Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2017-04-24 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 23 May 2010 16:11:30 -0400 (EDT), William Pitcock wrote: > "Stephen Powell" <zlinux...@wowway.com> wrote: >> (blah blah blah blah) > > Nobody cares if you are opposed to it. Unless you are offering to become > lilo upstream, it's going away. > &g

Re: how to compute predictable network interface names?

2017-02-23 Thread Stephen Powell
=="add", ATTR{address}=="00:11:25:86:61:87", NAME="net0" This rule will assign the Ethernet adapter with MAC address 00:11:25:86:61:87 the interface name net0. Reference the interface by this name in /etc/network/interfaces. I hope this helps. -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@fastmail.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: Don't taint kernel when using the forcepae kernel boot parameter

2017-02-18 Thread Stephen Powell
d at least some of it useful. I have received much benefit over the years as a user of open source software. The docs are my attempt at giving something back. Regards, -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@fastmail.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

Don't taint kernel when using the forcepae kernel boot parameter

2017-02-18 Thread Stephen Powell
epae.patch For more information about building a custom kernel, see http://www.stevesdebianstuff.org/Kernel.htm -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@fastmail.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: Last spam: Let me know Munich Mayor's email address, please..

2017-02-17 Thread Stephen Powell
es, do we not have the best Congress money can buy? -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@fastmail.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

A new HOWTO page for the Adobe Flash Player plugin under chromium under Linux

2017-02-15 Thread Stephen Powell
. I'd like to make the page as good as I can. Here's the link: http://www.stevesdebianstuff.org/flash.htm Let me know what you think. -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@fastmail.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

Bug#854840: sl-modem-dkms FTBFS at kernel version 4.9

2017-02-14 Thread Stephen Powell
I just tried building a custom kernel using "make deb-pkg" instead of kernel-package (make-kpkg), but results are the same. So this is not a bug in kernel-package. -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@fastmail.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

Bug#854840: sl-modem-dkms FTBFS at kernel version 4.9

2017-02-10 Thread Stephen Powell
21/build/ungrab-winmodem' make modules -C /lib/modules/4.9.2-1custom01-686-pae/build SUBDIRS=/var/lib/dkms/sl-modem/2.9.11~20110321/build/ungrab-winmodem make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-source-4.9' -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@fastmail.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

Bug#854840: sl-modem-dkms FTBFS at kernel version 4.9

2017-02-10 Thread Stephen Powell
-source-4.9 instead of linux-source-3.16. Also, linux-kbuild-4.9 is manually installed instead of linux-kbuild-3.16. Other changes to the procedure are made based on package versions, of course. -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@fastmail.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: Recreating a second boot kernel in LILO

2017-01-19 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, Jan 18, 2017, at 20:49, Stephen Powell wrote: > > ... > The first two "image" entries define the standard "most recent" and > "next-most recent" kernels and don't need to be messed with, provided > that the standard symbolic link names are bein

Re: Recreating a second boot kernel in LILO

2017-01-18 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, Jan 18, 2017, at 20:49, Stephen Powell wrote: > ... > One such program, memtest86+, provides a stand-alone memory testing > program built to resemble a Linux kernel, so that Linuxboot loaders > think it is a Linux kernel and will load it like one (the entire boot image

Re: Recreating a second boot kernel in LILO

2017-01-18 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, Jan 14, 2017, at 11:38, Stephen Powell wrote: > > If there are special kernels that you want to be able to boot which are > outside > the normal "last two", then you must manually edit /etc/lilo.conf to provide > the capability to boot this kernel, then run lil

Re: Recreating a second boot kernel in LILO

2017-01-14 Thread Stephen Powell
b page where there are execs called zy-symlinks which will provide equivalent function for custom kernels. If there are special kernels that you want to be able to boot which are outside the normal "last two", then you must manually edit /etc/lilo.conf to provide the capability to boot this kernel, then run lilo. -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@fastmail.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#837895: [SOLVED] lightdm-gtk-greeter: GUI does not run, black screen, on startup

