Re: SATA disk detected as IDE? SOLVED

2010-07-02 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh put forth on 7/2/2010 9:24 PM: > On Fri, 02 Jul 2010, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >>> software... What is NCQ? (in this context, of course) What is > > A way to have various requests "in flight" and let the disk itself order > them to get "better" performance. Whether it hel

Re: Burning a .iso on an USB key

2010-07-02 Thread Chris
On Fri, 2 Jul 2010 22:16:36 -0400 Rob Owens wrote: > On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 05:12:13PM +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have an USB key and I would like to know how I could `burn' a .iso > > image on it. I remember some weird procedure using dd, but I'm not > > sure, and I can't f

Re: AM3 socket Asus M4A87TD EVO motherboard work flawlessly in Debian?

2010-07-02 Thread H.S.
On 02/07/10 08:52 PM, Greg Madden wrote: > On Friday 02 July 2010 08:45:41 H.S. wrote: >> I am thinking of getting this one. It appears to be a new one from Asus >> and I am wondering if Linux supports it in all ways (networking, sound, >> etc.). It is an AMD Socket AM3 motherboard: Asus M4A87TD EV

Re: Misleading Debian's installer choice

2010-07-02 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 03:47:04PM +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Friday 02 July 2010 15:14:03 Merciadri Luca wrote: > > Rob Owens wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:26:56PM +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > > >> Mark wrote: > > >>> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Merciadri Luca > > >>> > >>>

Re: SATA disk detected as IDE? SOLVED

2010-07-02 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 02 Jul 2010, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > software... What is NCQ? (in this context, of course) What is A way to have various requests "in flight" and let the disk itself order them to get "better" performance. Whether it helps performance or not depends on the IO workload, the kind of devic

Re: After installation, my P2 is still unable to launch Debian

2010-07-02 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 10:29:36PM +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Camaleón wrote: > > On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 18:53:10 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > > > > > >> Camaleón wrote: > >> > > > > > >>> Have you considered the computer may lack for system resources (such as > >>> RAM or CPU)? Today

Re: Burning a .iso on an USB key

2010-07-02 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 05:12:13PM +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Hi, > > I have an USB key and I would like to know how I could `burn' a .iso > image on it. I remember some weird procedure using dd, but I'm not sure, > and I can't find the tutorial. Evidently, assuming respective BIOS > capabilit

Re: Connecting to the exterior network is impossible `directly'

2010-07-02 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 10:39:16AM +0100, Michal wrote: > On 02/07/2010 10:27, Merciadri Luca wrote: >> No. That's not at all a proxy. Once you power on the computer, and that >> you want to use Internet, say by Firefox, you are directly redirected to >> a webpage which asks you your university log

Re: First Debian Installation: totally brain-dead. Where do I go from here?

2010-07-02 Thread Keith P Mitchell
Hey Andrei: Thanks for getting back. Q. Did the network setup step during the installation work? A. Good question. I was so concerned with disk management, I did not notice. I am looking at starting from scratch. I now have some experience and good recommendations. The physical connection is

Re: First Debian Installation: totally brain-dead. Where do I go from here?

2010-07-02 Thread Mark
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Lisi wrote: [...] > If you use CDs you may have to keep > changing the CD. The full set is now something like 11 is it not? > I have yet to need anything other than CD 1 or DVD 1 for installing. So nothing gained there from a netinstall. Mark

Re: AM3 socket Asus M4A87TD EVO motherboard work flawlessly in Debian?

2010-07-02 Thread Greg Madden
On Friday 02 July 2010 08:45:41 H.S. wrote: > I am thinking of getting this one. It appears to be a new one from Asus > and I am wondering if Linux supports it in all ways (networking, sound, > etc.). It is an AMD Socket AM3 motherboard: Asus M4A87TD EVO. > > Anybody with this mobo can confirm ther

Re: AM3 socket Asus M4A87TD EVO motherboard work flawlessly in Debian?

2010-07-02 Thread H.S.
On 02/07/10 01:10 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 07/02/2010 11:45 AM, H.S. wrote: >> I am thinking of getting this one. It appears to be a new one from Asus >> and I am wondering if Linux supports it in all ways (networking, sound, >> etc.). It is an AMD Socket AM3 motherboard: Asus M4A87TD EVO. >> >>

vbox loop in aptitude

2010-07-02 Thread Paul Scott
Debian sid: There are several vbox packages available for update. When I choose any one of those to update in aptitude I get what seems to be an unending loop while aptitude attempts to resolve the dependencies. Any ideas? TIA, Paul Scott -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@

Re: First Debian Installation: totally brain-dead. Where do I go from here?

