On 01/10/16 18:40, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Saturday 01 October 2016 12:39:58 Clive Menzies wrote:
Quick question. Are your backups incremental or complete every night?
This is probably better explained in the manpages. Amanda has the concept
of doing a full backup of everything in its disklist
to back up with nightly backups
totaling 11 to 14 Gb per night.
Hi Gene
Quick question. Are your backups incremental or complete every night?
Regards
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Mo
I tried to send this with a .pdf yesterday d'oh! Anyway, we've just
reinstalled our servers with mail and automated backup and updated our
notes. They're not finalised and hence not on the web yet but you can
access them here:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/63603283/InstallationNotes2016.9.24.pdf
Bit's of it may help.
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od instead but any options we add seem to break fetchmail. It
appears to be a syntax error.
Am I missing something obvious?
Thanks
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On 08/09/16 23:07, Clive Menzies wrote:
Hi
We've suffered a series of seemingly disconnect problems on 4 machines
since upgrading jessie on Monday:
This nightmare of expanding problems has been going on for three days,
since Monday afternoon. Never before have I questioned the decision
Hi Thomas
The absolute path was the answer.
Your explanation has added to my limited knowledge :-)
Thanks
Clive
On 19/09/16 23:04, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
Hi,
Clive Menzies wrote:
rsync_opts="-av --exclude-from=exclude_list --delete --delete-excluded"
exclude_
On 19/09/16 22:10, Clive Menzies wrote:
It didn't find the exclude_list I created. I modified the script to
point to it but clearly the syntax is not right
# Good rsync options for uhuru_backups.
rsync_opts="-av --exclude-from=exclude_list --delete
--delete-excluded"
# ex
ile or
directory (2)
rsync error: error in file IO (code 11) at exclude.c(1179) [client=3.1.1]
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On 17/09/16 17:12, Clive Menzies wrote:
WORKING version:
# Good rsync options for uhuru_backups.
rsync_opts="-av --exclude-from=exclude_list --delete
--delete-excluded"
The exclude_list is a file with one excluded directory per line with
an asterisk at the end dire
On 17/09/16 13:32, Mike Bird wrote
$rsync $rsync_opts $password FileServer::rsync \
/home/backup/home/ > /var/rsync/FileServer.$NOW.log
I don't see where the $excludes you built is actually used.
On 17/09/16 13:44, Clive Menzies wrote:
The script wasn't changed and I've alw
t; /var/rsync/FileServer.$NOW.log
The incremental backups have worked seamlessly for over 10 years but
recently, possibly related to the upgrade of Debian Jessie, the exclude
options have ceased to have effect.
I've dug around the docs but haven't found anything relevant. Any
suggestions a
On 12/09/16 19:57, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 07:32:52PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote:
Most of the common server-oriented packages in jessie have systemd
units written for them. E.g. openssh-server:
~$ dpkg -L openssh-server | grep systemd
/lib/systemd
/lib/systemd/system
/lib
On 08/09/16 23:50, Clive Menzies wrote:
On 08/09/16 23:07, Clive Menzies wrote:
Hi
We've suffered a series of seemingly disconnect problems on 4
machines since upgrading jessie on Monday:
apt/log:
Start-Date: 2016-09-05 12:17:10
Commandline: apt-get upgrade
Upgrade: libgcrypt20:i386
Please ignore this last message about dovecot - my brain was scrambled.
I hadn't installed it yet.
On 09/09/16 09:16, Clive Menzies wrote:
On 08/09/16 23:50, Clive Menzies wrote:
On 08/09/16 23:07, Clive Menzies wrote:
This nightmare of expanding problems has been going on for three
days
On 08/09/16 23:50, Clive Menzies wrote:
On 08/09/16 23:07, Clive Menzies wrote:
This nightmare of expanding problems has been going on for three
days, since Monday afternoon. Never before have I questioned the
decision to base our business (and our lives) on Debian and I remain
a firm
be much appreciated.
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On 08/09/16 23:07, Clive Menzies wrote:
Hi
We've suffered a series of seemingly disconnect problems on 4 machines
since upgrading jessie on Monday:
apt/log:
Start-Date: 2016-09-05 12:17:10
Commandline: apt-get upgrade
Upgrade: libgcrypt20:i386 (1.6.3-2+deb8u1, 1.6.3-2+deb8u2), gnupg:i386
On (11/04/07 16:18), Mark Hansen wrote:
Can anybody recommend a good, inexpensive, VPS hosting provider?
