Re: [SOLVED] Is my processor 32-bit or 64-bit?

2012-08-25 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 05:45:23 -0400 (EDT), Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 8/23/2012 7:28 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: Hmm. I'm not even sure if this is the right kind of memory. It is. OK, if you say so. I guess oempcworld.com is trying to sell me faster memory than I really need. I was confused

Re: [SOLVED] Is my processor 32-bit or 64-bit?

2012-08-25 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 09:37:17 -0400 (EDT), Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 8/24/2012 6:54 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: OK, now we're getting somewhere. There is an eight-pin connector coming from the power supply that plugs directly into the motherboard, in addition to a 24-pin connector coming from

Re: [SOLVED] Is my processor 32-bit or 64-bit?

2012-08-24 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 06:16:12 -0400 (EDT), Stan Hoeppner wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: I don't see the 4-pin CPU power plug to which you refer coming out of the power supply. (Yes, I finally broke down and took the cover off.) Of course, it does have several spare 4-pin power connectors

Re: [SOLVED] Is my processor 32-bit or 64-bit?

2012-08-23 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 03:07:49 -0400 (EDT), Stan Hoeppner wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: Now, my next step is to figure out what memory SIMMs to order. I'd like to install four 1G SIMMs, if they exist for this motherboard. But the devil is in the details. DIMMs not SIMMs. ;) SIMMs haven't been

Re: [SOLVED] Is my processor 32-bit or 64-bit?

2012-08-22 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 04:41:26 -0400 (EDT), Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 8/21/2012 9:04 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: Stan, Stan, the hardware man! I knew you'd know! Where did you find the information that correlates CPUIDs with processor characteristics? Simplicity. Google CPUID 0F27. First hit

[SOLVED] Is my processor 32-bit or 64-bit?

2012-08-21 Thread Stephen Powell
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Is my processor 32-bit or 64-bit?

2012-08-20 Thread Stephen Powell
by an operating system, the machine has at least two CPUs. But that may not be 100% reliable. The machine has 1 GB of RAM installed. (Two 512M SIMMs and 2 empty SIMM slots.) -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Is my processor 32-bit or 64-bit?

2012-08-20 Thread Stephen Powell
, but I don't know a valid userid/password combination to log in. All I can access right now is the BIOS setup program. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: RFH: segfault on s390x (hyperestraier)

2012-08-18 Thread Stephen Powell
. This is little-endian format. Sometimes hidden assumptions of little- endian format creep into programs that cause them to not work properly on s390x. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-s390-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: zipl

2012-08-17 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 15 Aug 2012 12:09:24 -0400 (EDT), Mark Post wrote: On 8/14/2012 at 10:22 PM, Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: But getting to the root of the problem, whenever you delete a DASD device you need to re-build your initial RAM file system, then run zipl. Running zipl, by itself

Re: zipl

2012-08-14 Thread Stephen Powell
multiple kernels installed, the initial RAM file system must be built separately for each kernel. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: Installing a custom kernel on Debian S/390(wheezy/sid)

2012-08-05 Thread Stephen Powell
to include DECNET support in the kernel by default should probably be posted to the debian-kernel list. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-s390-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Installing a custom kernel on Debian S/390(wheezy/sid)

2012-08-05 Thread Stephen Powell
Please reply to the list, not to me personally. Placing my reply on the list. On Sun, 05 Aug 2012 09:20:47 -0400 (EDT), Sampsa Laine wrote: On 5 Aug 2012, at 16:09, Stephen Powell wrote: First of all, are you running Debian or Ubuntu? This is a Debian list. Advice you get here is going

Re: Installing a custom kernel on Debian S/390(wheezy/sid)

2012-08-05 Thread Stephen Powell
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Re: Loadlin and Squeeze kernel 2.6.32

2012-07-15 Thread Stephen Powell
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Re: Loadlin and Squeeze kernel 2.6.32

2012-07-14 Thread Stephen Powell
://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/lilo.htm Although it is LILO-specific and Debian-specific, there is nonetheless some discussion about the boot process in general which may shed some light on this subject. HTH -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: custom kernel without initrd and with udev

2012-07-07 Thread Stephen Powell
vary from one boot to the next. My advice is to bite the bullet and convert, permanently, to using an initrd. By the way, you may find my kernel-building web page useful: http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/Kernel.htm -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Re: Loadlin and Squeeze kernel 2.6.32

2012-07-07 Thread Stephen Powell
. http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/lilo.htm -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- 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: custom kernel without initrd and with udev

