Need help setting up debian dual boot on Macbook Pro (with El Capitan)

2016-06-14 Thread Paul Condon
or what steps to perform? What search terms should I use? Of course answers to above questions won’t be enough, but I hope they will get me started. Either way I expect to be doing a lot of reading ;-) Paul Condon pecond...@gmail.com

Re: Finding a replacement for my ISP's smtp server

2014-07-28 Thread Paul Condon
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 02:56:40PM +0100, Brian wrote: On Mon 28 Jul 2014 at 14:02:29 +0200, Slavko wrote: Dňa Sun, 27 Jul 2014 13:02:18 +0100 Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk napísal: He could check with nc. brian@desktop:~$ nc smtp.gmail.com 25 220 mx.google.com ESMTP

Re: Finding a replacement for my ISP's smtp server

2014-07-28 Thread Paul Condon
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 01:37:57PM +, Curt wrote: On 2014-07-28, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: (Piques my curiosity.) They have made it clear in that they do not require or use TLS. (Wondering what TLS has to do with strangeness in this case.) I have read that without

Re: Theme control in Xfce4

2014-07-26 Thread Paul Condon
On 20140726_0639+0200, B wrote: On Fri, 25 Jul 2014 22:26:02 -0600 Paul Condon pecond...@gmail.com wrote: on with my imperfect eye-hand coordination. I want the old Crux back. Is there a package of 'legacy' themes? What is its name? I don't know if it can be recovered; however, you

Theme control in Xfce4

2014-07-25 Thread Paul Condon
Until quite recently, i.e. in the last year or so, I used the Crux theme in Gnome and more recent Xfce4. But in a recent install from release 7.6 (of Wheezy), Crux has changed in a way that is significant for me. I have a style of working in which I have many overlapping terminal windows on the

trouble formatting 3TB Seagate external HDrives. need help

2013-06-24 Thread paul condon
I have two 3TB Seagate external HDs. They were purchased from different stores at slightly different times earlier this year, here in Colorado. I want them to have ext4 file systems on them, excepting if someone on this list can give a reason otherwise. I have googled and gotten a lot of hits,

Re: how can I set the from address in mutt?

2013-05-27 Thread Paul Condon
On 05/27/2013 07:20 PM, Gary Dale wrote: I want to send e-mail with an attachment via a script. The attachment requirement prevents me from using mail but mutt can handle it. Normally when I send using mail, I can simply use the -r option to set the mail user account specified in

Re: wheeezy-backports - strange policy?

2013-05-23 Thread Paul Condon
On 05/23/2013 10:59 AM, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Hi folks, I made my minds about wheezy-backports now for a long time, and allow me, to open this discussion. Pleae correct me, if I am wrong: IMO wheezy-backports is the successor to debian-volatile and is intended for use of debian/stable users

Re: Gain owner of a file using vim :w!

2013-05-22 Thread Paul Condon
On 05/22/2013 04:48 PM, Beco wrote: Dear users, I'm astonished by this (maybe I'm naive and I'm missing something). Yesterday as root I saved a file skel.bashrc in my /home/beco user, owned by root, group root. Today I edited it, logged as beco, and vi told me warning, read only!. I

Installing Wheezy on a box that is new to me.

2013-05-17 Thread Paul Condon
I have a computer on which I wish to install Wheezy. I have inquired locally in Colorado about which flavor of Wheezy I should (previously I have only ever had occasion to use i386). The box is a Dell Optiplex GX620 with Pentium 4 HT processor. I have been told that this processor is Itanium. I

Re: how to avoid download during debian installation.

2013-05-12 Thread Paul Condon
On 05/12/2013 10:26 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: David Christensen a écrit : On 05/12/13 00:32, Pascal Hambourg wrote: The client is not using approx for security updates. Why ? That's the way the Debian installer set it up. Thus I regret that the installer does not allow to manually configure

Re: how to avoid download during debian installation.

2013-05-12 Thread Paul Condon
On 05/12/2013 10:26 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: David Christensen a écrit : On 05/12/13 00:32, Pascal Hambourg wrote: The client is not using approx for security updates. Why ? That's the way the Debian installer set it up. Thus I regret that the installer does not allow to manually configure

Video and sound in Wheezy: Howto?

2013-05-08 Thread Paul Condon
I installed Wheezy on a HP computer which had been running Squeeze about a week or two ago. I've done installs of Debian many times before on other hardware, and earlier versions of Debian. This install went very smoothly, but ... I just noticed today that I can't play video clips in

Re: business card image, where?

