Re: [OFFTOPIC] 1149 (was: lonk (wss: Meta: behavior on list))

2021-08-14 Thread Gene Heskett
Green, and the 16 air miles to the access point was still long distance. So my coco ran my LD bill up over $100 some months. Nobody had 56k modems yet. I was in hog heaven when I got my first 1200 baud modem. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of libe

Still on stretch, getting ready for bullseye

2021-08-17 Thread Gene Heskett
its normal stretch. What is going on? Do I wind up on buster or should I kiss it all goodbye? Thanks. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect

Re: Still on stretch, getting ready for bullseye

2021-08-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 17 August 2021 08:05:27 Dan Ritter wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > I just installed another sata controller and 4 1 T-byte Samsung > > SSD's. > > > > The controller claims to be a 15 port port expander, but only 6 are

Re: Still on stretch, getting ready for bullseye

2021-08-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 17 August 2021 09:01:32 Gene Heskett wrote: My mis-steak, its Tuesday not Monday. > On Tuesday 17 August 2021 08:05:27 Dan Ritter wrote: > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > > Greetings all; > > > > > > I just installed another sata controller and 4 1 T-byte

Re: Still on stretch, getting ready for bullseye

2021-08-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 17 August 2021 09:08:43 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 09:01:32AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Tell me where to read about an insitu upgrade from stretch to > > buster, > > https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ > >

Re: Still on stretch, getting ready for bullseye

2021-08-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 17 August 2021 12:00:57 Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 07:24:45AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > I just installed another sata controller and 4 1 T-byte Samsung > > SSD's. > > > > The controller clai

Re: Still on stretch, getting ready for bullseye

2021-08-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 17 August 2021 16:57:44 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 04:54:54PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Where do I find the recipe to update stretch to buster? > > It's still at > <https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/amd64/release-notes/>. That

Re: Still on stretch, getting ready for bullseye

2021-08-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 17 August 2021 17:45:49 piorunz wrote: > On 17/08/2021 21:57, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 04:54:54PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> Where do I find the recipe to update stretch to buster? > > > > It's still at > > <

Re: Still on stretch, getting ready for bullseye

2021-08-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 17 August 2021 18:48:34 Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 11:05:44PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > On Tue 17 Aug 2021 at 16:54:54 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > Where do I find the recipe to update stretch to buster? > > > > What, in th

Re: Still on stretch, getting ready for bullseye

2021-08-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 17 August 2021 18:48:34 Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 11:05:44PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > On Tue 17 Aug 2021 at 16:54:54 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > Where do I find the recipe to update stretch to buster? > > > > What, in th

Re: Still on stretch, getting ready for bullseye

2021-08-18 Thread Gene Heskett
ue, Aug 17, 2021 at 09:48:10PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > > On Tuesday 17 August 2021 18:48:34 Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > > > > [an abridged version of the release notes] > > > > > > > > > > Thank you Andy, thats more of the rec

Re: smart fans

2021-08-22 Thread Gene Heskett
est and bondout time, it might add 10 seconds to the time needed to verify the rest of the chip. > > "What you can't measure, you can't control" Better, if you can measure it, you can control a 2 wite motor. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes t

Re: smart fans

2021-08-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 22 August 2021 17:04:06 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 22 August 2021 12:46:14 Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > > On 2021-08-22 10:02 a.m., Emanuel Berg wrote: > > > tomas wrote: > > >> I disagree. The thing poses [1] as a DC motor (2 pins pow

Re: New SSD card for old dell 850

2021-08-25 Thread Gene Heskett
to 128GB for under a $30 bill. Seems like a relatively low risk gamble to get one and try it. <https://www.ebay.com/p/1282481418?iid=234065274043> > But I fear that it requires a sort of miniPCI interface that modern > SSDs does not have. Can anyone confirm this or even better hint to a &g

old handicam movie camera and kino

2021-08-28 Thread Gene Heskett
to be in the repo's now. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis

old handicam movie camera and kino

2021-08-28 Thread Gene Heskett
ewire_ohci crc_itu_t 16384 1 firewire_core Thanks for any advise dredged up from ancient memory. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire res

Re: old handicam movie camera and kino

2021-08-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 29 August 2021 03:33:22 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sat, Aug 28, 2021 at 09:25:40PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Did work 15 years ago, but despite a new PCI-E firewire card, does > > not now work with kino, no remote controls. > > [...] > > > [21286

