Re: Print Server

2009/3/31 Gerald C.C : > Hi Guy's, > I have arrived at this point more or less by accident. I am not really > sure this is where i ask for help!!! > I have 'Lenny' installed and I would like to use it as a server. That > said i am sharing files OK> but although my other boxes see the printers > I c

Re: Print Server

2009/4/1 Gerald C.C : > On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 18:15 +1000, Adrian Levi wrote: >> What do you have installed to serve printers to clients? Samba. >> >> Adrian >> > Yes, according to the samba setup (smb.conf) the printers are > shared.(actually at this time only 1)

Re: install daemon without starting it

2009/4/2 Nuno Magalhães : >>> is it possible to install a daemon from a Debian package without having >>> it automatically started afterwards? > > At the risk of starting a holy war, and kind of highjaking, shouldn't > Debian *not* start just-installed daemons by default? Or at least ask > while in

OT: ERP/CRM for small refrigeration service shop.

I am looking for a open source software solution for a service trade business. I have found OpenbravoERP and Postbooks. Both of these solutions look like way too much overkill for a 2 -10 van company. I'm looking for something that does multiple location inventories, invoicing customer and supplie

Re: OT: ERP/CRM for small refrigeration service shop.

2009/4/7 John W Foster : > On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 20:10 +1000, Adrian Levi wrote: >> I am looking for a open source software solution for a service trade >> business. I have found OpenbravoERP and Postbooks. > SQL-Ledger does all this. Thanks John. -- 24x7x365 != 24x7x52 S

Re: Lenny overheating, preventing installation

2009/4/11 Klistvud : > Starting the new 5.00 Lenny DVD and selecting (any type of) install, some 5 to > 10 minutes into the installation process, my laptop overheats and shuts down. > It's a HP Compaq 6715b with an AMD Turion 64 and an ATI Radeon 1200. Needless > to say, I have the BIOS option "Fan

Re: I can not run KDE - it simply hangs on booting when splash screen shows blinking HDD.

2009/4/13 Sthu Deus : > Good day. > > I can not run KDE - it simply hangs on booting when splash screen shows > blinking HDD. > > I use therefore WM for now, but when I run KDE apps. I see long hanging > before I actually see the apps. itself: kate (this one complains on > mime/types), korhanizer,

Re: which package in etch can convert high-quality mp3 to low quality mp3?

2009/4/13 Long Wind : > Thank Bob, but your command does not work. > > Below is output of your command: > Output #0, mp2, to 'real128.mp3': >  Stream #0.0: Audio: mp2, 48000 Hz, stereo, 128000 kb/s > Stream mapping: >  Stream #0.0 -> #0.0 > [mp2 @ 0xb7ec5f08]bitrate 128000 is not allowed in mp2 >

Re: which package in etch can convert high-quality mp3 to low quality mp3?

2009/4/13 Bob Cox : > On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 08:18:51 +1000, Adrian Levi (adrian.l...@gmail.com) > wrote: > Indeed.  Note the '--enable-libmp3lame' below: Seems as if the OP's ffmpeg was not compiled with that option set. OP's reply to you below. 2009/4/13 Long

Re: what does "kept back" mean when do "apt-get upgrade"?

2009/4/14 明覺 : > I often see that some packages are "kept back" when I do "apt-get > upgrade", what does it mean? what actions are done to those kept back > packages? thanks apt-get upgrade by default will not install new packages or remove installed packages. man apt-get read the upgrade section.

