Re: Creating a USB key to install debian

2009-11-29 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 7:02 PM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: >> - Copy boot.img.gz: >> $ wget http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/hd-media/boot.img.gz >> $ zcat boot.img.gz > /dev/sdb1 >> > > You should copy the imagem to the disk, not to a partition: > > zcat boot.img.gz > /dev/sdb

Re: Grep on dictionary words

2009-11-29 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 01:22:15AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > will get the ones that start with capital alphas. if you want initial > > caps *only* then: > > > > grep "^[A-Z][a-z]*$" > > > > would match those. > > > > Thanks. I meant that caps could only be at the beginning of a word, > not in

Re: Grep on dictionary words

2009-11-29 Thread Dotan Cohen
2009/11/29 Andrew Sackville-West : > On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 01:22:15AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> > will get the ones that start with capital alphas. if you want initial >> > caps *only* then: >> > >> > grep "^[A-Z][a-z]*$" >> > >> > would match those. >> > >> >> Thanks. I meant that caps could

Re: copying files from home directory on one machine to directory on another machine

2009-11-29 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 09:28:18AM +0200, Alexander Kaphuk wrote: > Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > >On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 09:42:23PM +0200, Alexander Kaphuk wrote: > >>G'day, [snip] > >cd myfiles > > > >rsync -pavz --delete . 192.168.1.2:/home/alex/myfiles/ can I suggest to look at the S & H option

Re: copying files from home directory on one machine to directory on another machine

2009-11-29 Thread Dave Witbrodt
Alexander Kaphuk wrote: Dave Witbrodt wrote: Alexander Kaphuk wrote: G'day, I'd appreciate somebody pointing me where to look for info on how to copy files from a home directory on one machine to a directory on another machine via network. I've got about 100GB of data I need to copy from m

Re: copying files from home directory on one machine to directory on another machine

2009-11-29 Thread Nick Douma
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dave Witbrodt wrote: > > Of course, NFS is not really an option if your source machine (or > destination) is running Windows. [In that case, there's always > Samba! ;-) ] > Not true. You can install Windows Services for Unix, and use that to moun

Re: copying files from home directory on one machine to directory on another machine

2009-11-29 Thread Florian Kriener
On Sunday 29 November 2009 12:23:47 Dave Witbrodt wrote: > > That's right. I've never used either tool before. Thanks a lot for > > the tip! > > Sure. If you're in the mood to learn about every possibility... > > You might also consider NFS: [...] Okay, if every possibility is what you want to

Squeeze : Keyboard problem as if a key is always pressed

2009-11-29 Thread Michele Lucca
Since yesterday I have this problem: sometimes, after some use, the sytem (Debian Squeeze) becomes a little unresponsive to mouse and keyboard (some clicks and keystrockes are lost). It is as if a "mute" key is always pressed. If I switch to console (ctrl-alt-F1), I see a cotinuous series of

Re: Squeeze : Keyboard problem as if a key is always pressed

2009-11-29 Thread Dotan Cohen
2009/11/29 Michele Lucca : > Since yesterday I have this problem: sometimes, after some use, the sytem > (Debian Squeeze) becomes a little unresponsive to mouse and keyboard (some > clicks and keystrockes are lost).  It is as if a "mute" key is always pressed. > > If I switch to console (ctrl-alt

Re: Squeeze : Keyboard problem as if a key is always pressed

2009-11-29 Thread Michele Lucca
>Can you test with different hardware? Maybe the keyboard is bad (this >would affect the mouse too on ps/2). >-- >Dotan Cohen Unfortunately I'm on a laptop, and I have no external keyboard to test. I'm trying with different distribution (a live ubuntu) to exclude an hardware failure. No problem

Debian on Flash drive

2009-11-29 Thread jkosmer
Are there vendors who sell Debian pre-installed on a flash drive that will work on MAC OS X Jaguar? Alternately, is it easy for a first time user to install a Debian package on a Flash drive for MAC OS X jaguar? John Kosmer

Re: Squeeze : Keyboard problem as if a key is always pressed

2009-11-29 Thread Johan Grönqvist
Michele Lucca skrev: Since yesterday I have this problem: sometimes, after some use, the sytem (Debian Squeeze) becomes a little unresponsive to mouse and keyboard (some clicks and keystrockes are lost). It is as if a "mute" key is always pressed. If I switch to console (ctrl-alt-F1), I see a

Re: Squeeze : Keyboard problem as if a key is always pressed

2009-11-29 Thread '-'
On 11/29/09, Michele Lucca wrote: > Since yesterday I have this problem: sometimes, after some use, the sytem > (Debian Squeeze) becomes a little unresponsive to mouse and keyboard (some > clicks and keystrockes are lost). It is as if a "mute" key is always > pressed. > > If I switch to console (

Re: live cd/usb projects?

