On 2010-03-19 15:21, Mike Viau wrote:
[snip]
I was hoping to find a solution for a currently running Debian system
rather then to create a bare bone baseline or image...
I did that once, for a little Debian-based router. Got it down to
250MB, even including Python and ssh. But that was
On 2010-03-19 16:37, Clive McBarton wrote:
Mark Allums wrote:
probably more and more people have a mail UA that has reply-to-list,
like Thunderbird 3.
Lenny's default Thunderbird (that is, 2.0.0.22) doesn't though. I
believe it requires manually changing Cc: to To: in the list address
and
On Fri March 19 2010 12:55:47 Mike Viau wrote:
I was looking for a way to purge or remove all the packages that were
installed on a Debian system after the initial (bare bone) minimal system
installation. I have searched on Google for How to reduce a Debian system
to a base system but it seems
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Jen!
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Jen wrote:
Hi,
My name is Jen, and I'm new to the list. I've been playing with Linux on and
off for about a year, but have only recently found a distro that meets my
accessibility needs (Debian unstable). It's also a great learning tool :P
I need to build some packages from source, and I
Take a look at Voyage Linux which is based on Debian Live and is
intended for low power/space systems. It runs in read-only mode with
certain dynamic folders running in RAM disks, but can be switched to
read-write mode to make system changes:
http://linux.voyage.hk/
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On 2010-03-19 16:46, Jen wrote:
Hi,
My name is Jen, and I'm new to the list. I've been playing with Linux on
and off for about a year, but have only recently found a distro that
meets my accessibility needs (Debian unstable). It's also a great
learning tool :P
I need to build some
Marc Shapiro wrote:
Marc Shapiro mshapiro...@yahoo.com wrote:
Now, my problem is with connecting and that is probably a
configuration problem, but...
My wireless network shows up in wicd and I
select it and click on Connect. Wicd connects and authenticates,
then it
tries to
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Camaleón wrote:
Didn' you try some of the tips? They only require passing some options to
the kernel at boot time and there is nothing harmful in doing that :-?
Most of them are harmless. Some even make the error message go away. At
least one of
On Friday 19 March 2010 01:09:20 pm Mike Viau wrote:
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:31:40 +0100
From: iod...@runbox.no
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: How to reduce a debian system to a base system
Mike Viau wrote:
In essence I would like to revert my system back to a
Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson wrote:
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 09:55:30PM -0400, Wayne wrote:
~$ sudo ldconfig -v |grep libXrender
[sudo] password for wtopa:
ldconfig: Can't stat /lib/i486-linux-gnu: No such file or directory
ldconfig: Can't stat /usr/lib/i486-linux-gnu: No such file or directory
Ok the bigger problem you should have is what is a base system
You could run in another box a installation and get a list of the basic
system packages, but what do you want the box for? give us a user case and
we would try to sort this mess out for you.
Definitely purging X is a must -- that
-- Forwarded message --
From: Rogerio Luz Coelho rogluz.n...@gmail.com
Date: 2010/3/19
Subject: Re: Kernel headers for 2.6.32-trunk-686?
To: Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net
Easy work around way:
# aptitude install module-assistant
# m-a update
# m-a prepare
;)
Rogerio
On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:48:07 +0100, Clive McBarton wrote:
Camaleón wrote:
Didn' you try some of the tips? They only require passing some options
to the kernel at boot time and there is nothing harmful in doing that
:-?
Most of them are harmless. Some even make the error message go away. At
On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:31:44 -0300 rogluz.n...@gmail.com wrote:
Ok the bigger problem you should have is what is a base system
I agree, what a base system means can be different among users.
You could run in another box a installation and get a list of the basic system
packages, but what do
On Friday 19 March 2010 01:09:20 pm Mike Viau wrote:
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:31:40 +0100
From: iod...@runbox.no
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: How to reduce a debian system to a base system
Mike Viau wrote:
In essence I would like to revert my system back
I asked the list last week why I am unable to restart my networking
service on Debian...
/etc/init.d/networking restart
That command no longer seems to work in Debian Linux. I was then told
to try some kind of invoke-rc.d/networking restart and that fails to.
Can someone please explain how
I have debian 5 on /dev/sda1 and ubuntu 10.04 on /dev/sda3
here are my grub.cfg
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
menuentry Debian GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 {
set root=(hd0,1)
search --fs-uuid --set da13d632-e65a-4128-9b06-0ec24a5d390f
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-amd64
Needing some project management software, I decided to install redmine.
I purposely keep my system at the stable release. Redmine was marked as
[backports] ie it's been pulled down from testing or experimental. OK
thats fine, except when I tried to install the package most of the
required
On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:48:54 -0900 gomadtr...@acsalaska.net wrote:
Would be nice to have a 'snapshot' feature to revert to. I have used aptitude
(dselect) to get close to a standard install, base + standard is not that many
packages, no X.
Yes I agree it would be a very handy feature.