Re: old handicam movie camera and kino

2021-08-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 29 August 2021 06:18:46 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, Aug 29, 2021 at 04:55:46AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Sunday 29 August 2021 03:33:22 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > On Sat, Aug 28, 2021 at 09:25:40PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > Did wo

Re: old handicam movie camera and kino

2021-08-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 29 August 2021 08:21:11 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sun, Aug 29, 2021 at 12:18:46PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 29, 2021 at 04:55:46AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > But if I try to unmute the audio, I get a steady stream of can't > >

Solved! Re: old handicam movie camera and kino

2021-08-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 29 August 2021 10:16:01 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, Aug 29, 2021 at 09:56:43AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > [...] > > > That wasn't the magic twanger Greg. > > but he was up the right path. /dev/dsp is part of the (by now > archaeological) OSS s

Re: Solved! Re: old handicam movie camera and kino

2021-08-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 29 August 2021 11:57:39 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, Aug 29, 2021 at 11:14:46AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Sunday 29 August 2021 10:16:01 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > [...] > > > > [...] Catting /etc/passwd to it actually produces some sound, >

html only email

2021-09-12 Thread Gene Heskett
your message is read, is up to you. If you choose to use a broken email agent, expect to be ignored. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for t

Re: html only email

2021-09-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 12 September 2021 07:59:49 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, Sep 12, 2021 at 06:59:35AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Had better have a very interesting subjct line or it does not get > > read here. I have, for security reasons, told kmail to not show > > html,

Re: was: support for xfce in bullseye minimal netinst iso

2021-09-14 Thread Gene Heskett
ll by itself? If not, what do I install and do to ready them before moving /dea/sda out of harms way and booting the 11.1 net-install iso? I can if needed, install a 60 or bigger Gig SSD as the /boot partition on the motherboard controller as /dev/sda if the software raid can't be boot

Re: mdadm RAID and the Bullseye installer

2021-09-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 14 September 2021 12:55:41 Dan Ritter wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > This is interesting and I will likely do it when I install the > > debian-11.1-net-install I just burnt. > > > > But, I have installed 4, 1 terabyte samsung SSD's on a separate >

Re: was: support for xfce in bullseye minimal netinst iso

2021-09-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 14 September 2021 13:11:08 Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 11:49:02AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 14 September 2021 10:08:34 Brian wrote: > > > On Tue 14 Sep 2021 at 09:27:25 +, Sriram wrote: > > > > [...] Can you sugg

Re: (unable to start a new discussion) Re: Can surf the internet, but not my home network...

2021-09-17 Thread Gene Heskett
munch the daylights out of it, it will still be readable. Even then its uo to the filters to say yay or nay. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect f

Re: (unable to start a new discussion) Re: Can surf the internet, but not my home network...

2021-09-17 Thread Gene Heskett
t rather than > using an (unreadable) image? > > > Stefan Beats hell outta me Stefan, but a copy/paste from a terminal screen beats ALL the other methods for compression. But that involves launching whatever from a terminal screen, requiring the user to actaully type the comma

Re: Debian 11: Nvidia NVS 310 with nvidia driver freezes after two days

2021-09-20 Thread Gene Heskett
g Buster), > I was having trouble with the nouveau driver locking up. > Replacing it with nVidia's proprietary driver corrected > that problem, so I've been wary of nouveau ever since. > But if your graphics card overheats, it doesn't matter > which driver you're run

Re: The future of computing.

2021-09-22 Thread Gene Heskett
for 3rd offence grand larceny. But today, we'ed need Trumps incompleted wall to maybe have enough wall. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we des

Re: The future of computing.

2021-09-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 22 September 2021 22:23:29 Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > On Wed, Sep 22, 2021, 9:13 PM Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > There is something wrong with this picture. 14 years was considered > > as the author having milked his writings for 99% of all they would

Re: OT: Copyrights and patents (was: Re: The future of computing.)

2021-09-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 23 September 2021 07:22:17 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Wednesday, September 22, 2021 10:12:49 PM Gene Heskett wrote: > > Or the ARRL forgot to renew the copyright. Copyrights were > > originally issued for a period of 7 years, renewable once for an > > additi

Re: Proprietary USB Drivers; Ya Gotta' Love'em.

