Re: kppp dialing process hang up on 'starting pppd'. (was: bug in ppp - grave)

2011-09-26 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 27/09/11 04:39, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > Hi Scott, > > you are right, I mentioned umtsmon. I read the log. Even if I hadn't had problems in the past - which were solved by abandoning UMTSmon, I'd still call UMTSmon the problem *based* on the errors in your log. > But the problem was not beei

Re: More USB install-images please!

2011-09-26 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 26/09/11 23:08, Jan Olav Agle wrote: > I sometimes install Debian on machines belonging to family and friends. > On my latest install I tried the boot.img.gz on an USB-stick. boot.img.gz is *just* the boot loader. To make it function you *must also* copy an .iso image to the USB-stick - or els

partitioning inhibits boot on AF drive?

2011-09-26 Thread Russell L. Harris
I just installed on a Lenovo S205 (1) Ubuntu 10.10, (2) Debian testing (Wheezy), and (3) Debian stable (Squeeze). The Debian systems utilized netinst images, and the Ubuntu system downloaded updates during the installation. The single hard drive has a separate /boot partition (primary). At the e

Re: [OT] advice re Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black 1 TB 7200 RPM Internal Hard Disk Drive

2011-09-26 Thread Greg Madden
On Monday 26 September 2011 06:32:24 am Andrew McGlashan wrote: > Hi, > > Lisi wrote: > > Is the Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black 1 TB 7200 RPM Internal > > Hard Disk Drive worth the extra money over the Blue ranges? > > > > And would you recommend it? I don't want to cause myself complic

Re: New SATA drive installation question (SOLVED)

2011-09-26 Thread Lisi
On Monday 26 September 2011 19:07:17 Camaleón wrote: > Yes, you should have read the full thread I'm not the only one who has been known to transgress in that manner. And I'm sure that I won't be the last. Don't you think that this all getting a bit OTT for what was, after all, not that seriou

Re: About ATI drivers and xorg.conf

2011-09-26 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:00:23 -0400, co...@esid.gecgr.co.cu wrote in message : > Hi > > a few days ago I'm trying to operate a card > Technologies Inc R200 BB [Radeon All in Wonder 8500DV] > > Use Debian squeeze > > I managed to run the ati-driver-installer-8.38.6-4 and generated > x86.x86_64.ru

Re: [OT] advice re Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black 1 TB 7200 RPM Internal Hard Disk Drive

2011-09-26 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 9/26/2011 6:53 AM, Lisi wrote: Is the Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black 1 TB 7200 RPM Internal Hard Disk Drive worth the extra money over the Blue ranges? And would you recommend it? I don't want to cause myself complications with another dud drive. :-( /knocks on wood I've had a Bl

Re: Upgraded from Squeeze to unstable - NVIDIA

2011-09-26 Thread Csanyi Pal
Csanyi Pal writes: > "Hans-J. Ullrich" writes: > >> Am Montag, 26. September 2011 schrieb Csanyi Pal: >>> Brad Alexander writes: >>> > I believe to install the nvidia driver the Debian way, you need to >>> > enable the non-free repositories then install >>> > >>> > glx-alternative-nvidia >>> >

Re: Upgraded from Squeeze to unstable - NVIDIA

2011-09-26 Thread Csanyi Pal
"Hans-J. Ullrich" writes: > Am Montag, 26. September 2011 schrieb Csanyi Pal: >> Brad Alexander writes: >> > I believe to install the nvidia driver the Debian way, you need to >> > enable the non-free repositories then install >> > >> > glx-alternative-nvidia >> > libgl1-nvidia-alternatives >>

Re: Partitioning my new 1TB drive

2011-09-26 Thread Nicolas
El 25/09/11 23:19, Marc Shapiro escribió: Now that I have my Seagate 1TB drive functional and recognized by Linux, I need to format the thing. As I mentioned in my previous thread, my current boot drive on this box is only 40 GB. I intend to keep it as the boot drive and use the new drive pri

Re: Worst Admin Mistake? was --> Re: /usr broken, will the machine reboot ?

