Re: An issue with the Debian installer

2015-09-26 Thread Heracles
On 26/09/15 12:14, LinuxAus . wrote: One simple alternative is to download wukulu Linux which is Debian with the enlightenment desktop. Then let it upgrade. When I did it I ended up with a good Debian 8 system with everything working, my WiFi, my printers etc. That should read Makulu Linu

Re: Can't Log in

2015-09-26 Thread ray
Lisi, I like the idea of changing the display manager. I chose LXDE for sufficient functionality and light weight and because I have read the Gnome did not support remote desktop in jessie or stretch. Do you have a suggestion for choices? Maybe it doesn't matter, I can always change. That

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2015-09-26 Thread Pakistan
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Re: How to disable automatic mounting of CDROM?

2015-09-26 Thread Richard Owlett
Brian wrote: On Sat 26 Sep 2015 at 11:27:46 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: Brian wrote: On Sat 26 Sep 2015 at 09:13:27 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm trying to troubleshoot a problem. That Jessie (and IIRC Squeeze) automatically mount the cdrom drive every time the drawer is closed is a nuis

Re: Gnome metapackage dependencies

2015-09-26 Thread Karagkiaouris Diamantis
No problem at all. I just want to verify my thoughts or share them. I also checkout the project and i am now after it. We will see. Regards, Diamantis On 26.09.2015 20:43, David Wright wrote: Quoting Karagkiaouris Diamantis (dkaragkiaou...@gmail.com): i have a simple question which i already

Re: How to disable automatic mounting of CDROM?

2015-09-26 Thread Brian
On Sat 26 Sep 2015 at 11:27:46 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Brian wrote: > >On Sat 26 Sep 2015 at 09:13:27 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > >>I'm trying to troubleshoot a problem. > >>That Jessie (and IIRC Squeeze) automatically mount the cdrom drive every > >>time the drawer is closed is a nu

Re: Boxed W8/W10 PC; must anything be done, first, to enable dual-bootable later?

2015-09-26 Thread David Christensen
On 09/26/2015 08:03 AM, Ron Leach wrote: On 22/09/2015 02:30, David Christensen wrote: On 09/19/2015 05:17 AM, Eike Lantzsch wrote: First of all I'd do a complete disk image +1 Do this before you boot Windows for the first time. I typically use 'dd' and/or 'gzip', as they are included in the r

Re: How to disable automatic mounting of CDROM?

2015-09-26 Thread rlharris
... >>> Jessie ... automatically mounts the cdrom drive >>> every time the drawer is closed is a nuisance requiring to manually >>> run umount before I can proceed. I have a similar experience when plugging in an external USB drive. I wish to mount each of several drives at a particular mount poi

Re: Gnome metapackage dependencies

2015-09-26 Thread Brian
On Sat 26 Sep 2015 at 20:22:58 +0300, Karagkiaouris Diamantis wrote: > You mean that i have to do a minimal install of debian without adding the > metapackage on installation and then add gnome manually? Is there any info / > guide on this? No. I mean that that packages which 'apt-get autoremove'

Re: Boxed W8/W10 PC; must anything be done, first, to enable dual-bootable later?

2015-09-26 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Ron Leach a écrit : > > I've loaded the basic (non graphical) Jessie 8.2 Live CDimage on a USB > stick. > > Sadly, this doesn't contain mc, so using the basic command line in > /dev I do see a number of (possibly) relevant entries: > > mmcblk0 ; note the 0, there is no entry without a digit >

Re: Boxed W8/W10 PC; must anything be done, first, to enable dual-bootable later?

2015-09-26 Thread Ron Leach
On 26/09/2015 17:53, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Ron Leach a écrit : On 26/09/2015 16:40, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Does "lspci -nnk" show any SATA/IDE/AHCI/RAID controller and associated kernel module ? I think so. The machine is not networked, but redirecting the output to /home lets me view the f

Re: iceowl eating up all my CPU

2015-09-26 Thread Paolo Cavallini
On 2015-09-26 19:48, Paolo Cavallini wrote: Hi all, I installed iceowl this morning, configured my google calendar account, and my machine is almost stuck since, with cpu rocketing at 100% forever, and iceweasel practically not responding. Is this a known problem? Any workaround? Might be relat

Re: Enscript and unicode, was Re: is a2ps broken?

