Re: [arch-general] how to mount external hdd

2009-02-17 Thread RedShift
Preston C. wrote: I think that this is a simple question. How do I mount an external hard drive before I log into my desktop? Thanks You have been asking all these newbie questions while these have been widely covered by The Internets. I suggest you use an Internet Search Machine like googl

Re: [arch-general] how to mount external hdd

2009-02-17 Thread Jordy van Wolferen
On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 00:39 -0500, Preston C. wrote: > Got it! It was /sdc . Thanks. You can also run "fdisk -l" as root to check your partitions.

Re: [arch-general] how to mount external hdd

2009-02-17 Thread Preston C.
Got it! It was /sdc . Thanks.

Re: [arch-general] how to mount external hdd

2009-02-17 Thread Preston C.
Ok, am about to try "mount /dev/sdb /media/disk . Thanks a lot for the help Leonid. Hope this works, :-).

Re: [arch-general] how to mount external hdd

2009-02-17 Thread Leonid Grinberg
Yes, it is typical that USB external drives are /dev/sdb or /dev/sdb1 (the number at the end indicates the partition number, generally).

Re: [arch-general] how to mount external hdd

2009-02-17 Thread Preston C.
Thanks guys. I think I got it down. The only question I have is that I think, not sure though, that the usb external hdd is on /sdb ? I ran cat /proc/partitions and it gave me a pretty good bit of results, hard to tell which one is the external hdd. Any other way to check this?

Re: [arch-general] how to mount external hdd

2009-02-17 Thread Leonid Grinberg
> denotes a comment, which means that everything before it and the end > of the line is ignored. So I'm sorry, I meant that everything *between* it [the # sign] and the end of the line is ignored. -- Leonid

Re: [arch-general] how to mount external hdd

2009-02-17 Thread Leonid Grinberg
Hi Preston, Basically, you should think of mounting a file system as placing it under some "root" in your larger file system. In this case, /dev/sdXY can be thought of as a representation of the file system you want to mount (the one on the external HD). You can place it anywhere you want, and tha

Re: [arch-general] how to mount external hdd

2009-02-17 Thread Preston C.
> and login > > $ cat /proc/partitions #idenitfy the partition, is usually one of the > last ones, lets assume it is /dev/sdXY > > $ sudo mount /dev/sdXY /path/to/mount/point > > $ exit > > to go back to your login manager > > Not sure what kind of answer you were looking for. > That is t

Re: [arch-general] how to mount external hdd

2009-02-17 Thread Dwight Schauer
and login $ cat /proc/partitions #idenitfy the partition, is usually one of the last ones, lets assume it is /dev/sdXY $ sudo mount /dev/sdXY /path/to/mount/point $ exit to go back to your login manager Not sure what kind of answer you were looking for. On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 9:55

[arch-general] how to mount external hdd

2009-02-17 Thread Preston C.
I think that this is a simple question. How do I mount an external hard drive before I log into my desktop? Thanks

Re: [arch-general] cdrecord instead of wodim

2009-02-17 Thread Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
Joerg Schilling wrote: > Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote: > > >> Now i tested the latest alpha version of cdrecord ( >> cdrtools-2.01.01a57.tar.gz ) and its work perfect without the DMA problem. >> The version that failed was <= cdrtools-2.01.01a55.tar.gz, with these >> versions i need to set ve

Re: [arch-general] closed bugs, open comments?

2009-02-17 Thread vlad
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 04:46:19PM -0500, Baho Utot wrote: > Nicolas Bigaouette wrote: >> I totally second that. It is really frustrating as a bug reporting user to >> end the discussion like this. >> It really looks like a "shut-up and stop annoying us" thing... >> >> I know it did not gave me th

Re: [arch-general] closed bugs, open comments?

2009-02-17 Thread Grigorios Bouzakis
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 04:46:19PM -0500, Baho Utot wrote: > Nicolas Bigaouette wrote: >> I totally second that. It is really frustrating as a bug reporting user to >> end the discussion like this. >> It really looks like a "shut-up and stop annoying us" thing... >> >> I know it did not gave me the

Re: [arch-general] Common Lisp packaging

2009-02-17 Thread Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
Allan McRae wrote: > Leslie P. Polzer wrote: >> I've noticed that the Arch Haskell community has made astonishing >> progress with their packages. >> >> I think it would be nice to have the same for Common Lisp. >> >> Would anyone be interested in devising a packaging system >> that works with mult

Re: [arch-general] closed bugs, open comments?

2009-02-17 Thread Baho Utot
Nicolas Bigaouette wrote: I totally second that. It is really frustrating as a bug reporting user to end the discussion like this. It really looks like a "shut-up and stop annoying us" thing... I know it did not gave me the motivation to open other bugs. I don't see why the discussion should be

Re: [arch-general] closed bugs, open comments?

2009-02-17 Thread Dan McGee
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Damjan Georgievski wrote: Actually, I kinda don't have that option. I still seriously don't understand what this is about. Your bug was not a bug. Period. >>> >>> That bug is not the single event that prompted me to write this mail. >>> It has happened a

Re: [arch-general] closed bugs, open comments?

2009-02-17 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Damjan Georgievski wrote: Actually, I kinda don't have that option. I still seriously don't understand what this is about. Your bug was not a bug. Period. >>> >>> That bug is not the single event that prompted me to write this mail. >>> It has happened a

Re: [arch-general] closed bugs, open comments?

