Re: How to install Debian in such a situation

2013-04-14 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 4/15/13, Yuwen Dai wrote: > I've a very old PC with an old Debian installed. Recently I found the hard > disk has some bad sectors, sometime the file system will be mounted as read > only. I bought a new hard disk and downloaded Debian testing version, then > I found the CD-ROM is broken, it

How to install Debian in such a situation

2013-04-14 Thread Yuwen Dai
Dear all, I've a very old PC with an old Debian installed. Recently I found the hard disk has some bad sectors, sometime the file system will be mounted as read only. I bought a new hard disk and downloaded Debian testing version, then I found the CD-ROM is broken, it can not boot from the CD-R

/etc/network/interfaces config example for 3g (telstra Bigpond Elite USB Sierra Wireless USB 308 modem)??

2013-04-14 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Does anyone have at hand an example of how to set up interfaces file so ifup/down works with a USB 3G modem, with a Telstra password? The interface comes up fine, as wwan0, with devices /dev/ttyUSB[0-3] created as well, when I plug in the modem. TIA Zenaan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-us

Re: administration of initscripts

2013-04-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Thilo Six wrote: > Subject: administration of initscripts > ...in debian has been no pleasure for some time now. Sorry to hear that. Why not? > Well the reason i write this, is i found a solution that works for me which i > would like to share with you. Thank you for sharing. > Following goals

Re: migration to wheezy and disaster recovery

2013-04-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Hi Paul, Paul Condon wrote: > Last week I decided to dist-upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy, thinking > I would get in ahead of the rush of stragglers. I found a nice > document with lots of step-by-step instruction, and particularly how > to create a log file of the steps that I actually performed.

Re: netinstall size?

2013-04-14 Thread agroconsultor0
On 04/14/2013 04:58 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 01:28:20PM -0700, agroconsultor0 wrote: Very smart Debian users in this list: Are you Schizophrenic? Please! Thoughtless remarks like that are unnecessary on this list. Yes you are right, it was not needed; please include

Re: BTRFS Kernel Panic

2013-04-14 Thread Alex Robbins
I was able to copy almost everything from dd images to a new set of filesystems. The only thing that was excluded from the transfer was /var/cache/apt, because something in there was causing the problem. I performed the transfer by booting to a second system. Interestingly, when this problem aro

Re: very slow copy on mount of WindowsXP shares - was Re: copy onto cifs-utils samba mount maxes out at 100KiB/s on 100Mib/s eth link

2013-04-14 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 4/15/13, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > Again, here's my command (all one line): > $ sudo mount -t cifs -o > file_mode=0666,dir_mode=0777,setuids,credentials=mycreds > //server.ip.address/git /x > > When I copy files from the /x/ mount to the /x/ mount, or within (both > from and to) the /x/ mount, i

very slow copy on mount of WindowsXP shares - was Re: copy onto cifs-utils samba mount maxes out at 100KiB/s on 100Mib/s eth link

2013-04-14 Thread Zenaan Harkness
I realised my subject belied a little misunderstanding on my part. cifs-utils is now separate to samba. cifs-utils provides for kernel mount of windows (or samba) shares. Again, here's my command (all one line): $ sudo mount -t cifs -o file_mode=0666,dir_mode=0777,setuids,credentials=mycreds //se

administration of initscripts

2013-04-14 Thread Thilo Six
...in debian has been no pleasure for some time now. Hello readers. Well the reason i write this, is i found a solution that works for me which i would like to share with you. Following goals had been set: 1) Do not clash with existing system tools. It is notably that it has even been said o

Re: prettify audacious? - sid, xfce desktop

2013-04-14 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 4/14/13, Joonas Sarajärvi wrote: > 2013/4/14 Zenaan Harkness : >> The screenshot on http://www.audacious-media-player.org/ looks rather >> nice. >> >> Running audacious looks ugly - plain gray GTK ui. >> >> How do I make my audacious look like the screenshot? > > In the screenshot, Audacious se

OT: Addressbook Programs

2013-04-14 Thread Thomas H. George
I would like an addressbook program compatible with my cell phone and with a few more features that contacts. It should be pretty simple to write something in Perl or perhaps to modify the contacts source code but before I start reinventing the wheel I thought I would make sure I haven't overlooke

Re: java on wheezy

2013-04-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Francesco Pietra wrote: > Is any official (= working) advice on getting java at work with wheezy > (specifically in amd64, if relevant)? http://wiki.debian.org/Java > What should be installed/reconfigured/uninstalled other than the packages > obtained from wheezy desktop install, followed by up

Re: Using unstable for certain packages

2013-04-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Chris Bannister wrote: > Kevin Chadwick wrote: > > Incidentally. I do wonder if debian stable should accelerate some > > packages which follow a more stable dev cycle like xfce-4.10 where it > > has already been well tested. > > Won't happen. That is what Debian Backports is for. > IMHO it is not

Re: dual-boot: writing to windows partition?

