On 8/26/2014 1:52 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
On Tue, 26 Aug 2014 04:06:19 -0400
Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 6:44 PM, Steve Litt
sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote:
Joel Rees grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
2014/07/23 16:41 Tony Baldwin to...@myownsite.me:
On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 03:46:56PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote:
Programming is a field of mathematics. Mathematically speaking, limiting a
language to a declarative syntax does not mean that the language
Tom H grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
There is one
https://lists.debian.org/debian-testing/
but a quick look at the its archives shows that it isn't a heavily
used list and that it's not a list for freaking out about systemd.
Neither is this one, but that doesn't seem to stop people :-)
Tom H grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 12:56 PM, David Guntner da...@guntner.com wrote:
Tom H grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
There is one
https://lists.debian.org/debian-testing/
but a quick look at the its archives shows that it isn't a heavily
used list and that it's
Sounds like an interesting project! I look forward to seeing the results!
--Dave
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On June 18, 2014 1:08:40 PM PDT, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote:
Hi all,
I just
Chris Angelico grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 1:57 AM, Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net wrote:
Once again you don't understand the difference between a single machine and
multiple machines acting as a single server for load balancing and hot
backups.
And by my
Ralf, please take this to OFF TOPIC. Thanks.
Ralf Mardorf grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
On Tue, 2014-05-27 at 17:02 +0200, Slavko wrote:
Ahoj,
Dňa Tue, 27 May 2014 16:21:50 +0200 Diogene Laerce
me_buss...@yahoo.fr napísal:
Hi,
Maybe I missed the thread : I wasn't there for a while but I
Ralf Mardorf grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
On Fri, 2014-05-23 at 17:33 +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
Please continue on d-community-offtopic.
True, but I have to clarify something, see below.
Then how about clarifying it on off-topic as requested, rather than
stirring it up over here? Or is
Celejar grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
[blah blah blah off topic blah blah blah]
People, this off-topic thread has dragged on WAY too long. There's a
Debian off-topic mailing list, which exists specifically for that
purpose - to let Debian users discuss things that aren't directly
related to
Zenaan Harkness grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
[blah blah blah off topic blah blah blah]
People, this off-topic thread has dragged on WAY too long. There's a
Debian off-topic mailing list, which exists specifically for that
purpose - to let Debian users discuss things that aren't directly
related
The Wanderer grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
[blah blah blah off topic blah blah blah]
People, this off-topic thread has dragged on WAY too long. There's a
Debian off-topic mailing list, which exists specifically for that
purpose - to let Debian users discuss things that aren't directly
related to
Jerry Stuckle grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
Why would you be against someone protecting their intellectual
property?
I'm not, personally. I am, however very much against continued waste of
bandwidth on this increasingly off-topic thread. Please take further
discussion to the off-topic list,
Jerry Stuckle grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
On 5/20/2014 4:21 PM, David Guntner wrote:
Jerry Stuckle grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
Why would you be against someone protecting their intellectual
property?
I'm not, personally. I am, however very much against continued waste of
bandwidth
David Guntner grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
Jerry Stuckle grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
Then don't add to the bandwidth with your please to stop. As you've
been told before - just ignore the thread. And if you can't do that,
get a email reader that will.
No. Just because you and a small
People, this off-topic thread has dragged on WAY too long. There's a
Debian off-topic mailing list, which exists specifically for that
purpose - to let Debian users discuss things that aren't directly
related to Debian.
PLEASE, for the love of $DEITY and to have some compassion for the
people
People, this off-topic thread has dragged on WAY too long. There's a
Debian off-topic mailing list, which exists specifically for that
purpose - to let Debian users discuss things that aren't directly
related to Debian.
PLEASE, for the love of $DEITY and to have some compassion for the
people
Harry Putnam grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
Never used exim but trying to get it setup since the latest version of
sendmail seems to have some problems I don't understand on a new debian
install.
I've pounded along googling and scanning the exim documentation on
board for a couple of hours
David Guntner grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
Harry Putnam grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
Never used exim but trying to get it setup since the latest version of
sendmail seems to have some problems I don't understand on a new debian
install.
