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On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 12:14:37PM +, andy wrote:
 Andrei Popescu wrote:
 On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 07:18:41AM +, andy wrote:

 [...]

   
 with a fix from the manufacturers. The other alternative seems to be the 
 mem=xxx option passed to the kernel. If I use the latter approach, is 
 this something that I can develop a script to do automatically at boot 
 (for example, to run it as part of the GRUB parameters), or is it 
 something that I would have to do manually?
 

 $ grep kopt /boot/grub/menu.lst
 ## If you want special options for specific kernels use kopt_x_y_z
 ## e.g. kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro
 ##  kopt_2_6_8=root=/dev/hdc1 ro
 ##  kopt_2_6_8_2_686=root=/dev/hdc2 ro
 # kopt=root=/dev/hda2 ro vga=791
 # xenkopt=console=tty0

 Regards,
 Andrei
   
 Thanks for this Andrei. How would I tweak this to enable my kernel to 
 recognise and utilise the additional RAM? Looking through the file, the 
 relevant section appears to be this commented part:

No, the line you need to edit is the one with 'kopt=...'. Don't 
uncomment it, just add the relevant parameter to the end (like I added 
vga=791 for my laptop).

After you're done you *must* run /usr/sbin/update-grub

Regards,
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Re: My own emails

2008-03-01 Thread Brad Rogers

On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 23:46:06 +
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Hello Tzafrir,

 It seems that gmail does not like duplicates. e.g: if someone sent
 you a second copy of the message (one with the same message ID)
 you'll probably recieve only the first. e.g: if someone sends you the

Yet another reason to remember that gmail != email.  I'm glad I don't
have to rely on a gmail account as my primary point of contact.

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Re: miniscule text on icons in Xfce

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 08:40:23AM -0800, PETER EASTHOPE wrote:
 Folk,
 
 Since a recent update of a Lenny system here,
 the text on the icons in Xfce4 appears to be 
 about 4 point.  Barely legible with effort.

There were changes in xorg regarding dpi. Check you have the correct dpi 
for your Monitor (xdpyinfo | grep reso)

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Re: Daemon Creation

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 05:08:15PM +, Robert Rawlins wrote:
  
 Is that correct? Presumably I need to remove one of those start commands? 
 Right? The same rule applied to the do_stop() method which currently contains 
 a start-stop-daemon request, do I need to replace that with a standard kill 
 command? Or will the start-stop-daemon handle that for me?

The manpage for start-stop-daemon looks interesting.

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Re: Tweaking /boot/grub/menu.lst to use 2GB RAM

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 09:01:29PM +, andy wrote:

## If you want special options for specific kernels use kopt_x_y_z
## e.g. kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro
##  kopt_2_6_8=root=/dev/hdc1 ro
##  kopt_2_6_8_2_686=root=/dev/hdc2 ro
# kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro quiet

 It is probably blindingly obvious to all except me, but I cannot see any 
 option here for telling the kernel how much memory it is to load/recognise 
 upon booting. That's what is stumping me.

It would be impossible to see all kernel boot options, there are just 
to many to put here (and besides, Debian only puts a minimum default, 
most users will never need them).  Just *add* your options to the end of 
the '# kopt' line.

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Re: Debian FTP server setup questions

Grrr Gmail - For the list...
On 01/03/2008, Tzafrir Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Is there any special reason you use wu-ftpd, BTW?

  A quick apt-cache search brings out 11 ftpd-s or so. But amon them I
  think that proftpd and vsftpd are the most commonly deployed and hence
  well-documented. wu-ftpd suffers from bad reputation of past security
  holes. I don't know how are things now.

  I generally found proftpd more intuitive than vsftpd to configure.

IMHO vsftpd works more smoothly with more clients, I have had troubles
with proftpd especially uploads where the client would do a directory
list and after the connection times out, the listing would show up in
the client. Made directory traversal very slow! Never was able to find
a reason for it, no amount of conf tuning was able to rectify it.
installed vsftpd and the problem went away. I have never looked back.

Adrian

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Re: Additional RAM brings Lenny to a slow-down


Andrei Popescu wrote:

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 12:14:37PM +, andy wrote:
  

Andrei Popescu wrote:


On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 07:18:41AM +, andy wrote:

[...]

  
  
with a fix from the manufacturers. The other alternative seems to be the 
mem=xxx option passed to the kernel. If I use the latter approach, is 
this something that I can develop a script to do automatically at boot 
(for example, to run it as part of the GRUB parameters), or is it 
something that I would have to do manually?



$ grep kopt /boot/grub/menu.lst
## If you want special options for specific kernels use kopt_x_y_z
## e.g. kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro
##  kopt_2_6_8=root=/dev/hdc1 ro
##  kopt_2_6_8_2_686=root=/dev/hdc2 ro
# kopt=root=/dev/hda2 ro vga=791
# xenkopt=console=tty0

Regards,
Andrei
  
  
Thanks for this Andrei. How would I tweak this to enable my kernel to 
recognise and utilise the additional RAM? Looking through the file, the 
relevant section appears to be this commented part:



No, the line you need to edit is the one with 'kopt=...'. Don't 
uncomment it, just add the relevant parameter to the end (like I added 
vga=791 for my laptop).


After you're done you *must* run /usr/sbin/update-grub

Regards,
Andrei
  

Andrei

My question is about the specifics of the option to add at the end of 
the line:
Because I am looking for 2GB RAM to be recognised, do I add mem=2097152M 
to the end of the kopt=... line? I don't, for example, know what outcome 
you were looking for and resolved by adding vga=791 to that line in your 
config. VGA I can but assume had something to do with a graphics card, 
but beyond that ... ?


Thanks and apologies for being apparently dense. I can assure you I'm 
not being deliberately obtuse.


