Re: debian installer

Daniel Dalton wrote: Hi, I downloaded the debian lenny cd1 installer from here, it was a 600 mb iso. http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/i386/iso-cd/ Does this cd ever download packages from the internet? Like when I choose desktop, laptop and standard computer and it needs to fetch

broken fetchmailconf

Folk, fetchmail works well and I have no need for fetchmailconf. Nevertheless it exists in a broken state in this system. "dpkg --remove fetchmailconf" recommends reinstallation prior to removal. So I get this. joule:/home/peter# apt-get install --reinstall fetchmailconf Reading package lists

Re: What we want from software vendors (Was: CAD software for PCB engineering and routing)

2008/6/22 Nate Bargmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > * Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008 Jun 21 10:05 -0500]: > >> When someone develops and maintains a FOSS solution that runs on Linux >> that lets me interoperate with my Solidworks-using colleagues >> flawlessly I will happily donate to the project

debian installer

Hi, I downloaded the debian lenny cd1 installer from here, it was a 600 mb iso. http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/i386/iso-cd/ Does this cd ever download packages from the internet? Like when I choose desktop, laptop and standard computer and it needs to fetch 800 files, does it conn

network shares: nfs or samba?

Hi, I'm having problems with nfs, so was just wondering: 1. Is samba better than nfs? 2. Does anyone know of a good samba howto? 3. Unfortunately people on my network still use windows, I dunno why, but what settings should I have in place for it to work with win? Or, should I use nfs? If so, it

Re: NOT ABLE TO INSTALL DEBIAN 4.0r3

Star Liu wrote: I'm also a newbie, and don't know how to solve your problem, but I have a little suggestion: 256 MB RAM -> 2G RAM use amd64 iso instead of i386 to install, only the 1st iso is needed Something a newbie should be aware of: Top-posting is discouraged. It makes some people cran

Re: Lenovo Thinkpad, HP, or Vostro/Latitude? was Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008/6/22 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The tell people like Ted Kennedy to put up (and allow that wind farm > off Martha's Vineyard) or shut up about the environment. > That's way off topic. I don't know Ted Kennedy; I don't have a hot line to him; I am not your messenger. If you want to c

Re: NOT ABLE TO INSTALL DEBIAN 4.0r3

I'm also a newbie, and don't know how to solve your problem, but I have a little suggestion: 256 MB RAM -> 2G RAM use amd64 iso instead of i386 to install, only the 1st iso is needed On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 7:15 AM, Mark Allums <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Praseen Preman wrote: > >> Hi guys, >>

Re: iptstate V2.2.1

2008/6/22 Jerry Stuckle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > It's been suggested I try to install the package from source - but I'm not > sure how to do that in this case. I can download the source and have the > compiler installed - but what else? > Basically: 1. config 2. make 3. make install ...

Re: Lenovo Thinkpad, HP, or Vostro/Latitude? was Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/21/08 22:30, Sam Kuper wrote: > 2008/6/21 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >: > > As long as California limo liberals make sure there are no > offshore oil rigs, and Ted Kennedy prevents windmills off the coast

Re: Lenovo Thinkpad, HP, or Vostro/Latitude? was Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 04:30 +0100, Sam Kuper wrote: > 2008/6/21 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > As long as California limo liberals make sure there are no > offshore oil rigs, and Ted Kennedy prevents windmills off the > coast > of Martha's Vineyard, they don't *r

Re: Root sending messages to users

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/21/08 22:23, Rich Healey wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 06/20/08 09:12, Dotan Cohen wrote: >>> 2008/6/20 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Well, it is a one-user box, No it's not. Unix hasn't just had "meat" users in 30 years. If y

Re: Lenovo Thinkpad, HP, or Vostro/Latitude? was Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008/6/21 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > As long as California limo liberals make sure there are no > offshore oil rigs, and Ted Kennedy prevents windmills off the coast > of Martha's Vineyard, they don't *really* give a rat's arse about China. > Ron, I can't speak for California limo liberal

iptstate V2.2.1

Hi, all, While I've been using Debian for about 4 years, I've been staying pretty much within the supplied packages. However, now I find with Etch I need to install iptstate V2.2.1. The one which comes with the stable version is 2.1.1; while 2.2.1 is available on testing, I would need to in

Re: Root sending messages to users

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 06/20/08 09:12, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> 2008/6/20 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Well, it is a one-user box, >>> No it's not. Unix hasn't just had "meat" users in 30 years. If you >>> don't believe me, cat her box's /etc/