2010-07-02 Thread Lisi
On Friday 02 July 2010 21:47:13 Mark wrote: > On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Keith Mitchell wrote: > > Thanks Guys: > > > > Looks like a serious operator malfunction on my part. My first time > > with an internet install. In the past, I had a CD with the whole > > distribution on it. > > This is

Re: First Debian Installation: totally brain-dead. Where do I go from here?

2010-07-02 Thread Lisi
On Friday 02 July 2010 20:38:52 Keith Mitchell wrote: > Firefox and Thunderbird do have > copyrighted stuff, however, Iceweasel did not have a Windows > installation, otherwise I would be using it on Windows. Firefox and Iceweasel are the same thing, so there is a version for Windows. The copyr

Re: First Debian Installation: totally brain-dead. Where do I go from here?

2010-07-02 Thread Lisi
On Friday 02 July 2010 19:23:50 Joe wrote: > In those days I was using fixed addresses on my couple of network > machines, and so was not running dhcp on the sarge machine. Apparently, > if during the installation, a dhcp server was not found, and you hadn't > picked the expert install, you didn't

Re: AM3 socket Asus M4A87TD EVO motherboard work flawlessly in Debian?

2010-07-02 Thread Charles Kroeger
I have an M4A79XTD EVO..that's close. I'm using a Phenom II X4 I have Alsa installed and use it 'flawlessly' with the Asus Xonar D1 PCI audio card and the Alsa Mixer serves as the interface with the card. The module or driver or firmware whatever it's called for the Xonar D1 comes with the Kernel.

Re: First Debian Installation: totally brain-dead. Where do I go from here?

2010-07-02 Thread Alan Chandler
On 02/07/10 21:47, Mark wrote: On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Keith Mitchell mailto:kpmitch...@gmail.com>> wrote: Thanks Guys: Looks like a serious operator malfunction on my part. My first time with an internet install. In the past, I had a CD with the whole distribution on i

RE: Xen on Squeeze won't start

2010-07-02 Thread Mike Viau
> Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 13:51:14 -0700 > Subject: Re: Xen on Squeeze won't start > From: rip...@woodlandschools.org > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > CC: wa...@debian.org > > Well just in case someone else hits this... once my colleague > suggested I look closer at what grub2 was doing, and af

Debian support on newer 4K Advanced format drives (rather than 512 bytes)

2010-07-02 Thread Mike Viau
Hello List, I was just wondering what some of the debian community users has been experiencing in regards to the new Western Digital 4K Advanced format drives? Has any one tried using one of these drives on the 2.6.26 (64/32 bit) kernel shipped with Lenny stable? How about with the 2.6.32

Re: Xen on Squeeze won't start

2010-07-02 Thread Rippl, Steve
Well just in case someone else hits this... once my colleague suggested I look closer at what grub2 was doing, and after more time on Google and experimenting I came up with this... the actual xen 3.4 hypervisor isn't being put into the grub2 boot list. It's not good booting off the one that says

Re: First Debian Installation: totally brain-dead. Where do I go from here?

2010-07-02 Thread Mark
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Keith Mitchell wrote: > Thanks Guys: > > Looks like a serious operator malfunction on my part. My first time > with an internet install. In the past, I had a CD with the whole > distribution on it. > This is something I haven't been able to wrap my head around yet

Booting in `user-mode' and entering in `maintenance' says `Login incorrect' but this is actually `Incorrect password' that should be said, as `root' is the maintenance user

2010-07-02 Thread Merciadri Luca
Hi, Booting in `user-mode' (once chosen in the GRUB) and entering in `maintenance' says `Login incorrect' but this is actually `Incorrect password' that should be said, as `root' is the (default) maintenance user. Or that could be understood if `login' were to be taken in some larger extent (which

Re: After installation, my P2 is still unable to launch Debian

2010-07-02 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 18:53:10 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > > >> Camaleón wrote: >> > > >>> Have you considered the computer may lack for system resources (such as >>> RAM or CPU)? Todays DE (GNOME and KDE) are memory hungry, so couldn't >>> be that your machine is very

Re: First Debian Installation: totally brain-dead. Where do I go from here?