Just as a matter of curiosity, why aren't you trying
Stephen Powell grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
Well, the joke is on me. The text file I was trying to view was a
Windows-style text file, with each line (except the last) ending in
a CRLF combination. But it was being served up by Apache running
on Linux. Linux-style text files have each line
Slavko grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
Ahoj,
Dňa Sat, 10 May 2014 13:00:56 +0100 Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk
napísal:
On Sat 10 May 2014 at 10:54:21 +0200, Slavko wrote:
in last weeks (or months?) i see a lot of daily updates in Debian
testing. I am using the testing for years and i am
John Hasler grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
David Guntner writes:
Again, as someone else pointed out: The key word here is TESTING. You
want less updates? Go with the current stable release. That has
updates, but not as often.
You can also just not install every update. There is no reason
c. marlow grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
What the heck
Sorry I'm new to the whole group email / NEWSGROUP thing.
It's called spam. It happens from time to time. It's best to ignore it
when it happens on the mailing list. ;-)
--Dave
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http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
Tom Furie grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 02:33:43PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote:
On 19/04/14 07:55, Joe wrote:
As is the light originating inside peoples' homes and passing out of
their windows. In
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
Scott Ferguson grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
On 19/04/14 16:51, Tom Furie wrote: On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 02:33:43PM
+1000, Scott Ferguson wrote:
On 19/04/14 07:55, Joe wrote:
As is the light originating inside peoples'
This discussion is best continued here:
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
Joe grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
On Sat, 19 Apr 2014 14:33:43 +1000
Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com wrote:
Perhaps the solution is not greater bureaucracy to
This discussion would be best continued here:
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
Scott Ferguson grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
On 19/04/14 19:04, Joe wrote:
On Sat, 19 Apr 2014 14:33:43 +1000
Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com wrote:
Lisi Reisz grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
On Saturday 19 April 2014 17:24:20 David Guntner wrote:
This discussion would be best continued here:
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
And these suggestions would too. Just kill the thread if it is
annoying you
Joel Rees grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
(Reader beware. Length breeds length.)
And this whole thread has gone on (and morphed) entirely too long.
Please take it to the Debian Offtopic list.
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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For those interested:
http://mashable.com/2014/04/09/heartbleed-bug-websites-affected/
--Dave
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John Hasler grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
Henrique writes:
It also includes the emails that were read over a
heartbleed-vulnerable IMAP, and every data that went over a
heartbleed-vulnerable VPN tunnel, for example.
I wasn't aware that IMAP and VPN used heartbeat. I don't see that IMAP
is
[Unless there's a reason to take a reply off-list, please keep it on
list so that others can follow the discussion]
Igor Cicimov grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
On 11/04/2014 2:52 AM, David Guntner wrote:
Chris Angelico grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
CNAMEs are immensely helpful, but they do
Nuno Magalhães grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 5:19 PM, David Guntner da...@guntner.com wrote:
Presto! Now when you try to access your home machine, you can simply
refer to mydomain.org and it will point you to the correct place.
Er... mydomain.org, being a *.TLD
Rick Macdonald grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
[...]
I only looked at a couple before deciding to use the free service from
ASUS that is included with the router, so I don't know which of the
above are actually free. The domain name is not pretty:
[yourhostname].asuscomm.com, but that doesn't
Chris Angelico grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 2:19 AM, David Guntner da...@guntner.com wrote:
what you want to do is
create a CNAME record for the domain - set a CNAME of mydomain.org that
points to myhostname.someddns.com.
Presto! Now when you try to access your home
Mark Evans grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
Debian Users
Dear Sirs;
What would be the yearly support costs for an e commerce, web facing
server.
http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=debian+commercial+support
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Glenn English grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
On Mar 24, 2014, at 10:45 AM, John Foster jfoster81...@verizon.net
wrote:
I have been trying to get lighttpd to run as my web server but was
not able to get it properly configured.
[...]