2016-10-18 Thread Stephen Powell
not open it myself, I will leave closure to the OP or to the package maintainer. -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@fastmail.com> : :' : `. `'` `- ___ Pkg-xfce-devel mailing list Pkg-xfce-devel@lists.alioth.debian.or

Bug#837895: [SOLVED] lightdm-gtk-greeter: GUI does not run, black screen, on startup

2016-10-18 Thread Stephen Powell
not open it myself, I will leave closure to the OP or to the package maintainer. -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@fastmail.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

Bug#837895: lightdm-gtk-greeter: GUI does not run, black screen, on startup

2016-09-25 Thread Stephen Powell
orarily unavailable) on X server :0. - x-0.log shows no errors. Is there any other file you wish to see? -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@fastmail.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#837895: lightdm-gtk-greeter: GUI does not run, black screen, on startup

2016-09-25 Thread Stephen Powell
orarily unavailable) on X server :0. - x-0.log shows no errors. Is there any other file you wish to see? -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@fastmail.com> : :' : `. `'` `- ___ Pkg-xfce-devel mailing list Pkg-xfce-devel@lis

Re: cant get to desktop anymore

2016-09-21 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, Sep 21, 2016, at 16:32, Stephen Powell wrote: > > I did notice one thing peculiar. startx output is written to the terminal > of vt1, of course, even though it's running as a background task. And I got > the error message > > modprobe: FATAL: Module mach64 not found

Re: cant get to desktop anymore

2016-09-21 Thread Stephen Powell
here is no kernel module by that name. I obviously don't like using this work-around, but I can at least limp along until somebody somewhere fixes this problem. -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@fastmail.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one!

2016-09-07 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, Sep 5, 2016, at 12:46, Stephen Powell wrote: > > To determine which module to blacklist, issue > >dmesg|less > > and see if you can figure out which module is loading. You can also issue > >lsmod|less > > to see which modules are loaded. Perhaps

Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one!

2016-09-05 Thread Stephen Powell
ue as to the identity of the frame buffer driver. -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@fastmail.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

i2o drivers not needed after all!

2016-09-05 Thread Stephen Powell
dpt_i2o is working just fine for me. All's well that ends well! Regards, -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@fastmail.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: Downloading and naming

2016-08-02 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, Aug 2, 2016, at 18:33, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 02/08/2016 à 02:28, Stephen Powell a écrit : >> My original point remains. If one's computer has less than 4 GiB of >> memory installed, and the processor does not support the XD/NX bit, then >> running a 32-bit PA

Re: Downloading and naming

2016-08-01 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, Aug 1, 2016, at 19:30, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 01/08/2016 à 04:02, Stephen Powell a écrit : >> >> To the best of my knowledge, there are no 32-bit-only processors which >> support the NX bit. A 32-bit PAE-enabled kernel can only use NX if it >> is running on

Re: Downloading and naming

2016-07-31 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, Jul 31, 2016, at 19:07, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 01/08/2016 à 00:00, Stephen Powell a écrit : >> one's processor supports PAE, but the motherboard only supports a maximum of >> 2 GiB of RAM, what does a PAE kernel buy one? Nothing, as far as I can see. > > PAE al

Re: Downloading and naming

2016-07-31 Thread Stephen Powell
ould be doing things the way Ubuntu does. We're different for a reason. I'm not saying there isn't room for improvement: I'm sure there is. But asking questions is one thing. Telling us we should be like Ubuntu is another. -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@fastmail.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: Terminal

2016-07-29 Thread Stephen Powell
ands and parameters, it is organized in a task-oriented fashion. (Oh, you want to do *that*! Here, type this ...) -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@fastmail.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: What Linux distribution to use?

2016-07-28 Thread Stephen Powell
d it, the AMD Geode processor is one instruction short of the full Pentium Pro instruction set: NOPL. But it appears that the GCC compiler has been modified to not generate NOPL instructions when "-march i686" is used. Therefore, the AMD Geode should qualify. -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@fastmail.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: What Linux distribution to use?

2016-07-26 Thread Stephen Powell
686 and *-686-pae kernels. You don't necessarily *need* to run a PAE kernel. Some prefer to run a non-PAE kernel because it's easier on the memory requirements. But the processor must support the Pentium Pro instruction set, which all Pentium Ms do. -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@fastmail.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: does anybody remember which debian release was it that asked for the MAC ID details at the end ?

