Re: Booting a USB hard drive [SOLVED]

2011-05-16 Thread Peter Bonucci
On Friday, May 13, 2011 08:25:43 am Camaleón wrote: > If I were you, I'll proceed as follows: > > - Remove the laptop stock hard disk (just to prevent rewriting the MBR of > the wrng device) > > - And then try a complete reinstall of GRUB (whatever version you prefer, > you can first give a try

Re: Booting a USB hard drive

2011-05-12 Thread Peter Bonucci
On Thursday, May 12, 2011 04:38:18 am Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 11 May 2011 15:30:22 -0700, Peter Bonucci wrote: > > On Wednesday, May 11, 2011 12:04:48 pm Camaleón wrote: > >> Okay, I've carefully read all of your tests, so let's recap: > >> > >

Re: Booting a USB hard drive

2011-05-11 Thread Peter Bonucci
On Wednesday, May 11, 2011 12:04:48 pm Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 11 May 2011 00:54:03 -0700, Peter Bonucci wrote: > > On Tuesday, May 10, 2011 05:13:46 am Camaleón wrote: > (...) > > >> > Under SuperGrubDisk, "List devices/partitions", Grub doesn't se

Re: Booting a USB hard drive

2011-05-11 Thread Peter Bonucci
On Tuesday, May 10, 2011 05:13:46 am Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 09 May 2011 13:21:20 -0700, Peter Bonucci wrote: > > On Monday, May 09, 2011 10:25:44 am Camaleón wrote: > >> > Booting a USB drive when the drive and computer don't cooperate is an > >> > old p

Re: Booting a USB hard drive

2011-05-09 Thread Peter Bonucci
On Monday, May 09, 2011 10:25:44 am Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 09 May 2011 09:02:45 -0700, Peter Bonucci wrote: > > On Sunday, May 08, 2011 10:17:47 pm Klaus Wolf wrote: > >> I think that this is not a debian related problem, The BIOS of your > >> Laptop has to bi figur

Re: Booting a USB hard drive

2011-05-09 Thread Peter Bonucci
On Sunday, May 08, 2011 10:17:47 pm Klaus Wolf wrote: > Sorry, > > I think that this is not a debian related problem, The BIOS of > your Laptop has to bi figured to use the USB-Drive for boot. > > so long > > klaus The BIOS of this computer boots from all of my other USB drives. The problem i

Booting a USB hard drive

2011-05-08 Thread Peter Bonucci
I have installed Debian onto a USB hard drive and would like to boot to the disk and run Debian. When I try to boot directly to this disk, my laptop tries to perform a network boot. This normal for this laptop when it can't find the boot device. The laptop uses the grub2 bootloader. When I bo

Gnome-panel uses 100% CPU after upgrade

2011-02-08 Thread Peter Bonucci
I just upgraded from Lenny to Squeeze. The installation when fine except that I had to load the ethernet firmware manually. I am using Gnome for the desktop. When I log into the computer, the top menu panel flickers constantly and does not display "Applications / Places / System". This rend

Re: Import many EPS files

2011-01-25 Thread Peter Bonucci
Sorry about the off-topic post. I sent it to the wrong list. On Tuesday 25 January 2011 12:50:18 pm Peter Bonucci wrote: > I have about 300 EPS vector graphics files that I would like to import into > Scribus. > > I thought I could use a script for this, but I can't fi

Import many EPS files

2011-01-25 Thread Peter Bonucci
I have about 300 EPS vector graphics files that I would like to import into Scribus. I thought I could use a script for this, but I can't find an "import EPS" function. I would prefer to not to use "Get Image", because it rastorizes the graphics. Is there another way to do this? -- To UNSUB

Re: GRUB Error 21 after install

2006-10-26 Thread Peter Bonucci
On Wednesday 25 October 2006 01:25 pm, Roby wrote: > > How do I get the laptop to boot again? > > Re-write the mbr on your internal HD like this: > > grub> root (hd0,1) > grub> setup (hd0) > > Then reboot. Thank you very much. I had tried something like that before, but I guess I missed somethi

Re: Color Distortion in KDE

2004-07-12 Thread Peter Bonucci
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jesse, I've had the same problem, since the X update about a month ago. It worked fine before that. I also have the 855 GM video controller. Thanks for the "menu effects" comment. I hadn't realized I could shut it off that way -- I don't like tr

Re: Possible convert to Debian

2004-06-07 Thread Peter Bonucci
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 07 June 2004 8:26 pm, William Ballard wrote: > On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 10:10:18PM -0500, John Fleming wrote: > > Any other comments for this relative newbie that's old (>50) and not a > > sysadmin by trade? Thanks a bunch for your time! > >

Re: Windows and Printing Systems

2004-02-01 Thread Peter Bonucci
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 01 February 2004 02:25 pm, Pedro M. wrote: > I am havin problems with printing too. But the bad part is : I used > Knoppix for the hard disk installation. > Conclusion : we need a easy to configure, autodetect and XFreebased > printing contro