Re: What we want from software vendors

> I understand what you're asking for and where you're coming from. Are > the CAD document file formats open or are they proprietary like .doc > and .xls, etc.? Autocad claims to own the DWG format. Your FOSS group would probably need to line up legal support to defend against the lawsuits. --

Re: Debian 2.6.18-6-686

On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 16:23:46 +0100 Chris Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I have just installed debian with a static IP address. When I bring up > the desktop, I have no internet connection. I set up the gateway and > dns. It all works. > > When I reboot I loose all my settings

Re: What we want from software vendors (Was: CAD software for PCB engineering and routing)

* Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008 Jun 21 10:05 -0500]: > When someone develops and maintains a FOSS solution that runs on Linux > that lets me interoperate with my Solidworks-using colleagues > flawlessly I will happily donate to the project twice what I would be > paying to Solid. That's a

Cannot build deb package from ati instaler (was Re: New version of fglrx broke my system)

El sáb, 21-06-2008 a las 11:18 +0200, Jonathan Kaye escribió: > Gabriel Parrondo wrote: > > > El vie, 20-06-2008 a las 19:29 +0200, Jonathan Kaye escribió: > >> It installed with no problem and after rebooting (yes, I have to do > >> this; starting and stopping the the Xserver doesn't get the new

Re: Root sending messages to users

On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 10:19:04AM -0400, Brian McKee wrote: > On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 6:27 PM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 06/20/08 17:09, Dotan Cohen wrote: [snip] > > "Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien." - Voltaire "horses for courses" > > There is a point at which security b

Re: NOT ABLE TO INSTALL DEBIAN 4.0r3

Praseen Preman wrote: Hi guys, I am an ardent fan of Debian after I saw it running on one of my friends machines. I have been trying to install it for a few months but without success . I am a newbie as far as Debian is concerned. I have worked on Fedora Linux but it seems Debian is ha

Re: Warning in syslog

On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 05:56:32PM -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Sat June 21 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > is 2.6.25 in Sid ? > > > >   > > Yep! > > > > $ apt-cache policy linux-image-2.6.25-2-686 > > linux-image-2.6.25-2-686: > >   Installed: 2.6.25-5 > >   Candidate: 2.6.25-5 > >   Versi

Re: Lenovo Thinkpad, HP, or Vostro/Latitude? was Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/21/08 16:55, s. keeling wrote: > In linux.debian.user, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 06/16/08 20:33, Lish wrote: >>> On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 9:02 PM, Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> (whether it is Taiwan or PRC). I just don't se

Re: apt-get update segmentation fault

On Sat, 21 Jun 2008, Anton Piatek wrote: > Unfortunately unison is designed such that both client and server > versions must match, so as my servers are etch I need the etch version > on my laptop. Install unison2.13.16 on your laptop. The unison mantainer generally maintains versions of unison i

Re: Warning in syslog

On Sat June 21 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > is 2.6.25 in Sid ? > >   > Yep! > > $ apt-cache policy linux-image-2.6.25-2-686 > linux-image-2.6.25-2-686: >   Installed: 2.6.25-5 >   Candidate: 2.6.25-5 >   Version table: >  *** 2.6.25-5 0 >         500 ftp://ftp.ro.debian.org unstable/main Package

Re: Lenovo Thinkpad, HP, or Vostro/Latitude? was Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

In linux.debian.user, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 06/16/08 20:33, Lish wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 9:02 PM, Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> (whether it is Taiwan or PRC). I just don't see any reason to support > >> the (Communism? debatable) absolute dictatorship that is

usb hub with fluxbox

Hello. I recently got a USB hub with four ports. While I can plug a storage device, or a digital camera, into it, and read these devices separately, it seems that I cannot mount and read them at the same time (IE, view images from the digital camera, while simultaneously viewing files on the USB

Re: Warning in syslog

On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 03:11:11PM -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: > I'm on Lenny, with: > # uname -a > Linux paulandcilla 2.6.24-1-686 #1 SMP > > is 2.6.25 in Sid ? Yep! $ apt-cache policy linux-image-2.6.25-2-686 linux-image-2.6.25-2-686: Installed: 2.6.25-5 Candidate: 2.6.25-5 Version

Re: strange /etc/network/interfaces behaviour

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 09:35:39PM +0300, Mario Spinthiras wrote: [...] > Possible ifupdown bug? Do you have network-manager installed? Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: mixing unstable with testing just for nvidia: good practices?