Andy

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Re: Changing ownership permissions of Free Agent USB drive


Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:

andy wrote:

Hello

I am attempting to change the ownership of and permissions for the 
contents of a USB Seagate Free Agent drive. At present, root has 
ownership, although everybody and their dog can rwx files:

   $ ls -l /media/FreeAgent\ Drive/
   total 24
   drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2007-11-27 20:28 BAKUPS
   drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2007-11-19 20:39 DVD
   drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24576 2008-02-16 15:50 MUZAK
   drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2007-11-04 00:04 System Volume 
Information


As root (actually, both attempted as root via su as well as via 
sudo), I have attempted:

   chown andy /media/FreeAgent\ Drive/ -R

as well as
   chmod -R og-rwx /media/FreeAgent\ Drive/

and
   chmod -R u+rw /media/FreeAgent\ Drive/

Unfortunately, the output of ls -l /media/FreeAgent\ Drive/ remains
   total 24
   drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2007-11-27 20:28 BAKUPS
   drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2007-11-19 20:39 DVD
   drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24576 2008-02-16 15:50 MUZAK
   drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2007-11-04 00:04 System Volume 
Information


This doesn't interfere with my playing the music listed under MUZAK 
as andy, nor adding to the files. But, it does not change the 
description of the permissions related to those files.


Can someone explain what's going on here please?


What is the filesystem on your usb drive? It appears to be fat32/ntfs. 
fat32 does not know anything about file owners/group permissions. You 
have to specify everything you want when you mount it. Try passing the 
uid=your uid option when mounting the drive. For the permissions you 
can pass the umask option. Refer to the mount manpage for more details.
Thanks Raj for the steer - that it is a fat32/ntfs and hence doesn't 
recognise permissions, etc., would make sense.


Cheers

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8139cp 0000:03:08.0: This (id 10ec:8139 rev 10) is not an 8139C+ compatible chip

2008-03-01 Thread stephane lepain


Hi,

I have had this error message coming up every time I start my PC where 
it seems to be searching for the right driver. The problem is that it 
takes a while at start time for my box to switch from 8139cp to 8139too
Is there a way I could tell my box to use the driver 8139too instead of 
it choosing the 8139cp?


Sorry if I am not being clear and concise. I have just started with 
Linux and I am learning at the moment.


_My Config_

Hardware: AMD64 3800+
OS: Debian testing

*Mar  1 10:50:52 margoullat kernel: ata4: SATA link down (SStatus 0 
SControl 310)
Mar  1 10:50:52 margoullat kernel: 8139cp :03:08.0: This (id 
10ec:8139 rev 10) is not an 8139C+ compatible chip
Mar  1 10:50:52 margoullat kernel: 8139cp :03:08.0: Try the 
8139too driver instead.

Mar  1 10:50:52 margoullat kernel: 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.28*


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dircmp in debian

I have searched high and low but can't find this utility or something
that provides it's functionality, I want to know the differences in 2
directory structures but not change them - yet. rsync I'm fairly
confident will fix the 2 directories to make them the same but for the
moment I want to know just how far out of sync they are.

http://www.computerhope.com/unix/udircmp.htm

If diff can do what I want I am unable to coerce the magic.

Adrian

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Re: 8139cp 0000:03:08.0: This (id 10ec:8139 rev 10) is not an 8139C+ compatible chip

On 01/03/2008, stephane lepain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hi,

  I have had this error message coming up every time I start my PC where
  it seems to be searching for the right driver. The problem is that it
  takes a while at start time for my box to switch from 8139cp to 8139too
  Is there a way I could tell my box to use the driver 8139too instead of
  it choosing the 8139cp?

  Sorry if I am not being clear and concise. I have just started with
  Linux and I am learning at the moment.

Welcome to the community,

For your problem you could try placing 8139too into
/etc/modules

That might see that your 8139too driver gets loaded first.
Incidentally comment any references to 8139cp that you run across. HTH

Adrian

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Re: Installing Debian from USB pen drive

2008-03-01 Thread Santanu Chatterjee

Finally, my USB pendrive is working, i.e. booting fine,
and the installer is also working correctly.

Thanks Adrian and Thierry for your help.

Time to dive a little deeper into debian-installer  Co. :-)

Regards,
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Re: Newsreader question

2008-03-01 Thread Kevin Coyner



On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 03:40:25PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote..


  And I am still searching for a decent console newsreader that
  supports UTF-8, so if anybody can recommend one...

Not sure if it supports UTF-8 or not, but have a look at newsbeuter.

Homepage: http://synflood.at/newsbeuter.html


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Re: Additional RAM brings Lenny to a slow-down


andy wrote:

Andrei Popescu wrote:

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 12:14:37PM +, andy wrote:
  

Andrei Popescu wrote:


On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 07:18:41AM +, andy wrote:

[...]

  
  
with a fix from the manufacturers. The other alternative seems to be the 
mem=xxx option passed to the kernel. If I use the latter approach, is 
this something that I can develop a script to do automatically at boot 
(for example, to run it as part of the GRUB parameters), or is it 
something that I would have to do manually?



$ grep kopt /boot/grub/menu.lst
## If you want special options for specific kernels use kopt_x_y_z
## e.g. kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro
##  kopt_2_6_8=root=/dev/hdc1 ro
##  kopt_2_6_8_2_686=root=/dev/hdc2 ro
# kopt=root=/dev/hda2 ro vga=791
# xenkopt=console=tty0

Regards,
Andrei
  
  
Thanks for this Andrei. How would I tweak this to enable my kernel to 
recognise and utilise the additional RAM? Looking through the file, the 
relevant section appears to be this commented part:



No, the line you need to edit is the one with 'kopt=...'. Don't 
uncomment it, just add the relevant parameter to the end (like I added 
vga=791 for my laptop).


