Getting to runlevel 1

2008-08-28 Thread Shachar Or
. Is there a quicker way? 'init 1' seems to get me in a state where there are a few daemons running that wouldn't be otherwise. -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Getting to runlevel 1

2008-08-28 Thread Shachar Or
On Friday 29 August 2008 02:15, Shachar Or wrote: Hi. In order to rsync my root, I switch to single user mode. While I'm quite positive that it is good that I quit my desktop session before the rsync, I'm not sure what good it does to switch to single user mode. I switch to single user mode

Re: network restart

2008-08-27 Thread Shachar Or
networking restart does not re-do the IP properly? Use dhclient. Thanks for any pointers, Bob -- Dr. Robert J. Jerrard, Professor of Mathematics, Concordia University College of Alberta, 7128 Ada Blvd., Edmonton, Alberta, T5B 4E4, Canada. Phone: (780) 479-9291, Fax: (780) 474-1933. -- Shachar

Re: Keyboard Not working during Install of 4.0

2008-08-25 Thread Shachar Or
and mouse work. But not the SMP or K7 kernels. Is ps2 being dropped? Is there a kernel parameter I could pass when booting the netinstall disk to get the keyboard working? Thanks. ps2 never gave me problems... -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Cannot read partition table on disk.

2008-08-25 Thread Shachar Or
installer, it sees the disk as a SCSI (sda) instead of IDE (hda). Even though this disk is actually IDE, it somehow only works when treated as SCSI. How can I force debian to treat the device as a scsi device? Have you looked into the options at the BIOS setup? --Ben Olive -- Shachar Or | שחר

Re: Apt sources.list and relative ssh path

2008-08-25 Thread Shachar Or
with specifying absolute path. Make what work? Thanks, m. -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Apt sources.list and relative ssh path

2008-08-25 Thread Shachar Or
On Monday 25 August 2008 17:13, Marcin Lewandowski wrote: Shachar Or pisze: On Monday 25 August 2008 15:17, Marcin Lewandowski wrote: Hi, is there any way to specify relative path on the remote ssh account in the /etc/apt/sources.list file? What does ssh have to do with the sources.list

Re: Cannot read partition table on disk.

2008-08-25 Thread Shachar Or
the opposite). --Ben Olive On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 9:11 AM, Shachar Or [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 25 August 2008 14:09, Ben Olive wrote: I am trying to install debian on a computer with one IDE drive attached. Partman on the debian installer does not see a partition table

Re: Solving sudoku with aptitude

2008-08-24 Thread Shachar Or
/package-management-sudoku/ Regards, Raj Kiran -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. -- Albert Einstein -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: ndiswrapper kernel module, precompiled version in testing?

2008-08-24 Thread Shachar Or
using Debian packages. But then, I tought I should ask help here, maybe I am missing a binary package with ndiswrapper kernel module already compiled. Install build-essential and module-assistant and the ndiswrapper packages and use m-a to build the ndiswrapper module package. -- Shachar

Re: ndiswrapper kernel module, precompiled version in testing?

2008-08-24 Thread Shachar Or
On Sunday 24 August 2008 20:46, Paul Dufresne wrote: 2008/8/24 Shachar Or [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sunday 24 August 2008 19:50, Paul Dufresne wrote: Hook the system up to a wired connection, then, or use the first CD (I think it has everything you need for that). I have CD #1 and #2

Re: Etch netinstl. problem starting kwrite, synaptic, gedit.etc

2008-08-24 Thread Shachar Or
/destroyed the application. debian:/home/djmons# Any pointers as to what may be the problem here, gratefully received. You need sux instead of su. Nigel. -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Etch netinstl. problem starting kwrite, synaptic, gedit.etc

2008-08-24 Thread Shachar Or
On Monday 25 August 2008 00:16, Nigel Henry wrote: You need sux instead of su. Nigel. -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ When I try the command sux, I just get a command not found. Thanks for the reply though. I'm game for trying anything at the moment, and all

Re: Migrate from AMD64 to i386

2008-08-23 Thread Shachar Or
tar -xzf etc.tar.gz This is all off the top of my head, use man to get the exact syntax. Looks like what I thought should be done, but maybe there was a simpler way... I'll will try this shortly... See my script perhaps. Thanks, - Joris -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http

Re: IP Forward on Testing

2008-08-23 Thread Shachar Or
-up in your interfaces file. Thank you -- Zaki Akhmad -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: need help with cc

2008-08-23 Thread Shachar Or
there is no hook beneath it. -- Thomas Jefferson -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: automounting in xfce

2008-08-23 Thread Shachar Or
the CD icon on the desktop. Thanks again. John -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Happy birthday, Debian!

