Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-31 Thread Keith McKenzie
On Wed, 25 Jul 2012, Joel Rees wrote: From research that I had previously done, the simplest option (for me, being a fairly simple kind of person) appeared to be PC-BSD (http://www.pcbsd.org/). PC-BSD 8.x had only a KDE GUI (from memory), and I am, a GNOME GUI user (from memory, one of the

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-30 Thread Joel Rees
On 7/25/12, Bret Busby b...@busby.net wrote: On Wed, 25 Jul 2012, Joel Rees wrote: On 7/23/12, Bret Busby b...@busby.net wrote: [...] One of the reasons that I wanted to be able to log in as root, is to perform an update on that system. The system is running Firestarter on Debian 5.

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-30 Thread Richard Hector
On 31/07/12 13:35, Joel Rees wrote: Looking at Samsung's pages, they say the scanner is compatible with twain, so you should be able to take a scan from it okay. Um, my understanding of TWAIN may be rusty and incomplete, but my understanding is that it's an interface between their (Windows)

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 24 iul 12, 01:34:16, Bret Busby wrote: My previous experience with splix, is not good. From memory, I tried splix with the first CLX-3185FW (it died a few months ago, just before the Debian 5 workstation died, from memory - we have an unsafe electricity supply in this state), as

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 24 iul 12, 01:20:26, Bret Busby wrote: It seems strange (to me), that notification of an update release is broadcast, and then all repositories of that version, are disappeared at the same time as that release. Quoting from the announcement: , | Please note that the oldstable

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-25 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 02:27:25 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: On Tue, 24 Jul 2012, Camaleón wrote: (...) Debian archive mirror hostname: (http://http.debian.net/debian-archive) You can try here with just the hostname, that is: http.debian.net Please enter the directory in which the mirror of the

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-25 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 02:42:44 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: On Mon, 23 Jul 2012, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 01:20:26 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: (...) It seems strange (to me), that notification of an update release is broadcast, and then all repositories of that version, are

Samsung CLX-3185 driver(s) - was Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-25 Thread Bret Busby
On Wed, 25 Jul 2012, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Ma, 24 iul 12, 01:34:16, Bret Busby wrote: My previous experience with splix, is not good. From memory, I tried splix with the first CLX-3185FW (it died a few months ago, just before the Debian 5 workstation died, from memory - we have an

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-25 Thread Bret Busby
On Wed, 25 Jul 2012, Andrei POPESCU wrote: Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 19:18:34 From: Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account On Ma, 24 iul 12, 01:20:26, Bret Busby wrote: It seems strange (to me

Re: Samsung CLX-3185 driver(s) - was Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-25 Thread Slavko
Hi, Dňa Thu, 26 Jul 2012 00:48:20 +0800 (WST) Bret Busby b...@busby.net napísal: I believe that it was Debian 5 with which I had tried splix previously. In looking at http://splix.ap2c.org/ , the Samsung CLX-3185 is not listed as being compatible with splix. My experiences with splix and

Re: Samsung CLX-3185 driver(s) - was Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 26 iul 12, 00:48:20, Bret Busby wrote: I believe that it was Debian 5 with which I had tried splix previously. In looking at http://splix.ap2c.org/ , the Samsung CLX-3185 is not listed as being compatible with splix. However, using Synaptic, I have installed splix. But, splix

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-24 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 01:45:15 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: On Mon, 23 Jul 2012, Brian wrote: On Mon 23 Jul 2012 at 17:14:42 +, Camaleón wrote: debian.net ! debian.org I think that should be debian.net != debian.org (?) :) (...) Yes if you wanted to be programmatically literal ;-)

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-24 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 02:04:37 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: On Mon, 23 Jul 2012, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 18:23:02 +0100, Brian wrote: As sure as I can be without moving round the world and after reading http.debian.net. But it is easy for you to test for your country. We'll wait

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-24 Thread Bret Busby
On Tue, 24 Jul 2012, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 02:04:37 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: On Mon, 23 Jul 2012, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 18:23:02 +0100, Brian wrote: As sure as I can be without moving round the world and after reading http.debian.net. But it is easy for you

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-24 Thread Bret Busby
On Mon, 23 Jul 2012, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 01:20:26 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: (...) It seems strange (to me), that notification of an update release is broadcast, and then all repositories of that version, are disappeared at the same time as that release. No repo has

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-24 Thread Joel Rees
On 7/23/12, Bret Busby b...@busby.net wrote: [...] One of the reasons that I wanted to be able to log in as root, is to perform an update on that system. The system is running Firestarter on Debian 5. However, another problem has arisen, that indicates that that system apparently cannot

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-24 Thread Bret Busby
On Wed, 25 Jul 2012, Joel Rees wrote: On 7/23/12, Bret Busby b...@busby.net wrote: [...] One of the reasons that I wanted to be able to log in as root, is to perform an update on that system. The system is running Firestarter on Debian 5. However, another problem has arisen, that indicates