2015-09-26 Thread David Wright
Quoting rlhar...@oplink.net (rlhar...@oplink.net): > On Fri, September 25, 2015 11:34 pm, David Wright wrote: > > The OP thanked me for my first post which suggested what might cause > > problems in a2ps, but AFAICT gave no feedback on whether it was any help. > > Presumably not, hence his move to

iceowl eating up all my CPU

2015-09-26 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Hi all, I installed iceowl this morning, configured my google calendar account, and my machine is almost stuck since, with cpu rocketing at 100% forever, and iceweasel practically not responding. Is this a known problem? Any workaround? Thanks a lot. -- Paolo Cavallini - Faunalia www.faunalia.

Re: Gnome metapackage dependencies

2015-09-26 Thread David Wright
Quoting Karagkiaouris Diamantis (dkaragkiaou...@gmail.com): > i have a simple question which i already reported about gnome > metapackage and gnome-core. Why a simple removal of a text editor > gedit or gnome-music should ruin a fresh installation of Debian > Jessie? I mean after all is that a "mar

Re: Gnome metapackage dependencies

2015-09-26 Thread Karagkiaouris Diamantis
Hello, You mean that i have to do a minimal install of debian without adding the metapackage on installation and then add gnome manually? Is there any info / guide on this? Thank you, Diamantis On 26.09.2015 18:07, Brian wrote: On Sat 26 Sep 2015 at 00:31:10 +0300, Karagkiaouris Diamantis w

Re: Boxed W8/W10 PC; must anything be done, first, to enable dual-bootable later?

2015-09-26 Thread Ron Leach
On 26/09/2015 17:53, Pascal Hambourg wrote: If you boot Windows, open the device manager and select "display by connection" (or so), can you see the device chain up to the disk ? Hehe. Pascal, this is before Windows has ever run; my objective is to image the SDD HD *before* I run Windows fo

Re: Boxed W8/W10 PC; must anything be done, first, to enable dual-bootable later?

2015-09-26 Thread Ron Leach
On 26/09/2015 17:58, The Wanderer wrote: On 2015-09-26 at 12:42, Ron Leach wrote: I see: SD host controller Intel .. MIPI-HSI controller [8086:0f50] Subsystem HP company device [103c:8023] Kernel driver: sdhci-pci This is not a SATA/etc. controller; it appears to be an SD-card controller.

Re: Boxed W8/W10 PC; must anything be done, first, to enable dual-bootable later?

2015-09-26 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Ron Leach a écrit : > On 26/09/2015 16:40, Pascal Hambourg wrote: >> Does "lspci -nnk" show any SATA/IDE/AHCI/RAID controller and associated >> kernel module ? > > I think so. The machine is not networked, but redirecting the output > to /home lets me view the file, and I see: > > SD host contr

Re: Boxed W8/W10 PC; must anything be done, first, to enable dual-bootable later?

2015-09-26 Thread The Wanderer
On 2015-09-26 at 12:42, Ron Leach wrote: > On 26/09/2015 16:40, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > >> Does "lspci -nnk" show any SATA/IDE/AHCI/RAID controller and associated >> kernel module ? > > I think so. The machine is not networked, but redirecting the output > to /home lets me view the file, and I

Re: Searching for MAAS equivalen

2015-09-26 Thread Curt
On 2015-09-26, Brian wrote: > On Sat 26 Sep 2015 at 15:45:54 +, Curt wrote: > >> On 2015-09-26, Brian wrote: >> > >> > No offence taken here; it's a 10 second search to discover what MAAS is. >> > Debian doesn't seem to have an equivalent. >> > >> >> That's what I found out in thirty second

Re: Boxed W8/W10 PC; must anything be done, first, to enable dual-bootable later?

2015-09-26 Thread Ron Leach
On 26/09/2015 16:40, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Does "lspci -nnk" show any SATA/IDE/AHCI/RAID controller and associated kernel module ? I think so. The machine is not networked, but redirecting the output to /home lets me view the file, and I see: SD host controller Intel .. MIPI-HSI control

Re: How to disable automatic mounting of CDROM?

2015-09-26 Thread Richard Owlett
Brian wrote: On Sat 26 Sep 2015 at 09:13:27 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm trying to troubleshoot a problem. That Jessie (and IIRC Squeeze) automatically mount the cdrom drive every time the drawer is closed is a nuisance requiring to manually run umount before I can proceed. /etc/fstab has

Re: Nautilus classic search in Jessie?

