with intense loathing...
How do I get crontab back to using vi ?
Cheers,
Ron.
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Image
Old houses were scaffolding once,
and workmen whistling
Access Point remains
vulnerable - particularly to the possible all-zero key.
Your advice is extremely close, and very pertinent, but *both* clients
need to be fixed. So Celejar's powerline link may be a reasonable
solution for his case.
regards, Ron
hi michelle where are you from ,would possibly like to meet.love ron.
On Friday, August 18, 2017 4:15 PM, Michelle Hyblerova
wrote:
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Janice idon,tknow who you are I need more info.
On Monday, August 7, 2017 3:46 PM, Janice Chomsangjun
wrote:
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ug at the
other end, looking something similar to RJ11 or RJ45 sort of
appearance, to plug into the APC UPS.
regards, Ron
and Wheezy install in separate partitions, and I can boot
them fine. Grub in installed in the MBR of first hard drive. I have
installed 3 separate time with the same result.
Ron Benincasa
--
"This is so abstract, it must be topologically invariant" - Raul Bott
ice socat stop
did not stop socat - the script (it is just debian's standard script)
references the process by its pid which it determines using the line
PIDFILE=/var/run/$NAME.pid
(and NAME=socat)
but it still does not stop it.]
In principle, how should a system be configured so that something like
socat can be started, and stopped?
regards, Ron
On 06/06/2017 14:22, Henning Follmann wrote:
On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 10:59:30AM +0100, Ron Leach wrote:
I was also unsure whether socat would hold open a connection to
name.server.tld even if no transactions were taking place, or whether socat
would only open the connection each time traffic
r
client machines that use http.
I hadn't realised that nginx can be configured this way, and I'll
consider using this mode as well as the http service that I do/will
need on this LAN segment.
regards, Ron
that is
quite a big solution for what ought really be a simple proxy.
Has anyone any experience or suggestions for a single port TCP proxy
solution that would be always-on?
regards, Ron
via direct authenticated smtp submission but, because of some
connectivity problems here, I'd posted using the webmail user agent which does
not display the from name on the composition screen. I think it's fixed, now,
we'll see. For the record, I had sent my original message
showing continual errors saying:
May 2 06:25:07 Server6 rpc.idmapd[1799]: nss_getpwnam: name
'ron@inet' does not map into domain 'ourdomain.tld'
This report occurs every 10 minutes. Earlier in syslog, similar
errors occur for:
May 2 06:25:04 Server6 rpc.idmapd[1799]
On 27/04/2017 21:57, Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2017-04-27 19:48 +0100, Ron Leach wrote:
In syslog there are pretty much continuous messages (extract below)
issued by acpid and gdm. The gdm3 message warns that GdmDisplay is
lasting a very short time.
How about just stopping these services
running D6/Squeeze.
If the problem is because there is no screen connected, is there
anything I could arrange so that neither acpid nor gdm3 keep warning
about this? (I've no other screen available, nor any available KVM
connections.)
Grateful for any insights,
regards, Ron
syslog sa
Yeah just hope'n someone could get a line in
On 4/17/2017 10:04 AM, Nicolas George wrote:
L'octidi 28 germinal, an CCXXV, GiaThnYgeia a écrit :
Don't expect "Debian" to respond to you, it is like talking to the Borg
You realize Debian is not a person, right?
Why do you not include the drivers for RTL8111 I have not used Mint for
years because the network never worked I found the drivers and installed
them but way to much trouble I was getting ready to give up for good and
found the instructions to install. The network works fine in Ubuntu?
ion, keeping in mind that I will need to extend
whatever logical volume houses the 'users-files'?
Is using a whole-disk RAID1 a reasonable choice (the kernel raid wiki
suggests this will work) or would folks on the list recommend
configuring multiple mds?
I would be grateful for any guidance,
regards, Ron
do a lot more testing and checking before
perhaps asking for any more help. I recall that there's recently been
a long thread about preseeding which will be helpful, I think.
regards, Ron
s, anywhere? Or are the parameters literally those described in
s 5.3 of the installer guide?
Grateful for any info,
regards, Ron
[1] https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch05s03.html.en
[2] https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/apb.html.en
( and http://www.debian.org/rel
On 03/06/2016 17:31, Dan Purgert wrote:
Ron Leach wrote:
Have any debian-user readers ever tried to create a list of all the
email messages stored in an IMAP folder?
