Re: Need help with disk config.

2015-12-30 Thread jdd
Le 31/12/2015 01:24, Dennis Wicks a écrit : Greetings; In the next couple of days I will have a much better computer. Not 64bit, but at least faster and with more disk. I had several 64 bits computers for free, stil using 32 bits if not very low end is surprising! It will have 4x1TB SATA

Re: RIP and Thank You.

2015-12-30 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Martinx - ジェームズ writes: > Rest in Peace Ian! > > I wanna know exactly what happened with him. > > On 30 December 2015 at 20:44, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/12/30/ian_murdock_debian_founder/ Yes. The story as reported so far is really bizarre.

Re: Need help with disk config.

2015-12-30 Thread David Christensen
On 12/30/2015 04:24 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: In the next couple of days I will have a much better computer. Not 64bit, but at least faster and with more disk. It will have 4x1TB SATA drives, 4x250GB IDE/PATA drives and all the memory it can use and a fast AMD socket AM2 processor. I'd like some

Re: wget log from Jigdo

2015-12-30 Thread Rick Thomas
> On Dec 30, 2015, at 1:13 PM, Steve Matzura wrote: > > I still don't > understand why adding 'debian/' worked for the Pittsburgh URL but not, > say, for the Stevens Institute one. No matter, it's working now, I can’t say why any particular mirror does what it does, but the general rule is: mi

Re: Installation successful

2015-12-30 Thread Rick Thomas
> On Dec 30, 2015, at 1:13 PM, Steve Matzura wrote: > > I started from the very beginning and got it done. I only made one > mistake, which I will correct--I mistyped the domain name. I still > don't know what I did wrong the first time I tried installing, but > it's of no consequence now, as th

Re: RIP and Thank You.

2015-12-30 Thread Rick Thomas
https://bits.debian.org/2015/12/mourning-ian-murdock.html > His family has asked for privacy during this difficult time and we very much > wish to respect that. He will be missed… Rick

Re: Putting It All On a Stick

2015-12-30 Thread Rick Thomas
> On Dec 30, 2015, at 1:34 PM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > Hi, > > Steve Matzura wrote: >> didn't do anything to the medium before using a ISO2USB to write to it. > > Do not use any repacker tool with the debian-cd ISOs. > Rather copy them plainly onto the base device of the USB drive. > E.g. on

Re: Need help with disk config.

2015-12-30 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 06:24:24PM -0600, Dennis Wicks wrote: > In the next couple of days I will have a much better computer. Not > 64bit, but at least faster and with more disk. > > It will have 4x1TB SATA drives, 4x250GB IDE/PATA drives and all the > memory it can use and a fast AMD socket AM2

Need help with disk config.

2015-12-30 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; In the next couple of days I will have a much better computer. Not 64bit, but at least faster and with more disk. It will have 4x1TB SATA drives, 4x250GB IDE/PATA drives and all the memory it can use and a fast AMD socket AM2 processor. I'd like some suggestions on how to format/

Re: RIP and Thank You.

2015-12-30 Thread Charlie Kravetz
On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 22:44:26 + Lisi Reisz wrote: >http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/12/30/ian_murdock_debian_founder/ > Official Announcement from Debian: https://bits.debian.org/2015/12/mourning-ian-murdock.html RIP, Ian Murdock. -- Charlie Kravetz Linux Registered User Number 425914 [h

Re: RIP and Thank You.

2015-12-30 Thread Martinx - ジェームズ
Rest in Peace Ian! I wanna know exactly what happened with him. On 30 December 2015 at 20:44, Lisi Reisz wrote: > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/12/30/ian_murdock_debian_founder/ > >

Re: RIP and Thank You.