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:48:02 -0700 mgb-deb...@yosemite.net wrote:
On Fri March 19 2010 12:55:47 Mike Viau wrote:
I was looking for a way to purge or remove all the packages that were
installed on a Debian system after the initial (bare bone) minimal system
installation. I have
jeremy jozwik wrote at 2010-03-18 22:52 -0500:
i am considering installing a larger drive.
debian linux lenny running on a lenovo thinkpad x61 tablet. hard disk
currently in system is a 80gig slow lil 5400rpm sata. looking to
upgrade to a 7200 160 or 250 drive
what i am hoping for however
Ron Johnson wrote at 2010-03-19 02:24 -0500:
7200RPM (remember, that's 1200RPS) drives get *hot*. I wouldn't put
one in a laptop. (It's one of the tradeoffs you make for buying
something that small.)
ThinkPad T61 here with 7200RPM SATA HD:
# hddtemp /dev/sda
/dev/sda: WDC WD3200BEKT-**:
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:13:49 -0500 ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote:
On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:48:54 -0900 gomadtr...@acsalaska.net wrote:
Would be nice to have a 'snapshot' feature to revert to. I have used
aptitude
(dselect) to get close to a standard install, base + standard is not
On Friday 19 March 2010 03:52:44 pm Mike Viau wrote:
On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:31:44 -0300 rogluz.n...@gmail.com wrote:
Ok the bigger problem you should have is what is a base system
I agree, what a base system means can be different among users.
I was refering to what Debian calls a 'base'
Googled and followed examples, which work, but my specific problem
doesn't work...
WORKS:
$ service=http mail ssh
$ echo $service | cut -d\ -f2
mail
$ echo $service | cut -d' ' -f2
mail
dpkg --get-selections | grep -v deinstall$ | awk '{print $1}'
DOES NOT WORK:
$ dpkg --get-selections |
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:28:20 -0900 gomadtr...@acsalaska.net wrote:
On Friday 19 March 2010 03:52:44 pm Mike Viau wrote:
On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:31:44 -0300 rogluz.n...@gmail.com wrote:
Ok the bigger problem you should have is what is a base system
I agree, what a base system means can be
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:34:47 -0500 ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote:
Googled and followed examples, which work, but my specific problem
doesn't work...
WORKS:
$ service=http mail ssh
$ echo $service | cut -d\ -f2
mail
$ echo $service | cut -d' ' -f2
mail
dpkg --get-selections | grep -v
On 2010-03-19 20:58, green wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote at 2010-03-19 02:24 -0500:
7200RPM (remember, that's 1200RPS) drives get *hot*. I wouldn't put
one in a laptop. (It's one of the tradeoffs you make for buying
something that small.)
ThinkPad T61 here with 7200RPM SATA HD:
# hddtemp
On 2010-03-19 21:54, Mike Viau wrote:
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:34:47 -0500 ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote:
Googled and followed examples, which work, but my specific problem
doesn't work...
WORKS:
$ service=http mail ssh
$ echo $service | cut -d\ -f2
mail
$ echo $service | cut -d' ' -f2
mail
dpkg
On Fri March 19 2010 19:14:21 Mike Viau wrote:
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:48:02 -0700 mgb-deb...@yosemite.net wrote:
On Fri March 19 2010 12:55:47 Mike Viau wrote:
I was looking for a way to purge or remove all the packages that were
installed on a Debian system after the initial (bare
On 2010-03-19 21:26, Mike Viau wrote:
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:13:49 -0500 ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote:
[snip]
I see no purpose, when you can do this at any time:
COLUMNS=180 dpkg -l | grep ^i | \
cut -c4-44 installed.packages.`date +%Y%M%d-%H%m`
Since that's obviously a pain to
On 2010-03-18 03:41, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Thu,18.Mar.10, 03:28:40, Ron Johnson wrote:
The main problem is all the 3rd party applications written
specifically for Word and Excel which have no analog in the OOo
world.
Interesting, I didn't come across such things in my company
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:02:56 -0700 mgb-deb...@yosemite.net wrote:
On Fri March 19 2010 19:14:21 Mike Viau wrote:
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:48:02 -0700 mgb-deb...@yosemite.net wrote:
On Fri March 19 2010 12:55:47 Mike Viau wrote:
I was looking for a way to purge or remove all the
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:06:02 -0500 ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote:
On 2010-03-19 21:26, Mike Viau wrote:
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:13:49 -0500 ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote:
[snip]
I see no purpose, when you can do this at any time:
COLUMNS=180 dpkg -l | grep ^i | \
cut -c4-44
Am 19. Mär, 2010 schwätzte Ron Johnson so:
Googled and followed examples, which work, but my specific problem doesn't
work...
WORKS:
$ service=http mail ssh
$ echo $service | cut -d\ -f2
mail
$ echo $service | cut -d' ' -f2
mail
dpkg --get-selections | grep -v deinstall$ | awk '{print $1}'
Ron Johnson put forth on 3/19/2010 2:24 AM:
7200RPM (remember, that's 1200RPS) drives get *hot*. I wouldn't put one
in a laptop. (It's one of the tradeoffs you make for buying something
that small.)
Ron, your calculator is borked. A 7200 rpm drive spins at 120 rotations per
second, not
2010/3/20 Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com
I have debian 5 on /dev/sda1 and ubuntu 10.04 on /dev/sda3
here are my grub.cfg
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
menuentry Debian GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 {
set root=(hd0,1)
search --fs-uuid --set da13d632-e65a-4128-9b06-0ec24a5d390f
linux
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