Re: [arch-general] amd64 systems and archlinux
On 09/10/12 at 04:20am, John Hutchison wrote: > On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 04:29:22AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > I have /dev/sda1 root, /dev/sda2 swap and /dev/sda3 /home. So this is not > > a single partition setup but a three partition setup if you count swap. > Assume for this that /dev/sda is the bootloader _AND_ the device. As was > said before: the first 512 bytes of the _hard drive device_ is the bootloader. > (Assuming MBR) > > Perhaps you could go a little more in depth on your install process, > maybe tell us what exactly you are trying to do. > > > -- > John Hutchison > Programmieren und > Informatik-Abteilung > Feiern Sie 21 Jahre Linux! > gplus.to/athetius The link I provided clearly shows you how to install to the mbr of a partition. I used to have to do this with my Mac as not to ruin the windows partition (I think that is why I was doing that). So it is possible. Whether it is a wise thing to do is questionable. OP, I think if you just follow Arch's grub2 wiki, you probably would have seen your error and/or resolved any problem you may have had. Grub2 has this "bug" because it is not how it is intended to be used. Install it to /dev/sda like normal and you should be fine. -- Curtis Shimamoto sugar.and.scru...@gmail.com
Re: [arch-general] Help mounting Windows drive
On 09/10/2012 06:03 PM, Nelson Marambio wrote: Am 10.09.2012 23:56, schrieb Randy: On 09/10/2012 02:51 PM, Daniel Pirek wrote: iirc i mounted my windows shares with WORKGROUP\\Username , have you tried that ? Pi Randy wrote: On 09/09/2012 09:36 PM, rafael ff1 wrote: 2012/9/9 Randy : In the past I have been able to mount my Windows computer using the following command: "mount -t cifs -o username=USERNAME,password=PASSWORD //192.168.1.107/Users/gumper /mnt/share/" Now when I try this I receive the message: "Unable to find suitable address". I am able to ping the IP address without any problem. Any idea what I'm doing wrong here? Thanks, Randy Maybe missing DOMAIN or WORKGROUP in "username=" ? Rafael I just tried changing "username=USERNAME" to "username=WORKGROUP/USERNAME" and I get the same results. Thanks to everyone for all the help. I was finally able to get it going. Apparently the IP address changed on the Windows system. I was pinging what I thought was the correct IP address and getting a reply back but I must have been pinging another device, possibly an Ipod touch. I wasn't aware that the IP address on the pc could change like it did. I need to look into how to fix it to the same IP address so that I don't have the same problem in the future. Randy Hi, you could have a look at your router configuration. In most cases you can reserve a fixed IP for your devices, identified by their MAC address. Concering Netgear routers the reservation is just two clicks ahead if the relevant devices are up and connected to the router. Kind regards, Nelson. Thanks Nelson. I'll take a look at my router settings to see what I can figure out. Randy
Re: [arch-general] swt - why depends bump to java-runtime>=7?
Hi,
see https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/31460.
Ondřej
On 10.9.2012 23:06, David C. Rankin wrote:
Guys, Guillaume,
Do you know if the recent depends bump in swt is do to an actual
break in compatibility with java-runtime 6.x or was it just do to a
package support issue? The PKGBUILD was updated a couple of days ago to:
-depends=('java-runtime>=6' 'gtk2>=2.20.1' 'libxtst')
+depends=('java-runtime>=7' 'gtk2>=2.20.1' 'libxtst')
I have a couple of my children's games that are still openjdk_6
based, so I was putting off the update. I'll check it out, but I thought
I would ask to see if somebody already knew. Thanks.
--
Cheers,
Ondřej Kučera
Re: [arch-general] Mime backup program
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Squall Lionheart
wrote:
> I have renamed and moved this project to github for those interested.
> Thank you for all your help and I have applied most of the suggestions so
> far as well as made further improvements.
>
> https://github.com/headmastersquall/caatinga
>
I tried installing the caatinga in a custom directory and fails.
Please see issue:
https://github.com/headmastersquall/caatinga/issues/1
--
Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health.