Re: Stable kernel security support

2009/4/17 Paul van der Vlis : > > Thanks for your answers. > > When I understand right I really need a package like linux-image-2.6-686 > to get kernel security support. No, linux-image-2.6-686 is a meta package that serves to install the latest 2.6 version of the linux kernel for the 686 architec

Dell Poweredge 2300/500 i2o:iop0: Unable to start controller

Unit has 1G ram 6x 18G drives configured as following: 2 as raid 1 partitioned 500M /boot 10G / 5G /usr and remainder as swap ~1G 4 drives in raid 5 as a /svr Discs are connected to the Perc2/SC controller, primary on board controller is set to disabled, secondary on board controller has CD-ROM d

Re: Dell Poweredge 2300/500 i2o:iop0: Unable to start controller

2009/4/18 Adrian Levi : > i2o:iop0: Unable to start controller. Found out that i2o and linux kernel don't play nice. I disabled i2o in the Perc's bios by typing ^M and selecting adaptor and switching from i2o to mass storage. All working now. Still don't understand wh

Re: Windows Partition Cloning under Linux

2009/4/21 T o n g : > Hi, > > Is there any good solution to clone Windows Partitions under Linux? > > Most people would recommend Partimage, but I think it is practically > useless since the source/dest partition size has to be exactly the same. > http://www.partimage.org/Partimage- > FAQ#Can_I_res

Re: process in background

2009/4/23 Matyas Sustik : > Dear Forum, > > I am running a video encoding process for which I would like to use all the > CPU resources which would otherwise be idle.  I do not want this job to get > in the way of any other processes (interactive or something like mythbackend). > > I tried using ni

Re: why fake raid on motherboards?

2009/4/26 Justin : >> > >  Is >> > > there any advantage compared with software raid? >> > > >> > >> > I only see disadvantages. >> >> Thanks, I appreciate your advice. > > > Here's the advantage to fakeraid to me. Keep in mind it won't apply to most > people. > > I have 4 hard disk, 2x320 in raid0

Re: why fake raid on motherboards?

2009/4/26 Justin : >>  We had a boarder who used fake-raid in the fashion you mention and >> was bitten badly by a raid chip failure. No spare motherboard, no >> backups, everything gone. >> >> Adrian > > Of course, I'm well aware of the drawbacks to fakeraid and they've been > covered here pretty

Re: Performance problem with some php scripts or..?

2009/4/30 Juraj Remenec : > Hello. > I have a serious problem and i'm not able to identify the error. Can you provide the output of top and iotop while the system is transferring? Is the old system available to you for testing purposes? Adrian P.S. we got all your emails. Gmail has a *feature*? t

virtualbox-2.2 uninstallable on lenny/amd64?

When trying to install the latest virtualbox-2.2 from the virtualbox repo I get the following error: Cloud9:~# aptitude install virtualbox-2.2 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states...

Re: virtualbox-2.2 uninstallable on lenny/amd64?

2009/5/3 Peter Beck : > On Sun, 2009-05-03 at 09:07 +1000, Alex Samad wrote: >> On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 03:58:19PM +0200, Peter Beck wrote: >> > I'm also having this issues with my testing (x86) installation as well. >> > On a german debianforum they said that a few days a go they gave >> > this st

Re: debian and ubuntu - answer from user not pretending to be guru

2009/5/4 Mark Allums : > Raquel wrote: >> I don't think that aptitude will run as $user, Douglas.  It always >> runs as root.  At least, that's what it's always told me when I've >> mistakenly tried to run it as $user. > > It runs as user (in GUI mode), but it won't attempt to make changes to the >

Re: Second ethernet card seems to cause networking failure?

2009/5/27 Frank Miles : > Sure, can provide more info... > > /etc/network/interfaces : > > auto lo > iface lo inet loopback > > # The primary network interface > auto eth0 > #iface eth0 inet dhcp > iface eth0 inet static >        address xxx.yyy.zzz.32 >        network xxx.yyy.zzz.0 >

Re: Second ethernet card seems to cause networking failure?

