Re: Directory ownership

2012-11-10 Thread Zind
On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 01:50:03AM -0500, Gean Ceretta wrote: > Thanks Neal and Charlie, I've tried: > > > # chown -Rv gean:gean /home/gean > > but the ownership stays the same root, maybe its important to say that the / > home is an NTFS partition, mounted by /etc/fstab as: > > /dev/sda3

Re: Directory ownership

2012-11-10 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 12:42 AM, Gean Ceretta wrote: > > Good night friends, I'll appreciate some help here: For some reason, I'm not > owner of my home folder, that implicates in some problems for programs that > have to create folders here, as Wine for example. I've tried change the > ownership

Re: Directory ownership

2012-11-10 Thread Charlie
On Sun, 11 Nov 2012 01:50:03 -0500 "Gean Ceretta geancere...@linuxmail.org" suggested this: >*# chown -Rv gean:gean /home/gean* but the ownership stays the same root, maybe its important to say that the /home is an NTFS partition, mounted by /etc/fstab as: > > */dev/sda3

Re: partitions - primary vs logical and bootability

2012-11-10 Thread Neil T . Dantam
At Sat, 10 Nov 2012 16:09:36 -0600, Charles Blair wrote: > >I am trying to set up a dual-boot windows 7 / wheezy. Can you install grub2 to the MBR and have it boot both debian and MSWindows? This worked fine to dual-boot WinXP. > As I understand it, / must be bootable, which seems to mean it

Re: Directory ownership

2012-11-10 Thread Gean Ceretta
Thanks Neal and Charlie, I've tried: *# chown -Rv gean:gean /home/gean* but the ownership stays the same root, maybe its important to say that the /home is an NTFS partition, mounted by /etc/fstab as: */dev/sda3 /home auto defaults 0 0* this is the correct way to mount this? the problem can

Re: Is there a howto for dual boot of Windows 7 and debian?

2012-11-10 Thread darkestkhan
On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 6:24 AM, Doug wrote: > On 11/11/2012 12:56 AM, Charles Blair wrote: >> >> I have just tried to use the netinst installer for wheezy >> beta 3 to create a dual boot of debian and windows 7. >> >> The problem arises at the partitioning stage. The >> installer begins

Re: Is there a howto for dual boot of Windows 7 and debian?

2012-11-10 Thread Doug
On 11/11/2012 12:56 AM, Charles Blair wrote: I have just tried to use the netinst installer for wheezy beta 3 to create a dual boot of debian and windows 7. The problem arises at the partitioning stage. The installer begins by showing me windows 7 using 3 primary partitions, one of whic

Is there a howto for dual boot of Windows 7 and debian?

2012-11-10 Thread Charles Blair
I have just tried to use the netinst installer for wheezy beta 3 to create a dual boot of debian and windows 7. The problem arises at the partitioning stage. The installer begins by showing me windows 7 using 3 primary partitions, one of which is bootable. I resized (this worked) to get fr

Re: Directory ownership

2012-11-10 Thread Neal Murphy
On Sunday, November 11, 2012 12:42:09 AM Gean Ceretta wrote: > *# chown -Rv gean:gean /home/gean/* This is your trouble. You recursively changed the ownership of everything *in* /home/gean, but you did not change /home/gean itself. Try: chown -Rv gean:gean /home/gean This will also change own

Re: Directory ownership

2012-11-10 Thread Charlie
On Sun, 11 Nov 2012 00:42:09 -0500 "Gean Ceretta geancere...@linuxmail.org" suggested this: ># chown -Rv gean:gean /home/gean/* # chown -Rv gean: /home/gean/* I don't think I've ever used the asterisk, but don't know why it mightn't work? HTH Charlie -- Registered Linux

Directory ownership

2012-11-10 Thread Gean Ceretta
Good night friends, I'll appreciate some help here: For some reason, I'm not owner of my home folder, that implicates in some problems for programs that have to create folders here, as Wine for example. I've tried change the ownership of the directory with: *# chown -Rv gean:gean /home/gean/*

Re: partitions - primary vs logical and bootability

2012-11-10 Thread T o n g
On Sun, 11 Nov 2012 05:07:20 +, T o n g wrote: > On Sat, 10 Nov 2012 19:51:29 -0800, Rick Thomas wrote: > >> You only get 4 primary partitions. If you want any Logical partitions, >> you have to have to make one of the primary partitions an Extended >> partition, and put your Logical partiti

Re: compiling (or rather, failing to compile) a kernel

2012-11-10 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 10 November 2012 18:46:09 Martin Steigerwald wrote: >> Am Samstag, 10. November 2012 schrieb Lisi Reisz: >>> >>> I have been trying to get to grips with compiling a custom kernel. I >>> have been shying away for too long. >>> >>> I a

Re: partitions - primary vs logical and bootability

2012-11-10 Thread T o n g
On Sat, 10 Nov 2012 19:51:29 -0800, Rick Thomas wrote: > You only get 4 primary partitions. If you want any Logical partitions, > you have to have to make one of the primary partitions an Extended > partition, and put your Logical partitions inside that Extended > partition. > > So, in effect, y

Re: Awk, filtering match through external command

2012-11-10 Thread T o n g
On Sat, 10 Nov 2012 00:36:48 -0500, John L. Cunningham wrote: > Well... > > head /etc/group |\ > awk '{"echo " $0 " | cut -d: -f1" | getline result; print result}' > > ...seems to work. Great. Thanks. > But it is also very silly. Again, as I said, this is only *for the sake of illustration

Re: My repetition

2012-11-10 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 10 November 2012 18:22:19 Doug wrote: >> On 11/10/2012 8:06 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: >>> >>> I apologise to all of you for my repeated attempts to send my last email >>> about compiling a kernel. It was not getting though to me, so I th

Re: partitions - primary vs logical and bootability

2012-11-10 Thread Rick Thomas
On Nov 10, 2012, at 2:09 PM, Charles Blair wrote: I am trying to set up a dual-boot windows 7 / wheezy. The installer shows me 3 primary ntfs partitions, presumably for windows7. I have been able to resize to create freespace. As I understand it, / must be bootable, which seems to mean

Re: testing install in acer aspire v5-571P with uefi/gpt

2012-11-10 Thread L V Gandhi
On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 11:45 PM, Brian wrote: > On Sat 10 Nov 2012 at 22:22:16 +0530, L V Gandhi wrote: > > > On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Brian wrote: > > > > > I for one doubt the message you saw said there was no kernel in the > > > disk. If you posted exactly what you saw we could dispe

Re: compiling (or rather, failing to compile) a kernel

2012-11-10 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 10 Nov 2012 13:46:09 -0500 (EST), Martin Steigerwald wrote: > On Sat, 10 Nov 2012 Lisi Reisz wrote: >> I have been trying to get to grips with compiling a custom kernel. I >> have been shying away for too long. >> >> I am following Stephen's marvellous work, and had got this far: >> >> h

partitions - primary vs logical and bootability

2012-11-10 Thread Charles Blair
I am trying to set up a dual-boot windows 7 / wheezy. The installer shows me 3 primary ntfs partitions, presumably for windows7. I have been able to resize to create freespace. As I understand it, / must be bootable, which seems to mean it must be a primary partition. However, when I do

Re: compiling (or rather, failing to compile) a kernel

2012-11-10 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Samstag, 10. November 2012 schrieb Lisi Reisz: > Thanks, Martin. Yes, I have looked at the website you refer to, and > tried to use it. And I have the book to which you refer. The > trouble is, that for the basic stuff they are simply above my > head. Stephen gives more explanation and more

Re: compiling (or rather, failing to compile) a kernel

2012-11-10 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 10 November 2012 18:46:09 Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Hi Lisi, > > Am Samstag, 10. November 2012 schrieb Lisi Reisz: > > I have been trying to get to grips with compiling a custom kernel. I > > have been shying away for too long. > > > > I am following Stephen's marvellous work, and ha

Re: compiling (or rather, failing to compile) a kernel

2012-11-10 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi Lisi, Am Samstag, 10. November 2012 schrieb Lisi Reisz: > I have been trying to get to grips with compiling a custom kernel. I > have been shying away for too long. > > I am following Stephen's marvellous work, and had got this far: > > http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/Kernel.htm#Unpack T