2012-07-07 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 07 Jul 2012 12:53:27 -0400 (EDT), Dom wrote: On 07/07/12 16:53, Stephen Powell wrote: It's getting harder and harder to get along without an initrd these days. Why is it so important to you not to use one? As others have pointed out, using a UUID or LABEL specification for the root

Re: S390 Release 6.0.5

2012-06-16 Thread Stephen Powell
using the correct network device in the correct mode? -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-s390-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Re: Debian 6.0.5 and loadlin

2012-06-16 Thread Stephen Powell
while running some other kernel. Cross-building an initial RAM file system is a bad idea when using MODULES=dep. Have you considered switching to LILO? http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/lilo.htm -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: Cancel debian-user

2012-06-13 Thread Stephen Powell
received from the list server.) -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- 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/1298572307.63762.1339637990067

Re: this bug .. bugs me

2012-06-07 Thread Stephen Powell
it. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1560597686.1629135.1339112833174.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com

Re: how are you kids compiling kernels these days?

2012-05-31 Thread Stephen Powell
kernel version 3.2.18. This issue, and many other gotchas, are documented on the above- mentioned web page. If you plan to use make-kpkg or make deb-pkg to build the kernel, the binary package is the one you want to install. -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Re: [Linux/390] Problem to find packages (under z/VM 5.3.0 on a Z800 2066)

2012-05-16 Thread Stephen Powell
(in copy) is a fan of Debian (on PC) and has tried to help, to no avail. Is there a simple solution to get the s90x packages in our configuration? Yes. See my comments above. Thanks regards, Christian Jean-Claude -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Re: Swap space not used

2012-05-04 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 03 May 2012 03:48:59 -0400 (EDT), Claudius Hubig wrote: Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: It is my understanding that, assuming suspend/resume is supported, your swap partition should be AT LEAST as large as TWICE the amount of RAM. Suspend/resume will consume a RAM's worth

Re: Swap space not used

2012-05-02 Thread Stephen Powell
/resume will consume a RAM's worth right out of the starting gate. The rest is then available for regular swap file activity. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#670736: who doesn't recognize users logged in via virtual terminals (vt1-vt6)

2012-04-28 Thread Stephen Powell
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Bug#670736: who doesn't recognize users logged in via virtual terminals (vt1-vt6)

2012-04-28 Thread Stephen Powell
and goings of users. If the goes in and comes out don't line up then who gets blamed for the incorrect accounting but there isn't anything who can do about it. Understood. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Trouble with Nvidia driver

2012-04-14 Thread Stephen Powell
for the memory boards. Then, put everything back together and hope for the best. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: Access to s390 porter machine

2012-04-05 Thread Stephen Powell
me how to install it on LPAR. Regards Shahanawaz I have never installed Debian in an LPAR. I have always used a virtual machine under z/VM. But it looks like Philipp Kern has already answered you. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Extending a DASD partition

2012-03-31 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:14:37 -0400 (EDT), Mark Post wrote: On 3/30/2012 at 07:28 AM, Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: Try issuing the command again, this time without ext2 specified at the end. i.e. resize 1 98.3kb 2462MB parted is not going to work with ECKD devices, period

Re: Extending a DASD partition

2012-03-31 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 10:46:10 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: Note that, in theory, fdasd could be used, rather than parted, to create, delete, then re-create the partition at a larger size, provided that fdasd doesn't write anything to the partition when it deletes it. I don't know enough

Re: Lilo not recognizing keyboard SOLVED)

2012-03-31 Thread Stephen Powell
for your contribution. As a LILO user, any other suggestions you may have for improving the web page will be considered as well. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Extending a DASD partition

2012-03-30 Thread Stephen Powell
1650MB ext2 , , , , , , , , , , , (parted) resize 1 98.3kb 2462MB ext2 Error: File system has an incompatible feature enabled. (parted) Try issuing the command again, this time without ext2 specified at the end. i.e. resize 1 98.3kb 2462MB -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Re: Extending a DASD partition

2012-03-30 Thread Stephen Powell
) resize 1 98.3kb 2462MB Error: File system has an incompatible feature enabled. (parted) 1.8.8 is a really old version of parted. Upstream is something like 3.x.x, I think. Why don't you try a newer version. -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Re: Extending a DASD partition

2012-03-28 Thread Stephen Powell
. Is there an appropriate tool for that on s390x? Have you tried parted? -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu

Re: Question about make-kpkg and versions

2012-03-27 Thread Stephen Powell
convention. You are, of course, entitled to do it differently; but this method makes sense to me. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Question about make-kpkg and versions

2012-03-27 Thread Stephen Powell
doing things. (I.e. is this a bug or a feature?) -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- 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: Lilo not recognizing keyboard SOLVED)

2012-03-26 Thread Stephen Powell
://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/lilo.htm so please be as detailed as you can. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- 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

Bug#665465: Please upgrade parted to new upstream release

2012-03-24 Thread Stephen Powell
format only for FBA devices) -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Formating/Partitioning emulated FBA in linux

2012-03-21 Thread Stephen Powell
). Alternatively, you can enroll the partition in a logical volume group (LVM2), in which case you don't format the partition. But you will need to expand the file system on the logical volume in order to use the new space. -- .''`. Stephen Powell

How do I suppress dpms mode setting messages on text console?

