Re: How to boot PC-BSD from Debian (was: Query about hard drive partitions maintenance)

2012-04-01 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 22:27:07 -0700, Weaver wrote: >> On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 10:51:05 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: >> >>> On Wed, 28 Mar 2012, Camaleón wrote: >> >> (...) >> > so I believe that, in the circumstances, I have to abandon the > prospect of installing PC-BSD 9 on this computer. > > I

Re: How to boot PC-BSD from Debian (was: Query about hard drive partitions maintenance)

2012-03-31 Thread Weaver
> On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 10:51:05 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > >> On Wed, 28 Mar 2012, Camaleón wrote: > > (...) > so I believe that, in the circumstances, I have to abandon the prospect of installing PC-BSD 9 on this computer. I had some trouble with this myself and tried all sorts of thing

How to boot PC-BSD from Debian (was: Query about hard drive partitions maintenance)

2012-03-31 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 10:51:05 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > On Wed, 28 Mar 2012, Camaleón wrote: (...) >>> so I believe that, in the circumstances, I have to abandon the >>> prospect of installing PC-BSD 9 on this computer. >> >> I already pointed out some alternatives and Keith told you about >> vi

Re: Query about hard drive partitions maintenance

2012-03-30 Thread Bret Busby
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:10:19 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: On Wed, 21 Mar 2012, Camaleón wrote: (...) What recent operating system needs to be installed still in a primary partition? Can you tell what OS are you going to install? I want to try PC-BS

Re: Query about hard drive partitions maintenance

2012-03-29 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:27:55 +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 15:15:02 + (UTC), Camaleón wrote in message > : > >> On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 17:24:00 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: (...) >> > As you can see, the permissions of the mount point have no influence >> > on the permission

Re: Query about hard drive partitions maintenance

2012-03-29 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 15:15:02 + (UTC), Camaleón wrote in message : > On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 17:24:00 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > On Mi, 21 mar 12, 16:29:45, Camaleón wrote: > >> > >> For static mount points, this is usually done/set in "/etc/fstab". > >> You basically need two things: >

Re: Query about hard drive partitions maintenance

2012-03-28 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:10:19 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > On Wed, 21 Mar 2012, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> In addition to the explanation, show us the output of: >> >> fdisk -l >> >> So we can have an idea of the current state of your hard disk >> partitions. >> >> > " > :~# fdisk -l > > Disk /dev/s

Re: Query about hard drive partitions maintenance

2012-03-28 Thread Keith McKenzie
On 28/03/12 10:10, Bret Busby wrote: On Wed, 21 Mar 2012, Camaleón wrote: I can, more or less, use Debian (I am still learning it, after however many years), and PC-BSD would be a learning experience, and probably, a fair bit of hard work (I haven't used BSD, since before GUI's), so it appear

Re: Query about hard drive partitions maintenance

2012-03-28 Thread Bret Busby
On Wed, 21 Mar 2012, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 22:47:27 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: (...) The first is this; I have some empty partitions for storing data, and they were created using the Ubuntu 10.04 installation (before I installed Debian 6 on the system), and I need to know how to

Re: Query about hard drive partitions maintenance

2012-03-26 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 20:57:18 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 26 mar 12, 15:15:02, Camaleón wrote: >> > >> > As you can see, the permissions of the mount point have no influence >> > on the permissions of the files on the partition. This is true for >> > about any filesystem that is more or

Re: Query about hard drive partitions maintenance

2012-03-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 26 mar 12, 15:15:02, Camaleón wrote: > > > > As you can see, the permissions of the mount point have no influence on > > the permissions of the files on the partition. This is true for about > > any filesystem that is more or less native to Linux (ext*, xfs, etc.). > > I'm not sure about y

Re: Query about hard drive partitions maintenance

2012-03-26 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 17:24:00 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 21 mar 12, 16:29:45, Camaleón wrote: >> >> For static mount points, this is usually done/set in "/etc/fstab". You >> basically need two things: >> >> - Set the right permission options for the mount point so users can >> read/ wr

Re: Query about hard drive partitions maintenance

2012-03-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 21 mar 12, 16:29:45, Camaleón wrote: > > For static mount points, this is usually done/set in "/etc/fstab". You > basically need two things: > > - Set the right permission options for the mount point so users can read/ > write/whatever > > - Create a mount point in your system with the r

Re: Query about hard drive partitions maintenance

2012-03-21 Thread Keith McKenzie
On 21/03/12 14:47, Bret Busby wrote: In my primary partition, I have three partitions. I have a hardware manufacturer's partition, a recovery partition, and, as the computer came with MS Windows, a Windows partition, which is 84GB. Having inmstalled Ubuntu and Debian 6, I want to experiment with

Re: Query about hard drive partitions maintenance

2012-03-21 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 22:47:27 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: (...) > The first is this; I have some empty partitions for storing data, and > they were created using the Ubuntu 10.04 installation (before I > installed Debian 6 on the system), and I need to know how to access them > as a user, to move and

Query about hard drive partitions maintenance

2012-03-21 Thread Bret Busby
Hello. In investigating a problem to do with the UDF filesystem format, in running the Disk Utility, I found the system hard drive partition table, and have a couple of questions. The first is this; I have some empty partitions for storing data, and they were created using the Ubuntu 10.04 i