On Dec 3, 2009, at 8:04 PM, Mark wrote:
Stan Hoeppner wrote:
For the money and compatibility you're probably better off going
with an
actual SATA controller instead of that Frankenstein adatper. They're
the same price.
--
Good point Stan;
Installing squeeze on a G4 PowerMac from the sid d-i daily
Businesscard CD.
All seemed nominal during the install. But after the reboot,
the login screen did not appear. I was left sitting at a text
console. In fact, it appears that gdm and nearly all of the
gnome-desktop-environment task
There is no linux-image-2.6.31-1 package in the Sid repo.
This means that when I try to install Sid from a current daily
Businesscard CD, it fails while installing the kernel.
linux-image-2.6-powerpc: Depends: linux-image-2.6.31-1-powerpc which
is a virtual package.
This may be a known
Configure them both to use their local clock as reference.
On the server fudge the local clock to stratum 10.
On the client fudge the local clock to stratum 13.
Have each reference the other as a peer rather than server.
If this is unclear, let me know and I'll try to be more explicit.
Rick
Debian on PowerPC seems to be in trouble...
1) The daily d-i CDImage for PowerPC hasn't been updated since Dec 12th.
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/
2) Even if it were updated, it still would not be possible to install
Debian Sid on
On Dec 16, 2009, at 10:38 PM, Frans Pop wrote:
Again, there is *nothing* wrong with the installer here. We welcome
reports
of issues with installations of testing, but issues with sid are
seldom
caused by problems in the installer.
If you say so, I have to agree that there is *nothing*
On Dec 17, 2009, at 10:48 AM, Frans Pop wrote:
On Thursday 17 December 2009, Rick Thomas wrote:
I have listed several problems that exist in Sid and Squeeze, some of
which prevent successful installation (even though there is nothing
wrong with the installer).
The problems in Sid
On Dec 17, 2009, at 12:22 PM, Frans Pop wrote:
(And please do not over-inflate the severity of bug reports: a desktop
environment not being installable does not make the installation
system
unusable.)
It may not be grave for the installer (indeed, you've already
established at great
I understand normal churn in testing and unstable, but these
problems have persisted for over a week.
Attached is the log of an attempt to do aptitude full-upgrade on my
Debian Squeeze PowerPC test machine.
Here's the part that first indicates there might be trouble...
The following
I understand normal churn in testing and unstable, but these
problems have persisted for over a week.
Attached is the log of an attempt to do aptitude full-upgrade on my
Debian Sid amd64 test machine.
Here's the part that first indicates there might be trouble...
The following packages
On Dec 18, 2009, at 1:27 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Hi,
I have a 4.5 year old Epox 8VTAI mobo whose battery has never been
changed.
I just noticed that the time does not step when the power is off.
Is that because the battery is low on power?
I don't suppose there is a way to change the
On Dec 17, 2009, at 5:39 PM, Frans Pop wrote:
On Thursday 17 December 2009, Rick Thomas wrote:
It may not be grave for the installer (indeed, you've already
established at great length that it's not an installer problem at
all)
but that doesn't make it any the less grave for whatever
On Dec 19, 2009, at 6:59 AM, Johan Grönqvist wrote:
Rick Thomas skrev:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
xserver-xorg-video-apm: Depends: xserver-xorg-core (=
2:1.6.99.900) but 2:1.6.5-1 is installed.
and a bunch of other xserver-xorg-video-* packages have the same
problem
On Dec 20, 2009, at 4:35 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Cecil Knutson put forth on 12/20/2009 1:47 PM:
Hello, Osamu,
The system is connected to a home DSL network.
Just do a pure net install and be done with it already.
Hi Cecil,
Stan's suggestion is correct, in spite of the way he
Aptitude claims that gvfs, libempathy-gtk28, libempathy30, and
openjdk-6-jre-lib are broken in Sid.
I understand normal Sid churn but these have been broken for a
couple of weeks.
Are they not really broken, just (e.g.) being replaced by something
else with a different name?
Anybody
On Dec 24, 2009, at 12:32 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
Hi,
I have two folders, say .../source/ and .../destination/.
There are many files in /source/ and in /destination/. There are some
more files in /source/. There are so many files in /source/
On Dec 31, 2009, at 3:01 PM, Stephen Powell wrote:
On 2009-12-31 at 14:43:44 -0500, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
That would be netinst, not netboot.
Whatever. All I can say is that I downloaded
dists/lenny/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/mini.iso
from a public Debian mirror,
, anyone?
On Jan 1, 2010, at 1:51 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
Here's a datapoint...
Today I did the same for the PowerPC version of the netboot/mini.iso
(13 MB) and used it to install squeeze on my testing PowerMac G4.
Worked a treat.
And what's really cool is that the businesscard and netinst CD's
On Jan 1, 2010, at 8:44 PM, Stephen Powell wrote:
On 2010-01-01 at 13:51:59 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote:
Here's a datapoint...
Today I did the same for the PowerPC version of the netboot/mini.iso
(13 MB) and used it to install squeeze on my testing PowerMac G4.
Worked a treat.
And what's
On Jul 30, 2010, at 6:56 AM, Christian Simo wrote:
Dear Team!
I currently virtualize with vmware,
Please how can I run Debian for PPC on Intel or How can I emulate
Intel to support PPC OS
Thanks in advance
The interesting question is what flavor of PowerPC? There are
NewWorld Macs,
On Aug 6, 2010, at 9:44 AM, Neil McGovern wrote:
RC bugs
===
For the release, we need to get rid of all release critical bugs.
Please
don't hesitate, pick any bug from
http://bts.turmzimmer.net/details.php?bydist=squeeze and fix it. Or
send in a
patch in case there is none yet. And
Now that everyone is back home from DebConf, I'll try one more time.
When I first posted it I got crickets...
Rick
On Aug 6, 2010, at 2:42 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Aug 6, 2010, at 9:44 AM, Neil McGovern wrote:
RC bugs
===
For the release, we need to get rid of all release
Thanks for the informative discussion!
On Sep 5, 2010, at 3:56 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
Switches are smart devices, ... They do not use out-of-band
information to make
switching decisions.
Does Spanning Tree Protocol and/or V-lan tagging count as out-of-band
information?
A few years ago, ext4 was regarded as experimental. The default filesystem
that the Debian-Installer offered was ext3, with ext4 as an option (along with
ext2 and some others) for those with special needs or a love of adventure.
By 2013, the general opinion is that ext4 has all the important
gdm3 is nice, but...
I'd like to be able to configure things the way I used to be able to do
with gdm.
E.g. the background with stars and space ships is interesting, but I
like to have different login backgrounds for each of my machines (helps
me to remember what I'm doing).
How do I do
On Dec 12, 2010, at 8:37 AM, Liam O'Toole wrote:
And, suppose I wanted to fall back to the old gdm. What do I have
to do
to get that?
Just install the gdm package.
Well, that worked, but it was a bit scary getting there!
It required that I negotiate *firmly* with aptitude regarding
I went to cdimage.debian.org and downloaded
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/6.0.1/i386/bt-dvd/debian-6.0.1-i386-DVD-1.iso.torrent
Then tried to use it to download using Transmission (though I've tried
other BT clients and had the same result).
I got the error message Requested
On Mar 20, 2011, at 12:01 PM, Camaleón wrote:
Yep, I remember a reply from myself to someone who was experiencing
the
same error months ago:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2010/12/msg01032.html
Yep. I remember seeing that reply in my googling. There was no
indication plus or
On Mar 20, 2011, at 2:59 PM, Michelle Konzack wrote:
Hello Rick Thomas,
Am 2011-03-20 13:49:34, hacktest Du folgendes herunter:
So I tried a public torrent from another distro. That worked.
So I believe the problem is on the Debian end. I've CC-ed debian-cd.
There are some Countries/ISP
On Mar 20, 2011, at 5:07 AM, Rares Aioanei wrote:
On 03/20/2011 09:21 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
I went to cdimage.debian.org and downloaded
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/6.0.1/i386/bt-dvd/debian-6.0.1-i386-DVD-1.iso.torrent
If that helps, it works here and it worked before
On Mar 20, 2011, at 4:04 PM, Mattias Wadenstein wrote:
For a while last night the torrent was freshly generated and not yet
authorized on the tracker. Maybe this would be the cause of the
original problem?
/Mattias Wadenstein - cdimage.d.o guy
Bingo! Mattias gets the rubber ducky for
No offense intended to anyone involved, but I don't like the stars and
spaceships look of the new Squeeze login screen. Tastes differ, and my
taste differs from that.
In Lenny I had a bunch of options for the login screen and could
almost always find one that fit for the particular
On Mar 23, 2011, at 2:25 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
I tried installing gdm, which (as expected) wanted to replace gdm3
(which was fine with me) but it also wanted to delete a *whole*
*bunch* of other stuff as well. I have no idea if I need that other
stuff -- or am I just as well off without
On Mar 24, 2011, at 5:07 AM, Liam O'Toole wrote:
On 2011-03-24, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote:
Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] .
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
Remove the following packages:
1) gdm3
Install the following packages:
2) fast-user
On Mar 24, 2011, at 1:49 PM, Tom H wrote:
Wouldn't it be better to keep gdm3 and customize it?
http://www.khattam.info/howto-change-gdm-3-theme-and-wallpaper-2010-11-14.html
Interesting. Is the presence and structure of those configuration
files documented anywhere? Was this mentioned
I just bought and installed a StarTech PCI420USB card for use in my
PowerMac G4 AGP Graphics running Debian Lenny.
It's a PCI card that has 4 external USB 2.0 ports and one internal port.
When I try to plug a hub or a USB flash stick into it, I get the
following messages in syslog:
On Apr 20, 2011, at 6:46 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
The StarTech sales page says it works with Linux (and MacOS, and
Windows, for what that's worth) but that probably means RedHat and
x86, not Debian and PowerPC.
Anybody got any clues?
Thanks!
Rick
In case it matters, StarTech's web
On Mar 18, 2013, at 6:46 AM, Simon Hollenbach wrote:
Hello.
I set up an encrypted partition with randomly regenerated password
that I want to mount at /tmp with some older(6w) wheezy netinstall.
Apparently I need to create a file system there before mounting on
every boot, don't I?
I
Hi Richard,
Did you ever get this working for you?
Did you notice the --scan option to jigdo-lite? It might allow you
to use your DVD iso's to avoid downloading a lot of stuff you already
have. I seem to remember that internet bandwidth was a problem for you.
Note: I believe that the
On Macs (an apple macintosh G4, running debian squeeze) I use lynx to
download cd-images from cdimage.debian.org. I have no problem
getting CD .iso images. (Except that it seems to prefer IPv6, which
is significantly slower for me than IPv4. Is there a config option to
change that
Thank you , Wes, for the very complete and helpful explanation.
You seem to know a lot about this.
I hope you don't mind if I continue to pick your brain on this
subject... (-:
On Mar 31, 2013, at 7:49 PM, wes wrote:
hi rick.
But when I try downloading the MD5SUMS file from the same
Are there any readily available, inexpensive (US$200-500), NAS
(Network Attached Storage) boxes in the 1-3TB capacity that are
capable of running Debian and NFS?
I'm looking for a device that can export a RAID-1, either ext4 or ZFS,
capacity in the 1-3TB range (two disks, each of that
On Apr 3, 2013, at 6:05 PM, Nigel Roberts wrote:
As above, the iomega ix2-200 meets these requirements, and I only
paid about AUD$280 for mine including 2x1TB disks 2 years ago. You
can probably get them even cheaper these days. They were much
cheaper than equivalent QNap or Synology
On Apr 4, 2013, at 2:37 AM, Chris Davies wrote:
Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote:
Are there any readily available, inexpensive (US$200-500), NAS
(Network Attached Storage) boxes in the 1-3TB capacity that are
capable of running Debian and NFS?
Roll your own with an HP Proliant
On Apr 11, 2013, at 12:22 AM, Erwan David wrote:
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 08:25:56AM CEST, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com
said:
Erwan David wrote:
2) add at the beginning of each /etc/init.d/myserv a test to stop if
the encrypted partition is not mounted
Neither of those solutions seems
On Apr 11, 2013, at 11:58 AM, Erwan David wrote:
Le 11/04/2013 20:53, Rick Thomas a écrit :
On Apr 11, 2013, at 12:22 AM, Erwan David wrote:
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 08:25:56AM CEST, Bob Proulx
b...@proulx.com said:
Erwan David wrote:
2) add at the beginning of each /etc/init.d/myserv
On Apr 12, 2013, at 12:56 PM, Erwan David wrote:
However, booting in level 2 then using telinit 3 do not start the
services that I setup not to start in level 2... Thus I'll switch to
policy-rd method.
I'm surprised to hear that...
What did you do to test? If you can give us some
On Apr 14, 2013, at 10:10 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
I have been using Debian for many years now. In all of that time I
have never wanted to manage init scripts. I always wonder. What
are people trying to do?
Hi Bob,
For an example of where one will want to manage the init scripts,
take a
Alberto,
What you want to do is possible. In particular, skype and bittorrent do it.
As I understand it, they make use of a server with a public IP address. I'm
not going to get it exactly right, but the general idea is this:
Two clients, A and B, both behind NAT firewalls. Server, S, with
On Apr 22, 2013, at 4:55 AM, Celejar wrote:
Yes: http://m19s28.dyndns.org/iblech/nat-traverse/#technique
General discussion:
http://www.h-online.com/security/features/How-Skype-Co-get-round-firewalls-747197.html
Celejar
Thanks! Interesting stuff...
Rick
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Has anybody used the S/PDIF Toslink inputs on the Apple G5-PowerPC
MacPro hardware?
Does it work?
Are there any secrets I should know before I start?
I volunteer at a community radio station. They would like to record
and archive the digital audio stream just before it goes out on the
On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Default User hunguponcont...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hello.
I did a fresh install of Debian 7.0.0 (Wheezy), using the
debian-7.0.0-amd64-i386-netinst.iso.
In the past , during the install process, it would ask if the user wanted to
include the contrib
Thanks Andrei! I'm an aptitude user most of the time, so I didn't
know about that feature of apt.
Is there a similar option for aptitude that I've overlooked?
Rick
On May 10, 2013, at 1:20 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Lu, 06 mai 13, 19:57:54, Rick Thomas wrote:
If you want to be sure
OK, Rupesh. Here's the process:
1) Debian releases the downloadable CD/DVD/Blu-ray disk images. For reasons
already covered, they release the first three DVD as .iso images and the rest
as '.jigdo templates. (As you have pointed out, this doesn't help someone
like yourself in a place
Can anybody tell me when I might want to use aptitude-{create,run}-
state-bundle ?
Is it, for example, useful for cloning a machine configuration
following a re-install from scratch?
Thanks!
Rick
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On May 17, 2013, at 7:30 PM, sp113438 wrote:
On Fri, 17 May 2013 18:24:21 -0700
Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote:
Can anybody tell me when I might want to use aptitude-{create,run}-
state-bundle ?
Is it, for example, useful for cloning a machine configuration
following a re-install
I just purchased a 3TB disk -- my first of that size.
I'm trying to partition it. I want one huge ext4 filesystem. But
fdisk (and cfdisk) keep telling me that I can't create a partition
larger than 2TB.
I've thought about creating three 1TB partitions then using LVM to
merge them into
://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php
dan
On May 21, 2013, at 2:50 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
It turns out that with gparted I was able to create one large 3TB
partition in a gpt-type partition table. I was able to mount it and
write a few files to it. I haven't tried anything big yet, but I'm
hopeful
I've got xfce window manager installed on pretty-much as it comes
fresh-out-of-the-box Wheezy.
I'd like to have ctrl-alt-del restart the window manager.
I've configured it to do so with dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-
configuration, but (even after a reboot) that doesn't seem to do the
job.
On Jun 9, 2013, at 11:10 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Du, 09 iun 13, 19:27:35, Rick Thomas wrote:
I've got xfce window manager installed on pretty-much as it comes
fresh-out-of-the-box Wheezy.
I'd like to have ctrl-alt-del restart the window manager.
I've configured it to do so with dpkg
Hi Brian,
You are absolutely right! Having asked the question, I owe the group
answers.
Unfortunately real life intruded its ugly head last week. I do plan
to do the tests and report back as soon as I can.
Rick
On Jun 11, 2013, at 11:26 AM, Brian wrote:
He could consider providing
On Jun 12, 2013, at 1:10 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
Having asked the question, I owe the group answers.
Unfortunately real life intruded its ugly head last week. I do plan
to do the tests and report back as soon as I can.
Well, I finally got a couple of free hours this afternoon. Here's
On Jun 15, 2013, at 11:22 AM, Brian wrote:
At last! Udev does not know about what you have done, so one way of
beating it into submission is by rebooting. A gentler approach is
udevadm trigger --subsystem-match=input --action=change
Sorry for all the fuss...
It's not a fuss but an
On Jun 24, 2013, at 12:31 PM, Jochen Spieker wrote:
David Guntner:
Jochen Spieker grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
Judging from your usage of df -k (instead of -g or -h) and the
number
of filesystems, you should probably apply at IBM. :-
And yes, I had the great misfortune of being an
Can somebody point me at some docs or packages I could use to create a
customized CD/DVD/BD image for installing Debian PowerPC?
I'd like to create a 32GB (or larger?) USB memory stick that can be
used to do a complete installation of PowerPC Debian (Wheezy right
now, but into the
On Jul 3, 2013, at 3:36 PM, Wayne Topa wrote:
On 07/03/2013 04:06 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
Can somebody point me at some docs or packages I could use to
create a
customized CD/DVD/BD image for installing Debian PowerPC?
www.debian.org/CD/
First answer from Google Debian powerpc ISO search
From: rbtho...@pobox.com
I want to be able to make my own --customized-- .iso images,
containing just the list of packages I need.
On Jul 3, 2013, at 6:38 PM, Mike Ayers wrote:
have you looked at http://wiki.debian.org/Simple-CDD. It looks like
it would do what you want
That looks
On Jul 3, 2013, at 1:06 PM, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote:
Can somebody point me at some docs or packages I could use to
create a customized CD/DVD/BD image for installing Debian PowerPC?
I'd like to create a 32GB (or larger?) USB memory stick that can be
used to do a complete
On Jul 4, 2013, at 7:13 PM, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote:
On Jul 3, 2013, at 1:06 PM, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote:
Can somebody point me at some docs or packages I could use to
create a customized CD/DVD/BD image for installing Debian PowerPC?
I'd like to create a 32GB
Can someone point me at step-by-step instructions for going from
sudo aptitude install wordpress
on a freshly scrubbed, newly installed Wheezy system to a working wordpress
website on the same machine?
I've read the README.Debian in /usr/share/doc/wordpress/ and the stuff in
examples/
On Jun 21, 2012, at 1:02 PM, Glenn English g...@slsware.com wrote:
I have a mildly working Debian WordPress install
Hi Glen,
Would you be willing to help me get a wordpress installation up and running?
I've done aptitude install wordpress which dragged in all the necessary other
packages,
the next person can benefit from our experience.
Thanks in advance!
Rick
On Nov 24, 2013, at 11:46 AM, Sharon Kimble boudic...@talktalk.net wrote:
On Sat, 23 Nov 2013 17:39:20 -0800
Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote:
Can someone point me at step-by-step instructions for going from
Hi, all!
I just downloaded the powerpc netinst installer from
/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd
debian-testing-powerpc-netinst.iso 2013-11-24 23:02 257M
I checked the md5 and sha1 sums, and burned it to CD. All went well.
But when I booted it (on two different G4
On Nov 27, 2013, at 12:38 AM, Scott Ferguson
scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Rick,
These instructions should work for Debian as well:
http://movingtofreedom.org/2007/05/09/how-to-wordpress-on-ubuntu-gnu-linux/
The main thing is to get Apache PHP configured properly. Once
On Nov 27, 2013, at 8:12 PM, Miles Fidelman mfidel...@meetinghouse.net wrote:
Scott Ferguson wrote:
The OP (in this thread) is asking about the Debian WordPress package. It
installs WordPress, WordPress keeps itself up-to-date - i.e. it's version
has nothing to do with the version number
On Nov 27, 2013, at 11:52 PM, Scott Ferguson
scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com wrote:
On 28/11/13 18:31, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Nov 27, 2013, at 8:12 PM, Miles Fidelman
mfidel...@meetinghouse.net wrote:
Scott Ferguson wrote:
The OP (in this thread) is asking about the Debian
Naming no names; There have been a couple of what I would regard as belligerent
and confrontational replies to this posting. I found Ralph's original apology
to be gentlemanly and entirely appropriate. The belligerent replies were
completely out of place.
We're all friends here. Let's keep
On Dec 5, 2013, at 4:37 PM, Patrick Bartek bartek...@yahoo.com wrote:
You could do what I did with my install of Wheezy 64-bit (Replacing
Fedora 12): Abandon the desktop environment entirely, and just use a
full-featured window manager and a few utilities. I found Openbox with
LXPanel works
Thanks to all who replied. I got lots of useful suggestions.
The one that finally got me off the ground is this one… Somehow I missed it in
all my googling.
https://wiki.debian.org/WordPress
By *carefully* following *all* the instructions there, I was able to get a
functioning
Thanks, Scott. See my notes interlineated below…
On Dec 5, 2013, at 9:20 PM, Scott Ferguson
scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com wrote:
On 06/12/13 13:30, Rick Thomas wrote:
Thanks to all who replied. I got lots of useful suggestions.
The one that finally got me off the ground
Is there some way to tell the debian installer to enable an ssh server during
the installation? I'd like to be able to ssh/slogin/scp to the installation
process so I can retrieve log files and otherwise snoop the process when the
keyboard/mouse are frozen.
This is part of my pursuit of
Thanks for responding, Scott!
On Dec 8, 2013, at 6:57 PM, Scott Ferguson
scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com wrote:
On 09/12/13 13:26, Rick Thomas wrote:
Is there some way to tell the debian installer to enable an ssh
server during the installation?
Yes - at least with the i386
On Dec 8, 2013, at 7:56 PM, Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org wrote:
Le Sun, Dec 08, 2013 at 06:26:33PM -0800, Rick Thomas a écrit :
Is there some way to tell the debian installer to enable an ssh server during
the installation? I'd like to be able to ssh/slogin/scp to the installation
my
brain for a couple of weeks.
On Dec 15, 2013, at 12:57 AM, Scott Ferguson
scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com wrote:
On 09/12/13 13:26, Rick Thomas wrote:
Is there some way to tell the debian installer to enable an ssh
server during the installation?
Yes.
I'd like to be able
On Feb 1, 2014, at 12:42 PM, Lauge Andersen laugeander...@yahoo.dk wrote:
Hi.
I intend to install Linux Mint Debian and give up on the Ubuntu based
distros. However when I go through the installer, I get to the point where
I'm supposed to choose the size of the different partitions, but
On Feb 3, 2014, at 8:37 PM, Scott Ferguson
scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com wrote:
Mirrors were updating a couple of days ago and if you tried to use
one during the updating period you would get errors. Could be the problem.
What would it take to make a mirror update atomically? For
On Feb 4, 2014, at 12:25 AM, PaulNM deb...@paulscrap.com wrote:
On 02/04/2014 01:53 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Feb 3, 2014, at 8:37 PM, Scott Ferguson
scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com wrote:
Mirrors were updating a couple of days ago and if you tried to use
one during
On Feb 7, 2014, at 1:25 PM, Ric Moore wayward4...@gmail.com wrote:
Do they require any special formating or partitioning to take advantage of
the 8 gigs of built-in NAND flash? I'm looking at a Seagate Solid State
Hybrid drive - ST2000DX001
Thanks for any info and/or suggestions. Ric
On Feb 23, 2014, at 12:39 AM, Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net wrote:
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
[SNIP]
I keep getting suggestions to approximately meet *SPECIFICATION* by ... ;/
Can you afford two USB sticks - one 32G and one 64G?
Wrong question ROFL
I accumulate so many that I'm
Richard,
On Feb 23, 2014, at 2:23 AM, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote:
To do an install, first you boot from the first DVD. Then switch to the
ALT-F2 console, plug in the USB stick and loop mount the BD images it
contains. Then, when prompted, tell the installer to use those
On Feb 25, 2014, at 9:12 AM, Patrick Ouellette poue...@debian.org wrote:
Sounds like what you really want is for your local nameserver to forward the
query if it doesn't have the answer. It might be helpful to look at the
forwarders option for named.conf.
resolv.conf would just need
In Wheezy, I used to be able to use
dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration
to (among other things) set the option to use control-alt-backspace to
terminate the X server.
But in Jessie, dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration asks no questions and
makes no changes.
What is the preferred
from the netinst CD a while ago
and updated regularly.
Should I file a bug report?
Enjoy!
Rick
On Mar 9, 2014, at 4:41 AM, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote:
On Du, 09 mar 14, 04:08:06, Rick Thomas wrote:
In Wheezy, I used to be able to use
dpkg-reconfigure keyboard
to this list showing some more detail of what I mean.
Rick
On Mar 9, 2014, at 7:38 AM, Rob Owens row...@ptd.net wrote:
On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 04:08:06AM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote:
In Wheezy, I used to be able to use
dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration
to (among other things) set the option to use
On Mar 10, 2014, at 6:10 AM, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote:
On Sun 09 Mar 2014 at 17:59:20 -0700, Rick Thomas wrote:
Here is what I get:
root@dillserver:~# aptitude show keyboard-configuration
You have edited the output this command gave. In ganeral this is not
wise.
Nope. I
Thanks!
On Mar 10, 2014, at 10:15 AM, Darac Marjal mailingl...@darac.org.uk wrote:
On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 10:03:54AM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Mar 10, 2014, at 6:10 AM, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote:
On Sun 09 Mar 2014 at 17:59:20 -0700, Rick Thomas wrote:
Here is what I get
Thanks! I'll put that in my bag of tricks...
On Mar 10, 2014, at 11:16 AM, Dan Ritter d...@randomstring.org wrote:
On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 04:08:06AM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote:
In Wheezy, I used to be able to use
dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration
to (among other things) set
On Mar 10, 2014, at 11:34 AM, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote:
On Mon 10 Mar 2014 at 18:20:04 +, Brian wrote:
extra information on your setup I'm afraid I'm at a loss for a
suggestion or two, apart from observing it may be particular to your
architecture.
This is by way of being
On Mar 10, 2014, at 1:34 PM, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote:
On Mon 10 Mar 2014 at 13:21:58 -0700, Rick Thomas wrote:
Thanks! I'll put that in my bag of tricks...
It will take more than a trick to retrieve the situation you are in.
Well... It doesn't do this on Wheezy, so it would
On Mar 10, 2014, at 5:22 PM, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote:
On Mon 10 Mar 2014 at 14:03:11 -0700, Rick Thomas wrote:
For what it's worth, if I do dpkg-reconfigure libpaper1 I get the
question I expect to see, asking what I want the default printer-paper
size to be. So dpkg
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