Please help me

2014-06-25 Thread monirul hasan
/normal.mod' not found . Entering rescue mode grub rescue Sir, now what can I do to install Debian in my laptop uing USB? Sir,Please help me in detail.

Re: Please help me

2014-06-25 Thread Erwan David
Le 25/06/2014 16:55, monirul hasan a écrit : Humm your message is empty, with a text attachment... Strange... Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-3110M CPU @ 2.40GHz . Sir, I want to make the following partitions: Drive name Size Type /(root)

Re: Please help me

2014-06-25 Thread Erwan David
Le 25/06/2014 17:32, Erwan David a écrit : Le 25/06/2014 16:55, monirul hasan a écrit : Humm your message is empty, with a text attachment... Strange... Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-3110M CPU @ 2.40GHz . Sir, I want to make the following partitions: Drive name Size

Re: Please help me

2014-06-25 Thread Brian
On Wed 25 Jun 2014 at 20:55:02 +0600, monirul hasan wrote: using utorrent. During installation a message says that The missing firmware files are :rtl_nic/rtl8105e-1.fw . At what exact point? (It is not a cause of your main problem, however. Please read the manual), I made my 16GB USB

Re: Please help me OT

2014-06-25 Thread Ric Moore
It's much better if your subject line reflects your problem. Please help me doesn't make the topic searchable for anyone else that may have your same problem. Then you are the sole recipient of the help others are investing their time in. I'm surprised anyone responded at all. :/ Ric

i can figure out. is it config issue or bug. please help

2013-07-17 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
i am using samba 3.6.5 with winbind.for active directory authentication there is a samba share folder name Filesharing and plethora of folders are inside it. i have been using 2.7 stable for more then 2 years with no problem however after my harddisk failure i had to restore data to new server.

Re: i can figure out. is it config issue or bug. please help

2013-07-17 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - From: Muhammad Yousuf Khan sir...@gmail.com i am using samba 3.6.5 with winbind.for active directory authentication there is a samba share folder name Filesharing and plethora of folders are inside it. i have been using 2.7 stable for more then 2 years with

Re: Please help parsing file [sed, awk, fortran, bash]

2012-09-01 Thread Alois Mahdal
On Thu, 30 Aug 2012 21:44:04 -0400 John L. Cunningham djoh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Daniel, Here's my awk solution: [snip] Very nice, this should be added as an example to an awk-learning document :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Please help parsing file [sed, awk, fortran, bash]

2012-08-31 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Ven 31 août 2012 6:42, daniel jimenez a écrit : Hello guys, @richard, 1 this is not homework, a friend asked me to do some statistics on an experimental dataset he got for his masters thesis and the file was already that way. 2 i'm well versed in fortran, this problem however is not

Re: Please help parsing file [sed, awk, fortran, bash]

2012-08-31 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 02:18:15AM +, Mark Blakeney wrote: On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 01:31:29 +, Russell L. Harris wrote: This exercise provides the impetus to learn to use a very useful tool, namely Perl. I would suggest python is a much better choice to a young person just starting

Re: Please help parsing file [sed, awk, fortran, bash]

2012-08-31 Thread Jon Dowland
read ignore read ignore index=-1 while read line; do set -- $line index=$((index + 1)) if [ $index != $1 ]; then while [ $(($1 - $index)) -gt 0 ]; do echo $index 0 index=$((index + 1)) done fi index=$1 [ $index -le 1024 ] || break second=1 shift [ $# -le 0 ]

Re: Please help parsing file [sed, awk, fortran, bash]

2012-08-31 Thread Gaël DONVAL
Le vendredi 31 août 2012 à 09:46 +0100, Jon Dowland a écrit : On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 02:18:15AM +, Mark Blakeney wrote: On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 01:31:29 +, Russell L. Harris wrote: This exercise provides the impetus to learn to use a very useful tool, namely Perl. I would

Re: Please help parsing file [sed, awk, fortran, bash]

2012-08-31 Thread Miles Fidelman
Gaël DONVAL wrote: Le vendredi 31 août 2012 à 09:46 +0100, Jon Dowland a écrit : On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 02:18:15AM +, Mark Blakeney wrote: On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 01:31:29 +, Russell L. Harris wrote: This exercise provides the impetus to learn to use a very useful tool, namely Perl. I