2010-07-02 Thread Kent West
On 07/02/2010 02:38 PM, Keith Mitchell wrote: Thanks Guys: Looks like a serious operator malfunction on my part. My first time with an internet install. In the past, I had a CD with the whole distribution on it. First, Sorry. I did not wish to infer that Debian itself is brain-dead. I meant the

Re: Signing Email Messages

2010-07-02 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 2 Jul 2010 14:17:50 -0500 Arthur Machlas wrote: Hello Arthur, > Make abundant sense. And I assume they'd need my public key to verify > the signature? Yes. Upload it to one of the (many) keyservers available for this purpose, and they won't have to nag you for it. However, before you

Re: First Debian Installation: totally brain-dead. Where do I go from here?

2010-07-02 Thread Keith Mitchell
Thanks Guys: Looks like a serious operator malfunction on my part. My first time with an internet install. In the past, I had a CD with the whole distribution on it. First, Sorry. I did not wish to infer that Debian itself is brain-dead. I meant the minimal installation that I myself created with

Re: Signing Email Messages

2010-07-02 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 2 Jul 2010 14:17:50 -0500 Arthur Machlas wrote: > On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Celejar wrote: > > On Fri, 2 Jul 2010 13:52:47 -0500 > > Arthur Machlas wrote: > > > >> I just recently setup encrypted mail for my personal mail account, > >> using icedove and enigmail. I'm curious about

Re: Signing Email Messages

2010-07-02 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Celejar wrote: > On Fri, 2 Jul 2010 13:52:47 -0500 > Arthur Machlas wrote: > >> I just recently setup encrypted mail for my personal mail account, >> using icedove and enigmail. I'm curious about a general feature of >> "signing" the email. Why can't I just copy th

Re: Signing Email Messages

2010-07-02 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 2 Jul 2010 13:52:47 -0500 Arthur Machlas wrote: > I just recently setup encrypted mail for my personal mail account, > using icedove and enigmail. I'm curious about a general feature of > "signing" the email. Why can't I just copy the "signature" portion of > the email, which many people

Signing Email Messages

2010-07-02 Thread Arthur Machlas
I just recently setup encrypted mail for my personal mail account, using icedove and enigmail. I'm curious about a general feature of "signing" the email. Why can't I just copy the "signature" portion of the email, which many people on this list attach to their posts, and paste it at the bottom of

Re: Maple 14 and Squeeze (amd64): SOLVED

2010-07-02 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, finally I resolved the issue. On 01/07/10 09:12, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List, On 30/06/10 21:56, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 06/30/2010 09:25 AM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List, I am installing the last Maple version (Maple 14

Re: First Debian Installation: totally brain-dead. Where do I go from here?

2010-07-02 Thread Arthur Machlas
> On Vi, 02 iul 10, 00:49:53, Keith Mitchell wrote: >> I decided to build a Linux box instead of emulating Linux using >> VM-Ware under Windows. I heard Debian was the way to go. I have >> created Red-Hat and Ubuntu Linux boxes in the past with no problems. Who did you hear this from? Irrelevant,

Re: After installation, my P2 is still unable to launch Debian

2010-07-02 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 18:53:10 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >> Have you considered the computer may lack for system resources (such as >> RAM or CPU)? Todays DE (GNOME and KDE) are memory hungry, so couldn't >> be that your machine is very busy? :-? >> >> - What are your PII specs

Re: First Debian Installation: totally brain-dead. Where do I go from here?

2010-07-02 Thread Joe
On 02/07/10 14:03, Alan Chandler wrote: On 02/07/10 08:46, Andrei Popescu wrote: [Please reply to debian-user only. If you are not subscribed please ask for CCs] (full quote for context) On Vi, 02 iul 10, 00:49:53, Keith Mitchell wrote: I decided to build a Linux box instead of emulating Linu

Re: Understanding LVM UUIDS

2010-07-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On 07/02/2010 12:40 PM, Daniel Barclay wrote: Aaron Toponce wrote: UUIDs are unique to the device/filesystem. Are these (disk) UUIDs stored somewhere in the partition (in the filesystem), or are they stored at or generated from a lower level? In the superblock. # dumpe2fs -h /dev/mapper/ma