2015-12-30 Thread Dino Picascia
R.i.p :( Il mercoledì 30 dicembre 2015, Lisi Reisz ha scritto: > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/12/30/ian_murdock_debian_founder/ > > -- dinopicas...@gmail.com *GPG: 0xFED2E841* *Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail notice *

Re: Putting It All On a Stick

2015-12-30 Thread Brian
On Wed 30 Dec 2015 at 23:01:43 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 30 December 2015 19:54:50 Brian wrote: > > On Wed 30 Dec 2015 at 19:39:10 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Wednesday 30 December 2015 17:29:30 Brian wrote: > > > > On Wed 30 Dec 2015 at 10:37:53 -0500, Steve Matzura wrote: > >

Re: Putting It All On a Stick

2015-12-30 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 30 December 2015 20:32:30 Joe wrote: > On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 19:41:08 + > > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Wednesday 30 December 2015 19:34:54 Steve Matzura wrote: > > > The USB thumb drive idea was just something I > > > thought I would try to make work because it's convenient to carry i

Re: Putting It All On a Stick

2015-12-30 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 30 December 2015 19:54:50 Brian wrote: > On Wed 30 Dec 2015 at 19:39:10 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Wednesday 30 December 2015 17:29:30 Brian wrote: > > > On Wed 30 Dec 2015 at 10:37:53 -0500, Steve Matzura wrote: > > > > Can the net install run with speech? I didn't think it could

RIP and Thank You.

2015-12-30 Thread Lisi Reisz
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/12/30/ian_murdock_debian_founder/

Re: wget log from Jigdo

2015-12-30 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 30 December 2015 15:55:02 Rick Thomas wrote: > On Dec 30, 2015, at 11:34 AM, Steve Matzura wrote: > > This is what > > makes me crazy about anything Linux--secret knowledge that some > > people just seem to have or know, that would never occur to anyone > > else. > > Yeah, it’s a pro

Re: Putting It All On a Stick

2015-12-30 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Steve Matzura wrote: > didn't do anything to the medium before using a ISO2USB to write to it. Do not use any repacker tool with the debian-cd ISOs. Rather copy them plainly onto the base device of the USB drive. E.g. onto /dev/sdc if it is at a Linux machine. See https://www.debian.org/CD

Re: Jigdo (was "Putting It All On a Stick")

2015-12-30 Thread Steve Matzura
Ah, so what I'm trying to do will probably fail? It was an idea anyway. On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 12:58:56 -0800, you wrote: >On 12/30/2015 11:51 AM, Steve Matzura wrote: >> http://atterer.org/sites/atterer/files/2009-08/jigdo/jigdo-win-0.7.2.zip > >It looks like the author only anticipated DVD-sized f

Installation successful

2015-12-30 Thread Steve Matzura
I started from the very beginning and got it done. I only made one mistake, which I will correct--I mistyped the domain name. I still don't know what I did wrong the first time I tried installing, but it's of no consequence now, as things are working correctly. I am now trying to add Speakup suppo

Re: wget log from Jigdo

2015-12-30 Thread Steve Matzura
Yes, and there's a lot of "do what it says, not what you might think it wants you to do" operating in the Windows sphere. I still don't understand why adding 'debian/' worked for the Pittsburgh URL but not, say, for the Stevens Institute one. No matter, it's working now, downloading and hopefully c

Re: Putting It All On a Stick

2015-12-30 Thread Steve Matzura
I didn't do anything to the medium before using a ISO2USB to write to it. In fact, it was a fresh USB thum drive, literally right out of the package. On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 20:24:04 +, you wrote: >On Wed 30 Dec 2015 at 14:34:54 -0500, Steve Matzura wrote: > >> Sorry, I missed that question. I ha

Re: Jigdo (was "Putting It All On a Stick")

2015-12-30 Thread Steve Matzura
Thomas, that's exactly what's happening here. The temp file is 20 gigs, and stuff is being downloaded at a great rate, yes, at least 80% of my maximum 150mbps, and the screen is scrolling much to quickly to read, so I'll just check it every few hours to see how it's doing. I used the URL as describ

Re: wget log from Jigdo

2015-12-30 Thread Steve Matzura
That's true to a certain extent, but in the thirty years I've been working with Linux, back to SCO Xenix and System V Unix, I've found there's more unpublished knowledge and tips and tricks therein than ever I've found in twenty-five years of working with Windows. But what gets me is when people sa

Re: Jigdo (was "Putting It All On a Stick")

2015-12-30 Thread David Christensen
On 12/30/2015 11:51 AM, Steve Matzura wrote: http://atterer.org/sites/atterer/files/2009-08/jigdo/jigdo-win-0.7.2.zip It looks like the author only anticipated DVD-sized files, not Blu-Ray sized files: http://atterer.org/jigdo This version is capable of creating DVD-sized images on

Re: Putting It All On a Stick

2015-12-30 Thread Brian
On Wed 30 Dec 2015 at 11:56:14 -0800, Rick Thomas wrote: > > On Dec 30, 2015, at 11:39 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Wednesday 30 December 2015 17:29:30 Brian wrote: > >> On Wed 30 Dec 2015 at 10:37:53 -0500, Steve Matzura wrote: > >>> Can the net install run with speech? I didn't think it cou

Re: Dovecot Problems?