Re: Please help parsing file [sed, awk, fortran, bash]

2012-08-31 Thread Gaël DONVAL
Le vendredi 31 août 2012 à 09:48 -0400, Miles Fidelman a écrit : For going through a file, line-by-line, and massaging the format, my first instinct would be sed. That's what it's intended for. Actually, I did not read the whole thread (shame on me) prior to answering. I think what is really

Re: Please help parsing file [sed, awk, fortran, bash]

2012-08-31 Thread daniel jimenez
I didnt mean to say this was oo programming, only that my background is in strictly scientific computing using structured programming in c and fortran. this rarely requires doing any formating work on lines such as this... as before, the file is from an experimenter who chose the format

Re: Please help parsing file [sed, awk, fortran, bash]

2012-08-31 Thread Gaël DONVAL
Le vendredi 31 août 2012 à 08:21 -0700, daniel jimenez a écrit : as before, the file is from an experimenter who chose the format arbitrarily (maybe the photon counter outputs that, no clue [dont really care]) and Im doing this as a favor. Maybe this experimenter should ask for a program

Re: Please help parsing file [sed, awk, fortran, bash]

2012-08-31 Thread Gaël DONVAL
As usual, I obviously screwed up the indexes... 10 DAT(IDX)=VAL 10 DAT(IDX+1)=VAL WRITE(2,*), i, DAT(i) WRITE(2,*), i-1, DAT(i) Le vendredi 31 août 2012 à 20:00 +0200, Gaël DONVAL a écrit : I have to learn fortran. I just thought this was a

Please help parsing file [sed, awk, fortran, bash]

2012-08-30 Thread daniel jimenez
Hello all, I need some help fixing the format of some pretty strangely compressed data files. An example would be like this: 2883 452 0 7 1 6 2 4 6 10 7 Parsing rules: The first two lines should be ignored. The first column is the 'index', the second column being the 'counter'. If there is no

Re: Please help parsing file [sed, awk, fortran, bash]

2012-08-30 Thread Richard Owlett
daniel jimenez apparently described a *HOMEWORK* problem: Hello all, I need some help fixing the format of some pretty strangely compressed data files. An example would be like this: 2883 452 07 16 2 4 6 107 Parsing rules: The first two lines should be ignored. The first column is the

Re: Please help parsing file [sed, awk, fortran, bash]

2012-08-30 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net [120831 00:39]: daniel jimenez apparently described a *HOMEWORK* problem: ... I need some help fixing the format of some pretty strangely compressed data files. An example would be like this: This exercise provides the impetus to learn to use a very useful

Re: Please help parsing file [sed, awk, fortran, bash]

2012-08-30 Thread John L. Cunningham
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 04:37:19PM -0700, daniel jimenez wrote: Hello all, I need some help fixing the format of some pretty strangely compressed data files. An example would be like this: 2883 452 0 7 1 6 2 4 6 10 7 Parsing rules: The first

Re: Please help parsing file [sed, awk, fortran, bash]

2012-08-30 Thread Mark Blakeney
On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 01:31:29 +, Russell L. Harris wrote: This exercise provides the impetus to learn to use a very useful tool, namely Perl. I would suggest python is a much better choice to a young person just starting out. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Please help parsing file [sed, awk, fortran, bash]

2012-08-30 Thread lina
On Friday 31,August,2012 08:35 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: daniel jimenez apparently described a *HOMEWORK* problem: Hello all, I need some help fixing the format of some pretty strangely compressed data files. An example would be like this: 2883 452 07 16 2 4 6 107 Parsing rules:

Re: Please help parsing file [sed, awk, fortran, bash]

2012-08-30 Thread Richard Owlett
lina wrote: On Friday 31,August,2012 08:35 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: daniel jimenez apparently described a *HOMEWORK* problem: Hello all, I need some help fixing the format of some pretty strangely compressed data files. An example would be like this: 2883 452 07 16 2 4 6 107 Parsing rules:

Re: Please help parsing file [sed, awk, fortran, bash]

2012-08-30 Thread lina
On Friday 31,August,2012 11:22 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: lina wrote: On Friday 31,August,2012 08:35 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: daniel jimenez apparently described a *HOMEWORK* problem: Hello all, I need some help fixing the format of some pretty strangely compressed data files. An example

Re: Please help parsing file [sed, awk, fortran, bash]

2012-08-30 Thread daniel jimenez
Hello guys, @richard, 1 this is not homework, a friend asked me to do some statistics on an experimental dataset he got for his masters thesis and the file was already that way. 2 i'm well versed in fortran, this problem however is not what i'm used to. I thought about reading the line bare in

Re: trying to understand assemble option in mdadm please help.

