Re: USB adapter for SD card.

2013-09-05 Thread Doug
On 09/04/2013 11:54 PM, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: On 9/4/13, Gregory Nowak g...@gregn.net wrote: Yeah. It looks like the card reader is recognized, and the fact that the cards are in it, but it looks like the capacity of both cards is too big for the reader to deal with. That's my guess anyway,

Re: ssh X

2013-09-05 Thread Luther Blissett
On Thu, 2013-09-05 at 20:50 +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: Hello Verde, hope you are well :) Your error report/ request for assistance, is woefully inadequate. Let me suggest further details for you to provide: On 9/5/13, Verde Denim tdl...@gmail.com wrote: Just successfully got ssh -X

Re: Headers for Debian 3.0.4 on ARM

2013-09-05 Thread Dom
On 05/09/13 16:45, Jerry Stuckle wrote: I have Debian 3.0.4 (via uname -r) on an ARM processor (after update/upgrade) and am trying to get the kernel headers to compile a module for it. aptitude shows the only headers available are for versions 2.6 and 3.2.0.4. You might be better off

Re: Headers for Debian 3.0.4 on ARM

2013-09-05 Thread Luther Blissett
On Wed, 2013-09-04 at 23:33 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: Hi, all, I'm still pretty new to Debian, so this may be a *very* stupid question, but here goes. I have Debian 3.0.4 (via uname -r) on an ARM processor (after update/upgrade) and am trying to get the kernel headers to compile a

Re: Headers for Debian 3.0.4 on ARM

2013-09-05 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 9/5/2013 12:17 PM, Luther Blissett wrote: On Wed, 2013-09-04 at 23:33 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: Hi, all, I'm still pretty new to Debian, so this may be a *very* stupid question, but here goes. I have Debian 3.0.4 (via uname -r) on an ARM processor (after update/upgrade) and am trying to

Re: Headers for Debian 3.0.4 on ARM

2013-09-05 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 9/5/2013 12:16 PM, Dom wrote: On 05/09/13 16:45, Jerry Stuckle wrote: I have Debian 3.0.4 (via uname -r) on an ARM processor (after update/upgrade) and am trying to get the kernel headers to compile a module for it. aptitude shows the only headers available are for versions 2.6 and

Re: ssh X

2013-09-05 Thread Verde Denim
On 09/05/2013 11:51 AM, Luther Blissett wrote: On Thu, 2013-09-05 at 20:50 +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: Hello Verde, hope you are well :) Your error report/ request for assistance, is woefully inadequate. Let me suggest further details for you to provide: On 9/5/13, Verde Denim

Ownership of pluggable devices.

2013-09-05 Thread peasthope
Given two USB pluggable devices, a Sony Mylo, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mylo_(Sony) , and a Kingston flash store. # These lines for udev. root@dalton:/home/peter# tail -n 8 /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules # Persistent device names. # The Sony mylo. KERNEL==sd?1, ATTR{size}==1752512,

Re: mcedit behavior under X

2013-09-05 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, The mcedit man-page has the following: In addition to that, Shift combined with arrows does text highlighting (if supported by the terminal): Ctrl-Ins copies to the file ~/.mc/cedit/cooledit.clip, Shift-Ins pastes from ~/.mc/cedit/cooledit.clip, Shift-Del

Re: Ownership of pluggable devices.

2013-09-05 Thread recoverym4n
Hi. On Thu, 5 Sep 2013 11:19:25 -0700 peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: /dev/KingstonUSB /home/peter/MY ext2 defaults,noauto,user 0 0 This line is the reason. ext2 filesystem stores information about file/directory permissions inside itself, and root of this filesystem (/home/peter/MY) is

How many packages in Sid

2013-09-05 Thread sp113438
Hello, How do I find out the number of packages currently in Sid? Google did not help me. Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: How many packages in Sid

2013-09-05 Thread Brian
On Thu 05 Sep 2013 at 22:16:39 +0200, sp113438 wrote: How do I find out the number of packages currently in Sid? Google did not help me. An example: wget ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz gunzip Packages.gz grep ^Package: Packages | wc -l -- To

Re: How many packages in Sid

2013-09-05 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Thu, 5 Sep 2013 22:16:39 +0200 sp113438 sp113...@telfort.nl wrote: Hello, How do I find out the number of packages currently in Sid? Google did not help me. Thanks! A GUI based answer is to open Synaptic, select the All header, and the number of packages available for the

Re: How many packages in Sid

2013-09-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-09-05 at 22:16 +0200, sp113438 wrote: How do I find out the number of packages currently in Sid? This doesn't give any information about the quantity of software available from upstream, since Debian does split the software from upstream to several packages. some distros don't do

