On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Tom H wrote:
>>
>> Dracut, the initramfs infrastructure that RH uses and that I often use
>> on Debian, doesn't require the UUID of an array on the kernel command
>> line.
>
> It isn't a dracut requir
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 6:27 PM, Beco wrote:
>
> I think I might have a problem. It seems like the upgrade wont keep KDE.
>
> Is that so?
>
> Bellow the warnings.
>
> Any help in upgrading without so much trouble? Maybe removing
> beforehand "some" troublemaker packages?
>
> Thanks!
> Beco.
>
> PS.
On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 4:56 PM, Slavko wrote:
> Dňa Sat, 05 Jan 2013 21:34:06 + Dick William Thomas
> napísal:
>>>
>>> Specifically
>>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=696256#148
>>
>> When googling, I found loads on ubuntu bugs saying tough its a
>> "feature" but not much on
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 5:17 AM, Beco wrote:
> On 8 January 2013 03:51, Tom H wrote:
>>
>> Are you just changing "sources.list" and running "aptitude update;
>> aptitude full-upgrade"?
>>
>> If yes, please read the release notes:
>>
&g
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 11:08 PM, David Guntner wrote:
>
> Does anyone know where the $MAIL environment variable get set when a
> user logs in? It's not in the ~/.profile or ~/.bashrc files that get
> put in when the account is created. I'm not sure where to look
/etc/login.defs
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On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 3:33 AM, Steven Jan Springl
wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 Jan 2013 04:08:30 David Guntner wrote:
>>
>> Does anyone know where the $MAIL environment variable get set when a
>> user logs in? It's not in the ~/.profile or ~/.bashrc files that get
>> put in when the account is creat
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Tue, 08 Jan 2013 01:42:24 -0500, Tom H wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>>> On Mon, 07 Jan 2013 11:20:45 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
>>>> Hendrik Boom wrote:
>>>>>
&
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
> - - wrote:
>>
>> # ps aux
>> USER PID %CPU %MEMVSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
>> www-data 1294 0.1 0.7 193960 44688 ?SJan09 1:07 php-cgi -b
>> 127.0.0.1:47990
>> root 1374 0.0 0.0 24712 764 ?
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>
> root=/dev/mapper/VG1-squeezeroot worked.
> root=/dev/VG1/squeezeroot did not.
I've come across this on Debian before and meant to file a bug report
but didn't. :(
I'll have to try to reproduce it...
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On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 3:21 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Luca Saletta wrote:
>>
>> menuentry 'Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.32-5-686' --class debian
>> --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
>> insmod lvm
>> insmod part_msdos
>> insmod ext2
>> set root='(rootVG-r
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 8:16 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Tom H wrote:
>> Bob Proulx wrote:
>>> I have not myself used LVM mirroring. I have only used mdadm MD
>>> mirroring. This means I am fuzzy on your exact configuration. But
>>> the above tells me that you
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Charles Kroeger
wrote:
>
> I've got installed:
>
> grub-common 1.99-26
> grub-pc-bin [same]
> grub-pc [same]
> grub2-common [same]
>
> The upgrade rewrote the /boot/grub/grub.cfg file excluding two ext4 partitions
> and a NTFS partition on the second H
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 7:37 AM, Rob Owens wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 12:55:13PM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote:
>>>
>>> I am running Debian Wheezy, and have installed kvm. When I list my
>>> iptables rules there are a set of default rules defined, and
>>> forwarding is set up for my virtual network
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Andrei POPESCU
wrote:
> On Jo, 24 ian 13, 10:34:08, Mark Allums wrote:
>>
>> Upgrades from release to release are more tricky than Ubuntu. It is
>> sometimes easiest to just install the new version "clean".
>
> I'm not familiar with Ubuntu, but Debian upgrades hav
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Friday 25 January 2013 17:20:18 Tom H wrote:
>>
>> Unless you're doing an LTS-to-LTS upgrade, an Ubuntu upgrade's more
>> likely to succeed than a Debian one because only six months'll have
>>
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 7:39 PM, Mike McGinn wrote:
> On Friday, January 25, 2013 19:13:45 berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote:
>> Le 24.01.2013 18:06, Mike McGinn a écrit :
>> > On Thursday, January 24, 2013 11:54:40 Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>>
>> and what about #service mysql restart?
>> I'm starting
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 5:16 PM, Benin Technologies
wrote:
>
> Running Debian 6.0.4
>
> Does anybody have an idea why a program wouldn't start at boot, while it's
> init.d script works fine ?