2011-09-26 Thread Bryan Irvine
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 12:57 AM, Brian Ryans wrote: > Quoting The_Ace on 2011-09-14 03:08: >> drop database Live_database; >> >> Restored the previous day's backup and blamed it on a bad power supply :P > > You coulda blamed it on any of the outputs of "fortune bofh-excuses" and > most users woul

About ATI drivers and xorg.conf

2011-09-26 Thread cosme
Hi a few days ago I'm trying to operate a card Technologies Inc R200 BB [Radeon All in Wonder 8500DV] Use Debian squeeze I managed to run the ati-driver-installer-8.38.6-4 and generated x86.x86_64.run packages. deb and dpkg install. After having generated this run but when I run glxinfo | grep

Re: Partitioning my new 1TB drive

2011-09-26 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi Marc, Am Montag, 26. September 2011 schrieb Marc Shapiro: > Now that I have my Seagate 1TB drive functional and recognized by > Linux, I need to format the thing. As I mentioned in my previous > thread, my current boot drive on this box is only 40 GB. I intend to > keep it as the boot drive a

Re: kppp dialing process hang up on 'starting pppd'. (was: bug in ppp - grave)

2011-09-26 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi Scott, you are right, I mentioned umtsmon. But the problem was not beeing umtsmon updated, but ppp updated. Umtsmon is just a GUI to call ppp with additional parameters, nothing else. So the problem was IMO in ppp, as the only thing, which was changed, was the ppp binary, NOT umtsmon. I tri

Re: Upgraded from Squeeze to unstable - NVIDIA

2011-09-26 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Montag, 26. September 2011 schrieb Csanyi Pal: > Brad Alexander writes: > > I believe to install the nvidia driver the Debian way, you need to enable > > the non-free repositories then install > > > > glx-alternative-nvidia > > libgl1-nvidia-alternatives > > libgl1-nvidia-glx > > libglx-nvidia

Re: pyPdf with python3?

2011-09-26 Thread Cousin Stanley
Davide Anchisi wrote: > how can I have pyPdf working with python3? > Just a guess that pyPdf might not currently be compatible with python3 You might try the comp.lang.python newsgroup for a more definitive answer -- Stanley C. Kitching Human Being Phoenix, Arizona

nfs-common failure

2011-09-26 Thread Alexander Petrov
No I'm using 2.6.26 kernel. As to the bug report it mentioned version 1:1.2.1-1 of nfs-common. The version on my machine is 1:1.1.2-6I .So the workaround 'Rolling back to version 1:1.2.0-4.1' could not be applied.

Re: CD reader doesn't read audio CDs

2011-09-26 Thread Shams Fantar
On 20/09/11 03:03 AM, Mukherjee, Partha P wrote: I had the same problem.http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/cdfs-src saved me& my audio disk. ppm. And how do you use it ? Because no documentation seems existing about this module. I have installed it, but what's the next step ? I know it is m

Re: New SATA drive installation question (SOLVED)

2011-09-26 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 18:47:45 +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Sunday 25 September 2011 18:29:10 Camaleón wrote: >> It seems to me that you replied to more than that statement as we were >> not talking about external hard disks at all. > > I _was_ replying solely to the statement. And you expanded with

Question propmted by response to [Re: More USB install-images please!]

2011-09-26 Thread Richard Owlett
Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:08:58 +0200, Jan Olav Agle wrote: I sometimes install Debian on machines belonging to family and friends. On my latest install I tried the boot.img.gz on an USB-stick. It failed halfway trough, complaining about a missing suitable ISO-image. Not wasting ti

Re: iceweasel based on firefox 6.0 for squeeze

2011-09-26 Thread Brian
On Mon 26 Sep 2011 at 14:23:12 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:33:31 +0100, Brian wrote: > > > It is clear we have diametrically opposite views, so best leave it > > there. > > How can be that? > > I mean, how can you consider ClamAV needs to be up-to-date (I mean the > progra

Re: Partitioning my new 1TB drive

2011-09-26 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 19:19:45 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Now that I have my Seagate 1TB drive functional and recognized by Linux, > I need to format the thing. As I mentioned in my previous thread, my > current boot drive on this box is only 40 GB. I intend to keep it as > the boot drive and us

