How To Find Which Sound Device Is Used?

This could be an issue with Darkice, but I think at this point it's more that I'm not sure what sound device I'm using. I have a system running Sarge (yes, it'll be updated to Etch, then eventually Lenny in my copious amounts of free time!) and I have a radio hooked up to it through the sound c

Re: How to refresh Debian to install software set

On 2008-04-25 04:28 +0200, Kevin Mark wrote: > and there is a tool to verify that there are not missing files from your > installed DEB files (i think its 'debverify'?? if anyone know, do tell) It's called `debsums', actually. > |___ Unless I ask to be CCd, assume I am subscribed ___|

Re: HP ScanJet C6270A and sane.

On Thursday 24 April 2008 20:57:07 PETER EASTHOPE wrote: > Folk, > > There is an HP ScanJet C6270A here. lsusb fails to detect > it and I've found no evidence in Lenny that the scanner > is connected via USB. I'll guess that this scanner has USB 1. > > SCSI works a little better. > [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

Bob McGowan wrote: Mark Allums wrote: Bob McGowan wrote: I have Maxtor IDE drives and Maxtor makes (or made, I got this some time ago) a DOS based utility to do low level formats. Your disk vendor probably has something similar available. The Maxtor utilities will prep a drive, for those w

Re: OT (slightly) swap limits

On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 06:40:25 +0200 Thierry Chatelet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > Another idea would be to ask the question on the d-i mailing list. I noticed > that, if you choose to let it do an automatic partitioning of the disk, it > will size the swap partition according to ram and n

Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: On 24/04/2008, Mark Allums <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The user in trouble seems to be a newbie. Using parted is not for newbies. How about gparted, then? It's just a GUI frontend to parted and other tools. I'm not sure if it has the option to use the rescue thi

Re: HP ScanJet C6270A and sane.

2008/4/25, PETER EASTHOPE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Folk, > > There is an HP ScanJet C6270A here. lsusb fails to detect > it and I've found no evidence in Lenny that the scanner > is connected via USB. I'll guess that this scanner has USB 1. > You may need to install a driver for HP scanner. If

Re: HP ScanJet C6270A and sane.

* PETER EASTHOPE (2008-04-24): > Folk, > > There is an HP ScanJet C6270A here. lsusb fails to detect > it and I've found no evidence in Lenny that the scanner > is connected via USB. I'll guess that this scanner has USB 1. Have you tried hplip yet? -André -- May as well be hung for a sheep

Re: prevent writing to unmounted directory

On Friday 25 April 2008, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 10:18:48PM +0200, Chris wrote: > > On Thursday 24 April 2008, Bob McGowan wrote: > > > Chris wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > I want to run a script to rsync local files to a NAS mounted to > > > > /mnt/music. Some

First time ssh user needs help, getting authentication failures

So I aptitude ssh and set it up according to this document: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ch-sec-services.en.html#s5.1 I get authentication failures. I am using Etch completely updated on my home computer and was using the Ubuntu 8.04 live CD at my mothers house. co

Fwd: switch from LILO to grub failed

-- Forwarded message -- From: Rafael Fontenelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 25/04/2008 01:50 Subject: Re: switch from LILO to grub failed To: Fabrizio Lippolis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2008/4/23, Fabrizio Lippolis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I have switched the boot manager from LILO to gru

Re: OT (slightly) swap limits

On Thursday 24 April 2008 22:45:05 Damon L. Chesser wrote: > Being in an interview loop looking for employment, I find I am asked > questions I never considered, for example: How much is enough swap? > > Simple, right? Try answering it. Used to be the limit was 2G > files/partitions with up to 8

Fwd: OT (slightly) swap limits

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Re: What hardware diagnostic tools should you recommend ?

Try /sbin/sfdisk -l instead of fdisk -l. 2008/4/25, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Jabka Atu wrote: > > > Hello,.. > > > > > > I'm creating a list of diagnsotic tools list to help in Hardwhere > > Diagnostics. > > > [msg snipped] > > > please add more > > Here are couple of thing

Fwd: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

-- Forwarded message -- From: Rafael Fontenelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 25/04/2008 01:19 Subject: Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 ! To: paragasu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2008/4/24, paragasu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=1M >> >> to fix it. i did try that comma

Re: OT (slightly) swap limits

Damon L. Chesser wrote: > Being in an interview loop looking for employment, I find I am asked > questions I never considered, for example: How much is enough swap? > For desktops, from my experience, I would say you need at least as much as your RAM. To be on the safe side, I go for 2 times th

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Re: What hardware diagnostic tools should you recommend ?

