Re: Compiling Linux kernel

Sorry to send this message twice, but I thought that for some reason it had not arrived at the list. Although it seems that both messages arrived with a delay of six hours. This can be due to some moderation of the list? On Thursday, 24 December 2009 09:45:54 -0300, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > > > b

Bluetooth connection issue

Hello, I want to access files on my mobile phone (Nokia 2323) via Bluetooth from my laptop (Dell Inspiron 640m) that runs Lenny. The Bluetooth Applet on my GNOME desktop gives me this error message: Couldn't display "obex://[00:25:cf:c8:8e:b3]". Check if the service is available. This

Re: Copying only files that are not into the destination

On Thu, 24 Dec 2009, Brad Rogers wrote: copied in /destination/. Using cp -i is not a good idea, as there could be something like ~5000 files which are not in /destination/, but which are in /source/. cp -n does that. Wonder if I'm missing something, but `cp -n' on Lenny gives me this: g

kvm-shell

Hi, I don't know if that already exists somewhere ... I've written it for me and wanted to share it with you. It's minimal kvm shell for end users - it allows end users to start/stop/reboot their own kvm guests. http://www.michael-kress.de/2009/12/kvm-shell/ kvm-shell should run on all platforms. H

Re: Completely USB media based system?

On Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:19:53 -0500, Pobega wrote: > Is there any reason why you can't do this with the standard installer? > Seems like it would be pretty simple to do in partman. That's what I've been trying but after I reboot the installed system I get: root (hd1,0) Filesystem type unknown, pa

Re: Copying only files that are not into the destination

On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 05:45:15PM EST, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 05:27:46PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: [..] > > Maybe the distinction is not a matter of whatever mother tongue forced > > upong us, but rather a difference in terminology between *nixspeak and > > MacWindowsSpea

Re: building a custom kernel-WAS: Re: USB disk shows up late at boot

On Thu, 24 Dec 2009 20:53:31 -0600 Stan Hoeppner wrote: ... > relating to doing so. When compiling one's first custom kernel one should > start > with _ONLY_ the functionality one needs. Then build things up from there as > you > need more abilities from you kernel. ;) But I'd add that it's

Re: building a custom kernel-WAS: Re: USB disk shows up late at boot

Paul Cartwright put forth on 12/24/2009 12:04 PM: > On Tue December 22 2009, Celejar wrote: >> Exactly. And you can turn off all the sound card and video drivers >> except the one(s) you actually need, and the same for networking hw, >> etc. > > so I was reading this: > http://www.wowway.com/~zli

Re: USB disk shows up late at boot

Paul Cartwright put forth on 12/23/2009 7:47 PM: > On Wed December 23 2009, Celejar wrote: >> I'm not sure exactly what you've tried, but if you're building the >> kernel itself from source, you shouldn't be installing any header >> packages - they're only for when you need to build stuff against a

Re: could not chroot with debootstrap

2009/12/25 Steve Kemp > On Fri Dec 25, 2009 at 08:46:30 +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > >i'm trying to create a 64-bit environment on my debian lenny 32-bit to > >create a 64-bit deb package > >the command i'm using is: > ># debootstrap --arch=amd64 lenny lenny64/ > http://ftp.us

Re: could not chroot with debootstrap

On Fri Dec 25, 2009 at 08:46:30 +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: >i'm trying to create a 64-bit environment on my debian lenny 32-bit to >create a 64-bit deb package >the command i'm using is: ># debootstrap --arch=amd64 lenny lenny64/ http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ > >failure m

could not chroot with debootstrap

i'm trying to create a 64-bit environment on my debian lenny 32-bit to create a 64-bit deb package the command i'm using is: # debootstrap --arch=amd64 lenny lenny64/ http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ failure message: W: Failure trying to run: chroot /home/umarzuki/lenny64 mount -t proc proc /proc

Re: Completely USB media based system?

- Original message - > Is there an installer mechanism to push Debian's boot info to a USB flash > drive and then the rest of the system to a different USB hard drive, > easily? > > Is there any reason why you can't do this with the standard installer? Seems like it would be pretty simpl

Completely USB media based system?