2012-07-18 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 2:17 AM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: Gary Dale wrote: Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: or just one thing if you please explain these commands. i think my confusion will be cleared mdadm --assemble /dev/md1 /dev/hda1 mdadm --assemble

Re: trying to understand assemble option in mdadm please help.

2012-07-17 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 6:39 PM, Gary Dale garyd...@rogers.com wrote: On 16/07/12 08:12 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: apart from my question i know what does assemble mean but most of the time it create conflict with the option add. for example. if raid is broken then i can just re-add

Re: trying to understand assemble option in mdadm please help.

2012-07-17 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
or just one thing if you please explain these commands. i think my confusion will be cleared mdadm --assemble /dev/md1 /dev/hda1 mdadm --assemble /dev/md3 /dev/hda3 mdadm --add /dev/md1 /dev/hdb1 mdadm --add /dev/md3 /dev/hdb3 what is the difference in both command thanks. any help will be

Re: trying to understand assemble option in mdadm please help.

2012-07-17 Thread Gary Dale
On 17/07/12 03:36 PM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 6:39 PM, Gary Dalegaryd...@rogers.com wrote: On 16/07/12 08:12 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: apart from my question i know what does assemble mean but most of the time it create conflict with the option add. for

Re: trying to understand assemble option in mdadm please help.

2012-07-17 Thread Gary Dale
On 17/07/12 03:48 PM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: or just one thing if you please explain these commands. i think my confusion will be cleared mdadm --assemble /dev/md1 /dev/hda1 mdadm --assemble /dev/md3 /dev/hda3 mdadm --add /dev/md1 /dev/hdb1 mdadm --add /dev/md3 /dev/hdb3 what is the

Re: trying to understand assemble option in mdadm please help.

2012-07-17 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 12:59 AM, Gary Dale garyd...@rogers.com wrote: On 17/07/12 03:48 PM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: or just one thing if you please explain these commands. i think my confusion will be cleared mdadm --assemble /dev/md1 /dev/hda1 mdadm --assemble /dev/md3 /dev/hda3

Re: trying to understand assemble option in mdadm please help.

2012-07-17 Thread Gary Dale
On 17/07/12 04:24 PM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 12:59 AM, Gary Dalegaryd...@rogers.com wrote: On 17/07/12 03:48 PM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: or just one thing if you please explain these commands. i think my confusion will be cleared mdadm --assemble /dev/md1

Re: trying to understand assemble option in mdadm please help.

2012-07-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: Gary Dale wrote: Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: or just one thing if you please explain these commands. i think my confusion will be cleared mdadm --assemble /dev/md1 /dev/hda1 mdadm --assemble /dev/md3 /dev/hda3 The first set of commands should give you

trying to understand assemble option in mdadm please help.

2012-07-16 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
apart from my question i know what does assemble mean but most of the time it create conflict with the option add. for example. if raid is broken then i can just re-add the the broken partition if my HD fails then i will add the new drive, recreate the partition and add it to new array and cat

Re: trying to understand assemble option in mdadm please help.

2012-07-16 Thread Gary Dale
On 16/07/12 08:12 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: apart from my question i know what does assemble mean but most of the time it create conflict with the option add. for example. if raid is broken then i can just re-add the the broken partition if my HD fails then i will add the new drive,

please help test 2.7 pre-release (in VCS)

2012-06-19 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Hi, I've fixed 2 bugs in VCS: * http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=670687 * http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=667068 I would like to release this perhaps this time tomorrow. Would you mind testing the 3 commands: NEW, DETAILNEW, and DESCRIBENEW commands.

