Re: An abrupt End to Debian Live

2015-11-11 Thread Ellwood Blues
What about DEVUAN LIVE? Couldn't it be a good move? 2015-11-09 16:47 GMT+00:00 Daniel Baumann < daniel.baum...@progress-technologies.com>: > [ I don't know why this post is not showing up on planet.debian.org: > https://danieltmp.wordpress.com/2015/11/09/an-abrupt-end-to-debian-live/ > I am sendi

Re: An abrupt End to Debian Live

2015-11-11 Thread Ellwood Blues
What about DEVUAN LIVE? Couldn't it be a good move? 2015-11-09 16:47 GMT+00:00 Daniel Baumann < daniel.baum...@progress-technologies.com>: > [ I don't know why this post is not showing up on planet.debian.org: > https://danieltmp.wordpress.com/2015/11/09/an-abrupt-end-to-debian-live/ > I am sendi

Re: Fwd: 2TB USB hard drive for backing up

2013-01-22 Thread Ellwood Blues
2013/1/21 H. Peter Anvin : > This has nothing to do with GPT. The problem is that the capacity > reported by the drive is truncated: > > May 3 18:19:06 relampago3 kernel: [ 3948.472796] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdf] > 1565565872 512-byte logical blocks: (801 GB/746 GiB) > > Is the hdparm produced via the US

Re: Fwd: 2TB USB hard drive for backing up

2013-01-22 Thread Ellwood Blues
2013/1/21 H. Peter Anvin : > This has nothing to do with GPT. The problem is that the capacity > reported by the drive is truncated: > > May 3 18:19:06 relampago3 kernel: [ 3948.472796] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdf] > 1565565872 512-byte logical blocks: (801 GB/746 GiB) > > Is the hdparm produced via the US

Re: Gnome 3 Fallback Mode forked

2013-01-20 Thread Ellwood Blues
2013/1/20 Yaro Kasear : > On 01/20/2013 06:35 AM, Mark Allums wrote: >> >> Slashdot reported that SolusOS has announced a fork of the Gnome 3 >> Fallback >> Mode. It is designed to bring back the mode that was cut from Gnome 3 >> with >> version 3.8. Like the original fallback mode, it uses gtk3

Re: Gnome 3 Fallback Mode forked

2013-01-20 Thread Ellwood Blues
2013/1/20 Mark Allums : > Slashdot reported that SolusOS has announced a fork of the Gnome 3 Fallback > Mode. It is designed to bring back the mode that was cut from Gnome 3 with > version 3.8. Like the original fallback mode, it uses gtk3 and does not > require hardware acceleration. It also al

Fwd: 2TB USB hard drive for backing up

2013-01-19 Thread Ellwood Blues
because the BIOS is not ready for that, I only would like to read and write on the disk which is already half full and cannot do any new experiments trying to fix it with gdisk. I only need the kernel GPT drivers to work out. Cheers. -- Forwarded message -- From: Ellwood Bl

Re: Debian muy personalizado

2012-06-25 Thread Ellwood Blues
El día 24 de junio de 2012 02:31, Polo Oyarzún escribió: > Estimados: > Me dispongo a instalar Debian en una máquina obsoleta a la que Xfce le > queda grande y pesado. Para ello pienso irme paquete por paquete desde > el sistema base en adelante. > Topo en que no sé los nombres de los paquetes de

Bug#678568: Fwd: 2TB USB hard drive for backing up

2012-06-22 Thread Ellwood Blues
-- Forwarded message -- From: Ellwood Blues Date: 2012/5/3 Subject: Re: 2TB USB hard drive for backing up To: debian-u...@lists.debian.org 2012/4/30 Martin Steigerwald : > Am Montag, 30. April 2012 schrieb Ellwood Blues: >> 2012/4/30 Martin Steigerwald : >>

Bug#678568: Fwd: 2TB USB hard drive for backing up

2012-06-22 Thread Ellwood Blues
-- Forwarded message -- From: Ellwood Blues Date: 2012/5/3 Subject: Re: 2TB USB hard drive for backing up To: debian-u...@lists.debian.org 2012/4/30 Martin Steigerwald : > Am Montag, 30. April 2012 schrieb Ellwood Blues: >> 2012/4/30 Martin Steigerwald : >>

Bug#678568: linux-image-3.2.0-1-686-pae: WD30EZRX 3.0TB not working at all on any Linux.

2012-06-22 Thread Ellwood Blues
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 3.2.6-1 Severity: important * What led up to the situation? Kernel has never supported it. * What outcome did you expect instead? I expected it to work out. -- Package-specific info: ** Version: Linux version 3.2.0-1-686-pae (Debian 3.2.6-1) (b...@decadent.or

Bug#678568: linux-image-3.2.0-1-686-pae: WD30EZRX 3.0TB not working at all on any Linux.