Jabka Atu wrote: > Hello,.. > > > I'm creating a list of diagnsotic tools list to help in Hardwhere > Diagnostics. [msg snipped] > please add more Here are couple of things in addition to what you already wrote. lshw-- info about hardware lshw-gtk lspci -vv -- disp

Re: prevent writing to unmounted directory

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 10:18:48PM +0200, Chris wrote: > On Thursday 24 April 2008, Bob McGowan wrote: > > Chris wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I want to run a script to rsync local files to a NAS mounted to > > > /mnt/music. Sometimes the NAS is not running, and I want to prevent the > > > script

Re: External IP

Daniel Ngu wrote: > Hi, > > How do I find out what's the dynamic IP I get when connected > to my ISP? I'm not broadband BTW. > I use links2 -dump checkip.dyndns.org | cut -f2 -d: raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ --

Re: Burning Audio CD

On 2008-04-22, Daniel Ngu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008-04-22, David Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 6:07 AM, Daniel Ngu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> To burn wav to cd: >>> >>> wodim dev=/dev/hdd speed=1 -v -dao -useinfo -text *.wav >> >> Your media might not be

Re: re[2]: subscription

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Re: Backing up an entire hard drive

Micha wrote: I need to wipe my hardrive for some repair and I want to back it up. I would prefer to just backup the debian partition and not the entire harddrive. Is it possible to do either with dd? seems like it should work for the entire drive, would it work for a single partition if I restore

Re: How to refresh Debian to install software set

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 07:26:13AM -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: > Greetings; > > I have four Debian systems and a couple of them seem to have gotten in > the state that they don't have a full set of packages for some reason. > > Is there any way to do a refresh or reinstall of the system to make

Re: How to refresh Debian to install software set

Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Dennis G. Wicks wrote: > > > > I have four Debian systems and a couple of them seem to have gotten in > > the state that they don't have a full set of packages for some reason. > > > > Is there any way to do a refresh or reinstall of the system to make > >

Re: subscription

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Re: Strange window problem

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:56:26 -0400 Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >For the past week or so I noticed an empty window which pops up > > > > try htop or pstree or many other similar tools > > > As far as I can see neither show anyt

Re: Strange window problem

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:56:26 -0400 Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >For the past week or so I noticed an empty window which pops up > > > > try htop or pstree or many other similar to

Re: How to refresh Debian to install software set

Mumia W.. wrote the following on 04/24/2008 12:06 PM: On 04/24/2008 11:40 AM, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: [...] I don't know if I have a system that qualifies as a "good" system right now! :-( What do you mean when you say they don't have a "full" set of packages? Things don't act the same on

Re: subscription

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Re: prevent writing to unmounted directory

Touch a file on the NAS share with a name such as NAS.HERE, and in your script check that that file exists. If it exists, then it's mounted, if not, then it's not mounted. Ken --- Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 24 April 2008, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > > Chris wrote: > > > Hello,

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Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

> > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=1M > > to fix it. i did try that command but it seems doesn't help much either. > Could this command have the same result as 'cat /dcev/null > /dev/sdb' ? actually, i read some post from http://howto.wikia.com/wiki/Howto_wipe_a_hard_drive_clean_in_Linux and

Re: OT (slightly) swap limits

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 05:16:56PM -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > Patrick Ouellette wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 04:45:05PM -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote: >> >>> Being in an interview loop looking for employment, I find I am asked >>> questions I never considered, for example: How much

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Re: What is the apt cache good for?