2015-12-30 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 30 December 2015 21:31:09 Jochen Spieker wrote: > David Baron: > > I can no longer log on to my IMAP server from my Android. I can do so from > > kmail but even the URL is translated to localhost. Using k-9 mail on the > > android. > > Is kmail running in the same host as Dovecot? Tha

Re: wget log from Jigdo

2015-12-30 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 30, 2015, at 11:34 AM, Steve Matzura wrote: > This is what > makes me crazy about anything Linux--secret knowledge that some people > just seem to have or know, that would never occur to anyone else. Yeah, it’s a problem; but fortunately there are mailing lists like this one, and wikis

Re: Bug#806858 Re: s-nail: mailx: Unable to (dot) lock mailbox, aborting operation: Permission denied

2015-12-30 Thread Steffen Nurpmeso
Rick Thomas wrote: |On Dec 30, 2015, at 3:36 AM, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: |> Rick Thomas wrote: |>|Hi Steffan, |> |> (My name is Steffen) | |Ooops! Sorry! Don't worry, i had so many typos myself in what followed.. .. |> It must be SETUID to a super-user that can impersonate as all

Re: Jigdo (was "Putting It All On a Stick")

2015-12-30 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Steve Matzura wrote: > When I run the script that controls things, On a Debian 8 system i did apt-get install jigdo-file jigdo-lite http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/8.2.0/amd64/jigdo-bd/debian-8.2.0-amd64-BD-1.jigdo (It is the first time i do this. Normally i wget netinst ISOs. On

Re: Putting It All On a Stick

2015-12-30 Thread Joe
On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 19:41:08 + Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 30 December 2015 19:34:54 Steve Matzura wrote: > > The USB thumb drive idea was just something I > > thought I would try to make work because it's convenient to carry it > > around and use on various hardwares I encounter on a re

Re: Dovecot Problems?

2015-12-30 Thread Jochen Spieker
David Baron: > > I can no longer log on to my IMAP server from my Android. I can do so from > kmail but even the URL is translated to localhost. Using k-9 mail on the > android. Is kmail running in the same host as Dovecot? That's the only way I can think of that kmail is working with localhost

Re: Putting It All On a Stick

2015-12-30 Thread Brian
On Wed 30 Dec 2015 at 14:34:54 -0500, Steve Matzura wrote: > Sorry, I missed that question. I have not put it on a stick as yet, > not even the (relatively) small DVD image. I tried using ISO2USB but > couldn't get the thing to boot. I don't know if it was because my > thumb drive wouldn't coopera

Re: Jigdo (was "Putting It All On a Stick")

2015-12-30 Thread Brian
On Wed 30 Dec 2015 at 19:48:04 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 30 December 2015 19:34:55 Steve Matzura wrote: > > On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 18:46:14 +, you wrote: > > >> Steve Matzura is trying to put a "complete three-disk installation set > > >> on a single medium" with jigdo. Using a neti

Re: Recommendations for a GUI video editing program?

2015-12-30 Thread Fuller, Lee
On 2015-12-30 19:19, David Christensen wrote: On 12/30/2015 03:22 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: I'm looking for recommendations for a GUI video editor for simple tasks (basically for cutting a video, and perhaps for fixing the audio track lag which sometimes creeps in). I have very little experi

Re: Putting It All On a Stick

2015-12-30 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 30, 2015, at 11:39 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 30 December 2015 17:29:30 Brian wrote: >> On Wed 30 Dec 2015 at 10:37:53 -0500, Steve Matzura wrote: >>> Can the net install run with speech? I didn't think it could. >> >> "Install with speech systhesis" is the last item in the ins

