Re: migrate to new system disk

> 2. I'm sticking with LILO. I've never "manually" installed a boot > loader, only during Debian clean/scratch installations using the Deb > installer. The last time I did that was with Woody, like 4 years ago. > How do I manually install LILO to the boot sector of the new disk? I'm > sure it's

Re: migrate to new system disk

Andrew Sackville-West put forth on 12/1/2009 9:54 PM: > On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 08:22:57PM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> I currently have a 40GB IDE boot disk in a Lenny server. I boot with >> LILO, but not INITRD. I have the following partitions: >> >>Device Boot Start End

Re: Charset of the Aptitude reference manual

It should be UTF-8, but that doesn't mean it's not broken. The text documentation is generated automatically via html2text, and that's been buggy at various points, particularly with regards to encodings -- unless you have a specific reason for wanting plain text, I'd suggest using the HTML docu

Re: migrate to new system disk

On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 07:54:01PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 08:22:57PM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > I currently have a 40GB IDE boot disk in a Lenny server. I boot with [snip] > > Typically, since it's all on the same machine, I just use cp -a (which > ha

Re: migrate to new system disk

On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 08:22:57PM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > I currently have a 40GB IDE boot disk in a Lenny server. I boot with > LILO, but not INITRD. I have the following partitions: > >Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hda14623486

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Re: migrate to new system disk

Stan Hoeppner wrote: I would like to add a new IDE disk between say 160GB and 250GB, on another IDE channel, and copy/mirror/etc the exact contents of the current system disk to the new disk; 1. You can try "dd" (Try to clone your laptops Os first) 2. Grub is much better than Lilo in most ca

Re: Quick and dirty "debian live" on USB stick.

On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 08:35:49PM EST, Rob Owens wrote: > On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 01:30:43AM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: [..] > > So I guess the rules need to be cleaned up every time you know you > > are using a given system for the last time? > > > You could try deleting the file that creates t

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 03:40:33PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 08:51:52PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > On 20091015_144147, Nick Lidakis wrote: > > Equipment: > > Adcom GTP-450 Tuner > > Adcom GCD-700 CDcarousel/player > > Adcom GFA-5000 dual audio amp > > Vandersteen

migrate to new system disk

I currently have a 40GB IDE boot disk in a Lenny server. I boot with LILO, but not INITRD. I have the following partitions: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda146234865 1951897+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hda2 *46074622

Re: Unstable, LVM and Grub2: "error: you need to load the kernel first"

On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 04:17:36PM -0600, Mark Allums wrote: > > >>at the moment 'grub-pc' is broken in sid. When you have a separate /boot > >>partition, the package generates a wrong '/boot/grub/grub.cfg'. Look at > >>the BTS for bug #558042. There is also the workaround for the problem. > >> >

Re: live cd/usb projects?

On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 08:09:35PM -0400, Geoffrey Lane wrote: >> >> Subject: >> Re: live cd/usb projects? >> From: >> Rob Owens >> Date: >> Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:34:56 -0500 >> >> I currently use Debian Live. I create my own images for USB using the >> live-helper scripts. The latest one I made c

Re: Quick and dirty "debian live" on USB stick.

On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 01:30:43AM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: > On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 09:45:11AM EST, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > > I'm playing with the idea of copying my laptop's debian lenny > > > partition to a USB stick that I can take with me when traveling. > > > > I have a "Live USB Debi

Re: virus on linux?

On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 08:12:22AM +, Avi Greenbury wrote: > abdelkader belahcene wrote: > > Hi, > > I am asking if there is a virus on my machine how to detect it. > > ClamAV[0] is the standard linux anti-virus scanner. For rootkit [1] > detection/fixing, look at chkrootkit[2] and rkhunter[3]

Re: setting a preferred debian repository?

On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 10:10:01PM +, Liviu Andronic wrote: > Dear all > Is it possible to configure the order of preference of Debian > repositories? I get a package with the same version, for the same > architecture, for the same target (testing), but from two different > repositories. And I

Re: What can I run on Stable?

On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 12:25:36AM -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:07:56 -0600 > Kumar Appaiah wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 08:23:56PM -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote: > > [snip] > > > I absolutely require the following: > > > > > > Gnome desktop (yes, I've tried

Re: live cd/usb projects?

thanks for the feedback. sorry it has taken some time to reply but I have been reading before responding. I hope my post isn't too long but I wanted to keep most of the replies intact. debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: Subject: Re: live cd/usb projects? From: Jiří Paleček D

Re: ssh closed by peer

On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 11:50:21AM +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > Hi, I connected to my ssh server running ubuntu 9.10, from a machine > running mintLinux (ubuntu based) , a few second after, connexion > dropped with the message : read from socket failed, : Connexion reset > by peer, That

Re: Charset of the Aptitude reference manual

On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 05:35:01PM EST, Celejar wrote: > Hi, > > When I look at the Aptitude manual (/usr/share/aptitude/README) using > 'less' (in Xfce4 Terminal), I get undisplayable characters, shown as > ''. 'file' says that the charset is 'ISO-8859 English text', so I > tried preceding the '

Re: virus on linux?