Re: please help test 2.7 pre-release (in VCS)

2012-06-19 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 19/06/2012 16:24, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Hi, I've fixed 2 bugs in VCS: * http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=670687 * http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=667068 I would like to release this perhaps this time tomorrow. Would you mind testing the 3 commands:

very weird xfce behavior... please help

2012-02-23 Thread Joao Ferreira Gmail
xfdesktop4 4.8.3-2 Can anyone please help ? Thank you Joao I use Debian GNU/Linux testing (wheezy); -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1330019251.2784.6

Re: very weird xfce behavior... please help

2012-02-23 Thread lina
to continue using it. I use Debian wheezy, fully updated. xfce version is: ii xfce4 4.8.0.3 ii xfdesktop4 4.8.3-2 Can anyone please help ? I met the same issue as you before. http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/02/msg00371.html Thank you Joao I use Debian GNU

Re: very weird xfce behavior... please help

2012-02-23 Thread Maximilien Noal
. 2) I had 9 virtual desktops configured and now I have only one; if I try to increase it does not work. I'm very fond of xfce and I would like to continue using it. I use Debian wheezy, fully updated. xfce version is: ii xfce4 4.8.0.3 ii xfdesktop4 4.8.3-2 Can anyone please help ? Thank you

Re: very weird xfce behavior... please help

2012-02-23 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Maximilien Noal noal.maximil...@gmail.com writes: On 02/23/2012 06:47 PM, Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote: Hello all, Recently my xfce started behaving with strange issues that make me unable to use it. I can login to xfce, but... I notice 2 major problems: 1) the windows have no frame, no

Re: very weird xfce behavior... please help

2012-02-23 Thread Joao Ferreira Gmail
Hi guys, thank you for the clear explanations. I was able to fix the issue now. Thank you Joao On Thu, 2012-02-23 at 13:06 -0700, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: Maximilien Noal noal.maximil...@gmail.com writes: On 02/23/2012 06:47 PM, Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote: Hello all, Recently my xfce

Screwed up gnome-shell~ pretty please help

2011-12-12 Thread Richard
Hi All I was trying to get the radeon driver for the onboard ATI HD graphics card. I copied the xorg.conf to xorg.conf.nvidia, as the pci slot has a nvidia graphics card in it. I purged all ati and radeon files and ran the ati-driver-installer 11.11 That ran OK, but no displayed and no mouse or

Re: please help me for buy laptop-i need your opinion

2011-12-08 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2011/12/8 hamed hosseini hoss...@gmail.com thank you,but tell me why you choice number 1? i need to know Debian support Nvidia GeForce GT 550M 1GB and Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter or Broadcom 802.11n Wireless Network Adapter http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/Model/1005HA i

Re: please help me for buy laptop-i need your opinion

2011-12-08 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 07 Dec 2011 18:32:04 +0330, hamed hosseini wrote: hi, please,i have 2 choice,i need your opinion,tell me your choice(1 or 2)? If I'm not reading it wrong, configuration #2 is more powerful, I'd go for it :-) There are basically three main differences: - Option #2 adds more system

Re: please help me for buy laptop-i need your opinion

2011-12-08 Thread steef
broadcom chips load nowadays with (allmost) no trouble at all with the broadcom-sta software. reg., steef hamed hosseini schreef: hi, please,i have 2 choice,i need your opinion,tell me your choice(1 or 2)? note:i want best laptop for Debian and Linux OS. 1. Notebook Ideapad Y470 59-303427

Re: please help me for buy laptop-i need your opinion

2011-12-07 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2011/12/7 hamed hosseini hoss...@gmail.com hi, please,i have 2 choice,i need your opinion,tell me your choice(1 or 2)? note:i want best laptop for Debian and Linux OS. i'd go with number 1 without the windows OS. -- Regards, Umarzuki Mochlis http://debmal.my

Re: please help me for buy laptop-i need your opinion

2011-12-07 Thread hamed hosseini
thank you,but tell me why you choice number 1? i need to know Debian support Nvidia GeForce GT 550M 1GB and Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter or Broadcom 802.11n Wireless Network Adapter