2009/5/28 Frank Miles : > Regrettably, the problem persists - though possibly with a different > threshold of sorts, as pinging now seems to work.  However- >        apt-get update > still hangs.  I have to kill BOTH the firewall and eth1 in order to > make this work (not seeming to wait indefinite

Re: Setting the internal clock

2009/6/1 K. Jantzen : > Where can I set the internal clock? hwclock --systohc If the hardware clock is drifting it might be better to install openntpd It will gradually pull your system clock into calibration and keep it there. Adrian -- 24x7x365 != 24x7x52 Stupid or bad maths? hm. I've lost a

Re: [testing] bluez4 keypad

2009/6/16 Alexandre : > > hi, > I want to connect my new keyboard which uses bluetooth: > > http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/FrogPad > > pb: "hcitool scanning" does not see any keyboard devices (which is not > connected yet, obviously). But it works well for others devices. > > I suppose I have no blu

Re: DNS lookup problems after upgrade from Etch to Lenny

>> didn't have it before and on another system running a fresh build of >> Lenny running the exact same software handling a similar load and its >> DNS ask rate is just as low as it was on this system running Etch. >> >> I am at a loss. I appreciate any help people can give. Silly question, did yo

Re: Salvage a dead IO USB device

2009/6/26 Bhasker C V : > Hi, > >  I think this question has been asked many times but could not google out > easily on the threads. > >  Suppose I have a dead/rejected SCSI USB device how do I reset it so that > I can use the device name again. > >  I use crypto LVM and usually have /dev/mapper/XX

Re: Services / Runlevel editor

2009/6/27 Allen Kenner : > > > John Hasler wrote: >> Allen writes: >>> I just can't seem to find much to let me work on services that doesn't >>> involve the process of shutting them all off by hand. >> >>> So is there an application you guys use for Debian to turn processes off >>> and on? >> >> C

OT: Need pointers for openvpn bridge setup.

Over the last couple of weeks I have been trying to get openvpn working. My current system is as follows: Cable modem | eth0 (Public IP) Debian etch nat firewall (Squid, apache, dhcpd, Bind, Samba, apt-proxy, ftpd, sshd) eth1 (192.168.0.1) caprica.lefty. | switch -wireless router (ap) -printer -

Re: sha1summ of complete directory?

2009/7/7 Mark Neidorff : > On Monday 06 July 2009 08:30 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: >> How would one go about computing a *single* hash value for a >> complete directory tree? This is what I was thinking, If you don't want to retain the tar file then pipe it to sha1sum. Adrian -- 24x7x365 != 24x7x52

dd|tar backup over ssh fails, could someone give me a pointer.

I am trying to do a complete backup of a drive in a brand new laptop to eventually wipe and install linux. I'm trying to use the command: tar -cjf - < `dd if=/dev/sda bs=512` | ssh otherhost.com 'cat > /path/to/file.tar.bz2' Ends horribly with the error: -su: xrealloc: ../bash/subst.c:4425:canno

Re: dd|tar backup over ssh fails, could someone give me a pointer.

2008/9/12 François Cerbelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Le Ven 12 septembre 2008 14:04, Adrian Levi a écrit : >> I am trying to do a complete backup of a drive in a brand new laptop >> to eventually wipe and install linux. > > You dont have to use a temporary f

Re: dd|tar backup over ssh fails, could someone give me a pointer.

For the list, Appologies Daniel, 2008/9/12 Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I don't understand what you're trying to achieve with that tar > command. You've told bash to load your entire hard drive into memory, > then open it as a file-name and pass it on standard input to a tar > command t

Re: dd|tar backup over ssh fails, could someone give me a pointer.

2008/9/12 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Most laptos have a 'recovery feature' that restores the system to its > preinstalled state from an image in a hidden partition. Maybe that's > already done for you, check the manual. I want to use all of my hard disc for Debian to start with. A

Re: Compile vanilla 2.6.27 using make-kpkg

2008/10/12 thveillon.debian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I've used Lenny default for the kernel I'm currently running > (11.001-something I think), and then tried 11.007 from Sid with good > results. > The .config is from my previously home-rolled 2.6.26-6, gcc is Lenny 4.3.2, > config is nothing fancy,