2021-09-25 Thread Gene Heskett
;s > TMI. You forgot to mention it can get the message thru better because it has a 12 db advantage over competing noise compared to the original AM, sometimes called Ancient Mary in our circles. > Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to

What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen

2021-10-01 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; With the man markup subtracted, so what we save is exactly what we see. Thanks. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respe

Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen

2021-10-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 01 October 2021 12:34:16 Larry Martell wrote: man -t /path/to/man/file >file.txt groff -mandoc /path/to/man/file > file.txt, both quadrupled the size with lots more markup. Not what I want obviously. Thanks Larry. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used

Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen

2021-10-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 01 October 2021 12:43:00 Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > On 10/1/21, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > With the man markup subtracted, so what we save is exactly what we > > see. > > > > Thanks. > > > > Cheers, Gene Heske

Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen

2021-10-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 01 October 2021 13:58:20 Lee wrote: > On 10/1/21, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > With the man markup subtracted, so what we save is exactly what we > > see. > > Try the "--ascii" option - eg > man --ascii man > /t

Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen

2021-10-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 01 October 2021 15:47:18 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Oct 01, 2021 at 12:24:50PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > With the man markup subtracted, so what we save is exactly what we > > see. > > If you want to reproduce what you see when you type "man bash&qu

Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen

2021-10-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 01 October 2021 17:01:56 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Oct 01, 2021 at 04:59:25PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 01 October 2021 12:34:16 Larry Martell wrote: > > > > man -t /path/to/man/file >file.txt > > groff -mandoc /path/to/man/file > f

Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen

2021-10-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 01 October 2021 17:17:53 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Oct 01, 2021 at 05:05:44PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 01 October 2021 12:43:00 Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > > > man lilo > manLILO > > > > did exactly what I wanted it to do. Thank

Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen

2021-10-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 01 October 2021 20:44:41 Fred wrote: > On 10/1/21 1:59 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 01 October 2021 12:34:16 Larry Martell wrote: > > > > man -t /path/to/man/file >file.txt > > groff -mandoc /path/to/man/file > file.txt, both quadrupled t

Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen

2021-10-02 Thread Gene Heskett
Since N=69! is the largest that a ti calculator can handle, fun it won't be, cuz N is well north of 1000 in this case. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author,

Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen

2021-10-02 Thread Gene Heskett
s a well-known command named "9"), > so I used man man and man bash¹. There is a well known man 9 command, it means to save man the trouble of searching the whole database, as there might be duplicate names to confuse the issue, but it this case look in man/man9 for the reque

Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen

2021-10-02 Thread Gene Heskett
LaTeX took over. I > did my PhD in troff many moon ago on BSD Unix and then SunOS. > Testament to the quality of the software: I can still generate a PDF > of my thesis now after more than 30 years since I wrote it. Try that > in Word... ;-) And in 3 decades, word will have destroye

Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen

2021-10-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 02 October 2021 11:13:09 Brian wrote: > On Fri 01 Oct 2021 at 17:32:37 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 01 October 2021 17:17:53 Greg Wooledge wrote: > > [...] > > > > We still don't know why you want this. I guess we'll never know. >

Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen

2021-10-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 02 October 2021 16:02:52 Brian wrote: > On Sat 02 Oct 2021 at 15:43:33 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Saturday 02 October 2021 11:13:09 Brian wrote: > > > On Fri 01 Oct 2021 at 17:32:37 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > On Friday 01 October 202

Re: Then it happened to me...

2021-10-10 Thread Gene Heskett
t; But I know a way - join Debian project, become Debian Developer, and > raise a General Resolution about Discourse. > > Reco > > [1] https://forums.debian.net/ I have to hit ctl+ quite a few times to get it readable. Then the python 3 questions were all too obvious. > [2] https:

Re: Mouse left button acts really strange

2021-10-10 Thread Gene Heskett
oided by the girls lest the geekiness is catching. Some of us are even CET's, but that card, laid on the HR desk has gotten me every job I ever wanted, some quite lucrative. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and amm

A .profile puzzle

2021-10-17 Thread Gene Heskett
thing is starting a konsole to do work, needs a $PATH modification that we used to put in ~.profile. But opening a terminal hasn't called a ". .profile" since about jessie. So thats another PITA. So, what has replaced .profile as the function for such as that in recent releases