Re: Putting It All On a Stick

2015-12-30 Thread Brian
On Wed 30 Dec 2015 at 19:39:10 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 30 December 2015 17:29:30 Brian wrote: > > On Wed 30 Dec 2015 at 10:37:53 -0500, Steve Matzura wrote: > > > Can the net install run with speech? I didn't think it could. > > > > "Install with speech systhesis" is the last item

Re: Putting It All On a Stick

2015-12-30 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 30 December 2015 19:48:02 Steve Matzura wrote: > Well, true enough, but if it isn't, it's a viable alternative. In my > line of work, alternatives rule. :-) As I say, I prefer it. It is simpler, where it is suitable at all. Lisi > > On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 19:41:08 +, you wrote: >

Re: Jigdo (was "Putting It All On a Stick")

2015-12-30 Thread Steve Matzura
On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 11:36:23 -0800, you wrote: >Where did you get the Windows port of Jidgo? Please provide a URL. http://atterer.org/sites/atterer/files/2009-08/jigdo/jigdo-win-0.7.2.zip >What is the maximum download file size specification for the program? Don't know. Where would I find that

Re: wget log from Jigdo

2015-12-30 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 30 December 2015 19:34:55 Steve Matzura wrote: > True, but who knew that? I go with what I know most of the time, and > what I know about Jigdo can be summed up in one word: nothing. So when > I see a URL that purports to be the one to use, I use it. This is what > makes me crazy about

Re: Putting It All On a Stick

2015-12-30 Thread Steve Matzura
Well, true enough, but if it isn't, it's a viable alternative. In my line of work, alternatives rule. On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 19:41:08 +, you wrote: >On Wednesday 30 December 2015 19:34:54 Steve Matzura wrote: >> The USB thumb drive idea was just something I >> thought I would try to make work be

Re: Jigdo (was "Putting It All On a Stick")

2015-12-30 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 30 December 2015 19:34:55 Steve Matzura wrote: > On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 18:46:14 +, you wrote: > >> Steve Matzura is trying to put a "complete three-disk installation set > >> on a single medium" with jigdo. Using a netinst ISO doesn't seem to fit > >> the bill. > > > >For the purpose

Re: Putting It All On a Stick

2015-12-30 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 30 December 2015 19:34:54 Steve Matzura wrote: > The USB thumb drive idea was just something I > thought I would try to make work because it's convenient to carry it > around and use on various hardwares I encounter on a regular basis in > my travels as the itinerant accessible computi

Re: Putting It All On a Stick

2015-12-30 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 30 December 2015 17:29:30 Brian wrote: > On Wed 30 Dec 2015 at 10:37:53 -0500, Steve Matzura wrote: > > Can the net install run with speech? I didn't think it could. > > "Install with speech systhesis" is the last item in the installer menu. > > The only major difference between DVD-1

Re: Jigdo (was "Putting It All On a Stick")

2015-12-30 Thread David Christensen
On 12/30/2015 07:22 AM, Steve Matzura wrote: Thinking this tool would be the answer to life, etc., I tried it. Have now tried it on three Windows and two borrowed Linux machines, all with the same 0 results, which means it must be something I'm doing wrong. Unfortunately, the Linux machines in qu

Re: wget log from Jigdo

2015-12-30 Thread Steve Matzura
True, but who knew that? I go with what I know most of the time, and what I know about Jigdo can be summed up in one word: nothing. So when I see a URL that purports to be the one to use, I use it. This is what makes me crazy about anything Linux--secret knowledge that some people just seem to have

Re: Putting It All On a Stick

2015-12-30 Thread Steve Matzura
Sorry, I missed that question. I have not put it on a stick as yet, not even the (relatively) small DVD image. I tried using ISO2USB but couldn't get the thing to boot. I don't know if it was because my thumb drive wouldn't cooperate, or just what, but I definitely did make it work with ISO2USB and

Re: Jigdo (was "Putting It All On a Stick")

2015-12-30 Thread Steve Matzura
On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 18:46:14 +, you wrote: >> Steve Matzura is trying to put a "complete three-disk installation set >> on a single medium" with jigdo. Using a netinst ISO doesn't seem to fit >> the bill. > >For the purpose of installing it. So it does fit the bill. (See his reply to >me.)

Re: Jigdo (was "Putting It All On a Stick")

2015-12-30 Thread Brian
On Wed 30 Dec 2015 at 11:09:03 -0800, Rick Thomas wrote: > PS: Would a wish-list bug against debian-installer be appropriate? Probably. But I wouldn't hold my breath.

