Fw: Fwd: How do I troubleshoot wireless network dropping?

2020-07-06 Thread Matthew Campbell
I wouldn't recommend using ifconfig to enable or disable your second network card. It is somewhat deprecated. Try using ifup and ifdown. name=Matthew%20Campbell=trenix25%40pm.me Original Message On Jul 5, 2020, 9:23 PM, Borden Rhodes wrote: >> Use ps x to see how many copies

Fw: Fw: Fw: Grub cannot see my new hard drive

2020-07-03 Thread Matthew Campbell
, David Wright wrote: > On Thu 02 Jul 2020 at 21:17:57 (+), Matthew Campbell wrote: >> On Jul 2, 2020, 1:08 PM, David Wright wrote: >> > On Thu 02 Jul 2020 at 08:12:00 (+), Matthew Campbell wrote: >> >> On Jul 1, 2020, 7:50 PM, David Wright wrote: >> >&g

Fw: Fw: Grub cannot see my new hard drive

2020-06-14 Thread Matthew Campbell
Man, that text really got screwed up. name=Matthew%20Campbell=trenix25%40pm.me Original Message On Jun 14, 2020, 6:20 PM, Matthew Campbell wrote: > The internal hard drive was visible to Grub, as was the other external USB > hard drive, a Western Digital drive.

Fw: Fw: Grub cannot see my new hard drive

2020-06-14 Thread Matthew Campbell
the Toshiba hard drive instead. name=Matthew%20Campbell=trenix25%40pm.me Original Message On Jun 13, 2020, 4:00 PM, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2020-06-13 at 18:44, David Christensen wrote: [that on 2020-06-13 at > 15:38, Matthew Campbell wrote:] >> /dev/sda: Toshiba MK1

Fw: Monitor Font During Boot

2020-06-13 Thread Matthew Campbell
Use the setfont command to change your console font on the fly. Look in /usr/share/consolefonts for available choices and try them out. I use setfont /usr/share/consolefonts/Uni3-TerminusBold32x16.psf.gz systemd sets it while booting too. I haven't figured that part out yet. It's a systemd

Fw: Grub cannot see my new hard drive

2020-06-13 Thread Matthew Campbell
name=Matthew%20Campbell=trenix25%40pm.me Original Message On Jun 12, 2020, 11:46 PM, David Christensen < dpchr...@holgerdanske.com> wrote: On 2020-06-12 17:58, Matthew Campbell wrote: > I hope I don't create a fight with this. > > I booted the Debian netinst dis

Fw: Grub cannot see my new hard drive

2020-06-13 Thread Matthew Campbell
name=Matthew%20Campbell=trenix25%40pm.me Original Message On Jun 12, 2020, 8:32 PM, elvis < el...@dogonfire.com> wrote: On 13/6/20 10:58 am, Matthew Campbell wrote: > I hope I don't create a fight with this. > > I booted the Debian netinst disc and installed Lin

Fw: How long will this take?

2020-06-10 Thread Matthew Campbell
I wipe a new drive for two reasons. 1) I like to make sure it's nice and clean which makes me comfortable. It bothers me if I don't. 2) I can make a reasonable determination about which sectors were used when setting up the partition table(s) and any boot loaders so I know which sectors were

Fw: How long will this take?

2020-06-09 Thread Matthew Campbell
I have started the process over from the beginning. It seems to respond well to obs=4M as the write speed has gone from 3.7 MB/s to 28.2 MB/s, which is about the same as where it was with obs=1M. It should take a couple of days to complete this write process. The WD drive that I have, which is

Re: How long will this take?

2020-06-08 Thread Matthew Campbell
# cat /proc/24283/fdinfo/1 pos: 877106917376 flags: 011 mnt_id: 21 # Is that in bytes? stdin and stderr both show a position of zero. name=Matthew%20Campbell=trenix25%40pm.me Original Message On Jun 8, 2020, 1:32 PM, Nicolas George wrote: > Matthew Campbell (12020-06

How long will this take?

2020-06-08 Thread Matthew Campbell
I bought a new 4 terrabyte hard drive that is connected with a USB cable using USB2. It took about 32 hours to read every sector on the drive to look for bad sectors. I started blanking the sectors using /dev/zero last Friday night. It still isn't done. Is there a way I can find out how much