Re: New SATA drive installation question (SOLVED)

2011-09-26 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 25 September 2011 18:29:10 Camaleón wrote: > It seems to me that you replied to more than that statement as we were > not talking about external hard disks at all. I _was_ replying solely to the statement. I did not read thro' the thread and make sure of the context, and you can and do

Re: Upgraded from Squeeze to unstable - NVIDIA

2011-09-26 Thread Csanyi Pal
Brad Alexander writes: > I believe to install the nvidia driver the Debian way, you need to enable the > non-free repositories then install > > glx-alternative-nvidia > libgl1-nvidia-alternatives > libgl1-nvidia-glx > libglx-nvidia-alternatives > nvidia-alternative Already installed. > nvidia-c

Apology to Andrew.

2011-09-26 Thread Lisi
On Monday 26 September 2011 17:28:22 you wrote: > Thanks, Francis - but David had und Sorry Andrew. I had just been emailing a David on the Trinity list. I know perfectly well that you are Andrew, and thought as I clicked on the send button - oh dear, I have a horrible idea that I typed David

Re: [OT] advice re Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black 1 TB 7200 RPM Internal Hard Disk Drive

2011-09-26 Thread Lisi
On Monday 26 September 2011 17:12:42 francis picabia wrote: > On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Andrew McGlashan > > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Lisi wrote: > >> Is the Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black 1 TB 7200 RPM Internal > >> Hard Disk Drive worth the extra money over the Blue ranges? > >> >

Re: [OT] advice re Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black 1 TB 7200 RPM Internal Hard Disk Drive

2011-09-26 Thread Lisi
On Monday 26 September 2011 16:48:56 Camaleón wrote: > As you did not provide any item from we can choose to, I can tell you > what fetaures I look for when buying these cases: Thanks Camaleón, I didn't have a clue where to start! Hence no info. In the past I have just bought a case, and it ha

Re: [OT] advice re Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black 1 TB 7200 RPM Internal Hard Disk Drive

2011-09-26 Thread francis picabia
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > Hi, > > Lisi wrote: >> >> Is the Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black 1 TB 7200 RPM Internal Hard >> Disk Drive worth the extra money over the Blue ranges? >> >> And would you recommend it?  I don't want to cause myself complications >

Re: Upgraded from Squeeze to unstable - NVIDIA

2011-09-26 Thread Brad Alexander
I believe to install the nvidia driver the Debian way, you need to enable the non-free repositories then install glx-alternative-nvidia libgl1-nvidia-alternatives libgl1-nvidia-glx libglx-nvidia-alternatives nvidia-alternative nvidia-common nvidia-glx nvidia-installer-cleanup nvidia-kernel-common

Re: [OT] advice re Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black 1 TB 7200 RPM Internal Hard Disk Drive

2011-09-26 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:37:23 +0100, Lisi wrote: (...) > So the next question is: I am taking your advice Camaleon. So which > external caddy or make of external caddy would people recommend for a > WD1002FAEX? Or doesn't it really make much difference? It doesn't have to make any difference.

Re: Upgraded from Squeeze to unstable - NVIDIA

2011-09-26 Thread Csanyi Pal
Hi, I had installed the NVIDIA driver downloaded from nvidia.com when run Squeeze. Now when I'm running unstable I have uninstalled every nvidia package and have installed nvidia-installer-cleanup. I'm running kernel 3.0.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Tue Sep 20 07:03:13 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux and have

Re: [OT] advice re Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black 1 TB 7200 RPM Internal Hard Disk Drive

2011-09-26 Thread Lisi
On Monday 26 September 2011 15:08:27 Camaleón wrote: > But I bet yes, black edition features a 5-year guarantee and only > for that I would add extra pennies to the buy. Thanks, Camaleón. :-) That answers my question - I hadn't picked that info up. So yes, to me that makes it worth it. But t

Re: [OT] advice re Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black 1 TB 7200 RPM Internal Hard Disk Drive