2008-08-21 Thread Shachar Or
On Thursday 21 August 2008 09:30, NN_il_Confusionario wrote: On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 12:44:51AM +0300, Shachar Or wrote: On Thursday 21 August 2008 00:28, NN_il_Confusionario wrote: http://debian.org.ua/debian-archive/dists/bo/main/disks-i386/1997-10-13/ install.txt (use your nearest mirror

Re: interface for tar

2008-08-21 Thread Shachar Or
: cd /home/yourname/.avfs/home/yourname/garro.rar#/ This works for tar, gzip, rar, bzip2 and others. This sounds good. cheers, Owen. -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Errors DirMngr

2008-08-21 Thread Shachar Or
On Thursday 21 August 2008 14:21, Zaki Akhmad wrote: Problems solved. I change testing to unstable :-D No more dirmngr errors No. Expect more bugs from unstable. -za, -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Migrate: Windows AD -- Linux

2008-08-21 Thread Shachar Or
everything exceptionally easy, one does need to know his way around the system a little. Samba has good documentation. Currently we're using Windows 2003 evaluation and its going to expire. Thanks! cheers, janskey -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: The minimum running X

2008-08-21 Thread Shachar Or
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Re: Very slow install

2008-08-21 Thread Shachar Or
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Re: interface for tar

2008-08-21 Thread Shachar Or
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Re: Very slow install

2008-08-21 Thread Shachar Or
On Thursday 21 August 2008 14:59, Shachar Or wrote: On Thursday 21 August 2008 14:44, Nishita Desai wrote: Hello, I am trying to install Debian GNU/Linux 4.0r4 on a Core 2 Duo machine. I am using the AMD64 version. But the install is proceeding v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y. It's already been two

Re: Very slow install

2008-08-21 Thread Shachar Or
tell me what could be the matter? I had installed 4.0r3 on my laptop before this, the install was fine. Perhaps you can try the etchnhalf netinstall. Thanks, Nishita -- http://nishita.50webs.com/ -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Very slow install

2008-08-21 Thread Shachar Or
On Thursday 21 August 2008 21:50, Nishita Desai wrote: On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:14 AM, Shachar Or [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 21 August 2008 14:44, Nishita Desai wrote: Hello, I am trying to install Debian GNU/Linux 4.0r4 on a Core 2 Duo machine. I am using the AMD64 version

Re: Very slow install

2008-08-21 Thread Shachar Or
? No, 32 versus 64-bits has nothing to do with the number of processors/cores. Check your BIOS settings, to see if for some reason multi-core support is disabled. And check for BIOS upgrades, perhaps. -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: compatibility

2008-08-21 Thread Shachar Or
free sound editor for Linux. Don't remember. Any info you can supply would greatly help my decision. Thanks very much. Yours sincerely, Kenn Bannerman -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: compatibility

2008-08-21 Thread Shachar Or
On Thursday 21 August 2008 22:23, Shachar Or wrote: On Thursday 21 August 2008 21:43, Kenn Bannerman wrote: I'm looking at various Linux versions but none seem to indicate whether they are compatible with certain software programs such as: You mean distributions, I assume. AutoCAD

Re: interface for tar

2008-08-20 Thread Shachar Or
benefical for us and our system admin does not have to yell at us. Any thoughts or ideas? TIA -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: interface for tar

2008-08-20 Thread Shachar Or
, summarized, etc. On 08/20/08 06:34, Shachar Or wrote: After solving the problem in the immediate consider telling the developer of that simulation software to use a database! On Wednesday 20 August 2008 03:40, Mag Gam wrote: At my university we run fluid dynamic simulations. These simulations

Re: aptitude purge

2008-08-20 Thread Shachar Or
after uninstalling a lot of packages...   Thanks, Tammo   -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Happy birthday, Debian!