2015-09-26 Thread / vt
Ok .. CTRL+S is interesting - it does what I want. I am still baffled by developers' decision to change the default behavior. Thanks for pointing this out. I will see if I can live with it. On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 6:18 PM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Sat, 2015-09-26 at 17:17 +0300, / vt wrote: >

Re: Searching for MAAS equivalen

2015-09-26 Thread Brian
On Sat 26 Sep 2015 at 15:45:54 +, Curt wrote: > On 2015-09-26, Brian wrote: > > > > No offence taken here; it's a 10 second search to discover what MAAS is. > > Debian doesn't seem to have an equivalent. > > > > That's what I found out in thirty seconds (I admire your celerity). Thanks. I

Re: Boxed W8/W10 PC; must anything be done, first, to enable dual-bootable later?

2015-09-26 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Ron Leach a écrit : > > I'm part way there. I can boot into a live Debian, but Debian doesn't > see the SDD HD; the only (meaningful?) entry in /dev is +sda (my boot > USB / live Debian stick), followed by -sg0. Parted 'Print Devices' > only lists '/dev/sda'. dmesg does not record any other

Re: Searching for MAAS equivalen

2015-09-26 Thread Curt
On 2015-09-26, Brian wrote: > > No offence taken here; it's a 10 second search to discover what MAAS is. > Debian doesn't seem to have an equivalent. > That's what I found out in thirty seconds (I admire your celerity).

Re: Nautilus classic search in Jessie?

2015-09-26 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sat, 2015-09-26 at 17:17 +0300, / vt wrote: > Hi, > > I switched from Debian 7 to Debian 8. The nautilus file browser is > now > updated and I am particularly interested in removing one of its new > features. The new 'search as you type' feature does not make sense to > me. > If I wanted to sea

Re: How to disable automatic mounting of CDROM?

2015-09-26 Thread Brian
On Sat 26 Sep 2015 at 09:13:27 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm trying to troubleshoot a problem. > That Jessie (and IIRC Squeeze) automatically mount the cdrom drive every > time the drawer is closed is a nuisance requiring to manually run umount > before I can proceed. > > /etc/fstab has noau

Re: Searching for MAAS equivalen

2015-09-26 Thread Brian
On Sat 26 Sep 2015 at 19:54:10 +0530, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > Ok! No offence! :) > MAAS(Metal as a Service) is something which can be used to boot and control > multiple servers from a single system. A single change in one can be > deployed across all the servers on the network. > Why I occasion

Re: Gnome metapackage dependencies

2015-09-26 Thread Brian
On Sat 26 Sep 2015 at 00:31:10 +0300, Karagkiaouris Diamantis wrote: > i have a simple question which i already reported about gnome metapackage > and gnome-core. Why a simple removal of a text editor gedit or gnome-music > should ruin a fresh installation of Debian Jessie? I mean after all is tha

Re: Boxed W8/W10 PC; must anything be done, first, to enable dual-bootable later?

2015-09-26 Thread Ron Leach
On 22/09/2015 02:30, David Christensen wrote: On 09/19/2015 05:17 AM, Eike Lantzsch wrote: First of all I'd do a complete disk image +1 Do this before you boot Windows for the first time. with e.g. Clonezilla. I typically use 'dd' and/or 'gzip', as they are included in the rescue tool

Re: An issue with the Debian installer

2015-09-26 Thread Charlie Kravetz
On Sat, 26 Sep 2015 11:47:35 + (UTC) Curt wrote: >On 2015-09-26, Curt wrote: >> On 2015-09-25, Brad Rogers wrote: >>> >>> On Fri, 25 Sep 2015 21:07:34 +0200 >>> Zack wrote: >>> >>> Hello Zack, >>> I do not understand why the installer do not install the desktop environment (GNOME).

Re: can I access SD card in cell phone?

