Re: lenny squeeze etc etc

2010-12-21 Thread Jimmy Johnson
insignificant. Good point. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Squeeze Beta-2 - KDE 4.5.3 - EXT4 at sda7 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: External hdd changing device node mid-use

2010-12-21 Thread Jimmy Johnson
' as root (su) to get UUID. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Squeeze Beta-2 - KDE 4.5.3 - EXT4 at sda7 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Re: sequence of screenshots?

2011-01-23 Thread Jimmy Johnson
that nvidia doesn't seem to have aan fb device under /dev. Is there a way to do this?? Thoughts are welcome! How about RecordMyDesktop http://recordmydesktop.sourceforge.net/about.php it's in the Debian repos. -- Jimmy Johnson Saline OS 1.0 - KDE 4.5.3 - EXT4 at sda7 Registered Linux User

Re: USB3.0 problem: xhci_hcd not found

2011-01-31 Thread Jimmy Johnson
packages. -- Jimmy Johnson Saline OS 1.0 AMD64 - KDE 4.5.3 - EXT4 at sda7 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d46d451.9010

Re: USB3.0 problem: xhci_hcd not found

2011-02-01 Thread Jimmy Johnson
software thinking that you may accidentally solve the problem, so could the problem be too much software has been installed? -- Jimmy Johnson Saline OS 1.0 AMD64 - KDE 4.5.3 - EXT4 at sda7 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: System Hangs on Activating Swap

2011-02-04 Thread Jimmy Johnson
and then verify that the UUID is correct in 'fstab and then run 'swapon /dev/sdax', what ever the name of the swap partition is. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Sid - KDE 4.5.3 - EXT4 - 64 Bit at sda14 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Squeeze. After Trinity istall no boot background picture

2011-02-06 Thread Jimmy Johnson
to build Trinity for Debian and that is a big problem, now that Squeeze has gone gold maybe a Debian Developer will step-up and build KDE3 for Squeeze, in the meantime KDE 4.5.3 from http://qt-kde.debian.net is a fantastic desktop, in my opinion, much better than KDE 4.4. -- Jimmy Johnson Custom OS

Re: Unusable Squeeze: Can't switch off from X to consoles, neither between

2011-02-06 Thread Jimmy Johnson
, smxi will manage your x driver install, repos, updates and the kernel, while sgfxi is even simpler and will just manage x driver install only, ether way it's easy, it will pick the best driver for your system and install it for you and makes using Debian easy. -- Jimmy Johnson Custom OS - AMD64

Re: Anyone else having problems installing Squeeze Stable on AMD64?

2011-02-06 Thread Jimmy Johnson
ailo wrote: Each time I try installing it will fail at retrieving packages, saying that lots of packages are corrupted. That generally just reloading again will fix that problem or try using another mirror for the repos. -- Jimmy Johnson SimplyMEPIS 11.0 Beta-1 at sda12 Registered Linux

Re: Anyone else having problems installing Squeeze Stable on AMD64?

2011-02-06 Thread Jimmy Johnson
. This makes me think you have chosen a broken mirror. Try chosing a different mirror site. Or that your network is causing bit errors for some reason. (Have seen that in the long past.) Bob -- Jimmy Johnson SimplyMEPIS 11.0 Beta-1 at sda12 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Anyone else having problems installing Squeeze Stable on AMD64?

2011-02-06 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Bob Proulx wrote: Jimmy Johnson wrote: Unetbootin works fine with Squeeze, you can find it in the Squeeze repos. How is it better than simply using 'cp'? Bob Well, I didn't say it was better, but it is more point-n-click not needing the command line, also 'dd if=nameoftheimage.iso

Wheezy is up and running.

2011-02-06 Thread Jimmy Johnson
You all know by know that Squeeze has been released, thank you Debian Developers, now starts the development of the next Debian release, Wheeze, just change the sources.list from squeeze to wheeze and dist-upgrade, 369 upgrades for me. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Wheezy - AMD64 - EXT4 at sda13

Re: Wheezy is up and running.

2011-02-07 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Thierry Chatelet wrote: On Monday 07 February 2011 08:45:03 Jimmy Johnson wrote: You all know by know that Squeeze has been released, thank you Debian Developers, now starts the development of the next Debian release, Wheeze, just change the sources.list from squeeze to wheeze

Re: Anyone else having problems installing Squeeze Stable on AMD64?

