Re: iso and disk space problem

2014-08-17 Thread Frank McCormick
On 17/08/14 10:22 PM, sp113438 wrote: On Sun, 17 Aug 2014 20:21:13 -0400 Frank McCormick wrote: On 17/08/14 05:01 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 17/08/14 04:24 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: I downloaded an ISO of another Linux distro to check it out - burned is to a CD and booted from it. Runs fine,

Re: iso and disk space problem

2014-08-17 Thread sp113438
On Sun, 17 Aug 2014 20:21:13 -0400 Frank McCormick wrote: > On 17/08/14 05:01 PM, Gary Dale wrote: > > On 17/08/14 04:24 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: > >> > >> I downloaded an ISO of another Linux distro to check it out - > >> burned is to a CD and booted from it. Runs fine, but a little > >> slowl

Re: iso and disk space problem

2014-08-17 Thread Frank McCormick
On 17/08/14 05:01 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 17/08/14 04:24 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: I downloaded an ISO of another Linux distro to check it out - burned is to a CD and booted from it. Runs fine, but a little slowly, so I thought about grml-rescue which allows grub to boot an ISO from the HD. Ru

Re: iso and disk space problem

2014-08-17 Thread Gary Dale
On 17/08/14 04:24 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: I downloaded an ISO of another Linux distro to check it out - burned is to a CD and booted from it. Runs fine, but a little slowly, so I thought about grml-rescue which allows grub to boot an ISO from the HD. Runs fine, but immediately ran into trou

iso and disk space problem

2014-08-17 Thread Frank McCormick
I downloaded an ISO of another Linux distro to check it out - burned is to a CD and booted from it. Runs fine, but a little slowly, so I thought about grml-rescue which allows grub to boot an ISO from the HD. Runs fine, but immediately ran into trouble updating the distro when it ran out of dis

Re: printing

2014-08-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 17 Aug 2014, Steve Litt wrote: > On Sun, 17 Aug 2014 15:26:46 +0200 > dick kampman wrote: > > [snip] > If none of that stuff bears fruit, you can install other programs to > configure HP printers. Try those. > I always found lprng + magicfilter to work well. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a..

Re: printing

2014-08-17 Thread Gary Dale
On 17/08/14 09:26 AM, dick kampman wrote: My old HP-LaserJet-6MP is printing apropriate under Ubuntu and Fedora. Under Debian, helas, I just get white pages. I tried to edit /etc/cups/ppd/HP-LaserJet-6MP but without result. What should I do? Dick Kampman dkamp...@xs4all.nl Did you restart/relo

Re: printing

2014-08-17 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sun, 17 Aug 2014, dick kampman wrote: > My old HP-LaserJet-6MP is printing apropriate under Ubuntu and Fedora. > Under Debian, helas, I just get white pages. I tried to > edit /etc/cups/ppd/HP-LaserJet-6MP but without result. > > What should I do? What version of Debian? You using Jessie or

Re: Jessie won't install

2014-08-17 Thread Francesco Ariis
On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 10:19:56AM -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 8:47 AM, Francesco Ariis wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 02:24:53PM +0200, Diogene Laerce wrote: > >> > >> Jessie (last testing version) does not want to install in a VM. It just > >> get stucked > > > > If it rega

Re: Re: Skype substitutes for current Debian?

2014-08-17 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Monday 11 August 2014 12:09:07 Bret Busby wrote: > Is the new version available in 64 bit (for Debian amd64 7.x), or, is > it limited to 32 bit, with 32 bit stuff to enable it to run on 64 bit > operating systems , 32 bits > and, is the new version available as a .deb > package? yes. You sho

Re: auto starting of ppp has stopped working

2014-08-17 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 7:15 AM, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 01.08.2014 10:45, schrieb Tom H: > >> Either "/etc/modprobe.d/.conf" or in "/etc/modules" if the >> former isn't early enough. > > You are mixing two things up here: > > /etc/modprobe.conf and /etc/modprobe.d/*.conf are for specifying modu