After you're done you *must* run /usr/sbin/update-grub

Regards,
Andrei
  

Andrei

My question is about the specifics of the option to add at the end of 
the line:
Because I am looking for 2GB RAM to be recognised, do I add 
mem=2097152M to the end of the kopt=... line? I don't, for example, 
know what outcome you were looking for and resolved by adding vga=791 
to that line in your config. VGA I can but assume had something to do 
with a graphics card, but beyond that ... ?


Thanks and apologies for being apparently dense. I can assure you I'm 
not being deliberately obtuse.



I added mem=2048M to the end of the line so that it now reads:

# kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro quiet mem=2048M

And ran /usr/sbin/update-grub and rebooted.

It still took just under 10 minutes to get back to login at the gdm screen, so 
I am at a complete loss now.

Any further suggestions, or did I misunderstand something?

Cheers

Andy



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Re: Xorg.0.log on accessible gnome install attempt

2008-03-01 Thread Florian Kulzer

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 19:31:07 -0600, Jude DaShiell wrote:
 The most noticeable thing that happens with gdm running is I get to what  
 sounds like a login screen and key in my user id then I've tried both 
 with return and tab after that and key in my password and all gdm returns 
 is an error beep.  If I hit control-alt-fx and usually f1 and drop to 
 command line I can log in there just fine.  When I wrote about that 
 problem earlier I was advised to disable gdm then run startx in order to 
 access the gnome and x environment and that's how I generated the 
 Xorg.0.log file.

I think the problem is that startx by default only starts a bare X
server without any window manager or client applications running. In
other words, you get an empty gray screen that is useless to you.

I think you have to create a suitable .xinitrc file in your home
directory to tell the X server that you want to run a Gnome session.
After you log in on the terminal, do this:

echo /usr/bin/gnome-session  ~/.xinitrc

to create an xinitrc file that will launch gnome-session. Then run
startx again.

I don't use Gnome myself, therefore I am not 100% certain whether this
is really the best way to start a Gnome session via startx, but I think
it should work.

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Re: dircmp in debian

2008-03-01 Thread Tzafrir Cohen

On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 08:52:58PM +1000, Adrian Levi wrote:
 I have searched high and low but can't find this utility or something
 that provides it's functionality, I want to know the differences in 2
 directory structures but not change them - yet. rsync I'm fairly
 confident will fix the 2 directories to make them the same but for the
 moment I want to know just how far out of sync they are.

Sounds like you like rsync. So the following begs suggesting:

rsync -nv ? rsync -ni ?

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Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-03-01 Thread Chuck Rhode

Andrew Henry wrote this on Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 10:00:15PM +0100.  My
reply is below.

 I've always thought it was quite a fitting icon for a free software
 distro, but I suppose it means different things to different people.

The light blue on blue background splash reminds me of a Tidybowl
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latest on debian gnome accessibility attempt

2008-03-01 Thread Jude DaShiell

What I wrote earlier turns out to have been incorrect so I've copied the 
error message gdm throws when the system tries to set it up.  It looks as 
if /etc/init.d/rc has a problem with a package priority but I can't be 
sure.

/etc/init.d/rc: line 208: /etc/rc2.d/S30gdm: Permission denied



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Can't save file in ooffice Impress?

2008-03-01 Thread Michael Yang

lenny/sid, 2.6.24-1

When saving a file in office impress 2.3.1, the Impress crashes.

Anyone met this?

Thanks.
M.

Re: Debian FTP server setup questions

2008-03-01 Thread T o n g

On Sat, 01 Mar 2008 20:16:49 +1000, Adrian Levi wrote:

 Is there any special reason you use wu-ftpd, BTW? . . .

  I generally found proftpd more intuitive than vsftpd to configure.
 
 IMHO vsftpd works more smoothly with more clients

No special reason, just I used wu-ftpd since RedHat 6.0 -- more that 8
years ago. Currently quickest way to setup anonymous ftp upload is more
important than anything else.

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Re: latest on debian gnome accessibility attempt

2008-03-01 Thread Andrew Sackville-West

Hi Jude. It looks like Florian's got you going the right direction on
the Xorg logs...


On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 08:08:25AM -0600, Jude DaShiell wrote:
 What I wrote earlier turns out to have been incorrect so I've copied the  
 error message gdm throws when the system tries to set it up.  It looks as 
 if /etc/init.d/rc has a problem with a package priority but I can't be  
 sure.

 /etc/init.d/rc: line 208: /etc/rc2.d/S30gdm: Permission denied

The system is trying to run gdm but can't because you removed the
execute permisions from the gdm startup script. To make this error go
away, do this as root:

update-rc.d -f gdm remove

that will remove all the gdm symlinks so that it won't even try to
run. 

Then if you find the startx solution is working for you, you could
probably just uninstall gdm altogether. In your situation, I'd
probably recommend this as any time you do an upgrade that includes
gdm, those symlinks will get recreated... very annoying. 

A


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Re: No more AMD-K7 kernels?

2008-03-01 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom


Ron Johnson wrote:

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On 02/28/08 14:47, Alan Ianson wrote:

On Thu February 28 2008 10:29:54 am Curt Howland wrote:

I've looked through the debian-kernel and debian-user archives, and I
don't find a discussion of this.

Does anyone know why the -k7 precompiled kernel was dropped? Two of my
machines are Athalons.

I've been wondering about this to. The 2.6.24 kernels in unstable
have the 2.6-k7 meta package but no kernel to go along with them.
I'll be watching this thread to see if someone can tell us why. I
also have two Athlons.

Your machine won't die just because there's no -k7 kernel.  Just use
the -686.

I recompile the Debian kernel source, apply the -ck patch and enable the
K7 option.