Do the same here (Dovecot + Postfix), not 100% certain if this'll match
your setup, but it should be pretty close.
evice. There are many Debian users who have a firm belief in only using
root privilege for the most essential of maintenance jobs and many
others who do not have that privilege. Isn't it about time to leverage
the benefits of the OS?
Ron Leach's requirement is met completely by dmesg, lsblk
On 18/05/2016 10:40, Felix Miata wrote:
Ron Leach composed on 2016-05-18 10:30 (UTC+0100):
I'd be grateful for any advice on where to find the physical device to
use in a mount command.
# lsscsi
...
[9:0:0:0] disk FLASH Drive SM_USB20 1100 /dev/sdg...
# blkid /dev/sdg
# mount -t aut
ing them with something new.
I'd be interested in how other users organise this but, essentially,
I'd be grateful for any advice on where to find the physical device to
use in a mount command. And, as a secondary question (there are two
points on offer for this one), how to mount it without knowing the
device's fs.
regards, Ron
or sure what the line-endings ought to be
could chime in.
regards, Ron
activate?
Ron
On 05/05/2016 00:13, Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Wednesday 04 May 2016 23:58:56 Ron Leach wrote:
But ... following some other earlier posts by folk using a web browser
to reach the url (and seeming to have success)
Curiouser and curiouser - I didn't just reach it successfully, I logg
to be ok - in that we are not or would not reject or impair the
negotiation? I'd like to feel that our copies of CAs, etc, are ok:
ron@debians5:~$ openssl s_client -showcerts -connect
secure.gateway.gov.uk:443 -CApath /etc/ssl/certs
CONNECTED(0003)
depth=2 /C=US/O=VeriSign, Inc./OU=VeriSign Tr
ure is reported by the application as an
"SSL Certificate Verification Error"; no other information.
Using openssl -showcerts, a "verify error" is reported. Here's the
dialogue - I've skipped the bulk of the certificate texts.
ron@debians5:~$ openssl s_client -
ly acquired over the years running and caring for a Linux system has
suddenly become unusable.
Cheers,
Ron.
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The three worst mistakes you can make
are overpromising and underdelivering.
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g the file ?
Cheers,
Ron.
PS Debian Wheezy, XFCE
--
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
-- Eric Hoffer
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.
Ron
On Mon, 11 Apr 2016 09:10:21 +0100
Tixy wrote:
> pcmanfm has settings for Volume Management (see 'Preferences' on the
> 'Edit' menu).
Thanks, that solved it.
Cheers,
Ron.
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say in Froggish
;-3)
Cheers,
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In love, she who gives her portrait promises the original.
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enounced a long time ago both Gnome and Kde, their pomps,
their works and their bloat...
Cheers,
Ron.
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In love, she who gives her portrait promises the original.
-- Bruton
On Sun, 10 Apr 2016 18:06:19 +0100
Brad Rogers wrote:
> Look at "Device Notifier settings" or whatever your chosen DE calls it.
Running XFCE, I find nothing about the pop-up window in either Notifications,
or in Removable Drives and Media ;-3(
Cheers,
Ron.
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event the window from popping up ?
Cheers,
Ron.
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La perfection est atteinte non quand il ne reste rien à ajouter,
mais quand il ne reste rien à enlever.
-- Antoine de Saint-Ex
for the definitive syntax of
the IP address setting?
I'd be very grateful for any advice
regards, Ron
On Mon, 28 Mar 2016 13:53:02 +0200
deloptes wrote:
> And Germany is still officially occupied by the USA.
ISTR that occupation was over with the re-unification of Germany in October
1990.
Cheers,
Ron.
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Take care of the luxuries
and
And of course you could not access the BIOS with a USB keyboard until the
setting had been changed. (Catch 22 anyone ?)
The solution then was to borrow a PS2 keyboard for the initial BIOS setting
process.
Cheers,
Ron.
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Blessed are they who can laugh at them
this be seen in the Social
> Contract?
You are the one stirring thing: I never mentioned Debian; only Linux...
Cheers,
Ron.
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On Sat, 12 Mar 2016 12:46:08 +
Lisi Reisz wrote:
> And the Everything Free brigade is so pleasant to anyone who wants to use
> binary blobs??
Because, it seems, for some people "Linux is about freedom of choice" means
"you are free to accept MY choices, and no ot
On 10/03/2016 21:41, Sven Hartge wrote:
Ron Leach wrote:
I haven't been able to find
out how to check the permissions on "/", and I'd appreciate a
suggestion how to do that
# ls -ld /
drwxr-xr-x 29 root root 4096 Mar 10 13:07 /
Sven, tks. I'd used "
owned by and writable by user mary. mary is also in the group
'sftp-users'.