2012-03-04 Thread Stephen Powell
without suppressing true error messages? Maybe there's a module option that I can set in /etc/modprobe.d/local.conf, or something along those lines? Any help will be appreciated. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: How do I suppress dpms mode setting messages on text console?

2012-03-04 Thread Stephen Powell
, Camaleón. I've looked over this thread. The explanation is complicated, and the solution doesn't sound particularly appealing, but I'll give this a try if I don't find a better one. Thanks again. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: How do I suppress dpms mode setting messages on text console?

2012-03-04 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 04 Mar 2012 13:08:00 -0500 (EST), Tom H wrote: Isn't this a /proc/sys/kernel/printk issue? You can set kernel.printk = 3 4 1 3 in /etc/sysctl.conf. This looks promising. Where can I find documentation on this? -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Re: How do I suppress dpms mode setting messages on text console?

2012-03-04 Thread Stephen Powell
that a frame buffer driver is being used. Add quiet to the kernel command line, this will suppress noise from other drivers as well. Thanks for the tip. I will consider trying this if I don't find a more selective solution. -- .''`. Stephen Powell

[SOLVED] How do I suppress dpms mode setting messages on text console?

2012-03-04 Thread Stephen Powell
situation, that was sufficient. The messages that I was trying to suppress were at level 7 (debug-level messages); so setting the console loglevel to 6 was sufficient in my case. Thanks again. Thanks also to all who replied. -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Re: I can't compile kernel with Debian 6.0.4(squeeze) since gold.h

2012-02-24 Thread Stephen Powell
doesn't work with make 3.82 or later. Unless the package gets some attention soon, I may stop recommending it. Any further communication regarding this issue should be posted to debian-user, since the kernel team does not support kernel-package. -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Re: kernel-package for wheezy

2012-01-29 Thread Stephen Powell
maintainer for kernel-package (i.e. Manoj). It seems to work for me and for my purposes, but I do not warrant the patch to be free from defects. Take this with as many grains of salt as you think it's worth. P.S. kernel-package is also incompatible with make 3.82 -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Re: Kernel Compiling from scratch

2012-01-27 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 04:54:12 -0500 (EST), Jon Dowland wrote: On 25/01/12 23:38, Stephen Powell wrote: Did you use the --initrd option when you invoked make-kpkg? I thought make-kpkg was deprecated years ago? ... That depends on who you talk to. The kernel team used to use it to build

Re: Kernel Compiling from scratch

2012-01-27 Thread Stephen Powell
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Re: Kernel Compiling from scratch

2012-01-25 Thread Stephen Powell
? The initial ram disk image is not created until the kernel image package is installed, but if you did not use the --initrd option when you invoked make-kpkg then when you install the kernel image package an initial ram disk image will not be created. -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Re: Grub cannot fit into boot record

2012-01-15 Thread Stephen Powell
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Re: Grub cannot fit into boot record

2012-01-14 Thread Stephen Powell
a link to a useful diagnostic utility that will tell you a lot about the capabilities of your computer's BIOS. So even if you're determined to stick with grub-pc, taking a look at the above web page may not be a complete waste of time. -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Re: Grub cannot fit into boot record

2012-01-14 Thread Stephen Powell
concerning RAID, but I couldn't find anything about LVM. I have no experience with booting from a logical volume. You're on your own. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: linux-source-3.2.0-rc7

2012-01-07 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 06 Jan 2012 01:32:32 -0500 (EST), lina wrote: On Friday 06,January,2012 10:42 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: I'm also curious as to why you need, or think you need, to build a custom kernel in the first place. The wireless is not supported, bcm4331. so ... If the issue is that your

Re: linux-source-3.2.0-rc7

2012-01-05 Thread Stephen Powell
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Re: Everything seems to cause a reboot

2011-12-21 Thread Stephen Powell
. It doesn't match the default pc105 key mapping. I had reboot problems with it too, until I set XKBMODEL to dellsk8125. It works fine now. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: New User Help

