base install via usb pen drive

2006-01-11 Thread Troy Nelson
I'm looking for instruction on how to create a base install of Debian for my pen drive. This way I don't have to have cd-rom drives in all my computers. Thanks Troy

lvm boot error

2006-01-11 Thread oo famcr
hi I have a system with sarge stable up to date Because the driver's reason,I update the kernel to 2.6.14.5. Everything is OK, except some error in /var/log/boot: Tue Jan 10 18:42:30 2006: Setting up LVM Volume Groups...Tue Jan 10 18:42:30 2006: Reading all physical volumes. This may take a

Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

2006-01-11 Thread Tokar
Hal Vaughan a écrit : But Zero-point energy works. I know it does. I saw Colonel Carter working with a zero-point module on Stargate SG1. Hal I saw her too, it's a huge power source. You can even create a vortex to another galaxy. Vincent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: base install via usb pen drive

2006-01-11 Thread Joey Hess
Troy Nelson wrote: I'm looking for instruction on how to create a base install of Debian for my pen drive. Installing Debian from files on a USB drive is documented in the installation manual. Installing _to_ a USB drive is mostly a matter of finding a drive, bios, and bootloader that all

Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

2006-01-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 03:26 +0100, Tokar wrote: Hal Vaughan a écrit : But Zero-point energy works. I know it does. I saw Colonel Carter working with a zero-point module on Stargate SG1. Hal I saw her too, it's a huge power source. You can even create a vortex to another

Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

2006-01-11 Thread Joey Hess
Jason Michaelson wrote: One thing that i find interesting about this is that if, indeed, the patents only apply to using multiple directory entries on an 8.3 file system to simulate long names (as appears to be the case), digital cameras don't fall under the patent. Personally, if someone

Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

2006-01-11 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 09:55 pm, Joey Hess wrote: Jason Michaelson wrote: One thing that i find interesting about this is that if, indeed, the patents only apply to using multiple directory entries on an 8.3 file system to simulate long names (as appears to be the case), digital

Re: mozilla + mutt

2006-01-11 Thread Andrew Cady
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 11:51:43PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: On (11/01/06 21:01), mess-mate wrote: Clive Menzies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've come in late on this but have you looked at /etc/alternatives you symlink the line: | www-browser to something link /usr/bin/mozilla-firefox

Re: HELP! My printer won't stop!!

2006-01-11 Thread MalindaFlores
did you get any answers. Now my computer is doing something similar. It keeps printing smiley faces on every page and won't stop

Re: Any way to 'remove' apt-get?

2006-01-11 Thread David Berg
Grr, I've got to get to a mailer more flexible than GMail. Sorry for the direct reply Andy. I accidentally used apt-get to install a few packages yesterday, and when my nightly automatic aptitude update aptitude -s -f dist-upgrade ran overnight, it wants to remove the newly installed

Re: HELP! My printer won't stop!!

2006-01-11 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 01/11/2006 09:16:01 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: did you get any answers. Now my computer is doing something similar. It keeps printing smiley faces on every page and won't stop 1) Unplug printer. This should clear it's memory, which can contain pages and pages of smiley faces. 2) Use

RE: SOLVED (Re: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 yeilds no XF86Config-4 file?)

2006-01-11 Thread Ed Young
Thanks everyone for helping lead me to the solution. I had two problems: 1.I needed to change the mouse to /dev/psaux and specify PS/2 and 2. I wasn't updating the XF86Config-4 file ( I had read the note below but misinterpreted it ) I had been changing the config but didn't realize that it

Re: Installation CDs for potato (Debian 2.2)

2006-01-11 Thread J.Moore
On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 03:38 -0700, Hodgins Family wrote: Good morning! J.Moore wrote: I need to do an install of Debian 2.2 (potato) to do some maintenance on an old application. The author claims it will only run on the 2.2 kernel, and I want to eliminate as many variables as

Re: HELP! My printer won't stop!!

2006-01-11 Thread Mike McCarty
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: did you get any answers. Now my computer is doing something similar. It keeps printing smiley faces on every page and won't stop The usual cause of this is that the printer has lost synchronization with the computer for a moment, and gone back to printing in text

Re: Re: (Newbie) Knoppix.