After 3 days of Lighttpd, I too went back to Apache2. I
Jonathan Dowland grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 12:13:53PM -0700, David Guntner wrote:
Easier to configure? Sorry to sound like Ralph in Troll Mode, but it
sounds like it was anything *but* that. :D
OP didn't get it working with lighttpd, and now hasn't got it working
berenger.mo...@neutralite.org grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
Hello.
As I am starting to subscribe to various mailing lists, I have noticed
that some uses a kind of tag in subjects. Obviously, it is added by the
ml-engine, not by users.
I am also receiving more and more spam since 2 months. I
Bret Busby grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
On Tue, 4 Mar 2014, Steve Litt wrote:
[...]
I'll probably have to add more to that as he comes on line with a slew
of other identities, but .procmailrc is a pretty easy filtering
^
mechanism.
Is that procmail,
Steve Litt grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
Hi all,
Here's how I just made my life happier and less stressful:
==
GARBAGE=/dev/null
### DEBIAN LIST UBERSCREAMER ARNOLD BIRD'S 4 ADDRESSES
:0:
* ^From.*naturalli...@dcemail.com
$GARBAGE
:0:
*
Kirt Odle grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
Can I get someone to clearly explain to me ( a Debian newbie ) how to
make aptitude download tshark and ALL of its dependencies, in a
single operation ??
aptitude install tshark
Comes to mind. :-)
man aptitude for more info.
--Dave
Sharon Kimble grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
I am using this script to convert radio programmes downloaded with
'get-iplayer' from '*.m4a' to '*.mp3', and it works very well.
for i in *.m4a;
do faad $i
x=`echo $i|sed -e 's/.m4a/.wav/'`
Mark Carroll grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
Sharon Kimble boudic...@talktalk.net writes:
(snip)
'15_Minute_Drama_-_AM_Homes_-_This_Book_Will_Save_Your_Life_Episode_5_b00jdlb8_default.m4a'
How can I lose the '_b00jdlb8_default' section please? It is always
in this format but with
Mark Carroll grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
David Guntner da...@guntner.com writes:
Mark Carroll grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
(snip)
for i in *__default\.m??
do mv $i `echo $i | sed 's/.\{17\}\(.\{4\}\)$/\1/'`
done
Ooh, yea, that looks like it would do it, way better than what I
Sharon Kimble grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
Thanks Dave, this is what I have -
#!/bin/bash
for in in *.mp3
do
out=`echo $in|cut -d_ -f 1-15 -`
mv $in $out.mp3
done
and I've run it three times on the directory, and here is some of the
outcomes -
Ralf Mardorf grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
On Wed, 2014-02-12 at 22:57 -0800, David Guntner wrote:
I build almost exclusively with ASUS motherboards, and every one has
worked just fine with Windows or Linux. So I'm not exactly sure what
you were going for here, Ralf
ASUS mobos have
Ralf Mardorf grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
May I ask you how often you repair mobos or any other
electronically gear? [...] You are trolling because you seemingly
don't have experiences with repairing electronically gear during the
last 20 years, so you aren't aware that vendors have a
Ralf Mardorf grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
On Wed, 2014-02-12 at 19:42 -0800, Schlacta, Christ wrote:
Asus is a good brand.
My ASUS mobo doesn't know that it's a good brand for Linux usage.
Given that your motherboard is an inanimate object, it's unlikely that
it knows much of anything. :-)
Zenaan Harkness grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
On 2/5/14, Anubhav Yadav anubhav1...@gmail.com wrote:
[...]
