Disparition de /root

2012-10-15 Thread Steven D
Bonjour à tous, Mon répertoire /root à disparu du jours au lendemain. Pour plus de précision: - /root est un répertoire et pas une partition externe. - Il s'agit du machine virtuel sous vmware - rien de spécial dans les logs - le / est une partition en Ext3 La chose étrange, c'est que j'ai

Re: Création Widget Gnome

2012-10-15 Thread Nicolas Froidure
Re, Bon, j'ai téléchargé le paquet source gnome-widgets pour me rendre compte que les widgets sont hors de ma portée. Codé en C et la plupart du code que je trouve ne me dit rien du tout. Bref, je vais attendre que Debian stable passe sur Gnome 3 :). Ou faire un service

Re: Disparition de /root

2012-10-15 Thread Bernard Schoenacker
Le Mon, 15 Oct 2012 14:51:57 +0200, Steven D ddebstu...@yahoo.fr a écrit : Bonjour à tous, Mon répertoire /root à disparu du jours au lendemain. Pour plus de précision: - /root est un répertoire et pas une partition externe. - Il s'agit du machine virtuel sous vmware - rien de spécial

Re: Disparition de /root

2012-10-15 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Bernard Schoenacker a écrit : Le Mon, 15 Oct 2012 14:51:57 +0200, Steven Dddebstu...@yahoo.fr a écrit : Bonjour à tous, Mon répertoire /root à disparu du jours au lendemain. Pour plus de précision: - /root est un répertoire et pas une partition externe. - Il s'agit du machine virtuel

Re: systemd et debian

2012-10-15 Thread Tanguy Ortolo
David Soulayrol, 2012-10-09 11:45+0200: Est-ce que vous rencontrez des problèmes au jour le jour ? Y a-t-il des services importants non supportés ? Est-ce que cela apporte un confort particulier (en toute subjectivité) ? J'ai essayé sur diverses machines de type bureautique. J'ai constaté un

Re: Disparition de /root

2012-10-15 Thread Steven D
Enfin m'a question porté sur la restauration possible ou non sur du ext3. Merci pour l'info de création au propre d'un /root, je vais utiliser cette solution temporairement en attendant la réinstallation du serveur ce soir. Le /root était bien sur la partition principale, seule les $HOME des

Re: Disparition de /root

2012-10-15 Thread Steve Fouchet
Bonjour, La réponse de Bernard fournissait un élément de réponse à ton problème. Utilises un logiciel de forensic pour tenter de récupérer les données supprimées. Bernard te proposait le logiciel extundelete, un outil spécifique au FS ext. tu peux également utiliser d'autres outils comme

Re: Disparition de /root

2012-10-15 Thread Bernard Schoenacker
Le Mon, 15 Oct 2012 17:35:50 +0200, Steve Fouchet waks...@gmail.com a écrit : sleuthkit bonjour, je ne trouve pas de paquet se nommant autopsie mais autopsy ... apt-cache search autopsy autopsy - graphical interface to SleuthKit revenons à l'origine :

Re: script pour un en tête

2012-10-15 Thread Jean-Damien Durand
Bonsoir, Plein de solutions (dont celle de Max) à http://stackoverflow.com/questions/54365/prepend-to-a-file-one-liner-shell, ma préférence allant à: @+, JD. On 12/10/2012 16:41, Bernard Schoenacker wrote: bonjour, j'ai plusieurs dizaines de fichiers textes à modifier en adjoignant

Configuración VirtualHost Apache AJP+Tomcat

2012-10-15 Thread Sergio Villalba
Hola a tod@s, Necesito una ayudita!! :( Tengo medio configurado el servicio Apache AJP con Tomcat, pero no consigo configurar bien VirtualHost, el problema está modwrite... En este ejemplo me funciona bien, Virtualhost normal sin modwrite: VirtualHost *:80 ServerName www.midominio.com ErrorLog