OS is Wheezy, and ssh updates are applied.
I'd be very grateful for any insights,
regards, Ron
I have the .pdf scan of an old book, with some pages leaning at an angle.
Is there in Debian a program that would let me rectify the offending pages one
by one, but, avoiding the hassle of turning the .pdf in individual .jpg,
modifying the jpg and turning back into .pdf ?
Cheers,
Ron
t Brother might keep using the same codebase for
its Linux support of each new printer, perhaps just tweaking some or
other details and, if the case, then the issue about Brother printers
requiring some specific queue name might still exist.
Have you seen anything about this?
regards, Ron
On Sat, 05 Mar 2016 20:57:40 +0100
Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> > always /media/label when automounted.
>
> Not using udisks2, or maybe you have entries in /etc/fstab?
Same behaviour for me, nothing in /etc/fstab but I remember I had to modify
something to get that behaviour.
C
temd jessie, with XFCE.
I remember doing a modification on my system shortly after installing a couple
years ago, completely forgot what; and now I need to do the same on an install
for Eldest Daughter.
Cheers,
Ron.
--
See, these two penguins walked into a bar, which was really stupid,
Would a kind soul remind me the invocation needed to have removable drives
automount to /media/label instead of /media/user/label ?
TIA
Cheers,
Ron.
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The first draft of anything is shit.
-- Ernest Hemingway
eing sufficiently UNIX-y
> (which FAT isn't)), and simplicity.
Not to mention that, given the rarity of changes in /boot, a journalling FS may
not be really useful...
Cheers,
Ron.
--
In judging human behaviour, one must go by what an individual
b
Having posted Roco's comments on an IPCop list, I got these comments
Cheers,
Ron.
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One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them.
One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them.
In the Land of Redmond where the shadow
ian will be.
Cheers,
Ron.
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Mors acerba, fama perpetua.
Stabit vetus memoria facti.
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multitude of offers,
including those with external aerial.
Cheers,
Ron.
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Do you remember Doctor Alzheimer's first name ?
No ? Well, that is how it begins.
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On Tue, 16 Feb 2016 18:02:52 +
Joe wrote:
> Ron was not completely clear here. Only the 'professional' versions of
> Windows have the standard RDP server, but all versions since about 2000
> have had 'remote assistance', which is an RDP connection to the
>
lling_without_systemd
> http://noone.org/talks/debian-ohne-systemd/debian-ohne-systemd-clt.html
Yes please, and thanks.
Cheers,
Ron.
--
We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things,
because we're curious and cur
In the days I used MS Windows, I had a suite of progs that allowed me, when run
on both boxes, to see the desktop of one box in a window on the other, and
mouse and keyboard actions in that window would act on the remote box.
Is there something similar in Debian ?
Cheers,
Ron
On Tue, 16 Feb 2016 11:53:41 +
Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > Want to stay with GNU-Linux, not ready to switch to Systemd-Linux.
>
> Jessie without systemd?
How do you install that ?
Cheers,
Ron.
--
Ninety percent of everyt
gt; probably want to get started with a tutorial, because it is not completely
> inuitive to use.
Thanks, will try aptitude
> Also, be aware that wheezy is oldstable, jessie is the current stable.
Want to stay with GNU-Linux, not ready to switch to Systemd-Linux.
Cheers,
Ron.
--
New install of Wheezy; from the DVD.
When I execute apt-get update && apt-get upgrade, I am given a list of 168
packages that have been kept back and not upgraded.
Why are they not upgraded ?
Cheers,
Ron.
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If at first you dont
install fonts system wide beyond the package
> manager is as follows:
> put your fonts into /usr/local/share/fonts instead of ~/MyFonts.
Except that your font collection is lost on the day you format the / partition
for a new install.
The ln way at least lets them be kept sa
On Fri, 12 Feb 2016 14:44:03 -0500
Felix Miata wrote:
> > Ta, I'll risk the hackish way as I want those fonts to be available to all
> > users.
>
> Make symlink from ~/MyFonts to /usr/local/share/fonts
Ta, that should remain through updates.
Cheers,
Ron.
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On Fri, 12 Feb 2016 21:46:55 +0300
Reco wrote:
> > Given a collection of .ttf font files I keep in my ~/MyFonts/ directory.