Please help to find the proper filter string for vlan packet

2011-10-04 Thread Muhammad Fahad
Hello All I am writing a scripts to filter procedure with protocol field, when i tried to filter the capture with vlan packet its throwing an error message tshark: Neither eth.vlan.tpid nor 0x8100 are field or protocol names. Can any one help to find the proper filter name for vlan(priority)

Fwd: Please Help Me

2011-10-03 Thread Krishna Sekhar Mukku
processing: gforge-db-postgresql gforge-shell-postgresql E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) krishna@krishna:~$ Please help me how to fix it Thanks, Krishna M.Krishna Sekhar On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Krishna Sekhar Mukku krishnasekha...@gmail.com wrote

Re: Fwd: Please Help Me

2011-10-03 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 03/10/11 21:55, Krishna Sekhar Mukku wrote: Hi , Did any one got a chance of looking this issue. Y-e-s Processing triggers for python-gmenu ... Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/desktop.en_IN.utf8.cache... Processing triggers for python-support ... Setting up

Please help

2011-08-04 Thread Kevin Williams
I'm trying to boot up debian but I can't get pass the login after installation

Re: Please help

2011-08-04 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2011/8/4 Kevin Williams legendary2...@gmail.com I'm trying to boot up debian but I can't get pass the login after installation you mean the password is incorrect or something else? -- Regards, Umarzuki Mochlis http://debmal.my

Re: Please help

2011-08-04 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 04 Aug 2011 03:48:10 -0500, Kevin Williams wrote: If you want to catch mailing list users attention, use a better subject for describing your problem. I'm trying to boot up debian but I can't get pass the login after installation So you have installed Debian and now cannot login with

Re: Please help

2011-03-08 Thread Chris Bannister
[CC'ing OP as may not be subscribed] On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 11:06:50PM -0500, Ryan Collins wrote: Someone for the love of GOD, help me. I've installedDebian 6.0(squeeze) on my dell inspiron 6000. All I have to show for it is a shell. I've looked all over and read countless entries on ways to

Re: Please help

2011-03-04 Thread Doug
On 3/4/2011 12:50 AM, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Mar 3, 2011, at 11:06 PM, Ryan Collins wrote: Someone for the love of GOD, help me. /snip/ 2) Some have suggested using a different distro. I like Debian, but it is designed for certain situations and you may find Linux Mint or some other

Re: Please help

2011-03-04 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2011/3/4 Doug dmcgarr...@optonline.net On 3/4/2011 12:50 AM, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Mar 3, 2011, at 11:06 PM, Ryan Collins wrote: Someone for the love of GOD, help me. /snip/ 2) Some have suggested using a different distro. I like Debian, but it is designed for certain situations and

Re: Please help

2011-03-04 Thread Lisi
On Friday 04 March 2011 04:06:50 Ryan Collins wrote: Someone for the love of GOD, help me. I've installedDebian 6.0(squeeze) on my dell inspiron 6000. All I have to show for it is a shell. I've looked all over and read countless entries on ways to load a gnome desktop, but nothing I try works

Re: Please help

2011-03-04 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 04 Mar 2011 10:33:45 +, Lisi wrote: On Friday 04 March 2011 04:06:50 Ryan Collins wrote: Someone for the love of GOD, help me. I've installedDebian 6.0(squeeze) on my dell inspiron 6000. All I have to show for it is a shell. (...) I have just (for the first time in years)

Re: Please help

2011-03-04 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Vi, 04 mar 11, 10:33:45, Lisi wrote: I have just (for the first time in years) installed a default install of Squeeze. It starts up in the command line. No sign of X. This deos not cause me a problem, since I was doing it just to see what happened. But I can see that it would

Re: Please help

2011-03-04 Thread Lisi
On Friday 04 March 2011 11:27:33 Andrei Popescu wrote: On Vi, 04 mar 11, 10:33:45, Lisi wrote: I have just (for the first time in years) installed a default install of Squeeze. It starts up in the command line. No sign of X. This deos not cause me a problem, since I was doing it just

Re: Please help

2011-03-04 Thread Lisi
On Friday 04 March 2011 11:41:47 Lisi wrote: On Friday 04 March 2011 11:27:33 Andrei Popescu wrote: On Vi, 04 mar 11, 10:33:45, Lisi wrote: I have just (for the first time in years) installed a default install of Squeeze. It starts up in the command line. No sign of X. This deos