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 05:34:59PM +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > I can get some space back by doing apt-get autoclean. > > I can get more back by apt-get clean. > > This deletes lots and lots of files from my system. Judging from du's > output, /var/cache/apt/ takes a bit more than a third of my

Re: Trying to install the Ralink wireless drivers

On 04/24/2008 12:49 PM, James Allsopp wrote: Sorry about the stupidity of the next question; how to upgrade to 2.6.22, I'm currently running stable. I looked at doing it manually ( download source etc.) but thought someone might know a quicker more debian way, like using apt-get. I did google i

Re: OT (slightly) swap limits

Damon L. Chesser wrote: Being in an interview loop looking for employment, I find I am asked questions I never considered, for example: How much is enough swap? Simple, right? Try answering it. Used to be the limit was 2G files/partitions with up to 8 partitions total. This does not apply

Re: OT (slightly) swap limits

Patrick Ouellette wrote: On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 04:45:05PM -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote: Being in an interview loop looking for employment, I find I am asked questions I never considered, for example: How much is enough swap? Rephrase the question. Ask what the intended use of t

What hardware diagnostic tools should you recommend ?

Hello,.. I'm creating a list of diagnsotic tools list to help in Hardwhere Diagnostics. Laptop Battery information. cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/info CPU info : cat /proc/cpuinfo MEM info: cat /proc/meminfo Hardisk information: hdparm -I /dev/sda (first scsi disk). sensord smar

Re: [sane-devel] Calling a script after USB scanner is plugged

Johannes Meixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, >> > Be careful with the labels you use. Always use a unique label name, or >> > you're asking for troubles. (been there, done that, accidentally >> > rendered a number of systems unbootable due to that ...) > > Many thanks for this enlightening inf

Re: OT (slightly) swap limits

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 04:45:05PM -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > > Being in an interview loop looking for employment, I find I am asked > questions I never considered, for example: How much is enough swap? > Rephrase the question. Ask what the intended use of the machine is, what response

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OT (slightly) swap limits

Being in an interview loop looking for employment, I find I am asked questions I never considered, for example: How much is enough swap? Simple, right? Try answering it. Used to be the limit was 2G files/partitions with up to 8 partitions total. This does not apply anymore: I have seen cu

Re: Copying a complete root parition over a network cable for a new install

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 5:22 PM, Oleksii.Dzhulai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The best way to copy whole partition is when it is offline (not used) > Boot both laptops from live-cd's (for example knoppix) and do like > described in this article > dd if=/dev/hda1|nc 192.168.1.1 - on sending la

Re: prevent writing to unmounted directory

On Thursday 24 April 2008, Bob McGowan wrote: > Chris wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I want to run a script to rsync local files to a NAS mounted to > > /mnt/music. Sometimes the NAS is not running, and I want to prevent the > > script from writing to the mount directory: is there any easy way to > > p

Re: Backing up an entire hard drive

On Thursday 24 April 2008 05:02:31 am Micha wrote: > I need to wipe my hardrive for some repair and I want to back it up. I > would prefer to just backup the debian partition and not the entire > harddrive. Is it possible to do either with dd? Yes, but it's not particularly flexible compared to ot

Re: prevent writing to unmounted directory

On Thursday 24 April 2008, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > Chris wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I want to run a script to rsync local files to a NAS mounted to > > /mnt/music. Sometimes the NAS is not running, and I want to prevent the > > script from writing to the mount directory: is there any easy way to

Re: [sane-devel] Calling a script after USB scanner is plugged

Johannes, Am Donnerstag, 24. April 2008 schrieb Johannes Meixner: > Hello, > > On Apr 23 22:53 Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, 23. April 2008 schrieb Julien BLACHE: > > > Johannes Meixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > >> umax1220u scripts are started in a sequence (i

HP ScanJet C6270A and sane.

Folk, There is an HP ScanJet C6270A here. lsusb fails to detect it and I've found no evidence in Lenny that the scanner is connected via USB. I'll guess that this scanner has USB 1. SCSI works a little better. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ lsscsi [0:0:0:0]diskFUJITSU M2624F-512 0405 /d

Re: Problem to turn DMA on

On Thursday 24 April 2008 20:04:24 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I got a very old notebook running debian 4.0 with kernel 2.6.25 and > > 2.6.21. > > > > It has a 4GB IDE harddisk. I'm trying to enable DMA with hdparm, but it > > is not working. > > > >  The command I run and its output are: >

Re: How to refresh Debian to install software set

On 04/24/2008 11:40 AM, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: [...] I don't know if I have a system that qualifies as a "good" system right now! :-( What do you mean when you say they don't have a "full" set of packages? How do you know that packages are missing? How do you know which packages are missi

Re: What is the apt cache good for?

