On Tue, 2012-09-18 at 00:27 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
> /dev/sdb: unrecognised disk label
> 2) Is "msdos" a valid option to choose for this hard drive?
Yes it is.
Is there some output if you run
# parted /dev/sdb
mklabel msdos
?
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I am trying to parition a new "Western Digital WD Scorpio Black 750 GB SATA
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On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 8:55 PM, lee wrote:
> "Christofer C. Bell" writes:
>
>> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 4:28 PM, lee wrote:
>>>
>>> What you call "desert situation" is the most likely one to have. If you
>>> didn't have it, you were lucky.
>>
>> You missed the rest of the quote. I'll break it
On Mon, 2012-09-17 at 23:42 +0200, lee wrote:
> Camaleón writes:
>
> > On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 23:09:43 +0200, lee wrote:
> >
> > what trouble are you having with Adobe Flash Player?
>
> Besides that I hate it, if you use it, you don't have key bindings like
> you do in mplayer. It probably doesn't
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 7:28 AM, lee wrote:
> L V Gandhi writes:
>
>> I have edimax usb wifi adapter in my laptop. It triple boots windows,
>> squeeze and kubuntu 1204.
>> I tried as per site http://wiki.debian.org/rtl819x with normal
>> linux-image 2.6.35. It worked initially and then it stopped
... Users that will just BNC about anything just to hear themself and lend
credence to self importance.
In the end, its best to ignore them types. Afterall, what do they really
contribute?!
Just an observation that many have no doubt made buy have not as of yet,
mentioned it.
Sent from my HTC
I am trying to install an application (huludesktop), but I either get
a "Segmentation fault" or "Hulu Desktop could not locate the Flash
plugin" message.
You may easily spot the mistake or have suggestions based on the steps
I followed or you could let me know about either how to troubleshoot
that
Rob Owens writes:
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 08:26:13PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote:
>> >
>> There used to be mozilla-mplayer, but it looks like it's not in the
>> Squeeze repos. There is mozilla-plugin-vlc. Maybe give that a shot.
>>
> Hmm, I just tried it and many of the videos on youtube and vim
"Christofer C. Bell" writes:
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 4:28 PM, lee wrote:
>>
>> What you call "desert situation" is the most likely one to have. If you
>> didn't have it, you were lucky.
>
> You missed the rest of the quote. I'll break it down into numbered points:
No, I didn't miss it.
> T
L V Gandhi writes:
> I have edimax usb wifi adapter in my laptop. It triple boots windows,
> squeeze and kubuntu 1204.
> I tried as per site http://wiki.debian.org/rtl819x with normal
> linux-image 2.6.35. It worked initially and then it stopped working.
> Then I saw it worked with out problem in
I have edimax usb wifi adapter in my laptop. It triple boots windows,
squeeze and kubuntu 1204.
I tried as per site http://wiki.debian.org/rtl819x with normal
linux-image 2.6.35. It worked initially and then it stopped working.
Then I saw it worked with out problem in kubuntu. Hence from backports
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 08:26:13PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 11:09:43PM +0200, lee wrote:
> > Camaleón writes:
> >
> > > On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 00:30:23 +0200, lee wrote:
> > >
> > >> trying out chromium, I have found that both seamonkey and chromium are
> > >> able to play a
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 11:09:43PM +0200, lee wrote:
> Camaleón writes:
>
> > On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 00:30:23 +0200, lee wrote:
> >
> >> trying out chromium, I have found that both seamonkey and chromium are
> >> able to play arbitrary videos found on youtube. I used to have
> >> libflashplayer.so
Tom H writes:
> You seem to have misunderstood that Christian's one of d-i's
> maintainers (he also seems to be a big fan of fonts!):
Well, I didn't know any of this, and he didn't mention it. I could help
with translations if they need some, no idea how to do that, though.
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On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 4:28 PM, lee wrote:
> "Christofer C. Bell" writes:
>
>> an operating system isn't for you. The "bare metal computer on a
>> desert island with nothing but a CD" situation you're imagining simply
>> doesn't happen. Camaleón is exactly right.
>
> Yeah, nobody needs a compu
Zsolt Ero writes:
> My question is that is it safe to remove the all the leftover file
> from /usr/share/locale after removing the locales package?
Where do these files come from? Shouldn't they have been removed when
purging the package? Do they belong to another package?
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Camaleón writes:
> On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 23:09:43 +0200, lee wrote:
>
> interactive applications. Anyway, what trouble are you having with Adobe
> Flash Player?