2006-01-11 Thread Lee Ann Spalteholz
Hi, My name is Roger Spalteholz Jr. I dont see my last name too often, actually never. Are you related is some way to me. I would be interested in talking with you. Please e-mail me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you have time. Roger A Spalteholz Jr

Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

2006-01-11 Thread Mike McCarty
Marty wrote: John Hasler wrote: I wrote: A work that infringes a patent that is likely to be enforced against us cannot be distributed at all. Marty writes: That sounds like a pretty subjective standard. Yes. Who decides what's likely? Who is us? Debian. Does us include

Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

2006-01-11 Thread Mike McCarty
loos wrote: [snip] Debian is international, but like any other person juridic or physic it can be sued for infringe a law in the country where it infringes this law. Or even in other countries. Noriega was arrested by US forces in Panama, where he lived, for violating laws passed by the USA,

Re: Installation CDs for potato (Debian 2.2)

2006-01-11 Thread J.Moore
On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 22:13 -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: I need to do an install of Debian 2.2 (potato) to do some maintenance on an old application. The author claims it will only run on the 2.2 kernel, and I want to eliminate as many variables as possible. You need a 2.2 kernel, not

Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

2006-01-11 Thread Mike McCarty
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 14:09:07 -0600 Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Likewise, the clean room argument made above by Andrew is inapplicable to a patent. What is covered by the patents I read would (IMO) preclude anyone from creating LFN entries in a FAT style

Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

2006-01-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 23:31, Mike McCarty wrote: loos wrote: [snip] Debian is international, but like any other person juridic or physic it can be sued for infringe a law in the country where it infringes this law. Or even in other countries. Noriega was arrested by US forces in

Re: HELP! My printer won't stop!!

2006-01-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 22:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: did you get any answers. Now my computer is doing something similar. It keeps printing smiley faces on every page and won't stop I think someone is playing with your head, and that you need to study up on /etc/cups/cupsd.conf and

Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

2006-01-11 Thread cmetzler
Also, bear in mind that at one point, panama was our territory, but I'm not sure if Noriega actually did some of his drug related stuff while it was still our territory. No. Panama has been an independent nation since it seceded from Colombia in 1903. Perhaps you're referring to the

Re: OS X Debian LAN [was: Mac OS X and Debian Linux LAN research.]

2006-01-11 Thread Chinook
Paul E Condon wrote: On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 03:48:49AM -0500, Chinook wrote: I've got /netatalk/ installed and minimally configured on Debian and set all the appropriate switches in OS X, and I can look at and move files back and forth from either box if I initiate (mount) the server on my

Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

2006-01-11 Thread Mike McCarty
Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 11 January 2006 23:31, Mike McCarty wrote: loos wrote: [snip] Debian is international, but like any other person juridic or physic it can be sued for infringe a law in the country where it infringes this law. Or even in other countries. Noriega was

Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

2006-01-11 Thread Mike McCarty
Mike McCarty wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: [snip] Also, bear in mind that at one point, panama was our territory, but I'm Nope. Never was. It was a part of Venezuela, and we helped it get I can't believe I wrote that. It was *Colombia*, of course. Mike --

Re: gphoto2 debug message

2006-01-11 Thread Gabriel S Farrell
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 04:58:00PM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: I'm using gphoto2 for a Canon A510 (PTP). It seems to be seen OK on the usb bus. I have a directory /opt/tmp/camera/ into which to dump downloaded photos. I find that I can't use gphoto as user, and so as root I do: I noticed

Re: Howto make top in debian show CPUs separately like that of Redhat

2006-01-11 Thread Siju George
On 1/11/06, Greg Norris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 04:22:23PM +0100, Michael Dominok wrote: On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 19:45 +0530, Siju George wrote: How do I make the top command show CPUs separately as in Redhat? shown below. Start top.Hit '1' (One). Then hit 'W'

Re: Any way to 'remove' apt-get?

2006-01-11 Thread Gabriel S. Farrell
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 10:00:02PM -0600, David Berg wrote: Grr, I've got to get to a mailer more flexible than GMail. Sorry for the direct reply Andy. Are you Grring because you wish you were using Mutt? It's the answer to all your problems! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apache2

2006-01-11 Thread Gabriel S Farrell
On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 01:50:44AM +, Clive Menzies wrote: BTW this is an English language list :) Yes, you might want to subscribe to debian-user-german. See http://www.de.debian.org/debian-user-german-FAQ/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

2006-01-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 12 January 2006 00:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, bear in mind that at one point, panama was our territory, but I'm not sure if Noriega actually did some of his drug related stuff while it was still our territory. No. Panama has been an independent nation since it seceded from

Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

2006-01-11 Thread Mike McCarty
Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 12 January 2006 00:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Touche', I had indeed momentarily forgotten that. I had also at the time spoken rather pointedly to my senators and representatives about the absurdity of it, and that it should be stepped on at the

Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

2006-01-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 22:28 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: Marty wrote: John Hasler wrote: I wrote: A work that infringes a patent that is likely to be enforced against us cannot be distributed at all. Marty writes: [snip] If their laws have nothing to do with Debian, then

Re: kernel-2.6.15 cannot compile

2006-01-11 Thread Brian Nelson
Eike Lantzsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I attempted to compile kernel-2.6.15 with make-kpkg but I got this error: gzip -9qf /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.15/debian/linux-image-2.6.15.20060111/usr/share/doc/linux-image-2.6.15.20060111/conf.vars install -p -m 644 debian/buildinfo

Re: SOLVED (Re: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 yeilds no XF86Config-4 file?)

2006-01-11 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 08:58:31PM -0700, Ed Young wrote: Thanks everyone for helping lead me to the solution. I had two problems: 1.I needed to change the mouse to /dev/psaux and specify PS/2 and 2. I wasn't updating the XF86Config-4 file ( I had read the note below but misinterpreted

ndiswrapper -l doesn't return hardware present

2006-01-11 Thread Ed Young
Title: Message I have a Dlink DWL-G510 that works find under Windows XP (dual boot). I'm trying to get it to work with Debian3.1r1. I'm following the instructions at http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/answers/Networking/ndiswrapper_on_Debian_Sarge_without_having_to_compile_anything After

Trying to mount CF card

2006-01-11 Thread Chris Williams
I have a 10-in-one multiple card-type reader thingy with a CF card slot. This is the first time I have ever used it. Inserting the card I get a /dev/sda and /dev/sda1 devices. But when I go to mount it, the mount fails. $ mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/tmp [...]try dmesg | tail or so. $ dmesg |

Dlink DWL-G510: Never get hardware present message

2006-01-11 Thread Ed Young
Title: Message I have a Dlink DWL-G510 that works find under Windows XP (dual boot). I'm trying to get it to work with Debian3.1r1. I'm following the instructions at http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/answers/Networking/ndiswrapper_on_Debian_Sarge_without_having_to_compile_anything

Re: My Wireless Troubles

2006-01-11 Thread David R. Litwin
David your will have repositorioes (in the sources.list ) for kde 3.5 and gnome?I have gotten KDE 3.5 from the standard Sid repository (http://http.us.debian.org/sid et cetera).Perhaps I misunderstood your question.? -- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and

Re: logrotate + mysql = Help!

2006-01-11 Thread Adam Porter
Eric d'Alibut wrote: On 1/7/06, Eric d'Alibut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Done. I await the next cron run. Not much enlightenment from the verbosity: running shared postrotate script error: error running shared postrotate script for /var/log/mysql.log I wonder: what script is this

Re: Where is postrotate script? (was: logrotate + mysql = Help!)

2006-01-11 Thread Adam Porter
Eric d'Alibut wrote: On 1/10/06, Jay Zach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: um... n/m I had a different error, I meant to reply to an older post by someone else who had the same error... Sorry for the mixup and getting your hopes up Still, who knows, maybe it'll work ;) No

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2006-01-11 Thread Limin Wang
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Re: Trying to mount CF card

2006-01-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 07:02 +0900, Chris Williams wrote: I have a 10-in-one multiple card-type reader thingy with a CF card slot. This is the first time I have ever used it. Inserting the card I get a /dev/sda and /dev/sda1 devices. But when I go to mount it, the mount fails. $ mount -t

Re: apt-listbugs and security

2006-01-11 Thread Mauro Sanna
Yes I think you are save to consider Sarge a secure Debian fork (anyway the unstable and especially the testing branches are more likely to have unfixed bugs, by design (latest-and-greatest simply has not had a lot of time of testing yet)) I think that unstable rather than testing has more

Re: apt-listbugs and security

2006-01-11 Thread Adam Porter
Step 1: Subscribe to Debian security lists. Step 2: (If you're really serious about security) Subscribe to relevant package security lists (upstream). Step 3: apt-get update/upgrade regularly for security updates Step 4: (Most importantly) Make regular backups, on- and off-site. Step 5: (Again, if

Re: apache2

2006-01-11 Thread Mauro Sanna
Yes, you might want to subscribe to debian-user-german. See http://www.de.debian.org/debian-user-german-FAQ/ There is an italian too? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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