Re: how can I boot from USB? or with Live CD?

2008-01-02 Thread Ginis.com
hello again, I think the question is simple: I have Windows XP, I can boot with 2 linux, the PCLinuxOS 2007 and Knoppix Linux with USB with my portable computer, the question is: how can I boot from your linux with USB? I wait for your answer... if you want... thanks a lot... -

Re: how can I boot from USB? or with Live CD?

2008-01-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 01:29:39AM +0200, Ginis.com wrote: hello again, I think the question is simple: I have Windows XP, I can boot with 2 linux, the PCLinuxOS 2007 and Knoppix Linux with USB with my portable computer, the question is: how can I boot from your linux with USB? I wait

Re: cannot log in with gdm after lenny upgrade

2008-01-02 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, 02 Jan 2008 07:57:22 -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 12:58:22AM +, Hendrik Boom [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 09:49:43 -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 03:58:03AM +, Hendrik Boom [EMAIL PROTECTED] was

Wodim Woes

2008-01-02 Thread Thomas H. George
wodim --scanbus finds a cdrw device at 0,0,0 but wodim -v dev=0,0,0 data.iso goes crazy and says it is trying to access /dev/hda and then /dev/hdb My system is lenny with a linux-image-2.6.22-3-686 kernel. What is wrong and how can I fix it. Tom George -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: DVD driver

2008-01-02 Thread David Fox
On 1/2/08, hce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. Can a DVD+R driver work to a DVD-R disk? I thought the different between the DVD+R and DVD-R is the laser beam, if I can copy DVD-R It's a bit more complicated than that - dvd-r dvd+r are somewhat different methods to write to the disks, and the

Re: Recommended way to upgrade from Sarge to Etch

2008-01-02 Thread Jonathan Wilson
On Wednesday 02 January 2008 20:28, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Then again, my upgrade ended up killing libc6 in the middle which gave the system a heart attack. I reinstalled. And since I know from experience that these things happen, that's why I double-checked. Also, sometimes the pros have

Is everyone's system apt-get -qq updateing every day?

2008-01-02 Thread Adam Porter
As posted at http://bugs.debian.org/457193 Am I missing something obvious, or... $ less /etc/cron.daily/apt ... check_stamp() { stamp=$1 interval=$2 if [ $interval -eq 0 ]; then return 1 fi ... UpdateInterval=0 DownloadUpgradeableInterval=0 eval $(apt-config shell

Re: Wodim Woes

2008-01-02 Thread Adam Porter
Thomas H. George wrote: wodim --scanbus finds a cdrw device at 0,0,0 but wodim -v dev=0,0,0 data.iso goes crazy and says it is trying to access /dev/hda and then /dev/hdb My system is lenny with a linux-image-2.6.22-3-686 kernel. What is wrong and how can I fix it. I don't know, but

Re: upgrading in sid

2008-01-02 Thread David Fox
On 12/31/07, charlie derr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip some stuff I'm not aware of ever intentionally doing anything to install any 64bit libs. My whole system is running as 32-bit. MIne too (I don't do AMD64 because I don't have an AMD64, sniff). But I also see 64 bit stuff in /lib64.

Errors from repositories?

2008-01-02 Thread Art Edwards
I am trying to do a normal apt-get update on a stable, 32-bit debian box. I attach the errors. Any insight would be appreciated. Art Edwards Get:1 http://buckhill stable Release.gpg [378B] Ign http://buckhill testing Release.gpg Get:2 http://buckhill stable/updates Release.gpg [189B] Ign

Re: DVD driver

2008-01-02 Thread Adam Porter
Paul Johnson wrote: DVD, whether it's a WORM or ROM disc, uses udf if it's a data DVD. If it's a video DVD, it's more of a codec and media player issue. I believe that DVDs can also use ISO9660 filesystems, not just UDF. For example, check the growisofs man page (K3b uses growisofs for all

Re: mouse keyboard probs under X [WAS: usb mouse problems: etch/gnome/metacity]

2008-01-02 Thread Adam Porter
cs wrote: actually after using KDE for an hour today, the keyboard froze too... playing with the control centre somehow reset it such that keyboard started accepting USB input again it seems (under Gnome) openning many more application windows (that have not been previously openned?)

Re: amarok hangs

2008-01-02 Thread Adam Porter
Chris wrote: Thanks for the info and hint!! It seems to sometimes hang in the middle of different songs, I have always when playing mp3 files. I haven't really noticed any one particular file that causes problems. I do listen to some internet streams, but haven't noticed anything.

Re: su and administrator password fails in gnome

2008-01-02 Thread Rick Dooling
Plot thickens. Not a sudoer problem, probably. Examining bash history, I mistakenly chowned /bin (instead of ~/bin) to my username. I chowned it back to root, but I must have messed up permissions the setuid programs. I'll figure it out when I get back on that machine tomorrow. Thanks, rick

Re: Errors from repositories?

2008-01-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 08:00:28PM -0700, Art Edwards wrote: I am trying to do a normal apt-get update on a stable, 32-bit debian box. I attach the errors. Any insight would be appreciated. Art Edwards Get:1 http://buckhill stable Release.gpg [378B] Ign http://buckhill testing Release.gpg

Automating Debian installations

2008-01-02 Thread Bjorn Meyer
I have been digging for a few days now for some clarification on automating the installation of debian. I have created a local mirror that I would like to use via nfs, but I am not sure how to configure either the preseed file or if I have to add a command to the kernel boot command. I am able to

Re: su and administrator password fails in gnome

2008-01-02 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/02/08 21:28, Rick Dooling wrote: Plot thickens. Not a sudoer problem, probably. Examining bash history, I mistakenly chowned /bin (instead of ~/bin) to my username. I chowned it back to root, but I must have messed up permissions the

Re: how can I boot from USB? or with Live CD?