2016-07-18 Thread Stephen Powell
g in the testing release of the installer that was fixed before it became the stable installer is not likely one that I would have encountered. Sorry I can't be more helpful. -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@fastmail.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

LXDE - how to set default image viewer?

2016-07-16 Thread Stephen Powell
S. I apologize for the broken thread. My e-mail client does not appear to provide a way to set the "In-reply-to" header, and I've already deleted your original e-mail. -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@fastmail.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: reasons to ditch LILO before upgrading to jessie?

2016-07-10 Thread Stephen Powell
I systems may fail in the marketplace. There have been attempts in the past to eliminate 16-bit support which failed. We'll just have to wait and see. -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@fastmail.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: reasons to ditch LILO before upgrading to jessie?

2016-07-09 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, Jul 9, 2016, at 18:25, Brian wrote: > On Sat 09 Jul 2016 at 16:41:24 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: >> >> Long live choice! > > For choice to exist it does not have to be presented as such in the > installer. > Your point is well taken. The installer does not

Re: reasons to ditch LILO before upgrading to jessie?

2016-07-09 Thread Stephen Powell
t I don't want or need done If you do the installation in expert mode, you can skip the step to install a boot loader. But that's in interactive mode. I've never done an automated installation, so I don't know what can and cannot be done in that environment. -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@fastmail.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: reasons to ditch LILO before upgrading to jessie?

2016-07-09 Thread Stephen Powell
nly systems, there's elilo as a grub alternative. Long live choice! -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@fastmail.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: reasons to ditch LILO before upgrading to jessie?

2016-07-09 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, Jul 9, 2016, at 10:53, Felix Miata wrote: > Stephen Powell composed on 2016-07-09 08:58 (UTC-0400): > >> As for features, LILO has all the features that I need. > > One feature it never acquired AFAIK, which Grub shares with Syslinux, is the > ability to edit the k

Re: reasons to ditch LILO before upgrading to jessie?

2016-07-09 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, Jul 7, 2016, at 20:53, Felix Miata wrote: > Stephen Powell composed on 2016-07-07 20:30 (UTC-0400): > > > If your system has a BIOS and a traditional DOS-style partition table, > > there's no reason not to use LILO, unless you just don't want to. > > Or, if you

Re: reasons to ditch LILO before upgrading to jessie?

2016-07-07 Thread Stephen Powell
artition table, there's no reason not to use LILO, unless you just don't want to. -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@fastmail.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: [Stretch] Status for architecture qualification

2016-06-15 Thread Stephen Powell
which is essentially a virtual machine running under PR/SM. And the physical machine behind those (at least) two levels of virtualization doesn't really have the same hardware architecture as a virtual machine, such as physical chpids vs. logical chpids and logical channel subsystems, etc., define

Re: [Stretch] Status for architecture qualification

2016-06-15 Thread Stephen Powell
which is essentially a virtual machine running under PR/SM. And the physical machine behind those (at least) two levels of virtualization doesn't really have the same hardware architecture as a virtual machine, such as physical chpids vs. logical chpids and logical channel subsystems, etc., define

Re: [Stretch] Status for architecture qualification

2016-06-15 Thread Stephen Powell
which is essentially a virtual machine running under PR/SM. And the physical machine behind those (at least) two levels of virtualization doesn't really have the same hardware architecture as a virtual machine, such as physical chpids vs. logical chpids and logical channel subsystems, etc., define

Re: [Stretch] Status for architecture qualification

2016-06-15 Thread Stephen Powell
which is essentially a virtual machine running under PR/SM. And the physical machine behind those (at least) two levels of virtualization doesn't really have the same hardware architecture as a virtual machine, such as physical chpids vs. logical chpids and logical channel subsystems, etc., define

Re: [Stretch] Status for architecture qualification

2016-06-15 Thread Stephen Powell
which is essentially a virtual machine running under PR/SM. And the physical machine behind those (at least) two levels of virtualization doesn't really have the same hardware architecture as a virtual machine, such as physical chpids vs. logical chpids and logical channel subsystems, etc., define