2008-08-20 Thread Shachar Or
I wonder if there's a system somewhere that was never re-installed, only upgraded from one of the earliest versions... It would be interesting to see what ruins can be found amongst the files. -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: proftpd issue

2008-08-20 Thread Shachar Or
installs. Thanks. Bogdan -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: no network connection

2008-08-20 Thread Shachar Or
the documentation in /usr/share/doc/ifupdown . Thanks Ed -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: no network connection

2008-08-20 Thread Shachar Or
more information. Sebastian Canagaratna -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: type 1 fonts (without X11)? [actually not SOLVED at all

2008-08-20 Thread Shachar Or
that this can be workedaround by 'touch /usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi'. Thanks Adam -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Happy birthday, Debian!

2008-08-20 Thread Shachar Or
On Wednesday 20 August 2008 23:21, NN_il_Confusionario wrote: On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 07:58:46PM +0300, Shachar Or wrote: I wonder if there's a system somewhere that was never re-installed, only upgraded from one of the earliest versions... yes but not on the disk where debian 1.1

Re: no network connection

2008-08-20 Thread Shachar Or
documentation and understand how the ifupdown thing works? Also, 'man ifconfig' to see how to check the status of your interfaces. Ed Shachar Or wrote: On Wednesday 20 August 2008 22:46, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: Ed Sutter wrote: Hi, I have Debian 4.0 on a machine now for 2 days. Thanks

Re: no network connection

2008-08-20 Thread Shachar Or
for that, so you should not have a problem if you know a little how networking works. If you know less than little, you might have to do some reading. Perhaps TLDP will have some reading material. Shachar Or wrote: On Wednesday 20 August 2008 23:29, Ed Sutter wrote: Thanks for the responses

Re: Happy birthday, Debian!

2008-08-20 Thread Shachar Or
On Thursday 21 August 2008 00:28, NN_il_Confusionario wrote: On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 11:33:05PM +0300, Shachar Or wrote: On Wednesday 20 August 2008 23:21, NN_il_Confusionario wrote: Try it yourself using archive.debian.net : 1.3.1 is quite similar to the first release 1.1. Install

Re: interface for tar

2008-08-20 Thread Shachar Or
filesystem traffic to use that 'filesystem' which may entail only something simple as cd'ing into the 'filesystem' and starting work. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http

Re: What is the best way to deal with changing device names in Debian?

2008-08-18 Thread Shachar Or
-- update-grub should be run after the update to /etc/fstab. correct? Thanks. -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Happy birthday, Debian!

2008-08-18 Thread Shachar Or
What a nice thing, this is... an [1]interesting number by all means. 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15_(number) -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian-user] Re: AMD vs Intel and the Debian kernel

2008-08-18 Thread Shachar Or
://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2008/debconf8/low/686_Virtualisation_in_Debian_-_Present_and_future.ogg -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: screen shot.. showing error.....

2008-08-16 Thread Shachar Or
from http://backports.org . Using aptitude. An advice: Don't use graphical GUI's for package management. Connect with friends all over the world. Get Yahoo! India Messenger at http://in.messenger.yahoo.com/?wm=n/ -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: help me to solve this problem ......

2008-08-15 Thread Shachar Or
request you to hlep me to solve this problem. Be the first one to try the new Messenger 9 Beta! Go to http://in.messenger.yahoo.com/win/ OT: Get a better E-mail client. -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Upgrading Hard Drives

2008-08-15 Thread Shachar Or
Technology Department Telecommunications Services Group -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Should I allow Lenny to install a lot of KDE 4?