> > How do I instruct Wheezy to also look in that dir when I run
> > root@ron:/home/ron # fc-cache -fv
> > to reload the font cache ?
> Debi
Given a collection of .ttf font files I keep in my ~/MyFonts/ directory.
How do I instruct Wheezy to also look in that dir when I run
root@ron:/home/ron # fc-cache -fv
to reload the font cache ?
Cheers,
Ron.
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Toute loi qui viole les droits imprescriptibles de l'
7; files moved from
/etc/... to /usr/... and this seemed to be a consequence of systemd
(in Fedora's case), but I don't know what happens in Jessie. Just to
check whether the conf files you are changing are the ones being used.
Ron
code, so all I can think of-- and what we've
> done at every place I've worked-- is just to send everyone an email.
No good, since they will only get the message if/when they open their MUA.
I was thinking of something like a gxmessage posted simultaneously on all the
GUIs...
Is there a way for a system admin to post a message on the desktops of all the
machines on a LAN ?
Cheers,
Ron.
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La marine est un art, une science, et un snobisme.
-- Roger Glachant
entirely possible to pick up a
turd by the clean end."
Cheers,
Ron.
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Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.
-- Bennett Cerf
-
e
> > to install debian with the first dvd and whatever number that other dvd is
> > in future.
>
> The DVDs contain free software only.
In other words, you are buggered, since you need the non-free driver to connect
to the internet through which you will be able to downloa
TERNAL in the version in wheezy.
Thanks, but I am not completely clear:
Does this mean replace UDISKS_SYSTEM with UDISKS_SYSTEM_INTERNAL in the
/etc/udev/rules.d/10-esata.rules ?
I tried that, but it still does not work ;-3(
Cheers,
Ron.
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He that breaks a thin
On Mon, 11 Jan 2016 11:31:24 +0100
Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> Another way is marking the SATA port as external:
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/udev#Mark_internal_SATA_ports_as_eSATA
Tried this already, it does not work.
Would it be systemd dependent ?
Cheers,
Ron.
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tps://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/udev#Mark_internal_SATA_ports_as_eSATA
Thanks; forgot to mention: No systemd, Wheezy.
Cheers,
Ron.
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If anybody ever tells you anything about an aeroplane
which is so bloody complicated you can't understand it
> See systemd.mount(5) for details
Thanks; forgot to mention: Wheezy, no systemd.
Cheers,
Ron.
--
If anybody ever tells you anything about an aeroplane
which is so bloody complicated you can't understand it,
ta
I have added an external Sata port on my box.
When I hot-plug a Sata HD into it it appears in dmesg as /dev/sdi1
How can I get the system to auto-mount whatever Sata HD I plug into it to
/media/eSata/ and this without having to give a root password ?
Cheers,
Ron
On Wed, 06 Jan 2016 15:53:14 +0100
deloptes wrote:
> dealing with overweight (political correct word) people
Please: "ponderally challenged"...
Cheers,
Ron.
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Under capitalism, man exploits man.
Under communism, it's
On Wed, 06 Jan 2016 09:36:58 +0100
deloptes wrote:
> Start educating is what I want to say, start educating your children, and
> building up self protection. Believe me this is the only way you can
> protect them.
And that would start with educating the parents...
Cheers,
Ron.
-
as post-up
> commands.
Finally, from what I read it wont work, as tc only limits the traffic going out
of a box.
I need to limit the traffic going in ;-3(
Cheers,
Ron.
--
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely
interfaces as post-up
> commands.
Grateful thanks.
Cheers,
Ron.
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If your income doesn't keep up with your outgo,
then your upkeep will be your downfall.
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Is there a way to config the system so as to limit the bandwidth that will be
used by the (wifi) network interface ?
Debian Wheezy, sysvinit.
Cheers,
Ron.
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When you come to a fork in the road, take it.
--Yogi Berra
camouflage class !"
"Sir ! Thank you, Sir !"
Cheers,
Ron.
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An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less
until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.
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> Chris Bannister writes:
> > Is sarcasm ever necessary? (BTW, I don't recall reading any.)
>
> I posted some. And yes, it is sometimes justified.
He must have missed my reply, where I profusely thanked the original poster for
the useful pointer he had given us
mediately, and enjoy a
look at those pictures...
Cheers,
Ron.
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Paranoids are people, too; they have their own problems.
It's easy to criticize, but if everybody hated you,
you'd be paranoid too.