Re: Understanding LVM UUIDS

2010-07-02 Thread Daniel Barclay
Aaron Toponce wrote: UUIDs are unique to the device/filesystem. Are these (disk) UUIDs stored somewhere in the partition (in the filesystem), or are they stored at or generated from a lower level? In particular, if one used dd to copy the contents (a file system) of one partition to another p

Re: Connecting to the exterior network is impossible `directly'

2010-07-02 Thread Merciadri Luca
Thanks. Celejar wrote: > On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:27:13 +0200 > Merciadri Luca wrote: > > >> No. That's not at all a proxy. Once you power on the computer, and that >> you want to use Internet, say by Firefox, you are directly redirected to >> a webpage which asks you your university login & you

Re: AM3 socket Asus M4A87TD EVO motherboard work flawlessly in Debian?

2010-07-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On 07/02/2010 11:45 AM, H.S. wrote: I am thinking of getting this one. It appears to be a new one from Asus and I am wondering if Linux supports it in all ways (networking, sound, etc.). It is an AMD Socket AM3 motherboard: Asus M4A87TD EVO. Anybody with this mobo can confirm there are no proble

Re: Connecting to the exterior network is impossible `directly'

2010-07-02 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:27:13 +0200 Merciadri Luca wrote: > No. That's not at all a proxy. Once you power on the computer, and that > you want to use Internet, say by Firefox, you are directly redirected to > a webpage which asks you your university login & your university > password. Once you hav

Re: After installation, my P2 is still unable to launch Debian

2010-07-02 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 01 Jul 2010 22:46:20 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > > (...) > > >> The PC then rebooted, and, after the login screen, nothing happens. >> There's still a background (the default one), but no icon, no menu, no >> shortcut working. The mouse can be moved, but nothing more

AM3 socket Asus M4A87TD EVO motherboard work flawlessly in Debian?

2010-07-02 Thread H.S.
I am thinking of getting this one. It appears to be a new one from Asus and I am wondering if Linux supports it in all ways (networking, sound, etc.). It is an AMD Socket AM3 motherboard: Asus M4A87TD EVO. Anybody with this mobo can confirm there are no problems with Debian? For example, someone h

Re: martian sources iptables

2010-07-02 Thread Bob McGowan
On 07/01/2010 05:34 PM, cosme wrote: > Hola > > He puesto un iptables en Debian lenny y cuando lo reinicio me aparece un > sin número de mensajes con martian sources. > > Qué significan > > Jul 1 19:00:47 ns1 kernel: [ 5631.909505] martian source 192.168.13.83 > from 192.168.13.14, on dev e

Re: After installation, my P2 is still unable to launch Debian

2010-07-02 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 01 Jul 2010 22:46:20 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: (...) > The PC then rebooted, and, after the login screen, nothing happens. > There's still a background (the default one), but no icon, no menu, no > shortcut working. The mouse can be moved, but nothing more. The only > working shortcut

Re: DebianLive

2010-07-02 Thread kzsyz
for your reference, http://www.pendrivelinux.com/debian-live-flash-drive-install-from-windows/ -- From: "Celejar" Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 9:17 PM To: Subject: Re: DebianLive On Fri, 2 Jul 2010 10:38:03 +0300 Andrei Popescu wrote: ... ,-

Re: SATA disk detected as IDE? SOLVED

2010-07-02 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Paul E Condon put forth on 7/1/2010 6:47 PM: > I'm lurking here, hoping to learn useful stuff about hard drive > software... What is NCQ? (in this context, of course) What is > "ATA_NCQ_HORKAGE list"? The only hit that I get on this string in Google > is a link to this email to which I am respond

Re: Misleading Debian's installer choice

2010-07-02 Thread Lisi
On Friday 02 July 2010 15:14:03 Merciadri Luca wrote: > Rob Owens wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:26:56PM +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > >> Mark wrote: > >>> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Merciadri Luca > >>> >>> > wrote: > >>> > >>> Mark wrote

Re: Misleading Debian's installer choice

2010-07-02 Thread Merciadri Luca
Rob Owens wrote: > On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:26:56PM +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > >> Mark wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Merciadri Luca >>> >> > wrote: >>> >>> Mark wrote: >>> >>> > Yes, but you said this wasn't for beginne