#include
int main(){printf("%s","\x4c\x65\x6f\x6e\x69\x64\x61\x73");}
Re: [arch-general] Help mounting Windows drive
Am 10.09.2012 23:56, schrieb Randy: On 09/10/2012 02:51 PM, Daniel Pirek wrote: iirc i mounted my windows shares with WORKGROUP\\Username , have you tried that ? Pi Randy wrote: On 09/09/2012 09:36 PM, rafael ff1 wrote: 2012/9/9 Randy : In the past I have been able to mount my Windows computer using the following command: "mount -t cifs -o username=USERNAME,password=PASSWORD //192.168.1.107/Users/gumper /mnt/share/" Now when I try this I receive the message: "Unable to find suitable address". I am able to ping the IP address without any problem. Any idea what I'm doing wrong here? Thanks, Randy Maybe missing DOMAIN or WORKGROUP in "username=" ? Rafael I just tried changing "username=USERNAME" to "username=WORKGROUP/USERNAME" and I get the same results. Thanks to everyone for all the help. I was finally able to get it going. Apparently the IP address changed on the Windows system. I was pinging what I thought was the correct IP address and getting a reply back but I must have been pinging another device, possibly an Ipod touch. I wasn't aware that the IP address on the pc could change like it did. I need to look into how to fix it to the same IP address so that I don't have the same problem in the future. Randy Hi, you could have a look at your router configuration. In most cases you can reserve a fixed IP for your devices, identified by their MAC address. Concering Netgear routers the reservation is just two clicks ahead if the relevant devices are up and connected to the router. Kind regards, Nelson.
Re: [arch-general] Help mounting Windows drive
On 09/10/2012 02:51 PM, Daniel Pirek wrote: iirc i mounted my windows shares with WORKGROUP\\Username , have you tried that ? Pi Randy wrote: On 09/09/2012 09:36 PM, rafael ff1 wrote: 2012/9/9 Randy : In the past I have been able to mount my Windows computer using the following command: "mount -t cifs -o username=USERNAME,password=PASSWORD //192.168.1.107/Users/gumper /mnt/share/" Now when I try this I receive the message: "Unable to find suitable address". I am able to ping the IP address without any problem. Any idea what I'm doing wrong here? Thanks, Randy Maybe missing DOMAIN or WORKGROUP in "username=" ? Rafael I just tried changing "username=USERNAME" to "username=WORKGROUP/USERNAME" and I get the same results. Thanks to everyone for all the help. I was finally able to get it going. Apparently the IP address changed on the Windows system. I was pinging what I thought was the correct IP address and getting a reply back but I must have been pinging another device, possibly an Ipod touch. I wasn't aware that the IP address on the pc could change like it did. I need to look into how to fix it to the same IP address so that I don't have the same problem in the future. Randy
[arch-general] NetworkManager update - problematic for ipw2200
I was away for a few days but this evening returned and updated a laptop which has ipw2200 wireless - and the updates included NetworkManager 0.9.6 - after rebooting the machine the wireless connection fails within seconds - despite ifconfig and ifconfig showing a normal connection - this is for a KDE D.E. with plasma networkmanagement which was also updated this evening. This now shows what appears to be a normal wireless signal strength which has not been the case for a long time - but the connection is a major bug. I have seen another post on the forums where a user has similar problems to me but with different wireless hardware. It is odd - the key indicators seem to show that the connection is fine but a browser fails to connect - ssh will connect but the connection will hang within seconds. pacman fails to connect to the servers except very very slowly and times out - despite another arch machine working perfectly well with different wireless hardware! Anyone else seeing something similar? I guess I will need to downgrade networkmanager till this is fixed. -- mike c
[arch-general] swt - why depends bump to java-runtime>=7?
Guys, Guillaume,
Do you know if the recent depends bump in swt is do to an actual break in
compatibility with java-runtime 6.x or was it just do to a package support
issue? The PKGBUILD was updated a couple of days ago to:
-depends=('java-runtime>=6' 'gtk2>=2.20.1' 'libxtst')
+depends=('java-runtime>=7' 'gtk2>=2.20.1' 'libxtst')
I have a couple of my children's games that are still openjdk_6 based, so I
was putting off the update. I'll check it out, but I thought I would ask to
see if somebody already knew. Thanks.
--
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
Re: [arch-general] Help mounting Windows drive
iirc i mounted my windows shares with WORKGROUP\\Username , have you tried that ? Pi Randy wrote: >On 09/09/2012 09:36 PM, rafael ff1 wrote: >> 2012/9/9 Randy : >>> In the past I have been able to mount my Windows computer using the >>> following command: >>> >>> "mount -t cifs -o username=USERNAME,password=PASSWORD >>> //192.168.1.107/Users/gumper /mnt/share/" >>> >>> Now when I try this I receive the message: >>> >>> "Unable to find suitable address". >>> >>> I am able to ping the IP address without any problem. >>> >>> Any idea what I'm doing wrong here? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> >>> Randy >> Maybe missing DOMAIN or WORKGROUP in "username=" ? >> >> Rafael >> > >I just tried changing "username=USERNAME" to >"username=WORKGROUP/USERNAME" and I get the same results.