2009-11-29 Thread T o n g
Thanks a lot for the detailed instruction Rob, really appreciate it. On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:52:34 -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > 9) With your USB drive inserted and not mounted: > > (replace "X" with the proper letter for your device) dd if=binary.img > of=/dev/sdX Several questions regarding this

Re: copying files from home directory on one machine to directory on another machine

2009-11-29 Thread Alexander Kaphuk
Wow! Good to know there's an abundance of solutions to a given problem that can be explored. Thanks a lot to all those who have responded to my original email! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.

aptitude question

2009-11-29 Thread Neo Anderson
env: debian unstable/ kernel 2.6.31/ dpkg 1.15.5.3 (i386)/ apt 0.7.24 for i386 compiled on Sep 25 2009 20:05:59 I try to exec `aptitude upgarde` ,but it hangs at the step Setting up grub-pc (2009xxx) ... even if I try to run sudp dkpg --configure -a it hangs at that step as well. However, th

Re: preseed with two hard disks

2009-11-29 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Richard: On Saturday 28 November 2009 23:13:02 Richard Pijnenburg wrote: > Hi Josep, > > According to the documentation ( can't remember where exactly ) it's stated > that the preseed system can't handle 2 disks. > I'm trying to find a decent work around for it but no luck yet. > All we can do

Re: live cd/usb projects?

2009-11-29 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 04:45:31PM +, T o n g wrote: > Thanks a lot for the detailed instruction Rob, really appreciate it. > > On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:52:34 -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > > > 9) With your USB drive inserted and not mounted: > > > > (replace "X" with the proper letter for your de

Re: Squeeze : Keyboard problem as if a key is always pressed

2009-11-29 Thread Michele
Il giorno dom, 29/11/2009 alle 08.27 -0800, '-' ha scritto: > I have this problem as well, it started yesterday. Running squeeze > with all available updates. It broke my keyboard autorepeat in X, but > worked fine in virtual consoles. Noticed continuous ^...@^@^...@^@ in VCs > after killing X, it

Re: live cd/usb projects?

2009-11-29 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 04:45:31PM +, T o n g wrote: > Thanks a lot for the detailed instruction Rob, really appreciate it. > > On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:52:34 -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > > > 9) With your USB drive inserted and not mounted: > > > > (replace "X" with the proper letter for your de

Re: Squeeze : Keyboard problem as if a key is always pressed

2009-11-29 Thread Michele
I reported the bug http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=558656 . I temporary recompiled acpid package without "netlink patch" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Squeeze : Keyboard problem as if a key is always pressed

2009-11-29 Thread Tyler Smith
Michele writes: > Il giorno dom, 29/11/2009 alle 08.27 -0800, '-' ha scritto: >> I have this problem as well, it started yesterday. Running squeeze >> with all available updates. It broke my keyboard autorepeat in X, but >> worked fine in virtual consoles. Noticed continuous ^...@^@^...@^@ in VC

Re: copying files from home directory on one machine to directory on another machine

2009-11-29 Thread Alan Ianson
> Of course, NFS is not really an option if your source machine (or > destination) is running Windows. [In that case, there's always > Samba! ;-) I have seen nfs for windows lately, although I haven't tried it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: aptitude question

2009-11-29 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <379702.58711...@web24703.mail.ird.yahoo.com>, Neo Anderson wrote: >env: debian unstable/ kernel 2.6.31/ dpkg 1.15.5.3 (i386)/ apt 0.7.24 for > i386 compiled on Sep 25 2009 20:05:59 > >I try to exec `aptitude upgarde` ,but it hangs at the step > >Setting up grub-pc (2009xxx) ... > >even if I try

Re: aptitude question

2009-11-29 Thread Tim Tebbit
Neo Anderson wrote: > env: debian unstable/ kernel 2.6.31/ dpkg 1.15.5.3 (i386)/ apt 0.7.24 for > i386 compiled on Sep 25 2009 20:05:59 > > I try to exec `aptitude upgarde` ,but it hangs at the step > > Setting up grub-pc (2009xxx) ... > > even if I try to run sudp dkpg --configure -a > > it

Sound is missing?