Re: Connecting to the exterior network is impossible `directly'

2010-07-02 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 15:10:59 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Merciadri Luca wrote: >>> What is the exact problem you are facing with your current setup (what >>> can't you do now and what do you want to achieve)? >>> >>> If you share the concrete problem people can provide you a concrete >>> solut

Re: "sid" doesn't always equal "unstable":

2010-07-02 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 07/02/2010 10:14 AM, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > See, "sid" doesn't always equal "unstable": > $ apt-cache policy ffmpeg > ffmpeg: > Installed: 5:0.6~svn20100603-0.0 > Candidate: 5:0.6~svn20100603-0.0 > Version table: > *** 5:0.6~svn20100603-0.0 0 > 500 http://ftp.tw.debian.org s

Re: Connecting to the exterior network is impossible `directly'

2010-07-02 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 2 Jul 2010 09:17:28 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: ... > You mean a proxy? > > For GUI apps, you will need to setup wide proxy settings under your DE > (GNOME?). > > For command line utilities, such "wget", it should be already > contemplated by the program itself so there must an optio

Re: DebianLive

2010-07-02 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 2 Jul 2010 10:38:03 +0300 Andrei Popescu wrote: ... > ,[ http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive/ ] > | This is a collaborative wiki to gather information and to discuss > | technologies used to produce a complex framework to enable production of > | official Debian Live systems, that us

"sid" doesn't always equal "unstable":

2010-07-02 Thread jidanni
See, "sid" doesn't always equal "unstable": $ apt-cache policy ffmpeg ffmpeg: Installed: 5:0.6~svn20100603-0.0 Candidate: 5:0.6~svn20100603-0.0 Version table: *** 5:0.6~svn20100603-0.0 0 500 http://ftp.tw.debian.org sid/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 4:0.6-2 0

Re: Connecting to the exterior network is impossible `directly'

2010-07-02 Thread Merciadri Luca
Merciadri Luca wrote: > Camaleón wrote: > >> On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:47:17 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: >> >> >>> Michal wrote: >>> >>> ...so you can only use a browser then? You can't use other applications? This sounds like the sort of system they have a hotels >>>

Re: DebianLive

2010-07-02 Thread Alan Chandler
On 02/07/10 04:42, Chris wrote: Greetings folks, I have been playing a bit with creating live USB flash drives. I'm not having much luck finding examples on how to create the live flash drive with the ability to install it on the PC hard drive. Here's my setup: I have an older laptop with a fa

Re: First Debian Installation: totally brain-dead. Where do I go from here?

2010-07-02 Thread Alan Chandler
On 02/07/10 08:46, Andrei Popescu wrote: [Please reply to debian-user only. If you are not subscribed please ask for CCs] (full quote for context) On Vi, 02 iul 10, 00:49:53, Keith Mitchell wrote: I decided to build a Linux box instead of emulating Linux using VM-Ware under Windows. I heard De

Re: Connecting to the exterior network is impossible `directly'

2010-07-02 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 07/02/2010 05:27 AM, Merciadri Luca wrote: > No. That's not at all a proxy. Once you power on the computer, and that > you want to use Internet, say by Firefox, you are directly redirected to > a webpage which asks you your university login & your

Re: F1 through F6 console screens disappeared

2010-07-02 Thread lee
On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 10:37:43AM -0500, John W Foster wrote: > from the xserver screen. Good so far. Then I tried to switch to the F1 > screen which I use frequently along with all those console based screens > & it would not switch to the console. Make sure your keyboard is still configured cor

Re: was getting disk failure errors, repaired the sectors, now what?