Re: My repetition

2012-11-10 Thread Lars Nooden
On Saturday 10 November 2012 18:22:19 Doug wrote: > If you stop using gmail, you won't have that problem! I've noticed that problem with Gmail for a while. It hasn't been fixed and probably won't ever get fixed. What are the top free-of-charge options? Regards, /Lars -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: Printing on HPLaserJetP1102w

2012-11-10 Thread Michael Checca
On Sat, 10 Nov 2012 13:19:08 -0500, GEOFF BAGLEY wrote: For a number of years I have used HP laser- jet printers, and they all worked using postscript files. I now have a HPLaserJetP1103w, and this machines uses a Zenographic streaming format which I have so far not been able to get working

Re: My repetition

2012-11-10 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 10 November 2012 18:22:19 Doug wrote: > On 11/10/2012 8:06 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > I apologise to all of you for my repeated attempts to send my last email > > about compiling a kernel. It was not getting though to me, so I thought > > that it wasn't getting through, period. > > > >

Re: My repetition

2012-11-10 Thread Doug
On 11/10/2012 8:06 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: I apologise to all of you for my repeated attempts to send my last email about compiling a kernel. It was not getting though to me, so I thought that it wasn't getting through, period. When the fourth one didn't appear to go through, I checked the archiv

Printing on HPLaserJetP1102w

2012-11-10 Thread GEOFF BAGLEY
For a number of years I have used HP laser- jet printers, and they all worked using postscript files. I now have a HPLaserJetP1103w, and this machines uses a Zenographic streaming format which I have so far not been able to get working. Foomatic driver foo2zjs is said to be the correct driver.

Re: testing install in acer aspire v5-571P with uefi/gpt

2012-11-10 Thread Brian
On Sat 10 Nov 2012 at 22:22:16 +0530, L V Gandhi wrote: > On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Brian wrote: > > > I for one doubt the message you saw said there was no kernel in the > > disk. If you posted exactly what you saw we could dispel that doubt. > Exact message as below > No kernel modules

Re: compiling (or rather, failing to compile) a kernel

2012-11-10 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 10 November 2012 15:36:27 Tom Furie wrote: > On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 09:31:57AM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: > > Hi, Lisi. My guess is that this is a permissions issue. Is your id a > > member of group src? (Issue the "groups" command and see if src is one > > of the groups listed in

Re: compiling (or rather, failing to compile) a kernel

2012-11-10 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 10 November 2012 13:34:59 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > I have been trying to get to grips with compiling a custom kernel. I > > have been shying away for too long. > > > > I am following Stephen's marvellous work, and had got this far: > > > > http://users.wowway.com/

Re: compiling (or rather, failing to compile) a kernel

2012-11-10 Thread Lisi Reisz
Hi Stephen - and thanks! On Saturday 10 November 2012 14:31:57 Stephen Powell wrote: > My guess is that this is a permissions issue.  Is your id a member > of group src?   Yes! [snip] > (1) The directory /usr/src must be owned by user root and by group src. It wasn't, and now is. > (2) The gr

Re: testing install in acer aspire v5-571P with uefi/gpt

2012-11-10 Thread L V Gandhi
On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Brian wrote: > On Sat 10 Nov 2012 at 10:27:48 +0530, L V Gandhi wrote: > > > I downloaded wheezy weeky build kde iso dt 5th Nov > > It booted in uefi mode. But during installation, it dais there is no > > kernel in the disk and further it could not recognise both

evolution, synchronisation, netbook <-> pc

2012-11-10 Thread wi
Hej, I use debian 6 on a netbook and on a pc. I want to synchronize evolution; that I can use evolution on my netbook outside, synchronize evolution and use evolution on my pc inside. I tried unison (.evolution). But not all calendars and contacts are synchronized. Is there a possibility? --

Re: multi-boot+grub2+separate boot partition

2012-11-10 Thread Brian
On Sat 10 Nov 2012 at 15:20:33 +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > If my understanding of grub is correct, the execution of > "grub-install /dev/sda": > > (1) writes the various grub files to the "/boot/grub" directory of > the partition corresponding to the operating system which executes

Re: compiling (or rather, failing to compile) a kernel

2012-11-10 Thread Tom Furie
On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 09:31:57AM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: > Hi, Lisi. My guess is that this is a permissions issue. Is your id a member > of group src? (Issue the "groups" command and see if src is one of the groups > listed in the output of the command.) Here is a summary of the permiss