That's always a valid option...  And what I do myself (except for
the -ck patches).



and I do those based on faith. I would like to see proof that those 
patches actually make the kernel more responsive for a desktop. I also 
change the timer frequency to 2000HZ and the Preemption Model to Low 
Latency Desktop. Then I add a Debian Logo that I edit so I can see 
immediately what I am booting with.


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Re: Additional RAM brings Lenny to a slow-down

andy:
 
 I added mem=2048M to the end of the line so that it now reads:
 
   # kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro quiet mem=2048M
 
 And ran /usr/sbin/update-grub and rebooted.
 
 It still took just under 10 minutes to get back to login at the gdm
 screen, so I am at a complete loss now.

Try a few megs less, like mem=2040M.


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Re: 8139cp 0000:03:08.0: This (id 10ec:8139 rev 10) is not an 8139C+ compatible chip

2008-03-01 Thread stephane lepain

Adrian Levi a écrit :

On 01/03/2008, stephane lepain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hi,

I have had this error message coming up every time I start my PC where
it seems to be searching for the right driver. The problem is that it
takes a while at start time for my box to switch from 8139cp to 8139too
Is there a way I could tell my box to use the driver 8139too instead of
it choosing the 8139cp?

Sorry if I am not being clear and concise. I have just started with
Linux and I am learning at the moment.

Welcome to the community,

For your problem you could try placing 8139too into
/etc/modules

That might see that your 8139too driver gets loaded first.
Incidentally comment any references to 8139cp that you run across. HTH

Adrian

After one day of trying to dig up a solution for my problem. I have given up

Nothing seems to be working. I still get the same error message
8139cp :03:08.0: This (id 10ec:8139 rev 10) is not an 8139C+
compatible chip

There seems to be a bug with the driver 8139too with realtek ethernet card.

http://groups.google.fr/group/comp.os.linux.hardware/browse_thread/thread/7cc2d557544f3228/ca5ce7244b8e55a8?hl=frlnk=stq=8139cp+This+is+not+an+8139C%2B+compatible+chip#ca5ce7244b8e55a8

My biggest trouble is that I haven't found any fix for it.

What is hard to understand is that when I do a lspci -v I can clearly
see that the two modules are loaded (8139cp, and 8139too). So why on
earth would I still get this error message if the module 8139too is
loaded in the kernel. My network card should be up and working.
Shouldn't it. Unfortunatly, I am not experienced enough to dig deeper
than that. Hope someone could give me hand here :)

03:08.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)

Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RT8139
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 16
I/O ports at ac00 [size=256]
Memory at fdefe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Kernel modules: 8139cp, 8139too

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Re: Newsreader question

Ron Johnson:
 On 02/29/08 14:43, Jochen Schulz wrote:
 
 Which still leaves the question how to synchronize messages status
 (read/unread) across multiple computers. Some time ago I used slrnpull
 for offline reading and copied my .newsrc back and forth, but that was a
 real pain.
 
 Well, X is network transparent, so why not just run the app on
 node_a, and display it on current_node?

*Offline* reading. And I didn't talk about X applications either. :)

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Re: Newsreader question

Kevin Coyner:
 On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 03:40:25PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote..
 
 And I am still searching for a decent console newsreader that
 supports UTF-8, so if anybody can recommend one...
 
 Not sure if it supports UTF-8 or not, but have a look at newsbeuter.

Newsbeuter is an RSS reader. A newsreader is an NNTP (Usenet) client.

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Re: Tweaking /boot/grub/menu.lst to use 2GB RAM

Jeff D:
 
 You really shouldn't have to add anything to see 2G of ram. If you  
 aren't I suspect that there is something else going on with your system.

It's a hardware and/or Linux bug.

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failing usb drive

2008-03-01 Thread Andrew Henry

I have a WD Mybook 320GB usb/firewire drive which is about 1 yr old. 
Warranty is 2 years I think.  It is fully encrypted with dmcrypt 
Luks.  I power it up once a day and it stays on for about 12 hours (as a
home server) and the manual recommends *not* turning it on more than
once a day.

Now it failed as in I ssh's to my home server and did ls -l on one of
the folders and several files came up red with question marks for the
owner group and file size.

I turned the server off and rebooted, and Luks failed to open the drive
and offered to drop me into a recovery terminal mode to fix the problem.

I didn't know what to do so I rebooted again and it mounted the drive as
expected.  It has been ok for 2 days now.

I have run smartctl -Hc /dev/sda and done an fsck -f /dev/sda and they
report no issues.  How else can I tell if my drive is failing??

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Re: I'm BACK!!!

2008-03-01 Thread Brad Brock


--- Michael Marsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Doug MacFarlane
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   4.  I'm going to run VMware Workstation or Server
 - I use Dragon Naturally
   Speaking to do speech to text conversion of
 meetings that I record on my Olympus
   pocket recorder.  Unless you have a better idea .
 . .
 
 VMware should work OK.  Etch is using a 2.6.18
 kernel, which shouldn't
 cause you problems.  Lenny is using 2.6.22 (if you
 want to upgrade),
 which will should also work, but you'll need a patch
 called something
 like vmware-any-any.something -- google should tell
 you pretty
 quickly.  BEWARE 2.6.20!  THERE BE DRAGONS!
 
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On 03/01/08 12:46, Jochen Schulz wrote:
 Ron Johnson:
 On 02/29/08 14:43, Jochen Schulz wrote:
 Which still leaves the question how to synchronize messages status
 (read/unread) across multiple computers. Some time ago I used slrnpull
 for offline reading and copied my .newsrc back and forth, but that was a
 real pain.
 Well, X is network transparent, so why not just run the app on
 node_a, and display it on current_node?
 
 *Offline* reading.

Irrelevant to the point at hand.