2011-02-07 Thread Jimmy Johnson
ailo wrote: Apparently I had made a mistake partitioning. / was only 50MB, instead of 50GB. (aarrggh!!) The iso's are now working fantastically well. It can be frustrating at times, but the answer is always something simple, I'm glad you're up and running. -- Jimmy Johnson Custom OS

Re: sid: upgrade wants to remove xserver packages

2011-02-08 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Doing a dist-upgrade in Sid this morning wants to remove all xserver packages. Wait a bit? Hugo Well, it don't take Guru to tell you that's not a good idea, their just separating the Men from the Boy's. ;-) -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Wheezy - AMD64 - EXT4

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-08 Thread Jimmy Johnson
hamed hosseini wrote: i want buy labtop,tell me best labtop for debian os? 900$-1300$ my choice is lenovo labtop Not kidding, is labtop a real word? -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Wheezy - AMD64 - EXT4 at sda13 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-08 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Ma, 08 feb 11, 10:51:12, Jimmy Johnson wrote: hamed hosseini wrote: i want buy labtop,tell me best labtop for debian os? 900$-1300$ my choice is lenovo labtop Not kidding, is labtop a real word? Does this count? http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term

Re: Installing Debian on USB sticks.

2011-02-10 Thread Jimmy Johnson
. Regards, Andrei Running the command 'cat /proc/partitions' will show you a list of partitions and devices just look for the device with the size of your USB drive. -- Jimmy Johnson SimplyMEPIS Beta-2 - KDE 4.5.3 at sda9 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Good News from debian-multimedia

2011-03-01 Thread Jimmy Johnson
22/02/2011 : Finaly I'm trying to restore Oldstable/Lenny. Should be finished tonigth or tomorrow. Sorry -- Jimmy Johnson SimplyMEPIS 11.0 Beta-2 at sda12 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Good News from debian-multimedia

2011-03-01 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Lisi wrote: On Tuesday 01 March 2011 16:58:59 Jimmy Johnson wrote: 22/02/2011 : Finaly I'm trying to restore Oldstable/Lenny. Should be finished tonigth or tomorrow. Sorry Thanks for the work, Jimmy. I look forward to uncommenting my multimedia sources! Lisi if you want you can think me

Re: NTP-Server no longer available in Squeeze?

2011-03-01 Thread Jimmy Johnson
and set the time at each boot. It's in your Debian repos. -- Jimmy Johnson SimplyMEPIS 11.0 Beta-2 at sda12 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: NTP-Server no longer available in Squeeze?

2011-03-01 Thread Jimmy Johnson
John Hasler wrote: Jimmy Johnson writes: Instead of the 'ntp' server what you probably want is 'ntpdate' installed... Ntpdate is deprecated. ...it's the client... It is a client, and a very limited one. Ntpd is both client and server. Use it or Chrony. Hi John, I appreciate

Re: Debian 6 uninstallable?

2011-03-01 Thread Jimmy Johnson
, the netinstall will give an internet connection and the base install only. -- Jimmy Johnson SimplyMEPIS 11.0 Beta-2 at sda12 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Debian 6 uninstallable?

2011-03-02 Thread Jimmy Johnson
the cd. -- Jimmy Johnson Kubuntu 10.10 - KDE 4.6.0 at sda9 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d6e9ea3.30...@gmail.com

Re: Revert to lenny's grub

2011-03-02 Thread Jimmy Johnson
'grub-update /dev/sdax' (x being the partition number) and it will create a new menu.lst. But the error 15 is probably a wrong UUID, you can check that by running as root 'blkid' and check the UUID you get against fstab and the menu.lst. -- Jimmy Johnson Kubuntu 10.10 - KDE 4.6.0 at sda9

Re: equivalent to mepis-network

2009-06-13 Thread Jimmy Johnson
. Unfortunately, it's not in Lenny. If you add the Lenny backports you can get wicd: www.backports.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=instructions or using wget from the wicd home page: http://wicd.sourceforge.net/download.php -- Jimmy Johnson Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Debian Etch r8 64bit installation problem

2009-06-25 Thread Jimmy Johnson
the md5sum of the downloaded iso file and the burned cd? -- Jimmy Johnson Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: etch-to-lenny upgrade problem...

