr/bin there are dozens of platform specific ones like /usr/bin/qemu-i386 > but these dont se

Re: Regarding Hotspot configuration

On Sat, 2015-10-24 at 09:26 +0530, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > Also, I didn't mention that my hardware has bluetooth and wireless > combined, and bluetooth doesn't work. > It would be great if anyone could suggest the proper drivers. Hi, Probably a better idea to start a new thread for the Bluetoot

Re: How to recovery disc partition table?

El 24/10/15 a las 00:37, Serkan KURT escribió: Hi friends. I have a 1TB disc. - My disc formatted ext4 before. - I accidentally created new partition table on my disk. - Unfortunately, I accidentally formatted ntfs. Can I recovery my disc partition table and/or my directorys and fi

Re: Copy all files and folders from USB drive to SATA drive..

This is a summary of using TestDisk, it doesn't describe the same procedure I described, and it misses some important information that I included. Again, do your own research.

Re: Copy all files and folders from USB drive to SATA drive..

Sorry. I replied to the wrong thread.

Re: installing/using grub-legacy

On Fri, 23 Oct 2015 23:20:08 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Fri 23 Oct 2015 at 22:37:32 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Friday 23 October 2015 19:51:17 Brian wrote: > > > > > > To be pedantic: GRUB2 and GRUB1 don't exist in Debian. They don't really > > > exist under those names on the GNU website

Re: How to recovery disc partition table?

This is a summary of using TestDisk, it doesn't describe the same procedure I described, and it misses some important information that I included. Again, do your own research.

Re: installing/using grub-legacy

moxalt writes: > Was there a similar outcry over GRUB superseding LILO as there was > over systemd superseding sysvinit? No. There was some grumbling but nothing depends on Grub so it is trivially easy to continue to use Lilo (as I do). -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: QEMU

El 24/10/15 a las 10:13, Andrew Wood escribió: Can someone please help me configure QEMU on Jessie as the instructions on the Wiki seem to not apply. The qemu command does not exist in /usr/bin there are dozens of platform specific ones like /usr/bin/qemu-i386 but these dont seem to accept the

Re: MiFi 4G LTE Global USB Modem U620L

On Sat, October 24, 2015 8:37 am, chris wrote: > You can get a cradle point or something that act as a plain cellular to > Ethernet bridge and then you won't be exposed to the mess of cellular and > you will have a pure Ethernet interface . I don't think you will get > anything directly from the ce

Re: installing/using grub-legacy

On Sat 24 Oct 2015 at 11:52:41 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 24 October 2015 10:13:51 Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > The name "GRUB1" seems to be an invention of users discussing > > the differences between both GRUBs. > > No. It is its version number, to the nearest whole number. Inventive

Re: QEMU

On 24/10/15 17:19, Reco wrote: I assume you meant https://wiki.debian.org/QEMU. So, for example: qemu -hda debian.img -cdrom debian-testing-i386-businesscard.iso -boot d -m 256 translated to the language of current stable, means: qemu-system-x86_64 -hda debian.img -cdrom \ debian-testing-i3

Re: QEMU

Hi. On Sat, 24 Oct 2015 22:30:55 +0100 Andrew Wood wrote: > One other question. Is it possible to run it on a non GUI host ie a > Debian system without X installed but run guest operating systems which > do require a GUI such as MS Windows or Haiku? Sure, that's exactly what big kids

Re: installing/using grub-legacy

On Saturday 24 October 2015 20:45:25 Brian wrote: > On Sat 24 Oct 2015 at 11:52:41 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Saturday 24 October 2015 10:13:51 Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > > The name "GRUB1" seems to be an invention of users discussing > > > the differences between both GRUBs. > > > > No. It is

Setting partition type

Reformatting a flash drive, it looks like cfdisk and fdisk no longer accept some partition types, such as 'c' for 'Win95 FAT (LBA)'. sfdisk -c Does accept this type. -- Joel Roth

/bin/sh: 1: lpr: not found on jessie amd64

I have Jessie i386 and amd64 installed on 2 different laptops. Wine is installed on both, meaning that i386 architecture is enabled on amd64 install. Both installation have access to the same printer using the same (i386) driver from Brother. The printer works just fine with all apps on both i

Re: 64bit run on mips64r2

On 20/10/15 18:58, Mehmet CELIK wrote: > Hi all.. > > How can I run amd64 application in mips64r2 OS. I'm trying multiarch, but > doesnt support amd64 in mips64r2 (Octeon CPU/Standart Glibc). > > Is It possible ?? Possible, yes. Viable, no. The CPU will not understand AMD64 instructions, so th

Re: /bin/sh: 1: lpr: not found on jessie amd64

On Sun, 25 Oct 2015 03:27:18 + (UTC), "Juan R. de Silva" wrote: > I have Jessie i386 and amd64 installed on 2 different laptops. Wine is > installed on both, meaning that i386 architecture is enabled on amd64 > install. > > Both installation have access to the same printer using the same (

Re: Setting partition type

On Sat, 24 Oct 2015 12:39:51 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > Reformatting a flash drive, it looks like cfdisk and fdisk > no longer accept some partition types, such as 'c' for > 'Win95 FAT (LBA)'. > > sfdisk -c > > Does accept this type. What version of fdisk is this? I'm running fdisk 2.27 (pr

Re: /bin/sh: 1: lpr: not found on jessie amd64

> The packages cups-bsd, lpr, and lprng all have lpr. Try installing them > and removing them in turn, and see which works. Installation of cups-bsd did the trick. BTW, I tried installing lpr before and it did not help. This is weird, since I've looked into my i386 installation and neither cup