Re: Compile vanilla 2.6.27 using make-kpkg

2008/10/12 thveillon.debian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Adrian Levi a écrit : > >> I have since tried compiling the kernel in a clean lenny debootstrap >> chroot sucessfully. >> Strangely is was called, >> linux-xenu-2.6.27_2.6.27-10.00.Custom_amd64.deb >> >

Compile vanilla 2.6.27 using make-kpkg

I'm having troubles compiling a vanilla 2.6.27 kernel using kernel-package. Looks like there is a new iwl4965 driver and I'd like to try it out. The kernel compiles correctly using the usual toolchain provided with the sources but fails on the packaging part using make-kpkg. The compile process g

Re: Compile vanilla 2.6.27 using make-kpkg

2008/10/12 thveillon.debian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > I'm using a 2.6.27 compiled from kernel.org sources since the day it was > released, running fine. I compiled it with Lenny default kernel-package, the > Debian way, and had no trouble. > I then compiled it with Sid newly revised kernel-pac

Re: Can't install or remove any of the xen kernels

2008/10/24 Aniruddha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I have problems installing or removing any of the xen kernels. Each time > I get the following error. Who has an idea how I can fix this? > > >> # aptitude install linux-image-2.6.18-5-xen-amd64 >> linux-image-2.6.18-6-xen-amd64 Why are you trying to in

Re: how to start postgresql server at machine startup?

2008/10/28 Star Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> There *must* be a relevant /etc/init.d/postgre* file. > > yes, there is a /etc/init.d/postgresql-8.3, its content is: try reading the contents of: $ man update-rc.d It will tell

Re: subnets in dhcp server

2008/11/12 Jesus arteche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > hey, > > I want to know if its possible create several subnets inside the same > subnetwork with dhcp server, i mean i have my subnet 192.168.2.0 and i want > to create the subnet 192.168.2.0 (192.168.2.1-192.168.2.63...netmask > 255.255.255.192), s

Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

2008/11/7 Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > What size hard drives have you had your box recognize? My box is an IBM > and its BIOS baulks at many 8GB drives and all larger ones. I had a 486DX4-120 32MB running as my firewall / storage file server at one time, I had a 2GB disc as a boot and

Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

2008/11/15 H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Adrian Levi wrote: >> 2008/11/7 Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> What size hard drives have you had your box recognize? My box is an IBM >>> and its BIOS baulks at many 8GB drives and all larger ones. >

bittorrent client with server/client relationship

Is there such a client that has a server backend that can be left running on one box left running 24h and a gui loaded and connect to the backend from another computer? I'm trying to get the number of 24h running computers down to just one. Adrian -- 24x7x365 != 24x7x52 Stupid or bad maths? hm

Re: Unappending boot options in Lilo?

2008/11/14 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 11/13/08 11:49, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > [snip] >> >> If you have a floppy and a floppy-drive, there's the grub-disk package. > > [Sigh] Doug, Doug, Doug, Doug, Doug... > > This is the 21st Century. Only crotchety old geezers have computers with >

Re: bittorrent client with server/client relationship

2008/11/15 Brian Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 12:31:34PM +1000, Adrian Levi wrote: >> Is there such a client that has a server backend that can be left >> running on one box left running 24h and a gui loaded and connect to >> the ba

Re: 32bit vs 64bit EXT3

2008/11/19 Stackpole, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The system started life out as a 32bit etch install. Then later I did an > upgrade to Lenny (~5 months ago) and it has been running smooth since. > > Since the drives were all formated as ext3 with a 32bit Etch install, should > I expect any pro

Re: Pasting the old config file to new kernel source for compilation..

2008/11/24 boss ganesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I have pasted the config file of 2.6.18 (already compiled working kernel > config file) to kernel source of version 2.6.26 , after that also it is > asking queries without compiling it when i ran the command "make" .. > > why is it happening like that

Re: SMART error (OfflineUncorrectableSector) detected on host:

2008/11/25 Paul Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > from syslog: > # grep sdb syslog > Nov 25 08:26:14 hostname smartd[3968]: Device: /dev/sdb, 1 Currently > unreadable (pending) sectors extract the smart details from the drive, I'll wager that you have hit the wall with your realloc_sector_count.