2008-08-15 Thread Shachar Or
. What about opening up aptitude's interface, choosing 'Mark Upgradable' from the menu and having a good look around to see what's what, exactly? Regards, -HS -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Joining .rar files

2008-08-15 Thread Shachar Or
-- If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers. - Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rar -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Upgrading Hard Drives

2008-08-15 Thread Shachar Or
the special files? I like rsync. If you do it from a live CD it will copy only files actually on disk, not the ones created dynamically by e.g. udev. There's the -x option for this. It isn't specifically for this purpose but it works. Regards, Andrei -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http

Re: Upgrading Hard Drives

2008-08-15 Thread Shachar Or
On Friday 15 August 2008 23:15, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Fri,15.Aug.08, 23:05:32, Shachar Or wrote: I like rsync. If you do it from a live CD it will copy only files actually on disk, not the ones created dynamically by e.g. udev. There's the -x option for this. It isn't specifically

Re: Upgrading Hard Drives

2008-08-15 Thread Shachar Or
On Saturday 16 August 2008 00:05, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Fri,15.Aug.08, 23:42:58, Shachar Or wrote: AFAIU -x will prevent rsync from touching /proc, /sys and /dev, but you will need the directories themselves to be present on the new root partition, so I think it is better to omit -x

Re: Upgrading Hard Drives

2008-08-15 Thread Shachar Or
-- Pantek, Inc. - http://www.pantek.com/ - [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-877-LINUX-FIX - Expert Open Source Technical Support -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

hibernate s2ram so that I could sleep well

2008-08-15 Thread Shachar Or
go on and the monitors turn on but they stay black and nothing seems to do anything. Not Alt+Ctrl+Delete, not typing in 'shutdown -r now', etc. so there's a bug in the process. This is as far as I know how to go on my own. Help? Some ouputs are attached. Good night! -- Shachar Or | שחר אור

Re: Automated downloads for duplicate laptops

2008-08-15 Thread Shachar Or
the configuring. -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Automated downloads for duplicate laptops

2008-08-15 Thread Shachar Or
), to the tune of about 850M worth. Of course, I'll need to attach it. Any way to do this quicker/easier than pointing and clicking for every computer? Note: I am using Ubuntu for the laptops, but I run Etch on my home machine doing the configuring. -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http

Re: Automated downloads for duplicate laptops

2008-08-15 Thread Shachar Or
to run each laptop as a stand alone without net access once they are in the classroom...school starts Monday and I'm trying to get these all configured... -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: disks...

2008-08-14 Thread Shachar Or
-a Linux ratty.x.ac.uk 2.6.18-6-686 #1 SMP Tue Jun 17 21:31:27 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux Mega thanks, M -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Aptitude hangs machine

2008-08-14 Thread Shachar Or
and type them yourself, or you could photograph them and make the picture available somewhere. Don't you two mean dpkg --configure -a ? -- Regards,| http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Problems mounting Windows NTFS partition...

2008-08-13 Thread Shachar Or
intentionally left Blank, please supply input) I use ntfs-3g from backports to mount ntfs. Never gave me problems. TIA, fcG. -- Frank Charles Gallacher [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Hardware

2008-08-13 Thread Shachar Or
.  http://linuxprinting.org i think. ___ _ ¡Buscá desde tu celular! Yahoo! oneSEARCH ahora está en Claro http://ar.mobile.yahoo.com/onesearch -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org

Re: PHP on Apache

2008-08-12 Thread Shachar Or
On Tuesday 12 August 2008 09:26, Zach Uram wrote: On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 12:42 AM, Shachar Or [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's libapache-mod-php5 and libapache2-mod-php5. Shalom Shachar, Are you sure all I need to do to support PHP on my webserver is to install libapache-mod-php5? I've

Re: setting the system time?

2008-08-12 Thread Shachar Or
reboot it shall still be correct. I use one of two packages for this; ntpdate or ntp. Also, type 'info date'. Thanks, Zach -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: setting the system time?

2008-08-12 Thread Shachar Or
. I set the clock to local time because with VMware I boot M$ XP, which isn't too smart about those kind of things. But perhaps VMware is? Hugo -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: How do i make debian livecd

2008-08-12 Thread Shachar Or
my whole hard drive. I don't think it is a matter of just a command. I installed Debian's live-helper and that gets you scripts. Is there a reason you cannot use Knoppix? In my experience that boots a fine system faultlessly. /me likes knoppix and grml. Hugo -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http

Re: transferring directories with scp/rsync?

