Re: a double boot
you have to mount the hdax partition with the "-o dev" option marco Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 04 November 2004 04:50 pm, Kevin Mark wrote: On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 09:42:22AM +0100, Abd.belahcene wrote: Hi, I ve just installed WIN98, the grub boot is erase I want to put it again, there is no option (for rescue) on the boot disk ( installation disk). I used RH 7.3 , it gives me the access to the system, I use the command grub-install (hd0,1) ( win is in first partition, and debian in second ), it seemed correct , but when I reboot I get same problem ( no boot menu). thanks for help Hi Adb, if you have a bootable debian disk like knoppix you can chroot to your harddrive and use grub-install. -Kev> Does that work ?? I remember once trying the same procedure but got errors where it complained that /dev/hda cannot be written.. I did verify every permission and other settings as per my skill level but all in vain. rrs - -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT -- http://www.researchut.com Gnupg Key ID: 04F130BC "Stealing logic from one person is plagiarism, stealing from many is research". -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBihHd4Rhi6gTxMLwRAnJmAJ4vkgzd5qmF/2GJuABtXgpCBrFA8wCgoNOB yOzU1d37Ly+BbVQdWtF9mz4= =uKtC -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox and Mozilla memory usage issues
I think that this problem is related to Shockwave Flash Marco Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 21:44:17 +0100 (BST), [KS] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I mostly use Firefox or Mozilla for my web browsing purposes. Both programs are great and provide the user with a lot of choice for configuration and using features and extensions. However, I have noticed that if I use Firefox for a long time, it tends to eat up a lot of memory. And I mean "a lot" of memory. Last night, almost all my 256MB of RAM was full. The only programs running Sounds familiar to me. I have about 1GB ram and yesterday I saw my hard disk LED was continuously on. When I checked with free, I was surprised to see some swap space being used. I thought my hard disk or ram is probably going bad and did not bother to do much research. Incidentally I was running firefox along with other apps such as thunderbird. Cannot pin point to firefox but something fishy is going on if it is not my hardware problem I am also using debian sid, running 2.6.7-1-386 and is updated daily. raju -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X.org Questions
Does it works with the ati proprietary drivers (fglrx) ? thanks Marco Timo Reimerdes wrote: On Mo, 2004-09-13 at 01:49 -0400, Chris Anderson wrote: On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 00:55 -0400, Ed Sutherland wrote: After looking at screenshots of X.org, it seems to be more graphically up-to-date than XFree86. But, I have some questions: 1) Can X.org be apt-gotten? (otherwise, where and how) Not officially, there may be a repo somewhere that someone else maintains though. 2) How difficult is replacing xfree with x.org? Extract source, apt-get build-dep xserver-xfree86, make World, make install. Going backwards could possibly be troublesome (perhaps build to another prefix). 3) Any issues specific to the ppc architecture I should be aware? Thanks. I haven't encountered any thus far. Yet another question: What, except the transparency and the shadow-thingy is of advantage in x.org? is anything done noticably better? is it recomendable? greetz, Timo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Get list of all installed packages from Testing
apt-show-versions | grep testing hope this help Marco Brian Nelson wrote: Alexander Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: * Jacob Friis Larsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040803 18:33]: How can I get a list of all installed packages from the Testing release of Debian? dpkg --get-selections If you want a list of removed packages, too, add a \*. Yeah, but that doesn't know anything about distribution. What he probably wants is apt-show-versions. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to sweep hard disk of confidential data
what about dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/hdX ? Martin Dickopp wrote: Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 16:10:39 -0600, Doug Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sunday 18 July 2004 11:52 am, Frank Gevaerts wrote: On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 01:02:17PM -0400, H. S. wrote: I am in a situation where a computer is to be given away and prior to that it's hard disk needs to *thoroughly* cleaned (data consists of financial information, reports, class exams, competition exams, etc). Try http://dban.sourceforge.net/ I second this suggestion. DBAN (short for Darik's Boot n' Nuke will wipe your hard disk to the point where only the NSA has any hope of recovering data. I read an interesting article about data recovery and the approaches that can be used. Specialist places have ultra-fine read heads that can catch ghost images towards the edge of tracks; which your head may have missed. I think this is only the tip of the iceberg. Without scaremongering, if the information you want to remove is of such a critical nature that it must never be recovered no matter what cost; you would have to destroy the drive. If your opponents are able and willing to spend an /infinite/ amount of money to get at the data on the disk, it must be assumed that they already have it. They have likely already used various spying techniques. Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