2010-07-02 Thread lee
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 05:34:22PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > > So now I know that my backups most probably are not trustworthy, the > ones from the last four or so days. No problem. I do rolling backups > using cron and rsync. But what I do now? Now you buy at least two new disks, preferably some that

Re: Connecting to the exterior network is impossible `directly'

2010-07-02 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:47:17 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > > Michal wrote: >> ...so you can only use a browser then? You can't use other >> applications? This sounds like the sort of system they have a hotels >> and such like...but there are ways to get around these...one way was >> even put in a

Re: [SOLVED] Re: wireless (Atheros AR5001) was working on squeeze, then stopped

2010-07-02 Thread Brian C. Wells
On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 22:28 +0200, Klistvud wrote: > Dne, 30. 06. 2010 20:51:08 je Brian C. Wells napisal(a): > > > Or did some key combo I pressed somehow disable it? > > You betcha. Most notebooks have such key combos (or even dedicated > keys), and HPs are no exception. So it looks like you

Re: Connecting to the exterior network is impossible `directly'

2010-07-02 Thread Merciadri Luca
But I have credentials! So that might be simple if I get a way to share the credentials with other programs. Michal wrote: > On 02/07/2010 10:27, Merciadri Luca wrote: >> No. That's not at all a proxy. Once you power on the computer, and that >> you want to use Internet, say by Firefox, you are di

Re: Connecting to the exterior network is impossible `directly'

2010-07-02 Thread Michal
On 02/07/2010 10:27, Merciadri Luca wrote: No. That's not at all a proxy. Once you power on the computer, and that you want to use Internet, say by Firefox, you are directly redirected to a webpage which asks you your university login& your university password. Once you have entered this stuff,

Re: What's the easiest way for a shell script to tell if grub version 1 is installed?

2010-07-02 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 08:17, Bob Proulx wrote: > Stephen Powell wrote: > > What's the easiest way for a shell script to tell if grub version 1 > > is installed? It is important to distinguish grub version 1 from > > grub version 2. For example, can I just do this? > > > > if [ -f /boot/grub/me

Re: Connecting to the exterior network is impossible `directly'

2010-07-02 Thread Merciadri Luca
No. That's not at all a proxy. Once you power on the computer, and that you want to use Internet, say by Firefox, you are directly redirected to a webpage which asks you your university login & your university password. Once you have entered this stuff, you are logged on the network, and everything

Re: Connecting to the exterior network is impossible `directly'

2010-07-02 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 10:32:53 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > For some PC at the university, I need Internet access, but this can't be > achieved directly. That is, I can habitually view web pages, but I first > need to introduce my credentials to the login webpage. Introducing these > credentials i

Connecting to the exterior network is impossible `directly'

2010-07-02 Thread Merciadri Luca
Hi, For some PC at the university, I need Internet access, but this can't be achieved directly. That is, I can habitually view web pages, but I first need to introduce my credentials to the login webpage. Introducing these credentials is mandatory to have full Internet access. How could I tell oth

Re: First Debian Installation: totally brain-dead. Where do I go from here?

2010-07-02 Thread Andrei Popescu
[Please reply to debian-user only. If you are not subscribed please ask for CCs] (full quote for context) On Vi, 02 iul 10, 00:49:53, Keith Mitchell wrote: > I decided to build a Linux box instead of emulating Linux using > VM-Ware under Windows. I heard Debian was the way to go. I have > create

Re: DebianLive

2010-07-02 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Jo, 01 iul 10, 22:42:16, Chris wrote: > Greetings folks, > > I have been playing a bit with creating live USB flash drives. > I'm not having much luck finding examples on how to create the live > flash drive with the ability to install it on the PC hard drive. > > Here's my setup: > > I have

Re: was getting disk failure errors, repaired the sectors, now what?

2010-07-02 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Jo, 01 iul 10, 18:42:26, H.S. wrote: > > Okay, did all these, but that set of file not found errors upon console > login is still there. They are probably gone. If you want to try to repair the system (versus reinstalling from scratch) you can just reinstall each package containing the missi

Re: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core and Debian install

2010-07-02 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
> Merciadri Luca : >I've never used AMD-based computers, and I've therefore always chosen >i386 as I habitually deal with Intel stuff. I have ever choosen AMD when possible and they run all Linux flavours like a charm. Just for the record, - I like challengers, and AMD is Intel's one (with more

Re: Deterring mail relay attempts

2010-07-02 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Jo, 01 iul 10, 19:43:44, lee wrote: > > One downside seems to be that it creates lots of exim processes, and > > I am not sure why yet. It may be open connections with dropping > > data as a result of the recently added iptables rule > > Just to be curious, what is the thinking/idea/advantag

Re: firefox images look like bacon strips

2010-07-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On 07/01/2010 10:34 PM, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: [snip] Version information see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=587288 Wel, it looks like the bug is in libcairo2... -- Seek truth from facts. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject