Re: Installing and booting Debian from large hard drives in a RAID without GPT

On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 6:45 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 02:29:55PM +0200, Robin Kipp wrote: > > Hi list, > > I just purchased an HP ProLiant Micro Server G2020T. As for the hard > drives, I installed 4 3TB Western Digital HDs. So far so good, but volumes > with a capacity gre

Re: chrome cant read profile

Going from memory here, I think I had this problem a while ago when I migrated my home directory from one build to another. I just ended up archiving the old home directory and creating a new one that resolved my problem. Could it be a permissions issue and different user id's? This is all I cou

Problem with kernel-image-3.10-2-amd64

I have been fighting this all night and was wondering if anyone else has been having problems as well? I am doing a new install via debootstrap to a lvm2 volume via the wheezy rescue disk. I got it running in wheezy then went to jessie and while I was running the 3.2 kernel from wheezy it booted

Re: Problem with kernel-image-3.10-2-amd64

Everyone, Thank you for your help and suggestions. I was able to add rootdelay=5 to the kernel line and this resolved the issue for me. Sincerely. Shane On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 8:51 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 05:16:38PM +0300, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: >> I had impressi

iscsi not create block device

I ran into a problem with this last night and was wondering if anyone else had and if there where any suggestions. I set up the target like usual pointing it to a lvm then restarted the service so it would be visible. then on the initiators I did the discovery and adding the credentials for the ta

Re: mdadm gives segmentatin fault on wheezy. RAID array now incomplete.

On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > I ran > > mdadm /dev/md1 --add /dev/sdd2 > > and got a segmentation fault. > > > april:/farhome/hendrik# cat /proc/mdstat > Personalities : [raid1] > md1 : active raid1 sdb2[1] > 2391295864 blocks super 1.2 [2/1] [_U] > > md0 : active ra

Re: ipad connection

On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Verde Denim wrote: > On 10/18/2013 12:08 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> On Fri, 2013-10-18 at 11:58 -0400, Verde Denim wrote: >>> iPad: 7.0.2 >> It at least isn't caused by the iOS version. Connecting an iPad 2 >> running the same version, I don't get an issue. In the

Re: firmware installation

On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 2:48 PM, André Nunes Batista < andrenbati...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, 2013-10-25 at 22:35 +0700, Diogene Laerce wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'd like to know if it is possible to install some firmware in > > the 3.2 kernel but from the 2.6 ? > > > > I need to install some firm

Re: Why Debian

On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 12:40 AM, Beco wrote: > > On 8 Nov 2013 14:15, "Alberto Salvia Novella" > wrote: > > Summarizing: > > > > Which are the very important reasons why do you prefer Debian over > Ubuntu? > > > > > > Why to use a Debian based OS if you can use Debian? > > My best, > Beco. > Why

Re: disks differ after cloning with dd

On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 7:06 AM, wrote: > Hello. > > Few days ago, I tried to clone a damaged[1] disk to another one, of the > same size, with dd. > I had to interrupt the copy after more than 24 hours, because it was > obviously too long[2]. > > Now, I am trying to look anew how to do the copy,

Re: who uses dual boot? [was: How to start using a free OS]

I have to dual boot my laptop and home computer. As I prefer to run Debian as my desktop, there are some things that just aren't worth he hassle of running in a VM since I already have the Windows 7 running. I originally loaded my home system with Windows cause I was gaming at the time and now t

Re: Can squeeze boot into a LVM over RAID?

I have a few machines with Raid 5 with LVM on top. Here is what I can share with you. You must have grub2 installed ( I believe it is default now but I always specify when installing.) your ARRAY info from mdadm -D --scan must be in your /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf file and be accurate. When I change

Re: Can squeeze boot into a LVM over RAID?