>
> I experience the problem with OpenLDAP 2.4.33, when compiled with back-sql :
>
> /etc/init.d/slapd sta
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 8:29 AM, wrote:
> On Friday, January 25, 2013 11:17, "Tom H" said:
>>>>>
>>>>> I am running Debian Wheezy, and have installed kvm. When I list my
>>>>> iptables rules there are a set of default rules defined, and
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 1:48 PM, William Ivanski
wrote:
>
> I just have read this:
>
> http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Booting-Linux-using-UEFI-can-brick-Samsung-laptops-1793958.html
>
> And I also found this:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-cdimage/+bug/1040557
>
> It seems that kern
On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 6:36 AM, William Ivanski
wrote:
>
> I have a Lenovo laptop, with CPU Intel Core i5, which I use to work.
> I installed Debian Wheezy and the system freezes randomly. No response to
> keyboard or mouse clicks, just mouse moves. Needed to restart all the times.
>
> I searched
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 9:14 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>
>> The readers of this thread might find this blog posting interesting.
>> Don't like Secure Boot? Don't buy a Chromebook.
>> http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/22465.html
>
> Which reminds me of a question I have about these braindead "secure"
> b
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Nate Bargmann wrote:
>
> I have no knowledge of the Chromebook than from that presented by Matt
> Garrett. From his explanation, the BIOS erases user data when its
> secure mode is disabled. So long as it's not easy to do accidentally, I
> actually think this is a
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Mitchell Laks wrote:
> On 20:34 Thu 14 Feb, emmanuel segura wrote:
>>
>> man tune2fs
>>
>> -r reserved-blocks-count
>> Set the number of reserved filesystem blocks.
>>
>> be careful with filesystem reserved block, one time i had a production
>>
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Rob Owens wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 09:02:12PM +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote:
>>
>> Well, the error message in title is not the exact one, but a
>> translation of the one I have (which is exactly "W : Aucune priorité
>> (ou zéro) n'a été spécifi
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 6:27 AM, "Morel Bérenger"
wrote:
> Le Ven 22 février 2013 2:58, Tom H a écrit :
>> On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Rob Owens wrote:
>>> On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 09:02:12PM +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org
>>> wrote:
>>&g
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Frank Lanitz wrote:
> Am 27.02.2013 14:46, schrieb Umarzuki Mochlis:
>>
>> please suggest a lightweight dns server that is available on debian main repo
>>
>> my main usage is to be used as split domain, mainly to able to resolve
>> mx record for mailserver test la
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 9:32 PM, Miles Fidelman
wrote:
> Joao Luis Meloni Assirati wrote:
>>
>> So here we have it. You are trying to run a Linux distribution from USB
>> stick. Somehing very exotic, not for beginers. Now I dare you to prove
>> that it is easier (or even possible) to do this with
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 7:37 AM, Brian wrote:
> On Thu 28 Feb 2013 at 09:36:29 +, Joe wrote:
>> On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 19:04:04 -0500
>> Mark Filipak wrote:
>>>
>>> Let me give you an example of the kind of insensitivity (or myopic
>>> stupidity) that seems to be the hallmark of the Linux commun
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
> Brian wrote:
>> On Thu 28 Feb 2013 at 09:36:29 +, Joe wrote:
>>> On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 19:04:04 -0500
>>> Mark Filipak wrote:
Let me give you an example of the kind of insensitivity (or myopic
stupidity) that seems to be t
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Lars Noodén wrote:
> I'm reading that the restricted boot problems are far from solved and
> that some of the early hardware [1] in particular objects to Linux. Can
> anyone recommend brands or models of desktop (dinosaur) hardware that is
> currently safe for
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Dan Hitt wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 8:58 AM, Lars Noodén wrote:
>>
>> I'm reading that the restricted boot problems are far from solved and
>> that some of the early hardware [1] in particular objects to Linux. Can
>> anyone recommend brands or models of de
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Miles Fidelman
wrote:
> Tom H wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 9:32 PM, Miles Fidelman
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Come to think of it, that's a good point - and even relevant to Linux
>>> advocacy. I don't think I&#x
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Thursday 28 February 2013 18:12:14 Tom H wrote:
>>
>> Linux isn't as myopic as people are claiming in this thread.
