Re: Installing Linux on a Mac Mini without OSX

2014-12-30 Thread Brian Sammon
On Thu, 4 Dec 2014 13:25:37 -0500 Brian Sammon wrote: > I was recently given a Mac Mini (Intel Mid 2007) that had been wiped. ... > Is there a way to install Debian/Linux on this machine that doesn't involve > buying or borrowing (or "borrowing") a copy of OSX? Is it easier to install > linux

Re: Question about MultiArch and dependencies

2014-12-30 Thread Ric Moore
On 12/31/2014 12:25 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 30/12/14 06:47 PM, Raphaël Halimi wrote: Le 30/12/2014 17:23, Gary Dale a écrit : Then again, knowing how to ask a question is also important. It would Then again, not everybody is born in an english-speaking country. seem that your real concern is

Jumbo frame Debian Wheezy.

2014-12-30 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
i am trying to enable jumbo frame on Debian wheezy however nothing works. i ran a command "ifconfig eth0 mtu 9000" and receive "invalid argument" then i edit /etc/network/interfaces and added "mtu 9000" when i ifdown and ifup eth0 it shows the same error "invalid argument" Please help. Thanks,

Re: Question about MultiArch and dependencies

2014-12-30 Thread Gary Dale
On 30/12/14 06:47 PM, Raphaël Halimi wrote: Le 30/12/2014 17:23, Gary Dale a écrit : Then again, knowing how to ask a question is also important. It would Then again, not everybody is born in an english-speaking country. seem that your real concern is having two terminals on the menu. It is

Re: Fwd: Re: Continuing to use SysV; LTS [Re: Fwd: Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?]

2014-12-30 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 12/30/2014 10:07 PM, William Unruh wrote: >> >> On 12/30/2014 5:49 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: >>> On Tue, 30 Dec 2014, Jerry Stuckle wrote: The people there have enough to do at work, and like to have a life outside of work. Believer it or not, not everyone is capable (or interested

Fwd: Re: Continuing to use SysV; LTS [Re: Fwd: Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?]

2014-12-30 Thread William Unruh
> >On 12/30/2014 5:49 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: >> On Tue, 30 Dec 2014, Jerry Stuckle wrote: >>> The people there have enough to do at work, and like to have a life >>> outside of work. Believer it or not, not everyone is capable (or >>> interested) in spending their life working on Linux. >> >> If

Re: multiple versions of python

2014-12-30 Thread Rusi Mody
On Wednesday, December 31, 2014 12:00:05 AM UTC+5:30, Boruch Baum wrote: > Thanks. Are you recommending virtualenv from experience having used it, > or from heresay? In general there is a spectrum for resources In decreasing order of weight 1. Buy a new machine 2. Use a VM 3. Use docker 4. Use

Re: Continuing to use SysV; LTS [Re: Fwd: Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?]

2014-12-30 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 12/30/2014 5:49 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Tue, 30 Dec 2014, Jerry Stuckle wrote: >> The people there have enough to do at work, and like to have a life >> outside of work. Believer it or not, not everyone is capable (or >> interested) in spending their life working on Linux. > > If Debian i

Re: Continuing to use SysV; LTS [Re: Fwd: Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?]

2014-12-30 Thread Joel Rees
On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 7:49 AM, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Tue, 30 Dec 2014, Jerry Stuckle wrote: >> The people there have enough to do at work, and like to have a life >> outside of work. Believer it or not, not everyone is capable (or >> interested) in spending their life working on Linux. > > I

Re: Question about MultiArch and dependencies

2014-12-30 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 30 December 2014 23:47:18 Raphaël Halimi wrote: > Stop trying to justify yourself Pot and kettle??? Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20

Re: Question about MultiArch and dependencies

2014-12-30 Thread Raphaël Halimi
Le 30/12/2014 17:23, Gary Dale a écrit : > Then again, knowing how to ask a question is also important. It would Then again, not everybody is born in an english-speaking country. > seem that your real concern is having two terminals on the menu. It is _one_ of my concerns. The other one being ap

Re: Continuing to use SysV; LTS [Re: Fwd: Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?]

2014-12-30 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 30 Dec 2014, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > The people there have enough to do at work, and like to have a life > outside of work. Believer it or not, not everyone is capable (or > interested) in spending their life working on Linux. If Debian is important to their business, then they should hire

Re: Continuing to use SysV; LTS [Re: Fwd: Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?]

2014-12-30 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 12/30/2014 9:45 AM, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Mon, 29 Dec 2014, Jerry Stuckle wrote: >> I should also add - that's why they are looking at other distros now. >> They are planning to stay on Wheezy as long as possible. It will >> probably take two years for them to get another distro ready for >>

Re: Help me run an old Windows game. PlayOnLinux? Wine?

2014-12-30 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Kevin O'Gorman [2014-12-29 14:58 -0800]: > I have an image of the old Windows 98 Entertainment Pack floppy. I'd like > to run one of the games that's on it, TIC.EXE. It's not in PlayOnLinux's > list of applications or games, and I'm completely new to trying this. > > I could use help, advice

Re: wifi connection tool?

2014-12-30 Thread Matt Ventura
On 12/30/2014 07:26 AM, Mart van de Wege wrote: Andrei POPESCU writes: On Lu, 29 dec 14, 15:58:06, Vincent Lefevre wrote: This is for Network Manager (which I'm not using since it handles the full network configuration, but I already have my own for Ethernet, and I don't want it to be broken)

Re: Speed up a WiFI interface ??

2014-12-30 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 07:14:19PM +0100, Bernhard Frühmesser wrote: > Hello, > > For a friend i setup a small RAID-1 config using Wheezy on one of his old > machines, just to backup his most important stuff. Unfortunately the > location where the box is placed can not be reached via cable because

Re: Speed up a WiFI interface ??