2009-06-29 Thread Jimmy Johnson
that sorting the little problems that may pop-up are fun too and a feeling of accomplishment after the problem is solved. :) -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263 K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple stupid) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: etch-to-lenny upgrade problem...

2009-06-29 Thread Jimmy Johnson
, even if /home is not on a separate partition, works a treat. -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263 K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple stupid) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Gmail filtering. NOT OT

2009-06-30 Thread Jimmy Johnson
to this I will never see the response. That is exactly the problem. Thanks! In gmail you have a folder named All Mail use it and you will see your replies, after all they are Sent Mail and that is how gmail handles it. -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263 K.I.S.S

Re: Booting 5 OSes? Is this possible?

2009-06-30 Thread Jimmy Johnson
a swap partition, one or two GB's for swap will be more than enough. The layout would be Windows, Windows, Windows and the the extended partition, swap, Linux, Linux and then the shared partition/s. 5) Any special tips? Nope, sounds like you have it all figured out. :) -- Jimmy Johnson

Re: OT: Re: Gmail filtering. NOT OT

2009-06-30 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Steve Lamb wrote: Steve Kemp wrote: Seriously this is way off-topic for the list. Yeah, you couldn't be more wrong on that. I always giggle when someone tries to declare something OT here. Lemme know how that works out for you. ;) Steve, Real men don't giggle. ;) -- Jimmy

Re: ThinkPad freezing after hw update?

2009-07-02 Thread Jimmy Johnson
System Assistant and check and repair your partitions. It also has the tools needed for most computer maintenance like Testdisk, GParted etc and good to have in your toolbox. -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263 K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple stupid) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: ThinkPad freezing after hw update?

2009-07-03 Thread Jimmy Johnson
but I don't see the 1.07, maybe check this page and re-flash the BIOS. Also they have some tools to test your system. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Etch at sda14 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: ThinkPad freezing after hw update?

2009-07-03 Thread Jimmy Johnson
but I don't see the 1.07, maybe check this page and re-flash the BIOS. Also they have some tools to test your system. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Etch at sda14 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: broken HD (sector 0)

2009-07-21 Thread Jimmy Johnson
and at the command line run testdisk. -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263 K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple stupid) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

linux-image-2.6.30-1-amd64 + ext4

2009-07-28 Thread Jimmy Johnson
I thought linux-image-2.6.30-1-amd64 had ext4 support built into it or what I'm I doing wrong? I can't mount ext4. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Sid at sda8 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: linux-image-2.6.30-1-amd64 + ext4 SOLVED

2009-07-28 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Roger Leigh wrote: On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 03:06:35PM -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote: I thought linux-image-2.6.30-1-amd64 had ext4 support built into it or what I'm I doing wrong? I can't mount ext4. This kernel is working fine for me with ext4. What errors are you getting? The typical

Re: linux-image-2.6.30-1-amd64 + ext4 SOLVED

2009-07-29 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Roger Leigh wrote: On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 03:06:35PM -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote: I thought linux-image-2.6.30-1-amd64 had ext4 support built into it or what I'm I doing wrong? I can't mount ext4. This kernel is working fine for me with ext4. What errors are you getting? The typical

Re: Iceweasel 3.5

2009-08-13 Thread Jimmy Johnson
S. Fishpaste wrote: Hm sounds like a plan. Do you know offhand which Debian distro has 3.5.x ? Mepis 8.0 is based on Lenny and has 3.5 compiled, you can get it using these repos if you want. deb ftp://ftp.mepis.com/mepis/ mepis-8.0 main -- Jimmy Johnson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Iceweasel 3.5

2009-08-13 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Brent Clark wrote: Jimmy Johnson wrote: Mepis 8.0 is based on Lenny and has 3.5 compiled, you can get it using these repos if you want. deb ftp://ftp.mepis.com/mepis/ mepis-8.0 main If you going to make a suggestion for a debian based distro, then you might as well just make it Ubuntu