Checkout http://www.bluelinux.co.uk
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On (31/03/07 12:51), Andrei Popescu wrote:
But the example of Apache demonstrates that this is a non-issue. And
it's not me saying this. Have a look at
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/22/linux_v_windows_security/
and the entire report referenced there.
Interesting... thanks
Regards
On (22/03/07 20:32), Greg Folkert wrote:
You are fooling yourself. Run them a one shot cronjob set to run every
10-30 minutes. Much better use of resources on the machine.
As I have said before, fetchmail WILL die or hang on you, when run in
daemon mode.
I may have misunderstood but we've
On (15/03/07 22:10), Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 08:49:28PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 03/15/07 19:18, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
..thru Cheney, Halliburton, KBR, etc.
Do you *really* believe that?
Of course he does. The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are just
On (13/03/07 17:17), Michelle Konzack wrote:
Who use 2.6.8 today? --
It is outdate since years and nobody care realy about it.
Well it's still the standard kernel in sarge.. and my servers are
running it.
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On (12/03/07 16:10), Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 03:44:46PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
I'm going to be travelling in semi-wilderness and would like to take a
computer with me. Primarily for note-taking with vim, and when a
Will you be travelling by vehicle (or
On (10/03/07 11:12), Dave Walker wrote:
I have set up a nice big /Share directory on a separate HD, and would
like to create a document repository there accessible by all users. So
far only the root user can read, write and execute on the /Share
directory. What is the best way to accomplish
On (07/03/07 15:34), Robert Cates wrote:
Thanks for your replies, but I believe aptitude is a GUI application and
I forgot to point out that my machine is a server - no GUI, no KDE, no
Gnome. I have tried 'dpkg -i locales' but that didn't do the trick either:
dpkg: error processing locales
On (02/03/07 15:18), Salvatore Iovene wrote:
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 04:58:13AM -0800, Jordi wrote:
I am considering to change to another CMS. The best for me are these:
- Xoops
- Joomla
- e107
What do you use in your servers? Have you been using these in your
servers?
That's a
On (02/03/07 10:37), Raquel wrote:
On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 12:33:11 -0600
Dave Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am looking for an explanatory list of configuration files used
in sarge 3.1. The information I am looking for would give the
location (path), function (what the system uses it
On (01/03/07 10:26), Greg Vickers wrote:
I want to mount a Windows share using CIFS and an entry in my fstab like so:
//server/share /media/mnt cifs rw,user,noauto,workgroup=one,username=two
Here's what I do:
set up .smb_pass in each user's home dir
cat .smb_pass
username=username
On (26/02/07 18:30), ram wrote:
iam trying to install Debian on HP R class 9000
but i dont see iam able to make success
can some one help me ot resolve this problem
http://picasaweb.google.com/talk2ram/HpProblems
any solution for this problem
any help will be great
I know you posted
On (26/02/07 19:40), ram wrote:
On 2/26/07, Clive Menzies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On (26/02/07 18:30), ram wrote:
iam trying to install Debian on HP R class 9000
but i dont see iam able to make success
can some one help me ot resolve this problem
http://picasaweb.google.com
On (21/02/07 23:39), Karl Goetz wrote:
http://clivemenzies.co.uk/help/index.php?option=com_contenttask=categorysectionid=8id=33Itemid=58
This url seems to be timing out for me.
Working here OK. Try http://clivemenzies.co.uk go to Self Help File
server
Regards
Clive
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On (20/02/07 21:13), andy wrote:
Potentially a dumb query but I just don't know, and there doesn't seem
to be any documented discussion I can read, so pls humor me on this:
after Etch has done its daily update via update mngr, is it generally
considered a wise thing to reboot the computer
On (20/02/07 18:43), Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 09:34:36PM +, Clive Menzies wrote:
The only reason you need to reboot is when the kernel is updated.
Rebooting after a general upgrade will make no difference.
Nonsense. It will kill your uptime---the true
On (20/02/07 01:09), Karl Goetz wrote:
hi all
i'm about to deploy a network which will be using debian servers on its
backend (etch, hopefully) and about a hundred gnu/linux desktops.