On Tuesday 01 December 2009 03:37:23 pm Alex Samad wrote: > Interestingly no one has mentioned selinux (or the suse equiv). You mean harden_suse ? It works great, and is probably one of the easier to use ones. And not only that, you can easily reverse it if something breaks after you've done it

Re: Aptitude Configuration

On Tuesday 01 December 2009 16:37:53 Celejar wrote: > On Tue, 1 Dec 2009 15:37:46 -0600 > "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: > > For now, setting 'Aptitude::UI::Package-Display-Format' to "%x%a%M %p > > (%t) %Z %v %V" is passable, and can be made better with the features > > already supported by apti

Re: Aptitude Configuration

On Tue, 1 Dec 2009 15:37:46 -0600 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: ... > For now, setting 'Aptitude::UI::Package-Display-Format' to "%x%a%M %p (%t) %Z > %v %V" is passable, and can be made better with the features already > supported > by aptitude. What's '%x', and why isn't it in the Aptitud

Charset of the Aptitude reference manual

Hi, When I look at the Aptitude manual (/usr/share/aptitude/README) using 'less' (in Xfce4 Terminal), I get undisplayable characters, shown as ''. 'file' says that the charset is 'ISO-8859 English text', so I tried preceding the 'less' invocation by 'LESSCHARSET=iso8859', and those characters are

Re: setting a preferred debian repository?

On Tuesday 01 December 2009 16:10:01 Liviu Andronic wrote: > Do you know how to write? > http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail The information on this page is incorrect. The interpretation of the "localpart" of an email address depends on the receiving system. It may or

Re: setting a preferred debian repository?

On Tuesday 01 December 2009 16:10:01 Liviu Andronic wrote: > Dear all > Is it possible to configure the order of preference of Debian > repositories? Yes, read (man 5 apt_preferences) and review the output of (apt-cache policy) or (apt-cache policy $package). For a full practical example, see

Re: Unstable, LVM and Grub2: "error: you need to load the kernel first"

at the moment 'grub-pc' is broken in sid. When you have a separate /boot partition, the package generates a wrong '/boot/grub/grub.cfg'. Look at the BTS for bug #558042. There is also the workaround for the problem. Hth Michael I ran across the same problem, but I am running mdraid RAID 1, w

setting a preferred debian repository?

Dear all Is it possible to configure the order of preference of Debian repositories? I get a package with the same version, for the same architecture, for the same target (testing), but from two different repositories. And I always prefer the version packaged in the custom repository over the one i

Re: VirtualBox or VMware?

Mark Allums wrote: Virtualbox 3 got off to a rugged start, but six updates later, it is not too bad. I use it. As of 3.0.6 my WinXP and Linux guests (on a WinXP host) gets this odd bug 3.0.6 is the third update. (Goes by even numbers.) The sixth update is 3.0.12. 3.1.0 was just r

Re: Aptitude Configuration

Hi, On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Tuesday 01 December 2009 14:38:59 Alex Samad wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 01:29:54AM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> > I was hoping to be able to get something like: >> >   --\ Versions of e2fsprogs (2) >> > i A

Re: Aptitude Configuration

On Tuesday 01 December 2009 14:38:59 Alex Samad wrote: > On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 01:29:54AM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > I was hoping to be able to get something like: > > --\ Versions of e2fsprogs (2) > > i A 1.41.3-1 (now, stable) > > p A 1.41.9-1 (testing, unstable) > > > > or, a

Re: Aptitude Configuration

On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 01:29:54AM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <20091201002006.ga9...@emurlahn.burrows.local>, Daniel Burrows wrote: > >On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 01:34:11PM -0600, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." > was heard to say: [snip] > > (the last two) > > I was hoping to be able to

Re: virus on linux?

On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 06:45:18AM -0500, Allen wrote: > After all the help I've received on here I finally get to give some heh: > > On Tuesday 01 December 2009 02:54:47 am Juha Tuuna wrote: > > abdelkader belahcene wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I am asking if there is a virus on my machine how to detec

Re: ssh -X Error: Can't open display: :0.0

On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 6:03 PM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Javier Barroso wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Mathieu Malaterre >> wrote: >>> Hi there, >>> >>>  I am getting confused. I cannot get xclock to run on a remote host >>> from my ssh sess

Re: To run a program under another user.