And I didn't talk about X applications either. :)

What other kinds of interactive applications are there in Debian (or
RH, OSX, FreeBSD, etc etc), besides console and X apps?  Both of
which are *designed* for remote access.  Even Eeeevil Windows has
free X servers

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On 03/01/08 13:00, Andrew Henry wrote:
 I have a WD Mybook 320GB usb/firewire drive which is about 1 yr old. 
 Warranty is 2 years I think.  It is fully encrypted with dmcrypt 
 Luks.  I power it up once a day and it stays on for about 12 hours (as a
 home server) and the manual recommends *not* turning it on more than
 once a day.
 
 Now it failed as in I ssh's to my home server and did ls -l on one of
 the folders and several files came up red with question marks for the
 owner group and file size.
 
 I turned the server off and rebooted, and Luks failed to open the drive
 and offered to drop me into a recovery terminal mode to fix the problem.
 
 I didn't know what to do so I rebooted again and it mounted the drive as
 expected.  It has been ok for 2 days now.
 
 I have run smartctl -Hc /dev/sda and done an fsck -f /dev/sda and they
 report no issues.  How else can I tell if my drive is failing??

If this is important data, don't risk it!  Go buy another external
drive (and save some coin by getting a generic enclosure and OEM
disk from Newegg).

Then after moving the data to the new drive, decide what you want to do.

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Re: Additional RAM brings Lenny to a slow-down


Jochen Schulz wrote:

andy:
  

I added mem=2048M to the end of the line so that it now reads:

# kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro quiet mem=2048M

And ran /usr/sbin/update-grub and rebooted.

It still took just under 10 minutes to get back to login at the gdm
screen, so I am at a complete loss now.



Try a few megs less, like mem=2040M.


J.
  
Been there and done that: I reduced the /boot/grub/menu.lst entry to 
2040 and updated and rebooted. Resulted in a drag as always when 2 DDR2 
chips are inserted. Edited menu.lst to 2000M, updated, rebooted and same 
delay. BIOS correctly recognised 2040M during the initial boot pre-GRUB 
stage on both occasions. I've just pulled the second RAM chip for now. 

Despite spending the better part of the afternoon running searches on 
google and reading info grub-doc I have come across nothing that is 
remotely useful. My board is set up to take 2GB x DDR2 pc533 RAM. 
Assuming that nothing is wrong with the hardware (and really, how does 
one check that?), it looks like this may be a kernel issue for the 
2.6.22-3-686. Unfortunately, I cannot find out whether any bugs have 
been filed.


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Re: Newsreader question

2008-03-01 Thread John Hasler

Ron Johnson writes:
 Well, X is network transparent, so why not just run the app on
 node_a, and display it on current_node?

Jochen Schulz writes:
 *Offline* reading.

Yes, offline.  Run Leafnode on one machine on your local network and read
news from any other using the newsreader of your choice.

 And I didn't talk about X applications either.

If you want to use an X newsreader run it on the machine serving the news
and display it locally.  If you want to run a non-X newsreader use ssh.
Actually, in either case the machine running the news server, the machine
running the newsreader, and the machine you are sitting in front of could
all be different.
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On 03/01/08 13:51, John Hasler wrote:
 Ron Johnson writes:
 Well, X is network transparent, so why not just run the app on
 node_a, and display it on current_node?
 
 Jochen Schulz writes:
 *Offline* reading.
 
 Yes, offline.  Run Leafnode on one machine on your local network and read
 news from any other using the newsreader of your choice.
 
 And I didn't talk about X applications either.
 
 If you want to use an X newsreader run it on the machine serving the news
 and display it locally.  If you want to run a non-X newsreader use ssh.
 Actually, in either case the machine running the news server, the machine
 running the newsreader, and the machine you are sitting in front of could
 all be different.

Thus are the beauties of standards and networks.

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Re: Newsreader question

Ron Johnson:
 On 03/01/08 12:46, Jochen Schulz wrote:
 Ron Johnson:

 Well, X is network transparent, so why not just run the app on
 node_a, and display it on current_node?
 
 *Offline* reading.
 
 Irrelevant to the point at hand.

No. Offline like using my laptop while commuting and the machine
running slrn is back at home. And when I'm back at work, I'd like to
ssh home and use the newsreader there.

And I didn't talk about X applications either. :)
 
 What other kinds of interactive applications are there in Debian (or
 RH, OSX, FreeBSD, etc etc), besides console and X apps?  Both of
 which are *designed* for remote access.  Even Eeeevil Windows has
 free X servers

I just wanted to say I am not interested in an X app, I prefer a console
newsreader.

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Re: 8139cp 0000:03:08.0: This (id 10ec:8139 rev 10) is not an 8139C+ compatible chip

2008-03-01 Thread Florian Kulzer

On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 11:52:50 +0100, stephane lepain wrote:
 Hi,

 I have had this error message coming up every time I start my PC where  
 it seems to be searching for the right driver. The problem is that it  
 takes a while at start time for my box to switch from 8139cp to 
 8139too
 Is there a way I could tell my box to use the driver 8139too instead of  
 it choosing the 8139cp?

 Sorry if I am not being clear and concise. I have just started with  
 Linux and I am learning at the moment.

 _My Config_

 Hardware: AMD64 3800+
 OS: Debian testing

 *Mar  1 10:50:52 margoullat kernel: ata4: SATA link down (SStatus 0  
 SControl 310)
 Mar  1 10:50:52 margoullat kernel: 8139cp :03:08.0: This (id  
 10ec:8139 rev 10) is not an 8139C+ compatible chip
 Mar  1 10:50:52 margoullat kernel: 8139cp :03:08.0: Try the  
 8139too driver instead.
 Mar  1 10:50:52 margoullat kernel: 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.28*

Please tell me if I understand you correctly: Your RTL8139 does work
once the system comes up; your only problem is getting rid of the
message and the delay during boot?