On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 9:08 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Sat, 01 Sep 2012 16:32:39 -0600, Shane Johnson wrote: > > > I have a few machines with Raid 5 with LVM on top. Here is what I can > > share with you. You must have grub2 installed ( I believe it is default > >

Re: Display hurtful on LCD screen with Wheezy

Just a wild stab in the Dark here, could it be interlaced? Shane On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2012-09-19 at 23:40 +0200, Lionel Trésaugues wrote: > > The fonts (with the same hinting and antialiasing settings) > And the sub-pixel order is equal too? > > > -- >

Re: Checksum for iso image netinst i386

Wally, Try this : http://www.debian.org/CD/verify On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Wally Lepore wrote: > >>On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 22:30:45 +0200, Wally Lepore wrote: > > > >> I just downloaded the netinst (stable) release of Debian for i386 > >> architecture. > >> Before I burn the iso image to a C

Re: Checksum for iso image netinst i386

26, 2012 at 5:48 PM, Shane Johnson wrote: > > Wally, > > Try this : http://www.debian.org/CD/verify > > Hi Shane, > > Yes I did see this before but still not sure what I'm looking at or > how to proceed. Are you saying that I don't need to use md5sum? > > I&#

Re: Checksum for iso image netinst i386

On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Wally Lepore wrote: > On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 6:20 PM, Shane Johnson > wrote: > > Wally, > > I understood from what I linked that it is part of the ISO. I did some > > poking around my local mirror and found this : > > http://

Re: Checksum for iso image netinst i386

Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 6:31 PM, Shane Johnson wrote: > > >> If you go back to the directory from the URL I sent > >> (http://mirrors.xmission.com/debian-cd/current/i386/iso-cd/) you can > find > >> the hashs for whichever format you are most comfortable with. > &g

Re: Squeeze boots into my LVM over RAID, but wheezy won't.

When I use fdisk to create partitions, I turn off DOS compatibility (c command) and uses sectors(u command) and start my partitions at the default (2048 I beleive) and I don't have any problems. Shane On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:04:56 -0400, Tom

Re: Marvell sata chipset not detecting drives.

Do you have any kind of RAID setup? If you do you might need dmraid. On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 10:34 AM, james okeeffe wrote: > > Hi > > I have this controller with 4 sata drives connected to it. After hours of > searching and trying different things I cannot get any drives to be > detected. > >

Re: USB 3 card

One thing I have noticed with all the cards I have used, if the HD's I attach have the same id in lsusb then only one at a time will work and I have to move the other to another controller. Shane On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Tyler D wrote: > On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Nelson Green >

Re: LVM Mirroring

On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 6:09 AM, Luca Saletta wrote: > Dear Mailinglist > ... > The mirroring ist done but as soon as i try to reboot my system, it > doesn't starts up and im entering the "grub recover"-mode. > Where you can't boot before you do the mirror, it isn't tied to the mirror. Can you

Re: Grub infinite loop problem on dual boot system

Gary, I've never used the net install image I use live image but it should be similar. Get to a command line and then use sudo to mount the Debian partition somewhere. Once it's mounted you can run chroot {path to where you mounted} /bin/bash --login. This will make it so the commands you run a

Re: lilypond?

I am on the Wheezy release and I show it is in the main repository. Shane On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 5:37 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: > Hi folks, > Hope to keep the question simple. > is the music notation software program lilypond already included in the > debian distribution? > > www.lilypond.org

Re: Chrome and Flash - a problem solved

On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > Hello, all: > > Flash had recently stopped working in my Chrome browser. Googling > revealed I was not alone, but it also suggested a solution, which > worked. In 'chrome://plugins', I disabled 'libpepflash.so' (if memory > serves), leaving

Re: Moving mdadm raid volume to new OS install

On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Sam Martin wrote: > Hi Pascal, > > I'm not sure what top-posting is? > I hope this isn't it! > > You mean test whether i can bring the raid vol up by booting into 64bit > debian from usb? > > i did a mdadm -e on one of the disks in the array > > root@HTPC-NAS:~# md