Re: [Stretch] Status for architecture qualification

2016-06-15 Thread Stephen Powell
which is essentially a virtual machine running under PR/SM. And the physical machine behind those (at least) two levels of virtualization doesn't really have the same hardware architecture as a virtual machine, such as physical chpids vs. logical chpids and logical channel subsystems, etc., define

Re: [Stretch] Status for architecture qualification

2016-06-15 Thread Stephen Powell
which is essentially a virtual machine running under PR/SM. And the physical machine behind those (at least) two levels of virtualization doesn't really have the same hardware architecture as a virtual machine, such as physical chpids vs. logical chpids and logical channel subsystems, etc., define

Re: [Stretch] Status for architecture qualification

2016-06-15 Thread Stephen Powell
which is essentially a virtual machine running under PR/SM. And the physical machine behind those (at least) two levels of virtualization doesn't really have the same hardware architecture as a virtual machine, such as physical chpids vs. logical chpids and logical channel subsystems, etc., define

Re: [Stretch] Status for architecture qualification

2016-06-15 Thread Stephen Powell
which is essentially a virtual machine running under PR/SM. And the physical machine behind those (at least) two levels of virtualization doesn't really have the same hardware architecture as a virtual machine, such as physical chpids vs. logical chpids and logical channel subsystems, etc., define

Re: [Stretch] Status for architecture qualification

2016-06-15 Thread Stephen Powell
which is essentially a virtual machine running under PR/SM. And the physical machine behind those (at least) two levels of virtualization doesn't really have the same hardware architecture as a virtual machine, such as physical chpids vs. logical chpids and logical channel subsystems, etc., define

Re: [Stretch] Status for architecture qualification

2016-06-15 Thread Stephen Powell
which is essentially a virtual machine running under PR/SM. And the physical machine behind those (at least) two levels of virtualization doesn't really have the same hardware architecture as a virtual machine, such as physical chpids vs. logical chpids and logical channel subsystems, etc., define

Re: [Stretch] Status for architecture qualification

2016-06-15 Thread Stephen Powell
which is essentially a virtual machine running under PR/SM. And the physical machine behind those (at least) two levels of virtualization doesn't really have the same hardware architecture as a virtual machine, such as physical chpids vs. logical chpids and logical channel subsystems, etc., define

Re: [Stretch] Status for architecture qualification

2016-06-15 Thread Stephen Powell
which is essentially a virtual machine running under PR/SM. And the physical machine behind those (at least) two levels of virtualization doesn't really have the same hardware architecture as a virtual machine, such as physical chpids vs. logical chpids and logical channel subsystems, etc., define

Re: Upgrading the minimum required s390x CPU to z10?

2016-06-02 Thread Stephen Powell
off older hardware. We still run z/VM 5.4.0 because it is the last release of z/VM that still supports our z/890. Starting with z/VM 6.1.0, a z10 or newer is required. -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@fastmail.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: ssh-ing in inside private network

2016-05-31 Thread Stephen Powell
see it, it's not running. -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@fastmail.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: ssh-ing in inside private network

2016-05-31 Thread Stephen Powell
you really want to do it, edit the file /etc/ssh/sshd_config. In the # Authentication section, look for Permitrootlogin no and change it to Permitrootlogin yes then bounce the ssh daemon with /etc/init.d/ssh restart As I said, it's not recommended; but it's your gun, your bull

Bug#825141: dasd_mod: module verification failed: signature and/or required key missing - tainting kernel

2016-05-25 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, May 23, 2016, at 22:16, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, 2016-05-23 at 21:06 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: >> >> The following message is received at boot time when booting the stock Debian >> kernel >> version 4.5.3-2 on the s390x architecture: >> >&g

Bug#825141: dasd_mod: module verification failed: signature and/or required key missing - tainting kernel

2016-05-25 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, May 23, 2016, at 22:16, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, 2016-05-23 at 21:06 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: >> >> The following message is received at boot time when booting the stock Debian >> kernel >> version 4.5.3-2 on the s390x architecture: >> >&g

Bug#825141: dasd_mod: module verification failed: signature and/or required key missing - tainting kernel

