Re: [arch-general] amd64 systems and archlinux

2012-09-10 Thread Curtis Shimamoto
On 09/10/12 at 04:20am, John Hutchison wrote: > On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 04:29:22AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > I have /dev/sda1 root, /dev/sda2 swap and /dev/sda3 /home. So this is not > > a single partition setup but a three partition setup if you count swap. > Assume for this that /dev/sda

Re: [arch-general] Help mounting Windows drive

2012-09-10 Thread Randy
On 09/10/2012 06:03 PM, Nelson Marambio wrote: Am 10.09.2012 23:56, schrieb Randy: On 09/10/2012 02:51 PM, Daniel Pirek wrote: iirc i mounted my windows shares with WORKGROUP\\Username , have you tried that ? Pi Randy wrote: On 09/09/2012 09:36 PM, rafael ff1 wrote: 2012/9/9 Randy : In

Re: [arch-general] swt - why depends bump to java-runtime>=7?

2012-09-10 Thread Ondřej Kučera
Hi, see https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/31460. Ondřej On 10.9.2012 23:06, David C. Rankin wrote: Guys, Guillaume, Do you know if the recent depends bump in swt is do to an actual break in compatibility with java-runtime 6.x or was it just do to a package support issue? The PKGBUILD was up

Re: [arch-general] Mime backup program

2012-09-10 Thread Leonidas Spyropoulos
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Squall Lionheart wrote: > I have renamed and moved this project to github for those interested. > Thank you for all your help and I have applied most of the suggestions so > far as well as made further improvements. > > https://github.com/headmastersquall/caatinga

Re: [arch-general] Help mounting Windows drive

2012-09-10 Thread Nelson Marambio
Am 10.09.2012 23:56, schrieb Randy: On 09/10/2012 02:51 PM, Daniel Pirek wrote: iirc i mounted my windows shares with WORKGROUP\\Username , have you tried that ? Pi Randy wrote: On 09/09/2012 09:36 PM, rafael ff1 wrote: 2012/9/9 Randy : In the past I have been able to mount my Windows c

Re: [arch-general] Help mounting Windows drive

2012-09-10 Thread Randy
On 09/10/2012 02:51 PM, Daniel Pirek wrote: iirc i mounted my windows shares with WORKGROUP\\Username , have you tried that ? Pi Randy wrote: On 09/09/2012 09:36 PM, rafael ff1 wrote: 2012/9/9 Randy : In the past I have been able to mount my Windows computer using the following command: "

[arch-general] NetworkManager update - problematic for ipw2200

2012-09-10 Thread mike cloaked
I was away for a few days but this evening returned and updated a laptop which has ipw2200 wireless - and the updates included NetworkManager 0.9.6 - after rebooting the machine the wireless connection fails within seconds - despite ifconfig and ifconfig showing a normal connection - this is for a

[arch-general] swt - why depends bump to java-runtime>=7?

2012-09-10 Thread David C. Rankin
Guys, Guillaume, Do you know if the recent depends bump in swt is do to an actual break in compatibility with java-runtime 6.x or was it just do to a package support issue? The PKGBUILD was updated a couple of days ago to: -depends=('java-runtime>=6' 'gtk2>=2.20.1' 'libxtst') +depends=('jav

Re: [arch-general] Help mounting Windows drive

2012-09-10 Thread Daniel Pirek
iirc i mounted my windows shares with WORKGROUP\\Username , have you tried that ? Pi Randy wrote: >On 09/09/2012 09:36 PM, rafael ff1 wrote: >> 2012/9/9 Randy : >>> In the past I have been able to mount my Windows computer using the >>> following command: >>> >>> "mount -t cifs -o username=USE

Re: [arch-general] Help mounting Windows drive

2012-09-10 Thread Tom Rand
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 03:23:27PM +0100, Stephen Martin wrote: > Is /Users a valid share on your system? > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 10 Sep 2012, at 02:25, Randy wrote: > > > > > In the past I have been able to mount my Windows computer using the > > following command: > > > > "mount -t

Re: [arch-general] Mime backup program

2012-09-10 Thread Squall Lionheart
I have renamed and moved this project to github for those interested. Thank you for all your help and I have applied most of the suggestions so far as well as made further improvements. https://github.com/headmastersquall/caatinga -- Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift.

Re: [arch-general] Help mounting Windows drive

2012-09-10 Thread Stephen Martin
Is /Users a valid share on your system? Sent from my iPhone On 10 Sep 2012, at 02:25, Randy wrote: > > In the past I have been able to mount my Windows computer using the following > command: > > "mount -t cifs -o username=USERNAME,password=PASSWORD > //192.168.1.107/Users/gumper /mnt/share

Re: [arch-general] Help mounting Windows drive

2012-09-10 Thread Figue
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 3:25 AM, Randy wrote: > > In the past I have been able to mount my Windows computer using the > following command: > > "mount -t cifs -o username=USERNAME,password=PASSWORD > //192.168.1.107/Users/gumper /mnt/share/" > > Now when I try this I receive the message: > > "Unabl

Re: [arch-general] Help mounting Windows drive

2012-09-10 Thread gt
On Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 09:57:06PM -0400, Randy wrote: > On 09/09/2012 09:36 PM, rafael ff1 wrote: > >2012/9/9 Randy : > >>In the past I have been able to mount my Windows computer using the > >>following command: > >> > >>"mount -t cifs -o username=USERNAME,password=PASSWORD > >>//192.168.1.107/Us

Re: [arch-general] amd64 systems and archlinux

2012-09-10 Thread Kyle
According to Thomas Bächler: Let me also express part of my personal opinion, which others might disagree with: If you wanted high quality software, why did you install GRUB? If you want a decent bootloader, use syslinux. Actually, at least from where I'm sitting, this "personal opinion" has a

Re: [arch-general] amd64 systems and archlinux

2012-09-10 Thread John Hutchison
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 04:29:22AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > I have /dev/sda1 root, /dev/sda2 swap and /dev/sda3 /home. So this is not > a single partition setup but a three partition setup if you count swap. Assume for this that /dev/sda is the bootloader _AND_ the device. As was said before

Re: [arch-general] amd64 systems and archlinux

2012-09-10 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 10.09.2012 10:12, schrieb Jude DaShiell: > I had intended to install grub into mbr on /dev/sda1. I used > --target=i386-pc as provided in the grub-install step and did so with > misgivings since the machine I use is an x86-64 machine. The only x86-64 > target on the arch beginner's guide wa

Re: [arch-general] amd64 systems and archlinux

2012-09-10 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Mon, 10 Sep 2012, Bjoern Franke wrote: > > > > > > I had intended to install grub into mbr on /dev/sda1. I used > > --target=i386-pc as provided in the grub-install step and did so with > > misgivings since the machine I use is an x86-64 machine. The only x86-64 > > target on the arch b

Re: [arch-general] amd64 systems and archlinux

2012-09-10 Thread Bjoern Franke
> > I had intended to install grub into mbr on /dev/sda1. I used > --target=i386-pc as provided in the grub-install step and did so with > misgivings since the machine I use is an x86-64 machine. The only x86-64 > target on the arch beginner's guide was for ufi not bios. A bug like this >

Re: [arch-general] amd64 systems and archlinux

2012-09-10 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Sun, 9 Sep 2012, Curtis Shimamoto wrote: > On 09/09/12 at 11:15pm, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > I am learning more about my hardware doing an archlinux installation on an > > amd k8 athelon system. Apparently grub won't work without use of > > blocklists and it complains that blocklists are unre