Re: Iceweasel 3.5

2009-08-13 Thread Jimmy Johnson
S. Fishpaste wrote: On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:45:03 -0700, Jimmy Johnson in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: S. Fishpaste wrote: Hm sounds like a plan. Do you know offhand which Debian distro has 3.5.x ? Mepis 8.0 is based on Lenny and has 3.5 compiled, you can get it using these repos if you

Re: problem updating etch to lenny

2009-08-14 Thread Jimmy Johnson
-enthought-traits python-excelerator python-numeric python-gtk2 python-glade2 python-numpy python-tz python-matplotlib python-uno Then I would install package keepnote and then finish by installing the rest of the packages that I want. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Sid at sda8 Registered Linux User

Re: x won't start as a particular user. for other users works fine. what file is causing it? how to troubleshoot?

2009-08-24 Thread Jimmy Johnson
. Reminds me of the problem my sister had when she downloaded a music.raw file, she forgot about it and it kept on downloading until her /home partition was full, she called me and said it's broke. I logged in as root and deleted the file and it was fixed. -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA

Re: test for package dependencies without installing

2009-02-13 Thread Jimmy Johnson
libopenldap-runtime libopenldap1 libpcre2 logrotate mailx The following packages will be upgraded lilo 1 packages upgraded, 9 newly installed, 1 to remove and 31 not upgraded. Need to get 225kB/1179kB of archives. After unpacking 2659kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] -- Jimmy Johnson

Re: Lenny?

2009-02-14 Thread Jimmy Johnson
then do aptitude full-upgrade, if you already know this then disregard my comments. :) -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263 K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple stupid) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

KDE

2009-02-16 Thread Jimmy Johnson
While using aptitude to remove a package from my KDE install aptitude wants to remove all of KDE, how do I stop this behavior? -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263 K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple stupid) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: From x86 to x86-64

2009-02-16 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/16/2009 08:33 AM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: [snip] Hi Ron, just to let you know, if you have /home installed to /root and you have another OS installed or a Live CD to use you can delete all files except /home and then install no-format, if you get a warning after

Re: KDE

2009-02-17 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Monday 16 February 2009 21:02:55 Jimmy Johnson wrote: While using aptitude to remove a package from my KDE install aptitude wants to remove all of KDE, how do I stop this behavior? Short answer: You can't and you don't want to. Medium answer: Use aptitude

Re: lenny kde artwork

2009-02-17 Thread Jimmy Johnson
and you may also need to install kdmtheme the KDM theme manager to get the KDM splash, moreblue-orbit is the name of the theme. -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263 K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple stupid) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: DVD install question

2009-02-17 Thread Jimmy Johnson
and would like to take this opportunity to thank you and all the Debian volunteers for all the hard work..Thank you, I wish you guys and gals all the best, you're the greatest. -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263 K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple stupid

Re: lenny on x86

2009-02-18 Thread Jimmy Johnson
to the bottom line: Booting DebianInstaller from floppy-disks is discontinued since Lenny. but...If you tell us why you need to use floppy disc, if you have another system installed and what hardware you have to use, we maybe able to find another way for you to start the install. -- Jimmy

Re: Problems with Lenny Installer

2009-02-18 Thread Jimmy Johnson
and created a new one, and succeeded in installing lenny :) Thanks for the help! That's a new one for me to put in my memory bank, glad you got it sorted and thinks for letting us know. -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263 K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple stupid

Re: Any info about http://www.goodbye-microsoft.com/

2009-02-21 Thread Jimmy Johnson
If you know the file you are looking for (debian.exe) then you can Google for it and make it easer to find. -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263 K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple stupid) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Debian Lenny Based SimplyMEPIS 8.0 is Released

2009-02-23 Thread Jimmy Johnson
installs that took 15 mins or less to install each system and I had no problems at all. If you want a simple, extremely stable and easy to install system, I highly recommend this distro. :) -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263 K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple stupid

Re: [OT] Gmail my replies to this list

2009-02-23 Thread Jimmy Johnson
account. What gives? Why can't I see the replies I send? Others seem to see them, as I've seen people on this respond to my responses. You need to use IMAP and use the folder All Mail to see both sent and received mail. -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263