I'll be setting up a bunch of services, and was hoping people could
recommend specific help they used to go
On (19/02/07 10:18), Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
snip
exim4
Personally, I would recommend Postfix instead. If you choose Postfix,
there is tons of good documentation on the Postfix website.
Hi Roberto
I've always used exim since using debian, primarily because it is the
default. Why would
On (19/02/07 22:08), Florian Kulzer wrote:
Being broken (i.e. having an unfulfilled dependency, pre-dependency, or
conflict) is a property of the package itself and should not depend on
the package manager. The package manager, on the other hand, can help
you to resolve breakages that occur,
On (15/02/07 22:47), Celejar wrote:
Speaking of learning, you shouldn't be running 'du' and 'dpkg -l' with
sudo; they'll run just fine as a normal user.
I think you'll find 'du' complains if you run as a normal user. The
reason being, it needs to descend into directories to gather usage
On (13/02/07 18:54), Tuani Panggabean wrote:
plase help me install printer debian-sarge.
speck printer Hp laser-jet 1320
posision printer : ipaddress 192.168.10.9)
thanks
This document will help you:
http://excess.org/docs/linux_windows_printing.html
Although it refers to windows, the
On (13/02/07 07:52), Victor Muchica wrote:
It will take its time, maybe march or april, DD are doing a great
work, trying to fix all the bugs.
Currently Im using testing on my Desktop PC.
In the past some month ago I try to made an apt-get dist-upgrade, form
sarge to etch, but too many
On (13/02/07 20:46), Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:
I am using sarge with Gnome and Evolution for emailing. I need to send
an email to a bunch o people (more or less 40 addresses). I've defined a
list in Evolution in order to accomplish this. But when I try to send
the email I get the following
On (12/02/07 15:02), Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina wrote:
Hi,
I wrote a for dummies tutorial on how to install Xen on sid.
http://www.asso-polyvalente.fr/workspaces/members/mihamina/public/xen-3-debiansid
Thanks for this, although the file seems to be corrupt; can you post it
as plain text?
On (12/02/07 13:31), Tyler Smith wrote:
This puzzles me. I've been running etch/testing since shortly after
Sarge went stable. I made sure to edit sources.lst to make sure it
points to testing, and not etch, so I can continue to receive the
latest packages after Etch goes stable. What happens
On (12/02/07 07:02), Hodgins Family wrote:
This puzzles me. I've been running etch/testing since shortly after
Sarge went stable. I made sure to edit sources.lst to make sure it
points to testing, and not etch, so I can continue to receive the
latest packages after Etch goes stable. What
On (12/02/07 10:21), Greg Folkert wrote:
On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 09:06 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 03:02:20PM +0100, Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina
wrote:
I wrote a for dummies tutorial on how to install Xen on sid.
On (11/02/07 19:15), Patrick Wiseman wrote:
On 2/11/07, Ken Heard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I tried today to add my only printer to CUPS from a P3 box running Etch.
I first used CUPS's own installation wizard
(http://localhost:631/admin). I answered all the questions about the
printer
On (10/02/07 03:12), Arc Roca wrote:
Exploring my system, I decided to open Inbox with mutt
-f, and discovered that no message that I had deleted
had really been deleted. They were all there, from the
very first, in the same file Inbox. Invisible from
icedove interface (probably through
On (04/02/07 12:40), cga2000 wrote:
Is there a quick way to remove the gnome and KDE desktop environments
that won't mess up apt..?
If possible I would prefer not to remove a few gtk-based apps such as
gpdf, gimp, and mozilla.
The main objective is to be able to run full system backups
On (03/02/07 15:34), Gerard Robin wrote:
Hello,
my processor is AMD turion 64 x2 TL50.
dist: etch.
deborphan gives:
libgmp3c2
libpisync0
libopal-2.2.0
libident
libtextwrap1
liblzo2-2
libmagick9
libc6-i386
libieee1284-3
libosp5
libpt-plugins-v4l
libgnome-pilot2
libjaxp1.2-java
On (31/01/07 09:57), debian wrote:
does anybody knows what drivers i have to use for my laptop (dell xps) ?
videocard is nvidia 7900 go but nvidia does only have drivers for
windows.
This has been addressed several times in the archives but here it is
again:
On (26/09/06 11:46), Wackojacko
On (31/01/07 19:17), David Baron wrote:
I have an openoffice spreadsheet from which I want to generate two related
tables. I have tried most everything installed.
Stuff from OpenOffice will generate a database with table entries named by
the
first line in the spreadsheet. This can,
On (29/01/07 09:57), Dan H. wrote:
Zach wrote:
Do you research der physik? Maybe you installed a new kernel or before
you did not use initrd and now it is expecting to find the initrd
entry in your boot loader but you don't have it. Try a rescue disk and
then mount your root filesystem
On (29/01/07 20:24), Michael Fothergill wrote:
OK I ran apt-get install base-config
snip
base-config supposedly doesn't exist, but something called locales does.
Sounds Spanish. has anyone used it?
locales is to set your geographic/language set and won't give you
apt-setup:
[EMAIL
On (25/01/07 23:53), Jim Hyslop wrote:
OK, I seem to have got myself into a bit of a pickle here. I tried to
install MySQL 5. Now, because of the various dependencies, installing
MySQL 5 requires the latest version of a particular package which
conflicts with my kernel (package:
On (25/01/07 19:08), ram wrote:
I have old Servers, which i can not sell, not some one intrested to Buy
so i want to use for linux testing, can some one tell me
is debian can install on HPR class 9000 Servers
if yes, where can i get the CD and install proceedure
Googling on HP R class
Hi
I spotted this in Linux Today and posted an entry. It is an opportunity
to give Debian some media exposure:
BBC NEWS: BATTLE OF THE OPERATING SYSTEMS
Tell us in 100 words or less, why you are such a supporter of your
chosen operating system and what features you love about it...
COMPLETE
On (18/01/07 16:50), Julian Gilbey wrote:
Any suggestions on this one: I'm running ALSA (with ESD) and between
turning my computer off yesterday and switching it on today, the
output volume has been decimated. I need to change the master volume
and program output volume (in eg, xmms,
On (17/01/07 03:38), glycerin wrote:
I've tryed this way but nothing is possible.
I didn't find anything where I can set the partition manually and
preserve the old one.
Any new advice?
What medium are you using to boot? If sarge (3.1) try typing expert26
at the boot prompt; this should
On (17/01/07 03:57), glycerin wrote:
I I try this way the guided partitioning try to use all my disk and in
the other steps there isn't a way to use a manual partiotioning.
Any other advice?
On (16/01/07 17:06), Gabriele Cicala wrote:
I while I try to install Debian Etch using the actual
On (17/01/07 15:29), Greg Folkert wrote:
On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 00:08 -0500, Grok Mogger wrote:
Hope no one minds if I hijack this thread. =)
I just read through all the responses and was surprised to see
three people using postfix, one using exim4, and none using
sendmail.
I've
On (16/01/07 11:49), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I installed debian 3.1r4 debian on my PC, which has 1Ghz amd duron
processor. Then I executed commands:
aptitude install xfree86-common
and it seemed to be installed
aptitude install xserver-xfree86
and it seemed to be installed too
after
On (16/01/07 17:06), Gabriele Cicala wrote:
I while I try to install Debian Etch using the actual net-installation
CD I encounter some problem for the partition already present on the laptop.
This machine is a dual-boot computer with windows and another Debian
installation that I want to
On (10/01/07 23:13), Douglas Tutty wrote:
I'm running Etch amd64 and this is my first box without a floppy drive.
On previous boxes I've used Woody's boot floppies and some extra
utilities disks I've made to cobble together a text-mode rescue setup on
a ram disk.
I found Debian From Scratch
On (11/01/07 09:14), Andrew Critchlow wrote:
Does exim4 not accept any client connections such as pop3/imap/web
interface or do you have to install 3rd part applications for this
functionality?
For pop3 connections to download mail you need something like
fetchmail or getmail which passes
On (11/01/07 18:50), Jerome BENOIT wrote:
my laptop have a small LCD screen, and I found the defaults fonts,
bars and icons too large: what is the best way to reduce theirs size
(and thus to enlarge my screen) ?
You need to check your screen resolution:
Go to: System Preferences Screen
A useful function is
# dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config
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On (10/01/07 21:39), Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
I've a colleague on the phone now: he wants to transfer Eudora mail
archives from a Windows partition - Evolution under Debian - Testing.
This will make his wife and his world Windows free for the most part :)
I can't recall exactly how I did
On (08/01/07 02:33), Paul Scott wrote:
mirrors to install packages but not to the web site.