Is there an installer mechanism to push Debian's boot info to a USB flash drive and then the rest of the system to a different USB hard drive, easily? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: LAME for Lenny

On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Bernard wrote: > Hi to Everyone, > > On my older Sarge system, I used 'lame' to encode wav files to mp3. However > I can't find 'lame' for Lenny. Could someone tell me where to find the > appropriate package ? You got some answers about debian-multimedia. You can

Re: LAME for Lenny

On Thursday 24 December 2009 14:19:12 Bernard wrote: > Hi to Everyone, > > On my older Sarge system, I used 'lame' to encode wav files to mp3. > However I can't find 'lame' for Lenny. Could someone tell me where to > find the appropriate package ? This package is in the "debian-multimedia" repos

Re: LAME for Lenny

On 24/12/09 11:19:12 AM, Bernard wrote: > Hi to Everyone, > > On my older Sarge system, I used 'lame' to encode wav files to mp3. > However I can't find 'lame' for Lenny. Could someone tell me where to > find the appropriate package ? Add debian-multimedia to your /etc/apt/sources.list. More in

Re: Copying only files that are not into the destination

On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 05:27:46PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: > On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 03:20:20PM EST, Merciadri Luca wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > John Hasler writes: > > > > > BTW they are directories, not "folders". > > > Sorry, English is not my mother

Re: Wishlist for 2010 and beyond - A graphical frontend for creating debian binaries and source package

On Thu, 24 Dec 2009 16:44:00 +0500 surreal wrote: > I just saw a glimpse for the PBI (Push Button Installer) package management > system for PC BSD OS. Although its not related to Debian, we can take some > really good ideas from it. > > I wish we have a graphical frontend for creating debian b

Re: Copying only files that are not into the destination

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Hasler writes: > The "desktop and paper" metaphor was popularized by Apple in the 1980s > on the assumption that office workers would be frightened by such > "computer jargon" as "directory" but could be made comfortable by > lifting terminology

Re: Copying only files that are not into the destination

On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 03:20:20PM EST, Merciadri Luca wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > John Hasler writes: > > > BTW they are directories, not "folders". > Sorry, English is not my mother tongue. Does it appear so artificial? > Sorry. Maybe the distinction is not

Re: Copying only files that are not into the destination

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks, Brad. I did not know about -n. - -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8

Re: Copying only files that are not into the destination

I wrote: > BTW they are directories, not "folders". Merciadri Luca writes: > Sorry, English is not my mother tongue. Does it appear so artificial? The "desktop and paper" metaphor was popularized by Apple in the 1980s on the assumption that office workers would be frightened by such "computer jar

Re: Copying only files that are not into the destination

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rick Thomas writes: > Take a look at "man rsync" It should do exactly what you want. Thanks. - -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Proc

Re: Copying only files that are not into the destination

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dave Witbrodt writes: > man cp | grep -A 2 -- -u Thanks, Dave. Everything that I always wanted. - -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment

Re: Copying only files that are not into the destination

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Hasler writes: > BTW they are directories, not "folders". Sorry, English is not my mother tongue. Does it appear so artificial? Sorry. - -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Ver

LAME for Lenny

Hi to Everyone, On my older Sarge system, I used 'lame' to encode wav files to mp3. However I can't find 'lame' for Lenny. Could someone tell me where to find the appropriate package ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Ugly VGA fonts with console-setup (Squeeze)

>> Summary of OP rather than complicated snip: >> >> What is the grub2 equivalent of setting "vga=" in the grub1 "kernel" >> line and of setting "SCREEN_FONT=" or "CONSOLE_FONT=" in >> "/etc/console-tools/config" or "/etc/kbd/config" respectively? >> >> vga 1: even though it is deprecated, you

Re: Copying only files that are not into the destination

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Thu, 24 Dec 2009 18:32:08 +0100 Merciadri Luca wrote: Hello Merciadri, > copied in /destination/. Using cp -i is not a good idea, as there > could be something like ~5000 files which are not in /destination/, > but which are in /source/. cp -n

Re: Copying only files that are not into the destination

Merciadri Luca writes: > I want the files of /source/ which are not in /destination/ to be > copied in /destination/. Write a little script, try rsync, or just go ahead and copy over the duplicates. BTW they are directories, not "folders". -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-use

Re: Copying only files that are not into the destination

On Dec 24, 2009, at 12:32 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have two folders, say .../source/ and .../destination/. There are many files in /source/ and in /destination/. There are some more files in /source/. There are so many files in /source/ th

Re: Copying only files that are not into the destination

Merciadri Luca wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have two folders, say .../source/ and .../destination/. There are many files in /source/ and in /destination/. There are some more files in /source/. There are so many files in /source/ that I cannot check the ones that

building a custom kernel-WAS: Re: USB disk shows up late at boot

On Tue December 22 2009, Celejar wrote: > Exactly.  And you can turn off all the sound card and video drivers > except the one(s) you actually need, and the same for networking hw, > etc. so I was reading this: http://www.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/Kernel.htm which is about the same.. I ran these comm