>>
>> Ubuntu points users to this page to create a flash installer:
>>
>> http://w
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Doug wrote:
> On 02/28/2013 02:12 PM, Tom H wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thursday 28 February 2013 18:12:14 Tom H wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Linux isn't as myopic
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Miles Fidelman
wrote:
> Tom H wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Miles Fidelman
>> wrote:
>>> Tom H wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 9:32 PM, Miles Fidelman
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Joao Luis Meloni Assirati
wrote:
>>
>> Thanks but these instructions are for creating an installation flash drive
>> on Linux - and they're well hidden. So it's a fail from the perspective
>> of the person criticizing distributions for not providing readily-availab
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Mark Filipak
wrote:
> Do you want to help?
> If no, stop reading now (I don't need more heckling).
Between this comment...
> Any/all help appreciated except from Lisi Reisz.
...and this one, who would want to help?!
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On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 2:06 PM, Brian wrote:
> On Fri 01 Mar 2013 at 12:38:25 -0500, Tom H wrote:
>>
>> If I had a non-work-supplied-totally-locked-down Windows installation,
>> I'd try the Ubuntu solution for Debian (that application looked like
>> it had
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 2:27 PM, Doug wrote:
> On 03/01/2013 12:13 PM, Tom H wrote:
[You've snipped the history of the posters...]
>> And there is always PCLinuxOS, which was originally designed expressly to
>> make
>> the transition to Linux easy for Windows users.
&g
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 11:36 PM, Shane Johnson
wrote:
>
> Only thing I can think of I think Ubuntu has one but I don't know if it's
> actually a installer or just lets your run the Distro live in Windows.
It's called wubi [1]. I've never tried nor do I know what it actually does.
[1] https://wik
On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 1:03 PM, steef wrote:
>
> i agree completely with your remarks. i did not mix up in this *discussion*
> (except only one short remark) when i came back from the gambia because i
> considered it as completely useless to *talk* to a guy who did not take the
> trouble to read t
On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Gary Dale wrote:
>
> Sorry but this isn't difficult (although it may affect top-posters more than
> bottom posters :) ). The Debian installer allows you to create a whole-disk
> RAID array then partition it. You have a single RAID 5 array with some
> number of prima
On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Adam Wolfe wrote:
>
> Naw. I was using Wheezy. Partitioning the multiple drives did indeed give
> me /dev/md0 but grub still wanted to install to /dev/sda, and thus failed.
By default, d-i only installs grub to "/dev/sda" when you have an array.
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On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 4:54 PM, Gary Dale wrote:
> On 06/03/13 04:49 PM, Tom H wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Gary Dale wrote:
>>>
>>> Sorry but this isn't difficult (although it may affect top-posters more
>>> than
>>> bottom posters
On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Dick Thomas wrote:
> On 6 March 2013 21:49, Tom H wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Gary Dale wrote:
>>>
>>> Sorry but this isn't difficult (although it may affect top-posters more than
>>> bottom posters :) ). Th
On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 7:21 AM, keshav prabhakar wrote:
>
> Networking is setup by the kernel boot parameters that are on the 'append'
> line. It looks like this:
>
> append initrd=Debian-6.0.7-amd64/netboot/initrd.gz interface=eth1
> domain=mydomain netcfg/get_nameservers=x.x.x.x
> netcfg/ge
On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 9:21 AM, David Sastre Medina
wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 08, 2013 at 06:21:39AM -0600, keshav prabhakar wrote:
>>
>> append initrd=Debian-6.0.7-amd64/netboot/initrd.gz interface=eth1
>> domain=mydomain netcfg/get_nameservers=x.x.x.x
>> netcfg/get_hostname=myhostname locale=en_US
On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 2:02 PM, keshav prabhakar wrote:
>
> Thanks for responding.
>
>> When you define "interface=eth1" in your "append" statement, the
>> entire installation's meant to be done via this NIC. I doubt that you
>> can switch the NICs around via your preseed file as you're trying to
On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 6:42 PM, Tom H wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 2:02 PM, keshav prabhakar wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for responding.
>>
>>> When you define "interface=eth1" in your "append" statement, the
>>> entire installation's me
On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 8:04 PM, keshav prabhakar wrote:
>>
>> Also 1483 seems like a very small preseed file.
>
> It is.
> # ls -l preseed_Debian-6.0.7.cfg
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1488 Mar 8 14:00 preseed_Debian-6.0.7.cfg
> # more preseed_Debian-6.0.7.cfg
> #d-i netcfg/dhcp_timeout string 60
> #
On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 8:30 PM, Brian wrote:
> On Fri 08 Mar 2013 at 19:04:41 -0600, keshav prabhakar wrote:
>>
>> netcfg/wireless_wep string#d-i mirror/country string USd-i
>
> The first post at
>
>http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1601750
>
> is your situation. The second post gives a
On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 10:12 PM, Tom H wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 8:04 PM, keshav prabhakar wrote:
>>>
>>> Also 1483 seems like a very small preseed file.
