Re: Installing Debian 7.3.0 more

2013-12-20 Thread Doug
On 12/21/2013 01:57 AM, Doug wrote: On 12/21/2013 01:47 AM, Go Linux wrote: On Sat, 12/21/13, Alireza Bahrami wrote: Subject: Installing Debian 7.3.0 To: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" Date: Saturday, December 21, 2013, 12:29 AM Hi, I'm an Iranian electronic engineer focuse

Re: Installing Debian 7.3.0

2013-12-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 21 December 2013 06:57:42 Doug wrote: > On 12/21/2013 01:47 AM, Go Linux wrote: > > On Sat, 12/21/13, Alireza Bahrami wrote: > > > > Subject: Installing Debian 7.3.0 > > To: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" > > Date: Saturday, December 21, 2013, > > 12:29 AM > > > > > > Hi, > > >

Re: Installing Debian 7.3.0

2013-12-20 Thread Doug
On 12/21/2013 01:47 AM, Go Linux wrote: On Sat, 12/21/13, Alireza Bahrami wrote: Subject: Installing Debian 7.3.0 To: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" Date: Saturday, December 21, 2013, 12:29 AM Hi, I'm an Iranian electronic engineer focused on industrial automation proj

Re: Installing Debian 7.3.0

2013-12-20 Thread Go Linux
On Sat, 12/21/13, Alireza Bahrami wrote: Subject: Installing Debian 7.3.0 To: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" Date: Saturday, December 21, 2013, 12:29 AM Hi,   I'm an Iranian electronic engineer focused on industrial automation projects. After some years of work experience I've come

Installing Debian 7.3.0

2013-12-20 Thread Alireza Bahrami
Hi, I'm an Iranian electronic engineer focused on industrial automation projects.  After some years of work experience I've come to the conclusion that I should learn linux for doing my projects in a more efficent way.  Unfortunately I don't know any thing about it and I'm completely new. The fi

How do I mount mmc card so that a non-root user has write access?

2013-12-20 Thread Lawrence Galka
I am running debian wheezy with the lxde desktop environment. When I insert a mmc card, it gets detected as /dev/mmcblk0p1 and mounted in /media/. Unfortunately, the /media/ directory is owned by root and other users do not have write permission. When I try to copy files to this card it throws a

Re: Distro upgrade

2013-12-20 Thread Verde Denim
On 12/20/2013 10:56 AM, John Hasler wrote: > Verde Denim writes: >> Is it possible for me to upgrade glibc/libffi to the Jessie release >> and leave everything else in Wheezy? > Upgrading glibc and libffi will force the upgrade of packages that depend > on specific versions of those libraries. Use

Re: Using the spare space on a bootable USB

2013-12-20 Thread Brian
On Fri 20 Dec 2013 at 21:11:00 +, Brian Candler wrote: > On 20/12/2013 16:38, Brian Candler wrote: > >Hello, > > > >I have some 8GB USB keys and I wish to put a bootable Debian > >installer image AND a bunch of other files (documents, Virtualbox, > >more ISO images etc). > > > I've got it to w

Re: Using the spare space on a bootable USB

2013-12-20 Thread Brian
On Fri 20 Dec 2013 at 19:57:41 +, Brian Candler wrote: > WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on > 'debian-7.3.0-amd64-lxde-CD-1.iso'! The util fdisk doesn't support > GPT. Use GNU Parted. > > > Disk debian-7.3.0-amd64-lxde-CD-1.iso: 677 MB, 677380096 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/tr

Re: Backports pinning

2013-12-20 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 10:24 PM, Tom H wrote: > On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 2:49 AM, Ralf Mardorf > wrote: >> >> with different settings backports always got a lower priority than >> jessie/testing. >> >> Is it possible to give backports a higher priority than jessie/testing? >> >> Do I need to add

Re: Backports pinning

2013-12-20 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 2:49 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > with different settings backports always got a lower priority than > jessie/testing. > > Is it possible to give backports a higher priority than jessie/testing? > > Do I need to add wheezy/updates and wheezy-updates to the preferences > too,

Re: Deadline for jessie init system choice

2013-12-20 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 10:43 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Tom H wrote: >> Bob Proulx wrote: >>> >>> The most notable source of problems are /etc/init.d/foo where foo >>> doesn't have current LSB headers. Those files cause problems when >>> upgrading because the new 'insserv' program used in Wheezy to

Install on HP Elitebook 8460p

2013-12-20 Thread Kostadin Slavkov
Hello, I'm trying to install debian test on my laptop HP Elitebook 8460p. When I chose booting from DVD or USB, where I wrote debian test DVD, it restart laptop. I'm switched off UEFI and I'm using standard BIOS boot. Previously I successfully installed openSUSE, fedora and arch, but decide to

Re: Soliciting hardware recommendations

2013-12-20 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 7:24 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Wed, 18 Dec 2013 08:18:14 -0500 (EST), Tom H wrote: >> On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 1:31 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: >>> >>> I'd like it to have a usable CSM, so I can continue to run my favorite boot >>> loader, >>> LILO. And I plan to partiti