2011-09-26 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, Lisi wrote: Is the Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black 1 TB 7200 RPM Internal Hard Disk Drive worth the extra money over the Blue ranges? And would you recommend it? I don't want to cause myself complications with another dud drive. :-( Of all the options from WD, I would definitel

Re: iceweasel based on firefox 6.0 for squeeze

2011-09-26 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:33:31 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Mon 26 Sep 2011 at 11:35:51 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> Hey, you can't auto-give you a point for something that I have not >> discussed ;-) > > You were being tardy in getting round to it so it needed something to > prod you into action. :)

Re: [OT] advice re Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black 1 TB 7200 RPM Internal Hard Disk Drive

2011-09-26 Thread Miles Fidelman
Davide Mirtillo wrote: Il 26/09/2011 15:44, Lisi ha scritto: On Monday 26 September 2011 13:04:18 Camaleón wrote: For what specific purpose? It's not the same if you are going to use it just for backups than for storing the "/" filesystem on a home desktop, for a hosting company as a part of a

Re: New SATA drive installation question

2011-09-26 Thread francis picabia
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 11:17 AM, francis picabia wrote: > On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 12:48 AM, Marc Shapiro wrote: >> I'm feeling really dumb right now.  Okay, I'm not dumb, I'm just lacking the >> information that I need at this time. >> >> I just installed a new SATA 1TB Seagate Barracuda drive i

Re: New SATA drive installation question

2011-09-26 Thread francis picabia
On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 12:48 AM, Marc Shapiro wrote: > I'm feeling really dumb right now.  Okay, I'm not dumb, I'm just lacking the > information that I need at this time. > > I just installed a new SATA 1TB Seagate Barracuda drive in my Lenny box with > FVWM as my window manager.  This is the fi

Re: [OT] advice re Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black 1 TB 7200 RPM Internal Hard Disk Drive

2011-09-26 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:44:31 +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Monday 26 September 2011 13:04:18 Camaleón wrote: >> For what specific purpose? >> >> It's not the same if you are going to use it just for backups than for >> storing the "/" filesystem on a home desktop, for a hosting company as >> a part of a

Re: [OT] advice re Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black 1 TB 7200 RPM Internal Hard Disk Drive

2011-09-26 Thread Davide Mirtillo
Il 26/09/2011 15:44, Lisi ha scritto: > On Monday 26 September 2011 13:04:18 Camaleón wrote: >> For what specific purpose? >> >> It's not the same if you are going to use it just for backups than for >> storing the "/" filesystem on a home desktop, for a hosting company as a >> part of a hw raid sy

Re: [OT] advice re Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black 1 TB 7200 RPM Internal Hard Disk Drive

2011-09-26 Thread John W. Foster
On Mon, 2011-09-26 at 12:04 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 12:53:01 +0100, Lisi wrote: > > > Is the Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black 1 TB 7200 RPM Internal > > Hard Disk Drive worth the extra money over the Blue ranges? > > > > And would you recommend it? I don't want to ca

Re: More USB install-images please!

2011-09-26 Thread Brian
On Mon 26 Sep 2011 at 15:08:58 +0200, Jan Olav Agle wrote: > As far as I know, the debian-6.0.2.1-i386-netinst.iso is the ONLY one > that can be used on both USB and CD-rom. Why not give > debian-6.0.2.1-i386-CD-1.iso the same functionality The > netinstall-image install requires much time on

Re: problems with external HDD

2011-09-26 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 08:53:25 +0100, Lisi wrote: > Hello all! > > Where do I go from here? (...) What kind of filesystem is on it? > mount /dev/sdc1 /media/Distros/ Why a manual mount? External devices are usually automatically mounted, depending on your desktop/window manager capabilities.

Re: iceweasel based on firefox 6.0 for squeeze

2011-09-26 Thread Brian
On Mon 26 Sep 2011 at 11:35:51 +, Camaleón wrote: > Hey, you can't auto-give you a point for something that I have not > discussed ;-) You were being tardy in getting round to it so it needed something to prod you into action. :) > Regards to the 4th point that says "a package needs to be

Re: [OT] advice re Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black 1 TB 7200 RPM Internal Hard Disk Drive

2011-09-26 Thread Lisi
On Monday 26 September 2011 13:04:18 Camaleón wrote: > For what specific purpose? > > It's not the same if you are going to use it just for backups than for > storing the "/" filesystem on a home desktop, for a hosting company as a > part of a hw raid system, to be used for a cluster or... > > A mo

Re: pyPdf with python3?