2015-09-26 Thread Erwan David
Le 25/09/2015 21:37, Li Wei a écrit : > Thanks! > My phone does not have menu USB utilities > > When connected via USB line, phone says sth. like > connected as media device > > In that case jmtpfs may give you the way to access the samasung mass memory

Re: Searching for MAAS equivalen

2015-09-26 Thread Himanshu Shekhar
Ok! No offence! :) MAAS(Metal as a Service) is something which can be used to boot and control multiple servers from a single system. A single change in one can be deployed across all the servers on the network. Why I occasionally ask questions about Ubuntu, is just because I am a student who loves

Nautilus classic search in Jessie?

2015-09-26 Thread / vt
Hi, I switched from Debian 7 to Debian 8. The nautilus file browser is now updated and I am particularly interested in removing one of its new features. The new 'search as you type' feature does not make sense to me. If I wanted to search for a file starting down from the current directory I would

How to disable automatic mounting of CDROM?

2015-09-26 Thread Richard Owlett
I'm trying to troubleshoot a problem. That Jessie (and IIRC Squeeze) automatically mount the cdrom drive every time the drawer is closed is a nuisance requiring to manually run umount before I can proceed. /etc/fstab has noauto under options. Where else should I look. I would prefer to disabl

Re: can I access SD card in cell phone?

2015-09-26 Thread Curt
On 2015-09-25, Li Wei wrote: > Thanks! > but I'm in China and linuxmanagers.blogspot.com seems blocked > There's AirDroid if you have wifi (you don't have to sign up for one of their accounts, by the way) and you can download apps from the google play store. You open AirDroid, which you gives y

Re: nfs stale file handle?

2015-09-26 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 26 September 2015 13:56:10 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 26 September 2015 07:21:07 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Saturday 26 September 2015 05:19:27 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Friday 25 September 2015 16:52:09 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > On Thursday 24 September 2015 06:56:52 Gene Heske

Re: nfs stale file handle?

2015-09-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 26 September 2015 07:21:07 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 26 September 2015 05:19:27 Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 25 September 2015 16:52:09 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Thursday 24 September 2015 06:56:52 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > On Wednesday 23 September 2015 07:53:22 Gene Hes

Re: Searching for MAAS equivalen

2015-09-26 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 24 September 2015 13:05:16 Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > Is there anything equivalent to MAAS, with which we can handle multiple > servers from a single system, as provided in Ubuntu Server? > If yes, then please provide the package name. Himanshu, Could you possibly ask questions without

Re: Can't Log in

2015-09-26 Thread John L. Cunningham
I'm having a similar problem on a Jessie install. I don't think it's the display manager. When I log in via the shell, I get an error message saying the user has no home directory and starts with the home directory of "/". Since I don't have permission to read anything on the root, it makes s

Re: An issue with the Debian installer

2015-09-26 Thread Curt
On 2015-09-26, Curt wrote: > On 2015-09-25, Brad Rogers wrote: >> >> On Fri, 25 Sep 2015 21:07:34 +0200 >> Zack wrote: >> >> Hello Zack, >> >>>I do not understand why the installer do not install the desktop >>>environment (GNOME). >> >> Because you didn't tell it to. >> > > He appears to have t

Re: nfs stale file handle?

2015-09-26 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 26 September 2015 05:19:27 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 25 September 2015 16:52:09 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Thursday 24 September 2015 06:56:52 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Wednesday 23 September 2015 07:53:22 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > Greetings all, nfs experts in particular; > >

Re: can I access SD card in cell phone?

2015-09-26 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 25 September 2015 20:48:18 Li Wei wrote: > Thanks! > but I'm in China and linuxmanagers.blogspot.com seems blocked Here is the relevant text (minus any propaganda;): - Transferring files between your Linux box and your Android device There a

Re: can I access SD card in cell phone?

2015-09-26 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 25 Sep 2015 14:47:31 -0700 Li Wei wrote: Hello Li, >Bus 001 Device 004: ID 04e8:6860 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd GT-I9100 >Phone [Galaxy S II], GT-P7500 [Galaxy Tab 10.1] So, it detects the 'phone. That good. Of you're lucky, it'll be possible to mount it. However, taking note of wh

Re: An issue with the Debian installer

2015-09-26 Thread Curt
On 2015-09-25, Brad Rogers wrote: > > On Fri, 25 Sep 2015 21:07:34 +0200 > Zack wrote: > > Hello Zack, > >>I do not understand why the installer do not install the desktop=20 >>environment (GNOME). > > Because you didn't tell it to. > He appears to have the startx command (he's as short on speci