Re: A .profile puzzle

2021-10-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 17 October 2021 12:35:01 deloptes wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > 1. Before the latest failure I could do all this as me because the > > mount point for the card is in my home directory, I own it all. And > > didn't have to be root to do any of it.  T

Re: A .profile puzzle

2021-10-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 17 October 2021 12:39:50 Dan Ritter wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > The local electrical system, while better than Haiti's is getting to > > be a nuisance with 5 second power failures about weekly, or is that > > weakly? > > That's a great case fo

Re: A .profile puzzle

2021-10-17 Thread Gene Heskett
;And then there's GNOME. Because obviously GNOME has to be unique > and have its own separate session type, and its own way of doing > everything, none of the answers above applies to GNOME. Except maybe > the .xsessionrc file. I think Debian still arranges for GNOME > se

Re: A .profile puzzle

2021-10-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 17 October 2021 15:45:36 songbird wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Sunday 17 October 2021 12:39:50 Dan Ritter wrote: > >> Gene Heskett wrote: > >> > The local electrical system, while better than Haiti's is getting > >> > to be a nuisanc

Re: A .profile puzzle

2021-10-17 Thread Gene Heskett
stuff, but I haven't. Who am I? For starters, I am a Certified Electroncs Technician, registered in Nebraska as NB-118. One who spent the last 18 years of his working life as the Chief Operator of a middle market television station, much of the time by myself. Now I'm your classic

Re: A .profile puzzle

2021-10-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 18 October 2021 01:12:42 Will Mengarini wrote: > * Gene Heskett [21-10/17=Su 12:18 -0400]: > > [...] opening a terminal hasn't called > > a ". .profile" since about jessie [...] > > Check whether you *also* have either .bash_profile or > .bash_lo

Re: A .profile puzzle

2021-10-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 18 October 2021 07:17:05 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 01:42:43AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Monday 18 October 2021 01:12:42 Will Mengarini wrote: > > > * Gene Heskett [21-10/17=Su 12:18 -0400]: > > > > [...] opening a te

Re: Sata Hard drive testing

2021-10-20 Thread Gene Heskett
ower-up, resume after 0 minute > delay. What color is the sata data cable? if "hot red" aka magenta, bump it with a pencil and note if the syslog log blows up with reset errors. If it does, replace the data cable with any other color but that hot red. That particular plastic dye leads

Re: Sata Hard drive testing

2021-10-21 Thread Gene Heskett
id > not disclose were SMR. > > -dsr- And what does this SMR acronym mean, Dan? Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for th

Re: Sata Hard drive testing

2021-10-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 21 October 2021 09:02:01 David wrote: > On Thu, 21 Oct 2021 at 23:53, Gene Heskett wrote: > > And what does this SMR acronym mean, Dan? > > Questions like this can be answered with an > internet search engine. Search for "Seagate SMR". > For fu

drawing smith charts

2021-10-23 Thread Gene Heskett
circular at its maximum error limits. Can anyone suggest a linux substitute? Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we

Re: drawing smith charts

2021-10-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 23 October 2021 05:58:12 didier gaumet wrote: > Le samedi 23 octobre 2021 à 04:58 -0400, Gene Heskett a écrit : > > Greetings; > > > > One of the things I occasionally do is service my local AM radio > > station > > when its off the air. This inclu

Re: drawing smith charts

2021-10-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 23 October 2021 06:06:12 Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Sat, Oct 23, 2021 at 04:58:30AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings; > > > > One of the things I occasionally do is service my local AM radio > > station when its off the air. This includes trying

Re: A .profile puzzle

2021-10-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 23 October 2021 22:00:42 piorunz wrote: > On 17/10/2021 17:18, Gene Heskett wrote: > > The local electrical system, while better than Haiti's is getting to > > be a nuisance with 5 second power failures about weekly, or is that > > weakly? (...) > >

problem with an HP AIO

2021-10-25 Thread Gene Heskett
d let me into it to swap the drive. So, short of a fire axe, how does one get into a 2 yo HP AIO as sold by wally's? Many Thanks to anyone that knows the magic incantation that will open it! Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ba