Try to unload the 8139cp module after the system has booted by running
this command as root:

modprobe -rv 8139cp

Do you get any error messages? Check with lsmod | grep 8139 and make
sure that 8139cp is really gone and only 8139too is still loaded. Verify
that your network still works, e.g. by running ping www.kernel.org.

Assuming that this is all OK, you then have to generate a file that
tells modprobe not to load the 8139cp anymore during boot. To do this,
you can run (again as root):

echo -e blacklist 8139cp\ninstall 8139cp /bin/true  
/etc/modprobe.d/local-8139cp

This should create the file /etc/modprobe.d/local-8139cp containing
these two lines:

blacklist 8139cp
install 8139cp /bin/true

Check with cat /etc/modprobe.d/local-8139cp if this was successful.
(If you already know how to use one of the various text editors
available under Linux then you can of course also create the file by
entering these two lines in your editor of choice and saving the
result.)

Then reboot and test if your system behaves properly now. Report back if
it does not; in that case we will have to take a closer look at your
initrd and maybe also at modules.dep.

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latest debian gnome accessibility attempt

2008-03-01 Thread Jude DaShiell

Okay, I got /usr/bin/gnome-session in an .xinitrc file and that hasn't 
helped.  I got what may be a login beep back and get thrown out trying to 
log into gnome.  So I log into text terminal and start up orca with orca 
--setup and answer the questions.  At the end I get told cannot restart 
orca because DISPLAY isn't set and I'm told to make sure DISPLAY is set. 
So I do export DISPLAY=:0.0 and then try running orca again and this time 
not with --setup parameter.  I get the following output I pasted into 
memory with speakup.

cut here.
export DISPLAY=:0.0
myhome:~# orca
Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

xmodmap:  unable to open display ':0.0'
Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

xmodmap:  unable to open display ':0.0'
m
cut here.



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Re: Etch: PAM unable to resolve symbol


Jerome BENOIT wrote:


As the below hints gives no results, I understood that
the messages may come from elsewhere.
By commented, I found that it is
pam_pwdfile.so pwdfile=/etc/bunch/passwd
was the one which outputs the messages.
Is there any alternative ?


pam_unix.so?

I haven't a clue where pam_pwdfile.so is from - try a dpkg -S. I checked 
on http://packages.debian.org and couldn't find a reference to it 
either. Is this referenced in /etc/pam.d/common-passwd? Are you using 
shadow passwords? I've got


/etc/pam.d/passwd:

@include common-password

/etc/pam.d/common-password:

password   required   pam_unix.so nullok obscure min=4 max=8 md5

(some other entries for LDAP but I take it you're not using that?)

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Re: Usermount

2008-03-01 Thread Frank McCormick

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Sjoerd Hiemstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Frank wrote:
  Anybody know of other graphical front ends to mount ??
 
 Well, using Synaptic to look for packages that have 'mount' in their
 names or descriptions, I see a few that look interesting.  I'd suggest
 to have a look at all of them, and take the one you like best.
 


   Thanks. xvmount seems to serve my purposes as I don't use Gnome.

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On 03/01/08 14:27, Jochen Schulz wrote:
 Ron Johnson:
 On 03/01/08 12:46, Jochen Schulz wrote:
 Ron Johnson:
 Well, X is network transparent, so why not just run the app on
 node_a, and display it on current_node?
 *Offline* reading.
 Irrelevant to the point at hand.
 
 No. Offline like using my laptop while commuting and the machine
 running slrn is back at home. And when I'm back at work, I'd like to
 ssh home and use the newsreader there.
 
And I didn't talk about X applications either. :)
 What other kinds of interactive applications are there in Debian (or
 RH, OSX, FreeBSD, etc etc), besides console and X apps?  Both of
 which are *designed* for remote access.  Even Eeeevil Windows has
 free X servers
 
 I just wanted to say I am not interested in an X app, I prefer a console
 newsreader.

Like I said, Both of which are *designed* for remote access.  So,
ssh into your primary box and use slrn from there.

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Re: usbcore and ndiswrapper for toshiba laptop


diane mittnik wrote:

snip

The relevant info:
# modinfo ndiswrapper
modinfo: could not find module ndiswrapper
# modprobe usbcore
FATAL: Module usbcore not found
# modprobe ndiswrapper
FATAL: Module ndiswrapper not found


Try a 'depmod -a' as root. Then try the modprobe's again. Just a thought...

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Re: Usermount


[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  Yes, that's the conclusion I came to. The maintainer is no where 
around as far as I can see. Anybody know of other graphical front ends 
to mount ??


Krusader for KDE will allow you to mount / umount (as root if 
necessary). Great two-pane filemanager (like a graphical mc).


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Re: 8139cp 0000:03:08.0: This (id 10ec:8139 rev 10) is not an 8139C+ compatible chip


stephane lepain wrote:



For your problem you could try placing 8139too into
/etc/modules

That might see that your 8139too driver gets loaded first.
Incidentally comment any references to 8139cp that you run across. HTH

Adrian

  
After one day of trying to dig up a solution for my problem. I have 
given up


You might need a little more patience using Linux ;-).


Nothing seems to be working. I still get the same error message
8139cp :03:08.0: This (id 10ec:8139 rev 10) is not an 8139C+ 
compatible chip


You can blacklist the 8139cp module in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist file 
(might need to create this if it doesn't already exist):


blacklist 8139cp

and if you have 8139too in /etc/modules then the boot process should 
load that instead of 8139cp. I have checked on a machine which has an 
8139too NIC and that works for me. There's a package called nictools-pci 
which has a file rtl8139-diag -- might be useful for fixing 8139 related 
probs.



