Re: Debian right for my use?

2015-01-01 Thread David Christensen
On 12/31/2014 08:35 PM, Cadman wrote: I need help determining whether Debian OS is the right OS for my needs. I am a Draftsman working from home due to physical handicaps. I use graphic and RAM memory intensive 3D CAD software What 3D CAD software? in Windows 7. Which edition of Windows 7

Re: Debian right for my use?

2015-01-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Cadman wrote: > I need help determining whether Debian OS is the right OS for my needs. You are asking on a Debian user list. Any answer other than yes here would lead me to seriously question the responses. Meanwhile I would expect that a Fedora list would respond for Fedora for example and the

Re: Debian right for my use?

2015-01-01 Thread Doug
On 01/02/2015 12:44 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 31/12/14 11:35 PM, Cadman wrote: Greetings I need help determining whether Debian OS is the right OS for my needs. I am a Draftsman working from home due to physical handicaps. I use graphic and RAM memory intensive 3D CAD software in Windows 7. My

Re: Any advice for a user about to use LVM for the first time?

2015-01-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I do want to insulate the one drive from any failures on the other three. > That data is not at all temporary, but it is backed up regularly. I want > to limit it's failure profile. Using mdadm RAID? Or LVM raid? I have personally only used mdadm raid and not lvm raid.

Re: Moving LVM volume?

2015-01-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Frank Miles wrote: > I recently added a new hard drive to my home system. I decided to use it > to create an all-new bootable 'jessie' system. I created a partition > table that I thought would be flexible: >/dev/sdb1 / (root) {7G} >/dev/sdb2 /swap {4GB} >/dev/

Re: Debian right for my use?

2015-01-01 Thread Gary Dale
On 31/12/14 11:35 PM, Cadman wrote: Greetings I need help determining whether Debian OS is the right OS for my needs. I am a Draftsman working from home due to physical handicaps. I use graphic and RAM memory intensive 3D CAD software in Windows 7. My W7 OS is operating poorly and is expensiv

Re: Debian right for my use?

2015-01-01 Thread Rusi Mody
On Thursday, January 1, 2015 10:40:03 AM UTC+5:30, Cadman wrote: > Greetings > > I need help determining whether Debian OS is the right OS for my needs. > > I am a Draftsman working from home due to physical handicaps. I use > graphic and RAM memory intensive 3D CAD software in Windows 7. My W

Re: Debian right for my use?

2015-01-01 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Wed, 31 Dec 2014, Cadman wrote: > Greetings > > I need help determining whether Debian OS is the right OS for my > needs. Go here to read about all the distros: http://distrowatch.com/ > I am a Draftsman working from home due to physical handicaps. I use > graphic and RAM memory intensive

Re: Any advice for a user about to use LVM for the first time?

2015-01-01 Thread David Christensen
On 01/01/2015 05:41 PM, D. R. Evans wrote: David Christensen wrote on 01/01/2015 05:53 PM: restore). More recently, I learned enough zfs-fuse for single and mirrored data drives. I later migrated to ZOL for performance. Administration of ZFS file systems requires a lot more knowledge and plann

wireless bug

2015-01-01 Thread Rusi Mody
Dell Inspironlaptop's wireless went on the blink. After lot of searching and trying 1. rfkill unblock all 2. rmmod wmi dell_wmi No luck Finally booted windows, turned it on there and now its on in linux Maybe a bug should be filed... Against which package? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Moving LVM volume?

2015-01-01 Thread Joel Rees
On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 3:13 AM, Frank Miles wrote: > [...] > > Thanks to everyone (Joe,Joel,Pascal,Tapani,Mark,...) for your interesting > replies. In response to your answers and questions: > > I've been using the new-drive-system (jessie) for a bit over a week. > With the stock kernel it's most

Re: Any advice for a user about to use LVM for the first time?

2015-01-01 Thread D. R. Evans
David Christensen wrote on 01/01/2015 05:53 PM: > restore). More recently, I learned enough zfs-fuse for single and > mirrored data drives. I later migrated to ZOL for performance. > Administration of ZFS file systems requires a lot more knowledge and > planning. This must be one of those

Re: Any advice for a user about to use LVM for the first time?

