Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Recovering damaged disk, made copy with DD

2010-08-04 Thread pfarrell
SteveEast;566619 Wrote: > Oh dear, I hope you can make another copy of the disk! You just built an > empty file system on top of the one you copied. This is bad. This could be very bad. -- pfarrell Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftwar

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Recovering damaged disk, made copy with DD

2010-08-04 Thread pfarrell
SteveEast;566584 Wrote: > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Mount > I had some luck, but still am stuck. The link suggests: mkfs.ext2 -j MyFilesystem.img which worked. or at least said it did. and then the mount, seems to succeed: mount imagebay2 /home/pfarrell/imagebay2 -o loop bu

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Recovering damaged disk, made copy with DD

2010-08-04 Thread pfarrell
Oh, yes, sorry, its Linux, Debian. -- pfarrell Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html pfarrell's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=200 View

[SlimDevices: Unix] Recovering damaged disk, made copy with DD

2010-08-04 Thread pfarrell
y them, etc. I made the copy with dd, but I don't know the commands to do the next step. How do I use the created image? I assume there is some suitable mount command. Pointers appreciated. Thanks Pat -- pfarrell Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/sli

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] SC Problems zu install 7.2.1

2008-11-17 Thread pfarrell
thing -- pfarrell Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html pfarrell's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=200 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Sudoers on Clarkconnect

2008-11-06 Thread pfarrell
This may help http://www.gratisoft.us/sudo/man/sudoers.html -- pfarrell Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html pfarrell's Profile: http://forums.slimdevice

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] SqueezeCenter on Linux with a Duet

2008-08-12 Thread pfarrell
using either testing or unstable. Not as least for a rookie. I use them all the time, but I'm a beta tester, and I'm crazy. Right now, the 7.3 branch is very unstable, so don't go near it. Have you tried having apt-get uninstall it all, sprinkle garlic on it, and start

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Would I benefit from switching to Linux on my server

2008-07-17 Thread pfarrell
I do this so that my SqueezeBoxen can think they are using DHCP, but I assign constant TCP/IP addresses (using the MAC address) so that the devices stay known. -- pfarrell Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimser

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Scheduled scan from cron?

2008-07-06 Thread pfarrell
Now, if you want to do it the way you inititally asked, there is a thread on using CLI from cron. Its actually easy, and if you speak cron, you may use it to start other useful things. -- pfarrell Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] How to shutdown SC ?

2008-06-28 Thread pfarrell
what distro you running? -- pfarrell Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html pfarrell's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=200 View this t

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] How Do I Restart Slimserver On Ubuntu 7.10

2008-04-25 Thread pfarrell
Can you use the System -> administration -> services to have a gui control? I use pure debian on my SqueezeCenter box, and I don't GUI it, but I do use Ubuntu as a desktop, like the laptop that I'm typing this on now. -- pfarrell Pat http://www.pf

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Fedora - Not creating user?

2008-03-10 Thread pfarrell
root. Its bad in many ways. Normal practice is to invent a limited power user and run the application that way. -- pfarrell Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html p

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Slimserver install in Mandriva 2008.0 problem

2008-01-13 Thread pfarrell
'net, much like Mandriva. -- pfarrell Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html pfarrell's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=200 View this th

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] slimserver starts 10 daemons?

2007-12-05 Thread pfarrell
snarlydwarf;247170 Wrote: > Mysql uses threads. The obvious sign is that the memory usage for all > is exactly the same. Processes would show some variation in size. > Nice explaination. Thanks -- pfarrell Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/s

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] slimserver starts 10 daemons?

2007-12-05 Thread pfarrell
JoeyC;247214 Wrote: > > I had a look at the slimserver my.cnf but i couln't find any > documentation about it nor any clue in it as to how to tweak the number > of threads. > http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/index.html -- pfarrell Pat

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Linux advice needed please !!

2007-10-27 Thread pfarrell
probably vintage 1999 or so. I think (IMHO etc) that Debian is a great match for a SlimServer/SlimCenter box. Its got enough GUI that you can approach it, but it doesn't have all the user friendly cruft that Ubuntu has. -- pfarrell Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/mus

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Has anyone done an in-place SS upgrade from Ubuntu 7.04-7.10?

2007-10-20 Thread pfarrell
I have not gone to 7.10 on my SS/SC box, but did on my laptop, and I should have followed your advice. It wasn't broke, and I tried to fix it. Now the graphics is weird. Better to wait a month or so, IMHO -- pfarrell Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slims

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] which distro / distros are good for installing and running slim software ?

2007-10-20 Thread pfarrell
Havoc;236675 Wrote: > Why not Gentoo? If you just follow the manual > Manual? You mean RTFM? Not a prayer. Nobody reads manuals anymore. Perhaps never did. If its not point and click, its no good. -- pfarrell Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slim

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Linux advice needed please !!

2007-10-10 Thread pfarrell
mal linux users don't bother with. Assuming of course, that any linux users are normal :-) -- pfarrell Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html pfarrell's Profil