Re: Replicating a Squeeze system on Wheezy

2013-07-03 Thread Michael Tsang
dpkg --get-selections file dpkg --set-selections file On Wednesday 03 July 2013 18:26:30 Tony van der Hoff wrote: So my outline plan is to do a standard netinst for wheezy on the new box, and then wave a magic wand to get it to install all the missing packages. All I'm missing is the magic

Re: Debian is the best!

2013-06-18 Thread Michael Tsang
On Tuesday 18 June 2013 00:01:49 Dirk wrote: Grub 2.00 (unstable) failed me the 2nd time now and resulted in a unuseable system showing only the grub rescue console that does *nothing* Grub 2.00 does everything now and nothing right... not even load a kernel.. That is shit.

Re: Debian in a VMware VM and LVM

2012-03-16 Thread Michael Tsang
On Tuesday 13 March 2012 22:52:01 Bonno Bloksma wrote: Using the 6.0.4 amd netinst CD I created a small 10GB virtual machine (VM). I then realized I needed it to be a bit bigger so I wanted to extend the LVM environment and add that space to the /var logical volume. Of course as this is a

Re: PHP5 scripts not served by apache2 on Squeeze

2012-01-04 Thread Michael Tsang
On Wednesday, January 04, 2012 05:28 PM, Kristian Lampen wrote: Hello, I have a fresh install of apache2 and php on my server and I can not get php to work, php-scripts are not executed by apache, just the plain script is served to the browser. The problem looks similar to this one: Can't

Re: apache vhost: remote document root

2012-01-04 Thread Michael Tsang
On Wednesday, January 04, 2012 05:20 PM, Victor Nitu wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I have a minor configuration problem, and I need your help. On my home network, apache is working fine with vhosts, but I need a way to redirect inbound traffic requiring a

Re: Reboot and all I get is a grub prompt.

2011-12-05 Thread Michael Tsang
On Monday 05 December 2011 22:44:51 Harry Putnam wrote: Johann Spies jsp...@sun.ac.za writes: On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 03:38:22PM +0200, Harry Putnam wrote: I'm bunrning a systemRescue cd now... but any suggestions will be most welcome. Booting with a live CD (like systemRescue) or the

Help on packet forwarding

2011-10-27 Thread Michael Tsang
I'm now on a router in 3 networks, where eth0 and eth1 are in 2 LANs and eth2 are in a WAN. Here are the details: root@debian:/home/michael# ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:e0:4c:4d:77:06 inet addr:192.168.1.1 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6

Done: Re: Help on packet forwarding

2011-10-27 Thread Michael Tsang
I found that it is the problem of routing on my test machine on the 192.168.1.0/24 network, fixed. On Thursday 27 October 2011 18:08:06 you wrote: I'm now on a router in 3 networks, where eth0 and eth1 are in 2 LANs and eth2 are in a WAN. Here are the details: root@debian:/home/michael#

How can I input Chinese under the Linux console?

2011-04-06 Thread Michael Tsang
Hello everyone, I'm trying to set up a Chinese environment under the framebuffer Linux console. I've already installed jfbterm and it can display Chinese for me. How can I input Chinese into jfbterm? Also, I can't get jfbterm work with mouse. Can you suggest another framebuffer terminal which

Re: How can I input Chinese under the Linux console?

2011-04-06 Thread Michael Tsang
On Wednesday 06 April 2011 21:31:29 张启德 wrote: 2011/4/6 Michael Tsang mikl...@gmail.com: Try zchon or fbterm, you should run zhcon --utf8 instead of zhcon . The default encoding in zhcon is GB2312, but you locale is set to utf8, so zhcon cannot display chinese properly. If you want

Re: German umlauts, never ending story

2011-03-18 Thread Michael Tsang
On Friday 18 March 2011 01:43:19 Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: And I mean NOT filenames with German umlauts, but filenames copied from a fat or ntfs with German umlauts, where those umlauts are not shown correctly. Isn't your FAT or NTFS using UTF-8?! Isn't your system completely in UTF-8? I don't

Re: How do I tel SSL to trust a certificate?

2011-02-27 Thread Michael Tsang
On Monday 28 February 2011 05:51:21 Marc Shapiro wrote: I am trying to access my work computer from home using the Citrix client. First, I connect to the companies web-site and log in. I navigate from there to a link for remote login. On selecting that, I should be presented with a login

Re: Unrecognized security certificate warning is gone

2011-02-25 Thread Michael Tsang
On Friday 25 February 2011 12:37:52 Marc Shapiro wrote: I am using Firefox, not Iceweasel, but I think this question should apply in either case. I am trying to connect to work using the Citrix client. I used to get a warning that the certificate was not recognized and do I want to continue,

Re: Can't Create SymLinks on CF Card

2011-02-22 Thread Michael Tsang
On Wednesday 23 February 2011 04:14:37 Hal Vaughan wrote: I found this when using tar to unpack an OS image archive. I've been doing this for a while on another CF card and had no problem. But now, when I untar the archive, I keep getting cannot create symlink and operation not permitted. Is