>>
>> It is.
>> # ls -l preseed_Debian-6.0.7.cfg
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1488 Ma
On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 4:32 AM, Tom H wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 10:12 PM, Tom H wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 8:04 PM, keshav prabhakar wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Also 1483 seems like a very small preseed file.
>>>
>>> It is.
>>> # ls
On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 7:54 AM, keshav prabhakar wrote:
>
> oh wow! Frankly, this is the best, most detailed response I have ever gotten
> on any list so far. :)
> but seriously, I can't thank enough for your time and interest. really
> appreciate it.
> I didn't pay much attention to my preseed.cf
On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 8:20 AM, Brian wrote:
> On Fri 08 Mar 2013 at 22:22:25 -0500, Tom H wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 8:30 PM, Brian wrote:
>>> On Fri 08 Mar 2013 at 19:04:41 -0600, keshav prabhakar wrote:
>>>> netcfg/wireless_wep string#d-i mirror/country
On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 6:25 PM, keshav prabhakar wrote:
>
> d-i mirror/country string manual
> d-i mirror/suite string stable
>
> yes, those two lines did the magic! Thanks.
> It started reading from the local server but...now, it's stopping next at
> this error:
>
>No root file system
> No ro
In for a penny, in
>> for a pound. I am sure there are contributed installation media that
>> are smaller and standalone. Anyone could put in the effort to create one.
>
> Tom H poked me that the netinst image can be used without a network.
> It is 168M and much smaller than the
On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 3:22 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Kelly Clowers wrote:
>> Bob Proulx wrote:
>>>
>>> Tom H poked me that the netinst image can be used without a network.
>>> It is 168M and much smaller than the full CD#1. I just did an install
>>>
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 10:43 AM, keshav prabhakar wrote:
>
> looks like I didn't 'reply all' before..
>>
>> As a start and without diagnosing further, I'd boot from an install CD
>> in rescue mode and re-create the initramfs either with
>> "update-initramfs -u -k ..." or "update-initramfs -d -k .
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Stephen P. Molnar
wrote:
>
> My main Linux computer (64bit CPU) is about six or seven years old now
> and has had a number of distributions running. As I haven't had any
> luck with upgrades, I've always done a complete installation.
>
> Currently the Grub boot me
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 5:00 AM, Ralf Mardorf
wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-03-13 at 04:34 -0400, Tom H wrote:
>> You can set the default in "/etc/default/grub" as
>> 'GRUB_DEFAULT="Debian GNU/Linux (6.0.4)"'.
>
> The automation for GRUB2 is crap, edi
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 4:57 PM, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
>
> since some time I discovered a strange behaviour. Whenever I want to kill a
> process, or need root privileges (i.e. with kdesu) and I need to enter my root
> password, this is not accepted.
>
> But - when I use the password of the user I
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 3:48 PM, keshav prabhakar wrote:
> sorry, I got distracted by some other project for the past week..
>> It's "/usr/sbin/update-initramfs". Do you have "/usr" mounted?
>
> no. it's not mounted. see below.
>> What choices did you make for rescue mode?
>
> I think I chose
On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 5:43 PM, keshav prabhakar wrote:
>>
>> I just remembered, I'm using a linux 5 template ('Guest OS: Debian
>> GNU/Linux 5 (64-bit)') to install Debian 6. not sure if that's causing the
>> issue, somehow. (I'm using ESXi 4.0 server, which is quite old and it
>> doesn't suppor
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 2:44 AM, Alan Ianson wrote:
>
> I use vga=791 on my kernel command line. I think that is, or soon will
> be depreciated but I find that method gives me what I want as far as
> the terminal goes.
>
> GRUB_GFXMODE=x in grub.cfg is the way to configure it now but I
> h
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 3:37 PM, Soos Arpad wrote:
>
> zu preseed.txt und partitonieren, gibt es jemand,
> der mit helfen kann?
What are you trying to do?
Have you read "http://d-i.debian.org/manual/en.amd64/apbs04.html";?
You can also install "debian-installer" and read
"/usr/share/doc/debian-
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 6:26 AM, wrote:
>
> Debian 6.0.7.