2009-11-29 Thread I Rattan
PC is Dell Dimension 5150 Systems is Linux siduxbox 2.6.31-6.slh.1-sidux-686 #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Nov 10 02:13:47 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux The computer has HDA-Intel sound card, is detected by the software, lsmod shows: -- snd_hda_codec_idt 60004 1 snd_hda_intel 27112 0 snd_hda_co

Re: Sound is missing?

2009-11-29 Thread I Rattan
On Sun, 29 Nov 2009, I Rattan wrote: PC is Dell Dimension 5150 Systems is Linux siduxbox 2.6.31-6.slh.1-sidux-686 #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Nov 10 02:13:47 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux The computer has HDA-Intel sound card, is detected by the software, lsmod shows: -- snd_hda_codec_idt 60004 1 s

libflashplayer.so

2009-11-29 Thread I Rattan
Where does this .so file go for use by iceweasel? Just downloaded it form Adobe site. -ishwar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: libflashplayer.so

2009-11-29 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:36:21 -0500, I Rattan wrote: > Where does this .so file go for use by iceweasel? Just downloaded it > form Adobe site. I created a folder named "plugins" under "~/.mozilla" and dropped the file in there. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-

Suggestions for desktop search application

2009-11-29 Thread Camaleón
Hello, I'm looking of a desktop search utility that can to search mainly within (inside) documents, mostly "pdf" and "odt" files, but not limited to these ones (if it also could index Icedove e-mails would be great). I was using Beagle (not so long time ago) under openSUSE and was pretty good

Re: Flash plugin problem - cant click - amd64 unstable

2009-11-29 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 23:21:44 +, Cameron Hutchison wrote: > Is anyone else having problems with the flash plugin > (flashplugin-nonfree) on unstable on a 64-bit platform? It runs fine (all the "fine" flashpayer can run) under Lenny. > On some sites, the flash videos load but the plugin seems

Re: Suggestions for desktop search application

2009-11-29 Thread Johan Grönqvist
Camaleón skrev: I'm looking of a desktop search utility that can to search mainly within (inside) documents, mostly "pdf" and "odt" files, but not limited to these ones (if it also could index Icedove e-mails would be great). I was using Beagle (not so long time ago) under openSUSE and was pre

Re: libflashplayer.so

2009-11-29 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:36:21 -0500 (EST) I Rattan wrote: > > Where does this .so file go for use by iceweasel? > Just downloaded it form Adobe site. Any reason you're not using the version from the Debian repo? Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator m

Re: Suggestions for desktop search application

2009-11-29 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:19:48 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > Hello, > > I'm looking of a desktop search utility that can to search mainly within > (inside) documents, mostly "pdf" and "odt" files, but not limited to > these ones (if it also could index Icedove e-mails would be great). > > I was

Re: Suggestions for desktop search application

2009-11-29 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 16:58:27 -0500, Celejar wrote: > On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:19:48 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: >> I'm looking of a desktop search utility that can to search mainly >> within (inside) documents, mostly "pdf" and "odt" files, but not >> limited to these ones (if it also could index I

Re: Suggestions for desktop search application

2009-11-29 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:41:59 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: ... > - Recoll, by the way, seems to be more kde-centric (qt gui). I've never noticed any issues using it with my GTK+ / Xfce environment. It does bring in several qt libs, but no actual KDE stuff. Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Fe

Re: Quick and dirty "debian live" on USB stick.

2009-11-29 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 08:59:21PM EST, Rob Owens wrote: > On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 05:19:56PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: > > I'm playing with the idea of copying my laptop's debian lenny > > partition to a USB stick that I can take with me when traveling. > > > > Since I can't be sure I'll have a

Re: Quick and dirty "debian live" on USB stick.