Re: Moving mdadm raid volume to new OS install

On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 4:23 PM, Sam Martin wrote: > could it be used without mdadm? i think the suggestion was that if it went > wrong the disk could still be used as the "raid" stuff was on the end of > the disk? > > that right? > > > On 7 February 2013 22:3

Re: Moving mdadm raid volume to new OS install

On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 4:46 PM, Sam Martin wrote: > do you know whether i could move a raid1 vol from 32bit dist to 64bit dist? > > > > > On 7 February 2013 23:32, Shane Johnson wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 4:23 PM, Sam Martin wrote: >> >>> c

Re: Moving mdadm raid volume to new OS install

On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 5:07 PM, Sam Martin wrote: > brilliant, not rebuild though, you mean remount / assemble? > > > On 7 February 2013 23:50, Shane Johnson wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 4:46 PM, Sam Martin wrote: >> >>> do you know whether i could

Re: Moving mdadm raid volume to new OS install

On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 5:13 PM, Sam Martin wrote: > thanks shane. sorry, just one last thing. > > my mdadm.config doesn't contain reference to any devices. is this because > it's stored on the raid members? > > thanks again, > sam > > > On 8 February 201

Re: Moving mdadm raid volume to new OS install

On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 6:52 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Shane Johnson wrote: > > Sam Martin wrote: > > >> > ...174 lines snipped... > > It would be super awesome if you would trim the previously quoted > material to just the parts you are responding to before maili

Re: Snapshot Program

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Joao Luis Meloni Assirati < assir...@nonada.if.usp.br> wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 04:21:47PM +, Hélder Pinheiro wrote: > >> Hi, > >> Is there any program to do a kind of snapshots of my debian > >> installation? > >> Something that I can restore throug

Re: I wish to advocate linux

There is also another perspective here, Google and Mozilla are providing a option for those that don't want to bother with loading, installing, and maintaining an OS. Chromebooks and the like might make all OS's for the enthusiast. Shane On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 4:30 PM, Rob Owens wrote: > On

Re: Installation failed - again - why am I not surprised

Mark, There is a specific method to install to USB. Please see : http://wiki.debian.org/BootUsb Otherwise, you can use the instructions included here : http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual To install to a HD. (There are many different options.) Please be aware that (to my know

Re: Installation failed

Thank you, Shane. I did use 'dd' to write the Debian Live ISOs to USBs and > that did work (though the documentation for 'dd' was wrong). A gentleman on > the debian-live list helped me. > > What didn't work was this: When I attempted to install from one (booted) > USB (running Debian-LXDE) to anot

Re: RAID1 all bootable

Francesco, If your RAID is mdadm based, I would use a live CD and then chroot into your installed OS. Once in, I would use grub-install /dev/sd? to add the MBR info to the mirror. Once you are back up and running you can use mdadm to remove the defective disk and if desired add a new one to the

Re: Installation failed

Mark, The easiest way I am aware of (not used) for that is Knoppix to USB. If I remember right it comes as a utility on the CDrom. Also see Miles comments. Shane On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Mark Filipak wrote: > On 2013/3/1 2:25 PM, Shane Johnson wrote: > >> ...I had to g

Re: Installation failed

Miles, you are not helping. Kindly stop contributing to this thread. > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > debian-user-REQUEST@lists.**debian.orgwith > a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/**5131534f.8090...@gmail.com

Re: Install failed - let's start again, without bogus assumptions, please.

Ok since we're starting over, some questions. On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 7:17 PM, Mark Filipak wrote: > If anyone is still there, I do want help. I've spent all day at this. > > Ground rules: > 1 - If you can't help, please don't try. 2 - Please don't assume I haven't read how to install Debian. I

Re: Install failed - let's start again, without bogus assumptions, please.