Re: Using the spare space on a bootable USB

2013-12-20 Thread Brian Candler
On 20/12/2013 16:38, Brian Candler wrote: Hello, I have some 8GB USB keys and I wish to put a bootable Debian installer image AND a bunch of other files (documents, Virtualbox, more ISO images etc). I've got it to work, but it could have been easier :-) I started by following the instructi

Re: Using the spare space on a bootable USB

2013-12-20 Thread Brian Candler
On 20/12/2013 18:37, Brian wrote: On Fri 20 Dec 2013 at 16:38:14 +, Brian Candler wrote: I have some 8GB USB keys and I wish to put a bootable Debian installer image AND a bunch of other files (documents, Virtualbox, more ISO images etc). I've dd'd an ISO image to a stick, which is fine. N

Re: Using the spare space on a bootable USB

2013-12-20 Thread Brian
On Fri 20 Dec 2013 at 16:38:14 +, Brian Candler wrote: > I have some 8GB USB keys and I wish to put a bootable Debian > installer image AND a bunch of other files (documents, Virtualbox, > more ISO images etc). > > I've dd'd an ISO image to a stick, which is fine. Now, reading the manual at

Using the spare space on a bootable USB

2013-12-20 Thread Brian Candler
Hello, I have some 8GB USB keys and I wish to put a bootable Debian installer image AND a bunch of other files (documents, Virtualbox, more ISO images etc). I've dd'd an ISO image to a stick, which is fine. Now, reading the manual at http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch04s03.html.en

Re: Distro upgrade

2013-12-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 20 December 2013 15:24:41 Verde Denim wrote: > Is > it possible for me to upgrade glibc/libffi to the Jessie release > and leave everything else in Wheezy? Have you looked at wheezy-backports? http://backports.debian.org/ http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=glibc I see that you

Re: Distro upgrade

2013-12-20 Thread John Hasler
Verde Denim writes: > Is it possible for me to upgrade glibc/libffi to the Jessie release > and leave everything else in Wheezy? Upgrading glibc and libffi will force the upgrade of packages that depend on specific versions of those libraries. Use 'apt-get -s' to see what would happen. -- John H

Re: Distro upgrade

2013-12-20 Thread Verde Denim
On 12/19/2013 07:39 PM, John Hasler wrote: > Bob Proulx writes: >> Jessie is at least a year from release. There are still major changes >> planned for it. I expect Jessie to go through some cyclic stability, >> instability, stability, instability before it releases at least a year >> from now. >

Re: startup console

2013-12-20 Thread Marko Randjelovic
On Fri, 20 Dec 2013 09:33:01 +0700 Diogene Laerce wrote: > > > On 12/20/2013 03:44 AM, André Nunes Batista wrote: > > On Thu, 2013-12-19 at 15:11 +0700, Diogene Laerce wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> Does anybody can tell me where I need to go to configure the console > >> I get before X star

Re: startup console

2013-12-20 Thread Darac Marjal
On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 09:33:01AM +0700, Diogene Laerce wrote: > > > On 12/20/2013 03:44 AM, André Nunes Batista wrote: > >On Thu, 2013-12-19 at 15:11 +0700, Diogene Laerce wrote: > >>Hi, > >> > >>Does anybody can tell me where I need to go to configure the console > >>I get before X starts ? >

Re: startup console

2013-12-20 Thread Linux-Fan
On 12/20/2013 03:33 AM, Diogene Laerce wrote: > On 12/20/2013 03:44 AM, André Nunes Batista wrote: >> You get xterm before X starts? Go on... > Sorry but I don't understand your answer : I want to configure and use > the console when X isn't started. The console you see before X is started is /not

Re: how to upgrade only from stable.

2013-12-20 Thread Rob Owens
Somebody mentioned apt pinning, which will achieve what you want. But the easier way is to put this in /etc/apt/apt.conf: APT::Default-Release "squeeze"; Test this by running 'apt-get update && apt-get upgrade'. You don't have to go through with the upgrade, just look and see what is being upgr

Re: how to upgrade only from stable.

2013-12-20 Thread Bo Lan
On Fri, 2013-12-20 at 18:06 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > Thank Bo lan, You are welcome. > actually i was assuming that if there is a command to install update > package specifically from test or sid like "apt-get install name>/" in same way i though i could run some thing > like "apt-g

Re: how to upgrade only from stable.

2013-12-20 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Thank Bo lan, i have run the apt-get update but i haven't run apt-get upgrade or dist-upgrade. so i think i am still safe. actually i was assuming that if there is a command to install update package specifically from test or sid like "apt-get install /" in same way i though i could run some thin

[seemingly solved] Backports pinning

2013-12-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2013-12-20 at 03:49 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Do I need to add wheezy/updates and wheezy-updates to the preferences > too, or do they belong to wheezy? I still don't know and will see when there are upgrades available, but perhaps somebody can answer this question. Since for upgraded pa

Re: how to upgrade only from stable.

2013-12-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
There is the possibility to use pinning, a search engine is your friend. Regarding to "6.0.4 to 6.0.7" it's unclear what you really mean. I suspect a typo, or laziness to inform yourself about releases and upgrades ;). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a s

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