Cannot use USB floppy drive in Squeeze

2011-02-23 Thread Stephen Powell
I have recently install Debian Squeeze on an IBM ThinkPad X31. It has an external USB-attached floppy drive. The BIOS sees it. I can boot from it just fine, and when running Windows 95 in MS-DOS mode (no WIN.EXE running) I can access it as drive "A:". I used the FORMAT command of Windows 95 in

Re: Software RAID on external USB disk: boot problems after upgrade to squeeze

2011-02-23 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Panayiotis Karabassis [2011.02.23.1029 +0100]: > I had solved this in lenny by using the following > /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-top/mdadm script: Set rootdelay=30 on the kernel command line. > My solution is broken after the upgrade to squeeze and the problem > has regr

Re: Squeeze freezes

2011-02-23 Thread Rico Secada
On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 21:24:14 +0100 Rico Secada wrote: Apparently it's a browser problem, but the strange part is that it's happening with several browsers. When the freeze happens Caps-lock doesn't work any longer. Also I can't do ALT+F1 or ALT+Backspace I have removed gnash and non-free flash.

Debian Multi-Media.

2011-02-23 Thread Brad Rogers
Hello All, For those concerned about oldstable at Debian Multimedia, you'll be pleased to hear that it's being restored. So far, about 90% is available, according to Christian. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever immediately apparent" Ju

Re: ssh login ok, no prompt

2011-02-23 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 3:39 PM, Darac Marjal > wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 02:38:52PM +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>>   I have two linux boxes. I can connect from one to the other but not >>> the other way aro

Software RAID on external USB disk: boot problems after upgrade to squeeze

2011-02-23 Thread Panayiotis Karabassis
Hi! To simplify things a little: I have an external USB disk (/dev/sdc1) that is part of an MD array (/dev/md0). During boot, I experienced the following problem: /dev/md0 was assembled with only 1 drive out of 2 (the internal one). This was due to /dev/sdc1 taking some time to be detected,

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 01:33:21PM -0500, Petrus Validus wrote: > on them. The only trouble I have with mine is getting the SD card slot > to work and the fingerprint reader working but since I am not Agent 007 > I don't think I really need to worry about the latter. I wouldn't fancy "losing"

Re: Is there anything wrong with sticking with Lenny?

2011-02-23 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 23.2.2011 3:35, Jason Hsu wrote: > If that doesn't work, I'll do a fresh installation of Lenny on the old computer, upgrade it to Squeeze, and then set it up as a firewall/server. > I hope you have Lenny full CD disk images available. Net Install does not work any more. I just reinstalled a L

Re: Is there anything wrong with sticking with Lenny?

2011-02-23 Thread Michael Thompson
> > > http://www.ipcop.org/ > http://www.smoothwall.org/ > > The two are very similar and have the same roots. SmoothWall offers a > commercial version with official paid support. IPCop does not. > Commercial paid support for IPCop comes strictly from 3rd parties. In > your case I'm guessing you

allow ^C to interrupt /etc/rc.local

2011-02-23 Thread jidanni
Gentlemen, at the bottom of /etc/rc.local I have: echo " $0: Will execute \"${program=/etc/init.d/nodm start}\" in ${seconds=5} seconds. Hit ^C to cancel. Hit RET to start right away." for ((; seconds > 0; seconds--)); do read -p $seconds.. -t 1 && break; done echo runni

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