Works fine here.
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On (08/01/07 12:21), Angela Gavazzi wrote:
Does anybody here know something more new than the informations from the
debian site?
July 24th, 2006
The Debian project confirms December 2006 as the date for the next release of
its distribution which will be named Debian GNU/Linux 4.0
Hi
I've noticed my /tmp directory filling up and thought I ought to check
out why using du
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ df -h /tmp
FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/alpha-tmp
432M 332M 77M 82% /tmp
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo du -h --max-depth=1
On (02/01/07 12:05), Clive Menzies wrote:
Hi
I've noticed my /tmp directory filling up and thought I ought to check
out why using du
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ df -h /tmp
FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/alpha-tmp
432M 332M 77M 82
On (02/01/07 09:20), Douglas Tutty wrote:
On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 12:05:15PM +, Clive Menzies wrote:
Hi
I've noticed my /tmp directory filling up and thought I ought to check
out why using du
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ df -h /tmp
FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted
On (02/01/07 09:03), Mike McCarty wrote:
Using Debian with GNOME and CUPS. We had a printer which we
physically uninstalled, but left the queues in place. Then,
accidentally, queued a job for the old printer. Now, we can't
kill the print job from GNOME's print manager tool, which
simply hangs
On (02/01/07 16:57), Michael Perry wrote:
Jerome BENOIT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I have just subscribe to the debian-amd64 list.
I have at list tow motivations:
1] indeed evince is very nice, but unfortunately some slides of mine
are not exhibited properly
On (28/12/06 14:59), Manuel Souto Pico wrote:
Hello,
I'm looking for some free software for insurance business. A friend of
mine is going to migrate all his client's data to a new (commercial)
application, but before he does I'd like to make him consider other
(free) options, if there are
On (20/12/06 15:30), Laura J. Portscheller wrote:
I am very new to linux. I have used it to a minimal extent and like
it, but have no experience in system administration and all the many
technical matters involved with it. I want to install linux on my
laptop and want to make sure that there
On (18/12/06 18:58), Rob Wright wrote:
I'm new to Debian, so please forgive me if this has been beaten to death.
Through Red Hat, Fedora, and OpenSuSE I've not been able to get my old
Palm IIIxe to connect and ultimately sync. This is something I was really
hoping to be able to do with
On (18/12/06 12:03), michael wrote:
On 18 Dec 2006 11:24:55 -0800, schmity wrote
Ok I have my debian machine connected to a XP machine through a router.
I have made several attemps to install samba using apt-get and I
have modified the smb.conf on several occations. My first thought
On (14/12/06 11:57), Paul wrote:
Hi all,
I am running debian stable and am having problems with spamassassin +
exim4.
I followed this tutorial to set SA (spamassassin) and exim4 up :
http://koivi.com/exim4-config/
Mail scanned by exim (using SA) seems to ignore my settings in /etc/
On (08/12/06 11:38), Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
On 12/8/06, Clive Menzies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Although this talks about windows/samba printing, I've found it a useful
reference for setting up printers generally:
http://excess.org/docs/linux_windows_printing.html
This is definitely
On (07/12/06 15:14), Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
Hi there,
I am looking for an up to date documentation on how to setup a
printer under a debian/testing system .I am reading for example, that
one should not anymore install foomatic-filters-ppds (which use to
contain the ppd file for my
On (06/12/06 19:27), Michael Fothergill wrote:
Dear Debian folks,
What is the recommended Debian package for burning CDs (and DVDs)?
On Fedora I think I have been using Nautilus.
I like cdrbq - it's a GTK program and is pretty intuitive (one I
realised the cdrom is /dev/hdc)
Regards
On (05/12/06 14:43), Florian Kulzer wrote:
I cannot predict what the future will bring. I can say, however, after
using aptitude on two Sid systems for almost a year and doing
dist-upgrade nearly every single day, that aptitude seems to be a lot
less dangerous than what has been claimed by
On (02/12/06 09:50), Tom Allison wrote:
Can anyone direct me towards debian based dedicated server hosting
companies?
I might be interested in other levels of hosting, but I might need more
root-level access than some configurations would permit.
Checkout:
On (20/11/06 09:40), Anthony Campbell wrote:
Probably easiest to download the tarball from the above source; it will
provide the documentation, which is pretty good.