Re: [arch-general] Help mounting Windows drive
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 03:23:27PM +0100, Stephen Martin wrote: > Is /Users a valid share on your system? > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 10 Sep 2012, at 02:25, Randy wrote: > > > > > In the past I have been able to mount my Windows computer using the > > following command: > > > > "mount -t cifs -o username=USERNAME,password=PASSWORD > > //192.168.1.107/Users/gumper /mnt/share/" > > > > Now when I try this I receive the message: > > > > "Unable to find suitable address". > > > > I am able to ping the IP address without any problem. > > > > Any idea what I'm doing wrong here? > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Randy If he has shared the home folder for his username then Users would be a valid share but you would only see the folder pertaining to said user name so: C:\Users\gumper would give access to C:\Users but the folder gumper would be the only folder/item visible
Re: [arch-general] Mime backup program
I have renamed and moved this project to github for those interested. Thank you for all your help and I have applied most of the suggestions so far as well as made further improvements. https://github.com/headmastersquall/caatinga -- Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why its called the present. Headmaster Squall :: The Wired/Section-9 Close the world txen eht nepo $3R14L 3XP3R1M3NT$ #L41N http://twitter.com/headmastersqual
Re: [arch-general] Help mounting Windows drive
Is /Users a valid share on your system? Sent from my iPhone On 10 Sep 2012, at 02:25, Randy wrote: > > In the past I have been able to mount my Windows computer using the following > command: > > "mount -t cifs -o username=USERNAME,password=PASSWORD > //192.168.1.107/Users/gumper /mnt/share/" > > Now when I try this I receive the message: > > "Unable to find suitable address". > > I am able to ping the IP address without any problem. > > Any idea what I'm doing wrong here? > > Thanks, > > > Randy
Re: [arch-general] Help mounting Windows drive
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 3:25 AM, Randy wrote: > > In the past I have been able to mount my Windows computer using the > following command: > > "mount -t cifs -o username=USERNAME,password=PASSWORD > //192.168.1.107/Users/gumper /mnt/share/" > > Now when I try this I receive the message: > > "Unable to find suitable address". > > I am able to ping the IP address without any problem. > > Any idea what I'm doing wrong here? > > Thanks, > > > Randy I use a plain text file for credentials, something like: mount.cifs 192.168.1.107/Users/gumper /mnt/share -o rw,noserverino,uid=1000,credentials=/etc/.cifs where /etc/.cifs is: username=myuser password=mypass domain=mydomain In a single line would be: mount.cifs 192.168.1.107/Users/gumper /mnt/share -o rw,noserverino,uid=1000,username=myuser,password=mypass,domain=mydomain PD: uid it's optional to your current user. -- $(Figue)
Re: [arch-general] Help mounting Windows drive
On Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 09:57:06PM -0400, Randy wrote: > On 09/09/2012 09:36 PM, rafael ff1 wrote: > >2012/9/9 Randy : > >>In the past I have been able to mount my Windows computer using the > >>following command: > >> > >>"mount -t cifs -o username=USERNAME,password=PASSWORD > >>//192.168.1.107/Users/gumper /mnt/share/" > >> > >>Now when I try this I receive the message: > >> > >>"Unable to find suitable address". > >> > >>I am able to ping the IP address without any problem. > >> > >Maybe missing DOMAIN or WORKGROUP in "username=" ? > > I just tried changing "username=USERNAME" to > "username=WORKGROUP/USERNAME" and I get the same results. Try mount -t cifs -o username=USERNAME,password=PASSWORD 192.168.1.107\\Users\\gumper /mnt/share
Re: [arch-general] amd64 systems and archlinux
According to Thomas Bächler: Let me also express part of my personal opinion, which others might disagree with: If you wanted high quality software, why did you install GRUB? If you want a decent bootloader, use syslinux. Actually, at least from where I'm sitting, this "personal opinion" has a good bit of technical merrit. I can confirm that my life with boot loaders has become much easier since switching to syslinux, and you are the second regular contributor who has stated this. I was forced to chainload Windows XP after resizing a partition on this old machine I am still using, hopefully until the end of the day. This was already configured into syslinux by default, and worked flawlessly without modification. Additionally, the Arch defaults were sane enough to be able to run with very little modification, only needing the label for my root partition in the append line for the kernel. A big +1 from me for syslinux. ~Kyle
Re: [arch-general] amd64 systems and archlinux
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 04:29:22AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > I have /dev/sda1 root, /dev/sda2 swap and /dev/sda3 /home. So this is not > a single partition setup but a three partition setup if you count swap. Assume for this that /dev/sda is the bootloader _AND_ the device. As was said before: the first 512 bytes of the _hard drive device_ is the bootloader. (Assuming MBR) Perhaps you could go a little more in depth on your install process, maybe tell us what exactly you are trying to do. -- John Hutchison Programmieren und Informatik-Abteilung Feiern Sie 21 Jahre Linux! gplus.to/athetius
