Starting Sunday evening I intalled 64-bit Debian Squeeze on a new hard
disk. I saved the old hard disk that has Jaunty x86_64.
Lots of good news:
The GUI installer went into an endless loop repeating an
incompehensible error message. But the text-based installer worked
perfectly. That is, it was
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 6:10 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote:
>
> I did not have to try a live CD. I rebooted and when Debian came back
> up the drive was automatically mounted.
>
> What I still don't understand is why it did not automount when I
> plugged it in. Nor was I able to mount it manually, fo
- "Rich Shepard" wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Nov 2009, Michael Ewan wrote:
>
> > Also if you want just the dot files/dirs you can try this:
> > tar cvzf /media/disk/psa-home.tgz .??*
> > .??* will match all dot files that have more the two characters in
> the
> > name, thus skipping . and .., if you
# from John Jason Jordan
# on Sunday 01 November 2009 22:37:
>Thanks! Your answer arrived before google found the solution for me.
Did you try running `apropos password` first?
--Eric
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On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 16:39:23 -0500
Robert Citek wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 12:56 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> > All seemed to go well, but Squeeze is not finding the drive. I get the
> > following:
> >
> > j...@devil8:~$ dmesg |tail
> > [40648.050094] hda: possibly failed opcode: 0xa0
> >
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 12:56 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> All seemed to go well, but Squeeze is not finding the drive. I get the
> following:
>
> j...@devil8:~$ dmesg |tail
> [40648.050094] hda: possibly failed opcode: 0xa0
> [40648.050100] hda: Strange, packet command initiated yet DRQ isn't a
On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 09:56 -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> I installed a new hard drive on which to install Debian. I had intended to
> place the old hard drive in a USB enclosure that I already had.
> Unfortunately, the old drive is SATA, and the USB enclosure is not a SATA
> enclosure. So,
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> Not just safe, the only way: you cannot change regular filesystem into
> raid1 one, there is not enough room for the raid superblock (the same
> partition formatted for raid will have slightly smaller capacity).
>
> Also, if you want to boot from this raid, you will likely need to
> rewrite the i
On Mon, 2 Nov 2009, Fedor Pikus wrote:
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 09:55:25 -0800
From: Fedor Pikus
Reply-To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help; civil and on-topic"
To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help, civil and on-topic"
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Linux RAID1 question
On Mon,
I installed a new hard drive on which to install Debian. I had intended to
place the old hard drive in a USB enclosure that I already had. Unfortunately,
the old drive is SATA, and the USB enclosure is not a SATA enclosure. So,
instead I opted to place the old drive in the ultrabay frame that I
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Joe Pruett wrote:
>> Is it possible to take an ordinary, non-RAIDed hard drive, and turn it
>> into a mirror without losing any data, using linux software RAID?
>
> i'm assuming you have one disk with data and one spare. the safe way is
> to create a broken mirror
> Your assumptions re: disk configuration are correct. I will try it!
> The ability to create a broken mirror is key. Thanks.
if you hunt around the web, you can probably find a number of howtos (all
subtly wrong in different ways :-).
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On Mon, 2 Nov 2009, Joe Pruett wrote:
>> Is it possible to take an ordinary, non-RAIDed hard drive, and turn
>> it into a mirror without losing any data, using linux software
>> RAID?
>
> i'm assuming you have one disk with data and one spare. the safe
> way is to create a broken mirror with t
On Mon, 2 Nov 2009, Joe Pruett wrote:
> Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 09:30:22 -0800 (PST)
> From: Joe Pruett
> Reply-To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help;civil and on-topic"
>
> To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help; civil and on-topic"
>
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Linux RAID1 que
> Is it possible to take an ordinary, non-RAIDed hard drive, and turn it
> into a mirror without losing any data, using linux software RAID?
i'm assuming you have one disk with data and one spare. the safe way is
to create a broken mirror with the spare drive and "missing" as the
other piece.
Is it possible to take an ordinary, non-RAIDed hard drive, and turn it
into a mirror without losing any data, using linux software RAID?
Carlos
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Joe Pruett wrote:
>> Thanks. /etc/sysconfig/kernel does not exist on the machine that
>> defaults to the old kernel. I don't recall manually creating
>> /etc/sysconfig/kernel on the other machine. Does one of the GUI admin
>> tools create this file? Obviously I can just copy the file, but I'm
>
> Thanks. /etc/sysconfig/kernel does not exist on the machine that
> defaults to the old kernel. I don't recall manually creating
> /etc/sysconfig/kernel on the other machine. Does one of the GUI admin
> tools create this file? Obviously I can just copy the file, but I'm
> curious how I got int
Joe Pruett wrote:
>> I have two CentOS 5 machines that I just updated to 5.4. On both
>> machines the new kernel was inserted into the top of the list in
>> grub.conf. However, on one machine the default line in grub.conf was
>> changed such that the old kernel would boot by default. On the othe
On Sun, 1 Nov 2009, wes wrote:
> Use 2>error.log
That's what I did, Wes.
It turns out that the errors (there were 2) were a small editor status
file owned by root and a gxine socket from several years ago. As soon as I
deleted both of those the 1.5G directory tarred and compressed into an
>> John Jason Jordan said...
>> ...does anyone know where installed printers are located?
>> I mean, if I copy ~/ from the Ubuntu disk to the new Debian
>> disk, will my printers be there as they were in Ubuntu? This
>> is a serious question. I have eight laser printers which I
>> use for various d
On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 00:19:58 -0800
Paul Mullen wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 11:46:23PM -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> > In Ubuntu there is a list of additional repositories and you just
> > check them to use them, but I can't find the list in Debian.
>
> I don't know what the GUI way of do
On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 11:46:23PM -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> In Ubuntu there is a list of additional repositories and you just
> check them to use them, but I can't find the list in Debian.
I don't know what the GUI way of doing things is, but if you don't
mind doing it the hard way, a goo
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