Re: fill out forms

2012-10-18 Thread Michael Havens 
cool... I just found out you can do it in libreoffice.

   sudo apt-get install openoffice.org-pdfimport

don't worry, it will change to libre office.
:-)~MIKE~(-:


On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:44 PM, Lisa Kachold wrote:

> Ah, is it asking for an encrypted sig from an online provider?
> On 17 Oct 2012 14:04, "Michael Havens"  wrote:
>
>> thanks lisa any idea how to upload a signature to it? I tried
>> scaningone then uploading it to gimp and masking the signature and deleting
>> what surrounds it but how do I paste it into the PDF. What pastes in is
>> just a little squiggle. like it is zoomed in on the y coordinate but not
>> the x.
>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Lisa Kachold 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Mike:
>>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Michael Havens wrote:

> I frequently get forms I need to fill out in PDFs. I hat printing them
> to fill them out and then needing to scan  to email the form to the person
> that needs the said form. Is there like a program or website I can open a
> pdf in that will allow me to fill it out on my computer?
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
> Plugins for Firefox can provide pdf form editing.
>>> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/pdfescape-extension/
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Re: fill out forms

2012-10-18 Thread Michael Havens 
hmm. that doesn't seem to work for me!
:-)~MIKE~(-:


On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 1:30 AM, Michael Havens  wrote:

> cool... I just found out you can do it in libreoffice.
>
>sudo apt-get install openoffice.org-pdfimport
>
> don't worry, it will change to libre office.
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:44 PM, Lisa Kachold wrote:
>
>> Ah, is it asking for an encrypted sig from an online provider?
>> On 17 Oct 2012 14:04, "Michael Havens"  wrote:
>>
>>> thanks lisa any idea how to upload a signature to it? I tried
>>> scaningone then uploading it to gimp and masking the signature and deleting
>>> what surrounds it but how do I paste it into the PDF. What pastes in is
>>> just a little squiggle. like it is zoomed in on the y coordinate but not
>>> the x.
>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Lisa Kachold 
>>> wrote:
>>>
 Hi Mike:

 On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Michael Havens wrote:
>
>> I frequently get forms I need to fill out in PDFs. I hat printing
>> them to fill them out and then needing to scan  to email the form to the
>> person that needs the said form. Is there like a program or website I can
>> open a pdf in that will allow me to fill it out on my computer?
>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>
>> Plugins for Firefox can provide pdf form editing.
 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/pdfescape-extension/
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Re: fill out forms

2012-10-18 Thread kitepi...@kitepilot.com 
OK, I'll bite...   :) 


I use gimp to convert the pdf pages to png(s).
I create a libreoffice document, set the margins to 0,0,0,0 (printer will 
complaint), create a 1-column-1-row table on every page and set each graphic 
page as the background of each table. 

Now I can type over the forms, print it, export it as pdf (original pages 
are not text anymore) and even 'sign it' by importing my scanned signature. 


Have done it lottsa times, works every time...   :)
ET 




Michael Havens writes: 


hmm. that doesn't seem to work for me!
:-)~MIKE~(-: 



On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 1:30 AM, Michael Havens  wrote: 

cool... I just found out you can do it in libreoffice. 

   sudo apt-get install openoffice.org-pdfimport 


don't worry, it will change to libre office.
:-)~MIKE~(-: 




On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:44 PM, Lisa Kachold wrote: 


Ah, is it asking for an encrypted sig from an online provider?
On 17 Oct 2012 14:04, "Michael Havens"  wrote: 


thanks lisa any idea how to upload a signature to it? I tried
scaningone then uploading it to gimp and masking the signature and deleting
what surrounds it but how do I paste it into the PDF. What pastes in is
just a little squiggle. like it is zoomed in on the y coordinate but not
the x.
:-)~MIKE~(-: 



On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Lisa Kachold wrote: 

Hi Mike: 


On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Michael Havens wrote:



I frequently get forms I need to fill out in PDFs. I hat printing
them to fill them out and then needing to scan  to email the form to the
person that needs the said form. Is there like a program or website I can
open a pdf in that will allow me to fill it out on my computer?
:-)~MIKE~(-: 


Plugins for Firefox can provide pdf form editing.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/pdfescape-extension/
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Re: fill out forms

2012-10-18 Thread Michael Havens 
libreoffice? draw? writer? calc.?

:-)~MIKE~(-:


On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 5:33 AM, kitepi...@kitepilot.com <
kitepi...@kitepilot.com> wrote:

> OK, I'll bite...   :)
> I use gimp to convert the pdf pages to png(s).
> I create a libreoffice document, set the margins to 0,0,0,0 (printer will
> complaint), create a 1-column-1-row table on every page and set each
> graphic page as the background of each table.
> Now I can type over the forms, print it, export it as pdf (original pages
> are not text anymore) and even 'sign it' by importing my scanned signature.
> Have done it lottsa times, works every time...   :)
> ET
>
>
> Michael Havens writes:
>
>> hmm. that doesn't seem to work for me!
>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 1:30 AM, Michael Havens 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> cool... I just found out you can do it in libreoffice.
>>>sudo apt-get install openoffice.org-pdfimport
>>> don't worry, it will change to libre office.
>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:44 PM, Lisa Kachold 
>>> **wrote:
>>>
 Ah, is it asking for an encrypted sig from an online provider?
 On 17 Oct 2012 14:04, "Michael Havens"  wrote:

> thanks lisa any idea how to upload a signature to it? I tried
> scaningone then uploading it to gimp and masking the signature and
> deleting
> what surrounds it but how do I paste it into the PDF. What pastes in is
> just a little squiggle. like it is zoomed in on the y coordinate but
> not
> the x.
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Lisa Kachold <
> lisakach...@obnosis.com>**wrote:
>
>> Hi Mike:
>> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Michael Havens > >wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>  I frequently get forms I need to fill out in PDFs. I hat printing
 them to fill them out and then needing to scan  to email the form
 to the
 person that needs the said form. Is there like a program or website
 I can
 open a pdf in that will allow me to fill it out on my computer?
 :-)~MIKE~(-:
 Plugins for Firefox can provide pdf form editing.

>>> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-**US/firefox/addon/pdfescape-**
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Re: fill out forms

2012-10-18 Thread kitepi...@kitepilot.com 
writer. 