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command line version of startupmanager needed I think

2008-03-01 Thread Jude DaShiell

what else can I run dpkg-reconfigure against in addition to xserver-xorg 
in order to answer questions using a command line environment to get gnome 
up and running?




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Re: Additional RAM brings Lenny to a slow-down

On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 07:33:05PM +, andy wrote:

 both occasions. I've just pulled the second RAM chip for now.  Despite 
 spending the better part of the afternoon running searches on google 
 and reading info grub-doc I have come across nothing that is remotely 
 useful. My board is set up to take 2GB x DDR2 pc533 RAM. Assuming that 
 nothing is wrong with the hardware (and really, how does one check 
 that?), it looks like this may be a kernel issue for the 2.6.22-3-686.  
 Unfortunately, I cannot find out whether any bugs have been filed.

I would run extensive memtests (with each of the two memories and then 
with both installed). I haven't done this in a while, but my guess is 
you need to install one of memtest86 or memtest86+ (if not already 
installed) then reboot and choose the 'memtest' option in the grub menu.

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Re: Xorg.0.log on accessible gnome install attempt

On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 01:21:43PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote:
 
 I think the problem is that startx by default only starts a bare X
 server without any window manager or client applications running. In
 other words, you get an empty gray screen that is useless to you.

In my experience startx runs x-session-manager (and probably 
x-window-manager if no session-manager installed). You would have to 
check with update-alternatives (or follow the symlinks) to find out what 
is actually being used.

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Re: vertical scroll on my touchpad not working


Manu Hack wrote:


I've installed debian amd64 on a Toshiba laptop A215-S7413.  I failed
to get the touchpad vertical scrolling to work (basic functions work
fine).  Here is my /etc/X11/xorg.conf:

Section Module
Loadsynaptics
EndSection

snip

I recently installed a laptop with MEPIS (debian-stable-based) and I had 
exactly the same problem with the touchpad. I commented-out the 
synaptics driver and it worked great - all functions including the 
scroll. Pretty sure I used the IMPS/2 mouse driver - BICBW so you may 
want to try the ExPS/2 driver as well if this fails.


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Re: kadmin ktadd and F_WRLCK


Monika Strack wrote:

I have a big problem with kerberos5 ktadd. I create a new principal 
host/myhost.mydomain. This works ok. Then I want add it to the krb5.keytab, 
but ktadd hang. I have make a strace of kadmin and found that 
fcntl64(5, F_SETLKW, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0} 
is hanging.

Here the strace:

snip
We have many hosts in keytab, so at the last Year it works. The last time, I 
have add a host to keytab are the Martch 23 2007.


How did you create the keytab? Using a newer version of kadmin or were 
you by any chance using the Heimdall  kadmin (BSD)? The kadmin's are 
incompatible - just a thought. The strace doesn't mean much to me I'm 
afraid.


I had a similar problem on an old stable machine, here's a workaround 
which may help if kadmin's hanging


kadmin:

create the host key with host/host.domain
ktadd -k /etc/temp.keytab host/host.domain

# mv /etc/krb5.keytab /etc/old.keytab

ktutil:

rkt /etc/temp.keytab
rkt /etc/old.keytab
wkt /etc/krb5.keytab

# mv /etc/temp.keytab /etc/old.keytab /root (for safe keeping!)

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Re: Additional RAM brings Lenny to a slow-down

2008-03-01 Thread Gilles Mocellin

Le Saturday 01 March 2008 20:33:05 andy, vous avez écrit :
 Jochen Schulz wrote:
  andy:
  I added mem=2048M to the end of the line so that it now reads:
 
 # kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro quiet mem=2048M
 
  And ran /usr/sbin/update-grub and rebooted.
 
  It still took just under 10 minutes to get back to login at the gdm
  screen, so I am at a complete loss now.
 
  Try a few megs less, like mem=2040M.
 
 
  J.

 Been there and done that: I reduced the /boot/grub/menu.lst entry to
 2040 and updated and rebooted. Resulted in a drag as always when 2 DDR2
 chips are inserted. Edited menu.lst to 2000M, updated, rebooted and same
 delay. BIOS correctly recognised 2040M during the initial boot pre-GRUB
 stage on both occasions. I've just pulled the second RAM chip for now.

 Despite spending the better part of the afternoon running searches on
 google and reading info grub-doc I have come across nothing that is
 remotely useful. My board is set up to take 2GB x DDR2 pc533 RAM.
 Assuming that nothing is wrong with the hardware (and really, how does
 one check that?), it looks like this may be a kernel issue for the
 2.6.22-3-686. Unfortunately, I cannot find out whether any bugs have
 been filed.

 A

Perhaps a problem with a dual channel setting or prerequisit...

Beware of your bois settings and if you have more than 2 memory slots, be sure 
to put your two memory banks in the good ones.

I suppose that your new memory is at the same speed than your old one ?


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xorg and aspect ratio's

2008-03-01 Thread Alex Samad

Hi

I am having a problem with my X server. i am using amd64 with nvidia
driver.


I have it connected to a plasma screen its an old one with a menu option
for 4:3 or 16:9

I would like to keep it in 16:9 mode for watching video's, but when i do
this. my aspect ration seems to go askew.  I have tested this by using
xli to display a jpg on the screen and on my laptop (windows) and on
another debian amd64 machine.

my Xorg.conf seems to be set up okay, I let nvidia work out the right
dimensions of the monitor and freq and dpi. it is current set to 35 x
50. I have measured the screen size and it is the same as the one
reported. so it has all the right dimensions.

any one have any idea how to config X to handle the screen when i put it
in 16:9 mode






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Re: Etch: PAM unable to resolve symbol

2008-03-01 Thread Jerome BENOIT


Hello,

thanks for your reply.

The idea is to have a second passwd file.
I set it to mimic LDAP.