Re: Configuración VirtualHost Apache AJP+Tomcat

2012-10-15 Thread Juan Antonio
El 15/10/12 18:41, Sergio Villalba escribió: Hola a tod@s, Necesito una ayudita!! :( Tengo medio configurado el servicio Apache AJP con Tomcat, pero no consigo configurar bien VirtualHost, el problema está modwrite... En este ejemplo me funciona bien, Virtualhost normal sin modwrite:

Placa wireless IBM Thinkpad T40

2012-10-15 Thread Mario Daniel Carugno
Hola gente, como va ? Tengo una vieja notebook IBM Thinkpad T40, y quisiera poder usarla con Debian. Pero la placa de red wireless no funciona, la verdad no se que modelo usa esta notebook. Alguien sabe si Debian o alguna otra distribucion tiene drivers para que funcione ? Gracias

Re:Placa wireless IBM Thinkpad T40

2012-10-15 Thread Ruben Cervantes Rodríguez
Primeramente debes saber el modelo de tu tarjeta y después buscar los drivers para ella, puedes instalarte el lshw es uno de los mejores programitas que encontré en debian para visualizar tu hardware, espero resuelvas. Lic. Ruben Cervantes Rodríguez Instructor y administrador de red JCCE Vtes1

Re: Placa wireless IBM Thinkpad T40

2012-10-15 Thread Edwin Dlca
Saludos cordiales. Yo tengo una IBM G41, tambien es viejita. La mia funciono instalando el paquete firmware-nonfree reinicia y ya funciona. Probar con esa opcion. 2012/10/15 Ruben Cervantes Rodríguez ruben.cervan...@cmg.jovenclub.cu Primeramente debes saber el modelo de tu tarjeta y después

Re: Placa wireless IBM Thinkpad T40

2012-10-15 Thread Hugo
El 15/10/12 17:35, Mario Daniel Carugno escribió: Hola gente, como va ? Tengo una vieja notebook IBM Thinkpad T40, y quisiera poder usarla con Debian. Pero la placa de red wireless no funciona, la verdad no se que modelo usa esta notebook. Alguien sabe si Debian o alguna otra distribucion

Re: cam amsn

2012-10-15 Thread Bruno Schneider
2012/10/12 Manoel Pedro de Araújo escreveu: Alguem sabe como cofigurar a web cam no amsn no debain squeeze. uso KDE Nenhum cliente de mensagens instantâneas que seja livre consegue utilizar webcam no protocolo da MS. Quando aparecer a primeira implementação, provavelmente a MS fará alterações

Re: cam amsn

2012-10-15 Thread Leandro Henrique Stein
Caso seja utilizado o mesmo cliente nas duas pontas da conexão é possível utilizar a opção de conferência com vídeo. Só não é possível interagir com o MSN em versões mais atuais do programa a partir de 2010, quando a Microsoft modificou o protocolo de transmissão de vídeo. Sem mais, Leandro

Gnuplot

2012-10-15 Thread Manoel Pedro de Araújo
Oi, estou com um problema no gnuplot. Eu tenho um script com este script eu consigo gerar a no ubuntu, mas quando eu vou gerar no gnuplot do debian em meu pc aparece sempre a mesagem: gnuplot load 'fig1.gnu' gnuplot plot 'l1.dat' wl1, 'l2.dat' wl1, 'l3.dat' wl1, 'l4.dat' w l 1, 'linc.dat' w l 1,

Re: Mensagem Bíblica

2012-10-15 Thread Molinero
On 12-10-2012 20:51, Nielce Souza wrote: Olá Participo numa obra realizada por voluntários em 236 países. Em todos eles, convidamos as pessoas a beneficiar-se de um estudo que as ajuda a descobrir respostas bíblicas a perguntas importantes, como: - Por que envelhecemos e morremos? Porque

Re: Mensagem Bíblica

2012-10-15 Thread Aurélio A . Heckert
hummm... Valeu Nielce, mas prefiro seguir um método mais eficiente. Jesus veio para nos salvar do pecado, mas ainda existem pecadores. Thor veio para nos salvar dos gigantes de gelo... e pelo visto parece ter funcionado. a palavra de Deus é, para mim, nada mais do que expressão e produto da

