Re: admin password?

2012-12-29 Thread Go Linux
--- On Sat, 12/29/12, Dionyssis Goulimis wrote: > From: Dionyssis Goulimis > Subject: admin password? > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Saturday, December 29, 2012, 10:50 PM > Hi, > > I downloaded the last edition of Debian yesterday but I > can't remember > my Admin password, what is

Re: admin password?

2012-12-29 Thread Yaro Kasear
If that option doesn't work out, you can usually grab any old Linux live media of the same architecture as what you have installed and set up a chroot onto your install, which will get you root access onto your installed system. Then you just run passwd to change it. On 12/29/2012 11:58 PM, Z

Re: admin password?

2012-12-29 Thread Zenaan Harkness
If your normal user is in /etc/sudoers, then run sudo su - root to become the root user. With sudo, you have to enter your normal password to use it. good luck On 12/30/12, Dionyssis Goulimis wrote: > Hi, > > I downloaded the last edition of Debian yesterday but I can't remember > my Admin passwo

Re: admin password?

2012-12-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 06:51:38AM +0200, Dionyssis Goulimis wrote: > Hi, > > I downloaded the last edition of Debian yesterday but I can't remember > my Admin password, what is the best way to stop using an Admin password? You mean the root password. It might be quicker to reinstall, and don't f

Re: admin password?

2012-12-29 Thread Dionyssis Goulimis
Hi, I downloaded the last edition of Debian yesterday but I can't remember my Admin password, what is the best way to stop using an Admin password? Best, Dionyssis Goulimis 2012/12/30, Dionyssis Goulimis : > Hi, > > I downloaded the last edition of Debian yesterday but I can't remember > my Adm

admin password?

2012-12-29 Thread Dionyssis Goulimis
Hi, I downloaded the last edition of Debian yesterday but I can't remember my Admin password, what is the best way to recover it? Best, Dionyssis Goulimis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debia

Re: Proofreading of Debian documentation - was [Re: Preseeding - keyboard-configuration issue]

2012-12-29 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Tue, 18 Dec 2012 14:00:02 +0100 Richard Owlett wrote: > >What is a SIG? > > "Special Interest Group" > Is it an Americanism? Schweizerische Industrie Gesellschaft -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...

Re: Help netbooting a diskless, [headless] system [solved/tips]

2012-12-29 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 12:33:15PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > I got things working and made some discoveries along the way. Maybe I > should put this material on a wiki; any suggestions where? Create account at wiki.debian.org and think about putting it there under appropriate location. Y

Re: Tools to retrieve images from dead hard drive and/or deleted partitions

2012-12-29 Thread Brad Alexander
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 4:17 PM, wrote: > 1) > I have a hard disk (1Tb, the bigger) which gave me many errors when I am > trying to read it. It makes it very slow to even read, but I've been able to > determine that it contains jpg images with a classic file browser. I did not > managed to copy

Re: Help netbooting a diskless, [headless] system [solved/tips]

2012-12-29 Thread Ross Boylan
I got things working and made some discoveries along the way. Maybe I should put this material on a wiki; any suggestions where? I "cheated" in a couple of ways. I built the original system image and initrd on another system with the same architecture as the target. And I gave up on headless,

Ainda Tenho Apt. para Reveillon Copacabana

2012-12-29 Thread Cesar
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Re: Tools to retrieve images from dead hard drive and/or deleted partitions

2012-12-29 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 01:53:01PM +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > >This will be a problem, as you should first image the disk(s) and > >work from the images, not the physical disk. It is especially > >important for the disk throwing errors, every read attempt may worsen > >it's condi

Re: X-posting alert: Multiple songs playing simultaneously (Amarok)

2012-12-29 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 10:21 AM, AG wrote: > On 28/12/12 15:31, Chris Bannister wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 02:11:14PM +, AG wrote: >>> I thought that the Debian user community might want to be aware of >>> the response from one of the Amarok team I received when asking >>> about a pr

Re: CURRENTLY INSOLUBLE was:Re: Installing a backported kernel on Squeeze at an early stage.

2012-12-29 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 29 December 2012 17:34:42 Jerry Stuckle wrote: > On 12/29/2012 11:12 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > It is behaving progressively worse. I think that something must in fact > > be damaged. It won't even start booting up now, not even the post screen > > or the BIOS options. > > > > :-( And I

Re: CURRENTLY INSOLUBLE was:Re: Installing a backported kernel on Squeeze at an early stage.

2012-12-29 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 12/29/2012 11:12 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 29 December 2012 14:16:56 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 29 December 2012 13:24:58 Tom H wrote: > > Kenshi Muto provides installers with backported kernels so he might > > have one/some with atl1c. > > Thanks, Tom. I didn't know th

Re: X-posting alert: Multiple songs playing simultaneously (Amarok)

2012-12-29 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 12/29/2012 10:21 AM, AG wrote: On 28/12/12 15:31, Chris Bannister wrote: On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 02:11:14PM +, AG wrote: I may be stepping all over some or other netiquette, for which I apologise. I don't see how; your message to this list wasn't cross-posted That's OK then. I th

Re: Installing a backported kernel on Squeeze at an early stage.