Jerome

Jamin Davis wrote:

Jerome BENOIT wrote:


As the below hints gives no results, I understood that
the messages may come from elsewhere.
By commented, I found that it is
pam_pwdfile.so pwdfile=/etc/bunch/passwd
was the one which outputs the messages.
Is there any alternative ?


pam_unix.so?

I haven't a clue where pam_pwdfile.so is from - try a dpkg -S. I checked 
on http://packages.debian.org and couldn't find a reference to it 
either. Is this referenced in /etc/pam.d/common-passwd? Are you using 
shadow passwords? I've got


/etc/pam.d/passwd:

@include common-password

/etc/pam.d/common-password:

password   required   pam_unix.so nullok obscure min=4 max=8 md5

(some other entries for LDAP but I take it you're not using that?)



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Install Debian 4.0 to watch DVD video

2008-03-01 Thread hce

Hi,

I am installing Debian 4.0 to a PC which was previously installed FC5
and has difficult to play mplayer.

The first issue during my installation is the pattitiion. The Patition
page displays:

[!!] Partition disks
 :
 :
IDE 1 Master (hda) - 20.5 GB

  #1 primary 3.1 GB  ext3  (I want to keep it)
  #2 primary 12.6 GB  ext3  (I want to keep it)
  #3 primary 554.0 MB  F Swap Swap (I want to keep it)
  #5 logical 4.2 GB  K ext3

Undo changes to partitiion
Finish Partitioning and write changes to disk

The hda1 and hda2 have been used for other data and I want to eep it.
The hda3 is swap sector.

The hda5 is the one I want to install the Debian to it.

Now I selected Finish Partitioning and write changes to disk, it came
following an error:

[!!] Partition disks

No root file system.

No Root system is defined.

Please correct this from the patiioning menu

What is wrong with it?

Thank you.

Jim


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Re: xorg and aspect ratio's

2008-03-01 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi


Alex Samad wrote:

Hi

I am having a problem with my X server. i am using amd64 with nvidia
driver.


I have it connected to a plasma screen its an old one with a menu option
for 4:3 or 16:9

I would like to keep it in 16:9 mode for watching video's, but when i do
this. my aspect ration seems to go askew.  I have tested this by using
xli to display a jpg on the screen and on my laptop (windows) and on
another debian amd64 machine.


How do you watch the videos? If you are using mplayer, look into the 
-monitoraspect, -monitorpixelaspect options.


Also, are you also running at a resolution that is 16:9?



my Xorg.conf seems to be set up okay, I let nvidia work out the right
dimensions of the monitor and freq and dpi. it is current set to 35 x
50. I have measured the screen size and it is the same as the one
reported. so it has all the right dimensions.

any one have any idea how to config X to handle the screen when i put it
in 16:9 mode




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Re: Install Debian 4.0 to watch DVD video

On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 12:19:52PM +1100, hce wrote:
 
 The hda5 is the one I want to install the Debian to it.
 
 Now I selected Finish Partitioning and write changes to disk, it came
 following an error:
 
 [!!] Partition disks
 
 No root file system.
 
 No Root system is defined.
 
 Please correct this from the patiioning menu
 
 What is wrong with it?

You have to tell the installer that you want to use that partition. I 
can't tell you exactly how it is done, but you have to select something 
like use as root partition.

Regards,
Andrei
P.S. I hope you chose manual partitioning, AFAIK guided is not meant for 
such stuff.
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Re: Install Debian 4.0 to watch DVD video

2008-03-01 Thread hce

On 3/2/08, Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 12:19:52PM +1100, hce wrote:

   The hda5 is the one I want to install the Debian to it.
  
   Now I selected Finish Partitioning and write changes to disk, it came
   following an error:
  
   [!!] Partition disks
  
   No root file system.
  
   No Root system is defined.
  
   Please correct this from the patiioning menu
  
   What is wrong with it?


 You have to tell the installer that you want to use that partition. I
  can't tell you exactly how it is done, but you have to select something
  like use as root partition.

Well, I expected the use as can be selected as a root partition, but
that page only display following menu:
use as:

EXT 3
EXT2
Reiser FS
JFS
XFS
FAT16
FAT32
Swap area
Physical volume for encryption
Physical volume for LVM
Physical volume for RAID
do not use the partition

There is no root partition, I actuall selected it as ext3, then it
came above error.

Now, if I select mount point to /, it also came another error.

I actually don't want to do any partition change, the #5 has already
partitioned and formated as ext3. But I could not go over that
partition page. How can I skip partition page and just install the
Debian directly to hda5?

Thank you.

Kind Regards,

Jim


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Re: Install Debian 4.0 to watch DVD video

On 02/03/2008, hce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Well, I expected the use as can be selected as a root partition, but
  that page only display following menu:
  use as:

  EXT 3
  EXT2
  Reiser FS
  JFS
  XFS
  FAT16
  FAT32
  Swap area
  Physical volume for encryption
  Physical volume for LVM
  Physical volume for RAID
  do not use the partition

  There is no root partition, I actuall selected it as ext3, then it
  came above error.

  Now, if I select mount point to /, it also came another error.

  I actually don't want to do any partition change, the #5 has already
  partitioned and formated as ext3. But I could not go over that
  partition page. How can I skip partition page and just install the
  Debian directly to hda5?

Read this part of the install guide on using the installer and partitioning.
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch06s03.html.en#di-partition

Even if you don't want to change the other partitions you will need to
format and set up your hda5 again and tell it to mount hda5 as / this
will set up hda5 in /etc/fstab as your / and leave all the other
partitions alone (you will have to manually add them to /etc/fstab in
you want access to them) otherwise specify a mount point for them and
select them as do not format.

The Debian installer is very flexible, you will get it do what you
want, it's just a matter of you finding the options in the installer.

Adrian

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