>
> I'm trying to set up NFSv3 with static ports for use with a firewall. The
> only walkthrough I've found on this is for Red Hat, which says:
> "To allow clients to access NFS shares behind a firewall, edit the
> /etc/sysconfig/nfs confi
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 8:18 AM, Tom H wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 6:26 AM, wrote:
>>
>> Debian 6.0.7.
>>
>> I'm trying to set up NFSv3 with static ports for use with a firewall. The
>> only walkthrough I've found on this is for Red Hat, whi
On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 6:17 PM, Michael Biebl wrote:
>
> I would guess your session is not marked as active
> ck-list-sessions will tell you that.
>
> That is a problem of starting your X session via startx.
>
> My suggestion would be to use a display manager like gdm3 or lightdm.
Using a DM pro
On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 7:18 PM, John Lindsay wrote:
>
> If I try 'sudo' in a terminal window, it asks for my password. If I try
> 'root's' password I get 'user not in sudoers file'. If I try my user
> password I get 'user not in sudoers file. this incident will be reported.'
>
> I'm trying to run
On Thu, 20 Jun 2013 21:58:36, Iain M Conochie wrote:
>
> I am trying to create a preseed file using LVM but with no boot
partition.
> When partman runs, it creates recognises the partitons but stops to
ask if I
> wish to continue as I have no /boot partition. I answere yes (twice!)
and the
>
>> On Fri, 21 Jun 2013 11:06:22 +0100, Brian wrote:
> On Thu 20 Jun 2013 at 21:58:36 +0100, Iain M Conochie wrote:
>>
>> I am trying to create a preseed file using LVM but with no boot
partition.
>> When partman runs, it creates recognises the partitons but stops to
ask if I
>> wish to continue
On Fri, 21 Jun 2013 12:47:21 +0100, Brian wrote:
> On Fri 21 Jun 2013 at 07:12:46 -0400, Tom H wrote:
>> On Fri, 21 Jun 2013 11:06:22 +0100, Brian wrote:
>>>
>>> The templates file in the partman-auto-lvm udeb should tell you.
>>
>> You can look at th
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Iain M Conochie wrote:
> On Friday 21 Jun 2013 11:45:04 Tom H wrote:
>> On Thu, 20 Jun 2013 21:58:36, Iain M Conochie wrote:
>>>
>>> I am trying to create a preseed file using LVM but with no boot
>>> partition.
>>>
On Wed, 26 Jun 2013 12:59:30 +0100, Dick Thomas wrote:
>
> cat /etc/network/interfaces
>
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
>
> auto br0
> iface br0 inet static
> address 192.168.0.100
> netmask 255.255.255.0
> gateway 192.168.0.1
> dns-nameservers 8.8.8.8
> dns-nameservers 8.8.4.4
> bridge
> I would like to have the root password set to "!" in order to disable
> it. For that I found the following documentation in the Debian
> installation guide:
>
> "The passwd/root-password-crypted and passwd/user-password-crypted
> variables can also be preseeded with “!” as their value. In that c
On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 23:05:01 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>
> I'm trying to compile my first module for Debian.
>
> My makefile is:
>
> obj-m = mymodule.o
> KVERSION = $(shell uname -r)
> all:
> make -C /lib/modules/$(KVERSION)/build M=$(PWD) modules
> clean:
> make -C /lib/modules/$(KVERSI
On Thu, 01 Aug 2013 09:30:31 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote
> On 7/31/2013 11:12 PM, Tom H wrote:
>> On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 23:05:01 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm trying to compile my first module for Debian.
>>>
>>> My makefile is:
>>
On Fri, 02 Aug 2013 19:59:57 -0400
> Thanks for trying to help.
You're welcome.
> No, the make fails with a missing Makefile, as indicated
> in my original post.
Do the following four symlinks exist on your box (for 3.2 of course).
/lib/modules/3.10-1-amd64/build -> /usr/src/linux-headers-3
On Sat, 03 Aug 2013 22:11:16 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> On 8/3/2013 10:30 AM, Tom H wrote:
>>
>> Do the following four symlinks exist on your box
>> (for 3.2 of course).
>>
>> /lib/modules/3.10-1-amd64/build ->
>> /usr/src/linux-headers-3.10-1-am
On Sun, 18 Aug 2013 20:28:04 -0500, Mark Copper wrote:
> With resolvconf package installed and configured for dynamic
> generation of /etc/resolv.conf, I was *unable* to get any non-local
> nameservers written into /etc/resolv.conf.
Is "/etc/resolv.conf" a link?