Nowadays, the only partitions I use are:
/boot - about 1GiB
Unless you're planning on having a lot of different kernels installed,
you really don't need a full gig for /boot (it doesn't
y...@marupa.net grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
On Wednesday, February 05, 2014 08:27:15 AM David Guntner wrote:
Can't speak for him, but for me it's a segmenting issue. If I have to
wipe / for example, I'm not wiping things in /usr or /usr/local (where
my locally-installed programs go) unless
Paul E Condon grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
I need something that I can actually hear even when I not paying
attention. I know I asked about getting the beep function working, but
now I want to ask about possibilities of getting the external
speakers, which I know are working for videos to
David Guntner grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
Paul E Condon grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
I need something that I can actually hear even when I not paying
attention. I know I asked about getting the beep function working, but
now I want to ask about possibilities of getting the external
Alex S. grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
On Mon, 06 Jan 2014 19:54:12 -0800
David Guntner da...@guntner.com wrote:
Anyone else here think this is awesome news? :-)
It surely is! Though SteamOS, I believe, is gonna see much more use
on SteamMachines, than on PCs, and personally, I'm
For the benefit of those here who might not be on the news
announcement list
Original Message
Subject: Debian Project News - January 6th, 2014
Resent-Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 23:22:33 + (UTC)
Resent-From: debian-n...@lists.debian.org
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 00:22:07 +0100
Harry Putnam grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
What are people using who want to look at live network connections as
they happen? Especially if it can be made to work on win7 as well.
Wireshark comes to mind. :-)
http://www.wireshark.org/
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Harry Putnam grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
David Guntner da...@guntner.com writes:
Harry Putnam grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
What are people using who want to look at live network connections as
they happen? Especially if it can be made to work on win7 as well.
Wireshark comes to mind
PaulNM grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
On 12/12/2013 02:11 AM, David Guntner wrote:
Scott Ferguson grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
On 12/12/13 17:42, erosenb...@hygeiabiomedical.com wrote:
Dear List -
I am running 32 bit sid with a pae kernel. What is the maximum RAM that
can be used
Jean-Marc grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
On Wed, 11 Dec 2013 23:11:58 -0800
David Guntner da...@guntner.com wrote:
Really? As I understand it, a 32-bit operating system cannot address
more than 4G of memory.
What am I missing here?
Some more infos about PAE (Physical Address Extension
Scott Ferguson grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
On 12/12/13 17:42, erosenb...@hygeiabiomedical.com wrote:
Dear List -
I am running 32 bit sid with a pae kernel. What is the maximum RAM that
can be used?
64GB
Really? As I understand it, a 32-bit operating system cannot address
more than 4G
Tony van der Hoff grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
Hi, list,
I have a squeezy VPS, running Postfix to handle all my mail, plus
several virtual users, with which I'm entirely satisfied.
I also have a number of remote, normally unattended, locations, with
dynamic IPs, containing IP cameras to
Steffen Dettmer grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
Hi,
logrotate seems to execute postrotate scripts using /bin/sh and I
found no way where to specify which script interpreter to use.
Starting with a she-bang line seem to have no effect. Even if I
manually run logrotate as root who has /bin/bash
John Hasler grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
Lisi writes:
Can't we just drop it
Can't you just killfile it?
She shouldn't have to. THIS list is for discussing things that are
directly related to Debian Linux. What mail program you want to use for
this, that, and the other doesn't even
Lisi Reisz grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
This thread has now been going on for 11 days. And not intermittently
for 11 days, but full on with loads of emails every day. It becomes
less and less relevant to Debian, since Debian is simply not in
question any more.
Can't we just drop it,
Ralf Mardorf grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
On Tue, 2013-12-03 at 14:39 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
This thread began on Nov 24th, 10 days ago. There have been 211 posts
(including this one) in this thread. I dare say it ceased being
productive or insightful many, many posts ago. And it
AP grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
On Tuesday, December 03, 2013 01:27:31 PM David Guntner wrote:
There's a Debian
Off Topic list for that, and you bloody well know it.
Well, email client discussion is off-topic...? A wonder...!
Look at this list's name. It's DEBIAN-user. Tie
François Patte grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
Bonsoir,
I'd like to anable php with apache web server.
apache2 is installed
php5 is installed.
apache php module is activated
But php is not working...ie.:
?
phpinfo');
?
does not work in /var/ (with 644 permissions)
praetorien grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
Hello there,
I'm a Windows user, but Microsoft may collect privacy information
about users witch is not good, so I wonder does Debian 7.2 collect
ANY information about Users or monitoring?