Re: auto starting of ppp has stopped working

2014-08-17 Thread Rusi Mody
On Sunday, August 17, 2014 4:50:01 PM UTC+5:30, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 01.08.2014 10:45, schrieb Tom H: > > Either "/etc/modprobe.d/.conf" or in "/etc/modules" if the > > former isn't early enough. > You are mixing two things up here: > /etc/modprobe.conf and /etc/modprobe.d/*.conf are for sp

Re: Jessie won't install

2014-08-17 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 8:47 AM, Francesco Ariis wrote: > On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 02:24:53PM +0200, Diogene Laerce wrote: >> >> Jessie (last testing version) does not want to install in a VM. It just >> get stucked > > If it regards Jessie, probably debian-testing [1] is a better place where > to

Re: printing

2014-08-17 Thread Brian
On Sun 17 Aug 2014 at 15:26:46 +0200, dick kampman wrote: > My old HP-LaserJet-6MP is printing apropriate under Ubuntu and Fedora. > Under Debian, helas, I just get white pages. I tried to > edit /etc/cups/ppd/HP-LaserJet-6MP but without result. > > What should I do? We suppose you are using cup

Re: printing

2014-08-17 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 17 Aug 2014 15:26:46 +0200 dick kampman wrote: > My old HP-LaserJet-6MP is printing apropriate under Ubuntu and Fedora. > Under Debian, helas, I just get white pages. I tried to > edit /etc/cups/ppd/HP-LaserJet-6MP but without result. > > What should I do? Do a little dance. Make a litt

printing

2014-08-17 Thread dick kampman
My old HP-LaserJet-6MP is printing apropriate under Ubuntu and Fedora. Under Debian, helas, I just get white pages. I tried to edit /etc/cups/ppd/HP-LaserJet-6MP but without result. What should I do? Dick Kampman dkamp...@xs4all.nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.

Re: auto starting of ppp has stopped working

2014-08-17 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 01.08.2014 10:45, schrieb Tom H: > Either "/etc/modprobe.d/.conf" or in "/etc/modules" if the > former isn't early enough. You are mixing two things up here: /etc/modprobe.conf and /etc/modprobe.d/*.conf are for specifying module parameters. If you want to load modules during boot, you have

Re: systemd fails to poweroff - "A stop job is running for Session 2 of user $USER"

2014-08-17 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 7:46 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 10:35:11AM -0400, Tom H wrote: >> >> "Stop" in "stop job" isn't an adjective, it's a noun (or an >> attributive noun) just like "office" in "office chair." > > Or it could be a verb, as in a command "Stop job!" :) >

Re: Irony

2014-08-17 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 10:10 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: > > In my view SQL is a query language that can do much more than look up > records in a single table. To claim that some init system is superior > to some other init system because it has 'SQL logging' is, as Andrew > said, silly. Almost none

Re: New 64-bit Install: Wine

2014-08-17 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 17 August 2014 00:49:16 Floris wrote: > >> > > What wine packages do you have installed? > >> > > >> > wine > >> > wine64 > >> > wine32:i386 > >> > >> Tried that. I do not know about the firefox setup but no .exe's I had > >> around > >> would take. I also go rid of the ~/.wine. Wine-cf

Suspend/hibernate menu options missing from KDE

2014-08-17 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Dear Debian User, I am using a Jessie, and largely have KDE 4.11. I am trying to configure my KDE to allow sleep on lid close and such goodness. In the Power Management section of my KDE System Settings, I am unable to find any sleep/suspend options. Likewise, the K Menu's Leave section also has

Re: networking fails with temporary systemd (was auto starting of ppp has stopped working)

2014-08-17 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Rusi Mody wrote: > On Thursday, August 14, 2014 9:10:02 PM UTC+5:30, Tom H wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Rusi Mody wrote: >>> >>> To add to my earlier report: >>> I managed to remove graphviz and its associated libraries. >>> So that now aptitude dis