2013-04-14 Thread Yaro Kasear
On 04/14/2013 09:04 AM, Charles Blair wrote: Is there a safe way to write, from linux to the windows part of a dual-boot system? Assuming the version of Windows is XP or better: NTFS-3G can mount a Windows filesystem read-write with no issue. Conrad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-u

dual-boot: writing to windows partition?

2013-04-14 Thread Charles Blair
Is there a safe way to write, from linux to the windows part of a dual-boot system? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130414090407.6c143...@toshiba

Re: Using unstable for certain packages

2013-04-14 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 06:49:46PM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > Incidentally. I do wonder if debian stable should accelerate some > packages which follow a more stable dev cycle like xfce-4.10 where it > has already been well tested. Won't happen. That is what Debian Backports is for. IMHO it is

Re: prettify audacious? - sid, xfce desktop

2013-04-14 Thread Joonas Sarajärvi
2013/4/14 Zenaan Harkness : > The screenshot on http://www.audacious-media-player.org/ looks rather nice. > > Running audacious looks ugly - plain gray GTK ui. > > How do I make my audacious look like the screenshot? In the screenshot, Audacious seems to be using what looks a lot like the Adwaita

Re: prettify audacious? - sid, xfce desktop

2013-04-14 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2013 14 Apr 07:38 -0500, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > Only plain ugly GTK and nearly all black "Winamp". > > So I googled, and found a nice skin: > http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/New+Wave+Audacious+skin?content=129663 > > which page also tells me about ~/.local/share/audacious/skins an

Re: prettify audacious? - sid, xfce desktop

2013-04-14 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 4/14/13, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > On Sunday 14 April 2013 02:28:16 Zenaan Harkness wrote: >> The screenshot on http://www.audacious-media-player.org/ looks rather >> nice. >> >> Running audacious looks ugly - plain gray GTK ui. >> >> How do I make my audacious look like the screenshot? >> >> TIA

Re: How to get Debian live running from flash with persistence

2013-04-14 Thread Christer Oldhoff
Hi Michael, On 2013-04-13 20:50, Michael Heerdegen wrote: > Hi, > > hope this is the right forum for my question. > > I wanted to use Debian live > (http://live-build.debian.net/cgi-bin/live-build) on a 468 Laptop > installed on a flash drive with full persistence. > [...] > > Next, I downloade

Re: prettify audacious? - sid, xfce desktop

2013-04-14 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Sunday 14 April 2013 02:28:16 Zenaan Harkness wrote: > The screenshot on http://www.audacious-media-player.org/ looks rather nice. > > Running audacious looks ugly - plain gray GTK ui. > > How do I make my audacious look like the screenshot? > > TIA > Zenaan View -> Interface preferences, ch

Re: netinstall size?

2013-04-14 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 01:28:20PM -0700, agroconsultor0 wrote: > Very smart Debian users in this list: > Are you Schizophrenic? Please! Thoughtless remarks like that are unnecessary on this list. -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed,

Re: How to get Debian live running from flash with persistence

2013-04-14 Thread Arun Khan
On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 6:23 AM, Rob Owens wrote: > On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 08:50:06PM +0200, Michael Heerdegen wrote: >> Hi, >> >> hope this is the right forum for my question. >> >> I wanted to use Debian live >> (http://live-build.debian.net/cgi-bin/live-build) on a 468 Laptop >> installed on a

Re: java on wheezy

2013-04-14 Thread Zenaan Harkness
My test (and Java app I want to run) is sweethome3d. Wasn't working on wheezy. Upgraded to sid. Sweethome3d worked. Upgraded some days back, now it doesn't work. Not sure if I'm doing anything wrong. 64-bit. Haven't tested in a browser. Zenaan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@list

java on wheezy

2013-04-14 Thread Francesco Pietra
Is any official (= working) advice on getting java at work with wheezy (specifically in amd64, if relevant)? What should be installed/reconfigured/uninstalled other than the packages obtained from wheezy desktop install, followed by upgrading with deb http://mozilla.debian.net/ experimental icewe