Re: [arch-general] how to migrate installs between hard drives?

2009-07-30 Thread Will Siddall
The hd is ext3, the bigdrive is ntfs On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Jan de Groot wrote: > On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 11:23 -0300, Will Siddall wrote: >> Just so everyone knows what I'm doing, here is what I'm doing: >> $ls -al ~ | tail -n 5 >> -rw-r--r-- 1 myusernam

Re: [arch-general] how to migrate installs between hard drives?

2009-07-30 Thread Will Siddall
Just so everyone knows what I'm doing, here is what I'm doing: $ls -al ~ | tail -n 5 -rw-r--r-- 1 myusername users222118 2008-11-28 10:23 untitled.JPG -rwxr-xr-x 1 myusername users 172 2008-03-12 12:14 wmamp3 drwxr-xr-x 4 myusername users 4096 2008-10-05 22:41 workspace -rw-r--

Re: [arch-general] how to migrate installs between hard drives?

2009-07-30 Thread Will Siddall
Thanks solsTiCe, no offense taken, but I am one of the people that RTFM. Plus, the -a option gives you -p anyways, so ownership, mode and timestamps are kept by default. This is just a weird coincidence that I can't explain. I've been able to copy a drive before, but never with this much difficu

Re: [arch-general] how to migrate installs between hard drives?

2009-07-29 Thread Will Siddall
Here's another update. Using Mike's advice and I tried a simple 'cp -av' on my home directory. After everything was completed, I do a 'ls -al' and find that everything is set to root / root. Modes are intact, but that's it. I've tried this from the Ubuntu livecd and running from my original hard

Re: [arch-general] how to migrate installs between hard drives?

2009-07-28 Thread Will Siddall
#x27;cp -a') it still returns root. Will On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Roman Kyrylych wrote: > On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 22:20, Will Siddall wrote: >> Hey everyone, >> After several attempts, I'm still back to trying to resolve this. To >> explain in more detail,

Re: [arch-general] how to migrate installs between hard drives?

2009-07-28 Thread Will Siddall
Hey everyone, After several attempts, I'm still back to trying to resolve this. To explain in more detail, I had a 100G hd with a root partition (with my Arch Install), a data partition and a swap. I managed to run dd on both partitions and in the new hd (200G) apply both. But that only worked p

Re: [arch-general] how to migrate installs between hard drives?

2009-07-26 Thread Will Siddall
r that file. > > HTH > >   Rafa > > >> On Sunday 26 July 2009, Nergar wrote: >> > I think clonezilla could help you here. >> > >> > On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Dan McGee wrote: >> > > On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Will Siddall >&

Re: [arch-general] how to migrate installs between hard drives?

2009-07-26 Thread Will Siddall
ct or am I gonna run into the same problem? On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Dan McGee wrote: > On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Will Siddall wrote: >> I know this isn't particularly an arch question, but I know Arch >> people are better off to ask then most. >> >&g

[arch-general] how to migrate installs between hard drives?

2009-07-26 Thread Will Siddall
I know this isn't particularly an arch question, but I know Arch people are better off to ask then most. I'm in the process of upgrading my hard drive in my laptop but with the amounts of customizations I've done to my setup, I don't want to have to set it all up again. I know about running dd to

Re: [arch-general] No updates in past week or so - my update problem or just no updates?

2009-07-23 Thread Will Siddall
should really proof read what I write... meant to say that a lot of the mirrors that I've been using have been having trouble keeping in sync On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Will Siddall wrote: > I've noticed that a lot of the mirrors I've been using have been > having kee

Re: [arch-general] No updates in past week or so - my update problem or just no updates?

2009-07-23 Thread Will Siddall
I've noticed that a lot of the mirrors I've been using have been having keeping in sync over the past couple of months. If I wanted to even install a package, I would have to set my mirrorslist to one of the more current ones, sync then install... but I can't always guarantee that I can connect to

Re: [arch-general] AUR package version

2009-07-03 Thread Will Siddall
as the version numbers show, amarok-svn is for amarok1 while amarok2-svn is... well, you know. On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Manne Merak wrote: > Will Siddall wrote: >> >> Each of these packages are for a different purpose. Obviously >> amarok-svn is to download t

Re: [arch-general] AUR package version

2009-07-03 Thread Will Siddall
Each of these packages are for a different purpose. Obviously amarok-svn is to download the latest amarok from subversion, amarok2-svn is so people get the latest build of amarok2 from subversion and amarok1 would be for those people who want the 1.4.10 build of amarok because they are reluctant t

Re: [arch-general] Not able to do system updates

2009-06-25 Thread Will Siddall
Thanks Thomas, I'll be sure to try that next time :P. Sorry to waste your time with this. On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Will Siddall schrieb: >> >> Alright, after looking up the mirror's list >> (http://users.archlinux.de/~gerbra/mirr

Re: [arch-general] Not able to do system updates

2009-06-25 Thread Will Siddall
back to normal. I don't know what happened, or why it caused this, but it's back together again. Thanks for the help. Will On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Will Siddall wrote: > Thanks everyone for the responses.  I can't be sure that it's the > repository since I&#

Re: [arch-general] Not able to do system updates

2009-06-25 Thread Will Siddall
Thanks everyone for the responses. I can't be sure that it's the repository since I've been putting off upgrading my Amarok lately, so that's constantly in the list... and even that's gone now. And there is output from pacman, just 'No upgrades found' I just re-ran rankmirrors and tried again...