Re: [OT] Gmail my replies to this list

2009-02-23 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Ken Teague wrote: Jimmy Johnson wrote: You need to use IMAP and use the folder All Mail to see both sent and received mail. This works. Having to go into All Mail to view only what I want to see from this list in a threaded fashion is odd and non-standard. I feel violated! You'll get

Re: [OT] Gmail my replies to this list

2009-02-23 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Daryl Styrk wrote: Jimmy Johnson wrote: You need to use IMAP and use the folder All Mail to see both sent and received mail. That option doesn't available here.? [Gmail] where all the server folder and labels would be found is greyed out. Ideas? Sure, click on your gmail account

Re: [OT] Gmail my replies to this list

2009-02-23 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Daryl Styrk wrote: Jimmy Johnson wrote: Sure, click on your gmail account, Advanced Features, Manage folder subscriptions, that should do it. Spot on! Thanks.. You're welcome. :) -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263 K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple stupid

Re: Debian Lenny Based SimplyMEPIS 8.0 is Released

2009-02-24 Thread Jimmy Johnson
, the list goes on... Sure these things can be done without One Click Linux, but why? One day the Debian Live CD Project may create such a live cd but not today. :) -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263 K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple stupid) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Debian Lenny Based SimplyMEPIS 8.0 is Released

2009-02-24 Thread Jimmy Johnson
H.S. wrote: Jimmy Johnson wrote: Neil Ellwood wrote: Personally I haven't found anything easier than Debian and it is more reliable than anything else I have tried. Why use a derivative when the original is marvellous? Hi Neil, I'm along time Debian user (7 years

Re: Debian Lenny Based SimplyMEPIS 8.0 is Released

2009-02-24 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Michael M. Moore wrote: Daryl Styrk wrote: Jimmy Johnson wrote: Hi Neil, I'm along time Debian user (7 years) and if there was something wrong with Mepis I would not suggest you trying it, saying that, Mepis has one click tools that Debian don't have, like it will repair grub for you

Re: Fedora guy byebyes Debian

2009-02-25 Thread Jimmy Johnson
. bye bye, -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263 K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple stupid) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Fedora guy byebyes Debian

2009-02-25 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Andrew McGlashan wrote: Hi, Jimmy Johnson wrote: If you like Fedora then you will love CentOS, in my humble opinion Fedora is no more than testing for Red Hat, while CentOS is Red Hat Enterprise. Umm, I think it would be more correct to compare Fedora with Debian SID -- Fedora is testing

Re: [OT I think] Which Distro?

2009-02-25 Thread Jimmy Johnson
they are updated more frequently. Thanks in Advance Dean If you are smart you will give SimplyMEPIS 8.0 a try before you decide. ;) -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263 K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple stupid) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Can't boot after installation (debian5 on macmini)

2009-02-25 Thread Jimmy Johnson
worked. :) With Lenny you should be able to repair the boot as an option on the install cd, anyways good luck. -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263 K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple stupid) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: [OT I think] Which Distro?

2009-02-25 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Ken Teague wrote: Jimmy Johnson wrote: If you are smart you will give SimplyMEPIS 8.0 a try before you decide. ;) Does that make him dumb, stupid or ignorant if he doesn't? It only means what it says. And please keep your reply to the list. Thank you, -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA

Re: Debian Lenny Based SimplyMEPIS 8.0 is Released

2009-02-25 Thread Jimmy Johnson
tyler wrote: Jimmy Johnson writes: If Warren still hasn't released his tools under a Free license, I would question the statement that Warren has given plenty to the community. He gave his life savings to the development of Mepis and is now living hand to mouth, what else do

Re: [OT I think] Which Distro?

2009-02-25 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Dean Chester wrote: On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Jimmy Johnson field.engin...@gmail.com mailto:field.engin...@gmail.com wrote: Ken Teague wrote: Jimmy Johnson wrote: If you are smart you will give SimplyMEPIS 8.0 a try before you decide. ;) OK

Re: aptitude

2009-02-25 Thread Jimmy Johnson
the information you need to keep it from happening again. I hope that helped. -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263 K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple stupid) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: [OT I think] Which Distro?