2012-06-22 Thread Ellwood Blues
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 3.2.6-1 Severity: important * What led up to the situation? Kernel has never supported it. * What outcome did you expect instead? I expected it to work out. -- Package-specific info: ** Version: Linux version 3.2.0-1-686-pae (Debian 3.2.6-1) (b...@decadent.or

Re: Faulty live img

2012-05-16 Thread Ellwood Blues
flash problem, without javascript doesn't crack. Cheers. 2012/5/15 Ellwood Blues : > As I said yesterday I got again a faulty live image: > > It boots > > It asks for password > > After logged in gives this error: >  "There is a problem with the configuration server

Faulty live img

2012-05-15 Thread Ellwood Blues
s on the desktop but no panels. After I manage to open Icewasel it doesn't take long to have a segment fault. I didn't have time to test if the problem only comes with gnome-full list. Cheers -- Forwarded message -- From: Ellwood Blues Date: 2012/5/14 Subject:

Re: Any Idea?

2012-05-14 Thread Ellwood Blues
2012/5/14 Rui Miguel P. Bernardo : > Line 256 in /usr/share/live/build/package-lists/rescue list > > #enif > > should be > > #endif > > Edit the file manually as a workaround. It's a bug in latest change in > that file. Thank you, I've done it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-live-requ...@li

Re: Any Idea?

2012-05-14 Thread Ellwood Blues
2012/5/14 Rui Miguel P. Bernardo : > Your config works if not using the rescue list, the problem must be > something in the rescue list. Thank you, yesterday before re-adding «rescue» I made a faulty image that boots but doesn't work well. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-live-requ...@lists.de

Re: Any Idea?

2012-05-14 Thread Ellwood Blues
2012/5/14 Rui Miguel P. Bernardo : > I tried your config here, also with latest version, and I can confirm > the error happens here also. > > For clarity the lb options are: > > lb config --binary-images hdd  --distribution squeeze --archive-areas > "main contrib non-free" --mirror-bootstrap > http

Re: Any Idea?

2012-05-14 Thread Ellwood Blues
2012/5/14 Rui Miguel P. Bernardo : > On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Rui Miguel P. Bernardo > wrote: >> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Ellwood Blues wrote: >>> 2012/5/14 Rui Miguel P. Bernardo : >>>> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Ellwood Blues >>&g

Re: Any Idea?

2012-05-14 Thread Ellwood Blues
2012/5/14 Rui Miguel P. Bernardo : > On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Ellwood Blues wrote: >> Sorry. I've just realised that I didn't reply to the list. >> >> Here it is again: >> >> >> ------ Forwarded message -- >> From: Ell

Fwd: Any Idea?

2012-05-14 Thread Ellwood Blues
Sorry. I've just realised that I didn't reply to the list. Here it is again: -- Forwarded message ------ From: Ellwood Blues Date: 2012/5/13 Subject: Re: Any Idea? To: "Rui Miguel P. Bernardo" 2012/5/13 Rui Miguel P. Bernardo : > On Sun, May 13, 2012 at

Any Idea?

2012-05-13 Thread Ellwood Blues
lb build stops with this: P: Begin queueing installation of package lists (install pass)... E: Nesting conditionals is not supported P: Begin unmounting filesystems... P: Saving caches... Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Not a clue where is the problem. I think I'v

Re: 2TB USB hard drive for backing up

2012-05-04 Thread Ellwood Blues
2012/5/4 Martin Steigerwald : > > What kernel is this? Debian Wheezy 3.2.0-1-686-pae > > This only works with util-linux fdisk not gnu-fdisk. I have util-linux installed but I can't find the fdisk you said support -c switch. > Ah. I would try a newer kernel. ;) I've tried the newest on live

Re: 2TB USB hard drive for backing up

2012-05-03 Thread Ellwood Blues
2012/4/30 Martin Steigerwald : > Am Montag, 30. April 2012 schrieb Ellwood Blues: >> 2012/4/30 Martin Steigerwald : >> > Am Montag, 30. April 2012 schrieb Chris Bannister: >> >> On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 08:27:03PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: >> >>

Re: 2TB USB hard drive for backing up

2012-05-01 Thread Ellwood Blues
2012/4/30 Martin Steigerwald : > Am Montag, 30. April 2012 schrieb Ellwood Blues: >> 2012/4/30 Martin Steigerwald : >> > Am Montag, 30. April 2012 schrieb Chris Bannister: >> >> On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 08:27:03PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: >> >>

Re: Anyway of keeping gnome2 while upgrading from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-04-30 Thread Ellwood Blues
2012/4/29 Camaleón : the > final decision on what to use and how to use it is always on the user's > side. > > Greetings, I agree with that. Cheers. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Ar