Re: Mensagem Bíblica

2012-10-15 Thread Raniel Sousa
lista ou igreja on line? Em 15 de outubro de 2012 19:05, Aurélio A. Heckert aur...@gmail.comescreveu: hummm... Valeu Nielce, mas prefiro seguir um método mais eficiente. Jesus veio para nos salvar do pecado, mas ainda existem pecadores. Thor veio para nos salvar dos gigantes de gelo... e pelo

Re: Mensagem Bíblica

2012-10-15 Thread Flavio M Matsumoto
Deu para dar umas risadas mas é inócuo, pois acredito que a dita cuja não irá receber as mensagens. Duvido que ela esteja inscrita na lista. O mais eficiente é entrar no arquivo da lista: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-portuguese/2012/10/msg00130.html e apertar Report as spam. Saudações. --

Re: Gnuplot

2012-10-15 Thread G.Paulo
Voce está colocando um '\' no final de cada linha (como indicativo de que o comando continua na próxima linha), não é? A única coisa que me ocorre quanto a esse erro é a possibilidade do gnuplot estar enxergando uma linha excessivamente longa. Se puder, made o script e algum dado para testar

Re: Debian Wheezy Hangs

2012-10-15 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 10/12/2012 10:38 PM, Johan Grönqvist wrote: 2012-10-13 05:55, Tim D skrev: I just installed Debian Wheezy on my ThinkPad T430s (SSD, encrypted LVM). The problem is that the system freezes randomly, so much so that I cannot use it for more than twenty minutes without it freezing. If you

Re: Debian 6.0.0 squeeze unable to detect RAID Controller and NIC Card on Dell R720 2U Rack Server

2012-10-15 Thread Helmut Wollmersdorfer
Am 13.10.2012 um 13:15 schrieb Stan Hoeppner: On 10/13/2012 5:06 AM, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: I am installing Debian 6.0.0 squeeze with kernel version 2.6.32-5-amd64 on Dell R720 2U server( http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pedge/dell-poweredge-r720-spec-sheet.pdf) , the

resolve.conf missing

2012-10-15 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
i just installed Debian squeeze 6.0.4 with net install CD. everything went Ok but the problem is i could not find resolve.conf file in /etc/. so i have to create the file manually however still i can not use the file because whenever i place my internal DNS like nameserver 10.X.X.8 and try to ping

Re: resolve.conf missing

2012-10-15 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Sorry! my mistake i created a file with wrong file name the correct spelling is resolv.conf i mistakenly add the e. On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan sir...@gmail.com wrote: i just installed Debian squeeze 6.0.4 with net install CD. everything went Ok but the problem is

Re: resolve.conf missing

2012-10-15 Thread Morning Star
it seems you haven't installed the 'resolvconf'. you need to install it first by using root privileges or using 'sudo' . # apt-get install resolvconf Greetings, Marco On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan sir...@gmail.com wrote: i just installed Debian squeeze 6.0.4 with net

Re: mount cdrom?

2012-10-15 Thread Hadi Motamedi
From: motamed...@hotmail.com To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: FW: mount cdrom? Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2012 06:58:38 + From: motamed...@hotmail.com To: lisi.re...@gmail.com Subject: RE: mount cdrom? Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2012 06:08:36 + From: lisi.re...@gmail.com To:

Re: mount cdrom?

2012-10-15 Thread Hadi Motamedi
From: motamed...@hotmail.com To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: FW: mount cdrom? Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2012 06:58:59 + From: motamed...@hotmail.com To: lisi.re...@gmail.com Subject: RE: mount cdrom? Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2012 06:15:27 + From: lisi.re...@gmail.com To:

Re: resolve.conf missing

2012-10-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 15 oct 12, 15:00:29, Morning Star wrote: it seems you haven't installed the 'resolvconf'. you need to install it first by using root privileges or using 'sudo' . # apt-get install resolvconf The resolvconf package is very useful when you have several programs changing resolv.conf,

RE: mount cdrom?