On Wed, 23 Dec 2015 13:49:36 +0100
to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> Now you might want to try
> sudo e2fsck -n /dev/sdi9
Does not like it either:
root@ron:/home/ron # e2fsck -n /dev/sdi9
e2fsck 1.42.5 (29-Jul-2012)
ext2fs_open2: Bad magic number in super-block
e2fsck: Superblock invalid,
ay on a now defunct Wheezy
> > > > > system.
> > > > >
> > > > > Is there a way to mount it on another Wheezy system to recover the
> > > > > data ?
> > > > >
> > > > > I have tried to mount it, and get
&g
ta HD that was part of a RAID1 array on a now defunct Wheezy
> > > system.
> > >
> > > Is there a way to mount it on another Wheezy system to recover the data ?
> > >
> > > I have tried to mount it, and get
> > >
> > > root@ron:/home/r
Given a Sata HD that was part of a RAID1 array on a now defunct Wheezy
system.
Is there a way to mount it on another Wheezy system to recover the data ?
I have tried to mount it, and get
root@ron:/home/ron # mount -t ext4 /dev/sdi9 /media/eSata
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock
Given a Sata HD that was part of a RAID1 array on a now defunct Wheezy system.
Is there a way to mount it on another Wheezy system to recover the data ?
Cheers,
Ron.
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You cannot help people permanently by doing for them,
what they could and should do for
s /dev/something ?
Cheers,
Ron.
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Work is the curse
of the drinking classes.
-- Mike Romanoff
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s, making grunting noises in the
backwoods and using POP3 (and refusing systemd...)
Cheers,
Ron.
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Climate is an ill-tempered beast, and we are poking it with sticks.
-- Ma
evices
> > > > > for
> > > > > which the default policykit rules only allow mounting with
> > > > > authentication. These should show up as "HintSystem: true" in the
> > > > > output of "udisksctl dump".
> >
>
ue" in the
> > > output of "udisksctl dump".
> > root@ron:/home/ron # udisksctl dump
> > bash: udisksctl: command not found
> > ???
> dpkg -l udisks2
root@ron:/home/ron # apt-get install udisks2
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency
how up as "HintSystem: true" in the
> output of "udisksctl dump".
root@ron:/home/ron # udisksctl dump
bash: udisksctl: command not found
???
Cheers,
Ron.
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Le client n'a jamais tort.
-- César Ritz
SATA drives, and one has to log in as root, and mount then, before use
?
Cheers,
Ron.
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Le client n'a jamais tort.
-- César Ritz
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/devices/ -name sdb
/sys/devices/pci:00/:00:1f.2/host4/target4:0:0/4:0:0:0/block/sdb
If rules fail to reload automatically
# udevadm control --reload
-
Cheers,
Ron.
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No one ever built a statue to a critic.
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ot;Authentication is required".
> >
> > Is that udev throwing a tantrum ?
> >
> > Tried mounting it from the CLI, did not work:
> >
> > root@ron:/home/ron # mount /dev/sdi1
> > mount: can't find /dev/sdi1 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
> >
>
e CLI, did not work:
root@ron:/home/ron # mount /dev/sdi1
mount: can't find /dev/sdi1 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
How do I get it to mount ?
Cheers,
Ron.
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They also surf, who only stand on waves.
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Why not use Knoppix, instead of re-inventing the wheel ?
Cheers,
Ron.
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Those of you who think you know everything
are very annoying those of us who do.
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but when I go on a
trip . stop automatic download, and can access it on their web-site.
Cheers,
Ron.
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La superstition met le monde entier en flammes; la philosophie les eteint.
--Volta
hat was
before ?
And ensure that what worked before still works with (or in spite of) the
innovations and improvements ??
Cheers,
Ron.
--
There comes a time in the affairs of a man
when he has to take the bull by the tail
and fac
ed new users.
One wonders why did they abandon the principle of backward compatibility ?
Cheers,
Ron.
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There comes a time in the affairs of a man
when he has to take the bull by the tail
and
gnificant cost of human interface changes and
> should be considered.
Only obsolete for those who have switched to systemd-Linux; the documentation
remains still valid for users of GNU-Linux.
Cheers,
Ron.
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An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less
gt; because of the stick or external enumerated as sda instead of the internal
> HD. By LABEL and by UUID both avoid that risk.
No risk: when I want to boot from the USB I do it (F8 at boot) from the Grub
installed on the USB.
No UUID crap needed.
Cheers,
Ron.
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