Upgrade etch to lenny on virtual server (Virtuozzo) with 2.6.18 kernel

2009-03-09 Thread hh . eu
Hello Debian users, I have a virtual private server (VPS) that is running a minimal install of etch (image used for installation provided by the hosting company). I believe they use Virtuozzo for virtualisation. Since the virtual servers are not run using Xen, this means I am bound by the

Re: strange gs problem: unicode encoding problem with pdf (?)

2008-07-06 Thread hh . eu
Florian Kulzer at 2008-06-03 20:44+02:00: I suspect that something is not quite kosher with the PDFs that your bank generates. The fact that they work with the Adobe reader does not necessarily mean that they conform 100% to the PDF specification. According to the version string, your original

Re: problem with grub

2008-05-15 Thread hh . eu
Am 2008-05-15 um 11:14 schrieb Gilles Guiot: Hello all, I'm a newbie to Linux. I have a Dell server with two raid arrays (sda and sdb), both raid 1. I created and LVM on sdb. After having copied the filesystem from sda onto sdb, I want to configure grub so that it boots on sdb. Could

Re: problem with grub

2008-05-15 Thread hh . eu
2008-05-15 17:02+0200 Gilles Guiot: my server has two raid1 arrays, each with two disks, for a total of four hd. sda1 relates to the biggest partion on the first array (sda) and sdb1 relates to the only partition on the second raid array. point is this sdb1 is in lvm so to speak, ie there

GRUB device numbers/names, use of device.map (Re: migrating Debian GNU/Linux Etch to second SATA drive)

2008-05-11 Thread hh . eu
Am 2008-05-10 um 07:01 schrieb Paul Csanyi: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: By the way, if you have a floppy drive, you can install GRUB on a floppy too, then you have a GRUB emergency disk which lets you perform operation such as those you described (in the GRUB shell) (for cases of drive failure

Re: migrating Debian GNU/Linux Etch to second SATA drive

2008-05-09 Thread hh . eu
I am not sure if I understood you correctly, so please correct me if I am wrong, but I assume: * you have basically moved all needed partitions for a full Debian system from one disk to another, * and now you want to install GRUB to this second disk so that GRUB can boot from that

Re: migrating Debian GNU/Linux Etch to second SATA drive

2008-05-09 Thread hh . eu
Am 2008-05-09 um 22:13 schrieb Paul Csanyi: At last I have success! :D I don't use grub-install command but run grub on the command line, and: grub root (hd1,0) grub setup (hd0) grub quit OK, I hadn't seen this last message from you when I wrote mine, but I see that you have had success

Kontron 986LCD-M/mITX

2008-05-02 Thread hh . eu
I was looking at the mini-ITX board Kontron 986LCD-M/mITX http://emea.kontron.com/products/boards+and+mezzanines/embedded +motherboards/ miniitx+motherboards/986lcdmmitx.html and am wondering if anyone has used this for a Debian system. Are the chipsets supported, or do you recognise any

Re: Kontron 986LCD-M/mITX / kernel upgrade with etch stable?

2008-05-02 Thread hh . eu
Am 02.05.2008 um 11:01 schrieb Sylvain Le Gall: On 02-05-2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was looking at the mini-ITX board Kontron 986LCD-M/mITX http://emea.kontron.com/products/boards+and+mezzanines/embedded +motherboards/ miniitx+motherboards/986lcdmmitx.html and am

Re: installing scanner canon

2008-05-02 Thread hh . eu
Are you aware of the SANE website and its list of supported devices http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html#Z-CANON and the sane-devel mailing list http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane- devel which might be more appropriate places to consult with your problem? You are

Re: Kontron 986LCD-M/mITX / kernel upgrade with etch stable?

2008-05-02 Thread hh . eu
Am 02.05.2008 um 14:09 schrieb Sylvain Le Gall: On 02-05-2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 02.05.2008 um 11:01 schrieb Sylvain Le Gall: The solution is to upgrade your kernel to at least 2.6.22.6, to have the working r8169 kernel module. I've been seeing different comments

XFS / file system for backup server (Re: JFS / Unsupported file systems)

2008-04-29 Thread hh . eu
Ron Johnson wrote at 2008-04-29 11:34 +0200: On 04/29/08 01:24, Alex Samad wrote: On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 09:52:16PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/28/08 19:22, Alex Samad wrote: some reason that xfs is not being talked about? We hate it because Dr. Evil uses it. has this got something to

Put server to sleep (hibernate/suspend) automatically after inactivity? / problems with suspend via GUI

2008-04-28 Thread hh . eu
(Sorry for the double-post, but my previous post to debian-user didn't get any replies, and since this is an energy settings question, I'm hoping the laptop users might be able to help me. Here's my (shortened) previous post: My question boils down to this: Can I tell the server,

Re: mutt + mailings list ( + vim)

2008-04-21 Thread hh . eu
Am 21.04.2008 um 23:45 schrieb Alex Samad: so whilst viewing an email, I press shift-l, this starts vim with the emails, I then use up and down arrows and v to highlight some text, I would then like to press some key combo and have the text replaced by cr[snip]cr I haven't used this before,

Put server to sleep (hibernate/suspend) automatically after inactivity?

2008-04-19 Thread hh . eu
Hello experts, I've been setting up my first real (albeit small) home server on Debian (etch) in the past days, and I have some problems regarding the implementation of my specific goals. My question boils down to this: Can I tell the server, using a mechanism available when there is no

Re: Configure grub for Windows XP on second HDD

2008-04-19 Thread hh . eu
Am 19.04.2008 um 17:54 schrieb Michael Wilson: I have Linux on hd0 and Windows XP Home on hd1 (I installed XP with the Linux disk disconnected so Windows couldn't mess with it). If I configure the BIOS to make the Windows drive the first, Windows boots fine, but I can't figure out how to

Re: wakeonlan

2008-04-19 Thread hh . eu
Am 19.04.2008 um 22:51 schrieb Paul Csanyi: Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 09:41:14PM +0200, Paul Csanyi wrote: When I run the command wakeonlan the server box wan't not to wake up. I never used wake-on-lan, but I see from the description of the