Re: dd if=hda1 of=whatever ???????

2008-10-03 Thread mike havens
I believe you misunderstand... I'm not going to duel boot. I figure that I'll need to install grub or lilo because I'm not installing MS from their restore disk. On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 10:31 PM, James Finstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I find sadly windows runs better in virtual box on linux then

Re: OT: Phoenix Sci-Fi Event in January

2008-10-03 Thread alexanderhenry
I was there last year, it's a relaxing weekend. I met voice actress Jennifer Huff at her panels, and took a pic with Will Wheaton. Lou Ferigno was there parked in a huge oak high-chair. Lots of kids dressed like Narutu, once in a while I saw a kid in a Kakurenbo fox mask, those were the

OT Phoenix Company needs a ASPX type person

2008-10-03 Thread G Gambill
A Phoenix Company is moving their web site from one IP to GoDaddy. The original IP has copied their web pages (structure) to CD and the Phoenix company has copied that structure to GoDaddies server. Now we need someone that understands ASPX to get it working. TIA George

Re: OT Phoenix Company needs a ASPX type person

2008-10-03 Thread Josh Coffman
I can advise. contact info is below. Josh | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://computeristsolutions.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/joshuacoffman | http://twitter.com/joshcoffman On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 9:35 AM, G Gambill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A Phoenix Company is moving their web site from one IP

Re: OT: Phoenix Sci-Fi Event in January

2008-10-03 Thread alexanderhenry
Oh... How could I forget the Zombie Beauty Pageant? :) With zombie walk competition, talent competition, then interviews :) One corner of the room had top costume and makeup pros making x-men characters up into zombies on the fly. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was there last

Disable winbindd?

2008-10-03 Thread Alan Dayley
We have a Linux file server providing Windows shares with Samba. We need to stop using the Windows domain to authenticate users and use the server local user IDs and passwords for share access. I think this means we need to disable winbindd. But I'm not sure. What are the Samba settings we

Re: dd if=hda1 of=whatever ???????

2008-10-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OK, lets get this organized: it and then dd the primary drive. That way if I get a virus all I need to do is dd the file back ontoo the hard drive. So I suppose that I... dd will read your HD/partition track by track and output it to of=MYOUTPUT You have to place MYOUTPUT somewhere and save

K3b burning mp3s problem

2008-10-03 Thread Josef Lowder
After creating some mp3 audio tracks on my hp-xp laptop (gag ... because I haven't figured out how to do this on my main Linux system yet) ... and since the cd/dvd burner on my laptop seems to have flaked out ... I copied the files to an SD chip and then copied them to my Linux box. But when I

Re: OT Phoenix Company needs a ASPX type person

2008-10-03 Thread G Gambill
Thanks Josh. I have sent your information to the company so you should be hearing from them soon. George On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 9:38 AM, Josh Coffman [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: I can advise. contact info is below. Josh | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://computeristsolutions.com

Re: K3b burning mp3s problem

2008-10-03 Thread Alan Dayley
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Josef Lowder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I determine, for sure, what the format is of the files on the CD? And how can I make sure that K3b burns the files as mp3 files? Set K3B to burn a data CD. If you tell it to make an audio CD I think it will convert

Re: Disable winbindd?

2008-10-03 Thread Eric Shubert
Alan Dayley wrote: We have a Linux file server providing Windows shares with Samba. We need to stop using the Windows domain to authenticate users and use the server local user IDs and passwords for share access. I think this means we need to disable winbindd. But I'm not sure. What are

Re: Disable winbindd?

2008-10-03 Thread Alan Dayley
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 12:07 PM, Eric Shubert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't believe winbindd has much if anything to do with authentication. I'm not clear about what your situation is. Are you saying that it's presently using a windoze (domain controller) server for authentication, and

Re: K3b burning mp3s problem

2008-10-03 Thread Matt Graham
From: Josef Lowder [EMAIL PROTECTED] After creating some mp3 audio tracks on my hp-xp laptop (gag ... because I haven't figured out how to do this on my main Linux system yet) Encoding: lame (there are GUI frontends to lame) Ripping: cdparanoia (there are GUI frontends to this too) Both: grip

can't unmount usb hd

2008-10-03 Thread Robert Holtzman
I have a 360 Gb external drive. When I back up my system (that has 3 linux distros installed) with Clonezilla, the drive appears mounted as 7 separate disks (/media/disk, /media/disk-1 thru /media/disk-6). That in itself is weird but isn't the main problem. The real hangup is that I can't

Re: can't unmount usb hd

2008-10-03 Thread Matt Graham
From: Robert Holtzman [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a 360 Gb external drive. When I back up my system (that has 3 linux distros installed) with Clonezilla, the drive appears mounted as 7 separate [partitions] (/media/disk, /media/disk-1 thru /media/disk-6). FTFY. (disk != partition, remember.)

Re: can't unmount usb hd

2008-10-03 Thread Alan Dayley
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Robert Holtzman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a 360 Gb external drive. When I back up my system (that has 3 linux distros installed) with Clonezilla, the drive appears mounted as 7 separate disks (/media/disk, /media/disk-1 thru /media/disk-6). That in itself

Re: K3b burning mp3s problem

2008-10-03 Thread eculbert
First, little do I mess with mp3 audio files. But somewhere in my pea brain, I think that to burn to cd you need to make sure audio files are being 'saved/burned/whatever' as audio files, not data. Something 'about' some prefile? or header or file name type thing in 'data' type that audio

Re: K3b burning mp3s problem

2008-10-03 Thread eculbert
Just went through the motions in k3b of audio and then a data...totally different screens and 'options' so to speak. Hope this helps, then you probably did choose audio, so outside my realm of knowledge. Have you tried Amarok to burn cd with? Think that was the one that worked for me...again

Re: Disable winbindd?