Re: SMART error (OfflineUncorrectableSector) detected on host:

2008/11/26 Paul Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I didn't see anything... noticeable after the short test. Not sure I > understand all the tests.. do you need to unmount the partition for the long > test? No you want to see the smart data on the disc, smartctl -d ata -a /dev/sd[0-9] Here is one

Re: Dhcp problem...what is the msitake?

2008/11/27 Jesus arteche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > hey, > > I've implemented a dhcp server, I want to cretae several subnets inside the > same subnet using net mask, at teh same time i want to give the ip by mac. > The problem is that when the server get the mac dont give the correct ip to > the cli

Re: Pasting old config file of 18th kernel to new kernel source of 26

2008/11/27 boss ganesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > i pasted the config file of 18th kernel to kernel source of 26 & I ran "make > oldconfig" , eventhough it is querying for the new options present in that > source for that i didnt know what to do.. i simply gave enter to that > options. > Simply pres

Re: edd = Bios Enhanced Disk Drive Services

2008/12/1 Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > Back in May I reported a problem using 'vga=791' with post 2.6.24 Debian 686 > kernels: the kernel booted w/o framebuffer support. > > I reported this as a bug: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=481063 > > Turns out as of Oct

Re: problem with SATA disk, difference between standard kernel and Debian kernel

2008/12/11 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. : > iwl3945 -- My personal cross to bear. :( I have been using 2.6.27.7 for a while now, seems pretty stable. With a plain debian kernel 2.6.26 I would somwtimes have to press the wifi kill switch to kill the driver and press it again to get it to associate with

Re: problem with SATA disk, difference between standard kernel and Debian kernel

2008/12/13 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. : > On Friday 2008 December 12 22:41:17 Adrian Levi wrote: >>2008/12/11 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. : >>> iwl3945 -- My personal cross to bear. :( >> >>I'm not using any access restrictions >>on the access point itself, it

Re: AMD Turion ZM82: freeze with 2 cores, works with 1 core (maxcpus=1)

2008/12/15 Patrick Schueller : > Hi all, > > I am relatively new to Debian (used Ubuntu before) and have the following > problem: > I have tested this on the following distributions: > Debian Lenny AMD64 (which I am using now) > Debian Lenny 32bit (-686 kernel; with -486 kernel, the problem is go

Re: Traffic Shaping on Linux

2008/12/22 rjubio : > Hi I was wondering if anyone had ever tried traffic shaping in linux? My > boss wants me to use FREEBSD to implement traffic shaping on our network but > I really want to stick on using linux in every machine. > > So if anyone know how to do this or has any online tutorials pl

Re: Help with u tube video streaming

2009/1/10 Michael Pobega : > On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 10:38:34PM +, Chris S wrote: >> Hello everyone genius type people, >> Can you help, I don't know much about computers (in comparison to you guys) >> they ran perfectlly but now the video is very 'jerky'. I am unsure about the >> further deta

Re: Help with u tube video streaming

2009/1/10 Chris S : > Well a few have said this but at least one has said upgrading may not be > requried, I have no problem doing this if this is required. I said that. I am a believer in fix one problem at a time. Find out why your frame rates are bad before you possibly introduce more problem

Re: Help with u tube video streaming

2009/1/10 Chris S : > Ok, well still got bad frame rate any ideas, in reply to adrian.levi (thank > you for your encouragement too) in previous post I haven't installed a video > driver myself other than the one selected on install. I searched synaptic > for 'video drivers' and got loads of things

Re: Re: AMD Turion ZM82: freeze with 2 cores, works with 1 core (maxcpus=1)

2009/1/11 Patrick Schueller : > Sorry for the late answer, I didn't see your reply for some reason :-( > > I compiled and installed the stable vanilla 2.6.28 kernel from kernel.org, > as you suggested. Since I am not very accustomed with the kernel's compiling > options, I used the old kernel's .c

Re: Re: AMD Turion ZM82: freeze with 2 cores, works with 1 core (maxcpus=1)

2009/1/11 Mitchell Laks : > I would try to explore the idea that the CPU or motherboard is defective. > Perhaps the second core is bad. > > I had a problem with memory sticks that was similar. One stick worked and not > two. I first found that > there was a bad memory stick ( 1 out of 2). then

Re: transfer rate to usb key issue

2009/1/17 Laurent : > Hi everyone, > > I've recently tried to use my usb flash drive to copy stuff on it. First, i > discovered that letting usb-mount manage it, makes it dead slow (approx. > 100KB/s). However, mounting it manually changed things, but not to what i > expected: the transfer starts o

Virtualised OS installed on another partition

I'm looking to virtualise the use of a Windows partition on my laptop. All the googling I have done suggests it is possible to convert an existing partition to run as a virtualised OS, or convert a virtualised OS to a physical partition, but nowhere have I seen the ability to run an os from a nati

Re: Re: Corrupt data - RAID sata_sil 3114 chip

2009/1/20 Aaron Greenspan : > Hello again, > > For the sake of context and in case it got lost in the shuffle, I wrote this > post last night: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2009/01/msg01928.html > > Now, after several days of troubleshooting involving ext3-fs errors, > formatting problems, in

Re: using different root option in alternate kernel option in grub

2009/1/22 Micha Feigin : > I'm trying the setup my grub menu.lst to automatically setup two alternate > kernel options > 1. using nfsroot so it needs to have root=/dev/nfs > 2. boot localy so it needs to have root=/dev/sda1 > > so I tried to set > KOPT=ro > defoptions=root=/dev/nfs > altoptions=roo

Re: Fsck encrypted filesystem

2009/1/26 : > Hi > > I have a relaively recent debian install with LUKS encrypted filesystem, > default options. > > An error has been detected on the HD and it will not boot anymore, FSCK wants > the root password to do system maintenence. > > > I do not know the root password and I would like

Streamripper Bind relay to interface other than lo

I want to run streamripper to record a radio station on one machine and connect to the relay it provides on another. Does anyone know how to massage streamripper into binding to an interface other than the localhost interface? Adrian -- 24x7x365 != 24x7x52 Stupid or bad maths? hm. I've lost a m

Re: fsck on vfat usb drive

2009/1/30 Oscar Corte : > Hi all: > I'm trying to use fsck to check my usb device. > > According to the man page for fsck there should be available vfat type > through the –t option. > > However I receive the next error: > fsck: 1-40-WIP (14-NOV-200) > fsck: fsck.vfat: not found > fsck: Error 2 whi

Re: Resizing vfat partition with fdisk ??

2009/1/31 Rodrigo Hashimoto : > Hi there, > > I have some troubles while resizing my vfat partition with fdisk. First it > was strange because in fdisk the partitions were fine as following: Is there data on the disc that you are intending on keeping or are you just wanting to end up with 2 partit

Re: From x86 to x86-64

On 31/01/2009, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 01/31/2009 02:57 AM, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > clone new system to old-root-device > > cp? I'd be interested in this as well. I just recently tried cloning a filesystem using cp and it worked except I was unable to su - to root. I could login to root direc

Re: Resizing vfat partition with fdisk ??

2009/1/31 Rodrigo Hashimoto : > Yes, there's data but if I loose it no problem, I'm using my usb flash drive > to test this partition resize. Like Ron said, gparted is the correct tool to use if there is dada you want to keep. I'd suggest that at least some of your data is toast from playing with

Re: About LAMP

2009/2/3 Jesus arteche : > hello, > I'd like to know if it will be possible in a net based in a LAMP server > ...scale it adding more LAMP server ...i'll add more servers if the number > of users grows...i could apply QoS...and Charge BAlance( i dont know how > translate this term to english sorr

Re: removing X

2009/2/6 Francesco Pietra : > Does the likely presence of corrupted X files hinder a clean unistalling? If by "corrupted" you mean configuration files left behind (default action) you can add "--purge" on the end of your aptitude or apt-get command to also remove config files, nothing is left beh

Re: Cloning methods

2009/2/8 Nagy Daniel : > Hi, again :) :S > > What's the best method for cloning a partition? [searching for an > open-source software alternateive for it :P] > I mean cloning like in norton ghost, a program that could "leave" bad > blocks behind, when cloning, and not making a 10 GByte output file

Re: mount foo.img problem

2009/2/8 Thomas H. George : > Script started on Sat 07 Feb 2009 02:26:44 PM EST > dragon:/data/olpc# file debxo-awesome.ext3.img > debxo-awesome.ext3.img: x86 boot sector; partition 1: ID=0x83, active, > starthead 1, startsector 32, 3848160 sectors > dragon:/data/olpc# exit > > Script done on Sat

Re: Does anyone understand terminal job control?

2009/2/8 Daniel Burrows : > Hello list, > > I've been banging my head on this one for a while. > > I have a need to write some code that can manage job control on a > terminal. More specifically, I need to run a single process and stuff > it into the background at will, so that it gets suspende

Re: Browsing offline filesystems

2009/2/10 Dotan Cohen : > Is there a tool that I can use to browse an offline file system, ie, > to cache it's directory structure and have it browsable? I have a > small home network with a laptop, and often I need to know what's on > any particular machine that is not present at the moment. Woul

Re: Air compressors vs. canned air

On 14 February 2010 14:27, Timothy Legg wrote: >> On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Chris Jones wrote: >>>...and might be able to >>> comment on the respective merits of air compressors vs. air cans..? >>> >>> CJ > Please don't use the readily available R-134a bottles.  I am not yet > convinced

Re: this table in html how

On 7 March 2010 20:51, Vadkan Jozsef wrote: > http://img52.imageshack.us/img52/7735/tablehow.png > > i just can't write this table in html code.. :\ > > how can i make it? Have no idea about standards compliance but it should render properly. Adrian -- 24x7x365 != 24x7x52 Stupid

Re: this table in html how

On 7 March 2010 21:19, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > Oup: > More like that: 50% 50% 33% 33% 33% I get to correct you back :-) If your going to specify cols then the percentages need to match ;-) Adrian -- 24x7x365 != 24x7x52 Stupid or bad maths? hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost

Re: Apache2 Dying

On 08/11/2007, Raquel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you, everone, for your help ... so far. I'm running > memtest86+ on the machine right now and, so far, everything's okay. > I'll let you know what I find. > > How long should I let it run? As long as you like but IMHO 1 complete cycle at a

Re: Apache2 Dying

On 08/11/2007, Raquel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 06:33:30 +1000 > "Adrian Levi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 08/11/2007, Raquel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Thank you, everone, for your help ... so far.

Re: OT: Programming Robots

On 30/11/2007, Thomas H. George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My college student grandson says he wants to study programming robots. > Aside from all the commercial (game?) kits are there serious Linux > applications that he should consider? If so, how best to get started? > > Tom For me part of t

Re: How To Install debian on IBM x3550???

On 19/12/2007, M.Setyo Budi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When i try to detect a network its failed, and there is No Disk Drive was > Detected. > I try to search it manually but not match with SAS disk. > > Please Advice, > > Thanks > Oddie Is there a dhcp server on the lan segment that is conn

Re: How To Install debian on IBM x3550???

On 19/12/2007, M.Setyo Budi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When i install the IBM i just insert the Debian CD. not connected to LAN. > No, the Lan card is not detect during installation. > No Lan card was detected. > > Any idea? > If we want to install the IBM we need to detect the disk drive isnt?

Re: Correct way to add multiple "secondary IPs"to one dev/interface in /etc/network/interfaces?