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 01:46:49PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > There is of course OPENntp > L The package description says "... does not adjust the rate of the clock". If I understand correctly ntp does compensate for the inaccuracy of the built-in clock and openntp does not. This is a

Re: Balsa's "Gnome editor?"

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 12:59:46PM -0400, Eric d'Alibut wrote: > I have Xfce4 runningl, and I'm trying out Balsa in it. > > Balsa looks for its external editor in a var described as "the Gnome > editor," which, in Xfce4, is evidenctly mousepad. I don't think the default editor is set by Xfce4.

Re: Which IM, blog and email service are best for debian users?

On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 10:05 AM, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 09:24:49AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > >> Ones that support open standards are best. My suggestions: >> >> * Any IM server supporting the XMPP instant messaging standard >> (such as

Re: gpg unusable from within an initrd

On Sat June 21 2008 12:47:23 Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > I have to use gpg from within an initrd. > /dev/tty is not available (an won't be) only /dev/console is here. > > But whatever I do gpg complains: > > Without --no-tty it complains that /dev/tty isn't there (gpg: cannot > open '/dev/tty

gpg unusable from within an initrd

Hi. I have to use gpg from within an initrd. /dev/tty is not available (an won't be) only /dev/console is here. But whatever I do gpg complains: Without --no-tty it complains that /dev/tty isn't there (gpg: cannot open '/dev/tty': No such device or address) With it, in complains "gpg: Sorry, no

Re: Warning in syslog

On Sat June 21 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: > > When are you going to 2.6.25? > > Not really certain.  Is there a pressing need? I'm on Lenny, with: # uname -a Linux paulandcilla 2.6.24-1-686 #1 SMP is 2.6.25 in Sid ? -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 Registered Ubuntu User #12459

Re: boot kernel raid + lvm + lilo

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/21/08 13:48, Ivan Glushkov wrote: [snip] > > Ok, I rebooted in rescue mode with the debian netinstall cd and I > recovered the lilo.conf, so now I have a working system. But still I > would like to install the new kernel. Why does kernel 2.6.25.

Re: boot kernel raid + lvm + lilo

On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Ivan Glushkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > I compiled the latest kernel (2.6.25.7 SMP x86_64) from kernel.org and > installed it. I ran lilo. (I am basically forced to use lilo since grub > never managed to boot from root partition located of mdadm + lvm

Re: Problem switching to static IP address

On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 05:09:01PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > I have built a very nice Debian Live CD but with two problems. A bit late, but maybe still useful. > One, I can't switch to the static IP addressed used by my lan. I included > a copy of my interfaces file in chroot_local-inclu

Re: VB.NET compiler for mono

Andrea Also try: http://www.mono-project.com/Other_Downloads Nick On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Andrea Gozzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. > I am searching for the deb package of VB.NET compiler+runtime for the > mono environment. Anyone knows if there's one around? > Thanks > > Andrea >

Re: VB.NET compiler for mono

Andrea, Go to : http://pkg-mono.alioth.debian.org/ Regards Nick On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Andrea Gozzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. > I am searching for the deb package of VB.NET compiler+runtime for the > mono environment. Anyone knows if there's one around? > Thanks > > Andrea > >

Re: NOT ABLE TO INSTALL DEBIAN 4.0r3

On Saturday 21 June 2008 10:50, Praseen Preman wrote: > Hi guys, >I am an ardent fan of Debian after I saw it running on one > of my friends machines. I have been trying to install it for a few > months but without success . I am a newbie as far as Debian is > concerned. I have worked o

Re: Warning in syslog

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/21/08 12:30, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> >> On 06/21/08 07:35, Frank McCormick wrote: >>> On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 12:51:09 +0200 >>> Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On 2008-06-21 03:54 +0200, Frank McCormick wrote:

Re: CAD software for PCB engineering and routing

Michelle, I may be talking rubbish, but I remembered there was a PCB layout design tool called Eagle; it was German but I think it had also English interface. It worked both in MS Windows and in Linux environment. Not sure if this is what you need. I googled their webpage out: http://www.cads

Re: Warning in syslog

Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/21/08 07:35, Frank McCormick wrote: On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 12:51:09 +0200 Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2008-06-21 03:54 +0200, Frank McCormick wrote: I noticed this is my syslog today---what does driver 'sd' ne

Re: Which IM, blog and email service are best for debian users?