Michael Havens writes: 

libreoffice? draw? writer? calc.? 

:-)~MIKE~(-: 



On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 5:33 AM, kitepi...@kitepilot.com <
kitepi...@kitepilot.com> wrote: 


OK, I'll bite...   :)
I use gimp to convert the pdf pages to png(s).
I create a libreoffice document, set the margins to 0,0,0,0 (printer will
complaint), create a 1-column-1-row table on every page and set each
graphic page as the background of each table.
Now I can type over the forms, print it, export it as pdf (original pages
are not text anymore) and even 'sign it' by importing my scanned signature.
Have done it lottsa times, works every time...   :)
ET 



Michael Havens writes: 


hmm. that doesn't seem to work for me!
:-)~MIKE~(-: 


On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 1:30 AM, Michael Havens 
wrote: 


cool... I just found out you can do it in libreoffice.
   sudo apt-get install openoffice.org-pdfimport
don't worry, it will change to libre office.
:-)~MIKE~(-: 



On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:44 PM, Lisa Kachold 
**wrote: 


Ah, is it asking for an encrypted sig from an online provider?
On 17 Oct 2012 14:04, "Michael Havens"  wrote: 


thanks lisa any idea how to upload a signature to it? I tried
scaningone then uploading it to gimp and masking the signature and
deleting
what surrounds it but how do I paste it into the PDF. What pastes in is
just a little squiggle. like it is zoomed in on the y coordinate but
not
the x.
:-)~MIKE~(-: 


On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Lisa Kachold <
lisakach...@obnosis.com>**wrote: 


Hi Mike:
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Michael Havens >wrote: 



 I frequently get forms I need to fill out in PDFs. I hat printing

them to fill them out and then needing to scan  to email the form
to the
person that needs the said form. Is there like a program or website
I can
open a pdf in that will allow me to fill it out on my computer?
:-)~MIKE~(-:
Plugins for Firefox can provide pdf form editing. 


https://addons.mozilla.org/en-**US/firefox/addon/pdfescape-**

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The Great Shared Directory Dilemma

2012-10-18 Thread Wayne Davis 
Ever since I have started using Linux, I have NEVER been able to figure 
out how to share directories of different computers on the network.


Ive wanted to share NTFS and EXT4 directories amongst several machines.


Pointers anyone?  I really need to resolve this as it is rapidly 
becoming necessary to do so.


I am using Kubuntu 12.04 and Win7 machines (more than one of each)

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Re: The Great Shared Directory Dilemma

2012-10-18 Thread Derek Trotter 
I have one computer that runs linux all the time and one that can be 
booted into linux or windows.  I installed samba on the full time linux 
box.  That way it could talk to the windows install.  There are several 
programs out there that make configuring samba easier on a linux box.  I 
remember most of what I did to set it up, but I don't think I would be 
able to give you directions.  I'm sure others on the list will be able 
to help with more details.


On 10/18/2012 6:31 AM, Wayne Davis wrote:
Ever since I have started using Linux, I have NEVER been able to 
figure out how to share directories of different computers on the 
network.


Ive wanted to share NTFS and EXT4 directories amongst several machines.


Pointers anyone?  I really need to resolve this as it is rapidly 
becoming necessary to do so.


I am using Kubuntu 12.04 and Win7 machines (more than one of each)

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Re: The Great Shared Directory Dilemma

2012-10-18 Thread Kevin Fries 
In these situations I like Windows to act like Windows and Linux to act
like Linux.  Therefore, Samba is a good choice.  Buy on the Linux machines,
make sure smbfs is installed.  This will allow the Linux boxes to simply
"mount" the samba share the same way it mounts NFS.

Kevin
On Oct 18, 2012 7:32 AM, "Wayne Davis"  wrote:

> Ever since I have started using Linux, I have NEVER been able to figure
> out how to share directories of different computers on the network.
>
> Ive wanted to share NTFS and EXT4 directories amongst several machines.
>
>
> Pointers anyone?  I really need to resolve this as it is rapidly becoming
> necessary to do so.
>
> I am using Kubuntu 12.04 and Win7 machines (more than one of each)
>
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Re: The Great Shared Directory Dilemma

2012-10-18 Thread Matrix Mole 
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 6:31 AM, Wayne Davis wrote:

>
> Ive wanted to share NTFS and EXT4 directories amongst several machines.
>
>
If the Win 7 machines are either Ultimate or Enterprise edition, then all
you need is NFS to share files among all the systems. If the Win 7 systems
are anything less than those two variants, then you'll need to have Samba
installed. If you need to use Samba, then it's server component needs to be
configured and running on each Linux machine that needs to share their file
structure to the Windows systems.

Most modern Linux distros have NFS available out of the box for both client
and server format (after a brief configuration). You'll need NFS server on
each machine that has directories that need shared, and configure the
/etc/fstab file for each machine that will mount NFS shares into their file
system.

My recommendation is to have one Linux machine be the "file server" and
have it run both NFS and Samba Servers and then the other systems all mount
it's file structure and keep as much storage on that file server. Obviously
that recommendation is only good if you've got the spare space on the file
server.
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Re: The Great Shared Directory Dilemma

2012-10-18 Thread Stephen 
I have an Ubuntu Machine sharing out an ext4 share and it runs like a
champ. However it is a completely unrestricted share and i cheat and
use webmin to manage it. I like webmin because it doesn't do
everything for you. it just breaks down config files in a nice way.
but it was pretty handy.

In my shares case i set the share to use a specific user for local
file permissions then allowed guest access and it was a go. was very
simple.

On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 6:31 AM, Wayne Davis  wrote:
> Ever since I have started using Linux, I have NEVER been able to figure out
> how to share directories of different computers on the network.
>
> Ive wanted to share NTFS and EXT4 directories amongst several machines.
>
>
> Pointers anyone?  I really need to resolve this as it is rapidly becoming
> necessary to do so.
>
> I am using Kubuntu 12.04 and Win7 machines (more than one of each)
>
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Re: Question about linux and AMD based chipsets/onboard raid

2012-10-18 Thread Dazed_75 
You said you were installing ubuntu to the independent drive (and one of
the messages indicates sdb), but where is it putting GRUB?  You may need to
use the advanced option to place GRUB on that same drive.  Sorry, I don't
know what screen the option is on during install but it used to be in the
lower right corner.  Seems like it would be on the screen where you accept
all the changes before actually proceeding with the install.