2008-08-12 Thread Shachar Or
hash) it will prompt me and ask if I want to over-write it before it does? and experiment! Zach -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: APT recommendations/suggestions not obvious

2008-08-11 Thread Shachar Or
a [1]discussion in debian-devel and debian-dpkg. Haven't any replies yet. Daniel 1. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/08/msg00255.html -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: home network problem - router is smarter than me

2008-08-11 Thread Shachar Or
network. You can set up a name server in one the the hosts in the network, for example, in the Debian box. I use dnsmasq for this because it is easy to configure and it can also be a dhcp server. Regards, Andrei -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: System copy

2008-08-11 Thread Shachar Or
you mean by it must being bootable. _ Sent from my phone using flurry - Get free mobile email and news at: http://www.flurry.com -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: State of 64bit desktop

2008-08-11 Thread Shachar Or
flash except nspluginwrapper takes a whole lot more cpu than I would like it to. Thanks --kj -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Having Problems with apt-get update and apt-get upgrade

2008-08-11 Thread Shachar Or
evolution, apt wants to delete a huge number of packages and update another long list: Aptitude is the preffered package manager. You can use it's interface to get all the information to answer many if not all of your questions. Thanks! Mark -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org

Re: rsync backup to ext3-formatted usb flash drive?

2008-08-11 Thread Shachar Or
not sure that those controllers even deal with data in fs-level. Thanks, Brian -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Debian-User] Debian + non ose virtualBox

2008-08-11 Thread Shachar Or
to click r-ctrl? Sorry to repeat the same advice as previous poster but this really was the solution for me! HTH Wackojacko This reminds me that I had a problem with shared folders that I solved by reinstalling the guest additions over and over again until it worked. ... ... :/ -- Shachar

Re: What is the best way to deal with changing device names in Debian?

2008-08-11 Thread Shachar Or
UUID=a38d9a47-e26d-4e0f-8c73-24f30decd052 /mnt/backup_hdd ext3 defaults,noauto 0 0 -What is the best way to prevent the device names change from happening? -If it happens what is the best way to quickly fix this problem? Regards, Aniruddha -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org

Re: PHP on Apache

2008-08-11 Thread Shachar Or
dependencies on apache2 packages. How can I get PHP working with Apache 1.3.34-4.1+etch1? There's libapache-mod-php5 and libapache2-mod-php5. Zach -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Aptitude oddity

2008-08-10 Thread Shachar Or
everyone! -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using Logitech Quickcam on Debian 4.0

2008-08-09 Thread Shachar Or
On Saturday 09 August 2008 08:14, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 11:37:47AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: On Sat, 9 Aug 2008, Shachar Or wrote: there is both a gspca-source and gspca-modules-... packages. IIRC, the spca5xx is being replaced upstream... All this talk

our bittorrent tracker's gone senile?

2008-08-09 Thread Shachar Or
: 0.0 MB [ 0%] --d --:-- [ R: 0.00] Tracker: [Failure reason Requested download is not authorized for use with this tracker.] Now what is this? -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

APT recommendations/suggestions not obvious

2008-08-09 Thread Shachar Or
thoughts about this? Good week! -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: APT recommendations/suggestions not obvious

2008-08-09 Thread Shachar Or
On Sunday 10 August 2008 00:58, Ron Johnson wrote: On 08/09/08 15:40, Shachar Or wrote: Hi. why doesn't aptitude show me for what purpose a package reccomends or suggests another? I'd very much like that because sometimes, perhaps many times, I can't guess it and even if I can guess

Re: APT recommendations/suggestions not obvious

2008-08-09 Thread Shachar Or
the ability to turn a good scientist into a bad one; and in some cases, they can turn a good scientist into a charlatan. http://thefutureofthings.com/book/3/the-bomb-that-never-was.html -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

bittorrent tracker doesn,t like me and vnc neither, apparently

2008-08-08 Thread Shachar Or
Hi! While trying to get the DVD's via bittorrent, rtorrent tells me that Re/uested do'nload is not authorized for use 'ith this tracker for each of the do'nloads! And 'hat is this trouble that I,m having no' 'ith vnc and the keyboard mapping? Good 'eekend -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http