On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 09:24:49AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > Ones that support open standards are best. My suggestions: > > * Any IM server supporting the XMPP instant messaging standard > (such as Google Talk, LiveJournal Talk, jabber.org, etc.). > There's really no re

Re: CAD software for PCB engineering and routing

Hi Al Davis. Am 2008-06-18 18:22:48, schrieb al davis: > Sorry if I sound overbearing here .. I am working on a project > (very close to geda) which is now "half working" and realize > how little things like this impact progress on a project. For PCB-Layout? If posible let me know about it.

Re: CAD software for PCB engineering and routing

Am 2008-06-20 10:56:21, schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Michelle > Yes I assume your reference to PCBs was Printed Circuit Boards (yes?). If > so I have another approach, a "hybrid" solution used by many small to > medium size companies, especially those that don't do PCB layout on a > regular basis

Re: [WORKS in FF3RC3]iceweasel 3: favicon while tab is loading

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, In sid's iceweasel 3 I notice a difference with iceweasel 2: when a tab is loading the favicon shown would slowly rotate in version 2, but in version 3 it stays stuck at the beginning. Searching bugzilla.mozilla.org I find nothing under "favicon", but it clearly

Re: Using gtkpod for an ipod

Peter Robinson wrote: > of course, you caught me sleeping ... but I am still not sure what > filetype to specify Hi Maybe use #fdisk -l or gparted to work that out. David Staer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

NetworkManager and DHCP issue (work around)

Good day all, As this is my first message to the debian community, I am unsure of wether or not this is the appropriate way to share my findings. I appologize therefore is this is not the right way to do so. The issue : On both Etch and Lenny, some of us experience an issue with the Netwo

boot kernel raid + lvm + lilo

Hi all, I compiled the latest kernel (2.6.25.7 SMP x86_64) from kernel.org and installed it. I ran lilo. (I am basically forced to use lilo since grub never managed to boot from root partition located of mdadm + lvm partition). With the new kernel the mdadm cannot find its hard drives and the booti

Debian 2.6.18-6-686

Hi I have just installed debian with a static IP address. When I bring up the desktop, I have no internet connection. I set up the gateway and dns. It all works. When I reboot I loose all my settings and have to start over again. How can I get the system to retain DNS and gateway settings

Re: NOT ABLE TO INSTALL DEBIAN 4.0r3

On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Praseen Preman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi guys, > I am an ardent fan of Debian after I saw it running on one > of my friends machines. I have been trying to install it for a few > months but without success . I am a newbie as far as Debian is > concer

What we want from software vendors (Was: CAD software for PCB engineering and routing)

2008/6/21 Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 21/06/2008, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I personally would be satisfied paying thousands of dollars for >> Solidworks and not having access to the source code so long as it runs >> on my OS. > > I think this is rather near

Re: apt-get update segmentation fault

On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 14:44:51 +0100, Anton Piatek wrote: > 2008/6/21 Florian Kulzer : > > On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 13:04:54 +0100, Anton Piatek wrote: > >> Hi, > >> Does anyone know why apt-get crashes when updating? > >> > >> Hit http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/main Sources > >> Hit

NOT ABLE TO INSTALL DEBIAN 4.0r3

Hi guys, I am an ardent fan of Debian after I saw it running on one of my friends machines. I have been trying to install it for a few months but without success . I am a newbie as far as Debian is concerned. I have worked on Fedora Linux but it seems Debian is harder to tame hence all t

getting a RealTek 8197 to work

Toshiba Satellite laptop, integrated rtl8197. Got a patched 8187b driver from the aircrack people but can't make it go WPA, only sees WEP. Anyone know how to make this one fly? If not: ExpressCard 54 slot present, can someone recommend a good wifi card for that that works out of the box? (2.6.22

Re: CAD software for PCB engineering and routing

On 21/06/2008, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I personally would be satisfied paying thousands of dollars for > Solidworks and not having access to the source code so long as it runs > on my OS. I think this is rather nearsighted. Although for what I do, mathematics, it's easier to ar

onak Documentation

Hello! I recently found onak[1] in the Debian-Repositories[2]. I'm looking for a small howto or even documentation about it. Can anyone point me to one? Is there a way to restrict access to a (own) keyserver? So only a small group of persons have access to it? Sincerly, rhodo [1]: http://w

Re: Root sending messages to users

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 6:27 PM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 06/20/08 17:09, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> While I agree that every user of a machine should have his own home >> directory, I am not a user of that machine. I am an administrator >> (ha!) of that machine. > > So what? Since y

Re: apt-get update segmentation fault

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 2008/6/21 Florian Kulzer : > On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 13:04:54 +0100, Anton Piatek wrote: >> Hi, >> Does anyone know why apt-get crashes when updating? >> >> Hit http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/main Sources >> Hit http://security.debian.org