PM, Mark Filipak wrote: >> >>> On 2013/3/1 10:03 PM, green wrote: >>> >>>> Shane Johnson wrote at 2013-03-01 20:53 -0600: >>>> >>>>> On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 7:17 PM, Mark Filipak < >>>>> markfilipak.li...@gmail.com>*

Re: RAID1 all bootable

On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 8:44 AM, Lennart Sorensen < lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote: > > > > Thanks a lot for your generous help. I (we) learned a lot from you. > > Are you running with raid1 on raw sda and sdb or are you creating > partitions and running raid on the partitions (which to me is

Re: RAID1 all bootable

As far as I can remember, I already posted for this system > > root@.:/home/francesco# cat /proc/mdstat > Personalities : [raid1] > md1 : active raid1 sda2[0] sdb2[1] > 487759680 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU] > > md0 : active raid1 sda1[0] sdb1[1] > 191296 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU

Re: has your squeeze ever crashed?

> Linux is stable and flash player isn't Linux, flash player development for >> Linux already is dropped, there will be no future versions for Linux. If >> people want Microsoft/Apple, regarding to Apple flash player is a bad >> example ;), they should use Microsft/Apple. Linux is an OS for itsel

Re: Wheezy amd64 XFCE how to burn Blu-Ray (BD-R )discs?

> Thanks for the replies. :-) > > > I'm looking for something simple that's integrated with GUI/desktop OOTB. > Something like Brasero. But, Wheezy amd64 XFCE Brasero doesn't seem to > support burning of Blu-Ray discs (?). > > > apt-cache search doesn't seem to offer any Blu-Ray burning applic

Re: Console showing control characters for input on console keyboard

> I think we'll just have to live with a reset via reboot whenever the > > option becomes available, while not removing the PS/2 connections again. > Would a PS2 to USB adapter get you through till reboot? -- Shane D. Johnson IT Administrator Rasmussen Equipment

Re: update of clamav fails - bad variable errors

On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 12:20 PM, francis picabia wrote: > > The following packages will be upgraded: > clamav-daemon > The following partially installed packages will be configured: > clamav clamav-base > It looks like you have a previous installation that didn't finish. I would purge and

Re: update of clamav fails - bad variable errors

On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 12:47 PM, francis picabia wrote: > On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 3:29 PM, Shane Johnson > wrote: > > > > > > > > On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 12:20 PM, francis picabia > wrote: > >> > >> > >> The following packages will be

Re: update of clamav fails - bad variable errors

This time it worked with no complaints. Glad to hear you got it working. -- Shane D. Johnson IT Administrator Rasmussen Equipment

USB/IP

I was hoping someone on the list might be able to help with roadblock that I've run up against. I am trying to set up a Terminal Server and am stuck with using Microsoft because of IE. One of the things that's being a pain for me is getting a Panini scanner to be able to be on a users desk and for

Re: GRUB2 error

On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Gary Roach wrote: > On 05/21/2013 04:24 PM, Gary Roach wrote: > > Hi > > My wife let her Debian machine get over 450 packages behind before I caught > it. What a mess. The last problem is that when booting up the Welcome to > Grub notice appears and then: >

iscsitarget in Jessie

I am hoping someone can help with this, I am trying to get iscsitarget working in my Jessie install. When I try to do the install of iscsitarget and iscsitarget-dkms it complains about missing linux-headers-3.2-0-xxx when 3.9 kernel is installed. Any ideas on how to proceed? Can I build it manu

Re: KVM virtual machines and storage.

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Alan Chandler > wrote: >> I currently run a necessary Windows 7 (Home Premium) installation in a >> VirtualBox virtual machine on my Debian Unstable desktop.  Its OK, but I >> have had the occasional gli

Re: Using the find command

Alan, from what I can see, it's just supposed to delete files and not touch directories, any files name utmp or innd.pid. the ! prefixing the tests negates the test to pull the opposite. By using xtype it's just handling links differently. This command shouldn't be deleting your udev directory.

