Re: [SLUG] Skipping/Mapping bad blocks

2011-07-26 Thread Amos Shapira 
On 26 July 2011 09:50, Simon Males s...@sime.net.au wrote:
 I have tried GNU ddrescue but the drive fails all to often. The block
 device disappears and I have not worked out a sure fire way of
 bringing it back online other then a reboot. Power cycling the device
 (attached via USB) or restarting udev doesn't assist either.
 Eventually the device becomes available, but there is a lot of
 twiddling of thumbs.

I'm NOT a hardware expert but maybe the twiddling lets the drive
cool down enough to make it work again - pop it in the fridge (inside
a sealed plastic bag, so the humidity doesn't condensate on the drive
itself) for an hour, let it sit out of the fridge for a few minutes
before drying and unsealing the bag (again - to avoid condensation)
and try again.

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[SLUG] linux.conf.au 2012: proposals due this Friday

2011-07-26 Thread Mary Gardiner 
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From: linux.conf.au Announcements lca-annou...@lists.linux.org.au
Subject: [lca-announce] linux.conf.au now accepting Papers and Presentation 
submissions for LCA2012

Dear All,

The organisers of LCA2012 are very pleased to announce that we are now
accepting paper submissions! Papers from all areas of the Free and Open
Source world are welcome and first time speaks are highly encouraged to
submit a proposal. The Call for Papers will remain open until the 29th July
2011, after which time all submissions will be reviewed and successful
speakers notified. Once confirmed, details of talks will be added to the
conference programme, available on this site in mid to late September.

Though there are many elements needed to run a great conference, it is the
speakers that truly make linux.conf.au such an amazing event. Being an
international conference, but one with a uniquely Australian flavour, we are
working to bring a terrific mix of both local and global speakers from
different backgrounds to Ballarat in January, says Sae Ra Germaine, LCA2012
Speakers liaison. The wealth of talent within the FOSS community is huge
and our goal is to be a platform for bringing the newest ideas, latest
talent and best speakers to the largest audience of this type in the
country.

   - Information for potential speakers is available on the LCA2012
websitehttp://linux.conf.au/programme/papers
   - Our speaker liaison can also be contacted for any specific queries:
   speak...@lcaunderthestars.org.au
   - Proposal submissions can be made at
   http://linux.conf.au/programme/submit_a_paper (Need to be logged in to
   view this)

Mini-Confs

Our call for mini-conferences remains open in addition to the call for
papers. Please see the announcement
herehttp://linux.conf.au/media/news/21 or for more detailed
information, visit the Mini-Confs
page http://linux.conf.au/programme/miniconfs
About linux.conf.au

linux.conf.au (lca) is a conference about Open Source Software, including
Linux. It brings together the world's community of Linux and open source
enthusiasts who make considerable contributions to open source software.

2012 marks a significant milestone for LCA as it will be the first time the
conference has been held in an Australian regional city. The 2012 Ballarat
organising committee is excited to be hosting the open source community and
would love for you to join us in January.


Kindest Regards,


Sae Ra

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Re: [SLUG] usb boot only sees usb, not hd

2011-07-26 Thread Clint Shumack 
/dev/sdb could be the card reader. Did you try /dev/hda? Install the
graphical partition tool 'gparted' and see what drives it can find.

On 22 July 2011 12:14, Voytek Eymont li...@sbt.net.au wrote:
 I have an older Dell Inspiron 700m laptop, I made a Linux USB boot system,
 set BIOS to USB HD boot, Dell boots OK from USB, but, doesn't seem to see
 the built in HD:

 without USB present Dell boots XP from HD

 fdisk /dev/sda shows USB
 /dev/sdb says 'unable to open'

 how can I find the built in HD from Linux boot ?




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[SLUG] Grub

2011-07-26 Thread me 
one day I turned on my Kubuntu 11.04 linux home server and it didn't boot Nothing NadaThen after inserting the install cd I used the command line to install grub (sudo apt-get install grub)Now at least my computer boots the grub command line (thats an improvement)Now if only the newly installed grub could find the previously installed Linux kernel and kick it into actionPSI have tried to search for the appropriate hard drive files but most documentation says to use the "find" commandwhich doesn't exist in the latest versions of grubThanksStephen
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