I could be wrong, but to the best of my knowledge, NO Linux
Brad Alexander grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
I'm just curious why so many people get so upset about top posting. To my
mind, as threads get longer, those keeping up with the thread would not
want to scroll through messages that they have already read. I know that I
don't. If they are
Brad Alexander grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
Actually, I can see the point of posting inline, however, leave it to
google and other mail apps to go and ruin it. In the gmail web interface,
when you reply to an email or even a thread, you get the text entry box,
with the message you are
erosenb...@hygeiabiomedical.com grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
Dear List -
I have done the following -
Downloaded chrome from site into /opt
root@meow:/opt# ls
google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb
install -
root@meow:/opt# dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb
now I get
Alois Mahdal grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
On Sun, 17 Nov 2013 20:56:59 -0800
David Guntner da...@guntner.com wrote:
Offhand, I'd say install the packages it wants. :-)
Those are all standard repository packages for Debian; start
with the gconf-service package and work up from there. Using
Antonio Paiva grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
Hi everyone,
I would like to set up an ssh server such that, everytime someone tries to
connect to it, a script will be run to control certain aspects of the
connection. More specifically, I want to check if certain conditions are
met and, if they
I've been a happy customer of Dreamhost for many years. They support
mailing lists, announcement lists, as many hosted mailboxes and
forwarding addresses as you can handle, offer both shared hosting and
VPS services, and are running Linux. Currently my VPS is Debian, though
they announced
[Following up to myself :-)]
David Guntner grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
I've been a happy customer of Dreamhost for many years. They support
mailing lists, announcement lists, as many hosted mailboxes and
forwarding addresses as you can handle, offer both shared hosting and
VPS services
Celejar grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
On Fri, 01 Nov 2013 09:22:37 -0700
David Guntner da...@guntner.com wrote:
I've been a happy customer of Dreamhost for many years. They support
mailing lists, announcement lists, as many hosted mailboxes and
forwarding addresses as you can handle, offer
Miles Fidelman grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
[tl;dr]
Can you guys PLEASE take this off-topic discussion somewhere else?
Like, maybe, the off-topic list (which, oddly enough, was created for
topics like this)
--Dave
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Jerry Stuckle grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
On 10/27/2013 5:02 PM, David Guntner wrote:
Miles Fidelman grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
[tl;dr]
Can you guys PLEASE take this off-topic discussion somewhere else?
Like, maybe, the off-topic list (which, oddly enough, was created for
topics like
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
Stan Hoeppner grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
On 10/1/2013 12:29 AM, Rhiamom wrote:
Sent from my iPad
On Sep 30, 2013, at 10:33 PM, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote:
...
It's quite funny to see someone of your
Hendrik Boom grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
I've been running stable for years now on my server.
I tried to investigate a mail irregularity today by looking in /var/log/
mail* and discovered none of those files had been updated since May.
Wasn't that around the time wheezy became stable?
From http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2011/05/#offtopic ...
Have you ever wanted to discuss things completely unrelated to Debian or
even computers with fellow users or developers? On debian-user the
custom is to put [OT] in the subject and fire away.
Unfortunately, this can be disruptive for
Ralf Mardorf grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
IMO the Security? thread became interesting by links to Lavabit and
Schneier.
Yea. You and a couple of other people found it interesting and kept the
topic dragging on. It doesn't change the fact that it was OFF TOPIC for
THIS PARTICULAR MAILING
Ralf Mardorf grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
Assumed I would post a link, is it ok to post a link with similar
content? Perhaps interesting for the one who posted the link too.
I'm not kidding. The link was useful for the topic and I quoted from
The topic has been *off* topic for this
Maybe this discussion would best be taken to the Off Topic list? ;)
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Carlo grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
Hi Verde Denim, I like to think with free software, I saw that it is a
non-free, can we trust of it ? Or this isn't againt debian free software
guidelines? Why Intel doesn't give a free microcode???
Please don't top post in a E-Mail reply, *especially* on a
Matej Kosik grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
Hello,
This morning I have been puzzled by bash.