2016-05-23 Thread Stephen Powell
- tainting kernel The kernel does boot; but the kernel gets tainted, which disables lock debugging. -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@fastmail.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

Bug#825141: dasd_mod: module verification failed: signature and/or required key missing - tainting kernel

2016-05-23 Thread Stephen Powell
- tainting kernel The kernel does boot; but the kernel gets tainted, which disables lock debugging. -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@fastmail.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

Bug#825141: dasd_mod: module verification failed: signature and/or required key missing - tainting kernel

2016-05-23 Thread Stephen Powell
- tainting kernel The kernel does boot; but the kernel gets tainted, which disables lock debugging. -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@fastmail.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: Grub won't install

2016-05-19 Thread Stephen Powell
le of years old that uses it. -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@fastmail.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: What happened to the info tutorial?

2016-04-16 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, Apr 16, 2016, at 17:31, Stephen Powell wrote: > The "info" command in jessie has a tutorial which can be accessed by pressing > the "H" key. Oops!, I meant to say the "h" key, not the "H" key. Otherwise, the question remains as writt

What happened to the info tutorial?

2016-04-16 Thread Stephen Powell
al? What's the scoop on this? -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@fastmail.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

Bug#820156: parse_numeric function cannot handle composite device numbers of more than 8 hex digits

2016-04-07 Thread Stephen Powell
t; Ben. > Interesting. I wasn't aware of that. Thank you for calling my attention to it. Under the circumstances, wishlist is fine. Regards, -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@fastmail.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

Bug#820156: parse_numeric function cannot handle composite device numbers of more than 8 hex digits

2016-04-07 Thread Stephen Powell
t; Ben. > Interesting. I wasn't aware of that. Thank you for calling my attention to it. Under the circumstances, wishlist is fine. Regards, -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@fastmail.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

Bug#820156: parse_numeric function cannot handle composite device numbers of more than 8 hex digits

2016-04-05 Thread Stephen Powell
error checking corner cases. Respectfully submitted, -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@fastmail.com> : :' : `. `'` `- --- a/functions 2016-01-21 18:33:59.0 -0500 +++ b/functions 2016-03-24 08:09:11.0 -0400 @@ -128,14 +128,28 @@ # lilo compati

Bug#820156: parse_numeric function cannot handle composite device numbers of more than 8 hex digits

2016-04-05 Thread Stephen Powell
error checking corner cases. Respectfully submitted, -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@fastmail.com> : :' : `. `'` `- --- a/functions 2016-01-21 18:33:59.0 -0500 +++ b/functions 2016-03-24 08:09:11.0 -0400 @@ -128,14 +128,28 @@ # lilo compati

Bug#815288: FTBFS error with source package texinfo-doc-nonfree: unknown command sortas (and other errors)

2016-02-20 Thread Stephen Powell
: recipe for target 'build-stamp' failed make: *** [build-stamp] Error 1 dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2 -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@fastmail.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: turning off Google Chrome's warning

2016-01-21 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, Jan 21, 2016, at 21:59, Frank McCormick wrote: > > On 21/01/16 09:41 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: >> >> What does chrome give you that chromium does not? > > Nothing that I know of...but I thought that staying with the Google > product is just simpler. I've h

Re: turning off Google Chrome's warning

2016-01-21 Thread Stephen Powell
hrome? What does chrome give you that chromium does not? -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@fastmail.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: Attempt to Move Root

2015-12-27 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 25 Dec 2015 10:33:56 -0500 (EST), Stephen Powell wrote: > On Tue, 22 Dec 2015 10:57:41 -0500 (EST), Nicolas George wrote: >> ... >> I noticed that LILO seems to be actually capable >> of finding the sectors for files on LVM. > > In the general case, the s

Re: Attempt to Move Root

2015-12-25 Thread Stephen Powell
re are no rules for the use of unallocated sectors. And grub-legacy and grub-pc (by default at least) now do a similar thing. They store information in unallocated sectors. That's one of the reasons (but not the only reason) that I switched back to LILO. -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@wowway.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: Attempt to Move Root

2015-12-25 Thread Stephen Powell
o maybe it has already been > addressed, but all this suggest that the OP should install GRUB instead of > LILO and be done with that kind of trouble. As subsequent posts have indicated, the trouble was with an incorrect UUID. It had nothing to do with the OP's choice of boot loader

Re: Attempt to Move Root

2015-12-21 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 21 Dec 2015 10:36:48 -0500 (EST), David Baron wrote: > > On Monday 21 December 2015 10:25:15 Stephen Powell wrote: >> >> Obviously, the LILO map file is on the IDE drive. Is your /boot partition >> on the IDE drive? If so, you cannot remove it.

