Re: [OCLUG-Tech] help for new Linux users - before the club meeting

2013-05-05 Thread ed stuckems
Rob: Are these sessions meant solely for new linux users or can they be used by those of us who have been using it for a while but that are having difficulty getting something new to work. regards,s eds On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Rob Echlin wrote: > Hi > John has mentioned on this list

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Help recovering a (software-dead, not hardware dead) hard-drive SOLVED!

2013-02-27 Thread ed stuckems
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Richard Guy Briggs wrote: > I would have done: > > for f in /dev/sd?; do fdisk -l $f; done > > which would have given you something useful. > > I agree that fdisk is of more and more limited usage these days since it can't > cope with more than 2TB. True

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Help recovering a (software-dead, not hardware dead) hard-drive SOLVED!

2013-02-27 Thread ed stuckems
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 10:52 AM, ed stuckems wrote: > On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Shawn H Corey wrote: > >> When you plug in the drive, does /dev/disk/ get a new entry? > > Yes it does. Actually, it gets 3 new entries. Sorry, this is new > territory for me and I can

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Help recovering a (software-dead, not hardware dead) hard-drive

2013-02-27 Thread ed stuckems
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Shawn H Corey wrote: > When you plug in the drive, does /dev/disk/ get a new entry? Yes it does. Actually, it gets 3 new entries. Sorry, this is new territory for me and I can't derive any insight from the new entries. Maybe someone here can so I've copied them

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Help recovering a (software-dead, not hardware dead) hard-drive

2013-02-27 Thread ed stuckems
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 8:29 AM, Prof J C Nash (U30A) wrote: > I've noticed that my usb-SATA cables sometimes need to be checked > (pulled apart and reconnected). It looks like reconnected the cable and still nothing. > > fdisk -l > > isn't showing the device? Realize this may be a long shot. a

[OCLUG-Tech] Help recovering a (software-dead, not hardware dead) hard-drive

2013-02-27 Thread ed stuckems
Hello folks: I need to resize an ntfs partition to make room for a linux distro. Since I've never resized an ntfs partition before, I dug up a spare drive I had laying around with the intent to format it to include an ntfs partition that I can later resize. In fact, the plan was to format the dri

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] help switching over to Linux

2012-08-01 Thread ed stuckems
Wow, why is everyone rushing to install linux when live cd's are available to try. On a modern pc/laptop there is more than enough memory to run a live CD to get some idea of what linux is like/about. While Mr. Bennett's computing resources haven't been established, no one should rule out the poss

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] need help solving an issue with my network

2012-01-01 Thread ed stuckems
I'm sorry, I forgot to wish everyone a happy new year, so Happy New Year to everyone on the list. Brenda: On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Brenda J. Butler wrote: > > > Do the machines with DNS problems get their IP addresses via > DHCP?  Do they get their nameserver info from DHCP as well? Yes

[OCLUG-Tech] need help solving an issue with my network

2012-01-01 Thread ed stuckems
Folks: This may be slightly off-topic, so I hope you'll consider this request for help appropriate for this list. My home network is suddenly misbehaving and after poking around a bit I'm at a loss to explain why things aren't working and I can't seem to fix the problem. Any help/advice would be

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Re: Laptop partitioning

2009-12-12 Thread ed stuckems
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Prof. John C Nash wrote: > As I recall, the structure was > > 1 MB free unallocated > 200 MB NTFS /dev/sda1 > 187 GB NTFS /dev/sda2 > 30 GB NTFS /dev/sda3 (extended) >     30 GB NTFS /dev/sda5 > 14.5 GB NTFS /dev/sda4 > > (with some odd unallocated bits of about 1M

[OCLUG-Tech] newb gpg: choosing key to encrypt to

2009-12-12 Thread ed stuckems
someone's public key can have more than 1 encryption key. How can I select which of those encryption keys to use to sent to such a public key? eds. ___ Linux mailing list Linux@lists.oclug.on.ca http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux

[OCLUG-Tech] Solved: newb gpg: choosing key to encrypt to

2009-12-12 Thread ed stuckems
Found the answer ... gpg -r ! -e the exclamation mark tells gpg to use the specific keyid specified. Without the exclamation mark, gpg will choose from among the list of possible keys. eds. On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 11:01 PM, ed stuckems wrote: > someone's public key can have mor

[OCLUG-Tech] linux and virtualization on a macbook pro

2009-11-26 Thread ed stuckems
Folks: Has anyone here successfully installed linux on a macbook pro and dual boot with linux and osx? If so: - what distro did you install? - what were the gatchas? - what boot loader did you use to select between linux and osx? Has anyone been able to get a virtualization layer running on a mac