Re: cannot aptitude -t experimental install perl

2011-02-18 Thread Michael Tsang
On Friday 18 February 2011 08:57:34 jida...@jidanni.org wrote: Gentlemen, I find no way to install the experimental version of perl. Are you using the unstable version of Debian? # aptitude -t experimental install ~i~nperl The following packages will be upgraded: perl perl-base perl-doc

Re: PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library

2011-02-16 Thread Michael Tsang
On Wednesday 16 February 2011 17:34:39 Boblitz John wrote: I'm getting the following error every 30 to 60 minutes in my mail: PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib/php5/20090626/expect.so' - /usr/lib/php5/20090626/expect.so: cannot open shared object file: No

Re: Unable to mount [device] Not Authorized

2011-02-16 Thread Michael Tsang
On Wednesday 16 February 2011 16:37:09 Chris wrote: Hi everyone, Since I do a normal update, I can't mount my flash drive from nautilus. It works before. The error message is: Unable to mount [device] Not Authorized Is it something related to PolicyKit? -- Please avoid sending me Word

Re: Trying to Switch from Ubuntu to Debian

2011-02-16 Thread Michael Tsang
On Wednesday 16 February 2011 11:47:35 Doug wrote: You might want to look at MINT before you commit to Debian. It's derived from Ubuntu, but in general doesn't follow the craziness of Ubuntu. Like, the windows buttons are on the right, where they belong. And I doubt that they will go to

Re: two surprises from testing install

2011-02-16 Thread Michael Tsang
On Wednesday 16 February 2011 06:13:15 Steve Kleene wrote: I just succeeded in installing today's version of testing and found two surprises. Maybe these should be separate posts. Anyway, here they are: 1. /etc/apt/sources.list, which is: -- # # deb

Re: aptitude update/upgrade not syncing properly for a squeeze upgrade

2011-02-15 Thread Michael Tsang
On Wednesday 09 February 2011 23:02:32 Jeffrey B. Green wrote: On 02/09/2011 08:33 AM, Jeffrey B. Green wrote: [...snip...] Anyway, in a nutshell, I'm upgrading from a reprepro local repository that is currently up to date with the debian repositories. [...snip...] The reprepro

Re: Trouble PXE Boot After Kernel Starts Loading

2011-02-15 Thread Michael Tsang
On Tuesday 15 February 2011 16:17:27 Hal Vaughan wrote: I have a Soekris Net5501 and I'm using tftp to boot pxelinux.0 and, ultimately, from there, I want to install Squeeze. First, I have to thank Debian, since the PXE boot explanation (sorry, lost the link from earlier) was a very good

What does ${distro} and ${distro-codename} in apt.conf mean?

2011-02-13 Thread Michael Tsang
Hi all, The meaning of these expansions in apt.conf seems to be undocumented in apt.conf(5). What do these mean? Also, is there a variable that expands to stable, testing, unstable, etc? Regards, Michael -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See

Re: Error updating from lenny to squeeze

2011-02-11 Thread Michael Tsang
On Friday 11 February 2011 17:52:53 Make Compile wrote: W: GPG error: http://security.debian.org stable/updates Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY AED4B06F473041FA W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these

Re: debian - ubuntu

2011-01-26 Thread Michael Tsang
On Wednesday 26 January 2011 19:45:46 artorius wrote: hi, it's my first post and i'm newbie on debian an ubuntu too. the prbolem is that i have tried to install ubuntu rigt after the setup of debian and the laptop (hp nc6000) gives me this message: (process:285) : Glib - warning xx : getpw

Re: No lvm2 volumes after kernel update

2010-07-12 Thread Michael Tsang
On Monday 12 July 2010 17:53:56 Konstantin Kletschke wrote: Well the update itself did run very well, grub2 loads new kernel and ramdisk and iniiates to start userspace. There pvscan detects no physical volumes anymore all of a sudden. Booting the old kernel again runs well and the bos comes

apt package preference

2010-06-22 Thread Michael Tsang
Consider the following: Package foo is installed (version 1.0). As it is not in any of the repositories, its priority is 100. Package foo is available in both repo xyz and pqr. The version in xyz is 0.9 and its priority is 990; the version in pqr is 1.1 and its priority is 500. Can foo be

Re: Installing from businesscard ISO

2010-06-20 Thread Michael Tsang
On Sunday 20 June 2010 19:03:59 Disc Magnet wrote: If I install Debian from a businesscard ISOs, what am I going to miss as far as software and packages are concerned? Or does it work like a normal CD-1 iso install because it pulls down everything required from the Internet? Is there a way

How to change the console into UTF-8 mode for FreeBSD kernels?

2010-06-20 Thread Michael Tsang
It's really annoying if the console isn't in UTF-8 mode as every bit of my system is in Unicode to prevent any compatibility problems. -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html signature.asc Description: This is a

Re: Installing from businesscard ISO

2010-06-20 Thread Michael Tsang
On Sunday 20 June 2010 19:53:42 Disc Magnet wrote: On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Greg Madden gomadtr...@gci.net wrote: The business card iso does not have much, it sets up a network connection and downloads everything..so you need a net connection. The netinstall iso has the base system