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-23 Thread Keith McKenzie
Bret Busby wrote: I have a Samsung MFP printer thing; a CLX-3185FW, and I had been able to use it with a Debian 5 system that I had been using. Then, the Debian 5 system went awry (a separate system from the firewall system), and became apparently unusable. So, I installed Debian 6 on

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-23 Thread Bret Busby
On Mon, 23 Jul 2012, Keith McKenzie wrote: Bret Busby wrote: I have a Samsung MFP printer thing; a CLX-3185FW, and I had been able to use it with a Debian 5 system that I had been using. Then, the Debian 5 system went awry (a separate system from the firewall system), and became apparently

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-23 Thread Keith McKenzie
. Maybe this is what you want (?) http://archive.debian.org/debian/dists/Debian-5.0/main/installer-i386/20090123lenny10/images/cdrom/ HTH -- That is, I think, one of the places that I looked. But, with what is there, being Index of

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-23 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 22 July 2012 19:08:46 Andrei POPESCU wrote: But I was unable to install the drivers for the printer, on the Debian 6 workstation. Try splix. +1 Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-23 Thread Mika Suomalainen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 22.07.2012 20:49, Bret Busby wrote: However, another problem has arisen, that indicates that that system apparently cannot be updated, and has to stay as it is, without having been updated for about a year or so, which is unfortunate for a

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-23 Thread Brian
On Mon 23 Jul 2012 at 17:39:23 +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: On 22.07.2012 20:49, Bret Busby wrote: However, another problem has arisen, that indicates that that system apparently cannot be updated, and has to stay as it is, without having been updated for about a year or so, which is

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-23 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 17:47:45 +0100, Brian wrote: On Mon 23 Jul 2012 at 17:39:23 +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: Try putting the following to your /etc/apt/sources.list on that Debian 5. deb http://http.debian.net/debian-archive/debian lenny deb-src

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-23 Thread Bret Busby
On Mon, 23 Jul 2012, Brian wrote: Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 00:47:45 From: Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk Reply-To: debian-user debian-user@lists.debian.org To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account Resent-Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 16:48:03 + (UTC

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-23 Thread Brian
On Mon 23 Jul 2012 at 17:14:42 +, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 17:47:45 +0100, Brian wrote: Neither will work as none of the mirrors used by http.debian.net has the Lenny achive on it. Mmm... sure? ;-) debian.net ! debian.org As sure as I can be without moving round the

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-23 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 01:20:26 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: (...) It seems strange (to me), that notification of an update release is broadcast, and then all repositories of that version, are disappeared at the same time as that release. No repo has dissapeared but moved. Do the ISO images for

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-23 Thread Bret Busby
On Mon, 23 Jul 2012, Lisi wrote: On Sunday 22 July 2012 19:08:46 Andrei POPESCU wrote: But I was unable to install the drivers for the printer, on the Debian 6 workstation. Try splix. +1 Lisi My previous experience with splix, is not good. From memory, I tried splix with the first

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-23 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 18:23:02 +0100, Brian wrote: On Mon 23 Jul 2012 at 17:14:42 +, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 17:47:45 +0100, Brian wrote: Neither will work as none of the mirrors used by http.debian.net has the Lenny achive on it. Mmm... sure? ;-) debian.net !

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-23 Thread Bret Busby
On Mon, 23 Jul 2012, Brian wrote: On Mon 23 Jul 2012 at 17:14:42 +, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 17:47:45 +0100, Brian wrote: Neither will work as none of the mirrors used by http.debian.net has the Lenny achive on it. Mmm... sure? ;-) debian.net ! debian.org I think that

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-23 Thread Bret Busby
On Mon, 23 Jul 2012, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 18:23:02 +0100, Brian wrote: On Mon 23 Jul 2012 at 17:14:42 +, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 17:47:45 +0100, Brian wrote: Neither will work as none of the mirrors used by http.debian.net has the Lenny achive on it.

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-23 Thread Brian
On Mon 23 Jul 2012 at 17:37:50 +, Camaleón wrote: *** Using the redirector Replace your currently configured Debian mirror in sources.list with the following address: (...) Archived releases (archive.debian.org): http://http.debian.net/debian-archive *** The host

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-23 Thread Bret Busby
On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 01:20:26 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: (...) It seems strange (to me), that notification of an update release is broadcast, and then all repositories of that version, are disappeared at the same time as that release. No repo has dissapeared but moved. Do the ISO images for

Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-22 Thread Bret Busby
On Mon, 16 Jul 2012, Denis Witt wrote: On 16.07.2012 10:01, Bret Busby wrote: I have forgotten the root password, and have not logged into root on that computer, or updated the system, for about a year, I think. Do you have physical access to this machine? Or can you get someone to boot

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 23 iul 12, 01:49:21, Bret Busby wrote: I have a Samsung MFP printer thing; a CLX-3185FW, and I had been able to use it with a Debian 5 system that I had been using. Then, the Debian 5 system went awry (a separate system from the firewall system), and became apparently unusable. So,