Re: Grub2 with multiple Debians

2012-09-14 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 23:25:03 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 14 sep 12, 17:12:38, Hendrik Boom wrote: Of course, after I've made my copy (with slight changes to /etc/fstab) I have two nearly identical sets of partitions, so it may be tricky to tell them apart. Is grub2 clever enough to

Re: Grub2 with multiple Debians

2012-09-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2012-09-14 at 20:42 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: The misconfiguration I have in mind is matching one system's /boot with another systems's /. I've had it happen on a laptop sometime ago. and it sure messed up my upgrades. I have no idea how it happened, but it has made me paranoid.

Re: Dual-Monitor help

2012-09-14 Thread lee
Nelson Green nelsongree...@hotmail.com writes: From: l...@yun.yagibdah.de To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Dual-Monitor help Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 03:16:55 +0200 Nelson Green nelsongree...@hotmail.com writes: have no choice but to

Re: Installation

2012-09-14 Thread lee
Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 03:49:40 +0200, lee wrote: Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 02:10:31 +0200, lee wrote: It can be ridiculously difficult to install Debian. (...) When it comes to an OS, installation process can be

Re: Grub2 with multiple Debians

2012-09-14 Thread lee
Hendrik Boom hend...@topoi.pooq.com writes: It has been my practice when upgrading between Debian releases to make bootable copies of the OS partitions on my hard drive so that if things go badly wrong I still have a bootable system. How did you make such copies? This wirked fine with

Re: Grub2 with multiple Debians

2012-09-14 Thread Joe
On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 20:42:21 + (UTC) Hendrik Boom hend...@topoi.pooq.com wrote: On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 23:25:03 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 14 sep 12, 17:12:38, Hendrik Boom wrote: Of course, after I've made my copy (with slight changes to /etc/fstab) I have two nearly

Re: Storage server

2012-09-14 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 9/14/2012 7:57 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Am Freitag, 14. September 2012 schrieb Stan Hoeppner: Thus my advice to you is: Do not use LVM. Directly format the RAID10 device using the mkfs.xfs defaults. mkfs.xfs will read the md configuration and automatically align the filesystem to

Re: Storage server

2012-09-14 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 9/14/2012 11:29 AM, Kelly Clowers wrote: On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: On 9/13/2012 5:20 AM, Veljko wrote: On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 08:34:51AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: One of the big reasons (other than cost) that I mentioned this card is

Re: Grub2 with multiple Debians

2012-09-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2012-09-14 at 22:37 +0100, Joe wrote: On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 20:42:21 + (UTC) Hendrik Boom hend...@topoi.pooq.com wrote: On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 23:25:03 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 14 sep 12, 17:12:38, Hendrik Boom wrote: Of course, after I've made my copy (with

Re: Storage server

2012-09-14 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: On 9/14/2012 11:29 AM, Kelly Clowers wrote: On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: On 9/13/2012 5:20 AM, Veljko wrote: On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 08:34:51AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner

FN Key to Enable/Disable Touchpad

2012-09-14 Thread Dr Beco
Hi there, The Touchpad key (FN + F3) that allows to enable/disable toutchpad is not working in Debian Wheezy. I have a DELL vostro v131, and KDE. Multimidia FN keys works nice, and enable/disable wifi and bluetooth also works great. I'm not sure about FN+F1 that changes monitor, but I'll find

Re: Migrate to 3TB disk

2012-09-14 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/14/2012 3:22 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 14 sep 12, 17:22:36, Hendrik Boom wrote: Which probably means building a new file system and copying all the files. Even if it's possible to upgrade in place, it would probably mean preserving the existing low-level structure, like 512-byte

Re: Grub2 with multiple Debians

2012-09-14 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 23:06:42 +0200, lee wrote: Hendrik Boom hend...@topoi.pooq.com writes: It has been my practice when upgrading between Debian releases to make bootable copies of the OS partitions on my hard drive so that if things go badly wrong I still have a bootable system. How did

Re: Grub2 with multiple Debians

2012-09-14 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 22:37:28 +0100, Joe wrote: On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 20:42:21 + (UTC) Hendrik Boom hend...@topoi.pooq.com wrote: On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 23:25:03 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 14 sep 12, 17:12:38, Hendrik Boom wrote: Of course, after I've made my copy (with

Re: Storage server [solved???]

2012-09-14 Thread Paul E Condon
'Solved' is not a proper description. Better to say that I have discovered some serious misunderstanding on my part. It would be a serious waste of other peoples time to extend this sub-thread with a detailed explanation. Sorry. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To

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2012-09-14 Thread cont...@hackersnl.nl
Beste mensen, Mijn naam is Bjorn Wijers en ik organiseer samen met Jeroen Tietema een avond in Utrecht genaamd HackersNL* (http://hackersnl.nl) De opzet van deze avonden is dat we in een informele sfeer kennis met elkaar delen. Voor de volgende edities zijn we op zoek naar sprekers rondom een

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