> I tried a dns-nameservers li
On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 11:15:29 -0500, Mark Copper wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Tom H wrote:
>> On Sun, 18 Aug 2013 20:28:04 -0500, Mark Copper wrote:
>>> With resolvconf package installed and configured for dynamic
>>> generation of /etc/resolv.conf, I
On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 18:17:11 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Tom H wrote:
>> Mark Copper wrote:
>>> Tom H wrote:
>>>> Mark Copper wrote:
>>>>> Previously, my file followed this format for multiple IP addresses on
>>>>> a single nic like
On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 11:05:34 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-08-27 at 11:56 +0300, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote:
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>>
http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/05/08/2038243/ubuntu-developing-its-own-package-format-installer
>
> Wow, thank you for the link. Than Ubuntu in the future will cau
On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 20:30:07 +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
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> Fedora/RedHat has strict libre adherence for since forever. Debian has
> social contract forever.
>
> These advantages are definitive!
>
> These distributions are therefore superior! They are definitively better!
>
> Debian has >40,000
On Wed, 28 Aug 2013 14:31:14 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
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> Join the jackd devel mailing list archive. It's not that I had issues
> with a broken Debian package, since I build my own packages, it's about
> breaking something that does work when build from upstream, but not when
> maintainers split
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Richard Owlett wrote:
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> debian-6.0.5-i386-netinst.list gives too much and simultaneously not enough
> info ;/
>
> What I'm looking for would be more along the idea of a functional inventory.
> I gather that what's on the CD is effectively a very minimal command l
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Jon Dowland wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 10:19:13PM -0400, Celejar wrote:
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>> Hand built from vanilla upstream sources.
>
> If you need/want a 3.4 kernel, there are debian packages for them in
> experimental. It might be worth trying them and seeing if that w
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Celejar wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 11:17:35 -0400
> Tom H wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Jon Dowland wrote:
>> > On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 10:19:13PM -0400, Celejar wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hand built from va
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 4:47 AM, Steve Dowe wrote:
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> I'm trying to re-use an older server, installing squeeze (6.0.5). I'm using
> software RAID and LVM on the machine (details below). But I must be doing
> something wrong with the disk set up stage in the installer, as when it
> boots I see a
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Christofer C. Bell
wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 3:47 AM, Steve Dowe wrote:
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>> I'm trying to re-use an older server, installing squeeze (6.0.5). I'm using
>> software RAID and LVM on the machine (details below). But I must be doing
>> something wrong with
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Gary Dale wrote:
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> For example, Squeeze has problems with booting from partitioned RAID arrays.
> After running update-initramfs and update-grub, I find that the UUID for the
> partitions has been replaced with the UUID for the array, so that the boot
> fails. Th
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Alan Chandler
wrote:
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> 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 glitch when Debian tries to upgrade by kernel
> version and for one
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Steve Dowe wrote:
> On 13/06/12 19:56, Tom H wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Gary Dale wrote:
>>>
>>> For example, Squeeze has problems with booting from partitioned RAID
>>> arrays.
>>> After running upda
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 6:36 PM, Steve Dowe wrote:
> On 13/06/12 23:15, Tom H wrote:
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>> Since metadata 1.1 or 1.2 stores the metadata at the beginning rather
>> than at the end, perhaps using a partitioned mdraid device with that
>> metada works with squeeze.
>
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Christoph Groth wrote:
> Wayne Topa writes:
>> On 06/15/2012 10:24 AM, Christoph Groth wrote:
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>>> For a reason that I do not understand, currently full-upgrade wants to
>>> install some rather huge packages.
>
>> Install the debian-reference package and read se
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2012-06-15 18:38 +0200, Tom H wrote:
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>> Run "aptitude search '?reverse-depends(texlive-fonts-extra)'" and
>> you'll see that it's dpkg that's pulling it in.
>
> Sorry, you se
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Mark Allums wrote:
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> Synaptic has begun asking for my user password rather than the root
> password. Why is this happening, and how do I make it stop? I want only
> users with root privileges to use apt/aptitude/synaptic/gdebi/etc. and I
> want the original beh
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 7:41 PM, Tom H wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Mark Allums wrote:
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>> Synaptic has begun asking for my user password rather than the root
>> password. Why is this happening, and how do I make it stop? I want only
>> users with
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 8:36 PM, Ralf Mardorf
wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 17:08 -0500, Mark Allums wrote:
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>> I want only users with root privileges to use
>> apt/aptitude/synaptic/gdebi/etc. and I want the original behavior
>> restored.
>
> Then I don't understand "users". Only root has got
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