2012-10-15 Thread Hadi Motamedi
From: lisi.re...@gmail.com To: motamed...@hotmail.com Subject: Re: mount cdrom? Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 14:04:52 +0100 On Saturday 13 October 2012 12:41:30 you wrote: From: lisi.re...@gmail.com To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: mount cdrom? Date: Sat, 13 Oct

Re: Recurring email messages in IceDove and I'm feeling deja vu

2012-10-15 Thread Darac Marjal
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 08:24:50AM -0500, Mark Allums wrote: I am using Icedove, AKA Thunderbird, with an IMAP server. After deleting (or marking for deletion), the messages will reappear in the Inbox, or if in the Inbox and marked, they will become unmarked. This happens whether I do it

Re: Debian 6.0.0 squeeze unable to detect RAID Controller and NIC Card on Dell R720 2U Rack Server

2012-10-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-10-15 at 09:44 +0200, Helmut Wollmersdorfer wrote: That's not 100% reliable. !!! Very important. Especially grey and white lists for Linux compatible hardware only provide coarse information. !!! More safe are blacklists. I owned and still own white listed gear that doesn't work.

Re: Debian 6.0.0 squeeze unable to detect RAID Controller and NIC Card on Dell R720 2U Rack Server

2012-10-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
PS: And full ACK that sometimes hardware is supported by outdated drivers, e.g. some ATI drivers need outdated versions of X. New ATI drivers won't support old cards anymore. And OLD is very relative. So you can use those cards for all tasks, you SIMPLY need to maintain your Linux working with

weirdness mounting phone

2012-10-15 Thread Chris Bannister
Hi, Can anyone shed any light on this behaviour when plugging in my Galaxy Y into my wheezy laptop ---8- - root@tal:~# [1132299.352535] cdc_acm 1-1:1.1: This device cannot do calls on its own. It is not a modem. root@tal:~# mount

Re: Permissions Problem

2012-10-15 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Sunday 14 October 2012 11:06:31 am Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I have a HD on my system, sdc1 which has root root ownership. I created a directory, Apps, to which I gave computation computation ownership (user). I can create a file in the Apps directory without any problems as the user.

Re: Permissions Problem

2012-10-15 Thread Lisi
On Monday 15 October 2012 13:46:03 Mark Neidorff wrote: On Sunday 14 October 2012 11:06:31 am Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I have a HD on my system, sdc1 which has root root ownership. I created a directory, Apps, to which I gave computation computation ownership (user). I can create a file in

Re: Recurring email messages in IceDove and I'm feeling deja vu

2012-10-15 Thread Jon Dowland
Try rebuilding/repairing your INBOX and/or other effected folders. Right-click on the folder in the left-hand pane, select 'Properties' and then Repair Folder. This can happen when Thunderbird's cache gets out-of-sync from the server and it cannot figure out how to get back in sync on it's own. I

Re: Permissions Problem

2012-10-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-10-15 at 14:03 +0100, Lisi wrote: Can you get a Debian package for ecce? According to the Debian package list, the answer is no. (I searched on all versions.) Perhaps wiki.debian.org/Alien could help. Regards, Ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Permissions Problem

2012-10-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-10-15 at 15:56 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2012-10-15 at 14:03 +0100, Lisi wrote: Can you get a Debian package for ecce? According to the Debian package list, the answer is no. (I searched on all versions.) Perhaps wiki.debian.org/Alien could help. Regards,

Re: Permissions Problem

2012-10-15 Thread John Hasler
Mark Neidorff wrote: You are trying to install a RedHat Enterprise Linux package on Debian. This can be a problem if the user numbers that Debian and Redhat either conflict or if RedHat makes different assumptions about user numbers than Debian does. Can you get a Debian package for ecce?

Re: Permissions Problem

2012-10-15 Thread hvw59601
Mark Neidorff wrote: On Sunday 14 October 2012 11:06:31 am Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I have a HD on my system, sdc1 which has root root ownership. I created a directory, Apps, to which I gave computation computation ownership (user). I can create a file in the Apps directory without any

No such file or directory ...

2012-10-15 Thread Albretch Mueller
I am having problems which I think may relate to an actually dying disk, but I am not sure. Sometimes I have thought it is because of a dying disk and then we have realized it wasn't. ~ I basically installed java and recursively copied the files to another directory. 'which' and 'ls' are telling

Re: No such file or directory ...