On 24-Apr-08, at 11:04 PM, Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I can get some space back by doing apt-get autoclean. I can get more back by apt-get clean. This deletes lots and lots of files from my system. Judging from du's output, /var/cache/apt/ takes a bit more than a third of my dis

Re: prevent writing to unmounted directory

Chris wrote: Hello, I want to run a script to rsync local files to a NAS mounted to /mnt/music. Sometimes the NAS is not running, and I want to prevent the script from writing to the mount directory: is there any easy way to prevent this? Thanks, C if [ -f /mnt/music/somefile ] then #

Re: Trying to install the Ralink wireless drivers

Sorry about the stupidity of the next question; how to upgrade to 2.6.22, I'm currently running stable. I looked at doing it manually ( download source etc.) but thought someone might know a quicker more debian way, like using apt-get. I did google it, but got a lot of hits about moving from 2.

Re: What is the apt cache good for?

Hendrik Boom wrote: I can get some space back by doing apt-get autoclean. I can get more back by apt-get clean. This deletes lots and lots of files from my system. Judging from du's output, /var/cache/apt/ takes a bit more than a third of my disk space. Now I've been keeping these files aro

Trying to install the Ralink wireless drivers

Alo Don't need need to compile drivers, but upgrade to kernel 2.6.22 Install the RT2x00 wireless network drivers -loadable kernel modules for wireless network cards using Ralink RT2x00 chips. something like rt2x00-modules-2.6.22-2-686 Install wireless tools Install RutilT which is GTK config

What is the apt cache good for?

I can get some space back by doing apt-get autoclean. I can get more back by apt-get clean. This deletes lots and lots of files from my system. Judging from du's output, /var/cache/apt/ takes a bit more than a third of my disk space. Now I've been keeping these files around, just in case. But

Re: prevent writing to unmounted directory

Chris wrote: Hello, I want to run a script to rsync local files to a NAS mounted to /mnt/music. Sometimes the NAS is not running, and I want to prevent the script from writing to the mount directory: is there any easy way to prevent this? Thanks, C How are you accessing the NAS? NFS?

prevent writing to unmounted directory

Hello, I want to run a script to rsync local files to a NAS mounted to /mnt/music. Sometimes the NAS is not running, and I want to prevent the script from writing to the mount directory: is there any easy way to prevent this? Thanks, C -- C. Hurschler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

Mark Allums wrote: Bob McGowan wrote: I have Maxtor IDE drives and Maxtor makes (or made, I got this some time ago) a DOS based utility to do low level formats. Your disk vendor probably has something similar available. The Maxtor utilities will prep a drive, for those who can't be bothered

Re: Various questions on encrypted partitions

n Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 08:00:39AM -0500, Jordi Guti0xe9rrez Hermoso wrote: > So when I installed Debian, I told d-i to wipe the hard disk and > encrypt my lappy's hard drive. My tinfoil-hatted heart loves it. > They'll never take me or my data alive. > > I am curious, though, as to the exact nature

Trying to install the Ralink wireless drivers

Hello, I'm trying to install the open source rt2x00 drivers but am unable to, any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Following the instructions here http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Debian_rt2500_Howto but adapting for the rt2x00 drivers apt-get install rt2x00-source mexica

Re: Problem to turn DMA on

2008/4/23, David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hi all. > > > > I got a very old notebook running debian 4.0 with kernel 2.6.25 and > 2.6.21. > > It has a 4GB IDE harddisk. I'm trying to enable DMA with hdparm, but it > is > > not working. > > > > The command I run and its output are: > > > > #

Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 12:27 AM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 24/04/2008, Mark Allums <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The user in trouble seems to be a newbie. Using parted is not for > newbies. > > How about gparted, then? It's just a GUI frontend to parted and other