2013-05-07 Thread Paul Condon
On 05/07/2013 05:30 AM, Brian wrote: On Mon 06 May 2013 at 21:13:07 -0600, Paul Condon wrote: On 05/06/2013 05:20 PM, Brian wrote: Which includes the USB stick the ISO is on. So you can boot d-i from the stick, provide needed firmware from the same stick and install to it. Some would see

business card image, where?

2013-05-06 Thread Paul Condon
I want to make a 'business card' install CD as mentioned in old boiler plate at www.debian.org, but I can't fathom the organization of the hot links there. What is the URL of the actual iso image that I need to download and burn onto a blank CD? TAI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: business card image, where?

2013-05-06 Thread Paul Condon
On 05/06/2013 05:57 AM, Brian wrote: On Mon 06 May 2013 at 05:47:36 -0600, Paul Condon wrote: I want to make a 'business card' install CD as mentioned in old boiler plate at www.debian.org, but I can't fathom the organization of the hot links there. What is the URL of the actual iso image

Re: business card image, where?

2013-05-06 Thread Paul Condon
On 05/06/2013 07:32 AM, Brian wrote: On Mon 06 May 2013 at 06:40:08 -0600, Paul Condon wrote: On 05/06/2013 05:57 AM, Brian wrote: On Mon 06 May 2013 at 05:47:36 -0600, Paul Condon wrote: I want to make a 'business card' install CD as mentioned in old boiler plate at www.debian.org, but I

Re: business card image, where?

2013-05-06 Thread Paul Condon
On 05/06/2013 07:32 AM, Brian wrote: On Mon 06 May 2013 at 06:40:08 -0600, Paul Condon wrote: On 05/06/2013 05:57 AM, Brian wrote: On Mon 06 May 2013 at 05:47:36 -0600, Paul Condon wrote: I want to make a 'business card' install CD as mentioned in old boiler plate at www.debian.org, but I

Re: business card image, where?

2013-05-06 Thread Paul Condon
On 05/06/2013 05:20 PM, Brian wrote: On Tue 07 May 2013 at 00:09:07 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 06 mai 13, 14:33:45, Paul Condon wrote: Can this mini.iso be written to a USB memory stick, as well as to a blank CD? You already have a reference for that. Something that is not widely

a problem with CUPS

2013-04-23 Thread Paul Condon
I have a rather complicated CUPS printing setup, which works, mostly, but not entirely: My printer is an old HP 5MP, laser printer, which I purchased before HP invented the word laserjet because I was committed to Macintosh back then and the HP 5MP offered both parallel port and Apple Talk

Re: migration to wheezy and disaster recovery

2013-04-15 Thread Paul Condon
On 04/13/2013 04:50 PM, Joe wrote: On Sat, 13 Apr 2013 13:19:18 -0600 Paul Condonpecond...@gmail.com wrote: Last week I decided to dist-upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy, thinking I would get in ahead of the rush of stragglers. I found a nice document with lots of step-by-step instruction,

Re: netinstall size?

2013-04-13 Thread Paul Condon
On 04/13/2013 10:19 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 13/04/13 11:35, agroconsultor wrote: On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 10:41:03AM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 12/04/13 21:25, agroconsultor0 wrote: Hello I have seen at http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ that

migration to wheezy and disaster recovery

2013-04-13 Thread Paul Condon
Last week I decided to dist-upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy, thinking I would get in ahead of the rush of stragglers. I found a nice document with lots of step-by-step instruction, and particularly how to create a log file of the steps that I actually performed. I thought I was following it but

Re: Re: Is the a 'contrarian' Debian install available?

2012-06-22 Thread Paul Condon
I think I have also read somewhere that netinst is a minimal system that is capable of hardly anything, except downloading and installing more packages from a mirror on the web. For this to be true in any meaningful sense, I had always assumed that it is capable of booting from hard disk. And

ipchains memory problem

2001-12-11 Thread Paul Condon
I recall seeing somewhere on my machine recently a document that detailed the Debian setup of ipchains. Now I am attempting to set up ipchains and I can't find it. I know about man, apropos, locate, etc, etc, but I must not be remembering the magic n-letter string that all gurus know to use. What

Re: How can i install woody?

2001-12-10 Thread Paul Condon
Michel Loos wrote: On Mon, 2001-12-10 at 02:37, Paul E Condon wrote: Michel Loos wrote: On Sun, 2001-12-09 at 19:14, Brian Clark wrote: * Paul E Condon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [Dec 09. 2001 01:25]: But I don't believe there are any install floppies yet for woody,