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 7:42 PM, Stephen  wrote:

> I have an AMD based chiset and i am trying to get ubuntu to boot right
> now and it is stalling, and i am having trouble ironing out what is
> going on.
>
> I have onbaord raid drives attached to the onboard raid chipset
> (SB710) however i am not intending to install to those drives the
> drive i wish to install to is actually a SATA connected single drive
> but i am having the worst time getting Ubuntu 12.04 to even finish its
> boot cycle. and im not getting allot of feedback.
>
> The errors i am getting are ata_id[336]: HDIO_GET_IDENTITY failed for
> '/dev/sdb': Invalid argument
> - this is with all Raid disks disconnected and raid turned off in
> bios. just a single SATA HDD
>
> I get one of the two following errors if i have raid disks attached
>
> A similar entry as above comes up or i get
> udevd[167] inotify_add_watch(6, /dev/dm-1, 10) failed: No Such file or
> directory
>
> the most promising option i have so far is booting with nodmraid but
> it seems to just hang and go no place after detecting my CDrom devices
>
> This is rather perplexing overall.
>
> Ideally i would like my 2 onboard raids to be connected running
> windows and then let linux run amok on my extra sata hdd but it either
> is really pissed off in a way i cannot figure out or it really does
> not like that port.
>
> Anyone have any thoughts?
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Re: The Great Shared Directory Dilemma

2012-10-18 Thread Kevin Fries 
I like using Webmin to manage the server and GOsa to manage users in a
mixed environment
On Oct 18, 2012 8:05 AM, "Stephen"  wrote:

> I have an Ubuntu Machine sharing out an ext4 share and it runs like a
> champ. However it is a completely unrestricted share and i cheat and
> use webmin to manage it. I like webmin because it doesn't do
> everything for you. it just breaks down config files in a nice way.
> but it was pretty handy.
>
> In my shares case i set the share to use a specific user for local
> file permissions then allowed guest access and it was a go. was very
> simple.
>
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 6:31 AM, Wayne Davis 
> wrote:
> > Ever since I have started using Linux, I have NEVER been able to figure
> out
> > how to share directories of different computers on the network.
> >
> > Ive wanted to share NTFS and EXT4 directories amongst several machines.
> >
> >
> > Pointers anyone?  I really need to resolve this as it is rapidly becoming
> > necessary to do so.
> >
> > I am using Kubuntu 12.04 and Win7 machines (more than one of each)
> >
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Re: The Great Shared Directory Dilemma

2012-10-18 Thread Matt Graham 
From: Kevin Fries 
> But on the Linux machines, make sure smbfs is installed.  This will
> allow the Linux boxes to simply mount the samba share the same way
> it mounts NFS.

smbfs is deprecated and should not be used.  Its replacement is cifs.  Like
so:

mount -t cifs //BORG/SHARE /mnt/borg -o domain=WORKGROUP,user=JOEBOB

...will find the share SHARE on the machine BORG and attempt to mount it on
mountpoint /mnt/borg using the user JOEBOB from domain WORKGROUP.  It'll ask
you for a password if one's required.  You may be able to leave the domain=
off if your 'Doze network doesn't use domains.

IME, NFS is faster than Samba, which may be something to think about.

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Re: The Great Shared Directory Dilemma

2012-10-18 Thread Kevin Fries 
Old habits die hard, cifs is what I ment.  I find SMB/CIFS to be more
reliable than NFS.  Spent far too often fixing Stale NFS handles, but
almost never a crashed Samba server.   NFS4 is much better than NFS3, but
still crashes far too often for my liking.

Speed for stability... age old argument huh?

Kevin
On Oct 18, 2012 8:57 AM, "Matt Graham"  wrote:

> From: Kevin Fries
> > But on the Linux machines, make sure smbfs is installed.  This will
> > allow the Linux boxes to simply mount the samba share the same way
> > it mounts NFS.
>
> smbfs is deprecated and should not be used.  Its replacement is cifs.  Like
> so:
>
> mount -t cifs //BORG/SHARE /mnt/borg -o domain=WORKGROUP,user=JOEBOB
>
> ...will find the share SHARE on the machine BORG and attempt to mount it on
> mountpoint /mnt/borg using the user JOEBOB from domain WORKGROUP.  It'll
> ask
> you for a password if one's required.  You may be able to leave the domain=
> off if your 'Doze network doesn't use domains.
>
> IME, NFS is faster than Samba, which may be something to think about.
>
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Reiserfs

2012-10-18 Thread Derek Trotter 
I noticed when I installed the latest kubuntu a couple of weeks ago that 
reiserfs was one of the options to use for formatting the partition.   
Does it have some advantage over newer filesystems? Or is it there 
because it's been around for several years?
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Re: Reiserfs

2012-10-18 Thread Matt Graham 
From: Derek Trotter
> I noticed when I installed the latest kubuntu a couple of weeks ago
> that reiserfs was one of the options to use for formatting the
> partition.   Does it have some advantage over newer filesystems? Or
> is it there because it's been around for several years?

There are theoretical advantages to using reiserfs if you've got a huge number
of small files.  I didn't notice any difference in performance between
reiserfs and ext3 when I had partitions of both types on the same system,
though.  Reports from the trenches say that if you've got filesystem
corruption, then reiserfsck has a greater chance of totally hosing everything
than e2fsck does.  The one time I had to use reiserfsck, it recovered
everything, but that's just me.

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OT Anyone else remember this?

2012-10-18 Thread Dazed_75 
I sure remember it.  No chance I could have afforded it back then, but I
did want one.

http://www.howtogeek.com/126846/retro-ad-10-mb-hard-drive-for-3398-image


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Re: OT Anyone else remember this?

2012-10-18 Thread Brian Cluff 
If only you could send all the old junk that is too slow and too small 
to use by todays standards back in time to yourself, you would look like 
a computing god to everyone else.