Re: [arch-general] amd64 systems and archlinux
Am 10.09.2012 10:12, schrieb Jude DaShiell: > I had intended to install grub into mbr on /dev/sda1. I used > --target=i386-pc as provided in the grub-install step and did so with > misgivings since the machine I use is an x86-64 machine. The only x86-64 > target on the arch beginner's guide was for ufi not bios. There is no x86_64 BIOS target. There never was. Unless you have EFI, your bootloader code will be i386 code (or worse, some 8086-compat code, but I am not an expert on this). > A bug like this > in grub were I to write software for my employer would have me fired that > same day. A software package can't keep track of its files it creates and > it uses is a package with no self-defense capabilities. I have no idea what you are trying to say, but it definitely doesn't belong here. > Sorry about that, > but some of us started programming when the only thing creating webs were > real spiders and web page developer was a job title that had yet to be > created. What are you trying to achieve with this post? It does not help solve your problem, it doesn't add anything technical to the discussion - actually, I don't know what you are trying to say here, and I don't care. If you want _any_ help here, please keep it objective and technical. Let me also express part of my personal opinion, which others might disagree with: If you wanted high quality software, why did you install GRUB? If you want a decent bootloader, use syslinux. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [arch-general] amd64 systems and archlinux
On Mon, 10 Sep 2012, Bjoern Franke wrote: > > > > > > I had intended to install grub into mbr on /dev/sda1. I used > > --target=i386-pc as provided in the grub-install step and did so with > > misgivings since the machine I use is an x86-64 machine. The only x86-64 > > target on the arch beginner's guide was for ufi not bios. A bug like this > > in grub were I to write software for my employer would have me fired that > > same day. A software package can't keep track of its files it creates and > > it uses is a package with no self-defense capabilities. Sorry about that, > > but some of us started programming when the only thing creating webs were > > real spiders and web page developer was a job title that had yet to be > > created. > > The MBR is the first 512 bytes of a device[1]. There is no MBR of a > single partition. > > [1]https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MBR > --- jude Adobe fiend for failing to Flash I have /dev/sda1 root, /dev/sda2 swap and /dev/sda3 /home. So this is not a single partition setup but a three partition setup if you count swap.
Re: [arch-general] amd64 systems and archlinux
> > I had intended to install grub into mbr on /dev/sda1. I used > --target=i386-pc as provided in the grub-install step and did so with > misgivings since the machine I use is an x86-64 machine. The only x86-64 > target on the arch beginner's guide was for ufi not bios. A bug like this > in grub were I to write software for my employer would have me fired that > same day. A software package can't keep track of its files it creates and > it uses is a package with no self-defense capabilities. Sorry about that, > but some of us started programming when the only thing creating webs were > real spiders and web page developer was a job title that had yet to be > created. The MBR is the first 512 bytes of a device[1]. There is no MBR of a single partition. [1]https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MBR -- xmpp: b...@schafweide.org bjo.nord-west.org | nord-west.org | freifunk-ol.de
Re: [arch-general] amd64 systems and archlinux
On Sun, 9 Sep 2012, Curtis Shimamoto wrote: > On 09/09/12 at 11:15pm, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > I am learning more about my hardware doing an archlinux installation on an > > amd k8 athelon system. Apparently grub won't work without use of > > blocklists and it complains that blocklists are unreliable so cannot embed > > and for that reason won't install. Fortunately another boot loader other > > than grub is available. I'll try that one later. Too late tonight to do > > it. > > > > > > --- > > jude Adobe fiend for failing to Flash > > > > > Are you trying to install to the mbr of a partition? If so, this error > is expected. > > See our amazing wiki here: > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB2#Install_to_Partition_or_Partitionless_Disk > > > Regards, > -- > Curtis Shimamoto > sugar.and.scru...@gmail.com > > --- jude Adobe fiend for failing to Flash I had intended to install grub into mbr on /dev/sda1. I used --target=i386-pc as provided in the grub-install step and did so with misgivings since the machine I use is an x86-64 machine. The only x86-64 target on the arch beginner's guide was for ufi not bios. A bug like this in grub were I to write software for my employer would have me fired that same day. A software package can't keep track of its files it creates and it uses is a package with no self-defense capabilities. Sorry about that, but some of us started programming when the only thing creating webs were real spiders and web page developer was a job title that had yet to be created.