2011-09-26 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:06:49 +0200, Davide Anchisi wrote: > how can I have pyPdf working with python3? I have installed python-pypdf > (debian package: 1.13-1) and python3.2 (3.2.1~rc1-1), but when executing > a script with: >from pyPdf import PdfFileReader > I get the following error: >Im

Re: More USB install-images please!

2011-09-26 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:08:58 +0200, Jan Olav Agle wrote: > I sometimes install Debian on machines belonging to family and friends. > On my latest install I tried the boot.img.gz on an USB-stick. It failed > halfway trough, complaining about a missing suitable ISO-image. Not > wasting time, I dd'ed

More USB install-images please!

2011-09-26 Thread Jan Olav Agle
I sometimes install Debian on machines belonging to family and friends. On my latest install I tried the boot.img.gz on an USB-stick. It failed halfway trough, complaining about a missing suitable ISO-image. Not wasting time, I dd'ed the netinstall iso onto the stick and installed. As far as I kno

Re: KDE does not log out or shut down.

2011-09-26 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 22:55:55 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: > >>Good. That means KDE is somehow preventing itself to be properly >>shutdown. Maybe a proccess in the background making noise? :-? > > No Idea... If You have one, please w /me too. For instanc

pyPdf with python3?

2011-09-26 Thread Davide Anchisi
Hi, how can I have pyPdf working with python3? I have installed python-pypdf (debian package: 1.13-1) and python3.2 (3.2.1~rc1-1), but when executing a script with: from pyPdf import PdfFileReader I get the following error: ImportError: No module named pyPdf Further details: Distribution: s

Re: [OT] advice re Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black 1 TB 7200 RPM Internal Hard Disk Drive

2011-09-26 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 12:53:01 +0100, Lisi wrote: > Is the Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black 1 TB 7200 RPM Internal > Hard Disk Drive worth the extra money over the Blue ranges? > > And would you recommend it? I don't want to cause myself complications > with another dud drive. :-( > > If y

[OT] advice re Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black 1 TB 7200 RPM Internal Hard Disk Drive

2011-09-26 Thread Lisi
Is the Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black 1 TB 7200 RPM Internal Hard Disk Drive worth the extra money over the Blue ranges? And would you recommend it? I don't want to cause myself complications with another dud drive. :-( If you wouldn't recommend it, what would you recommend? It is, o

Re: New SATA drive installation question (SOLVED)

2011-09-26 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 18:48:16 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > On 09/25/11 06:36, Camaleón wrote: >> On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 22:34:12 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: >> >> No new modern hard disk will come partitioned, they come low-level >> formatted from factory :-) > > That shows how long it's been since I

Re: iceweasel based on firefox 6.0 for squeeze

2011-09-26 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 00:16:04 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Sun 25 Sep 2011 at 20:02:22 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> I think that's not comparable with a browser functionality that is >> needed for almost 50% of today's most used sites... how many people >> uses sort every day and how many people uses I

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-26 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 9:41 PM, Cam Hutchison wrote: > David Witbrodt writes: > >>(My goal was to >>produce a kernel that boots without an initrd; most people will not >>share that goal.) > > I would have thought that most people would share that goal, since > building an initrd is useful for on

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-26 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 16:13:58 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 9/25/2011 11:02 AM, Camaleón wrote: (...) >>> Simply go through all the hardware and deselect anything that's not >>> inside that netbook. Of all the network interface cards you'll only >>> need one (or two depending on whether that

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-26 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: > > I will continue to use and recommend kernel-package. But I'm not going > to argue with those who wish to use "make deb-pkg". It's all a question of habit. If I need to have a package, I use "make-dpkg" on Debian distribs and "rpmbuild" on

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-26 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 9/25/2011 11:02 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 10:18:53 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >>> Simply go through all the hardware and deselect anything that's not >>> inside that netbook.  Of all the network interface cards you'll o

