Re: [SLUG] Call for volunteers

On Thursday 23 February 2006 12:16, ashley maher wrote: > SCLUG / University of Wollongong Installfest > > When: Saturday, Sunday March 11-12, 9:30am to 5:00pm > > Where: University of Wollongong Which building? SITACS HQ (bldg 3)...or somewhere else? > Respond to this list and we'll get a roste

Re: [SLUG] POS software/hardware

Howard Lowndes wrote: I have need to set up Linux POS soft/hard ware for a customer. I'm thinking SQL-Ledger for the software as it has POS, but I need a Linux compat slip printer, barcode reader (probably k/b wedge would be best), and cash drawer. What experience is there out there and rec

Re: [SLUG] Call for volunteers

I'm happy to come to both days, although my experiance with installing is more to debian and gentoo then Ubuntu, i dare say some of the things i've learnt in my (many) installs of gentoo will be useful On 2/23/06, ashley maher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > SCLUG / University of Wollongong Installfe

[SLUG] Annual memberships

I will start collecting annual memberships at the meeting on Friday to reduce the delay at the start of the AGM next month. Please write your name and email address on a piece of paper and correct change will help. Membership is currently only $25 p.a., or $15 p.a. for for students, unemployed

Re: [SLUG] is mkfs required ?

On Thu, February 23, 2006 11:06 am, Peter Rundle wrote: wouldn't of had the full disk space. > > Well that's my explanation for the "annomolie". But as far as I'm aware, > you should always do a mkfs on a new partition before attempting to mount > it. thanks for all the explanations. I guess I

Re: [SLUG] is mkfs required ?

On Thursday 23 February 2006 09:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Last night, I've added a 2nd IDE HD to a RH73; > > I've fdisked it as primary type 83, then, mounted as /mnt/hd2 > then, started copying files to it > > subsequently, I noticed that I was supposed to 'mkfs' after partitioning; > so, I'v

[SLUG] Call for volunteers

SCLUG / University of Wollongong Installfest When: Saturday, Sunday March 11-12, 9:30am to 5:00pm Where: University of Wollongong To help out CompSci students at UoW, we're going to run a specialised installfest to help them replicate the lab Linux systems on their home machines. The UoW CompSci

Re: [SLUG] upgrade to ubuntu dapper - destroyed system

Have you reinstalled grub from the installation? (I normally boot the computer with a live CD, then chroot to the installation partition to do it) Then while still at the chroot jail, I run update-grub to regenerate the menu.lst based on the installed kernels. HTH, BillOn 23/02/06, Ken Foskey <[E

Re: [SLUG] is mkfs required ?

it's an 8GB that was partitioned/formatted for primary/extended/fat(32?)ntfs? I've removed the 2 existing partitions, and made 1 primary for the default/entire HD More than likely what happened was that (before you ran mkfs), when you mounted the first partition the system auto-detected the exi

Re: [SLUG] is mkfs required ?

On Thu, February 23, 2006 9:38 am, Peter Rundle wrote: >> curious now, the disk appeared to work fine after 'fdisk' and before >> mkfs... what gives ? > > fdisk is used to partition the disk. mkfs then makes a file system (inodes > etc) within a partition (allowing you to choose a type of file sys

Re: [SLUG] is mkfs required ?

curious now, the disk appeared to work fine after 'fdisk' and before mkfs... what gives ? fdisk is used to partition the disk. mkfs then makes a file system (inodes etc) within a partition (allowing you to choose a type of file system, ext2 ext3 etc). Is the disk that you partitioned second

[SLUG] Sick gnupg keyring

Sometime recently my gnupg keyring got stuffed. When I try to access keys now I get the following output: gpg: checking the trustdb gpg: mpi larger than indicated length (2 bytes) gpg: keyring_get_keyblock: read error: invalid packet gpg: keyring_get_keyblock failed: invalid keyring gpg: failed t

[SLUG] is mkfs required ?