2011-12-21 Thread Stephen Powell
- Translation Character set translation on received data Received data assumed to be in which character set UTF-8 See if that helps any. (You do know to switch to an SSH client immediately after configuring the network and the SSH server used by the installer, right?) -- .''`. Stephen

Re: Everything seems to cause a reboot

2011-12-20 Thread Stephen Powell
, whereas the left Alt key used in conjunction with F1-F12 is used to switch to consoles tty1-tty12. This was the default behavior in Lenny, but not in Squeeze. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: (SOLVED) Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-12-01 Thread Stephen Powell
. Well, we both learned something on this one. Glad you got it working. Sorry I wasn't more helpful. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: a quick Q: how do I get the latest kernel

2011-12-01 Thread Stephen Powell
stock binary kernel image package? In that case, Hans' post should answer your question. Or are you trying to build a custom kernel from source? In that case, why do you believe that you need to build a custom kernel? What is the ultimate objective? -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-11-30 Thread Stephen Powell
can now boot with no manual intervention. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- 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: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-11-29 Thread Stephen Powell
, then run it manually and let me know that it didn't run automatically; so we can investigate the cause of that problem. Then reboot. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Building kernel headers 3.0.x-rt fails

2011-11-29 Thread Stephen Powell
://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/Kernel.htm for the patch. I called it linuxv3.diff, I believe. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-11-28 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:21:53 -0500 (EST), Marc Shapiro wrote: On 11/27/11 15:10, Stephen Powell wrote: Since your permanent root file system is not a logical volume, chances are there is no LVM stuff in your initial RAM file system. Therefore, it is trying to access the SUSPEND/RESUME device

Re: Laptop Not Resuming From Hibernation

2011-11-28 Thread Stephen Powell
in comparison with the size of installed memory? -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- 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: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-11-27 Thread Stephen Powell
. Also, I am going to rerun 'apt-get update' and see if the lines mentioninf lenny in /var/lib/dpkg/status go away. ... Let me know how that works out for you. I didn't see any obvious problems in your /etc/apt/sources.list. -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-11-27 Thread Stephen Powell
as a prerequisite for something else, it will also be purged. That works for commands like aptitude full-upgrade and aptitude safe-upgrade. I'm not sure if it will have any affect with apt-get or synaptic. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-11-27 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 15:36:27 -0500 (EST), Marc Shapiro wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: Let me know how that works out for you. I didn't see any obvious problems in your /etc/apt/sources.list. Well, that didn't work, but I purged all of the packages with conffiles (manually, as I did

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-11-27 Thread Stephen Powell
do_symlinks = yes specified in /etc/kernel-img.conf. Your /etc/lilo.conf file makes use of symbolic links; so it is important that they be maintained. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-11-26 Thread Stephen Powell
what you've done up to this point, provided you follow the directions in the release notes. My only suggestion would be to replace the Lenny backports kernels with standard Squeeze kernels. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-11-26 Thread Stephen Powell
that before. I changed lenny to squeeze in /etc/apt/sources.list, re-ran aptitude update (or apt-get update) and never had any problems. Re-examine your /etc/apt/sources.list file to make sure you didn't miss anything. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-11-25 Thread Stephen Powell
to you. (For example, you may not have any packages on hold.) But you should do all the steps that do apply to you and in the recommended order. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: purge a package without removing config or remaining files

2011-11-23 Thread Stephen Powell
to the original names and you should be good to go. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- 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: dial-up modem usage

2011-11-11 Thread Stephen Powell
for testing modems. You can enter AT commands by hand and see the output, for example, even if you don't use it to connect to a remote system. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: dial-up modem usage

2011-11-10 Thread Stephen Powell
. Perhaps my ThinkPad 600 page will be useful to you. http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/tp600.htm See the Configuring PPP topic in the Contents section. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: dial-up modem usage

2011-11-08 Thread Stephen Powell
that. The modem is pure software. The driver *is* the modem. There's no UART, no DSP, no nothing, in the hardware. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: creaing new 3.0.4 kernel in squeeze --kernel panic

2011-11-01 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:25:04 -0400 (EDT), Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: I would recommend using something like make localmodconfig to strip out drivers your hardware doesn't need. There are many hidden dependencies, such as SCSI support, that are not obvious

Re: creaing new 3.0.4 kernel in squeeze --kernel panic

2011-11-01 Thread Stephen Powell
errors there, please post your boot loader configuration file, /etc/fstab, and the kernel boot messages. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: creaing new 3.0.4 kernel in squeeze --kernel panic

2011-11-01 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 01 Nov 2011 19:46:13 -0400 (EDT), Walter Hurry wrote: On Tue, 01 Nov 2011 19:43:20 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: It is important that you *not* use traditional device nomenclature, such as /dev/hda1 /dev/sda1 Why? Two reasons. First, whether an IDE hard disk shows up