2012-10-15 Thread Jon Dowland
The error no such file or directory could be a red-herring in some cases. What is the filesystem and mount options for the drive upon which you've put Java? (output of mount, please) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: No such file or directory ...

2012-10-15 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 04:24:25PM +0100, Albretch Mueller wrote: I am having problems which I think may relate to an actually dying disk, but I am not sure. Sometimes I have thought it is because of a dying disk and then we have realized it wasn't. ~ I basically installed java and

Reason to NOT install from online repositories

2012-10-15 Thread Richard Owlett
Recently someone was chided for attempting installation from a CD. Not all of us have convenient access to a high speed internet connection. I can have limited access to high speed access by carrying one of my laptops to the local library. I don't find downloading more than a live-CD

Re: Reason to NOT install from online repositories

2012-10-15 Thread Darac Marjal
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 10:41:16AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: Recently someone was chided for attempting installation from a CD. Not all of us have convenient access to a high speed internet connection. I don't believe they were chided, simply reminded that the best way to get packages is

Re: Reason to NOT install from online repositories

2012-10-15 Thread Karen Lewellen
I must agree. There can be many barriers to installing or upgrading from on line sources. I will solve *my* own situation later by using the DVD images I have even if slightly behind. I want stable squeeze anyway. Karen On Mon, 15 Oct 2012, Richard Owlett wrote: Recently someone was chided

Re: Permissions Problem

2012-10-15 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
On 10/15/2012 09:52 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2012-10-15 at 08:46 -0400, Mark Neidorff wrote: user numbers I suspect the term should be user IDs. If I list my Debian from Arch Linux, it does look like that: [spinymouse@archlinux ~]$ id uid=1000(spinymouse) gid=100(users)

Re: Reason to NOT install from online repositories

2012-10-15 Thread Richard Owlett
Darac Marjal wrote: On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 10:41:16AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: Recently someone was chided for attempting installation from a CD. Not all of us have convenient access to a high speed internet connection. I don't believe they were chided, simply reminded that the best way

Re: Reason to NOT install from online repositories

2012-10-15 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 15 Oct 2012 10:41:16 -0500 Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net wrote: Hello Richard, Recently someone was chided for attempting installation from a CD. That's putting it strong; I asked why they wanted to use the CD/DVD method rather than online repos out of curiosity. The answer came

Re: Reason to NOT install from online repositories

2012-10-15 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/15/2012 10:41 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: Recently someone was chided for attempting installation from a CD. Not all of us have convenient access to a high speed internet connection. I can have limited access to high speed access by carrying one of my laptops to the local library. I

Re: No such file or directory ...

2012-10-15 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-10-15 17:38 +0200, Jon Dowland wrote: The error no such file or directory could be a red-herring in some cases. According to the execve(2) manpage, it means The file filename or a script or ELF interpreter does not exist, or a shared library needed for file or interpreter

Re: No such file or directory ...

2012-10-15 Thread Raphael Cauderlier
Albretch Mueller lbrt...@gmail.com writes: I am having problems which I think may relate to an actually dying disk, but I am not sure. Sometimes I have thought it is because of a dying disk and then we have realized it wasn't. ~ I basically installed java and recursively copied the files

Re: Reason to NOT install from online repositories

2012-10-15 Thread John Hasler
Stan Hoeppner writes: You must be using a totally free dialup service for daily internet access. In many/most US locales dial is as expensive, if not more expensive, than aDSL or cable... In many it is much cheaper (here, for example). In some broadband is not available at all. -- John

Re: Reason to NOT install from online repositories

2012-10-15 Thread Richard Owlett
Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 10/15/2012 10:41 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: Recently someone was chided for attempting installation from a CD. Not all of us have convenient access to a high speed internet connection. I can have limited access to high speed access by carrying one of my laptops to the

Re: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

2012-10-15 Thread Wally Lepore
Hi Lisi, Brian, Lee, Joe, Neal, Dom, and Ralf, Your support is very much appreciated. I've read all postings and had trouble keeping up with replying to all my questions that have been so very supportive. I would like to take pause for a moment and kindly update you all on my situation. I did

Re: No such file or directory ...