I have a picture from the early 90's of the server rack, which was 
completely full, for cdrom.com that they were showing around because 
they were so proud of the fact that they had a whole terabyte of 
storage.  That amount of space seemed unimaginable at the time, 
especially since if I remember right that my computer had a 105MB HD at 
that time.  Times have changed and now I have around 20TB of storage in 
my house... and climbing, and I suspect that it another 20 years I'll be 
laughing about how we ever got along with only terabytes of storage 
because I'll have some sort of solid state drive on my keychain that 
holds terabytes.


Brian Cluff

On 10/18/2012 09:00 AM, Dazed_75 wrote:

I sure remember it.  No chance I could have afforded it back then, but I
did want one.

http://www.howtogeek.com/126846/retro-ad-10-mb-hard-drive-for-3398-image


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Re: OT Anyone else remember this?

2012-10-18 Thread Derek Trotter 

That one and several others are here.
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/vintage-tech-ads/

There's and ad for those old hard drives the size of washing machines 
where you take the platters out.  Also a 26MB hard drive you can have 
for the low price of $4995.


Then there this one at http://oldcomputers.net/ibm5100.html

IBM Portable PC
Model:5100
Introduced:September, 1975
Price:US $19,975 w/ 64K RAM
Weight:55 pounds
CPU:IBM proprietary, 1.9MHz
RAM:16K, 64K max
Display:5" monochrome monitor
64 X 16 text
Storage:Internal 200K tape (DC300)
Ports:tape / printer I/O port
OS:APL and/or BASIC
Serial #:
BASIC:  10-11503
APL: 10-13616


On 10/18/2012 9:00 AM, Dazed_75 wrote:
I sure remember it.  No chance I could have afforded it back then, but 
I did want one.


http://www.howtogeek.com/126846/retro-ad-10-mb-hard-drive-for-3398-image


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Re: Reiserfs

2012-10-18 Thread Michael Butash 
I ran reiserfs for _everything_ I did up to about 2yr ago switching to 
ext4 once Reiser was sentenced and likely never going to write code 
again.  In that time I never once had fs corruption occur to lose data, 
and only don't think once I had to repair a file system with reiser. 
Performance was lacking as others were still evolving where it had 
stopped, so I moved on begrudgingly.


That was in days that laptop bios was dubious contributors to unclean 
shutdowns/suspends and other ugliness, so I was quite impressed with it.


Flip side, ext4 has been caused me more corruption than I care to admit 
or know, having to a few times single-user a box to manually fsck it.  I 
get lots of dubious oddities I attribute to the fs, but could also be 
the (crappy) ssd's, as that was about the time I switched to using them 
too.  I layer encryption, lvm, and raid enough that I lose trim ability, 
so not sure how much that factors into it.  All in all I consider going 
back to reiser occasionally in frustration...


Side note, I saw just yesterday development is actually still ongoing 
with reiser4, as his work is being carried on by another 
contributor/employee of reiser's old company making progress.  I 
somewhat plan on going btrfs to lose the lvm/raid layering done with 
lvm2 and md today (and get trim/protest ext4 pissing me off), but if not 
that, I might try reiser4 at some point for grins.  Any one else brave 
enough to run it on a machine they use yet?


-mb


On 10/18/2012 09:00 AM, Matt Graham wrote:

From: Derek Trotter

I noticed when I installed the latest kubuntu a couple of weeks ago
that reiserfs was one of the options to use for formatting the
partition.   Does it have some advantage over newer filesystems? Or
is it there because it's been around for several years?


There are theoretical advantages to using reiserfs if you've got a huge number
of small files.  I didn't notice any difference in performance between
reiserfs and ext3 when I had partitions of both types on the same system,
though.  Reports from the trenches say that if you've got filesystem
corruption, then reiserfsck has a greater chance of totally hosing everything
than e2fsck does.  The one time I had to use reiserfsck, it recovered
everything, but that's just me.


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Re: Reiserfs

2012-10-18 Thread Derek Trotter 


On 10/18/2012 10:57 AM, Michael Butash wrote:
I ran reiserfs for _everything_ I did up to about 2yr ago switching to 
ext4 once Reiser was sentenced and likely never going to write code 
again.  In that time I never once had fs corruption occur to lose 
data, and only don't think once I had to repair a file system with 
reiser. Performance was lacking as others were still evolving where it 
had stopped, so I moved on begrudgingly.


I do recall reading something a few years ago about Reiser getting in 
trouble for executing an illegal command.  As I recall it was kill -9 wife.


snip

Side note, I saw just yesterday development is actually still ongoing 
with reiser4, as his work is being carried on by another 
contributor/employee of reiser's old company making progress.  I 
somewhat plan on going btrfs to lose the lvm/raid layering done with 
lvm2 and md today (and get trim/protest ext4 pissing me off), but if 
not that, I might try reiser4 at some point for grins.  Any one else 
brave enough to run it on a machine they use yet?


I may give it a try one of these days.  I do have the free disk space 
available so I could resize an existing partition to create a 500MB or 
so reiser4 partition.  When I do, I'll put stuff on it that I have a 
copy of elsewhere.  That will give me something to do one evening this week.

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Re: Question about linux and AMD based chipsets/onboard raid

2012-10-18 Thread Michael Butash 
Do you have any flash drives or anything connected it's getting confused 
with?  Occasionally my computer will reboot with a few flash drives I 
have I forget can/are bootable and my system will boot foreignly 
freaking me out for 2 seconds until I scowl and disconnect the flash. 
When I don't, I go on a goose chase forgetting about it, and usually 
ends up a flash disk plugged in somewhere.


Otherwise I'll say your system is still seeing the disks and trying to 
boot a raw partition vs using the fakeraid labels.  Windoze loves mbr, 
linux tends to be partition based with supersector, add in fakeraid, and 
I never had a good time trying.  The os usually still sees the disks 
present, so wouldn't surprise me if the bootloader and kernel get them 
confused in reference as udev builds device resources.  Might need to 
hack around with udev to NOT see them if the bios doesn't have an option 
to hide them entirely (or fix a bug potentially not hiding them).