Re: creaing new 3.0.4 kernel in squeeze --kernel panic

2011-11-01 Thread Stephen Powell
or LABELs. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- 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/1532239075.481697.1320198540616.javamail.r...@md01

Re: creaing new 3.0.4 kernel in squeeze --kernel panic

2011-11-01 Thread Stephen Powell
suspect you will do better with Wheezy. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- 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: creaing new 3.0.4 kernel in squeeze --kernel panic

2011-10-30 Thread Stephen Powell
. This is also documented on the above web page. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- 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: [Semi-OT] Automatic subscription to self-opened bug reports

2011-10-29 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 13:22:50 -0400 (EDT), Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-10-29 19:00 +0200, Stephen Powell wrote: I could be wrong, but I believe that you are automatically subscribed to bugs that you report yourself. You are indeed wrong. How did you get that idea? Based on past behavior

Re: [Semi-OT] Automatic subscription to self-opened bug reports

2011-10-29 Thread Stephen Powell
decided is important to you. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- 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/50717187.413448.1319907624555.javamail.r

Bug#645836: Missing build dependency on libfuse-dev

2011-10-18 Thread Stephen Powell
fuse.h is not found during compilation. Installing package libfuse-dev seems to fix the problem. There seems to be a missing build dependency on libfuse-dev in source package s390-tools version 1.13.0-1. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: [OT] Re: Please kill the noise

2011-10-08 Thread Stephen Powell
instead of attacking each other. Peace, my friends. Peace. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- 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: Kernel upgraded two or three times since install

2011-10-08 Thread Stephen Powell
to compile out-of-kernel-source-tree kernel module source packages when the kernel source code is not installed. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: [OT] British vs. American English (was Re: Wow, Evolution left me with eggs in my face)

2011-10-03 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 03 Oct 2011 06:45:34 -0400 (EDT), Ralf Mardorf wrote: I was kidding :), since I'm a dino I know MS-DOS, on my Atari ST 80286 hardware emulater I used DR-DOS instead of the M$ thingy. Sorry. Didn't notice the winkies. -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Re: Custom Kernel and Swap

2011-10-03 Thread Stephen Powell
. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- 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/1904652416.2270404.1317675132988.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com

Re: [OT] AC vs. DC (was British vs. American English)

2011-10-03 Thread Stephen Powell
voltages are impractical utilization voltages. Hitching his wagon to DC was Edison's biggest mistake. DC cannot be easily transformed from low to high voltage or vise versa the way AC can. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: [OT] British vs. American English (was Re: Wow, Evolution left me with eggs in my face)

2011-10-02 Thread Stephen Powell
, but that's not possible. Since the vast majority of the people who started the Debian project, including the founders, DEBra and IAN Murdock, were Americans, naturally they chose American English as the default. It made sense. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: [OT] British vs. American English

2011-10-02 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 01 Oct 2011 22:54:07 -0400 (EDT), Doug dmcgarr...@optonline.net wrote: Wonder where you looked up this stuff? http://www.urbandictionary.com The same source that was quoted earlier in the thread. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: [OT] British vs. American English (was Re: Wow, Evolution left me with eggs in my face)

2011-10-02 Thread Stephen Powell
. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- 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/1008258616.2241431.1317558174849.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com

Re: [OT] British vs. American English (was Re: Wow, Evolution left me with eggs in my face)

2011-10-02 Thread Stephen Powell
for the S. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- 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/84989179.2241638.1317559437216.javamail.r...@md01

Re: [OT] British vs. American English

2011-10-02 Thread Stephen Powell
that different national bodies convened to decide on standardized spelling, and the two organizations occasionally picked different standard spellings for the same word. That's why there are separate spelling dictionaries for British English and American English. -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Re: [OT] British vs. American English (was Re: Wow, Evolution left me with eggs in my face)

2011-10-02 Thread Stephen Powell
at all. It's quite awkward. So what do I call myself then? Calling ourselves Americans is not technically correct, using the larger sense of the word American, but it's apparently the best we can come up with. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: [OT] British vs. American English

2011-10-02 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 11:08:11 -0400 (EDT), consul tores wrote: 2011/10/2 Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com: On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 06:20:57 -0400 (EDT), Nuno Magalhães wrote: i still get quirky about color instead of colour or centre vs center (which is which btw?). ... center is the American

Re: [OT] British vs. American English

2011-10-02 Thread Stephen Powell
is a grain (wheat, rye, spelt, etc.). And to the best of my knowledge, that is the only meaning of spelt in American English. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

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