Re: Most compatible way to prepare USB stick

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 11:36:57PM +0100, Mr Smiley wrote: > I have a satellite receiver that records to an external USB device > which has to be formatted to Fat32. Every few weeks it says it can't > find a compatible fat32 device. If I connect the u

Re: Most compatible way to prepare USB stick

Le decadi 30 vendémiaire, an CCXXV, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : > > So there is a major difference in the way Linux and windows handle > > file naming. The file names look the same on both Linux and windows, > > but behind the scenes they are not. > You'd need more evidence to convince me of that. A

Re: Most compatible way to prepare USB stick

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 10:51:54AM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > Le decadi 30 vendémiaire, an CCXXV, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : > > > So there is a major difference in the way Linux and windows handle > > > file naming. The file names look the same on

Re: alt F2 in kde does not work

On Friday, October 21, 2016 01:08:28 AM kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > No. I see the same issue with all the applications when trying to > start with Alt + F2 Thanks for the reply, although I have no clue atm--sorry!

Can't install security update: server name not resolved

Anyone else seeing this? E: Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/linux/linux-headers-3.16.0-4-amd64_3.16.36-1+deb8u2_amd64.deb Could not resolve 'security-cdn.debian.org Any suggestions? -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog

Re: alt F2 in kde does not work

kamaraju kusumanchi writes: > On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 8:42 AM, Hans wrote: >> And not forget to mention: Alt-F2 does not start konsole (on all my systems), >> it starts a little input window, where I have to / can input my wanted >> command >> (like konsole, or xterm whatever) >> > > I know tha

Time quandry when dual boot with WinXP Pro

I'm creating a preseed.cfg file for installing Debian 8.6 in a dual-boot enviroment with some version of MS Windows. There are two distinct use cases: 1. Two of my machines with WinXP Pro SP3 2. A remote (~1000 miles]friend with several machines - some with WinXP, others with Windo

Re: Most compatible way to prepare USB stick

On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 04:57:47PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > It's a 4GB stick and I am thinking of using all the space in a single > > partition. > > Assuming the USB stick is at /dev/sdb I'd do: > > % fdisk /dev/sdb > o > n RET RET RET RET > w > q > % mkfs.vfat /d

Re: Time quandry when dual boot with WinXP Pro

On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 08:09:38AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm creating a preseed.cfg file for installing Debian 8.6 in a dual-boot enviroment with some version of MS Windows. There are two distinct use cases: 1. Two of my machines with WinXP Pro SP3 2. A remote (~1000 miles]friend wit

Re: Time quandry when dual boot with WinXP Pro

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 08:09:38AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm creating a preseed.cfg file for installing Debian 8.6 in a > dual-boot enviroment with some version of MS Windows. There are two > distinct use cases: >1. Two of my machines with

Re: Most compatible way to prepare USB stick

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 10:28:34PM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: [...] > I went with vfat, but I'd like to resolve the question of exfat if > possible, out of curiosity. I was curious too, so I dropped the thing into my favourite search engine (no, i

Re: Time quandry when dual boot with WinXP Pro

On 10/21/2016 8:32 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 08:09:38AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm creating a preseed.cfg file for installing Debian 8.6 in a dual-boot enviroment with some version of MS Windows. There are two distinc

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Re: Time quandry when dual boot with WinXP Pro

On 10/21/2016 8:28 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 08:09:38AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm creating a preseed.cfg file for installing Debian 8.6 in a dual-boot enviroment with some version of MS Windows. There are two distinct use cases: 1. Two of my machines with WinXP Pro

Re: Time quandry when dual boot with WinXP Pro

On Fri 21 Oct 2016 at 14:28:26 (+0100), Darac Marjal wrote: > On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 08:09:38AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > >I'm creating a preseed.cfg file for installing Debian 8.6 in a > >dual-boot enviroment with some version of MS Windows. There are > >two distinct use cases: > > [snipped

Re: Most compatible way to prepare USB stick

Working both with Debian and Windows7PRO, I routinely use the default Debian disk utility (gnome-disks) to format and re-format all varieties of USB drives, including flash sticks and mechanical drives by WD, Seagate, and Toshiba. I format to FAT or VFAT. I have no difficulty transferring files b

Re: Time quandry when dual boot with WinXP Pro

On 10/21/2016 10:21 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 10/21/2016 8:32 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 08:09:38AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm creating a preseed.cfg file for installing Debian 8.6 in a dual-boot enviroment with s

Re: Time quandry when dual boot with WinXP Pro

On Fri, 21 Oct 2016 09:58:42 -0500 David Wright wrote: > > . Neither OS was running when Civil Time changed to/from DST, > . After the time changed, one OS has run, updating the Local Time to > match Civil Time, . Another OS is just being booted up. > > What Local Time will eventually be displ

Re: Re: Debian jessie: DHCP v6 in interfaces does not start dhclient

in my case 2 seconds were not enough - had to increase to 5 on one machine and to 10 on another (slower) one. is this issue fixed in stretch/sid?

