I have an updated etch system running a 32 bit kernel that I want to upgrade
to a lenny 64 bit kernel, etc. I have printed out the release notes, but
they do not address this upgrade. Should I just upgrade or are there
particular steps I need to go through to get my system to run 64 bit
On Saturday 04 July 2009 12:47 pm, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 07:20:01PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Sat,04.Jul.09, 11:44:09, Mark Neidorff wrote:
I have an updated etch system running a 32 bit kernel that I want to
upgrade to a lenny 64 bit kernel, etc. I
On Thursday 25 June 2009 04:27 am, Raffaele Morelli wrote:
Hi you all,
I bought a LinkSys WRT54GL wirelss router and I am going to configure
it to extend my DSL connection at home.
I am not new to debian but network(ing) skills are modest.
Does anyone own this device and running debian?
On Monday 25 May 2009 01:55 pm, ZephyrQ wrote:
I have a large number of music files (17 gig worth...yes, for all prying
eyes they are legal...) that I find I need to convert from .ogg to .mp3.
Not that I want to...but between a teenager with an iphone and being
saddled with cell phone that
On Monday 18 May 2009 03:01 am, Klistvud wrote:
Dne, 18. 05. 2009 00:23:05 je Mark Neidorff napisal(a):
Hi all,
The first thing I'd try is make the SATA drive bootable (or active)
and clearing the active/bootable flag from the ATA drive. This is
easiest done by means of a partition editor
Hi all,
A system that I am building has 2 HDDs--one is EIDE the other is SATA. Etch
is installed on the EIDE drive and an almost complete update from Etch to
Lenny is installed on the SATA drive. Normally grub boots from the SATA
drive. Last night there were power problems and today the
On Friday 01 May 2009 01:02 am, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote:
I'm using Debian Lenny i386 on my desktop. After every few months, my
computer would failed to boot properly (stuck on fsck). Then I need to
enter recovery mode then manually run fsck. A friend suggested that this is
caused by bad power
On Saturday 02 May 2009 12:54 pm, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Sat,02.May.09, 10:26:45, m...@neidorff.com wrote:
Hi all,
My machine has been mostly updated to lenny from etch. When etch was
installed, I had 2 Gig of ram.
I use virtualbox to run a guest OS. I felt that the memory that I
On Saturday 02 May 2009 01:41 pm, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Sat,02.May.09, 13:07:10, Mark Neidorff wrote:
Yes, I mean that the memory is reported by the bios.
Ok
#2:
$dmesg | grep Memory
Memory: 901968k/917504k available (1501k kernel code, 14908k
reserved,601k data, 256k init, 0k
On Saturday 25 April 2009 12:57 pm, Kurian Thayil wrote:
Hi All,
Planning to give a small demo on BASH scripting in a LUG community.
Audience will be school teachers and basic home users and thus are
beginners. Thinking on how to present simple and some example scripts that
will make them
I just saw an ad for a IOGear GUN262WV. It is a USB network cable to connect
2 PCs directly. Its listed as working with Vista XP only. If anyone has
this cable working with Debian (I'm using Etch) would someone please tell me
how to make it happen?
Thank you,
Mark
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On Sunday 15 February 2009 11:25 am, T o n g wrote:
Hi,
My recent upgrade caused my sound card not working any more. Checking back
at my packages version log, the only related upgrade is that
alsa-base_1.0.17.dfsg-2 is upgraded to alsa-base_1.0.17.dfsg-4.
The rest are still the same:
Well thanks for the reply - I think i narrowed it down.
1). Multicd - does the job - the issue there is that we need to do it on
iso9660 filesystem and NOT the ext2 filesystem that come by default.
Does anyone know how to change that ???
2). Mondoarchive - does the job - the issue is that
On Sunday 04 January 2009 09:39 am, Joey L wrote:
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Mark Neidorff m...@neidorff.com wrote:
I feel like I'm chasing a moving target. Lets nail down the specs that
you want. So far what I understand is:
file by file copy to some media
no compression
On Sunday 04 January 2009 08:21 am, Joey L wrote:
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 8:06 AM, Joey L mjh2...@gmail.com wrote:
Sorry - I missed a point here.I would like mondo to just copy the files oto
the dvd for me.So when I am on windows or linux - i can just insert the dvd
and see the files as they
On Friday 02 January 2009 06:02 pm, Michael Habashy wrote:
I am looking for a debian/linux utility similar to multicd.
I need a utility to backup big directories to dvd.
The directories are quite big and i need the utility to figure out how to
put files on multiple dvds.
My k3b works great -
On Sunday 14 December 2008 06:39 pm, Dennis Wicks wrote:
Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote the following on 12/14/2008 08:51 AM:
Dennis Wicks wrote:
I just installed VBox 2.0.6 from their web site and it won't start.