Re: How to refresh Debian to install software set

Damon L. Chesser wrote the following on 04/24/2008 08:09 AM: Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Greetings; I have four Debian systems and a couple of them seem to have gotten in the state that they don't have a full set of packages for some reason. Is there any way to do a refresh or reinstall of the sy

Re: scripting - how to handle blanks

On 25/04/2008, michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > while [[ `grep -e ${STRING} ${FILE} |wc -l` -lt 1 ]];do This should fix it: while [[ `grep -e "${STRING}" "${FILE}" |wc -l` -lt 1 ]];do The shell still replaces variable within "" quotes, but not within ''. e.g. this: $ TEST="Testing

Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

On 24/04/2008, Mark Allums <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The user in trouble seems to be a newbie. Using parted is not for newbies. How about gparted, then? It's just a GUI frontend to parted and other tools. I'm not sure if it has the option to use the rescue thing, but since the user in questio

Re: scripting - how to handle blanks

On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 16:02 +, Mark Clarkson wrote: > On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:52:14 +0100, michael > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Folks, I wish to do something like the following in a bash script but > > can't work out the correct incantation of escape chars etc so any advice > > welcome! ie w

Re: Copying a complete root parition over a network cable for a new install

> I thought to save some headache and just copy over the whole linux > partition and just fix up the small tidbits (network driver, graphic driver > and fstab). U can use: the debian live cd and dd command or systemrescuecd, knoppix, etc. Pol -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Copying a complete root parition over a network cable for a new install

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/24/08 06:59, Micha wrote: > I need to install debian for a friend of mine that got new machine. Apart for > the network card driver (which is actually a relative of mine) and the > graphics That's an amusing image... - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jeff

Re: Copying a complete root parition over a network cable for a new install

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 02:59:37PM +0300, Micha wrote: > Since these are two laptops, moving the hardrive over won't work so I need to > do it over the network. What would be the best way to do this? Should I boot > the new laptop with ubuntu or something or do a base debian install? you can boot

Re: scripting - how to handle blanks

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/24/08 10:52, michael wrote: > Folks, I wish to do something like the following in a bash script but > can't work out the correct incantation of escape chars etc so any advice > welcome! ie what is it I need to do for env var STRING and the grep >

Re: Unmet dependencies Xfce4

Sven Joachim wrote: On 2008-04-24 08:06 +0200, andy wrote: Can someone please advise on the best way to handle the following situation of unmet dependencies: $ sudo apt-get install xfce4-systemload-plugin xfce4-goodies Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state inf

Re: Force process to swap?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/24/08 10:09, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 04/24/08 01:34, Rich Healey wrote: >>> Is there a way to tell kswapd that i wan't a particular process to get >>> shoved into sw

Re: Backing up an entire hard drive

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 03:02:31PM +0300, Micha wrote: > I need to wipe my hardrive for some repair and I want to back it up. I would > prefer to just backup the debian partition and not the entire harddrive. Is it > possible to do either with dd? yes to both > seems like it should work for the e

scripting - how to handle blanks

Folks, I wish to do something like the following in a bash script but can't work out the correct incantation of escape chars etc so any advice welcome! ie what is it I need to do for env var STRING and the grep command so that grep -e $STRING handles the space in STRING correctly. Ta, Michael #!

Re: Copying a complete root parition over a network cable for a new install

The best way to copy whole partition is when it is offline (not used) Boot both laptops from live-cd's (for example knoppix) and do like described in this article dd if=/dev/hda1|nc 192.168.1.1 - on sending laptop nc -l -p |dd of=/dev/hda1 - on receiving one If it seems difficult then you

Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: On 24/04/2008, Mark Allums <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I hate to suggest this >donning fire-retardant suit< but you might borrow a WinXP machine long enough to run the Computer Management disk tool on your Flame on! If all that happened, likely, is that the part

Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

On Wednesday 23 April 2008 19:52:24 paragasu wrote: > > What was the output of the "p" command? > > > > Is the problem with the disk or with the partition? The "o" command > > creates a new partition table. > > p will print nothing because i delete all the partition using d command. > i never awar

Re: Force process to swap?

Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/24/08 01:34, Rich Healey wrote: Is there a way to tell kswapd that i wan't a particular process to get shoved into swap? I run a torrent client 24/7 (in many ways it would just be easier to mirror a whole bunch of distro is

Backing up an entire hard drive

I need to wipe my hardrive for some repair and I want to back it up. I would prefer to just backup the debian partition and not the entire harddrive. Is it possible to do either with dd? seems like it should work for the entire drive, would it work for a single partition if I restore previous parti

Copying a complete root parition over a network cable for a new install

I need to install debian for a friend of mine that got new machine. Apart for the network card driver (which is actually a relative of mine) and the graphics card which is intel instead of nvidia the install should be about the same. I thought to save some headache and just copy over the whole lin

Re: Force process to swap?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/24/08 01:34, Rich Healey wrote: > Is there a way to tell kswapd that i wan't a particular process to get > shoved into swap? > > I run a torrent client 24/7 (in many ways it would just be easier to > mirror a whole bunch of distro iso's, but oh

Re: virtual text consoles gone

On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:01:46 -0400, Andrew Reid wrote: > On Wednesday 23 April 2008 11:25, Hendrik Boom wrote: > >> >> I have been upgrading. Could it be that three revisions of kernels have >> passed me by unnoticed without a reboot? (I check /boot). Nope. Better >> investigate why I'm not g

swap space and hd partitioning

Hi, I've got a couple of questions regarding hd partitions and swap space. My first, immediate problem is that I've just upgraded my RAM from 1.5GB to 3GB. I'm running some numerical simulations and analysis that require that much space or more. My swap partition is 1.95GB, and I've discovered th

Re: How to refresh Debian to install software set

Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Greetings; I have four Debian systems and a couple of them seem to have gotten in the state that they don't have a full set of packages for some reason. Is there any way to do a refresh or reinstall of the system to make sure everything is there? Short of an install fr

Various questions on encrypted partitions

So when I installed Debian, I told d-i to wipe the hard disk and encrypt my lappy's hard drive. My tinfoil-hatted heart loves it. They'll never take me or my data alive. I am curious, though, as to the exact nature of the encryption. I'd rtfm, but I don't know where to begin. I understand the encr

Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

On 24/04/2008, Mark Allums <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I hate to suggest this >donning fire-retardant suit< but you might borrow a > WinXP machine long enough to run the Computer Management disk tool on your Flame on! If all that happened, likely, is that the partition table got trashed, there

Dansgardian returns a Http code 200 for a denied page

Hello Debian users I have a question about the behavior of Dansgardian. I have configure it to work with squid proxy and it works well! But something is not clear for me, about the Http code returns by DG when I try to access a denied page. Basically I use DG 2.8.0.6 from Debian package. The arc

How to refresh Debian to install software set

Greetings; I have four Debian systems and a couple of them seem to have gotten in the state that they don't have a full set of packages for some reason. Is there any way to do a refresh or reinstall of the system to make sure everything is there? Short of an install from the beginning that

Re: bits/news from the users of Debian?

Cybe R. Wizard-3 wrote: > > "Alexandru Popa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> It would be nice to write a simple text/gui based front-end for >> debconf > > configure-debian > > Cybe R. Wizard > -- > Nice computers don't go down. > Larry Niven, Steven Barnes > "The Barsoom Pr

Re: INQUIRY for DEBIAN LINUX

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 10:15:46AM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > For "kernel development" you probably want 'kernel-package' and linux > sources are in linux-source-$version packages. Though for many practical uses, linux-headers-`uname -r` is what you actually need. -- Tzafrir Cohen |

rdesktop - local HDD share problem

I use rdeskop (running on lenny) to connect to my school. I tried to share the debian drive with the "-r disk:bkup=/mnt/backup/ " option. When I connect to my school, I am able to use the local debian HDD for 40 seconds or so. Then an error throws up saying "tsclient://. you do not have permis

Re: INQUIRY for DEBIAN LINUX

(Sorry for messing up the encoding, I don't know whether that's my fault.) ��û��: > > To compile our solution, we need these packages, kernel-development, > kernel-source and pam-delvelopment and so on. > > I installed Debian 3r4, 4r0 and 4r3, but I couldn��t find these > packages. > > - I use

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