2012-12-29 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 29 December 2012 14:30:02 Tom H wrote: >> >> Did you mount it? :) >> >> Was the filesystem fat or ext2? > > I couldn't find the kernel module to download it in the first place!! Just > vast numbers of hits telling me that I needed

CURRENTLY INSOLUBLE was:Re: Installing a backported kernel on Squeeze at an early stage.

2012-12-29 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 29 December 2012 14:16:56 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 29 December 2012 13:24:58 Tom H wrote: > > Kenshi Muto provides installers with backported kernels so he might > > have one/some with atl1c. > > Thanks, Tom.  I didn't know that.  Downloading now Sadly, after seeming to install

Re: X-posting alert: Multiple songs playing simultaneously (Amarok)

2012-12-29 Thread AG
On 28/12/12 15:31, Chris Bannister wrote: On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 02:11:14PM +, AG wrote: I may be stepping all over some or other netiquette, for which I apologise. I don't see how; your message to this list wasn't cross-posted That's OK then. I thought that the Debian user communit

Re: Installing a backported kernel on Squeeze at an early stage.

2012-12-29 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 29 December 2012 14:30:02 Tom H wrote: > Did you mount it? :) > > Was the filesystem fat or ext2? I couldn't find the kernel module to download it in the first place!! Just vast numbers of hits telling me that I needed a newer kernel. Since I already knew that, it didn't help much.

Re: Installing a backported kernel on Squeeze at an early stage.

2012-12-29 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 29 December 2012 13:52:05 Stephen Powell wrote: > > I want to install Squeeze on a box in/on which the on board network card > > is not recognised in Squeeze. > > > > The simple solution is just put a different network card in the box > > temporarily while I install. But this box is fo

Re: Gnome3 probe

2012-12-29 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 10:21:58AM -0500, Stephen Allen wrote: > On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 07:27:47AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > phi debian wrote: > > >Jeez, welcome lxde, adieu gnome3 !!! > > > > > >I installed a fresh debian in a guest as server, then apt-get install lxde. > > > > > >In a ma

Re: Installing a backported kernel on Squeeze at an early stage.

2012-12-29 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 29 December 2012 13:24:58 Tom H wrote: >> Kenshi Muto provides installers with backported kernels so he might >> have one/some with atl1c. > > Thanks, Tom. I didn't know that. Downloading now You're welcome. Hope it's got what y

Re: Installing a backported kernel on Squeeze at an early stage.

2012-12-29 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 29 December 2012 13:24:58 Tom H wrote: > Kenshi Muto provides installers with backported kernels so he might > have one/some with atl1c. Thanks, Tom. I didn't know that. Downloading now > You can also insmod the atl1c kernel module from a flash drive during > installation. I couldn

Re: Installing a backported kernel on Squeeze at an early stage.

2012-12-29 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 29 Dec 2012 06:00:50 -0500 (EST), Lisi Reisz wrote: > > Happy New Year everyone! > > I have a problem which I know someone else had recently on the list and there > was a (slightly complicated) solution. But I am not succeeding in finding > the thread. PEBKAC, obviously, since I am su

Re: Debian install including non free

2012-12-29 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 12/29/12, Oliver Fairhall wrote: > is it possible to ... download everything from the > relevant repositories, and package it in such a way that it is available > for Debian's installer to use? check out debmirror package also try: apt-cache search debian | egrep mirror good luck -- To UN

Re: Installing a backported kernel on Squeeze at an early stage.

2012-12-29 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 7:14 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 29 December 2012 11:19:31 Tom H wrote: >> On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 6:00 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: >>> >>> I have a problem which I know someone else had recently on the list and >>> there was a (slightly complicated) solution. But I am

Re: Installing a backported kernel on Squeeze at an early stage.

2012-12-29 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 29 December 2012 11:19:31 Tom H wrote: > On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 6:00 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > I have a problem which I know someone else had recently on the list and > > there was a (slightly complicated) solution. But I am not succeeding in > > finding the thread. PEBKAC, obviousl

Re: Installing a backported kernel on Squeeze at an early stage.

2012-12-29 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 6:00 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > I have a problem which I know someone else had recently on the list and there > was a (slightly complicated) solution. But I am not succeeding in finding > the thread. PEBKAC, obviously, since I am sure that it is there. > > I want to instal

Re: NFS Cache (?) Issue [solved]

2012-12-29 Thread Rainer Dorsch
I found the problem, much simpler than expected: On the server /home/shared is a different partition: dell:~# mount /dev/sda1 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro) tmpfs on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755) proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,

Installing a backported kernel on Squeeze at an early stage.

2012-12-29 Thread Lisi Reisz
Happy New Year everyone! I have a problem which I know someone else had recently on the list and there was a (slightly complicated) solution. But I am not succeeding in finding the thread. PEBKAC, obviously, since I am sure that it is there. I want to install Squeeze on a box in/on which the

Re: NFS Cache (?) Issue

2012-12-29 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Igor, thanks for your quick reply. Am Samstag, 29. Dezember 2012, 02:33:29 schrieb Igor Cicimov: > On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 9:06 AM, Mailingliste wrote: [...] > acregmin=n The minimum time in seconds that attributes of a regular > file should be cached before requesting >