2014-12-30 Thread Mike McGinn
On Tuesday, December 30, 2014 13:14:19 Bernhard Frühmesser wrote: > Hello, > > For a friend i setup a small RAID-1 config using Wheezy on one of his > old machines, just to backup his most important stuff. Unfortunately the > location where the box is placed can not be reached via cable because o

Re: multiple versions of python

2014-12-30 Thread Boruch Baum
Thanks. Are you recommending virtualenv from experience having used it, or from heresay? I would want to know what possible pitfalls and gotchas there might be. Specifically, the description for the package says that it creates "... virtual Python instances, each invokable with its own Python exec

Speed up a WiFI interface ??

2014-12-30 Thread Bernhard Frühmesser
Hello, For a friend i setup a small RAID-1 config using Wheezy on one of his old machines, just to backup his most important stuff. Unfortunately the location where the box is placed can not be reached via cable because of building conditions, so only Wireless is possible. I have installed p

Re: New Kernel but there is no screen... :(

2014-12-30 Thread Curt
On 2014-12-30, Hans wrote: > > The problem is, that we do still not know, what the real reason is for the > malfunction. > He might want to look in the log for errors, if that detail hasn't already been mentioned (/var/log/Xorg.0.log). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.deb

ALSA does not work on baytrail tablet.

2014-12-30 Thread nutrinfnon
Hi, I have installed debian 7.7 on an 8" tablet (CHUWI VX8 3G) baytrail atom z3735g). I'm using kernel 3.10.20 from original android installation. I also tested upstream 3.19.0-rc1 with same results. Below all info: dmesg (relevant lines) snd_intel_sst: INFO: SST DRIVER loading..

Re: Question about MultiArch and dependencies

2014-12-30 Thread Gary Dale
On 30/12/14 06:45 AM, Raphaël Halimi wrote: Le 30/12/2014 06:04, Gary Dale a écrit : On 29/12/14 11:59 PM, The Wanderer wrote: On 12/29/2014 at 11:48 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 29/12/14 04:27 PM, Raphaël Halimi wrote: Le 29/12/2014 21:52, Gary Dale a écrit : Apparently not. Wow, very useful

Re: Continuing to use SysV; LTS [Re: Fwd: Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?]

2014-12-30 Thread The Wanderer
On 12/30/2014 at 09:45 AM, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Mon, 29 Dec 2014, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > >> I should also add - that's why they are looking at other distros >> now. They are planning to stay on Wheezy as long as possible. It >> will probably take two years for them to get another distro read

Re: wifi connection tool?

2014-12-30 Thread Mart van de Wege
Andrei POPESCU writes: > On Lu, 29 dec 14, 15:58:06, Vincent Lefevre wrote: >> >> This is for Network Manager (which I'm not using since it handles >> the full network configuration, but I already have my own for >> Ethernet, and I don't want it to be broken). > > If I'm not mistaken it can be c

Continuing to use SysV; LTS [Re: Fwd: Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?]

2014-12-30 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 29 Dec 2014, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > I should also add - that's why they are looking at other distros now. > They are planning to stay on Wheezy as long as possible. It will > probably take two years for them to get another distro ready for > production. If switching to systemd is their mai

Re: Fwd: Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-30 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 12/30/2014 5:37 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 29 dec 14, 22:06:55, Jerry Stuckle wrote: >> >> No, from what I've seen, the default is to do preventative fscks, >> depending on the number of boots (and time? I'm not sure). > > Could you please show us where you've seen this? For the recor

Re: Question about MultiArch and dependencies

2014-12-30 Thread Raphaël Halimi
Le 30/12/2014 06:04, Gary Dale a écrit : > On 29/12/14 11:59 PM, The Wanderer wrote: >> On 12/29/2014 at 11:48 PM, Gary Dale wrote: >> >>> On 29/12/14 04:27 PM, Raphaël Halimi wrote: >>> Le 29/12/2014 21:52, Gary Dale a écrit : > Apparently not. Wow, very useful answer. Thanks a lot !

Re: New Kernel but there is no screen... :(

2014-12-30 Thread Hans
Am Dienstag, 30. Dezember 2014, 10:40:55 schrieben Sie: > It has the black screen after boot when try load the desktop login screen - > so this is the 2. - from which you mentioned. > > I have got two NVIDIA 8600GT - in SLI - with two screens plugged in one of > the cards - as you could see in my

Re: Develop ineo 25e printer and CUPS

2014-12-30 Thread Jape Person
On 12/30/2014 02:41 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: Hi all, I have a Develop ineo 25e printer, and want to set it up with CUPS. I connect to http://localhost:631/ and add the printer, with uploading the PPD available here: http://www.develop.eu/en/products/office-products/colour/ineo-25/down

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-30 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 29 dec 14, 18:32:28, Marc Auslander wrote: > Long ago, I decided that inconvenient fsck's were not what I > needed. And that cancelling them was not an option - I run quasi > headless so there's no way. > > So - I use tune2fs to set a ridiculous reboot count for automatic > fsck. Just fo

Re: Fwd: Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-30 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 29 dec 14, 22:06:55, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > > No, from what I've seen, the default is to do preventative fscks, > depending on the number of boots (and time? I'm not sure). Could you please show us where you've seen this? For the record, again, from the e2fsprogs changelog: e2fsprogs

Re: wifi connection tool?

2014-12-30 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 29 dec 14, 15:58:06, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > This is for Network Manager (which I'm not using since it handles > the full network configuration, but I already have my own for > Ethernet, and I don't want it to be broken). If I'm not mistaken it can be configured to not handle connection