2009-11-29 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Rob Owens wrote: > On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 05:19:56PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: >> I'm playing with the idea of copying my laptop's debian lenny partition >> to a USB stick that I can take with me when traveling. >> >> Since I can't be sure I'll have a machine with available space on the >> HDD o

Re: Grep on dictionary words

2009-11-29 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Dotan Cohen wrote: > > This means that only words that start with a caps are valid. I need > "can start with a caps, but caps can be nowhere else". I got that like > this: > grep "^[A-Za-z][a-z]*$" > However I think that there is a better way. > > This is a good exercise. I am bettering my regex

Re: Flash plugin problem - cant click - amd64 unstable

2009-11-29 Thread Tyler Smith
Cameron Hutchison writes: > Is anyone else having problems with the flash plugin > (flashplugin-nonfree) on unstable on a 64-bit platform? Yes, I'm having the same problem you described (below) on testing on a 32 bit machine. We're not alone, when I tried to trouble shoot this I found a bunch of

iptables and ports 0, 1

2009-11-29 Thread Tyler Smith
Hi, I've got a pretty basic iptables setup for my personal laptop, drop all input except connections from local host, and allow all outgoing requests. However, When I check with Shields Up! https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2 I see that port 0 and 1 are listed as 'closed' instead of 'stealth

Horizontal scroll (synaptics) only works for root?

2009-11-29 Thread Ben Pearre
Hi! I have a ThinkPad T61 running the latest Debian unstable. I have a synaptics touchpad. I have it set up to send vertical and horizontal scroll events using xorg.conf, thusly: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "TouchPad" Driver "synaptics" Option

AMD-K6-2 processor for Lenny

2009-11-29 Thread formanlpg
How to configure & compile the kernel for AMD-K6-2 procesor ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Quick and dirty "debian live" on USB stick.

2009-11-29 Thread Chris Jones
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 07:00:55PM EST, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: [..] > Hm, not necessary to install from scratch. > Just copy over to the usb and put in fstab and relevant files > (grub,etc) the disk id instead of /dev/sda (you need udev for this), > so you can be sure to use the same device no ma

Re: iptables and ports 0, 1

2009-11-29 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 08:07:55PM -0500, Tyler Smith wrote: > Hi, > > I've got a pretty basic iptables setup for my personal laptop, drop > all input except connections from local host, and allow all outgoing > requests. > > However, When I check with Shields Up! > https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?

Re: AMD-K6-2 processor for Lenny

2009-11-29 Thread Stan Hoeppner
forman...@email.cz put forth on 11/29/2009 6:44 PM: > How to configure & compile the kernel for AMD-K6-2 procesor ? Simple. In 'make menuconfig' select K6-II under Processor Type. And read this if you haven't already: http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ch-common-tasks.html -- Stan -- T

Re: On Access Virus Scanner Recommendation

2009-11-29 Thread Holger Rauch
Hi, On Fri, 27 Nov 2009, Paul Johnson wrote: > Holger Rauch wrote: > > > I'm thinking about using NOD32 on a Debian system for on access virus > > scanning (i.e. scan a file when it's created or its contents are > > modified in some way). > > Why, when it's so much easier to not allow connectio

Re: Flash plugin problem - cant click - amd64 unstable

2009-11-29 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Cameron Hutchison writes: >Is anyone else having problems with the flash plugin >(flashplugin-nonfree) on unstable on a 64-bit platform? >On some sites, the flash videos load but the plugin seems to ignore my >mouse clicks so I can't start the video playing. This does not happen on >all sites -

Re: Flash plugin problem - cant click - amd64 unstable

2009-11-29 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Tyler Smith writes: >Cameron Hutchison writes: >> Is anyone else having problems with the flash plugin >> (flashplugin-nonfree) on unstable on a 64-bit platform? >Yes, I'm having the same problem you described (below) on testing on a >32 bit machine. We're not alone, when I tried to trouble sh

Unstable, LVM and Grub2: "error: you need to load the kernel first"

2009-11-29 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hello, A recent update of both my home machines running sid pulled in an update of grub2. Now both machines are stuck with the grub menu showing up fine, but no matter which kernel I choose, I always end up with this error: "error: you need to load the kernel first" Does anyone here have an id