Re: Please help

2011-03-04 Thread consul tores
2011/3/3 Hal Vaughan h...@halblog.com: On Mar 4, 2011, at 12:26 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In 20110303230321.8e7ff15c.jhsu802...@jasonhsu.com, Jason Hsu wrote: I may get hate-mail for saying this, but I don't recommend Debian as your first distro.  Assuming you have enough RAM (at

Re: Please help

2011-03-04 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Thu, 3/3/11, Ryan Collins r.a.collin...@gmail.com wrote: Someone for the love of GOD, help me. I've installedDebian 6.0(squeeze) on my dell inspiron 6000. All I have to show for it is a shell. I've looked all over and read countless entries on ways to load a gnome desktop, but

Re: Please help

2011-03-04 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 05/03/11 02:47, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Mar 4, 2011, at 7:02 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 04/03/11 16:37, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Mar 4, 2011, at 12:26 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In 20110303230321.8e7ff15c.jhsu802...@jasonhsu.com, Jason Hsu wrote: I may get hate-mail for saying

Re: Please help

2011-03-04 Thread Freeman
On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 10:38:01PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: :) I *could* say, Real Men use the CLI. Long live bash!, but I won't. When logged in as root, did you try: # apt-get install gnome If you did, then when you reboot you should have a GUI login screen. Until then, just type:

Re: Please help

2011-03-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/04/2011 05:38 PM, Freeman wrote: [snip] Why hasn't anyone suggested # GDM3 ? Does startx even do anything out of the box any longer? Eh? Of course it does. Anyway, the problem is that he doesn't have any repositories. -- I prefer banana-flavored energy bars made from tofu. -- To

Re: Please help

2011-03-04 Thread Freeman
On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 05:44:33PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/04/2011 05:38 PM, Freeman wrote: [snip] Why hasn't anyone suggested # GDM3 ? Does startx even do anything out of the box any longer? Eh? Of course it does. Anyway, the problem is that he doesn't have any

Re: Please help

2011-03-04 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Vi, 04 mar 11, 15:38:32, Freeman wrote: then, at the root prompt, type GDM3 If that doesn't work, maybe you have an older version of Debian, so type GDM $ apt-file search bin/GDM $ (I have lenny, squeeze, wheezy and sid in my sources.list) Even in lower-case, I doubt it's a good

Re: Please help

2011-03-04 Thread Freeman
On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 02:00:38AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Vi, 04 mar 11, 15:38:32, Freeman wrote: then, at the root prompt, type GDM3 If that doesn't work, maybe you have an older version of Debian, so type GDM $ apt-file search bin/GDM $ Yes, I rushed and those

Please help

2011-03-03 Thread Ryan Collins
Someone for the love of GOD, help me. I've installedDebian 6.0(squeeze) on my dell inspiron 6000. All I have to show for it is a shell. I've looked all over and read countless entries on ways to load a gnome desktop, but nothing I try works for me like it has others. Im brand spanking new to

Re: Please help

2011-03-03 Thread Ron Johnson
:) I *could* say, Real Men use the CLI. Long live bash!, but I won't. When logged in as root, did you try: # apt-get install gnome If you did, then when you reboot you should have a GUI login screen. Until then, just type: $ startx (Ignore the # and $. They are your prompt.) On

Re: Please help

2011-03-03 Thread Petrus Validus
On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 11:06:50PM -0500, Ryan Collins wrote: Someone for the love of GOD, help me. Sure! I've installedDebian 6.0(squeeze) on my dell inspiron 6000. All I have to show for it is a shell. I've looked all over and read countless entries on ways to load a gnome desktop, but

Re: Please help

2011-03-03 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 23:06 -0500, Ryan Collins wrote: Someone for the love of GOD, help me. I've installedDebian 6.0(squeeze) on my dell inspiron 6000. All I have to show for it is a shell. I've looked all over and read countless entries on ways to load a gnome desktop, but nothing I try

Re: Please help

2011-03-03 Thread Jason Hsu
I may get hate-mail for saying this, but I don't recommend Debian as your first distro. Assuming you have enough RAM (at least 512 MB, preferably 1 GB or more), I recommend Linux Mint. It's known for being user-friendly and accomodating to Windows users. If you don't have enough RAM for