2009-02-26 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Jimmy Johnson wrote: I have three 64bit systems here and all running Mepis 8.0 64bit, things like flash and YouTube are preconfigured and will work straight out of the box. Here's a link to the Mepis 8.0 User's Manual: www.mepislovers.org/forums/user_manual8/ enjoy

Re: [OT I think] Which Distro?

2009-02-26 Thread Jimmy Johnson
? -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263 K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple stupid) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: [OT I think] Which Distro?

2009-02-26 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Jimmy Johnson wrote: Why do you flame me, maybe you think it's better to recommend Sidux or Ubuntu? G I didn't intend to flame you, I am sorry if I sounded like that. If you don't want a flame, please stop yours as well. I just gave my opinion, you gave yours. I

Re: [OT I think] Which Distro?

2009-02-26 Thread Jimmy Johnson
the 32bit libraries and find that the nothing on my system requires 32bit libraries, except Adobe Acrobat Reader and the only reason I use it is for copy and paste, the flash and java that I use are now all 64bit and so are the rest of my applications. -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered

Re: [OT I think] Which Distro?

2009-02-26 Thread Jimmy Johnson
users will see no benefit. In _most_ cases. I imagine the arguments where similar when operating systems moved from 16 bit to 32 bit. ;) -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263 K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple stupid) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: [OT I think] Which Distro?

2009-02-26 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Celejar wrote: On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 05:42:33 -0800 Jimmy Johnson field.engin...@gmail.com wrote: ... Adobe Acrobat Reader and the only reason I use it is for copy and paste, Copying and pasting works for me from Evince. Is there something specific you can't do? Thanks, I will check

Re: [OT I think] Which Distro?

2009-02-26 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/26/2009 04:47 AM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/25/2009 01:58 PM, Dean Chester wrote: [snip] OK will try with some live CDs. Next question 32-bit or 64-bit has a C2D processor? On a laptop, I see no advantage to running a 64-bit system. Ron

Re: [OT I think] Which Distro?

2009-02-26 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jimmy Johnson wrote: I imagine the arguments where similar when operating systems moved from 16 bit to 32 bit. ;) I have never heard of 16 bit userland and a 32 bit kernel, though. In the present case in a sense you can

Re: [OT I think] Which Distro?

2009-02-26 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Thorny wrote: Jimmy Johnson wrote: Why do you flame me, maybe you think it's better to recommend Sidux or Ubuntu? G Johannes Wiedersich wrote: I didn't intend to flame you, I am sorry if I sounded like that. If you don't want a flame, please stop yours as well. I just gave my opinion, you

Re: [OT I think] Which Distro?

2009-02-26 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Celejar wrote: On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 05:42:33 -0800 Jimmy Johnson field.engin...@gmail.com wrote: ... Adobe Acrobat Reader and the only reason I use it is for copy and paste, Copying and pasting works for me from Evince. Is there something specific you can't do? Celejar Evince is now

Re: Can one install lenny from live cd's ?

2009-02-27 Thread Jimmy Johnson
... At the moment, it is a work in progress: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive/HdInstallation -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263 K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple stupid) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Recommendation wanted for cheap PCI graphics card with S-Video TV out?

2009-02-27 Thread Jimmy Johnson
should steer clear of? Most any nVidia PCI card will do what you want but getting an older PCI card from an internet store could be a problem, best chance would be ebay or amazon. 316 Results for nVidia PCI at amazon.com -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263

Re: Recommendation wanted for cheap PCI graphics card with S-Video TV out?

2009-02-27 Thread Jimmy Johnson
should steer clear of? Most any nVidia PCI card will do what you want but getting an older PCI card from an internet store could be a problem, best chance would be ebay or amazon. 316 Results for nVidia PCI at amazon.com -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263

Re: I'm rather embarrassed to even be asking this...

2009-02-27 Thread Jimmy Johnson
both ECC and NON-ECC -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263 K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple stupid) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: grub-probe: error: Cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/sdb1. Check your device.map.

2009-02-28 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Daryl Styrk wrote: Jimmy Johnson wrote: The basics, did you prepare the drive to be booted, did you make a partition active/bootable? Just install gparted to look at the drive and as long as you don't have it mounted you can make changes, gparted is in the Lenny repos. If I understand

Re: I'm rather embarrassed to even be asking this...