Re: problem with an HP AIO

2021-10-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 25 October 2021 21:37:24 piorunz wrote: > On 26/10/2021 02:29, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > This $350 thing in 2019, a model unk cuz its a tiny label in > > chinese, has W10HE on it and has decided it can't run the app I > > b

Re: problem with an HP AIO

2021-10-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 25 October 2021 21:48:24 Greg Wooledge wrote: > how to open HP all-in-one Thank you very much, I think I found a video for the exact one I have from ddg. And have it bookmarked. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, j

Re: problem with an HP AIO

2021-10-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 25 October 2021 22:06:09 Larry Martell wrote: > On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 9:57 PM Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Monday 25 October 2021 21:37:24 piorunz wrote: > > > On 26/10/2021 02:29, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > Greetings all; > > > > > >

Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-12 Thread Gene Heskett
t of the 4 identical drives it could find there. If there is such a critter, point me at it please. What I'd like to do when I install bullseye, is use this raid10 for the /home partition in the bullseye install. Thanks. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used i

Re: Problem with Synaptic

2021-11-12 Thread Gene Heskett
reinstalled, but I can't find an > archive for it. > > sudo apt update ran without any problems. Thats b'cuz the Brother installer puts all that stuff in /opt, and for the most part I havn't touched it in around 3 years. It has some tcp crc hiccups early on, but thats gone

Re: Problem with Synaptic

2021-11-12 Thread Gene Heskett
it must > be downloaded manually) and running 'apt install ./brscan4-..deb' > (substituting the actual file name, naturally). The './' is necessary > to tell apt it's a file name. No, to be precise, it tells the file system its a file in the currently cd

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 12 November 2021 08:39:31 Charles Curley wrote: > On Fri, 12 Nov 2021 08:05:53 -0500 > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > The man page we have goes on and on for megabytes without ever > > giving an example. > > > > I thought maybe it could scan for

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 12 November 2021 08:49:21 Dan Ritter wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > The man page we have goes on and on for megabytes without ever > > giving an example. > > > > I thought maybe it could scan for devices so that I could build an > > mdadm.conf

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 12 November 2021 08:49:21 Dan Ritter wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > The man page we have goes on and on for megabytes without ever > > giving an example. > > > > I thought maybe it could scan for devices so that I could build an > > mdadm.conf

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 12 November 2021 09:29:06 David Wright wrote: > On Fri 12 Nov 2021 at 08:05:53 (-0500), Gene Heskett wrote: > > I have installed 4 1T samsung EVo 870's on their own non-raid sata > > controller, but with 11 days uptime and the logrotate manager > > having a 10

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 12 November 2021 10:18:07 Dan Ritter wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 12 November 2021 08:49:21 Dan Ritter wrote: > > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > The man page we have goes on and on for megabytes without ever > > > > giving an e

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 12 November 2021 10:37:22 Andy Smith wrote: > Hello, > > On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 09:22:12AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > mdadm --create --verbose /dem/md0 --level=10 --raid-devices=4 > > /dev/sde /dev/sdf /dev/sdg /dev/sdh > > > > should work. >

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 12 November 2021 11:34:24 Charles Curley wrote: > On Fri, 12 Nov 2021 09:22:12 -0500 > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > So > > > > mdadm --create --verbose /dem/md0 --level=10 --raid-devices=4 > > /dev/sde /dev/sdf /dev/sdg /dev/sdh > > > > s

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 12 November 2021 11:49:29 The Wanderer wrote: > On 2021-11-12 at 11:42, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 12 November 2021 10:18:07 Dan Ritter wrote: > >> Gene Heskett wrote: > >> > Not in the stretch man page. And its sounding as if I should do > >

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 12 November 2021 11:56:48 Dan Ritter wrote: > Andy Smith wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 09:22:12AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > mdadm --create --verbose /dem/md0 --level=10 --raid-devices=4 > > > /dev/sde /dev/sdf /dev/sdg /dev/sdh > > > >

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 12 November 2021 11:57:28 Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 09:48:01AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 12 November 2021 08:49:21 Dan Ritter wrote: > > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > The man page we have goes on and on for megabytes

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 12 November 2021 12:07:54 Charles Curley wrote: > On Fri, 12 Nov 2021 11:53:45 -0500 > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > Condensing this down bare bones it sounds like I should un-mount it, > > format each to ext4 and re-create it just in case. And should nuke >