I insisted on raid1 for both, what usually worked for me was using linux 
first, or your /boot partition first, then windoze, then another 
partition as a lvm for ubuntu.  If windoze is first, it always screws 
with it, aside from just frying your mbr.  As long as the first 
partition is neutral, they seem to both behave.  I made the raid disk 
partition a first 200mb slice to use for /boot first, second a win 
partition, third linux.  Partition the three with a bootable linux 
cd/flash first to the /dev/mapper/ devices but don't install 
it, reboot/install windoze (xp at least, ymmv above as I don't know), 
then install ubuntu with /boot on first and everything else in the third 
(I do lvm pv here), and install grub to mbr to overwrite windoze's.


This worked reliably with both then until a nforce bios update incident 
changed the uuid hash for it and breaking grub and windoze from booting. 
 I was not amused, and put a knife into ever using fakeraid again. 
Google the term and you'll read the hate stories too rife with issues. 
By that point I used only ubuntu anyways, so just ran software raid 
since mostly reliably.


Windoze lives in a vm entirely for me nowadays, but then again I don't 
game on it either, so I can.  Vbox 3d drivers in win vm are still poop 
and made the host unstable for me to try and game.  Only purpose I has 
for windoze was games and visio, visio works dandy in 2d.  Rest I have 
consoles for, though I can't do fps without wsad and a mouse for the 
life of me.


-mb


On 10/18/2012 07:30 AM, Dazed_75 wrote:

You said you were installing ubuntu to the independent drive (and one of
the messages indicates sdb), but where is it putting GRUB?  You may need
to use the advanced option to place GRUB on that same drive.  Sorry, I
don't know what screen the option is on during install but it used to be
in the lower right corner.  Seems like it would be on the screen where
you accept all the changes before actually proceeding with the install.

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 7:42 PM, Stephen mailto:cryptwo...@gmail.com>> wrote:

I have an AMD based chiset and i am trying to get ubuntu to boot right
now and it is stalling, and i am having trouble ironing out what is
going on.

I have onbaord raid drives attached to the onboard raid chipset
(SB710) however i am not intending to install to those drives the
drive i wish to install to is actually a SATA connected single drive
but i am having the worst time getting Ubuntu 12.04 to even finish its
boot cycle. and im not getting allot of feedback.

The errors i am getting are ata_id[336]: HDIO_GET_IDENTITY failed for
'/dev/sdb': Invalid argument
- this is with all Raid disks disconnected and raid turned off in
bios. just a single SATA HDD

I get one of the two following errors if i have raid disks attached

A similar entry as above comes up or i get
udevd[167] inotify_add_watch(6, /dev/dm-1, 10) failed: No Such file
or directory

the most promising option i have so far is booting with nodmraid but
it seems to just hang and go no place after detecting my CDrom devices

This is rather perplexing overall.

Ideally i would like my 2 onboard raids to be connected running
windows and then let linux run amok on my extra sata hdd but it either
is really pissed off in a way i cannot figure out or it really does
not like that port.

Anyone have any thoughts?
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Re: Reiserfs

2012-10-18 Thread Brian Cluff 
There used to be some advantages, but most of the file systems have seen 
upgrades too, so they aren't as apparent as they used to be.  These days 
if you watch spiffy new features in your file system look at BTRFS.  All 
eyes are on that for the next generation of standard linux file system. 
 I believe that it is also an option when installing a new system. 
I've considered doing an install with it just so that I can play with 
it's snapshotting features.


Brian

On 10/18/2012 08:49 AM, Derek Trotter wrote:

I noticed when I installed the latest kubuntu a couple of weeks ago that
reiserfs was one of the options to use for formatting the partition.
Does it have some advantage over newer filesystems? Or is it there
because it's been around for several years?


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Re: Question about linux and AMD based chipsets/onboard raid

2012-10-18 Thread Brian Cluff 
The fact that the device mapper is getting involved with the drive leads 
me to believe that the drive was part of a raid, or at least configured 
by your raid controller at one time and there is now a superblock on it 
that is messing up everything.
You'll probably need to zero out that superblock before things will 
start to behave correctly.


Brian Cluff

On 10/17/2012 07:42 PM, Stephen wrote:

I have an AMD based chiset and i am trying to get ubuntu to boot right
now and it is stalling, and i am having trouble ironing out what is
going on.

I have onbaord raid drives attached to the onboard raid chipset
(SB710) however i am not intending to install to those drives the
drive i wish to install to is actually a SATA connected single drive
but i am having the worst time getting Ubuntu 12.04 to even finish its
boot cycle. and im not getting allot of feedback.

The errors i am getting are ata_id[336]: HDIO_GET_IDENTITY failed for
'/dev/sdb': Invalid argument
- this is with all Raid disks disconnected and raid turned off in
bios. just a single SATA HDD

I get one of the two following errors if i have raid disks attached

A similar entry as above comes up or i get
udevd[167] inotify_add_watch(6, /dev/dm-1, 10) failed: No Such file or directory

the most promising option i have so far is booting with nodmraid but
it seems to just hang and go no place after detecting my CDrom devices

This is rather perplexing overall.

Ideally i would like my 2 onboard raids to be connected running
windows and then let linux run amok on my extra sata hdd but it either
is really pissed off in a way i cannot figure out or it really does
not like that port.

Anyone have any thoughts?



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Re: Question about linux and AMD based chipsets/onboard raid

2012-10-18 Thread Stephen 
well  4 of the 6 drives involved are actively part of a raid. the one
i am using for Linux was already 0ed for that very reason, i do still
have a usb HDD still attached so i will try disconnecting that.

odd thing is i was able to boot a 10.10x64 no issue and installed
there and have been doing dist-upgrades to current. i will take a 2nd
look but its is really puzzling.

I will certainly have to keep an eye out. I haven't even figured out
how i'm going to configure grub yet to get multiple boot set up. i may
leave it ghetto and just use bios.