Re: Filezilla a security risk

On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 9:13 AM, francis picabia wrote: > On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 5:37 AM, Andrei POPESCU > wrote: >> On Mi, 27 iun 12, 20:58:39, francis picabia wrote: >>> >>> We have to do what ever possible to reduce the size of the target to >>> the hacker.   In this case we advise users to u

Problem with Disk test

I was wondering if someone could maybe shed some light on a problem I am having. I have build a Debian Squeeze server using debootstrap with and without backports. When I run badblocks from the installed system I keep getting errors but when I run it from the Live CD nothing. Could I have missed

help with xserver-xorg-video-ast

hello everyone, I am hoping someone can help me. I am running Wheezy and got a driver from Aspeed for their on-board video driver. Loaded it and it worked until I installed xen-qemu-dm-4.0 and now when I try to re-install is says glibc-2.13 is required when 2.14 is installed. I contacted Aspeeds

Re: help with xserver-xorg-video-ast

> > On 9 July 2012 23:24, Shane Johnson wrote: > >> hello everyone, >> I am hoping someone can help me. I am running Wheezy and got a driver >> from Aspeed for their on-board video driver. Loaded it and it worked until >> I installed xen-qemu-dm-4.0 and now whe

Re: Problems of Second writing of MBR with GRUB

The os-prober program will find the different OS's on the separate partitions or Volumes and add them to grub.cfg when you run the update-grub command or the OS runs it. I have yet to see it not find them and add them(it usually adds ones you don't necessarily don't want like restore partitions.)

Re: Problems of Second writing of MBR with GRUB

epair > > On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 8:36 AM, Shane Johnson > wrote: > >> The os-prober program will find the different OS's on the separate >> partitions or Volumes and add them to grub.cfg when you run the update-grub >> command or the OS runs it. I have yet to

Re: Will upcoming Debian 7 release default to XFCE for the CD media?

On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 08 aug 12, 17:45:40, Camaleón wrote: > > > > I tagged as OT because the scope (chit-chat) is out of the technical > > issues expected here. > > Come on... > > > And it concerns Jessie, not Wheezy (please, don't scare me! ;-) ) > > Why

Re: Dual-Monitor help

Nelson, Did you install the driver package? Either xserver-xorg-video-nouveau or xserver-xorg-video-nvidia (open and closed driver respectively) from apt or download and installed from Nvidia's site? Shane On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Nelson Green wrote: > > > Nelson Green wrote: > > > I ha

Re: Dual-Monitor help

On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Nelson Green wrote: > > > > > Nelson, > > > Did you install the driver package? Either xserver-xorg-video-nouveau > > > or xserver-xorg-video-nvidia (open and closed driver respectively) from > > > apt or download and installed from Nvidia's site? > > > > > > Shane

Re: How do I get rid of the "launchpad" in XFCE?

If you go to either the mouse icon or right click on your desktop, Then go to applications then settings and then panel, you will find what your looking for there. Shane On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 3:47 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Thu, 05 Dec 2013 17:05:22 -0500 (EST), Patrick Wiseman wrote: > >

Re: Jesse install images?

Nope, It's a little more difficult, but you can do a bootstrap install following these instructions adapted to Debian. Ubuntu Debootstrap instructions Shane On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 6:36 PM, Jon N wrote: > I have a new

Re: Jesse install images?

Sorry I also should have stated that you can use either a Live CD or a Rescue CD. Shane On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 6:57 PM, Shane Johnson wrote: > Nope, It's a little more difficult, but you can do a bootstrap install > following these instructions adapted to Debian. > > U

Re: Possible to add an LVM to existing Wheezy box

Ron, Yes is possible, but there will be some data migration and configuration changes. Some more information would be helpful as well. Does the existing data contain the OS? What are you trying to achieve by moving the data? On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Ron Leach wrote: > Is it possible t