Re: [arch-general] Not able to do system updates

2009-06-25 Thread Will Siddall
Marco, I'm not expecting anyone to be clairvoyant, that's why I'm asking for help :P - the disk has got 7G left on it - the internet is working fine. Like I mentioned, I'm able to download the update lists, but from that point it won't do anything else. Thanks, Will On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:4

[arch-general] Not able to do system updates

2009-06-25 Thread Will Siddall
I don't know what happened, but overnight, my system doesn't seem to allow me to update or install packages. I tried with 'sudo pacman -Su' and with 'yaourt -Su' and nothing. I know of at least 10 packages that need to be updated from yesterday. And on further testing, I can't install new package

Re: [arch-general] Nautilus upgrade runs CPU at 100%

2009-04-12 Thread Will Siddall
ng my system useless. After switching desktop-icons back on and upgrading Nautilus back to 2.26, everything's back to normal Thanks, Will On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Abhishek Dasgupta wrote: > 2009/4/11 Will Siddall : >> My last message, I didn't know what exactly was going

[arch-general] Nautilus upgrade runs CPU at 100%

2009-04-11 Thread Will Siddall
Hey everyone, I already sent a message about this earlier but no one replied. So, I'm giving this another try. My last message, I didn't know what exactly was going on, but I knew it happened since the last Gnome upgrade to 2.26. After searching around, it starts at the gnome-session call when i

Re: [arch-general] System tools SMBConfig not running properly

2009-04-06 Thread Will Siddall
Ok, now, I'm seeing that it's something to do with the recent dbus update. If anyone can help me figure out what's happening, please let me know. Thanks

[arch-general] System tools SMBConfig not running properly

2009-04-06 Thread Will Siddall
Hey, I just ran a system update this morning which updated all of the new GNOME updates and some arch updates. The issue now is that after I restart, I find that the SystemBackendTools.pl script (especially for '-m SMBConfig') is running at full capacity. It also keeps opening a new loading windo

Re: [arch-general] Microphone issues on ICH7

2009-01-13 Thread Will Siddall
! > > Try model=hp, in /etc/modprobe.d/options: > " options snd-hda-intel model=hp " > Then reboot, or reload snd-hda-intel, of course. > > Bye, > muczy > > Will Siddall írta: >> >> Hey everyone, >> I've had this great HP laptop for the past

[arch-general] Microphone issues on ICH7

2009-01-13 Thread Will Siddall
Hey everyone, I've had this great HP laptop for the past 4 years with no need (of course there's always a want) to upgrade. And of all this time, I never had a problem with it, until now. Out of the past 4 years, I've never needed to use my microphone for anything, but lately I've been sent overs

Re: [arch-general] Keyboard's keymap now changed since evdev upgrade

2008-12-07 Thread Will Siddall
On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Jan de Groot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 2008-12-06 at 18:20 -0400, Will Siddall wrote: > > Right, but I'm not using KDE, I'm using Gnome. I've tried using an > > Evdev-managed keyboard, and I've tried u

Re: [arch-general] Keyboard's keymap now changed since evdev upgrade

2008-12-06 Thread Will Siddall
Alright, so getting tired of having to deal with it, I remapped everything. It took a while and keep reloading my Xmodmap file to get what I needed. At least it works :D On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Will Siddall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Right, but I'm not using KDE, I

Re: [arch-general] Keyboard's keymap now changed since evdev upgrade

2008-12-06 Thread Will Siddall
> On Sat, 2008-12-06 at 17:45 -0400, Will Siddall wrote: > > Hey all, I say I'm pretty comfortable with everything in arch now, but > > this keyboard issue is starting to drive me nuts. Not too long ago, > > the change from using kbd to evdev was made and ever since th

[arch-general] Keyboard's keymap now changed since evdev upgrade

2008-12-06 Thread Will Siddall
Hey all, I say I'm pretty comfortable with everything in arch now, but this keyboard issue is starting to drive me nuts. Not too long ago, the change from using kbd to evdev was made and ever since then, my keyboard is all messed up. I can still use my keyboard, but specific keys are changed arou

Re: [arch-general] System upgrade fails

2008-10-17 Thread Will Siddall
Hey Manolo, First of all, if you're not using ipw3945, I would think that it's alright to remove it. Second of all, ipw3945 isn't technically to be used anymore as the iwl3945 project has replaced this work. The structure is completely different by removing the daemon needed to make ipw3945 run.