Re: Please help

2011-03-03 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 20110303230321.8e7ff15c.jhsu802...@jasonhsu.com, Jason Hsu wrote: I may get hate-mail for saying this, but I don't recommend Debian as your first distro. Assuming you have enough RAM (at least 512 MB, preferably 1 GB or more), I recommend Linux Mint. It's known for being user-friendly and

Re: Please help

2011-03-03 Thread Mark
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 8:06 PM, Ryan Collins r.a.collin...@gmail.comwrote: Someone for the love of GOD, help me. Will try. I've installedDebian 6.0(squeeze) on my dell inspiron 6000. All I have to show for it is a shell. I've looked all over and read countless entries on ways to load a

Re: Please help

2011-03-03 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Mar 4, 2011, at 12:26 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In 20110303230321.8e7ff15c.jhsu802...@jasonhsu.com, Jason Hsu wrote: I may get hate-mail for saying this, but I don't recommend Debian as your first distro. Assuming you have enough RAM (at least 512 MB, preferably 1 GB or more), I

Re: Please help

2011-03-03 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Jason Hsu put forth on 3/3/2011 11:03 PM: I may get hate-mail for saying this, but I don't recommend Debian as your first distro. This is entirely dependent on the user's motivation for installing Linux for the first time. If the user is after a more reliable _server_ than Windows (or even

Re: Please help

2011-03-03 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Mar 3, 2011, at 11:06 PM, Ryan Collins wrote: Someone for the love of GOD, help me. I've installedDebian 6.0(squeeze) on my dell inspiron 6000. All I have to show for it is a shell. I've looked all over and read countless entries on ways to load a gnome desktop, but nothing I try works

Re: Please help

2011-03-03 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 9a3c8437-2e1b-4f25-a3ea-2cd3d3c79...@halblog.com, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Mar 4, 2011, at 12:26 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Please don't give Microsoft the word windows. If you mean the MS Windows operating system say MS Windows. If you mean the things used in a windowing system (like

Re: Please help

2011-03-03 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 201103040022.02781@iguanasuicide.net, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: There is no law or decision that supports the assertion that Windows is a trademark or owned by Microsoft. s/or //. Like I said, I'd give them that word. If they want it make them take it. Er, don't hit send without

Re: Please help

2011-03-03 Thread Johan Grönqvist
Hi, Welcome to debian. 2011-03-04 05:06, Ryan Collins skrev: I've installedDebian 6.0(squeeze) on my dell inspiron 6000. All I have to show for it is a shell. [...] I think I may have installed a server version [...] What can I do to get a desktop environment installed through my command

Re: Please help

2011-03-03 Thread GeraldCC
On Friday 04 March 2011 14:38:01 Ron Johnson wrote: :) I *could* say, Real Men use the CLI. Long live bash!, but I won't. When logged in as root, did you try: # apt-get install gnome If you did, then when you reboot you should have a GUI login screen. Until then, just type: $

please help me write a udev rule

2011-03-02 Thread Yuwen Dai
Dear all, I always run a command like this when I plug a USB disk: echo 1024 /sys/block/sdb/device/max_sectors however, the disk is not always `sdb'. Can I write a udev rule according to the UUID of the disk? Best regards, Yuwen

Re: please help me write a udev rule

2011-03-02 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Mar 2, 2011, at 9:08 PM, Yuwen Dai wrote: Dear all, I always run a command like this when I plug a USB disk: echo 1024 /sys/block/sdb/device/max_sectors however, the disk is not always `sdb'. Can I write a udev rule according to the UUID of the disk? Do you mean a specific USB

Re: please help me write a udev rule

2011-03-02 Thread Yuwen Dai
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Hal Vaughan h...@halblog.com wrote: On Mar 2, 2011, at 9:08 PM, Yuwen Dai wrote: Dear all, I always run a command like this when I plug a USB disk: echo 1024 /sys/block/sdb/device/max_sectors however, the disk is not always `sdb'. Can I write a

Re: Re: Re: Please help me to evaluate flash/ssd life using vmstat -d

2011-02-06 Thread Tixy
On Sat, 2011-02-05 at 19:10 -0600, R. Ramesh wrote: [...] So what does vmstat -d tell me? Is the number of IO under total column supposed to be the number of IOs issued to the controller with each IO being contiguous N sectors? man vmstat says 'total' is Total writes completed successfully.

