Re: Booting Debian GNU/kFreeBSD on MacBookPro 8.2
On Sunday, September 21, 2014 05:43:40 AM Lars Noodén wrote: I've installed Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 7.6 (wheezy) from a mini.iso CD image on a MacBookPro 8.2. The installation seemed to go smoothly, including installing Grub, but when it is time to boot, the machine only ever shows a blinking folder with a question mark, indicating no system. The system can be booted from the installation CD via the choice to boot from first hard disk, so that part of the installation worked. What additional step is needed so that the system boots on its own from the internal drive without intervention from the installation CD? Regards, /Lars It sounds like the install went okay, but the mac is unsure what device to boot from. Try holding down the left 'option' key during boot and see if you can select your hard disk from the list that appears. Andrew signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: when an xterm starts, it always starts in ~/Documents
On 02/24/2012 05:59 PM, Sian Mountbatten wrote: Whenever I start an xterm, I notice that it starts in ~/Documents rather than in the home directory. Why is that? Where is it set? And can it be set to the HOME directory? -- Sian Mountbatten Algol 68 specialist I noticed similar behavior using emacs in KDE4 a while back. The quick and dirty solution was to open system settings, navigate to account details, select paths, and set my documents path to my home directory (I think this is what Hans was trying to suggest you do). -- Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f4bc697.4040...@gmail.com
Re: editing pdf files
On 01/13/2012 01:50 PM, richard wrote: Greetings, Is there any free app which can edit pdf files. Evince looks like it does it, you can edit, send it as an attachment and read it with another copy of evince and you can see the alterations. Open it on a poxy winblos machine with acrobat or acroread, and the edited sections are as the original. xpdf also shows the original before editing.. help TIA Richard I've had good luck with Okular. At least, I haven't had any of the issues you describe above when taking the document to a Windows machine. Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f11c6ab.6000...@gmail.com
Re: A question for the list:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/5/10 8:56 AM, John Hasler wrote: ZephyrQ writes: Lately, though, Debian seems 'stale'. If you are talking about a desktop and want to be on the bleeding edge use Unstable. It's quite usable. Consider installing apt-listbugs if you're going to run sid. It gives you a little list of bugs against packages you're installing/upgrading so you can decide if you want to go through with the install. I've been saved from catastrophe more then once by that little package. Drew -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJM1APYAAoJEEaDz7AcIUia3agH/jF8bmJJQ1y2nI2//HxeZi5R 4SHFzQniTZwwFTy+nkRBqCBQUNoCkATMLdmxa9At/jSViEfSWlV4r7s7uKdajJ4A fSaXrykkVHJHnvxbXcV9Q+13WDtbB6A65wwykzDIqFza8eZKgO5mmaclpdT2bQ52 eNIKxTct7I2DeKS6aimGzVthrsvwA0ubCG5GQw/LCOCimQa/FnDwA4x2Lv+1WuSe qZY4+cbdPevjj2ajdQjRjzbeteTV7xpyMfoaTrA5scSfSAn+XplJr8XXM5Xq0MKd fCUVUCIweC1kUn9MbYLBXSEKe4rCZF/jDohB0jvXSFvXyZHyPlSEE1BF0gpAYqA= =5ilR -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4cd403d8.50...@walrusgroup.com
Re: ad blocking squid
On Saturday 27 March 2010 08:53:12 am Jozsef Vadkan wrote: I want to block ads on the client side. [i mean when the people surf the net, they shouldn't see any ads] Can anyone post a link to a good howto, how to set up a transparent squid proxy, that can filter ads? [on client side! - router isn't running openwrt, etc.] Thank you! I haven't used it myself, but the adzapper package appears to be an ad-blocker for squid. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201003282141.32603.awinn...@gmail.com
Re: Comparison of using Sidux as opposed to Squeeze
Anyone had any experience using Sidux and how usable was it compared to Squeeze? I have both a Sidux and a Squeeze install at the moment. Usability wise they're roughly the same, though Sidux is generally faster about getting fixes in place. Neither Sidux nor Squeeze will be as stable as... stable, however. I think choosing between the two really comes down to what you want from your distro. Sidux provides a pre-configured desktop install with a later kernel and a few nice usability scripts. If you want a pre-configued KDE4 or XFCE install and don't mind doing some maintenance then Sidux is worth exploring. If not, then I personally wouldn't bother. Their spices are nice, but hardly necessary if you're used to running vanilla Debian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/496ee6771003220913k2aba1e47w6edfef70f8686...@mail.gmail.com
Re: [semi-SOLVED] Re: Why does installing gnome packages versioned 2.28+6 insist on installing gnash?
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 9:57 PM, Celejar cele...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:24:11 -0500 Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: ... For example, which apps to use open jpeg files, PDF files, ODF, DOC, XLS, etc, whether I'm in Thunar, Thunderbird, Evolution, Mutt, gentoo or any of a dozen other file managers. There should be a freedesktop standard for file associations. I guess you're right. It would be nice to be able to set that sort of thing once, and then have all applications respect the choice, at least by default. Well, a quick search seems to indicate that some DEs already have this, e.g. Gnome, with its /etc/gnome/defaults.lst. I guess you want something that's DE independent. Celejar I may be mistaken, but isn't that functionality provided by shared-mime-info? --Drew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/496ee6771003201906t207a078fve15487baa4ac...@mail.gmail.com