I did remove all VBox 1.6.6 things with Synaptic first and then used
dpkg -i
On Sunday 07 December 2008 08:35 am, Frank McCormick wrote:
Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:
Frank McCormick wrote:
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On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 17:22, Frank McCormick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Monday 01 December 2008 12:39 pm, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Mon,01.Dec.08, 05:19:05, Mark Neidorff wrote:
Now I need to compile some kernel modules for VirtualBox so I need the
kernel source. Of course, it is not listed in synaptic, so now I'm in
the position of rebooting between
On Saturday 29 November 2008 07:20 pm, Kelly Clowers wrote:
On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 14:11, Nigel Henry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
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Hi Kelly.
I did see the Etchnhalf 2.6.24 kernel when looking at synaptic. I only
suggested the musix one, as I have it installed, and know it uses alsa
Hi All,
In case I have to say it, I'm very frustrated trying to get ALSA sound working
on my Debian ETCH (up to date) box.
My motherboard has built-in sound. Needless to say, I want to hear sound. I
also want to be able to record sound from the stereo headphones jack of my
radio and the
Hi Folks,
I'm currently running Etch and KDE as my desktop.
I'm considering changing my Internet (and audio/viedo) setup. The goal is to
save some money. I currently have a static IP which I get via DSL (so I can
run my mail and web servers).
One of my hobbies is collecting a radio show
On Saturday 27 September 2008 10:04 am, Dexter Filmore wrote:
Am Donnerstag, 25. September 2008 04:30:55 schrieb Amit Uttamchandani:
On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:52:46 -0400
John Culleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is more of an annoyance than a serious problem but whenever I
build a
On Wednesday 30 July 2008 04:19 am, Owen Townend wrote:
2008/7/30 Nate Bargmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
* Mark Neidorff [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008 Jul 29 13:49 -0500]:
On Tuesday 29 July 2008 02:39 pm, H.S. wrote:
Mark Neidorff wrote:
On Tuesday 29 July 2008 01:21 pm, Steve C. Lamb wrote
Hi all,
First time that something easy like this is tripping me up.
I'm building a new system using Etch as the OS. I installed Etch on my SATA
drive (no problem) using the on board video that came with my ASUS M2MPV-VM
motherboard. The on-board video is GeForce 6150. System is running
On Tuesday 29 July 2008 01:21 pm, Steve C. Lamb wrote:
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 01:18:55PM -0400, Mark Neidorff wrote:
Can anyone tell me what additional steps I need to take to get video
to output to the PCIe adaptor?
Is there a setting to explicitly disable the on-board video
On Tuesday 29 July 2008 01:36 pm, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 07/29/08 12:18, Mark Neidorff wrote:
Hi all,
First time that something easy like this is tripping me up.
I'm building a new system using Etch as the OS. I installed Etch on my
SATA drive (no problem) using the on board video
On Tuesday 29 July 2008 02:39 pm, H.S. wrote:
Mark Neidorff wrote:
On Tuesday 29 July 2008 01:21 pm, Steve C. Lamb wrote:
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 01:18:55PM -0400, Mark Neidorff wrote:
Can anyone tell me what additional steps I need to take to get video
to output to the PCIe adaptor
On Tuesday 29 July 2008 05:14 pm, Eric d'Alibut wrote:
As noted, a recent upgrade of etch to grab security updates breaks my
djb stuff. Attempting to rebuild against the new libs gives:
envdir.o: In function `main':
envdir.c:(.text+0x127): undefined reference to `errno'
Anyone else hit by
Hi,
I want to switch an installation from an IDE disk to a SATA disk. I use
synaptic to manage packages for me. The File menu has an option to generate
a package install script. So, I created a custom filter to show just
installed packages and selected that filter. (cool) Then I selected
On Tuesday 22 July 2008 02:54 pm, Shachar Or wrote:
On Tuesday 22 July 2008 21:12, Mark Neidorff wrote:
Hi,
I want to switch an installation from an IDE disk to a SATA disk. I use
synaptic to manage packages for me. The File menu has an option to
generate a package install script. So
On Tuesday 22 July 2008 02:54 pm, Stackpole, Chris wrote:
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Mark Neidorff wrote:
Hi,
I want to switch an installation from an IDE disk to a SATA disk. I
use
synaptic to manage packages for me. The File menu has an option to
generate
a package
On Tuesday 15 July 2008 08:51 pm, Steve Lamb wrote:
Hello,
Anyone know how to get VirtualBox to make a definition to book a Linux
host from a partition? The instructions I have found thus far reference
the partition as /dev/sda...blah.blah.blah That's great for when I
want to boot
On Monday 14 July 2008 10:20 pm, Chris Burkhardt wrote:
Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
In comparison to a colleague's acrobat reader on windows, his acrobat
reader performs a lot faster.
Are your machines comparable processor- and RAM-wise?
(sorry for not answering your actual question)
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Hi all,
A while ago I got a Linksys wrt54g router. I was going to put it into place,
then I noticed that the soft/firm-ware on it is open source linux based.