Copying only files that are not into the destination

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have two folders, say .../source/ and .../destination/. There are many files in /source/ and in /destination/. There are some more files in /source/. There are so many files in /source/ that I cannot check the ones that are not in /destination/

Totem stalls

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, When listening to .mp3, my Totem stalls after some time (for example: 2 min.). It does not completely freeze, but the `Visualization' becomes very slow, and the GUI becomes unreponsive. Any idea? I heard same problems elsewhere, but I never found

Re: Compiling Linux kernel

Hi, Sven. On Wednesday, 23 December 2009 11:19:26 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > > b) Debian way compilation: > > > > b.1) Having booted an i386 kernel and userland 32: > > > > # cp /boot/config-`uname -r` ./.config > > > > # make ARCH=x86_64 menuconfig > > > > # fakeroot make-kpkg clean --cross-co

Re: Compiling Linux kernel

On 2009-12-17 at 21:32:59 -300, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > Hi all! > > I am trying to compile Linux 2.6.32 with the source code of kernel.org. > Kernel that I'm using at the moment is 2.6.26-2-686 of the Debian > GNU/Linux repositories. > > In order to generate the configuration, I've copied the fil

Re: Wishlist for 2010 and beyond - A graphical frontend for creating debian binaries and source package

In <8857b3150912240344s3a54eb65oa355c41c519dc...@mail.gmail.com>, surreal wrote: >I wish we have a graphical frontend for creating debian binaries and source >package The easy part of creating a Debian package is already handled with dh_make or checkinstall. The hard part is having your packag

Re: Using LightScribe on Debian?

On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 21:28, Richard Hartmann wrote: > From what I can tell, there are little to none FLOSS solutions. LaCiE > seems to offer a closed source solution that supposedly runs on > Linux, but I am loath to try it for the simple reason that it's closed. Fwiw, there are more more cur

Re: Compiling Linux kernel

On Wednesday, 23 December 2009 11:19:26 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > > b) Debian way compilation: > > > > b.1) Having booted an i386 kernel and userland 32: > > > > # cp /boot/config-`uname -r` ./.config > > > > # make ARCH=x86_64 menuconfig > > > > # fakeroot make-kpkg clean --cross-compile - -ar

Re: Ugly VGA fonts with console-setup (Squeeze)

Summary of OP rather than complicated snip: What is the grub2 equivalent of setting "vga=" in the grub1 "kernel" line and of setting "SCREEN_FONT=" or "CONSOLE_FONT=" in "/etc/console-tools/config" or "/etc/kbd/config" respectively? vga 1: even though it is deprecated, you can still use "vga="

Wishlist for 2010 and beyond - A graphical frontend for creating debian binaries and source package

I just saw a glimpse for the PBI (Push Button Installer) package management system for PC BSD OS. Although its not related to Debian, we can take some really good ideas from it. I wish we have a graphical frontend for creating debian binaries and source package More on PBI - http://www.pcbsd.org

Re: upgrade to squeeze, libc6 problem

On Thu, 24 Dec 2009 11:26:08 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-12-24 11:19 +0100, Julien Vehent wrote: > >> I'm trying to upgrade a Xen Hosted system from lenny to squeeze, but the >> upgrade broke on the following : >> [...] >> WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!

Re: upgrade to squeeze, libc6 problem

On Thu,24.Dec.09, 11:19:31, Julien Vehent wrote: > hi there, > > I'm trying to upgrade a Xen Hosted system from lenny to squeeze, but the > upgrade broke on the following : [...] > dpkg: regarding .../libc-bin_2.10.2-2_i386.deb containing libc-bin: >

Re: upgrade to squeeze, libc6 problem

On 2009-12-24 11:19 +0100, Julien Vehent wrote: > I'm trying to upgrade a Xen Hosted system from lenny to squeeze, but the > upgrade broke on the following : > [...] > WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated! You should fix this first, possibly by upgrading the d

upgrade to squeeze, libc6 problem

hi there, I'm trying to upgrade a Xen Hosted system from lenny to squeeze, but the upgrade broke on the following : # apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done

Re: Ugly VGA fonts with console-setup (Squeeze)

On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 21:26 -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: > And the new grub doesn't support the vga option. To get vga to > work I had to install a different boot loader. The vga option is deprecated but it works, just add it to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX in /etc/default/grub (then run 'update-grub').