Sthu Deus wrote: > Thank You for Your time and answer, Nicholas: > >> /etc/sudoers >> user ALL = NOPASSWD:ALL > > But I want security (password). > > See 'man sudoers' for details: Defaults authenticate This is in /etc/sudoers, you will need root privilege to run visudo command. Requ

Re: ssh -X Error: Can't open display: :0.0

Javier Barroso wrote: Error: Can't open display: :0.0 usr/X11R6/bin/xhost + ? -- Sincerely, Nicholas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: ssh -X Error: Can't open display: :0.0

On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Javier Barroso wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Mathieu Malaterre > wrote: >> Hi there, >> >>  I am getting confused. I cannot get xclock to run on a remote host >> from my ssh session: >> >> local $ ssh -X mpi0 >> remote $ xclock >> Error: Can't op

Re: Aptitude Configuration

On Tuesday 01 December 2009 08:21:01 Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 01:45:26AM -0600, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." was heard to say: > > Daniel, would you be terribly averse to a wishlist bug to make a separate > > configuration option for this? > > No. The whole way that the lis

Re: ssh -X Error: Can't open display: :0.0

Hi, On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Hi there, > >  I am getting confused. I cannot get xclock to run on a remote host > from my ssh session: > > local $ ssh -X mpi0 > remote $ xclock > Error: Can't open display: :0.0 > > But I can still do: > > local $ ssh -Xf mpi0 xclo

ssh -X Error: Can't open display: :0.0

Hi there, I am getting confused. I cannot get xclock to run on a remote host from my ssh session: local $ ssh -X mpi0 remote $ xclock Error: Can't open display: :0.0 But I can still do: local $ ssh -Xf mpi0 xclock Could someone please remind me what is the difference, and what am I missing i

Re: ssh closed by peer

Connection reset by peer -> Like hanging up your phone = I would assume it is a problem with the client, since it refers to the remote socket. Then again, I have no idea what I am talking about; perhaps someone more intelligible will reply! Marc Auvil On 12/1/09, abdelkader belahcene wrote:

Re: Aptitude Configuration

On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 01:45:26AM -0600, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." was heard to say: > Daniel, would you be terribly averse to a wishlist bug to make a separate > configuration option for this? No. The whole way that the lists are configured could probably use an overhaul, actually. I wrote

Re: What can I run on Stable?

On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 12:25:36AM -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote: > > > Gnome desktop (yes, I've tried all the others) > > > > This works fine in Lenny. > > In discussing this at length on this list, the Fedora forums, and the OpenSuse > forums, everyone wants me to file a bug report with Gnome.

Re: Aptitude Configuration

On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 01:29:54AM -0600, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." was heard to say: > However, the lines I'd like to change look like: > --\ Versions of e2fsprogs (2) > i A 1.41.3-1 > p A 1.41.9-1 For package versions, "%p" turns into the version number; "%v" and "%V" don't display anythi

pppd

Hola He estado tratando de conectar un modem serie Multitech desde Debian Lenny a un Server Windows Server 2003 pero siempre me pone esto, me dice de el error 16 pero este no me dice nada claro cual puede ser el problema o sea es conectar una pc con debian a un servidor con window server 2003

Re: virus on linux?

After all the help I've received on here I finally get to give some heh: On Tuesday 01 December 2009 02:54:47 am Juha Tuuna wrote: > abdelkader belahcene wrote: > > Hi, > > I am asking if there is a virus on my machine how to detect it. > > Try scanning with Clamav This is a good idea if you're w

custom post-install hook for specific package?

Hi guys I would like to ask if there is any simple and clear way to make custom post-install hook for specific distribution package. I need to run custom script after unattended upgrade of php. This script will recompile eaccelerator. Thank you Best regards Tomas Zatko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

ssh closed by peer

Hi, I connected to my ssh server running ubuntu 9.10, from a machine running mintLinux (ubuntu based) , a few second after, connexion dropped with the message : read from socket failed, : Connexion reset by peer, after that I tryed the connexion again, but connexion is refused on port 22, whil

Ntp daemon logs (ipv6)

Hello, Running Lenny, I am seeing the following ntp logs under "daemon.log": *** Dec 1 07:33:36 serv2 ntpd[3841]: ntpd 4.2@1.1520-o Mon May 11 20:13:01 UTC 2009 (1) Dec 1 07:33:36 serv2 ntpd[3842]: precision = 1.000 usec Dec 1 07:33:36 serv2 ntpd[3842]: Listening on interface #0 wildcard

Re: To run a program under another user.

Thank You for Your time and so extended answer, Bob: > You could use 'su', but you must know the user password: > > (you)$ su user -c 'the command to run with arguments' > Password: > possible 'the command' input, with output I did work for me. - I do not remember now why - but it did not

Re: To run a program under another user.

Thank You for Your time and answer, Nicholas: > /etc/sudoers > user ALL = NOPASSWD:ALL But I want security (password). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

NetBeans in contrib

Hello, sorry for bothering you, but I do not get it. Can anyone tell me why NetBeans-IDE is placed in contrib? It depends on the NetBeans-Plattform from contrib and this depends on OpenJDK 6 from main. Thanks! Bye! Lars -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: What can I run on Stable?

On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:07:56 -0600 Kumar Appaiah wrote: > On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 08:23:56PM -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote: > [snip] > > I absolutely require the following: > > > > Gnome desktop (yes, I've tried all the others) > > This works fine in Lenny. I have used Gnome on Ubuntu for fou

Re: virus on linux?

abdelkader belahcene wrote: > Hi, > I am asking if there is a virus on my machine how to detect it. ClamAV[0] is the standard linux anti-virus scanner. For rootkit [1] detection/fixing, look at chkrootkit[2] and rkhunter[3]. > the command ps aux gives all running processes, all really all? or >