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 12 November 2021 12:26:02 Charles Curley wrote: > On Fri, 12 Nov 2021 12:03:25 -0500 > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > Thanks Charles. Sounds like a good idea. I'll see if I can get > > gparted to see them now. It see's it, but its locked, in use by the >

Re: Problem with Synaptic

2021-11-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 12 November 2021 13:38:48 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 08:19:15AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 12 November 2021 07:36:01 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > > > On 12/11/2021 09:30, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > > > > This is the immedi

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-12 Thread Gene Heskett
ed coyote:1. Which isn't what I told gparted to label them as with about 3.5 GIB unallocated on each one. So I am lost as to Whats next? Or do I start doing it all over again using some other partitioning tool? Thanks all. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 12 November 2021 15:12:15 Dan Ritter wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 12 November 2021 11:57:28 Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > Use an expert install. > > > > > > set up the disks as RAID 10 first, then use the partition editor > > &g

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 12 November 2021 17:01:01 The Wanderer wrote: > On 2021-11-12 at 16:52, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 12 November 2021 15:12:15 Dan Ritter wrote: > >> Gene Heskett wrote: > >>> That will be good, but getting rid of the first raid10 I built > &g

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 12 November 2021 17:43:34 Charles Curley wrote: > On Fri, 12 Nov 2021 13:41:22 -0500 > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > And dd used to have a progress bar, but no mention in the man page, > > when did that go away? > > From man dd: > >status=LEV

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 13 November 2021 06:02:35 Dan Ritter wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 12 November 2021 08:49:21 Dan Ritter wrote: > > > > Ok, zeroed them, nuked mdadm.conf & rebooted. > > gparted each one, setting 2 partitions in GPT format on each of > &

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 13 November 2021 07:33:49 Andy Smith wrote: > Hello, > > On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 11:42:32AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 12 November 2021 10:18:07 Dan Ritter wrote: > > > After you have set them up, mdadm.conf has things like this: > > > &

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 13 November 2021 07:33:49 Andy Smith wrote: > Hello, > > On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 11:42:32AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 12 November 2021 10:18:07 Dan Ritter wrote: > > > After you have set them up, mdadm.conf has things like this: > > > &

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-13 Thread Gene Heskett
od target practice for my new 6.5 creedmoor barrel. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respe

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 13 November 2021 08:58:15 Andy Smith wrote: > On Sat, Nov 13, 2021 at 08:39:15AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > And I just found I didn't have an mdadm.conf, and I had figure a > > new -C would have created it. But the last time I ran it, no > > mdadm.conf

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 13 November 2021 09:51:05 Andy Smith wrote: > On Sat, Nov 13, 2021 at 09:28:46AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > the next question is why does > > --scan even report it if its no good? blkid returns different > > UUID's. Would those work? > > Why a

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 13 November 2021 11:41:00 David Wright wrote: > On Sat 13 Nov 2021 at 07:26:04 (-0500), Gene Heskett wrote: > > My mdadm manpage does not show the -S command. Scanniing it again to > > make sure, probably for about the 10th time and I finally found it > >

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 13 November 2021 15:44:35 Andy Smith wrote: > On Sat, Nov 13, 2021 at 01:14:56PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I wouldn't argue near as loud if it hadn't already been proven to me > > that what you call filesystem UUID's are volatile. > > What

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 13 November 2021 18:37:34 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Nov 13, 2021 at 04:06:43PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > > On Sat, 13 Nov 2021 16:57:01 -0500 > > > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > > So which of these various UUID's is actually valid in an fstab

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 13 November 2021 22:37:19 Tom Dial wrote: > On 11/13/21 14:57, Gene Heskett wrote: [...] > >>> It happened when I moved a drive from sda to sdd several years > >>> ago. > >> > >> Barring some strange bug that only you have ever seen,

Re: Fwd: lists.debian.org has received bounces from you

2021-11-24 Thread Gene Heskett
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new buster install, dvd said 11.,1 but installed 10.1

2021-11-28 Thread Gene Heskett
he data. So how do make /bin/tar usable/secure? Thanks all. Cheers, Gene Heskett

filesystem I'd?

2021-12-06 Thread Gene Heskett
Whats the name of the filesystem used on 64G micro-sd's labeled SDXC ? Thanks all.

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