Re: Headers for Debian 3.0.4 on ARM

2013-09-05 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 9/5/2013 10:32 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: On 9/5/13, Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net wrote: On 9/5/2013 5:36 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: On 9/5/13, Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net wrote: I have Debian 3.0.4 (via uname -r) on an ARM processor (after update/upgrade) and am trying

Re: How many packages in Sid

2013-09-05 Thread sp113438
Thanks! Synaptics says I have 41313 packages ready to install on my Sid system which I updated today. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: How many packages in Sid

2013-09-05 Thread sp113438
On Fri, 6 Sep 2013 02:34:52 +0200 sp113438 sp113...@telfort.nl wrote: Thanks! Synaptics says I have 41313 packages ready to install on my Sid system which I updated today. That is on my amd64 system, with main contrib and non-free included. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: find and copy

2013-09-05 Thread Craig L.
Thanks Zenaan, for moving this back on-list (to anyone interested, I replied privately by mistake. Zenaan was gracious enough to accept my mistake) On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 07:16:42AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: It seems I was a bit cavalier on more than one count. My apologies. No apology

Re: Re: tri-boot debian, debian-without-dm, and windows with newer debian using partitions from older debian?

2013-09-05 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 03:55:51PM +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote: boot Debian into textmode How can I do this?? And thanks, just wondering now how many ways I have got to accomplish what I want to do! This was already mentioned. The answer is ctrl+alt+f1 through ctrl+alt+f6 by default. Let

end of resume sequence (to run my USB network fixup script)

2013-09-05 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Gday, when I come out of hibernate, I have to run ifdown, ifup, for my ethernet device to make it work again (it's a USB device). I would like my ifup/ifdown script to work automatically. My /etc/network/interfaces does not have auto for my ethernet device, because I only want internet when I

Re: find and copy

2013-09-05 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 9/6/13, Craig L. cr...@gtek.biz wrote: On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 07:16:42AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: Both seem to be trying to copy the string '{}' and the directory /var/data.backup/ to the directory name that is being piped to xargs, the name of the found file in this case, which

Re: Ownership of pluggable devices.

2013-09-05 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 12:34:05AM +0400, recovery...@gmail.com wrote: In short, invoke (after mounting the filesystem): chown -R peter /home/peter/MY I do stand to be corrected, but I don't remember a situation where I had to do chown like this after every mount. All I've ever had to do in

Re: Ownership of pluggable devices.

2013-09-05 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 9/6/13, peasth...@shaw.ca peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: Given two USB pluggable devices, a Sony Mylo, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mylo_(Sony) , and a Kingston flash store. # These lines for udev. root@dalton:/home/peter# tail -n 8 /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules # Persistent device names.

Re: Re: tri-boot debian, debian-without-dm, and windows with newer debian using partitions from older debian?

2013-09-05 Thread Anubhav Yadav
It'd be a lot easier to just CTRL-ALT-F1 to a virtual terminal and work from there, don't you think? This is the most easiest solution for me I feel. Thanks Chris! -- Regards, Anubhav Yadav, Computer Engineering Final Year Student, Imperial College of Engineering and Research, Pune. -- To

Re: Re: Re: tri-boot debian, debian-without-dm, and windows with newer debian using partitions from older debian?

2013-09-05 Thread Anubhav Yadav
Thanks a lot! I will find out more information about tty1-tty6. -- Regards, Anubhav Yadav, Computer Engineering Final Year Student, Imperial College of Engineering and Research, Pune. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: Re: tri-boot debian, debian-without-dm, and windows with newer debian using partitions from older debian?

2013-09-05 Thread Anubhav Yadav
Forcing yourself to do something is a matter of self-discipline and attitude. Debian doesn't have packages for instilling those qualitities. :) This made my day :) Create two users. One for the undisciplined Anubhav and the other for his aspiring self. Switching to the console with CTRL+ALT+F2

Re: Ownership of pluggable devices.

2013-09-05 Thread Sharon Kimble
On Fri, 6 Sep 2013 13:51:09 +1000 Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net wrote: On 9/6/13, peasth...@shaw.ca peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: Given two USB pluggable devices, a Sony Mylo, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mylo_(Sony) , and a Kingston flash store. # These lines for udev.

Re: end of resume sequence (to run my USB network fixup script)

2013-09-05 Thread Dom
On 06/09/13 03:27, Zenaan Harkness wrote: Gday, when I come out of hibernate, I have to run ifdown, ifup, for my ethernet device to make it work again (it's a USB device). I would like my ifup/ifdown script to work automatically. My /etc/network/interfaces does not have auto for my ethernet

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