Re: Attempt to Move Root

2015-12-21 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 21 Dec 2015 10:31:54 -0500 (EST), Lisi Reisz wrote: > > Could he not dd them onto another drive? > ... He can copy the /boot data to another drive, not necessarily with dd. In fact, if he wants to be able to remove the existing IDE drive, he must. But he cannot copy it to an LVM2

Re: Attempt to Move Root

2015-12-21 Thread Stephen Powell
e part of the same filesystem. I've been on the wrong track for several posts now. Please excuse the noise. -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@wowway.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: Attempt to Move Root

2015-12-21 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 21 Dec 2015 04:50:00 -0500 (EST), David Baron wrote: > > Went through all the motions, both ways: On native and chroot. Results were > the same. Get in that loop of lv not ready messages. Difference: Native > attempt still needs the IDE plugged in or I get 99 99 99 ... , chroot does

Re: Attempt to Move Root

2015-12-20 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 20 Dec 2015 15:51:22 -0500 (EST), David Baron wrote: > > So ... do I need the chroot and the binds and all this at all? That's the recommended way. Make sure that the edited copies of /etc/lilo.conf, /etc/fstab, and /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume, in the chrooted environment, all

Re: Attempt to Move Root

2015-12-20 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 20 Dec 2015 05:58:47 -0500 (EST), David Baron wrote: > > OK, mounted newrootpartition newroot > Did a cp -x / newroot > Successful so far, elementary > > Edited newroot/etc/fstab and newroot/etc/lilo.conf to point root to > newrootpartition (by uuid) > > mount --bind /dev newroot/dev

Re: My web site is back

2015-12-09 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 08 Dec 2015 18:55:43 -0500 (EST), Gener Badenas wrote: > > How much is the hosting now and with whom? $48 for hosting, $9.00 for domain registration, total $57. Good for one year. I'll have to pay again next year. I decided to go with debian-hosting.info. So far, I haven't yet figured

My web site is back

2015-12-08 Thread Stephen Powell
Old site: h t t p : / / u s e r s . w o w w a y . c o m / ~ z l i n u x m a n / New site: http://www.stevesdebianstuff.org/ If you have bookmarks set for the old site you should update your bookmarks. Some pages from the old site are not on the new site because I judged them to be obsolete.

Re: My web site is back

2015-12-08 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 08 Dec 2015 12:36:44 -0500 (EST), Martin Read wrote: > On 08/12/15 16:58, Darac Marjal wrote: >> >> To which, the venerable W3C replied "Cool URIs don't change": >> http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html > > Your criticism is invalid, given that the action that has clearly been >

Re: [OT] Soliciting Advice on e-mail and web-hosting providers

2015-12-05 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 28 Nov 2015 10:15:08 -0500 (EST), mister s jones wrote: > On Saturday, November 28, 2015 09:49:47 Stephen Powell wrote: >> So, does anyone wish to share their experiences, good or bad? Is there >> anyone you wish to recommend? Is there anyone you want to warn me to stay &g

Re: [OT] Soliciting Advice on e-mail and web-hosting providers

2015-12-05 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 05 Dec 2015 18:43:13 -0500 (EST), Lisi Reisz wrote: > > I ma assuming (or subconsciously remembering) that you are in the USA. Is > that correct? Hi, Lisi. Yes, that's correct. I hope you won't hold that against me. :-) Wow used to offer free web hosting to subscribers to their