2012-10-15 Thread Albretch Mueller
Well, in case someone runs against similar weird problems. ~ As Raphaël hinted, their root seems to relate to my starting Linux/Debian/knoppix as: ~ knoppix64 ... ~ which I think it is what I should do right? ~ $ uname -a Linux Microknoppix 3.3.7 #38 SMP PREEMPT Tue May 22 06:21:01 CEST 2012

Re: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

2012-10-15 Thread Wally Lepore
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 1:10 AM, Neal Murphy neal.p.mur...@alum.wpi.edu wrote: On Saturday, October 13, 2012 12:40:40 AM Wally Lepore wrote: Hi Debain Users, I'm at the final stages of Installing NOT Ubuntu but Debian 'Squeeze' on my dual-boot system. Windows is installed on the 1st hard

Creative /etc/X11/xorg.conf

2012-10-15 Thread Charles Kroeger
For those of you running nouveau as your video driver with the gnome desktop you wont know about the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file but for all us others there is considerable latitude for creativity in this file and its results on one's X11 desktop. Take for instance Mark Allums in a letter of the 1st

Re: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

2012-10-15 Thread Wally Lepore
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 4:14 AM, Joe j...@jretrading.com wrote: On Sat, 13 Oct 2012 00:40:40 -0400 Wally Lepore wallylep...@gmail.com wrote: If I choose NO to the installer's question as to placing GRUB in the MBR of the 1st drive. What are my choices as to where to install it? I don't want

Re: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

2012-10-15 Thread Wally Lepore
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: On Sat 13 Oct 2012 at 12:15:25 -0400, Wally Lepore wrote: I only have one shot to get this right or else I have to scrub the install and start over. Please, no! No more installing from you. We are exhausted. :) I know but

Re: Reason to NOT install from online repositories

2012-10-15 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Mon, 15 Oct 2012 17:50:02 +0200 Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net wrote: Not all of us have convenient access to a high speed internet connection. Back in the day I used to download a version of Debian over a 56K modem (that rarely achieved those speeds) I used to set it to downloading

Re: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

2012-10-15 Thread Wally Lepore
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 4:34 AM, Joe j...@jretrading.com wrote: On Sat, 13 Oct 2012 18:49:14 -0400 Wally Lepore wallylep...@gmail.com wrote: I can still boot either OS (win2k or Debian) simply by changing the boot order in BIOS. Not a big deal. Sure beats swapping drives in and out of the

Re: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

2012-10-15 Thread Wally Lepore
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 4:45 AM, Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 14 October 2012 00:41:46 Wally Lepore wrote: Now I can finally join the ranks of Debian users and ask operational questions, help others and start the real uphill climb in learning all aspects of linux. A lot more

Re: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

2012-10-15 Thread Wally Lepore
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 5:36 AM, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: On Sat 13 Oct 2012 at 18:49:14 -0400, Wally Lepore wrote: Debian Squeeze installed successfully ! The dual-boot did not work but I can boot into either Win2k or Debian simply by changing the boot order in the BIOS (hdd-0 or

Re: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

2012-10-15 Thread Wally Lepore
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 5:57 AM, Dom to...@rpdom.net wrote: You might need to install the os-prober package first. Grub2 uses that to identify other OSes on your system. I haven't installed any pkgs. yet. But will consider that if all else fails. Thanks Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Creative /etc/X11/xorg.conf

2012-10-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-10-15 at 12:41 -0500, Charles Kroeger wrote: Section Files redundant Section InputDevice redundant HorizSync 28.0 - 33.0 VertRefresh 43.0 - 72.0 Unlikely that this frequencies would be that high, that they literally could blow up expensive monitor

Re: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

2012-10-15 Thread Wally Lepore
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 9:12 AM, lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: Wally Lepore wallylep...@gmail.com writes: I just realized something important. When I set my Debian drive (sdb) for partitioning, I used the 'Manual' setup and chose Logical Volume Manager (LVM) non-encryption method. Do you