Re: Possible to add an LVM to existing Wheezy box

all kinds of headaches to get it back. Let us know if you need more information or ideas. Shane On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Howard wrote: > On 31/12/2013 16:44, Shane Johnson wrote: > >> Some more information would be helpful as well. Does the existing data >> contain

Re: Confused about dist-upgrade

Bob, It was my understanding that dist-upgrade was only needed to resolve issues that couldn't be resolved by upgrade. I have moved from wheezy to jessie with a simple aptitude update and didn't need the dist-upgrade. If this is incorrect I would love to know cause I ran into some issues with my

Samba 4

I have been working on this for 3 days now and need some assistance please. Somewhere, I am running into a disconnect between documentations. I have used the resources on wiki.samba.org to try and set up just a simple file share. I don't need it to be a PDC or a BDC or do printer shares. I ha

Debian Wheezy w/ Xen incorrect memory

Hello, I just installed Wheezy on my laptop using debootstrap to test Xen advancements from Squeeze. Everything seems to be working great, except the memory is reported incorrectly under the Xen enabled OS. Normal boot reports correct memory. Included below are the details I think are pertinent,

Re: Problem with Alsa and HDMI audio output

Jose, Did you make sure your users are part of the audio group? Shane On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 9:27 AM, José Luis Segura Lucas wrote: > Hi! > > I have a computer with a HDMI output. If I use the default audio output > (3.5" jack) it works fine, but when I try to use the HDMI one, I have some > pro

Re: *URGENT* plz need help system not booting after "lvresize" command

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 10:49 PM, Shane Johnson > wrote: > > Muhammad, > > I think we are going to need some mere information please. You mentioned > > that this is on a raid, correct. Is your lvm on

Re: Flashplayer on Debian Squeeze.

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Rob Owens wrote: > On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 02:36:35PM +0100, Lisi wrote: > > Hi, all! > > > > I have been trying to get Flashplayer going on my husband's computer. > When > > the advice on this list and the Debian website failed (as below), i just > > deinstalled

Re: Swap space not used

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Johan Grönqvist wrote: > 2012-05-02 13:12, Sian Mountbatten skrev: > > Your swap partition is, very likely, too large. As a rule, your swap >> partition should be the same size as your RAM. Do you have 40GB RAM? >> > > Linux can handle well above 40 GB of swap. I w

Re: Only 3.6gb of 64gb RAM recognized by 64bit squeeze

Might also help to make sure your bios is recognizing all of the memory. If not you might need to check the limitations of the MB or see if there is a bios update that will make the system see all the memory. Shane On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 09 May 2012 11:19:10

Re: how to practice.

For me when I use it enough it sticks. But there is a old quote someone told me that I don't know the source of, but it really helped me - it goes along the lines of "Why should I memorize something I don't need when I can just go read it from a book when I do need it." For me, I take that to mea

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

Over current problems from what I have seen are hardware problems - I would make sure the intel expander doesn't need a external power source and if it does that it is functioning properly. After that I would look to see if something isn't shorting out a USB port. Shane On Fri, May 18, 2012 at

glibc2-14

I have just run into a issue where the driver for a ASPEED video card worked in wheezy, and now is complaining about glibc not being at 2.14. When I look to see the version installed, it is 2.13. Does anyone know if there was a reversion or how I might go about resolving this? Thanks -- Shane

Re: LVM, Resize failed (most mlikely user error)

On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 9:17 AM, wrote: > Dear Guys, > > I had the (wonderful?!) idea to resize my LVM.  The result is, that I can not > access my /home anymore :-(. > > Environment: > HP Mini, 160GB HDD > 2 partitions (sda1, ext2, 254.99M, bootflag and sda2, 159784.29M) > LVM initial setup: > -

Re: Need advice on cloning Debian server

I haven't actually done it, but you should be able to boot to a live CD initialize the raid and LVM and then add a removable HD to the VG. Create new LV's the same size as your existing ones but make sure you create them on the removable PV then use dd or similar to clone the LV's. Once cloned