2015-01-01 Thread David Christensen
On 01/01/2015 04:24 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 12:51 PM, David Christensen < dpchr...@holgerdanske.com> wrote: On 12/31/2014 01:57 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I've just gotten 4 4TB drives to replace my 4 2TB drives. I'm wanting to have one normal 4TB drive and one logica

Re: Moving LVM volume?

2015-01-01 Thread Joe
On Thu, 1 Jan 2015 18:13:11 + (UTC) Frank Miles wrote: > On Thu, 01 Jan 2015 11:30:02 +0100, Joe wrote: > > > On Thu, 1 Jan 2015 01:54:39 + (UTC) > > Frank Miles wrote: > > > >> I recently added a new hard drive to my home system. I decided to > >> use it to create an all-new bootable

Re: Any advice for a user about to use LVM for the first time?

2015-01-01 Thread David Christensen
On 12/31/2014 01:57 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I've just gotten 4 4TB drives to replace my 4 2TB drives. I'm wanting to have one normal 4TB drive and one logical 12TB drive, so I will make three physical drives into one group, one logical volume and one partition support the big partition. My sy

Re: Moving LVM volume?

2015-01-01 Thread Frank Miles
On Thu, 01 Jan 2015 11:30:02 +0100, Joe wrote: > On Thu, 1 Jan 2015 01:54:39 + (UTC) > Frank Miles wrote: > >> I recently added a new hard drive to my home system. I decided to use >> it to create an all-new bootable 'jessie' system. I created a >> partition table that I thought would be f

Re: Debian right for my use?

2015-01-01 Thread David Goodenough
On Thursday 01 January 2015 04:50:31 Anil Duggirala wrote: > Ive invested quite some time looking for CAD software running natively > on linux, there isnt much. There is one 3D CAD software running > flawlessly on my Debian machine, its called Varicad. Correct me if Im Of those actually in the debi

Re: Moving LVM volume?

2015-01-01 Thread Joel Rees
On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 10:54 AM, Frank Miles wrote: > I recently added a new hard drive to my home system. I decided to use it > to create an all-new bootable 'jessie' system. Okay, what is the old drive doing right now? > I created a partition > table that I thought would be flexible: Well .

Re: Debian right for my use?

2015-01-01 Thread Anil Duggirala
Ive invested quite some time looking for CAD software running natively on linux, there isnt much. There is one 3D CAD software running flawlessly on my Debian machine, its called Varicad. Correct me if Im wrong but Virtualbox will take away some of your graphics card power.. Besides that, Im also r

Re: Moving LVM volume?

2015-01-01 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Thursday 01 January 2015 10:21:12 Joe wrote: > On Thu, 1 Jan 2015 01:54:39 + (UTC) > > Frank Miles wrote: > > I recently added a new hard drive to my home system. I decided to > > use it to create an all-new bootable 'jessie' system. I created a > > > > partition table that I thought wo

Re: Moving LVM volume?

2015-01-01 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Frank Miles a écrit : > I recently added a new hard drive to my home system. I decided to use it > to create an all-new bootable 'jessie' system. I created a partition > table that I thought would be flexible: >/dev/sdb1 / (root) {7G} >/dev/sdb2 /swap {4GB} >/

Re: Moving LVM volume?

2015-01-01 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
On Jan 01 01:54, Frank Miles (f...@u.washington.edu) wrote: > > I recently added a new hard drive to my home system. I decided to use it > to create an all-new bootable 'jessie' system. I created a partition > table that I thought would be flexible: >/dev/sdb1 / (root) {7G} >/

Re: Moving LVM volume?

2015-01-01 Thread Joe
On Thu, 1 Jan 2015 01:54:39 + (UTC) Frank Miles wrote: > I recently added a new hard drive to my home system. I decided to > use it to create an all-new bootable 'jessie' system. I created a > partition table that I thought would be flexible: >/dev/sdb1 / (root) {7G} >/dev

Fwd: Re: Moving LVM volume?

2015-01-01 Thread Marc Shapiro
Ooops! Sorry, Frank. I did it, again. This was meant for the list. Forwarded Message On 12/31/2014 05:54 PM, Frank Miles wrote: I recently added a new hard drive to my home system. I decided to use it to create an all-new bootable 'jessie' system. I created a partition t