Besides that I hate it, if you use it, you don't have key bindings like
you do in mplayer. It probably doesn't use VDPAU, either.
Ther
"Christofer C. Bell" writes:
> an operating system isn't for you. The "bare metal computer on a
> desert island with nothing but a CD" situation you're imagining simply
> doesn't happen. Camaleón is exactly right.
Yeah, nobody needs a computer because they can always use someone elses.
Everyon
Chris Bannister writes:
> On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 01:56:50PM +0200, lee wrote:
>>
>> We seem to already have that! See http://www.debian.org/CD/live/
>>
>> Am I stupid or wasn't that there a couple days ago? I looked at these
>> pages the other day and didn't see it anywhere.
>>
>> I'll try
Chris Bannister writes:
> On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 04:58:35PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>> On Sun, 2012-09-16 at 14:37 +0200, lee wrote:
>> > flashgot
>>
>> I installed something called DownloadHelper, but never used it.
>
> apt-get show clive
Sounds good, I'll try it, thank you :)
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On Mon, 17 Sep 2012, Hartwig Atrops wrote:
> I need a simple server for my private network, but with support for anonymous
> file upload (my backup scripts work that way).
vsftpd. You will need to configure it to enable anonymous file upload,
though.
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On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 2:16 PM, lee wrote:
> Christian PERRIER writes:
>>
>> Frankly speaking, I would very much prefer seeing people working on
>> current issues of the installer (I mean, not only during 3 months
>> before the release) rather than adding more bells, whistles and shiny
>> new fe
On Mon, September 17, 2012 8:11 am, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 04:36:36AM -0700, Weaver wrote:
>
> […]
>> Finish Partitioning and Write to Disc
>>
>> At the top is an annotation which says:
>>
>> “This is an overview of your currently
Hi.
I am looking for an ftp server for Wheezy. Usually, I install wu-ftpd, but
it's missing in Wheezy.
debian.org, Software Packages in "wheezy", Subsection net lists lots of ftp
servers, but I do not want to test them all :-)
I need a simple server for my private network, but with support for
Chris Davies writes:
> lee wrote:
>
> No, not really. A bridge on your host is more like this:
>
> |--- con1+shorewall --- host
> Internet --- eth1+shorewall --- [switch] ---|--- con2+shorewall --- guest A
>
James Allsopp writes:
> Hi,
> I think I had a similar problem. To solve the problem first you need
> to set up a bridge, there's instructions in lots of places on how to
Yes, and how do I get shorewall to work with that?
> Then you need to alter the VM's xml file,
Oh I don't have one yet. It
Artifex Maximus writes:
> I've changed my processor from E5200 to E8400. Since then my computer
> does not shutdown.
It's possible that you damaged your board in the process.
> Sometimes the display and motherboard LEDs become blank but PSU cooler
> runs.
It's a feature of some PSUs to leave t
Camaleón writes:
> On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 22:55:50 +0200, lee wrote:
>
>> Camaleón writes:
>
> (...)
>
This discussion was about users trying to use the D/i to install
Debian.
>>>
>>> Nope. The core discusion was around "untechie" users and "Linux" in
>>> general.
>>
>> see Message-ID:
>
Christian PERRIER writes:
> Quoting lee (l...@yun.yagibdah.de):
>> Package: installation-reports
>> Severity: wishlist
>>
>> Dear Maintainer,
>>
>> this is a feature request: It would be nice if users would have at
>> least a web browser like lynx and an irc client available while they
>> are
Camaleón writes:
> On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 22:42:03 +0200, lee wrote:
>
>> Camaleón writes:
>
> (...)
>
Just give users a way to find and to read this information while they
are using the installer without requiring them to have anything but
the installer and the computer they are t
Jon Dowland writes:
> The installer (in expert mode) supports an ssh client on an alternative
> VT, afaik. One can connect to another machine with stuff already
> installed via this if necessary. Surely this is sufficient to address
> the request.
It requires you to have a computer you can conn
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Mauro wrote:
> I think ntpd crashes are because my server lost time.
> I have ntpd in two server, now I've seen that in one of these ntp
> crashes and the time of the server is 1 hour forward.
> That's why ntp crashes: server time goes 1 hour forward and ntp can't
> resynchronize so it crashes.
Is
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 04:58:35PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-09-16 at 14:37 +0200, lee wrote:
> > flashgot
>
> I installed something called DownloadHelper, but never used it.
apt-get show clive
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On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 01:56:50PM +0200, lee wrote:
>
> We seem to already have that! See http://www.debian.org/CD/live/
>
> Am I stupid or wasn't that there a couple days ago? I looked at these
> pages the other day and didn't see it anywhere.