2009-02-28 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Justin The Cynical wrote: Jimmy Johnson wrote: Justin The Cynical wrote: Long time lurker with a fresh install of Lenny x64 I recently picked up a SuperMicro X7SBE board and populated it with ECC RAM. Among my random wanderings, I realized that I didn't recall seeing anything in the BIOS

Re: I'm rather embarrassed to even be asking this...

2009-02-28 Thread Jimmy Johnson
as well, but if any one else has any ideas, I'm all ears. Justin I would call SuperMicro, I see their phone number in the manual. -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263 K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple stupid) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Lenny stable. How to find wmsm WindowMaker applet?

2009-03-01 Thread Jimmy Johnson
few depends. http://rpmseek.com/rpm-dl/wmsm-0.2.0-alt1.i586.html?hl=comcbd=0:W:120:1859264:48:0:0 -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263 K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple stupid) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Why did you chose Debian over CentOS?

2009-03-06 Thread Jimmy Johnson
, if I want to use RPM type distro I would use CentOS, it's good RPM type distro, Yum not to bad, but Debian all around better distro for me, fast to install, fast to configure and much more software to make me happy. -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263 K.I.S.S

Re: Window Borders, Title Bars, etc. Missing in Lenny w/ KDE

2009-03-07 Thread Jimmy Johnson
. -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263 K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple stupid) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Window Borders, Title Bars, etc. Missing in Lenny w/ KDE

2009-03-08 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Hal Vaughan wrote: On Mar 7, 2009, at 9:03 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: Sounds to me you are missing the package kwin the KDE window manager. That's what I thought, but it's there and reconfiguring it didn't help. Since it's a new system I stopped and realized if I re-installed, I could

Re: Lenovo laptop - Type Control D to Continue

2009-03-13 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Jimmy Johnson wrote: Hey Guy's I have Lenovo laptop, new Lenny install and I'm having to type control+d to continue boot, I looked at dmesg and I can't make what the problem is, so I post and maybe someone can figure the problem. If more info is needed let me know. :) laptop-1:/home/jj

Re: Lenovo laptop - Type Control D to Continue

2009-03-13 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Jimmy Johnson wrote: Hey Guy's I have Lenovo laptop, new Lenny install and I'm having to type control+d to continue boot, I looked at dmesg and I can't make what the problem is, so I post and maybe someone can figure the problem. If more info is needed let me know. :) laptop-1:/home/jj

Re: Lenovo laptop - Type Control D to Continue

2009-03-14 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Thorny wrote: On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:47:13 -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote: Jimmy Johnson wrote: Hey Guy's I have Lenovo laptop, new Lenny install and I'm having to type control+d to continue boot, I looked at dmesg and I can't make what the problem is, so I post and maybe someone can figure

Re: nvidia problems after upgrade

2009-03-15 Thread Jimmy Johnson
a report that it did not work for a Voodoo Graphics card though. -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263 K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple stupid) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: SOLVED, sortof... Re: I'm rather embarrassed to even be asking this...

2009-03-15 Thread Jimmy Johnson
decide to try it, make sure you have back-up copy of your old BIOS on a Flash Drive. :) -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263 K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple stupid) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: How do I Install your Linux operating system.

2009-03-15 Thread Jimmy Johnson
caleb rodgers wrote: Hey how do I Install your Linux operating system Go here http://goodbye-microsoft.com/ and download and install debian.exe, that's all you need to do. -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263 K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple stupid

Re: Hello sir

2009-03-15 Thread Jimmy Johnson
is 2240dcac38e8aaadfbb670506eb7323a -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263 K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple stupid) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: install from tiny CD

2009-03-15 Thread Jimmy Johnson
the debian.iso as a bootable cd. Here's a good guide for burning an .iso in Windows: www.mepis.org/docs/en/index.php/Burning_MEPIS_CD_in_Windows Here's a good guide for burning an .iso in Linux: www.mepis.org/docs/en/index.php/Burning_MEPIS_CD_in_Linux -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A

Re: External USB HD showing up late in /dev

2009-03-18 Thread Jimmy Johnson
ext3 users,atime,auto,rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0 First as Superuser I use the command blkid to get the UUID's. -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263 K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple stupid) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

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