Re: Debian + Magic Jack

2012-11-10 Thread latinfo
> Hello list. > >> >> Is there an effective form to use intensively Magic Jack on Debian >> (stable, testing or sid)? >> >> I have just 1 box with Windows XP in my lan for this matter, and it is >> my >> wish to eliminate it. >> >> I tested virtualbox and family, but it does not work; because t

Re: multi-boot+grub2+separate boot partition

2012-11-10 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Brian [121110 13:18]: > On Sat 10 Nov 2012 at 06:34:27 +, Russell L. Harris wrote: ... > > I instructed the Squeeze installer to install grub2 to /dev/sda1. > > I instructed the Wheezy installer to install grub2 to /dev/sda7. > > I instructed the Ubuntu installer to install grub2 to /dev/s

Re: Awk, filtering match through external command

2012-11-10 Thread songbird
T o n g wrote: ... > Any way to filter through external command to variable, somewhat like: > > head /etc/group | awk '{print $0 | "cut -d':' -f1" | getline result ;}' > looks like you want to assign the output of command to a variable. in shell or bash use the backquote character ` result=

Re: compiling (or rather, failing to compile) a kernel

2012-11-10 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 10 Nov 2012 06:35:21 -0500 (EST), Lisi Reisz wrote: > > I have been trying to get to grips with compiling a custom kernel. I have > been shying away for too long. > > I am following Stephen's marvellous work, and had got this far: > > http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/Kernel.htm#Unpac

Re: compiling (or rather, failing to compile) a kernel

2012-11-10 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Lisi Reisz wrote: I have been trying to get to grips with compiling a custom kernel. I have been shying away for too long. I am following Stephen's marvellous work, and had got this far: http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/Kernel.htm#Unpack But I get errors the end of which is below. I tried

Re: multi-boot+grub2+separate boot partition

2012-11-10 Thread Brian
On Sat 10 Nov 2012 at 06:34:27 +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > I wish to use grub2 to multi-boot the following systems: > > => Debian "stable" (Squeeze) on /dev/sda6 > > => Debian "testing" (Wheezy) on /dev/sda7 > > => Ubuntu (10.x) on /dev/sda8 > > This is a "work" m

My repetition

2012-11-10 Thread Lisi Reisz
I apologise to all of you for my repeated attempts to send my last email about compiling a kernel. It was not getting though to me, so I thought that it wasn't getting through, period. When the fourth one didn't appear to go through, I checked the archives, as I ought to have done in the first

compiling (or rather, failing to compile) a kernel

2012-11-10 Thread Lisi Reisz
I have been trying to get to grips with compiling a custom kernel. I have been shying away for too long. I am following Stephen's marvellous work, and had got this far: http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/Kernel.htm#Unpack But I get these errors http://paste.ubuntu.com/1347707/ I tried to copy

compiling (or rather, failing to compile) a kernel

2012-11-10 Thread Lisi Reisz
I have been trying to get to grips with compiling a custom kernel. I have been shying away for too long. I am following Stephen's marvellous work, and had got this far: http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/Kernel.htm#Unpack But I get errors the end of which is below. I tried to copy and paste a

compiling (or rather, failing to compile) a kernel

2012-11-10 Thread Lisi Reisz
I have been trying to get to grips with compiling a custom kernel. I have been shying away for too long. I am following Stephen's marvellous work, and had got this far: http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/Kernel.htm#Unpack But I get errors the end of which is below. I tried to copy and paste a

Re: testing install in acer aspire v5-571P with uefi/gpt

2012-11-10 Thread Brian
On Sat 10 Nov 2012 at 10:27:48 +0530, L V Gandhi wrote: > I downloaded wheezy weeky build kde iso dt 5th Nov > It booted in uefi mode. But during installation, it dais there is no > kernel in the disk and further it could not recognise both ethernet and > wireless which are > Qualcomm atheros ar5

Re: installer ethernet card not recognized

2012-11-10 Thread Brian
On Fri 09 Nov 2012 at 23:35:16 -0600, Charles Blair wrote: >I am trying to install squeeze on a 64-bit Toshiba. > >It asks me to specify an ethernet card. I think what > I have (for wireless) is > >Atheros AR9485WB-EG It doesn't look like this device is supported in Squeeze. h