Re: Creative /etc/X11/xorg.conf

2012-10-15 Thread Slavko
Hi, Dňa Mon, 15 Oct 2012 12:41:53 -0500 Charles Kroeger ckro...@frankensteinface.com napísal: By restoring my old /etc/X11/xorg.conf file to the fore, all was harmonious again. I did not post my own /etc/X11/xorg.conf file because of its humble appearance compared to this one created by

Re: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

2012-10-15 Thread Wally Lepore
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: Don't run a X session as root, this is a security risk. Yes, using a terminal emulation is correct, but 1 | su root 2 | gedit isn't ok. You can, but you don't need to add root, but if you'll launch GUI stuff

Re: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

2012-10-15 Thread Wally Lepore
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 14 October 2012 16:20:48 Wally Lepore wrote: The link starts off by suggesting I log in as user and then enter the following initial command. 1 | su root 2 | gedit I went to Applications -- Accessories -- Terminal

Re: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

2012-10-15 Thread Wally Lepore
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Go Linux goli...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Sun, 10/14/12, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: From: Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net Subject: Re: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives To: debian-user debian-user@lists.debian.org

Re: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

2012-10-15 Thread Wally Lepore
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Sun, 2012-10-14 at 21:36 +0100, Lisi wrote: su is enough. No, it should be su - alt-F2 gksu gedit That's good gksu app my recommendation su -c app isn't good. Ok, I will apply when I log into

Re: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

2012-10-15 Thread Wally Lepore
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Sun, 2012-10-14 at 13:39 -0700, Go Linux wrote: --- On Sun, 10/14/12, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: From: Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net Subject: Re: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with

OT: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

2012-10-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-10-15 at 13:51 -0400, Wally Lepore wrote: Hi Lisi, Brian, Lee, Joe, Neal, Dom, and Ralf, [snip] Since you've got knowledge about computers, it will be easy for you to switch to Linux. You should take a look at shell globbing and take a look at some beginners guide for shell scripts.

Another OT: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

2012-10-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
I won't confuse you Wally, or spread FUD, using the default GRUB seems to be the best way for a beginner, because it's the default boot loader for most distros. Personally I prefer GRUB legacy, the outdated, completely different predecessor of the current GRUB. IMO it's much easier to use. Many

Re: OT: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

2012-10-15 Thread Wally Lepore
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Mon, 2012-10-15 at 13:51 -0400, Wally Lepore wrote: Hi Lisi, Brian, Lee, Joe, Neal, Dom, and Ralf, [snip] Since you've got knowledge about computers, it will be easy for you to switch to Linux. You should take

Re: Another OT: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

2012-10-15 Thread Wally Lepore
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: I won't confuse you Wally, or spread FUD, using the default GRUB seems to be the best way for a beginner, because it's the default boot loader for most distros. Personally I prefer GRUB legacy, the outdated,

Re: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

2012-10-15 Thread Lisi
On Monday 15 October 2012 20:11:06 Wally Lepore wrote: On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 5:57 AM, Dom to...@rpdom.net wrote: You might need to install the os-prober package first. Grub2 uses that to identify other OSes on your system. I haven't installed any pkgs. yet. But will consider that if all

Re: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

2012-10-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-10-15 at 15:22 -0400, Wally Lepore wrote: On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 9:12 AM, lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: Wally Lepore wallylep...@gmail.com writes: I just realized something important. When I set my Debian drive (sdb) for partitioning, I used the 'Manual' setup and chose

Re: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

2012-10-15 Thread Lisi
On Monday 15 October 2012 20:25:54 Wally Lepore wrote: On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: Don't run a X session as root, this is a security risk. Yes, using a terminal emulation is correct, but 1 | su root 2 | gedit isn't ok.

