Problem with my HDD and FS's after upgrade and cloning the HDD

2009-09-25 Thread James Brown
Hi all, I use the Debian Lenny AMD64 on my laptop Acer TravelMate 3043. After upgrading from my old HDD 120GB to 500GB and cloning the first to the last, I have the next problem: sudo fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 500 GB, 500105249280 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders Units = cylinders

Vista+Debian dual boot

2009-09-25 Thread Jenei Gábor
Hello! I've just installed yesterday a Vista instead of my old XP to my computer.Naturally the Vista setup deleted the GRUB's MBR entry.How can I solve now to dual boot my debian and vista?Can I recover grub by some way?Or how could I configure the Vista bootloader to boot Debian? -- To

Re: Vista+Debian dual boot

2009-09-25 Thread Dennis Johansen
You might give this fantastic tool a shot. http://www.supergrubdisk.org/ Can do exactly what you are looking for. / Dennis Sent from Hvidovre, Hovedstaden, Danmark 2009/9/25 Jenei Gábor jen@gmail.com Hello! I've just installed yesterday a Vista instead of my old XP to my

Re: Problem with my HDD and FS's after upgrade and cloning the HDD

2009-09-25 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 12:17:24PM +0400, James Brown wrote: Hi all, I use the Debian Lenny AMD64 on my laptop Acer TravelMate 3043. After upgrading from my old HDD 120GB to 500GB and cloning the first to the last, I have the next problem: sudo fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 500 GB, 500105249280

Re: Vista+Debian dual boot

2009-09-25 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 01:10:44PM +0200, Jenei Gábor wrote: I've just installed yesterday a Vista instead of my old XP to my computer.Naturally the Vista setup deleted the GRUB's MBR entry.How can I solve now to dual boot my debian and vista?Can I recover grub by some way?Or how could I

ia32-aptitude vs. aptitude

2009-09-25 Thread Ernesto Domato
Hi, I like the idea of the ia32-* packages managed by the ia32-apt-get package till multiarch is ready but I found that the amount of packages to be upgraded differs from aptitude to ia32-aptitude. As for today for example, I have 195 packages to upgrade using aptitude but ia32-aptitude only

Re: ia32-aptitude vs. aptitude

2009-09-25 Thread Dave Witbrodt
Ernesto Domato wrote: Hi, I like the idea of the ia32-* packages managed by the ia32-apt-get package till multiarch is ready but I found that the amount of packages to be upgraded differs from aptitude to ia32-aptitude. As for today for example, I have 195 packages to upgrade using aptitude but

Skype 2.1 with ia32-libs Was: ia32-aptitude vs. aptitude

2009-09-25 Thread Ernesto Domato
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 18:30, Dave Witbrodt dawit...@sbcglobal.net wrote: For now, the officially supported solution is 'ia32-libs' again.  The officially-supported multiarch solution is on the way relatively soon, so you'll have to decide whether to keep Goswin's no-longer-official packages

Re: Skype 2.1 with ia32-libs Was: ia32-aptitude vs. aptitude

2009-09-25 Thread Sam Varghese
On Sat, September 26, 2009 10:14, Ernesto Domato wrote: On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 18:30, Dave Witbrodt dawit...@sbcglobal.net wrote: For now, the officially supported solution is 'ia32-libs' again.  The officially-supported multiarch solution is on the way relatively soon, so you'll have to

LVM2 raid1 without mdadm - Break the mirror and re-synchronize it back the other way around.

2009-09-25 Thread Andres Migliazzo
Hi gang, I currently have /boot and / (root) on raid 1 with mdadm. Which is useful for me specially when I patch the server because I break the mirror prior the patching and if something goes wrong is pretty straight forward to synchronize the mirror the other way around and fall back all the

Re: Problem with my HDD and FS's after upgrade and cloning the HDD

2009-09-25 Thread James Brown
Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 12:17:24PM +0400, James Brown wrote: Hi all, I use the Debian Lenny AMD64 on my laptop Acer TravelMate 3043. After upgrading from my old HDD 120GB to 500GB and cloning the first to the last, I have the next problem: sudo fdisk -l Disk

Re: Skype 2.1 with ia32-libs Was: ia32-aptitude vs. aptitude

2009-09-25 Thread Ernesto Domato
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 22:00, Sam Varghese s...@gnubies.com wrote: Why don't you just use the statically compiled version? Unpack it in a directory and run it from there. The statically compiled version has the same problem and solution that the .deb package version. You'll have to delete