Setting bootable flag on partition non-interactively.

2010-02-01 Thread Tim Legg
the employee boots the computer. Caveats: * Is it damaging to toggle the bootable flag on a partition that is currently mounted, or merely 'impolite' (i.e. bad practice)? Tim Legg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: can't mke2fs hdb, says already mounted, but it isn't

2009-12-15 Thread Tim Legg
, Thanks Tim Legg Here is a good puzzler.  I got a second ATAPI disk in my machine that I was able to partition with fdisk, but cannot mkfs it.  It says that the device is already mounted but when I try to umount it, it says it is not mounted.  the blkid command I ran on the device contradicts

Best method for stopping/starting MySQL?

2009-10-19 Thread Tim Legg
. Is there a better way? Tim Legg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Best method for stopping/starting MySQL?

2009-10-19 Thread Tim Legg
--- On Mon, 10/19/09, Jari Fredriksson ja...@iki.fi wrote: From: Jari Fredriksson ja...@iki.fi Subject: Re: Best method for stopping/starting MySQL? To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, October 19, 2009, 1:15 PM 19.10.2009 20:49, Tim Legg kirjoitti: Hello again! I would

apt-get autoremove

2009-10-05 Thread Tim Legg
what was going to happen.) Tim Legg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: apt-get autoremove

2009-10-05 Thread Tim Legg
Yep, Please accept my apologies for cc'ing your message to the list, but you provided a good undo for my problem. Others browsing the archives/google should see this if running apt-get autoremove disables the GUI. # apt-get install gnome brought back the essentials I needed back. Whatever

Deb install on USB device destroys MBR of hard disk

2009-09-06 Thread Tim Legg
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