2009-02-17 Thread Damjan Georgievski
>>> Actually, I kinda don't have that option. I still seriously don't >>> understand what this is about. Your bug was not a bug. Period. >> >> That bug is not the single event that prompted me to write this mail. >> It has happened a lot. >> So let's focus on the main issue. > > Then convince me -

Re: [arch-general] closed bugs, open comments?

2009-02-17 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Damjan Georgievski wrote: >> Actually, I kinda don't have that option. I still seriously don't >> understand what this is about. Your bug was not a bug. Period. > > That bug is not the single event that prompted me to write this mail. > It has happened a lot. > So

Re: [arch-general] closed bugs, open comments?

2009-02-17 Thread Damjan Georgievski
> Actually, I kinda don't have that option. I still seriously don't > understand what this is about. Your bug was not a bug. Period. That bug is not the single event that prompted me to write this mail. It has happened a lot. So let's focus on the main issue. > If you think the man page is wrong,

Re: [arch-general] ndiswrapper problem

2009-02-17 Thread Avramucz Péter
Hmm.. it looks like, this was a temporary success. I tried with the package from testing, but it's the same... :-/ On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 7:23 AM, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Am Sonntag 15 Februar 2009 schrieb Avramucz Péter: >> hmmm... building ndiswrapper 1.54 vanilla works. >> >> On Sun, Feb 1

Re: [arch-general] closed bugs, open comments?

2009-02-17 Thread Xavier
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 5:42 PM, Geoffroy Carrier wrote: > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 17:23, Dieter Plaetinck wrote: >> Sometimes you just have useful information that would interest the >> original poster, the people who helped him out and/or anyone who reads >> the ticket afterwards because he has

Re: [arch-general] closed bugs, open comments?

2009-02-17 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Damjan Georgievski wrote: >>> Sometimes you just have useful information that would interest the >>> original poster, the people who helped him out and/or anyone who reads >>> the ticket afterwards because he has the same problem. >> >> True but leaving comments o

Re: [arch-general] closed bugs, open comments?

2009-02-17 Thread Damjan Georgievski
>> Sometimes you just have useful information that would interest the >> original poster, the people who helped him out and/or anyone who reads >> the ticket afterwards because he has the same problem. > > True but leaving comments open means more emails. As one who is > actually assigned to a lot

Re: [arch-general] closed bugs, open comments?

2009-02-17 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 09:48:16 -0600 > Aaron Griffin wrote: > >> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 2:00 AM, Xavier wrote: >> > Either you want to add information for justifying the cllosed bug, >> > and in this case it's not a big deal since you ba

Re: [arch-general] closed bugs, open comments?

2009-02-17 Thread Geoffroy Carrier
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 17:23, Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > Sometimes you just have useful information that would interest the > original poster, the people who helped him out and/or anyone who reads > the ticket afterwards because he has the same problem. I'd agree with that. A bug can be closed be

Re: [arch-general] closed bugs, open comments?

2009-02-17 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 09:48:16 -0600 Aaron Griffin wrote: > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 2:00 AM, Xavier wrote: > > Either you want to add information for justifying the cllosed bug, > > and in this case it's not a big deal since you basically agree that > > the bug should be closed. (I understand it c

Re: [arch-general] closed bugs, open comments?

2009-02-17 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 2:00 AM, Xavier wrote: > Either you want to add information for justifying the cllosed bug, and > in this case it's not a big deal since you basically agree that the > bug should be closed. (I understand it can be a bit annoying in some > cases though :)) > Or you want to a

Re: [arch-general] closed bugs, open comments?

2009-02-17 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:30:47 +0100 RedShift wrote: > Damjan Georgievski wrote: > > I find it pretty frustrating that once bugs are closed in > > http://bugs.archlinux.org/ you can no longer add comments. > > The only option you have is request re-opening of the bug, which, I > > guess, would then

Re: [arch-general] closed bugs, open comments?

2009-02-17 Thread RedShift
Damjan Georgievski wrote: I find it pretty frustrating that once bugs are closed in http://bugs.archlinux.org/ you can no longer add comments. The only option you have is request re-opening of the bug, which, I guess, would then frustrate the maintainer who closed the bug. Adding comments to alr

Re: [arch-general] Common Lisp packaging

2009-02-17 Thread Allan McRae
Leslie P. Polzer wrote: I've noticed that the Arch Haskell community has made astonishing progress with their packages. I think it would be nice to have the same for Common Lisp. Would anyone be interested in devising a packaging system that works with multiple Lisps? There is this wiki pa

Re: [arch-general] Problems with Bluetooth packages

2009-02-17 Thread Juan Diego
hey, sorry, I just found how to, I will give the explanation if someone else need it: 1. start bluetoothd 2. run this command: bluez-simple-agent hci0 00:00:00:00:00 (hci0 is the device id and 00:00:00 is the headset mac adress), the headset must be in pairing mode 3. enjoy I mostly use command l

Re: [arch-general] closed bugs, open comments?

2009-02-17 Thread Xavier
Either you want to add information for justifying the cllosed bug, and in this case it's not a big deal since you basically agree that the bug should be closed. (I understand it can be a bit annoying in some cases though :)) Or you want to add information against the closing of the bug : in this ca