Re: Using Logitech Quickcam on Debian 4.0

2008-08-08 Thread Shachar Or
. there is both a gspca-source and gspca-modules-... packages. IIRC, the spca5xx is being replaced upstream... All this talk about spca... Isn't there a quickcam specific driver? I know there is... qc-usb-source is the package. I used for some logitech quickcam some time ago. A -- Shachar

Re: kontact calender export

2008-08-07 Thread Shachar Or
On Thursday 07 August 2008 09:09, L.V.Gandhi wrote: I am running etch. I was trying to export the calender and import it in outlook both xp and 2003 in windows xp.. I was getting errors like incorrect format or fiole may be corrupt. Any solutions What calendar, exactly? -- Shachar Or | שחר

Re: ath5k-based card not working

2008-08-07 Thread Shachar Or
://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Crazycomputers -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: resetting ssh after blacklist?

2008-08-06 Thread Shachar Or
faith in a shadow than in the church.--Ferdinand Magellan -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Replacing hda - Easiest Way?

2008-08-05 Thread Shachar Or
. 2. the ability to stop the transfer and resume. 3. the -P option. 4. the verbosity. 5. while using rsync, you are learning a valuable tool. -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: suspend / hibernate

2008-08-05 Thread Shachar Or
-vales.lug on irc.freenode.net The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them Albert Einstein -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: simple router

2008-08-05 Thread Shachar Or
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Re: [OT] RE: Replacing hda - Easiest Way?

2008-08-05 Thread Shachar Or
who likes good documentation to learn from, that is great! For someone who just wants it to work, that is a PITA. Shachar Or and yourself are the only ones to suggest flags to use for rsync. Even then, the full command wasn't even given which can only confuse the inexperienced. Running 'rsync

Re: Making an image of my HDD

2008-08-04 Thread Shachar Or
On Monday 04 August 2008 11:09, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: On 2008-08-01 22:09, Shachar Or wrote: On Friday 01 August 2008 10:15, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: rsync -ax / [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/backup/dir/ Does the -x option mean that it will not read mounts like /dev, /proc

Re: need sarge

2008-08-04 Thread Shachar Or
out-of-date will teach you some bad habits. Security stuff, in particular. Amazon lists used books, try them. Or, if you boycott Amazon for good and sufficient reasons, try http://www.nerdbooks.com/ . I repeat the above. Don't use old software in this regard. Mark Allums -- Shachar Or | שחר

Re: dhclient booting

2008-08-04 Thread Shachar Or
you replace this NIC with a different one or plug an additional one in to work around this? Thank you for your reply. I'd appreciate any help. Regards, Shachar Or escribió: On Monday 04 August 2008 00:56, Antonio Diaz wrote: Hi I'm using Debian Sid (kernel 2.6.26). I need

Re: Replacing hda - Easiest Way?

2008-08-04 Thread Shachar Or
in http://tldp.org . Leave the /boot outside of LVM. Do you really need all those different filesystems? For copying files, instead of cp, use rsync -axhP . -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: dhclient booting

2008-08-04 Thread Shachar Or
On Monday 04 August 2008 23:57, Antegallya wrote: Hi, Could be a problem with the network adapter or the module. Try a different adapter in the box? for me using an alternative module solved the problem. Mind saying what module, exactly and where you got it from? -- Shachar Or | שחר אור

Re: nautilus + smb connection to win2k problem

2008-08-04 Thread Shachar Or
. Hoffmann -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Replacing hda - Easiest Way?

2008-08-04 Thread Shachar Or
, have: /dev/hda1 as /boot /dev/mapper/your_vg-lv_root as / /dev/mapper/your_vg-lv_home as /home This is while /dev/hda2 and /dev/sda1 together make up the volume group your_vg . You can play with this as much as you like and you'll be keeping it all flexible for future changes. -- Shachar

Re: nautilus + smb connection to win2k problem

2008-08-04 Thread Shachar Or
On Tuesday 05 August 2008 01:54, Michal R. Hoffmann wrote: On 04/08/08 23:38, Shachar Or wrote: On Tuesday 05 August 2008 01:34, Michal R. Hoffmann wrote: Hi, Recently I have problems opening windows 2000 share in nautilus. It opens, but after a few directory changes nautilus hangs

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