2008-10-03 Thread Eric Shubert
Alan Dayley wrote: On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 12:07 PM, Eric Shubert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't believe winbindd has much if anything to do with authentication. I'm not clear about what your situation is. Are you saying that it's presently using a windoze (domain controller) server for

Re: dd if=hda1 of=whatever ???????

2008-10-03 Thread mike havens
dd if=hda1 bs=? of=windowsdate bs=? what about the byte size thing? How should I figure that out; or do I need to worry about it? I was planning on copying to a cd but I think it would be a neat thing to copy different images to the same disk. I looked for but had problems finding the compression

Kernel bootsplash

2008-10-03 Thread Nathan
All, Does anyone use bootsplash ? I like bootsplash because it is simple and requires NOTHING to be in a initrd or ramfs other than the splash utility. Splashy and the others require more than I care to use in my initrds. So I'm looking for a new bootsplash patch as I'd like to move to a

Re: dd if=hda1 of=whatever ???????

2008-10-03 Thread Matt Graham
From: mike havens [EMAIL PROTECTED] dd if=hda1 bs=? of=windowsdate bs=? what about the byte size thing? How should I figure that out; or do I need to worry about it? Yeah. 32k is good for modern disks. It defaults to 512 bytes, which is just way too small--64 read()s and 64 write()s of 512

Re: Disable winbindd?

2008-10-03 Thread Alan Dayley
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Eric Shubert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What you describe sounds nonsensical to me. Sounds like you want to use Linux authentication in addition to a windows domain controller. That'd be like trying to use 2 different domain controllers together. I don't see how

Re: Disable winbindd?

2008-10-03 Thread Eric Shubert
Alan Dayley wrote: On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Eric Shubert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What you describe sounds nonsensical to me. Sounds like you want to use Linux authentication in addition to a windows domain controller. That'd be like trying to use 2 different domain controllers

Re: Disable winbindd?

2008-10-03 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 15:14 -0700, Craig White wrote: On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 11:17 -0700, Alan Dayley wrote: We have a Linux file server providing Windows shares with Samba. We need to stop using the Windows domain to authenticate users and use the server local user IDs and passwords for

Re: Disable winbindd?

2008-10-03 Thread Eric Shubert
Craig White wrote: On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 14:47 -0700, Eric Shubert wrote: Alan Dayley wrote: On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Eric Shubert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What you describe sounds nonsensical to me. Sounds like you want to use Linux authentication in addition to a windows domain

Re: Disable winbindd?

2008-10-03 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 14:47 -0700, Eric Shubert wrote: Alan Dayley wrote: On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Eric Shubert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What you describe sounds nonsensical to me. Sounds like you want to use Linux authentication in addition to a windows domain controller. That'd be

Re: Disable winbindd?

2008-10-03 Thread Alan Dayley
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Re: Disable winbindd?

2008-10-03 Thread Alan Dayley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Craig White wrote: to disable winbindd... A typical Red Hat system would set winbind as an authentication method in padl_nss (/etc/nsswitch) and you can simply remove winbind from that -BEGIN PGP

Re: dd if=hda1 of=whatever ???????

2008-10-03 Thread mike havens
what do I copy to copy the MBR If I remember correctly it is track zero. dd if=hda1... how do I tell it which byte to start on and where to end and how do I figure this on the hd being copied? On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 1:13 PM, mike havens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dd if=hda1 bs=?

Re: Disable winbindd?

2008-10-03 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 15:48 -0700, Eric Shubert wrote: Craig White wrote: Are you saying this operational configuration is not possible or just a bad idea? Sounds like it'd be possible using Share-Level Security security = share. See

Re: dd if=hda1 of=whatever ???????

2008-10-03 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 17:02 -0700, mike havens wrote: what do I copy to copy the MBR If I remember correctly it is track zero. dd if=hda1... how do I tell it which byte to start on and where to end and how do I figure this on the hd being copied? On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 1:13 PM, mike

Re: Disable winbindd?

2008-10-03 Thread Eric Shubert
Craig White wrote: On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 15:48 -0700, Eric Shubert wrote: Craig White wrote: Are you saying this operational configuration is not possible or just a bad idea? Sounds like it'd be possible using Share-Level Security security = share. See

Re: dd if=hda1 of=whatever ???????

2008-10-03 Thread mike havens
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 5:57 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike, what's exactly what you want to do? Forget the boot record, give me the BIG picture. Enrique I want to make an image of my disk so when it gets a virus all I need to do is delete the HD and install the image.

Re: Disable winbindd?

2008-10-03 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 18:22 -0700, Eric Shubert wrote: Craig White wrote: On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 15:48 -0700, Eric Shubert wrote: Craig White wrote: Are you saying this operational configuration is not possible or just a bad idea? Sounds like it'd be possible using Share-Level

Re: dd if=hda1 of=whatever ???????

2008-10-03 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 18:28 -0700, mike havens wrote: On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 5:57 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike, what's exactly what you want to do? Forget the boot record, give me the BIG picture. Enrique I want to make an image of my disk so when it gets a virus

Re: Disable winbindd?

2008-10-03 Thread Eric Shubert
Craig White wrote: On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 18:22 -0700, Eric Shubert wrote: Craig White wrote: On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 15:48 -0700, Eric Shubert wrote: Craig White wrote: Are you saying this operational configuration is not possible or just a bad idea? Sounds like it'd be possible using

Re: dd if=hda1 of=whatever ???????

2008-10-03 Thread mike havens
so then, count=* means to copy blocks stated (as in block 1) Could you do a range? (1-512) Or multiple blocks? Or multiple ranges? On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 6:33 PM, Craig White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 18:28 -0700, mike havens wrote: On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 5:57 PM, [EMAIL