Last night, I've added a 2nd IDE HD to a RH73; I've fdisked it as primary type 83, then, mounted as /mnt/hd2 then, started copying files to it subsequently, I noticed that I was supposed to 'mkfs' after partitioning; so, I've moved all the already copied files, and, 'mkfs' the new hard drive, the

Re: [SLUG] PlanetPlanet

On 2/22/06, Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It's not running with -o, is it? > Certainly not :) > (There's a Planet mailing list btw, [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > I dont code in python, but it appears all the import lines relate to modules needed, and it appears some of the basic modules l

Re: [SLUG] POS software/hardware

Howard Lowndes wrote: I have need to set up Linux POS soft/hard ware for a customer. I'm thinking SQL-Ledger for the software as it has POS, but I need a Linux compat slip printer, barcode reader (probably k/b wedge would be best), and cash drawer. What experience is there out there and reco

[SLUG] POS software/hardware

I have need to set up Linux POS soft/hard ware for a customer. I'm thinking SQL-Ledger for the software as it has POS, but I need a Linux compat slip printer, barcode reader (probably k/b wedge would be best), and cash drawer. What experience is there out there and recommended suppliers for t

[SLUG] upgrade to ubuntu dapper - destroyed system

Here is my problem, my boot loader is corrupted and I burnt the CD recovered the boot loader grub and reinstalled the kernel 2.6.15 on dapper for but when it boots it does not like /dev/hda7 Since rescue uses /dev/discs/disc0/part7, I tried that and reinstalled the kernel (I don't know grub... p

Re: [SLUG] what is SAO mode in a cd write

I managed to make this work running as root with cdrecord dev="ATAPI:0,1,0" gracetime=2 fs=4096k driveropts=burnfree,noforcespeed -v -useinfo speed=48 -dao -eject -pad -data "/data4/dapper-install-i386.iso" It still gave the SAO error but it did burn the disk, I would like to figure out how to g

Re: [SLUG] PlanetPlanet

> Hi, > > Not sure if anyone might be able to help, although maybe Jeff can comment. > > I got PlanetPlanet installed onto my aussiehq webhost and it appeared to > be working. ie. It would run every hour and not produce errors. It would > even produce the html page etc. The only problem I have

Re: [SLUG] VNC question

quote("Ben Donohue"); >If you have a terminal then you could type startx or startkde (i don't >know what gnome startup is). >How I setup vnc for me is as follows (for kde setup and root access)... *cough* So, you run a VNC server as root, listening on the interweb? VNC being the unsecure protoc

Re: [SLUG] what is SAO mode in a cd write

Ken Foskey was once rumoured to have said: > cdrecord: Drive does not support SAO recording. SAO is "Session at Once" mode. A fairly uncommonly used multi-session recording mode where all the tracks for the session are written without interrupting the write-laser until the end of the session. TA

Re: [SLUG] what is SAO mode in a cd write

On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 10:02:58PM EST, Ken Foskey wrote: > Calling: /usr/lib/xcdroast/bin/xcdrwrap CDRECORD dev= "ATAPI:0,1,0" > gracetime=2 fs=4096k driveropts=burnfree,noforcespeed -v -useinfo > speed=48 -dao -eject -pad -data "/data4/dapper-install-i386.iso" ... SAO is more commonly known as D

[SLUG] what is SAO mode in a cd write

Calling: /usr/lib/xcdroast/bin/xcdrwrap CDRECORD dev= "ATAPI:0,1,0" gracetime=2 fs=4096k driveropts=burnfree,noforcespeed -v -useinfo speed=48 -dao -eject -pad -data "/data4/dapper-install-i386.iso" ... cdrecord: Warning: Running on Linux-2.6.10 cdrecord: There are unsettled issues with Linux-2.5

Re: [SLUG] VNC question

Hi Howard, If you have a terminal then you could type startx or startkde (i don't know what gnome startup is). How I setup vnc for me is as follows (for kde setup and root access)... Login as root type vncserver and put in the password twice edit services and turn on vncserver at startup Ed