Re: [arch-general] amd64 systems and archlinux

2012-09-10 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Sun, 9 Sep 2012, Curtis Shimamoto wrote: On 09/09/12 at 11:15pm, Jude DaShiell wrote: I am learning more about my hardware doing an archlinux installation on an amd k8 athelon system. Apparently grub won't work without use of blocklists and it complains that blocklists are unreliable

Re: [arch-general] amd64 systems and archlinux

2012-09-10 Thread Bjoern Franke
I had intended to install grub into mbr on /dev/sda1. I used --target=i386-pc as provided in the grub-install step and did so with misgivings since the machine I use is an x86-64 machine. The only x86-64 target on the arch beginner's guide was for ufi not bios. A bug like this in

Re: [arch-general] amd64 systems and archlinux

2012-09-10 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Mon, 10 Sep 2012, Bjoern Franke wrote: I had intended to install grub into mbr on /dev/sda1. I used --target=i386-pc as provided in the grub-install step and did so with misgivings since the machine I use is an x86-64 machine. The only x86-64 target on the arch beginner's

Re: [arch-general] amd64 systems and archlinux

2012-09-10 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 10.09.2012 10:12, schrieb Jude DaShiell: I had intended to install grub into mbr on /dev/sda1. I used --target=i386-pc as provided in the grub-install step and did so with misgivings since the machine I use is an x86-64 machine. The only x86-64 target on the arch beginner's guide was

Re: [arch-general] amd64 systems and archlinux

2012-09-10 Thread John Hutchison
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 04:29:22AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: I have /dev/sda1 root, /dev/sda2 swap and /dev/sda3 /home. So this is not a single partition setup but a three partition setup if you count swap. Assume for this that /dev/sda is the bootloader _AND_ the device. As was said before:

Re: [arch-general] amd64 systems and archlinux

2012-09-10 Thread Kyle
According to Thomas Bächler: Let me also express part of my personal opinion, which others might disagree with: If you wanted high quality software, why did you install GRUB? If you want a decent bootloader, use syslinux. Actually, at least from where I'm sitting, this personal opinion has a

Re: [arch-general] Help mounting Windows drive

2012-09-10 Thread gt
On Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 09:57:06PM -0400, Randy wrote: On 09/09/2012 09:36 PM, rafael ff1 wrote: 2012/9/9 Randy gumper1...@gmail.com: In the past I have been able to mount my Windows computer using the following command: mount -t cifs -o username=USERNAME,password=PASSWORD

Re: [arch-general] Help mounting Windows drive

2012-09-10 Thread Figue
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 3:25 AM, Randy gumper1...@gmail.com wrote: In the past I have been able to mount my Windows computer using the following command: mount -t cifs -o username=USERNAME,password=PASSWORD //192.168.1.107/Users/gumper /mnt/share/ Now when I try this I receive the message:

Re: [arch-general] Help mounting Windows drive

2012-09-10 Thread Stephen Martin
Is /Users a valid share on your system? Sent from my iPhone On 10 Sep 2012, at 02:25, Randy gumper1...@gmail.com wrote: In the past I have been able to mount my Windows computer using the following command: mount -t cifs -o username=USERNAME,password=PASSWORD

Re: [arch-general] Mime backup program

2012-09-10 Thread Squall Lionheart
I have renamed and moved this project to github for those interested. Thank you for all your help and I have applied most of the suggestions so far as well as made further improvements. https://github.com/headmastersquall/caatinga -- Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a

Re: [arch-general] Help mounting Windows drive

2012-09-10 Thread Tom Rand
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 03:23:27PM +0100, Stephen Martin wrote: Is /Users a valid share on your system? Sent from my iPhone On 10 Sep 2012, at 02:25, Randy gumper1...@gmail.com wrote: In the past I have been able to mount my Windows computer using the following command:

Re: [arch-general] Help mounting Windows drive

2012-09-10 Thread Daniel Pirek
iirc i mounted my windows shares with WORKGROUP\\Username , have you tried that ? Pi Randy gumper1...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/09/2012 09:36 PM, rafael ff1 wrote: 2012/9/9 Randy gumper1...@gmail.com: In the past I have been able to mount my Windows computer using the following command:

[arch-general] swt - why depends bump to java-runtime=7?

2012-09-10 Thread David C. Rankin
Guys, Guillaume, Do you know if the recent depends bump in swt is do to an actual break in compatibility with java-runtime 6.x or was it just do to a package support issue? The PKGBUILD was updated a couple of days ago to: -depends=('java-runtime=6' 'gtk2=2.20.1' 'libxtst')

[arch-general] NetworkManager update - problematic for ipw2200

2012-09-10 Thread mike cloaked
I was away for a few days but this evening returned and updated a laptop which has ipw2200 wireless - and the updates included NetworkManager 0.9.6 - after rebooting the machine the wireless connection fails within seconds - despite ifconfig and ifconfig showing a normal connection - this is for a

Re: [arch-general] Help mounting Windows drive

2012-09-10 Thread Randy
On 09/10/2012 02:51 PM, Daniel Pirek wrote: iirc i mounted my windows shares with WORKGROUP\\Username , have you tried that ? Pi Randy gumper1...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/09/2012 09:36 PM, rafael ff1 wrote: 2012/9/9 Randy gumper1...@gmail.com: In the past I have been able to mount my Windows

Re: [arch-general] Help mounting Windows drive

2012-09-10 Thread Nelson Marambio
Am 10.09.2012 23:56, schrieb Randy: On 09/10/2012 02:51 PM, Daniel Pirek wrote: iirc i mounted my windows shares with WORKGROUP\\Username , have you tried that ? Pi Randy gumper1...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/09/2012 09:36 PM, rafael ff1 wrote: 2012/9/9 Randy gumper1...@gmail.com: In the

Re: [arch-general] Mime backup program

2012-09-10 Thread Leonidas Spyropoulos
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Squall Lionheart headmastersqu...@gmail.com wrote: I have renamed and moved this project to github for those interested. Thank you for all your help and I have applied most of the suggestions so far as well as made further improvements.

Re: [arch-general] swt - why depends bump to java-runtime=7?

2012-09-10 Thread Ondřej Kučera
Hi, see https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/31460. Ondřej On 10.9.2012 23:06, David C. Rankin wrote: Guys, Guillaume, Do you know if the recent depends bump in swt is do to an actual break in compatibility with java-runtime 6.x or was it just do to a package support issue? The PKGBUILD was

Re: [arch-general] Help mounting Windows drive

2012-09-10 Thread Randy
On 09/10/2012 06:03 PM, Nelson Marambio wrote: Am 10.09.2012 23:56, schrieb Randy: On 09/10/2012 02:51 PM, Daniel Pirek wrote: iirc i mounted my windows shares with WORKGROUP\\Username , have you tried that ? Pi Randy gumper1...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/09/2012 09:36 PM, rafael ff1 wrote:

Re: [arch-general] amd64 systems and archlinux

2012-09-10 Thread Curtis Shimamoto
On 09/10/12 at 04:20am, John Hutchison wrote: On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 04:29:22AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: I have /dev/sda1 root, /dev/sda2 swap and /dev/sda3 /home. So this is not a single partition setup but a three partition setup if you count swap. Assume for this that /dev/sda is