>
> I'll try it out when I set up my VM.
>
Umm
On Mon 17 Sep 2012 at 17:22:16 +, Camaleón wrote:
> Google points to a tool called "localepurge", available from the usual
> repositories. Before manually removing folders that where not purged
> after the locale packages have been removed, I would look at this, just
> to get a second opini
Mauro writes:
> I think ntpd crashes are because my server lost time.
> I have ntpd in two server, now I've seen that in one of these ntp
> crashes and the time of the server is 1 hour forward.
> That's why ntp crashes: server time goes 1 hour forward and ntp can't
> resynchronize so it crashes.
>
On 2012-09-17 19:22 +0200, Camaleón wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 16:47:23 +0200, Zsolt Ero wrote:
>
> (...)
>
>> My question is that is it safe to remove the all the leftover file from
>> /usr/share/locale after removing the locales package?
>>
>> Or are those files required for anything else?
>
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 01:42:34PM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
>
> Google turned out to be my friend and I installed the 32 bit libraries with
> apt-get install ia32-libs ia32-libs-gtk. Having accomplished that I
> installed
> PyRx successfully and it now runs on my 64 bit Debian system.
h
On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 16:47:23 +0200, Zsolt Ero wrote:
(...)
> My question is that is it safe to remove the all the leftover file from
> /usr/share/locale after removing the locales package?
>
> Or are those files required for anything else?
(...)
Google points to a tool called "localepurge", av
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Christofer C. Bell
wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 10:21 AM, The Wanderer wrote:
>> On 09/17/2012 09:31 AM, Camaleón wrote:
>>> On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 22:42:03 +0200, lee wrote:
Camaleón writes:
>
> That's absurd. You are not going to install an OS in
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 09:30:29PM +0200, lavcina wrote:
>
> What do you mean by OTOH?
>
http://catb.org/jargon/html/O/OTOH.html
http://catb.org/jargon/html/introduction.html
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On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 10:21 AM, The Wanderer wrote:
> I'm probably going to regret this...
>
>
> On 09/17/2012 09:31 AM, Camaleón wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 22:42:03 +0200, lee wrote:
>>
>>> Camaleón writes:
>
>
That's absurd. You are not going to install an OS in the middle of
n
On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 11:21:06 -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> I'm probably going to regret this...
And I wonder why >:-)
> On 09/17/2012 09:31 AM, Camaleón wrote:
(...)
>>> 1.) I don't have a working computer to find and print manuals with.
>>> First I need to install Debian (or have that w
I'm probably going to regret this...
On 09/17/2012 09:31 AM, Camaleón wrote:
On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 22:42:03 +0200, lee wrote:
Camaleón writes:
That's absurd. You are not going to install an OS in the middle of
nowhere, dude, so you print the manual (or just the sections you are
interested i
On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 04:36:36AM -0700, Weaver wrote:
[…]
> Finish Partitioning and Write to Disc
>
> At the top is an annotation which says:
>
> “This is an overview of your currently configured partitions and
> mountpoints. Select a partition to modify
I'm trying to make a minimalistic Debian install for a low-mem VPS
box. I'll be uninstalling the locales package, as there is no need for
any kind of locale support for my purposes (only a few server
programs, English only is perfectly enough).
My question is that is it safe to remove the all the
On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 23:09:43 +0200, lee wrote:
> Camaleón writes:
(...)
>>> What might they be using to play these videos? Where is configured
>>> what they use?
>>
>> (...)
>>
>> "about:plugins" will tell what other flash plugins are installed and
>> available for your browser.
>
> Thx, I l
Hi,
We have observed a strange behaviour on our compute-nodes after the
upgrade to squeeze and on new nodes freshly installed with squeeze.
All processes running longer than 24.8 days lead to "nonsense"
cpu-time. Below is an example output of "ps -u username f" over time:
[2012-05-29 05:49:33] 3
Hi group,
I thought I could run squid (3.1.20) on one box, and iptables with DNAT
on another box with
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 80 -i $LOCIF ! -s $squidbox
! -d $localnet -j DNAT --to-destination $squidbox:3128
squid.conf snip:
http_port 192.x.x.x:3128 intercept
But on the sq
On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 11:48:53 +0200, Artifex Maximus wrote:
> I've changed my processor from E5200 to E8400. Since then my computer
> does not shutdown. Sometimes the display and motherboard LEDs become
> blank but PSU cooler runs. Sometimes Debian stops at System halted line
> and no blank screen
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Please let me know your thoughts so
On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 22:55:50 +0200, lee wrote:
> Camaleón writes:
(...)