After a bried search, I discovered that openwrt (also X-Wrt) is a
replacement on the net for the default linksys software in the
On Friday 25 April 2008 03:08 pm, Frank McCormick wrote:
On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:47:22 -0400
Mark Neidorff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Friday 25 April 2008 02:05 pm, Frank McCormick wrote:
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I have been trying to record in audacity
Hi all,
(This should be very easy) Debian Etch and KDE desktop. I installed
virtualbox and want to add a custom icon for it. I have the icon file
already. So here are the questions:
1. What format does the icon have to be in?
2. I noticed that there are different locations for
On Friday 25 April 2008 12:03 pm, Nigel Henry wrote:
On Friday 25 April 2008 17:31, Mark Neidorff wrote:
Hi all,
(This should be very easy) Debian Etch and KDE desktop. I installed
virtualbox and want to add a custom icon for it. I have the icon file
already. So here
On Friday 25 April 2008 02:05 pm, Frank McCormick wrote:
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I have been trying to record in audacity without success. Using
alsamixergui all the relevant controls are up and on.
Audacity plays back fine using the Alsa default, but none of the 6
OK. Try that search again. This time add , windows xp (the comma will give
you 2 graphs on the same axes), or try , windows vista. I don't think that
this is a valid tool for predicting user base.
On Wednesday 26 March 2008 10:51 am, Daniel Burrows wrote:
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 02:43:37PM
On Tuesday 18 March 2008 07:04 am, Nuno Magalhães wrote:
I just installed Debian etch 40r3 on an AMD64 PC. However, screen
resolution is set to 640x480.
So is mine and i'm using 1024x768, how far does your monitor go? Did
'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg' work?
I have the exact same
I've used dvd-rip to do this. Works fine.
On Saturday 08 March 2008 02:34 pm, laura eznarriaga wrote:
convert video to adio
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how do you convert a dvd or mp4 to adio
is their a program for this ?_
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Enviado desde
Excuse me. I don't want to appear rude, but are you a student at Cornell and
are we doing your CS homework for you?
On Sunday 24 February 2008 02:21 pm, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
Let's say I have two directories dir1, dir2 each with 1000 files.
Of these 1000 files in each directory, there
On Thursday 17 January 2008 08:51 pm, Larry wrote:
I've been using Debian with dial-up for about 8 years and it's getting
pretty slow, so I thought I would try DSL. The problem is I have
absolutely no understanding of how DSL works. If I could get a
connection I don't even understand how the
John,
This reply was posted on the Mondo Devel list. Sorry that you missed seeing
it. I hope it helps you.
I had a similar problem. I created a Mondo DVD (from Debian Etch
stable) and received the same copy to floppies message when
attempting to boot. I solved the problem by creating a new
On Friday 30 November 2007 01:29 pm, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 05:45:35AM -0500, Mark Neidorff wrote:
Is it possible to increase the space available in /tmp without doing the
backup/repartition/reinstall/restore dance?
I'm trying to backup a dvd using k9copy
Is it possible to increase the space available in /tmp without doing the
backup/repartition/reinstall/restore dance?
I'm trying to backup a dvd using k9copy. It wants to have about 8 gig free in
the /tmp partition, but when I set the system up, I gave /tmp much less than
that. k9copy wants
Hi,
I have installed etch using an older cpu/motherboard. Now I've gotten a new
cpu/motherboard and my thinking is to re-install etch. Is there a way to get
the list of packages that are installed on the etch system into a file? I
would then want to reinstall etch and havesomething
On Tuesday 16 October 2007 06:48 pm, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
Hi all,
I'm one of the few people on the planet without a digital camera.
I have a tiny job to do on my wife's horn glasses if I can't get the
shop to do it. The hinges need changing and I'm told that its
impossible for the
On Thursday 06 September 2007 04:44 pm, Mumia W.. wrote:
On 09/06/2007 02:19 PM, Rody wrote:
How can i tell if clamav is up to date?
If i run freshclam as root it tells me that main.inc is up to date, but
as all mirrors refuse to connect, i can't say if daily.inc and any other
file are
On Saturday 25 August 2007 07:52 pm, Richard Lyons wrote:
I just noticed with a sinking feeling that my root partition is 96% full.
I do wish I hadn't let the installer use LVM and choose its own sizes.
Now I am stuck trying to work round its choices. I also notice a number
of directories
Hi all,
Recently I've set up a Debian Etch box which I'm nearly ready to bring up full
time (currently using a different distribution...been a linux user for over
10 years).
Here's an example of what this message is about:
I've been reading the debian-user list for a bit, and I've noticed
On Thursday 16 August 2007 01:32 pm, Deephay wrote:
Greetings all,
I made a very stupid mistake two hours ago, I bought a new USB storage
disk and I was trying to test the speed:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda1
sadly I typed sdb1 as sda1 and that was the /boot partition, I
realized it
On Tuesday 14 August 2007 04:18 pm, Michael Shuler wrote:
On 08/14/2007 03:06 PM, Magnus Pedersen wrote:
Mark Neidorff wrote:
First...vim. (Yeah, I'm old school) OK. I'm in text entry mode and
I want to navagate up/down/left or right. If I press an arrow key, a
new line is opened
Hi all,
After using another distribution for over 12 years, I've decided to give
Debian Etch a good try. I've now got the luxury of having a second computer
to try things on, so I've installed Debian on that and hope to move
everything else over shortly. Right now, I've got two annoyances
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