Re: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

2012-10-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-10-15 at 15:25 -0400, Wally Lepore wrote: Ok Ralf, I will try your suggestions. As soon as I figure how to configure my system to log-in as root? Don't configure your WM/DE to allow you to log in as root. You don't need this. You only need to be root in a terminal sometimes. I

Re: OT: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

2012-10-15 Thread Linux-Fan
On 10/15/2012 10:25 PM, Wally Lepore wrote: On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Mon, 2012-10-15 at 13:51 -0400, Wally Lepore wrote: Hi Lisi, Brian, Lee, Joe, Neal, Dom, and Ralf, [snip] Since you've got knowledge about computers, it will be easy

Re: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

2012-10-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-10-15 at 15:32 -0400, Wally Lepore wrote: Sounds good but how do I log into root? Open a terminal emulation, use the menu to do it, you already found out how to do this. It will look similar to this: [spinymouse@archlinux ~]$ Then type su - and push enter [spinymouse@archlinux

Re: OT: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

2012-10-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-10-15 at 16:25 -0400, Wally Lepore wrote: Are you saying that all these commands are used strictly in Terminal? For the moment my answer is YES to avoid confusion. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

2012-10-15 Thread Wally Lepore
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 15 October 2012 20:11:06 Wally Lepore wrote: On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 5:57 AM, Dom to...@rpdom.net wrote: You might need to install the os-prober package first. Grub2 uses that to identify other OSes on your system.

Re: Another OT: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

2012-10-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Assumed that you are not blind, perhaps a YouTube video will help you to learn faste, resp. it might better explain how to e.g. become root in a terminal emulation. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

2012-10-15 Thread Wally Lepore
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Mon, 2012-10-15 at 15:22 -0400, Wally Lepore wrote: On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 9:12 AM, lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: Wally Lepore wallylep...@gmail.com writes: I just realized something important. When I set

Re: Another OT: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

2012-10-15 Thread Wally Lepore
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 5:19 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: Assumed that you are not blind, perhaps a YouTube video will help you to learn faste, resp. it might better explain how to e.g. become root in a terminal emulation. Yes, I will search youtube. Thank you -- To

Re: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

2012-10-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-10-15 at 21:57 +0100, Lisi wrote: My husband says, why do I spend my time telling you again. My answer was that I get a lot of help myself. But his inferred suggestion is, I'm afraid, right. I can't keep telling you the same thing over again. A video might be the best help.

Re: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

2012-10-15 Thread Wally Lepore
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: PS It would really be much easier if you just replied to the list, rather than to the list and to all of us separately. It makes replying easier. It is also what the Debian list askes for in its code of practice. Ok got it. I

Re: Another OT: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

2012-10-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-10-15 at 17:24 -0400, Wally Lepore wrote: On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 5:19 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: Assumed that you are not blind, perhaps a YouTube video will help you to learn faste, resp. it might better explain how to e.g. become root in a terminal

Re: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

2012-10-15 Thread Wally Lepore
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 15 October 2012 20:25:54 Wally Lepore wrote: On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: Don't run a X session as root, this is a security risk. Yes, using a terminal

Re: Another OT: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

2012-10-15 Thread Neal Murphy
On Monday, October 15, 2012 05:19:29 PM Ralf Mardorf wrote: Assumed that you are not blind, perhaps a YouTube video will help you to learn faste, resp. it might better explain how to e.g. become root in a terminal emulation. Or, perhaps, a simple list of ways to become root without any

Re: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

2012-10-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
We did confuse you with some explanations and I won't continue it. Can you open a terminal emulation? If so, let's continue step by step. Once you're familiar with Linux, you can allow a user to execute something in a safe way, that normally only can be executed by root. I suspect that a

Re: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

2012-10-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-10-15 at 17:52 -0400, Wally Lepore wrote: Also I was just trying to respond to everyone's reply. You don't need to do that. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Another OT: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

2012-10-15 Thread Wally Lepore
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Mon, 2012-10-15 at 17:24 -0400, Wally Lepore wrote: On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 5:19 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: Assumed that you are not blind, perhaps a YouTube video will help you to

Re: Another OT: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

2012-10-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
@Neal (really at Neal, not at Wally): We already confused Wally. Let's avoid sudo, since sudo can be set up in various ways and IIRC a default Debian comes without sudo. At the moment it's only important to explain that we don't login as root by a display manager, in the OP's case it for sure is

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