On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Brian Cluff  wrote:
> The fact that the device mapper is getting involved with the drive leads me
> to believe that the drive was part of a raid, or at least configured by your
> raid controller at one time and there is now a superblock on it that is
> messing up everything.
> You'll probably need to zero out that superblock before things will start to
> behave correctly.
>
> Brian Cluff
>
>
> On 10/17/2012 07:42 PM, Stephen wrote:
>>
>> I have an AMD based chiset and i am trying to get ubuntu to boot right
>> now and it is stalling, and i am having trouble ironing out what is
>> going on.
>>
>> I have onbaord raid drives attached to the onboard raid chipset
>> (SB710) however i am not intending to install to those drives the
>> drive i wish to install to is actually a SATA connected single drive
>> but i am having the worst time getting Ubuntu 12.04 to even finish its
>> boot cycle. and im not getting allot of feedback.
>>
>> The errors i am getting are ata_id[336]: HDIO_GET_IDENTITY failed for
>> '/dev/sdb': Invalid argument
>> - this is with all Raid disks disconnected and raid turned off in
>> bios. just a single SATA HDD
>>
>> I get one of the two following errors if i have raid disks attached
>>
>> A similar entry as above comes up or i get
>> udevd[167] inotify_add_watch(6, /dev/dm-1, 10) failed: No Such file or
>> directory
>>
>> the most promising option i have so far is booting with nodmraid but
>> it seems to just hang and go no place after detecting my CDrom devices
>>
>> This is rather perplexing overall.
>>
>> Ideally i would like my 2 onboard raids to be connected running
>> windows and then let linux run amok on my extra sata hdd but it either
>> is really pissed off in a way i cannot figure out or it really does
>> not like that port.
>>
>> Anyone have any thoughts?
>>
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Re: The Great Shared Directory Dilemma

2012-10-18 Thread Wayne Davis 

WOW, look at all the responses!

So, I run win 7 Pro.  This "cifs" thing looks like the way to go. But 
I'm a bit cloudy.
Is CIFS being used as a transport mechanism to and from the network even 
though i'm "mounting" it?


and NFS would NOT be usable in this case... right?


What I need is some directories on each machine to be visible to every 
other machine, _*and*_ one directory in ALL machines visible to ONE.



on 10/18/2012 07:57 AM, Matt Graham wrote:

From: Kevin Fries

But on the Linux machines, make sure smbfs is installed.  This will
allow the Linux boxes to simply mount the samba share the same way
it mounts NFS.

smbfs is deprecated and should not be used.  Its replacement is cifs.  Like
so:

mount -t cifs //BORG/SHARE /mnt/borg -o domain=WORKGROUP,user=JOEBOB

...will find the share SHARE on the machine BORG and attempt to mount it on
mountpoint /mnt/borg using the user JOEBOB from domain WORKGROUP.  It'll ask
you for a password if one's required.  You may be able to leave the domain=
off if your 'Doze network doesn't use domains.

IME, NFS is faster than Samba, which may be something to think about.



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Re: The Great Shared Directory Dilemma

2012-10-18 Thread Matt Graham 
From: Wayne Davis 
> So, I run win 7 Pro.  This "cifs" thing looks like the way to go. But 
> is CIFS being used as a transport mechanism to and from the network even 
> though i'm mounting it?

CIFS is a network protocol.  mount.cifs and the cifs kernel module provide a
way for communications to/from a CIFS-running machine to talk to the kernel's
VFS, and make those networking comms look a whole lot like a regular
filesystem on a Linux machine.  The Samba daemon (smbd) on Linux resides in
userspace, listens on ports 137..139, speaks SMB or CIFS to clients, and
reads/writes a filesystem in response to the stuff in /etc/samba/smb.conf . 
Basically, mount.cifs allows a Linux box to read/write stuff on
//MACHINE/SHARE .  Samba allows a Linux box to provide CIFS services to other
Windows/Linux/OS X machines.

> and NFS would NOT be usable in this case... right?

'Doze doesn't speak NFS out of the box.  It will probably be easier to use
Samba and mount.cifs if there are one or more Windows machines in the mix
here.

> What I need is some directories on each machine to be visible to every 
> other machine, _*and*_ one directory in ALL machines visible to ONE.

You'll need to set up Samba such that it does that, then.  There are *a lot*
of options you can set in smb.conf , but it doesn't sound like you're doing
anything really complicated, so one of the Samba frontends like webmin could
make it reasonably easy for you to do this.

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Re: The Great Shared Directory Dilemma

2012-10-18 Thread Ed 
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 6:31 AM, Wayne Davis  wrote:
> Ever since I have started using Linux, I have NEVER been able to figure out
> how to share directories of different computers on the network.
>
> Ive wanted to share NTFS and EXT4 directories amongst several machines.
>
>
> Pointers anyone?  I really need to resolve this as it is rapidly becoming
> necessary to do so.
>
> I am using Kubuntu 12.04 and Win7 machines (more than one of each)
>

I like Webdav - it mounts as a directory in most file
managers/exploreres on any OS and I've never had ownership issues -
and it doesn't crash. Caution - do not expose to internet and you can
fill a partition if you don't pay attention - put it in it's own
partition.
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Re: Question about linux and AMD based chipsets/onboard raid

2012-10-18 Thread Brian Cluff 
Did you zero the drive all the way to the end, or just the first part. 
Also maybe you zeroed the partition and not the drive? Many of the raid 
superblocks are at the very end of the drive, and it would still be 
catching them if you haven't done the whole thing.


I really think this is whats happening since the Device Mapper is trying 
to grab hold of it.


Brian Cluff

On 10/18/2012 12:50 PM, Stephen wrote:

well  4 of the 6 drives involved are actively part of a raid. the one
i am using for Linux was already 0ed for that very reason, i do still
have a usb HDD still attached so i will try disconnecting that.

odd thing is i was able to boot a 10.10x64 no issue and installed
there and have been doing dist-upgrades to current. i will take a 2nd
look but its is really puzzling.

I will certainly have to keep an eye out. I haven't even figured out
how i'm going to configure grub yet to get multiple boot set up. i may
leave it ghetto and just use bios.

On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Brian Cluff  wrote:

The fact that the device mapper is getting involved with the drive leads me
to believe that the drive was part of a raid, or at least configured by your
raid controller at one time and there is now a superblock on it that is
messing up everything.
You'll probably need to zero out that superblock before things will start to
behave correctly.

Brian Cluff


On 10/17/2012 07:42 PM, Stephen wrote:


I have an AMD based chiset and i am trying to get ubuntu to boot right
now and it is stalling, and i am having trouble ironing out what is
going on.

I have onbaord raid drives attached to the onboard raid chipset
(SB710) however i am not intending to install to those drives the
drive i wish to install to is actually a SATA connected single drive
but i am having the worst time getting Ubuntu 12.04 to even finish its
boot cycle. and im not getting allot of feedback.

The errors i am getting are ata_id[336]: HDIO_GET_IDENTITY failed for
'/dev/sdb': Invalid argument
- this is with all Raid disks disconnected and raid turned off in
bios. just a single SATA HDD

I get one of the two following errors if i have raid disks attached

A similar entry as above comes up or i get
udevd[167] inotify_add_watch(6, /dev/dm-1, 10) failed: No Such file or
directory

the most promising option i have so far is booting with nodmraid but
it seems to just hang and go no place after detecting my CDrom devices

This is rather perplexing overall.

Ideally i would like my 2 onboard raids to be connected running
windows and then let linux run amok on my extra sata hdd but it either
is really pissed off in a way i cannot figure out or it really does
not like that port.

Anyone have any thoughts?



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Re: Question about linux and AMD based chipsets/onboard raid

2012-10-18 Thread Stephen 
Generally i run the quick zero which is the first and last 300mb i hiess
the next step is finding a home for the data and the 10+ hours to zero the
long way.
On Oct 18, 2012 6:45 PM, "Brian Cluff"  wrote:

> Did you zero the drive all the way to the end, or just the first part.
> Also maybe you zeroed the partition and not the drive? Many of the raid
> superblocks are at the very end of the drive, and it would still be
> catching them if you haven't done the whole thing.
>
> I really think this is whats happening since the Device Mapper is trying
> to grab hold of it.
>
> Brian Cluff
>
> On 10/18/2012 12:50 PM, Stephen wrote:
>
>> well  4 of the 6 drives involved are actively part of a raid. the one
>> i am using for Linux was already 0ed for that very reason, i do still
>> have a usb HDD still attached so i will try disconnecting that.
>>
>> odd thing is i was able to boot a 10.10x64 no issue and installed
>> there and have been doing dist-upgrades to current. i will take a 2nd
>> look but its is really puzzling.
>>
>> I will certainly have to keep an eye out. I haven't even figured out
>> how i'm going to configure grub yet to get multiple boot set up. i may
>> leave it ghetto and just use bios.
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Brian Cluff  wrote:
>>
>>> The fact that the device mapper is getting involved with the drive leads
>>> me
>>> to believe that the drive was part of a raid, or at least configured by
>>> your
>>> raid controller at one time and there is now a superblock on it that is
>>> messing up everything.
>>> You'll probably need to zero out that superblock before things will
>>> start to
>>> behave correctly.
>>>
>>> Brian Cluff
>>>
>>>
>>> On 10/17/2012 07:42 PM, Stephen wrote:
>>>

 I have an AMD based chiset and i am trying to get ubuntu to boot right
 now and it is stalling, and i am having trouble ironing out what is
 going on.

 I have onbaord raid drives attached to the onboard raid chipset
 (SB710) however i am not intending to install to those drives the
 drive i wish to install to is actually a SATA connected single drive
 but i am having the worst time getting Ubuntu 12.04 to even finish its
 boot cycle. and im not getting allot of feedback.

 The errors i am getting are ata_id[336]: HDIO_GET_IDENTITY failed for
 '/dev/sdb': Invalid argument
 - this is with all Raid disks disconnected and raid turned off in
 bios. just a single SATA HDD

 I get one of the two following errors if i have raid disks attached

 A similar entry as above comes up or i get
 udevd[167] inotify_add_watch(6, /dev/dm-1, 10) failed: No Such file or
 directory

 the most promising option i have so far is booting with nodmraid but
 it seems to just hang and go no place after detecting my CDrom devices

 This is rather perplexing overall.

 Ideally i would like my 2 onboard raids to be connected running
 windows and then let linux run amok on my extra sata hdd but it either
 is really pissed off in a way i cannot figure out or it really does
 not like that port.

 Anyone have any thoughts?


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Re: Question about linux and AMD based chipsets/onboard raid

2012-10-18 Thread Brian Cluff 
H, that should have been good enough, but I guess they could have 
put it in the middle.  It's not unheard of.


Like I said, something is triggering that device mapper on your drive, 
so there has to be something on the drive that it likes.


Brian Cluff

On 10/18/2012 07:04 PM, Stephen wrote:

Generally i run the quick zero which is the first and last 300mb i hiess
the next step is finding a home for the data and the 10+ hours to zero
the long way.

On Oct 18, 2012 6:45 PM, "Brian Cluff" mailto:br...@snaptek.com>> wrote:

Did you zero the drive all the way to the end, or just the first
part. Also maybe you zeroed the partition and not the drive? Many of
the raid superblocks are at the very end of the drive, and it would
still be catching them if you haven't done the whole thing.

I really think this is whats happening since the Device Mapper is
trying to grab hold of it.

Brian Cluff

On 10/18/2012 12:50 PM, Stephen wrote:

well  4 of the 6 drives involved are actively part of a raid.
the one
i am using for Linux was already 0ed for that very reason, i do
still
have a usb HDD still attached so i will try disconnecting that.

odd thing is i was able to boot a 10.10x64 no issue and installed
there and have been doing dist-upgrades to current. i will take
a 2nd
look but its is really puzzling.

I will certainly have to keep an eye out. I haven't even figured out
how i'm going to configure grub yet to get multiple boot set up.
i may
leave it ghetto and just use bios.

On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Brian Cluff mailto:br...@snaptek.com>> wrote:

The fact that the device mapper is getting involved with the
drive leads me
to believe that the drive was part of a raid, or at least
configured by your
raid controller at one time and there is now a superblock on
it that is
messing up everything.
You'll probably need to zero out that superblock before
things will start to
behave correctly.

Brian Cluff


On 10/17/2012 07:42 PM, Stephen wrote:


I have an AMD based chiset and i am trying to get ubuntu
to boot right
now and it is stalling, and i am having trouble ironing
out what is
going on.

I have onbaord raid drives attached to the onboard raid
chipset
(SB710) however i am not intending to install to those
drives the
drive i wish to install to is actually a SATA connected
single drive
but i am having the worst time getting Ubuntu 12.04 to
even finish its
boot cycle. and im not getting allot of feedback.

The errors i am getting are ata_id[336]:
HDIO_GET_IDENTITY failed for
'/dev/sdb': Invalid argument
- this is with all Raid disks disconnected and raid
turned off in
bios. just a single SATA HDD

I get one of the two following errors if i have raid
disks attached

A similar entry as above comes up or i get
udevd[167] inotify_add_watch(6, /dev/dm-1, 10) failed:
No Such file or
directory

the most promising option i have so far is booting with
nodmraid but
it seems to just hang and go no place after detecting my
CDrom devices

This is rather perplexing overall.

Ideally i would like my 2 onboard raids to be connected
running
windows and then let linux run amok on my extra sata hdd
but it either
is really pissed off in a way i cannot figure out or it
really does
not like that port.

Anyone have any thoughts?


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Re: Question about linux and AMD based chipsets/onboard raid

2012-10-18 Thread Stephen 
Funny thing is 10.10, 11.4, and 11.10 were fine with the array's in place
once 12.4 made the rounds it fell over. If i knew more about grub and udev
i could probably bring it back up.
On Oct 18, 2012 7:28 PM, "Brian Cluff"  wrote:

> H, that should have been good enough, but I guess they could have put
> it in the middle.  It's not unheard of.
>
> Like I said, something is triggering that device mapper on your drive, so
> there has to be something on the drive that it likes.
>
> Brian Cluff
>
> On 10/18/2012 07:04 PM, Stephen wrote:
>
>> Generally i run the quick zero which is the first and last 300mb i hiess
>> the next step is finding a home for the data and the 10+ hours to zero
>> the long way.
>>
>> On Oct 18, 2012 6:45 PM, "Brian Cluff" > > wrote:
>>
>> Did you zero the drive all the way to the end, or just the first
>> part. Also maybe you zeroed the partition and not the drive? Many of
>> the raid superblocks are at the very end of the drive, and it would
>> still be catching them if you haven't done the whole thing.
>>
>> I really think this is whats happening since the Device Mapper is
>> trying to grab hold of it.
>>
>> Brian Cluff
>>
>> On 10/18/2012 12:50 PM, Stephen wrote:
>>
>> well  4 of the 6 drives involved are actively part of a raid.
>> the one
>> i am using for Linux was already 0ed for that very reason, i do
>> still
>> have a usb HDD still attached so i will try disconnecting that.
>>
>> odd thing is i was able to boot a 10.10x64 no issue and installed
>> there and have been doing dist-upgrades to current. i will take
>> a 2nd
>> look but its is really puzzling.
>>
>> I will certainly have to keep an eye out. I haven't even figured
>> out
>> how i'm going to configure grub yet to get multiple boot set up.
>> i may
>> leave it ghetto and just use bios.
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Brian Cluff > > wrote:
>>
>> The fact that the device mapper is getting involved with the
>> drive leads me
>> to believe that the drive was part of a raid, or at least
>> configured by your
>> raid controller at one time and there is now a superblock on
>> it that is
>> messing up everything.
>> You'll probably need to zero out that superblock before
>> things will start to
>> behave correctly.
>>
>> Brian Cluff
>>
>>
>> On 10/17/2012 07:42 PM, Stephen wrote:
>>
>>
>> I have an AMD based chiset and i am trying to get ubuntu
>> to boot right
>> now and it is stalling, and i am having trouble ironing
>> out what is
>> going on.
>>
>> I have onbaord raid drives attached to the onboard raid
>> chipset
>> (SB710) however i am not intending to install to those
>> drives the
>> drive i wish to install to is actually a SATA connected
>> single drive
>> but i am having the worst time getting Ubuntu 12.04 to
>> even finish its
>> boot cycle. and im not getting allot of feedback.
>>
>> The errors i am getting are ata_id[336]:
>> HDIO_GET_IDENTITY failed for
>> '/dev/sdb': Invalid argument
>> - this is with all Raid disks disconnected and raid
>> turned off in
>> bios. just a single SATA HDD
>>
>> I get one of the two following errors if i have raid
>> disks attached
>>
>> A similar entry as above comes up or i get
>> udevd[167] inotify_add_watch(6, /dev/dm-1, 10) failed:
>> No Such file or
>> directory
>>
>> the most promising option i have so far is booting with
>> nodmraid but
>> it seems to just hang and go no place after detecting my
>> CDrom devices
>>
>> This is rather perplexing overall.
>>
>> Ideally i would like my 2 onboard raids to be connected
>> running
>> windows and then let linux run amok on my extra sata hdd
>> but it either
>> is really pissed off in a way i cannot figure out or it
>> really does
>> not like that port.
>>
>> Anyone have any thoughts?
>>
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mk802, g-82

2012-10-18 Thread der.hans 

moin moin,

Brian had a mk802 at Stammtisch Tuesday. We've talked about it a few
times.

http://www.ovalelephant.com/p-2074-mk802-v2-curved-kangaroo-android-mini-pc-allwinner-a10-1gb-cpu-4gb-flash

I found claims that another device is much better.

http://www.ovalelephant.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=2077

Looks to me like dual-core and faster CPU is the advantage for the g-82.
Same amount of memory, still a card slot, same ports.

The spec listing there for the g-82 only lists 1080p, but it can do lower
resolution stuff as well?

What is 2160p? Is that going to 11?

Aside from the toy potential, what I really need is a simplified media
interface for an alzheimers patient. I need to be able to get over the air
broadcast. I would like to have a picture gallery and a movie archive ( I
can rip the person's DVDs elsewhere and just move the files ).

I absolutely need a simple, single remote that will do the right thing for
volume, channel changes, etc. completely transparently to the user. I
don't need big buttons, but I suppose they don't hurt.

http://www.bigbuttonremotes.com/remotes-tekpal.htm

That might have to do, but I'd like to also be able to use a couple of
menus.

http://www.bigbuttonremotes.com/remotes-tekpartner.htm

That one looks like it should launch missiles :).

This one has promise.

http://www.oneforall.com/us_US/product/67/oark02r

If I can connect a cable modem, then that's a bonus. Video chat and remote
sysadm are the reasons for wanting an Internet connection.

Being able to load a normal distro isn't a requirement, but pretty close
to being a requirement.

ciao,

der.hans
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