Re: Using gtkpod for an ipod

Sven Joachim wrote: On 2008-06-21 14:10 +0200, Peter Robinson wrote: If I try to mount it as hfsplus or vfat I get an error like: peter:/home/peter# mount -t hfsplus /dev/sdb /mnt/ipod mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb, missing codepage or helper program, or

Re: apt-get update segmentation fault

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anton Piatek wrote: > Does anyone know why apt-get crashes when updating? > Hit http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/main Sources > Hit http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/contrib Sources > Hit http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/n

Re: apt-get update segmentation fault

On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 13:04:54 +0100, Anton Piatek wrote: > Hi, > Does anyone know why apt-get crashes when updating? > > Hit http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/main Sources > Hit http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/contrib Sources > Hit http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/

Re: apt-get update segmentation fault

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey, Anton Piatek schrieb: > Does anyone know why apt-get crashes when updating? > > Hit http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/main Sources > Hit http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/contrib Sources > Hit http://security.debian.org lenny

Re: Warning in syslog

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/21/08 07:35, Frank McCormick wrote: > On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 12:51:09 +0200 > Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 2008-06-21 03:54 +0200, Frank McCormick wrote: > >>> I noticed this is my syslog today---what does driver 'sd' needs >>>

Re: Warning in syslog

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 12:51:09 +0200 Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008-06-21 03:54 +0200, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > I noticed this is my syslog today---what does driver 'sd' needs > > updating - please use bus type methods mean ??? >

Re: Warning in syslog

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:06:12 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I noticed this is my syslog today---what does driver 'sd' needs > > updating - please use bus type methods mean ??? > > What does Google say? > Mostly just a lot o

Re: Using gtkpod for an ipod

On 2008-06-21 14:10 +0200, Peter Robinson wrote: > If I try to mount it as hfsplus or vfat I get an error like: > > peter:/home/peter# mount -t hfsplus /dev/sdb /mnt/ipod > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb, > missing codepage or helper program, or other error >

Using gtkpod for an ipod

| Hi all, I have a 30 GB iPod that I would like to migrate to my debian box. I am currently trying to get gtkpod running. What is the recommended way of mounting the ipod (I am currently running fluxbox with no automnatic mounts). If I try to mount it as hfsplus or vfat I get an error like:

apt-get update segmentation fault

Hi, Does anyone know why apt-get crashes when updating? Hit http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/main Sources Hit http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/contrib Sources Hit http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/non-free Sources Fetched 9B in 2s (4B/s) Segmentation faultsts... 60

VB.NET compiler for mono

Hi. I am searching for the deb package of VB.NET compiler+runtime for the mono environment. Anyone knows if there's one around? Thanks Andrea -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Warning in syslog

On 2008-06-21 03:54 +0200, Frank McCormick wrote: > I noticed this is my syslog today---what does driver 'sd' needs updating - > please use > bus type methods mean ??? It seems to be harmless, see the thread starting at http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/10/47. The message is still present in Linux 2.

Backup on DVD-RW: ISO 9660 file system overhead

Hi Debian Users I am doing a backup of Thunderbird mails. As u can see the Space on disk is 400 MB less than the space on ISO image. How can I avoid that much wasted space? $ du -sh .mozilla-thunderbird/; du -sh mail_archive_20jun08.iso 1.8G.mozilla-thunderbird/ 2.2Gmail_archive_20jun

Re: Warning in syslog

Frank McCormick: > > I noticed this is my syslog today---what does driver 'sd' needs updating - > please use > bus type methods mean ??? I think that's the kernel telling you that the driver you are using for device sda needs an update (to use a new API or something to that effect). I would eit

Re: New version of fglrx broke my system

Gabriel Parrondo wrote: > El vie, 20-06-2008 a las 19:29 +0200, Jonathan Kaye escribió: >> It installed with no problem and after rebooting (yes, I have to do >> this; starting and stopping the the Xserver doesn't get the new driver >> working correctly) > > About this, have you ever tried this?:

Re: CAD software for PCB engineering and routing

2008/6/21 Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 20/06/2008, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Motivate the people that you know to let the software houses know that >> we want their software. > > And we want it with freedom. > Write to them and tell them that if that is what

Re: Fail event on /dev/md0:phreaque

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 10:45 PM, s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. I've been fiddling with a RAID5 on usb pendrives plugged into usb > hub. Usually, it works great, but this doesn't tell me very much. > What do you wizards make of it, please? Your system has a raid5 array configured a