Re: Re: Re: Re: Please help me to evaluate flash/ssd life using vmstat -d

2011-02-06 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
On Sat, 2011-02-05 at 19:10 -0600, R. Ramesh wrote: [...] So what does vmstat -d tell me? Is the number of IO under total column supposed to be the number of IOs issued to the controller with each IO being contiguous N sectors? man vmstat says 'total' is Total writes completed

Re: Re: Please help me to evaluate flash/ssd life using vmstat -d

2011-02-05 Thread Tixy
On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 18:30 -0600, R. Ramesh wrote: I do not have SSD. I have a USB flash drive - went cheap on this :-) Regardless of the above, still every write by the kernel has to be translated in to NAND writes. I have read in more than one place that these writes will be in units

Re: Re: Re: Please help me to evaluate flash/ssd life using vmstat -d

2011-02-05 Thread R. Ramesh
On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 18:30 -0600, R. Ramesh wrote: I do not have SSD. I have a USB flash drive - went cheap on this :-) Regardless of the above, still every write by the kernel has to be translated in to NAND writes. I have read in more than one place that these writes will be in units

Please help me to evaluate flash/ssd life using vmstat -d

2011-02-04 Thread R. Ramesh
All, I run a debian firewall on an atom PC running of a 16G flash drive. I am trying understand the amount of disk write performed in order to understand how long my flash is likely to last. I have two vmstat -d information on the flash 2011-01-31 00:35 disk-

Re: Please help me to evaluate flash/ssd life using vmstat -d

2011-02-04 Thread Tixy
On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 12:34 -0600, R. Ramesh wrote: All, I run a debian firewall on an atom PC running of a 16G flash drive. I am trying understand the amount of disk write performed in order to understand how long my flash is likely to last. [..] Note that the kernel writes do not

Re: Re: Please help me to evaluate flash/ssd life using vmstat -d

2011-02-04 Thread R. Ramesh
On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 12:34 -0600, R. Ramesh wrote: All, I run a debian firewall on an atom PC running of a 16G flash drive. I am trying understand the amount of disk write performed in order to understand how long my flash is likely to last. [..] Note that the kernel writes do not

Please help me test aufs

2010-07-16 Thread T o n g
Hi, The aufs is supposed to be able to unify several directories and provide a merged single directory. but I found it doesn't work for me any more. If you have aufs enabled in your system, please help me test the following command and post back your result: mkdir /tmp/rw /tmp/aufs mount -t

Re: TIA is ... (was Re: MySQL upgrade failed PLEASE HELP!!!)

2010-03-07 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 6 Mar 2010 19:46:55 -0500 (EST), Thierry Chatelet wrote: Extra message to say thanks, and to put SOLVED in the subject, and to explain exactly how you solved the problem using the various answers you got, is not a lost time by any mean. (Shame on me: I don't all way spend the time

Re: MySQL upgrade failed PLEASE HELP!!!

2010-03-07 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 6 Mar 2010 15:22:01 -0500 (EST), Oscar Corte wrote: Just today I upgraded my Debian Lenny Server, many packages were upgraded succesfully, but MySQL server wich is not working anymore. What can I do to restore MySQL server? Error messages shown are these: Starting MySQL

MySQL upgrade failed PLEASE HELP!!!

2010-03-06 Thread Oscar Corte
Hi all: Just today I upgraded my Debian Lenny Server, many packages were upgraded succesfully, but MySQL server wich is not working anymore. What can I do to restore MySQL server? Error messages shown are these: Starting MySQL database server: mysql . . . . . failed! invoke-rc.d: initscript

Re: MySQL upgrade failed PLEASE HELP!!!

2010-03-06 Thread Brent Clark
On 06/03/2010 22:22, Oscar Corte wrote: Error messages shown are these: Starting MySQL database server: mysql . . . . . failed! invoke-rc.d: initscript mysql, action start failed. dpkg: error processing mysql-server-5.0 (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit

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