>>> This discussion was about users trying to use the D/i to install
>>> Debian.
>>
>> Nope. The core discusion was around "untechie" users and "Linux" in
>> general.
>
> see Message-ID:
> <928c0bda5efc0f17394b8f5f1d606ad3
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 11:06:42PM +0200, lee wrote:
> Are you referring to grub figuring it out when booting or to grub
> figuring it out while it's being installed? (In any case, I don't know
> any of the answers ...)
tal% less /boot/grub/device.map
(hd0) /dev/disk/by-id/ata-Hitachi_HTS541040
On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 13:49:13 -0700, Weaver wrote:
> On Sun, September 16, 2012 7:51 am, Camaleón wrote:
(...)
>> Can you exapand that? I don't see any relation between using a bigger
>> image as installation media and having to update from the net
>> afterwards.
>
> The installer disc, unless y
On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 22:42:03 +0200, lee wrote:
> Camaleón writes:
(...)
>>> Just give users a way to find and to read this information while they
>>> are using the installer without requiring them to have anything but
>>> the installer and the computer they are trying to install on.
>>
>> That
On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 15:00:54 -0400, Tom H wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Camaleón wrote:
(...)
>>> You cannot use partman recipes to format more than one disk unless
>>> you're using mdraid or lvm.
>>
>> You mean there's some limit that avoids the user to run additional
>> commands f
The installer (in expert mode) supports an ssh client on an alternative
VT, afaik. One can connect to another machine with stuff already
installed via this if necessary. Surely this is sufficient to address
the request.
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On 09/17/12 13:05, Dmitriy Matrosov wrote:
[1]: Though, note, that (/var/lib/dpkg/status) file will be listed in
`apt-cache showpkg` output even for uninstalled packages, which config
files
still present. E.g. for status, like:
Status: deinstall ok config-files
Just want to add: if you
Christian PERRIER wrote:
Quoting lee (l...@yun.yagibdah.de):
Package: installation-reports
Severity: wishlist
Dear Maintainer,
this is a feature request: It would be nice if users would have at
least a web browser like lynx and an irc client available while they
are using the installer. Ther
lee wrote:
> I do not want to bridge the internet transparently with the local
> network, which seems to be what a bridge would do. It would be like
> replacing this:
> |--- host A
> Internet --- eth0 firewall eth1 ---|--- host B
>
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 06:24:45PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> Due to its allocation group design, continually growing an XFS
> filesystem in such small increments, with this metadata heavy backup
> workload, will yield very poor performance. Additionally, putting an
> XFS filesystem atop an LV
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 10:48:54AM +0200, Denis Witt wrote:
> I'm currently testing obnam on our external Backup-Server together with
> 6 clients. It's very easy to set up. Restore could be nicer if you need
> an older version of some file but it's rather fast and it is possible
> to restore single
Hello!
I've changed my processor from E5200 to E8400. Since then my computer
does not shutdown. Sometimes the display and motherboard LEDs become
blank but PSU cooler runs. Sometimes Debian stops at System halted
line and no blank screen and machine keeps running. I think that only
CPU change cann
On 09/16/12 22:32, Sharon Kimble wrote:
> On 15 September 2012 19:45, Dmitriy Matrosov wrote:
>> On 09/15/12 21:38, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sb, 15 sep 12, 12:53:46, Ed Jabbour wrote:
I'd like to remove packages gotten from deb-multimedia and replace
some from the Debian re
On 13.9.2012 1:53, Julian DeMarchi wrote:
I still can't use the nvidia card, but I think these features will come
with time. Patience... :-)
https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/bbswitch
Did you try manual switching with Bumblebee? Nvidia-glx or nouveau driver?
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Hi,
I have to wheezy setups. One is my desktop and another one is a lxc
container. Their python setup seems identical and the same version of
python-augeas is installed on both.
On the desktop calling
$ python
>>> from augeas import Augeas
works just fine, but on the container I get
Python 2.
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 7:57 AM, Cam Hutchison wrote:
> When awk runs, it reads its input until EOF. In your loop, the first run
> of awk is consuming all the input from stdin (cat input) and printing
> the first line. For the subsequent iterations through the loop, awk no
> longer has anything to
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