Re: [arch-general] My first convert isn't going so well. Problems with net install.

2009-09-08 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 20:01, David C. Rankin wrote: > Listmates, > >        One of my friends from the openSuSE list was trying his first > archilinux > install and ran into an issue. IWell, my first attempt at installing Arch > Linux did not go well. Error messages would be helpful.

[arch-general] My first convert isn't going so well. Problems with net install.

2009-09-08 Thread David C. Rankin
Listmates, One of my friends from the openSuSE list was trying his first archilinux install and ran into an issue. IWell, my first attempt at installing Arch Linux did not go well. The net install went OK but when it came to the, I guess, configuration of the system, things went bum-up:

Re: [arch-general] Maximum JFS file (not filesytem) size

2009-09-08 Thread Dwight Schauer
Thanks Guus. [Guus wrote: Also, is there anything in the kernel messages (dmesg) that gives a clue?] This is looking like a hard drive (most likely), ata controller, or ata driver issue as: dd if=a4b4.tar skip=123166576 of=/dev/null dd: reading `a4b4.tar': Input/output error 0+0 records in 0+0 r

Re: [arch-general] Maximum JFS file (not filesytem) size

2009-09-08 Thread Guus Snijders
2009/9/8 Dwight Schauer : > Dear fellow Archers, [ 173 GB image of which 63 can be read ] [ dd: reading `a4b4.tar': Input/output error ] Something else you could try is using ddrescue on the file; whereas "dd" stops when it encounters an error, ddrescue will keep trying to read as much as possibl

Re: [arch-general] Assisting Chriss or adopting his CD as a separait project for Arch blind Users

2009-09-08 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Sun, 6 Sep 2009 16:30:00 -0600 Keith Hinton wrote: > Hi, > As one of Chris Branon's friends, and as one who has submitted > valuable feedback, I'd like to see Chrisses CD get more support from > the Arch team leads, etc. I'ld like that too. The reason I didn't do much here is pure lack of tim

Re: [arch-general] Maximum JFS file (not filesytem) size

2009-09-08 Thread Attila
On Tue, 8 Sep 2009 09:27:05 +0200 wrote Anders Bergh: > I just checked, and the max file size in JFS is 4 petabytes. Seems > like you have another problem. Yes, that is what the information from here said: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JFS_(file_system) Perhaps it would be a good idea to give st

Re: [arch-general] Maximum JFS file (not filesytem) size

2009-09-08 Thread Damjan Georgievski
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 05:49, Dwight Schauer wrote: > Dear fellow Archers, > > I tarred up a couple filesystems and piped the tar stream through ssh > to a remote computer where I dd'ed it to a file. This a common backup > method I've been using for a few years now if I'm going to wipe a > system a

[arch-general] Updated PKGBUILD for python-gdata.

2009-09-08 Thread Mike Sampson
Updated PKGBUILD for python-gdata. I administer 25 Google Apps domains and wanted the latest version of this library. EDIT: Forgot the PKGBUILD. Attached. PKGBUILD Description: Binary data

[arch-general] PKGBUILD python-gdata 2.0.2

2009-09-08 Thread Mike Sampson
Updated PKGBUILD for python-gdata. I administer 25 Google Apps domains and wanted the latest version of this library.

Re: [arch-general] Maximum JFS file (not filesytem) size

2009-09-08 Thread Anders Bergh
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 05:49, Dwight Schauer wrote: > Dear fellow Archers, > > I tarred up a couple filesystems and piped the tar stream through ssh > to a remote computer where I dd'ed it to a file. This a common backup > method I've been using for a few years now if I'm going to wipe a > system a

Re: [arch-general] btrfs supported on archlinux

2009-09-08 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Tue, 8 Sep 2009 08:20:42 +0200 Alexander Duscheleit wrote: > You shouldn't [want to] create one from the installation media > at this time, since it's not sane to install anything on it unless > you are a btrfs developer/tester (in which case you are also capable > enough to work around this ;