Re: OT: reply styles, family matters

2015-11-30 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 30 Nov 2015 20:31:29 -0500 (EST), Bob Bernstein wrote: > ... > With that as background, here is my question/request: is anyone > aware of a spirited defence of our ideal method of "selective > quoting," (for lack of a better label) one, say, that perhaps > has achieved the status of a

[OT] Soliciting Advice on e-mail and web-hosting providers

2015-11-28 Thread Stephen Powell
I currently get my internet connectivity, e-mail service, and web-hosting service from the same provider. I recently complained to my ISP about backscatter SPAM I was getting from other people's infected machines that were sending out SPAM to invalid e-mail addresses and spoofing me as the

Re: How to identify obsolete packages

2015-10-31 Thread Stephen Powell
, this works for install but not for safe-upgrade or full-upgrade. -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@wowway.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: How to identify obsolete packages (was: Anybody know why aptitude is not installed by default in Sid?)

2015-10-31 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 31 Oct 2015 10:38:48 -0400 (EDT), "Reco" wrote: > On Sat, 31 Oct 2015 10:29:48 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: >> Does anyone know an easy way to identify obsolete packages without >> using aptitide? > > deborphan --guess-all According to

[SOLVED] How to identify obsolete packages

2015-10-31 Thread Stephen Powell
Thanks! (Although it does require the installation of another package: apt-show-versions.) I'm curious, though. Do you use the C shell? Or did you just customize your prompt? -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@wowway.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

How to identify obsolete packages (was: Anybody know why aptitude is not installed by default in Sid?)

2015-10-31 Thread Stephen Powell
he same thing as an obsolete package. An obsolete package may have been manually installed, but it's still obsolete, and I need to be able to identify it as such. Does anyone know an easy way to identify obsolete packages without using aptitide? -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@wowway.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: RealTek RTL8192EU drivers

2015-10-30 Thread Stephen Powell
LP-PHY). Make sure that you have the contrib and the non-free sections of the archive enabled in /etc/apt/sources.list, as this involves non-free stuff. -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@wowway.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: RealTek RTL8192EU drivers

2015-10-27 Thread Stephen Powell
ian; but perhaps it can be adapted for Debian. -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@wowway.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

Bug#801913: init-premount boot script is now superfluous

2015-10-15 Thread Stephen Powell
is superfluous. It is no longer needed. It should be dropped from the package. That's one less piece of code to maintain, and one less item that needs to be included in the initial RAM file system image file. -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@wowway.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

[SOLVED] [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked?

2015-10-15 Thread Stephen Powell
that my e-mail account has not been hacked, just spoofed. I will report this to my ISP. Thanks to all who participated in this thread. -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@wowway.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

Bug#801912: DASD options are ignored because device is already online

2015-10-15 Thread Stephen Powell
. The script is attempting to set the DASD options *after* bringing the device online. Thus, the DASD options are ignored. A patch which fixes the problem is attached. -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@wowway.com> : :' : `. `'` `-diff -ura a/etc/sysconfig/scripts/hardware/hwup-cc

Bug#801913: init-premount boot script is now superfluous

2015-10-15 Thread Stephen Powell
is superfluous. It is no longer needed. It should be dropped from the package. That's one less piece of code to maintain, and one less item that needs to be included in the initial RAM file system image file. -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@wowway.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked?

2015-10-13 Thread Stephen Powell
stupid [or ignorant at best] to > use public [or otherwise open] WiFi -- if you don't run it yourself or > you totally trust the person whom is running it, then leave it alone. That may have been the case for Stuart's friend, but it is not the case with me. I use only wired ethernet. -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@wowway.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked?

2015-10-13 Thread Stephen Powell
your own. That was a few years ago. Maybe it's better now. -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@wowway.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked?

2015-10-13 Thread Stephen Powell
at I have taken, it is still possible for a password to be "discovered". Having said that, it looks like someone else's credentials may have been used, based on some other posts to this thread. But I am not an expert in these matters. That's why I asked for help. -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@wowway.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked?

2015-10-13 Thread Stephen Powell
. My wife and I are empty nesters. There is no-one else at home. In short, I have not "handed it over". -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@wowway.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked?

2015-10-13 Thread Stephen Powell
installed. -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@wowway.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

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