2008-01-02 Thread Rick Dooling
On Jan 2, 8:40 pm, Ginis.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how can I boot from . . . USB? See if this helps. http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s04.html.en rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using rsync to download photos from camera

2008-01-02 Thread Scott Gifford
T o n g [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] $ stat /mnt/camera/dcim/100canon/img_0135.jpg img_0135.jpg File: `/mnt/camera/dcim/100canon/img_0135.jpg' Size: 892127 Blocks: 1792 IO Block: 32768 regular file [...] File: `img_0135.jpg' Size: 885981

Re: DVD driver

2008-01-02 Thread hce
On 1/3/08, David Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/2/08, hce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. Can a DVD+R driver work to a DVD-R disk? I thought the different between the DVD+R and DVD-R is the laser beam, if I can copy DVD-R It's a bit more complicated than that - dvd-r dvd+r are somewhat

Re: what's the hold up on making the 3.1r7 and 4.0r3 iso's?

2008-01-02 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 2, 2008, at 9:10 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: On Jan 2, 2008 5:57 PM, Rick Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Franz Pop wrote: This is a known issue that _has_ already been fixed, but only when new images will be built, which has been delayed because of hardware issues with the machine

Re: what's the hold up on making the 3.1r7 and 4.0r3 iso's?

2008-01-02 Thread Paul Johnson
On Jan 2, 2008 9:21 PM, Rick Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd be happy with a working businesscard or netinst install CD for each of the new releases (4.0r3 and 3.1r7). The issue is not bandwidth. It's simple availability... You know the netinst installs all the same versions on the

Re: Is everyone's system apt-get -qq updateing every day?

2008-01-02 Thread Joey Hess
Adam Porter wrote: return 1 if check_stamp $UPDATE_STAMP $UpdateInterval; then if apt-get -qq update 2/dev/null; then As you can see, I haven't enabled the perodic updates in apt.conf, but the check_stamp function returns true if the interval is set to 0, In shell script, 1 is

3rd SATA scrambles drive order? Begin: Waiting for root file system . . . . . .

2008-01-02 Thread Jonathan Wilson
I have a computer with an Intel mainboard (Ill look up the exact model later if it matters) running Etch. / is an 80G SATA on SATA1. /data is a 500G SATA drive on SATA2. I've never had any trouble with the system. I ran out of space on /data so I've installed a 3rd drive, 750G. I've only got

Re: 3rd SATA scrambles drive order? Begin: Waiting for root file system . . . . . .

2008-01-02 Thread Paul Johnson
On Jan 2, 2008 9:37 PM, Jonathan Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there something I can do about this? To make the new drive be sdc, I mean? Why not mount by filesystem label instead of device name? The filesystem label doesn't change just because disks decided to detect in a different

Re: upgrading in sid

2008-01-02 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 07:26:18PM -0800, David Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On 12/31/07, charlie derr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip some stuff I'm not aware of ever intentionally doing anything to install any 64bit libs. My whole system is running as 32-bit. MIne too

Re: Terminal issues in fresh install

2008-01-02 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 01:50:42PM +1300, Chris Bannister [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 05:19:52PM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: I'd guess that the locale of the workstation is relevant here. Your terminal is going to be running in your locale (you didn't

Adding a new style file to auctex

2008-01-02 Thread Alok G. Singh
I have been trying to install the qcm class [1] to typeset question papers. I have added qcm.el to /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/Makefile.in and ran update-auctex-elisp and qcm.elc was written to /var/lib/auctex. However, I am unable to use the features of qcm.el. Is there any additional

Re: cannot log in with gdm after lenny upgrade

2008-01-02 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 02:57:20AM +, Hendrik Boom [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On Wed, 02 Jan 2008 07:57:22 -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 12:58:22AM +, Hendrik Boom [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Thanks. How did you ever manage to think of

Re: Waiting for root file system problem

2008-01-02 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 10:24:07AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 06:24:07AM -0500, dave N wrote: If you wait long enough (at least 30 seconds, maybe a couple minutes, I can't remember) you should get dropped to a busybox shell. Then

Re: Galeon R.I.P?(resent to list, sorry hal)

2008-01-02 Thread David Brodbeck
On Jan 2, 2008, at 3:04 PM, Angus Auld wrote: I'm not familiar with the flow of things here on this list, but I hope no one is offended if I am amused by these sort of communications. It's all in good fun. (I hope. That's how I intended my comment, anyway.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Any good todo manager?

2008-01-02 Thread H.H. Ding
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Java JDK install hangs.

2008-01-02 Thread Steven Jones
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 to agree to the license. At the bottom of the license text is

Re: what's the hold up on making the 3.1r7 and 4.0r3 iso's?

2008-01-02 Thread Paul Johnson
On Jan 2, 2008 10:37 PM, Rick Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as 4.0r3 is concerned, I'm only curious, not personally inconvenienced, about what's holding those up and why nobody seems to have an answer for the question. Have you searched other Debian mailing list archives?

Re: Java JDK install hangs.

2008-01-02 Thread Adrian Levi
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 to

Re: what's the hold up on making the 3.1r7 and 4.0r3 iso's?

2008-01-02 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 3, 2008, at 2:16 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: On Jan 2, 2008 10:37 PM, Rick Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as 4.0r3 is concerned, I'm only curious, not personally inconvenienced, about what's holding those up and why nobody seems to have an answer for the question. Have you

Re: Java JDK install hangs.

2008-01-02 Thread Nuno Magalhães
You can also use apt-get instead. apt-get remove --purge sun-java5-jdk apt-get install sun-java5-jdk [although the newer one is 6, if you need the class Console] You won't have to confirm anything, apt will do it for you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

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