Spamprobe can be run from procmail, which is I do myself. I know people
do run it in conjunction with other filters but I'm no
On (19/11/06 13:14), Richard Lyons wrote:
Can anybody point me to a reliable way to install basic spam filtering on a
fresh etch install?
I have again tried spamassassin, using the notes at
http://www.spencerstirling.com/computergeek/email.html to help with the
installation, but have had
On (19/11/06 17:23), Anthony Campbell wrote:
I like spamprobe better than spamassassin. There is a deb package but
I've always compiled and installed my own in /usr/local. It has a
mailing list where the author answers questions helpfully.
See spamprobe.sourceforge.net.
Hi Anthony
Although
On (16/11/06 12:01), Serban Udrea wrote:
After one of the latest updates I made on a debian sarge box I got the
following version of phpmyadmin:
2.6.2-3sarge3
Nevertheless, the latest security advisory regarding phpmyadmin i received
by email mentions just version:
2.6.2-3sarge2
On (15/11/06 01:39), Chris Metzler wrote:
snip
1. I have a machine with no domain of its own, in the sense that I
haven't registered a domain or anything like that. My ISP is
speakeasy.net. Outgoing email goes to a smarthost. Incoming email
is pulled in by fetchmail and handed off to
On (10/11/06 09:53), Lubos Vrbka wrote:
could anybody please show me how to setup schroot so, that it
automatically bindmounts the /dev, /tmp and /home directories inside the
chroot when it is entered? until now i was using permanent bind mount in
my fstab. however, having the directories
On (10/11/06 10:35), Roelof Wobben wrote:
I have installed Debian Sarge on the second hard disk of my computer.
Because lilo couldn't see windows , which is installed on the first disk, I
couldn't start Windows.
So i did a mbr repair of the mbr.
But now i don't know how to het into Debian
On (10/11/06 12:14), Roelof Wobben wrote:
Oke,
I understand how to fix it.
But can't i be done with the boot-only cd from Sarge.
I have used this one to download and install Sarge.
I want to use lilo instead of grub.
I'm not sure if you can get to grub from the sarge disk but if you
On (10/11/06 08:31), Raquel wrote:
If that machine is connected to the Internet and you have been doing
aptitude update and aptitude dist-upgrade then you're altready
there.
Question, is aptitude dist-upgrade necessary for a point release?
Regards
Clive
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On (04/11/06 05:51), Russell L. Harris wrote:
I am running a fresh install (two weeks ago) of Etch, and I have been
using synaptic to install and update packages.
As a result of discussions on this thread, I just ran aptitude.
Aptitude tells me that there is a broken package, and
On (03/11/06 09:56), Bruno Boettcher wrote:
Hello!
i am battling with an architect and a construction engeneer, and both
are most of the time unable to give me the informations i want, and
both don't give me some sort of digital version of the plans of my
house...
nevertheless i
On (02/11/06 13:31), ChadDavis wrote:
Hey. This may be a dumb question, but . . .
No :)
I'm doing my first install on a laptop. I have found that I need to track
down drivers for both my ethernet and wireless cards. I already found them,
I think, but I am curious as to how I make them
On (31/10/06 13:19), Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote:
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 03:40:48PM +, Clive Menzies wrote:
Since getting into Debian I've progressed down the scale (of bloat) from
KDE to Xfce to Enlightenment to Fluxbox. I'm very happy now but guess I
may get bored and try something
On (03/11/06 07:48), Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Hi,
Google news reports that M$ is going to collaborate with Novell on Suse
Linux.
I wonder what that means... ;-)
Interesting but when you sup with the devil, you need a very long
spoon.
MS has a history of signing agreements with potential
On (03/11/06 08:56), ChadDavis wrote:
On 11/3/06, Clive Menzies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you have a wired ethernet connection, I wouldn't worry about the
wireless card until you've completed the install. You can then have the
advantage of an x-window environment to get wireless sorted
On (03/11/06 10:14), cothrige wrote:
snip
In doing this, and reading various documentation, I found references
to 'U' marking packages upgradeable. I also saw the listing for
Upgradable Packages and so I started nosing around in there,
thinking that perhaps I would use 'U' to select this
On (03/11/06 17:24), Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
Following updates I find I have several redundant kernels and
corresponding entries in GRUB. Is there a preferred method of removing
these, once I have established stability with later versions, or is my
first thought of 'rm'ing the relevant
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