On 22/12/2007, Jonathan Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's the most important example from the original post. It works as-is. > If I uncomment the commented "up" and "down" lines, everything breaks. > Yes, I have real numbers and not nnn in the real config file.: > > allow-hotplug eth0 > if

Re: Correct way to add multiple "secondary IPs"to one dev/interface in /etc/network/interfaces?

On 22/12/2007, Jonathan Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Adrian, > > "iface eth0:1 inet static" and so on is exactly the way I used to do it, but > that creates IP aliases (like as you would when using "ifconfig' manually") > instead of secondary ips (like when you do "ip addr add" manually".

Re: [OT] RIP Netscape

On 30/12/2007, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 16:52:54 -0600 > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > "Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft ... and > > the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor." > > Wernher von Braun > > Reminds

Re: [OT] RIP Netscape

On 31/12/2007, Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Adrian Levi wrote: > > On 30/12/2007, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 16:52:54 -0600 > >> Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> &

Re: Java JDK install hangs.

On 03/01/2008, Steven Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Im new to Debian but have several years Fedora experience. I have a > fresh Debian installation (Debian 40r4 net install) to which I am > trying to add sun-java5-jdk_1.5.0-10-3_i386.deb using dpkg -i.The > problem starts when I'm asked t

Re: OT: Flash memory

On 12/01/2008, David Brodbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 11, 2008, at 11:21 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: > > How do seek and rotational delays affect Flash RAM? > > If you spin around in a circle fast enough while holding the flash > card, all the bits slide to the outside edge where they're h

Re: Sarge r7 CDs released

On 19/01/2008, Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After a couple of false starts, we finally have the CDs and DVDs built > for the latest sarge (oldstable) point release, 3.1 r7. See > > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/archive/3.1_r7/ On Azureus bittorrent I get the error: Error(The

Re: SSH Issue

On 13 March 2011 08:37, Michael Thompson wrote: > I've got a slight issue with logging into my server using public keys. > > It was working fine, until I had to rebuild my desktop machine. I had > the key copied to the server, and passwordless logins where fine. > > However now I have rebuilt my d

Re: intel i5, system config question

Vanilla kernel sources have a roof.deb build target. ;-) On Dec 22, 2011 4:21 PM, "Johan Grönqvist" wrote: > 2011-12-22 02:02, yudi v skrev: > >> >> >>If you are unsure about the hardware support for the i5 chipset in >>Squeeze, try first with Debian's LiveCD and see how it goes, what it

Re: single device to replace ADSL router, WiFi/Ethernet router, SIP router?

On Dec 22, 2011 4:16 PM, "Paul Wise" wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm looking for a way to replace my current home network infrastructure > with a single device running Debian. I currently have these devices: Billion Bipac 7404vgnox does what you want except for cordless phone, local storage and Debian

Re: NTP setting

2009/12/16 J.H.Kim : > Hi, everyone > > I have a 2 PCs in my office and they are not connected to internet. > But I wish to synchronize the 2PC. > One is for time server and one is for time client. > Is it possible to use NTP for the purpose? > How I can config NTP server with local time? IIUC if

Samba 3.4.3 PDC + Win7Pro can't connect to domain

I have spent many late nights looking into this problem but have gone nowhere, I would really appreciate someone to shine some light on this problem for me. I have 2 workstations ascoffice1 which is a WinVistaBusiness client - works perfectly although doing anything that requires privledge escallat

Re: lenny squeeze etc etc

On 23 December 2010 21:20, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > I think you will find that the kernel will advance as I understand it, > the 2.6 is the current "normal" branch and 2.7 is development, once 2.7 > makes it to 2.8, then 2.9 will be dev . 3.0 / 3.1 and so on. > > It's just that we have l

Re: DD To a Smaller Partition

On 10 January 2011 05:21, Hal Vaughan wrote: >Is there a way to copy an image of just the files from one drive to another?   >For example, an intelligent DD that won't copy unused sectors, or will create >an archive of just the files? Is there a reason why dump and restore won't fill the bill?

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