Re: problems with external HDD

2011-09-26 Thread Lisi
On Monday 26 September 2011 10:48:36 Lisi wrote: > On Monday 26 September 2011 09:59:08 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > > Jochen Spieker wrote, on 09/26/11 10:25: > > > Lisi: > > >> Tux:/home/lisi# mount dev/sdc1 /media/Distros > > >> mount: special device dev/sdc1 does not exist > > > > > > Is this lit

Re: (Results) Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-26 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 14:22:33 +, Camaleón wrote: > > Okay, let's get the numbers. > > I followed Sven and Stephen's advice so I: > > - Used "make localmodconfig" to generate the ".config" file > - Appended "CONCURRENCY_LEVEL=2" to "make-kpkg" >

Re: problems with external HDD

2011-09-26 Thread Lisi
On Monday 26 September 2011 09:59:08 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > Jochen Spieker wrote, on 09/26/11 10:25: > > Lisi: > >> Tux:/home/lisi# mount dev/sdc1 /media/Distros > >> mount: special device dev/sdc1 does not exist > > > > Is this literally copy-pasted? -Then you are simply missing a / at the > >

Re: Partitioning my new 1TB drive

2011-09-26 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 06:07, David Christensen wrote: > I'd recommend LVM: +1, did that for a 1TB (931GiB) Seagte, you'll end up with a /dev/mapper/volumeGrouName-partitionName1 /dev/mapper/volumeGrouName-partitionName2 If you RTFM around it's fairily straightforward. I'm almost using up my fi

Re: problems with external HDD

2011-09-26 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Jochen Spieker wrote, on 09/26/11 10:25: > Lisi: >> >> Tux:/home/lisi# mount dev/sdc1 /media/Distros >> mount: special device dev/sdc1 does not exist > > Is this literally copy-pasted? -Then you are simply missing a / at the > beginning of /dev/sdc1. > > J. Yes, I concur with that. When inserting

Re: problems with external HDD

2011-09-26 Thread Роман Новиков
had the same problem with my htc hero so my recipe: # mount /dev/sdc /media/smth the result is some message, nothing is mounted, but AFTER this line # mount /dev/sdc1 /media/smth works well! 2011/9/26 Lisi > Hello all! > > Where do I go from here? > > mount /dev/sdc1 /media/Distros/ > mount:

Re: problems with external HDD

2011-09-26 Thread Jochen Spieker
Lisi: > > Tux:/home/lisi# mount dev/sdc1 /media/Distros > mount: special device dev/sdc1 does not exist Is this literally copy-pasted? -Then you are simply missing a / at the beginning of /dev/sdc1. J. -- In idle moments I remember former lovers with sentimental tenderness. [Agree] [Disagree]

problems with external HDD

2011-09-26 Thread Lisi
Hello all! Where do I go from here? mount /dev/sdc1 /media/Distros/ mount: special device /dev/sdc1 does not exist Tux:/home/lisi# dmesg | tail [10296.211252] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] 976773168 512-byte hardware sectors (500108 MB) [10296.211913] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off [10296.211917] sd

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-26 Thread Jochen Spieker
Cam Hutchison: > >> (My goal was to >> produce a kernel that boots without an initrd; most people will not >> share that goal.) > > I would have thought that most people would share that goal, since > building an initrd is useful for only two reasons I can think of: I regularly built custom kern

Re: Partitioning my new 1TB drive

2011-09-26 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: I would emphatically recommend to use a more advanced file system like ext4 for this size of drive. E.g., fsck runs much much faster with ext4. Yes, but not if you are still on Lenny I have a Lenny box that was quite happy to create an ext4 file system, but it wou

Re: bluedevil no pop up in panel

2011-09-26 Thread Scott Ferguson
Sorry - I gave bad advice - I've edited this accordingly. On 26/09/11 15:37, Mark Panen wrote: > On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 6:14 AM, Scott Ferguson > wrote: >> On 26/09/11 11:20, Mark Panen wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I am using Squeeze KDE and have just installed bluedevil but when i >>> insert my blue