Re: Anyway of keeping gnome2 while upgrading from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-04-30 Thread Ellwood Blues
eem like Gnome 3 has been finished yet to release > standards from what I have read. > > I seems like Mate is the best option, so if anyone knows a good guide for > getting this set up on Wheezy, I'd be grateful. > > Also does anyone know anything about cinnamon on Debian? > > T

Re: 2TB USB hard drive for backing up

2012-04-30 Thread Ellwood Blues
2012/4/30 Martin Steigerwald : > Am Montag, 30. April 2012 schrieb Chris Bannister: >> On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 08:27:03PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: >> > Hmmm, I´d avoid those with 4 KB hardware sectors that lie to the OS >> > they have 512 byte sectors. Although I think even those should wor

Re: Anyway of keeping gnome2 while upgrading from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-04-28 Thread Ellwood Blues
> So thanks but no, I will be be loyal to GNOME until they decide to take a > radical path I can't deal with (like it happened when I moved from KDE 3 > to GNOME 2 because of the poor state of KDE 4.0). So you will be loyal but Gnome won't? I think that that mentality will kill linux. As Jono B

Re: Anyway of keeping gnome2 while upgrading from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-04-28 Thread Ellwood Blues
2012/4/27 Ralf Mardorf : > On Fri, 2012-04-27 at 17:26 +0100, Ellwood Blues wrote: >> http://mate-desktop.org/install/#debian > > No experiences here, but I heard that it shouldn't be a good successor > of GNOME2. > I am deciding now which one is may favourite: Xfce

Re: Anyway of keeping gnome2 while upgrading from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-04-27 Thread Ellwood Blues
012/4/27 Mika Suomalainen : > On 27.04.2012 13:56, Ellwood Blues wrote: >> 2012/4/26 James Allsopp : >>> Hello, >>> I want to update from Squeeze to Wheezy but want to avoid Gnome 3 at all >>> costs, is there a way of doing this successfully? >>&g

Re: Anyway of keeping gnome2 while upgrading from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-04-27 Thread Ellwood Blues
2012/4/26 James Allsopp : > Hello, > I want to update from Squeeze to Wheezy but want to avoid Gnome 3 at all > costs, is there a way of doing this successfully? > > Thanks > James > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject > of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Re: 2TB USB hard drive for backing up

2012-04-24 Thread Ellwood Blues
If you want to be happy and trouble-free, try to avoid «Advanced Format» disks. I have 2TB disks and 1.5TB too that work perfectly but I've made the mistake to buy a 3TB WD Caviar Green («Advanced Format») which I can only use on Windows as a 3TB disk, Linux only detects about 780MB if I remember w

Re: debian-multimedia on debian-live

2012-03-07 Thread Ellwood Blues
Thanks, now it is working. I'd like to suggest that you could add a header on the manual saying what live-build version supports, that can help to avoid much confusion. Cheers. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-live-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact li

Re: debian-multimedia on debian-live

2012-03-07 Thread Ellwood Blues
2012/3/7 Ben Armstrong : > Please don't follow up in private email. Keep support requests on the > list so others can participate. > > On 07/03/12 06:48 AM, Ellwood Blues wrote: >> http://lists.debian.org/debian-live/2011/02/msg00153.html >> >> Exactly the same p

debian-multimedia on debian-live

2012-03-07 Thread Ellwood Blues
I know somebody marked it as a bug. But is it possible or not to add debian-multimedia repositories to debian-live? I've tried every trick in the manual but I think it just doesn't work. Am I wrong? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-live-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "u

Re: Live-build not working any more

2012-03-05 Thread Ellwood Blues
It seems to be working OK. Anyway I've got to go and I won't know till tomorrow what happened at the end. Thank you again. 2012/3/5 Daniel Baumann : > On 03/05/2012 08:41 PM, Ellwood Blues wrote: >> After that it wouldn't build any more. >> >>

Re: Live-build not working any more

2012-03-05 Thread Ellwood Blues
Sorry I am wrong I didn't try the lb build --purge I'll try it now. 2012/3/5 Daniel Baumann : > On 03/05/2012 08:41 PM, Ellwood Blues wrote: >> After that it wouldn't build any more. >> >> I reinstalled live-build, purged and reinstalled again and again

Re: Live-build not working any more

2012-03-05 Thread Ellwood Blues
I've done it so many times. Thanks. 2012/3/5 Daniel Baumann : > On 03/05/2012 08:41 PM, Ellwood Blues wrote: >> After that it wouldn't build any more. >> >> I reinstalled live-build, purged and reinstalled again and again but >> doesn't want to work a

Live-build not working any more

2012-03-05 Thread Ellwood Blues
I am learnig and on an attempt to include debian-multimedia on my live hdd I decided to stop it with CTR-C to make some changes. After that it wouldn't build any more. I reinstalled live-build, purged and reinstalled again and again but doesn't want to work any more. I am on debian wheezy latest