Re: Time quandry when dual boot with WinXP Pro

On 10/21/2016 11:46 AM, Doug wrote: On 10/21/2016 10:21 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 10/21/2016 8:32 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 08:09:38AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm creating a preseed.cfg file for installing Debian

Re: Firefox lost restore previous session setting

On 21/10/16 04:28 AM, William Satterthwaite wrote: Are you accessing the restore button through the default home page? If this is where the button has disappeared from, you can try accessing it through the settings button > history > restore. Or enable the menu bar > history > restore. If y

Reconfiguring grub2 UFEI system

Hi, In setting up a new system, The new system is a UFEI one. I started with an internal 750Gb SATA drive for the OS, and a 2Tb drive for backups. I tried a couple of distros and finally settled on Debian Jesse 8.6. I had installed a distro on the 2Tb drive, and a couple of others (one of

Re: Firefox lost restore previous session setting

In that case, you could try this addon. Once installed, you can go session manager > session manager options > Startup and Shutdown > change the startup option to 'show my windows and tabs from last time' It does seem Firefox is ta

Re: Can't install security update: server name not resolved

I was seeing that too. Tried again, this time through a VPN, and it worked. Morten

Re: Most compatible way to prepare USB stick

> My only slight worry is following the above instructions the partition > created on the stick was marked as "Linux". Really? Is that OK? The partition type is very rarely used (it's kind of an announce of the *purpose* of this partition, but the partition's content is always the one that really

Re: Time quandry when dual boot with WinXP Pro

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 09:21:17AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: [...] > Relavant lines of preseed.cfg are > > ### Clock and time zone setup > #d-i clock-setup/utc boolean false > d-i clock-setup/utc boolean true > d-i time/zone string US/Central > d

Re: Time quandry when dual boot with WinXP Pro

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 01:17:21PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: [...] > CONCLUSION > Can *NOT* blame Microsoft Windows for EVERYTHING ;/ My conclusion too. There's something else acting up. Linux should pick up the hw clock and *know* it's not in UT

Re: Time quandry when dual boot with WinXP Pro

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 09:11:07PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 09:21:17AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > [...] > > > Relavant lines of preseed.cfg are > > > > ### Clock and time zone setup > > #d-i clock-setup/utc bool

Re: Time quandry when dual boot with WinXP Pro

On 10/21/2016 2:24 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 09:11:07PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 09:21:17AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: [...] Relevant lines of preseed.cfg are ### Clock and time zone setup #d-i clock-setup/utc boolean false d-i cloc

Re: Reconfiguring grub2 UFEI system

Le 21/10/2016 à 20:56, Mark Neidorff a écrit : So, the next step was to clean out the other distros. I used gparted to delete no longer needed partitions and to expand other partitions to fill the space. All is now good. I then ran #update-grub hoping that would regenerate the grub boot men

Re: Time quandry when dual boot with WinXP Pro

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 03:09:46PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: [...] If you want to get to the ground of things, on my system (yes, I'm on SysV init, for systemd you'll have to find out for yourself), the magic happens in /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh. Thi

Re: Firefox lost restore previous session setting

On 21/10/16 02:50 PM, William Satterthwaite wrote: In that case, you could try this addon. Once installed, you can go session manager > session manager options > Startup and Shutdown > change the startup option to 'show my win

Re: Firefox lost restore previous session setting

On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 02:32:46PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > On 21/10/16 04:28 AM, William Satterthwaite wrote: > Thanks. The settings button | History has a "Restore Closed Tabs" option > that isn't in the History pulldown. When you first start Firefox, the option > reads "Restore Closed Windows

Re: Can't install security update: server name not resolved

On 10/21/2016 02:36 PM, Morten Bergman wrote: I was seeing that too. Tried again, this time through a VPN, and it worked. It was apparently temporary. Worked when I got home from, well, work. Thanks. -- Carl Fink c...@finknetwork.com

Disabling transmission of beacon frames

Hi all, As far as I'm aware, IEEE802.11 defines the two modes a wifi AP and client can establish communication, passive (AP broadcasts SSID, clients connects to SSID) and active (AP doesn't broadcast SSID, client broadcasts SSID probe and AP then sends a probe response). Does anyone know if it's

Re: Firefox lost restore previous session setting

On 21/10/16 07:23 PM, Dutch Ingraham wrote: On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 02:32:46PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: On 21/10/16 04:28 AM, William Satterthwaite wrote: Thanks. The settings button | History has a "Restore Closed Tabs" option that isn't in the History pulldown. When you first start Firefox, t

Will jmtpfs be able to connect the Google Nexus 5X to the debian computer?

Will jmtpfs be able to connect the Google Nexus 5X to the debian computer? if yes: will also the internet connection through the Nexus 5X work? David Mörike

Re: Will jmtpfs be able to connect the Google Nexus 5X to the debian computer?

Am 22. Oct, 2016 schwätzte David so: moin moin David, Will jmtpfs be able to connect the Google Nexus 5X to the debian computer? It should. jmtpfs is working for several Android devices for me. Some are Nexus with latest OS release, some are old devices with no support from the carrier and on

archivemail default setup

Hello again A little while back I installed archivemail on Jessie, to delete mail from my local mailbox when it is more than a month old. The command I am running is: archivemail --output-dir=/home/mark/Mail/ -d 31 --delete /var/mail/mark My mailbox is in /var/mail/mark. I didn't choose to put

Re: Will jmtpfs be able to connect the Google Nexus 5X to the debian computer?

der.hans wrote: > Am 22. Oct, 2016 schwätzte David so: > > moin moin David, > >> Will jmtpfs be able to connect the Google Nexus 5X to the debian >> computer? > > It should. jmtpfs is working for several Android devices for me. Some are > Nexus with latest OS release, some are old devices with

Re: archivemail default setup

Mark Fletcher [2016-10-22 14:45:19+09] wrote: > The command I am running is: > > archivemail --output-dir=/home/mark/Mail/ -d 31 --delete /var/mail/mark > > My mailbox is in /var/mail/mark. I didn't choose to put it there, that > is where it went when the system was installed. I am not sure if th