After typing the following command:
for i in `seq 1 5`;do echo $i; test $i = 3 break; done
I see:
1
2
3
Which is OK.
However, if the break command appears in a
Darac Marjal grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 08:06:17AM -0700, David Guntner wrote:
Matej Kosik grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
Hello,
This morning I have been puzzled by bash.
After typing the following command:
for i in `seq 1 5`;do echo $i; test $i = 3 break
Chris Bannister grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 07:58:39PM -0700, David Guntner wrote:
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb1 bs=512 count=1
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
512 bytes (512 B) copied, 0.000983331 s, 521 kB/s
# update-grub
Generating grub.cfg ...
Found
David Guntner grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
I'm really starting to think it's just something that got stuck in the
partition table. Now that I think about it, I think when I re-purposed
that drive, I deleted all partitions except for sdb1 and then just
resized it to fill the whole drive
Brian grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
On Fri 30 Aug 2013 at 18:10:00 -0700, David Guntner wrote:
Grub still seems to think there's Linux on /dev/sdb1. That's
aggravating.. I guess I'll just try moving the stuff off of the one
and only partition on that drive to somewhere else temporarily
Brian grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
On Fri 30 Aug 2013 at 18:10:00 -0700, David Guntner wrote:
Grub still seems to think there's Linux on /dev/sdb1. That's
aggravating.. I guess I'll just try moving the stuff off of the one
and only partition on that drive to somewhere else temporarily
Jeff Bauer grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
On 08/31/2013 12:23 PM, David Guntner wrote:
I've been using it as a sort of backup type of partition, mounted as
/backup (until I have time to install backuppc and get it all
configured; I've just been doing an rsync to the drive). Since I was
backing
Brian grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
On Sat 31 Aug 2013 at 09:23:40 -0700, David Guntner wrote:
Well, too late on before you try that, but I had looked at the
partition. None of those files existed on that drive (or partition).
I've been using it as a sort of backup type of partition
Brian grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
On Sat 31 Aug 2013 at 10:08:17 -0700, David Guntner wrote:
Well, what the heck!
I hadn't run the backup since before the upgrade to Wheezy. So after
removing the partition and restoring it, then running it (which now
backed up my Wheezy system), I got
Brian grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
On Sat 31 Aug 2013 at 10:59:34 -0700, David Guntner wrote:
Because it makes no sense to me, whatsoever, as to why it would be
pulling in information from areas that are traditionally not booted
from. Like, for example, under /backup. So for me, it's
Siard grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
David Guntner wrote:
I suppose it exists on the partition in a sense, but within the
filesystem, it lives as /backup/etc/debian_version. /backup is the
only mounted filesystem on /dev/sdb1.
To have os-prober find an OS, that OS does not have
Brian grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
On Sat 31 Aug 2013 at 11:28:53 -0700, David Guntner wrote:
Well, I guess that's the default configuration. *I* didn't tell it
anything. :-) Remember, I started this with, I've used lilo all my
Of course you did! Did someone else issue the command
Dom grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
On 31/08/13 19:46, David Guntner wrote:
I suppose it exists on the partition in a sense, but within the
filesystem, it lives as /backup/etc/debian_version. /backup is the only
mounted filesystem on /dev/sdb1.
There's an actual /etc/debian_version file
Brian grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
On Sat 31 Aug 2013 at 14:39:09 -0700, David Guntner wrote:
So knowing how to get it to avoid that particular partition when probing
would be useful. I don't know if there's a better way of doing that
than the way suggested by Siard, but it works so I'm
Hello,
I'm running Wheezy. I used to use lilo for my boot manager. I liked
it. Nice simple config file that I could understand. :-)
I gave in a while ago and went with grub (grub2, I expect), since that's
what Debian seems to prefer using and I decided I just didn't want to
fight with the
David Guntner grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
Not only that, but given the comments around all the sections that point
at /etc/grub.d/{whatever}, does this mean that /boot/grub/grub.cfg is
being built by something, from those other files? If so, it seems that
directly editing /boot/grub
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