Re: Recommendations for a GUI video editing program?

2015-12-30 Thread David Christensen
On 12/30/2015 03:22 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: I'm looking for recommendations for a GUI video editor for simple tasks (basically for cutting a video, and perhaps for fixing the audio track lag which sometimes creeps in). I have very little experience with video editing and myself are more of a

Re: Jigdo (was "Putting It All On a Stick")

2015-12-30 Thread Rick Thomas
It would be kinda cool if the installer could deal with multiple DVDs at once: Allow people with two or more optical drives to put DVD-1 in one of them and DVD-2 in the second (and so on, if necessary/possible) and have the installation “just work” with no swapping of disks in drives. Then (th

Re: Bug#806858 Re: s-nail: mailx: Unable to (dot) lock mailbox, aborting operation: Permission denied

2015-12-30 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 30, 2015, at 9:51 AM, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > Steffen Nurpmeso wrote on 12/30/15 12:36: >> Hello! >> >> Rick Thomas wrote: > > >> |-rwxr-sr-x 1 root mail 10104 Dec 4 14:52 /usr/lib/s-nail/s-nail-privsep > > Wouldn't these be enough rights for mailx to do it's work? > I.e., ow

Re: Putting It All On a Stick

2015-12-30 Thread Brian
On Wed 30 Dec 2015 at 13:26:10 -0500, Steve Matzura wrote: If you are experimenting I would choose Manual partitioning and go for a single 10/20 GB partition. You are not exactly installing very much and that is plenty. A repeat question: how did you get the ISO on a USB stick? (Assuming this is

Re: Putting It All On a Stick

2015-12-30 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 30 December 2015 15:37:53 Steve Matzura wrote: > Can the net install run with speech? I didn't think it could. Yes, it can. Lisi > > On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 15:26:49 +, you wrote: > >On Wednesday 30 December 2015 14:00:18 Steve Matzura wrote: > >> I'm doing it to an NTFS filesystem dr

Re: Putting It All On a Stick

2015-12-30 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 30 December 2015 15:45:05 Steve Matzura wrote: > Lisi: > > On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 15:30:11 +, you wrote: > >> Why not use the net-install? That fits _easily_ on a stick, even a > >> small stick, and away you go. Just do the basic install and then pull > >> the rest off the net. You

Re: Jigdo (was "Putting It All On a Stick")

2015-12-30 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 30 December 2015 17:55:48 Brian wrote: > On Wed 30 Dec 2015 at 15:33:25 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Wednesday 30 December 2015 15:22:29 Steve Matzura wrote: > > > Thinking this tool would be the answer to life, etc., I tried it. Have > > > now tried it on three Windows and two borr

Re: New Install Fails at Step 14

2015-12-30 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 30 December 2015 16:06:54 Steve Matzura wrote: > That's quite all right, it's not something that's really important > unless the non-full installs don't include screenreader support > durinig the actual install, which they probably don't. You don't even > have to ask your friend. If yo

Re: wget log from Jigdo

2015-12-30 Thread Brian
On Wed 30 Dec 2015 at 13:22:03 -0500, Steve Matzura wrote: I'm not exactly sure what is happening with your Adventures with Jigdo in Windows tale. But if you do not want the bother of thinking about the best mirror to use you could have http://httpredir.debian.org/ Highly recommended. > ??

Re: Putting It All On a Stick

2015-12-30 Thread Steve Matzura
I chose the partition scheme offering separate /, /home, /var and /tmp partitions. I would have preferred to put /home on a different physical drive only because everything else will be living on an SSD and I would prefer to keep the writes to that disk at a minimum. I have an extra rotating disk o

Re: wget log from Jigdo

2015-12-30 Thread Steve Matzura
How's that? The URL shown in the results of a search for "Pittsburgh" is: http://debian.mirrors.pair.com/ How did you know to add "debian/" to the end of it? Do I do that for any of those URL's? If that's true, I'd prefer to use a different mirror, slightly closer, listed as: ftp://ftp.

Re: Putting It All On a Stick

2015-12-30 Thread Brian
On Wed 30 Dec 2015 at 12:49:25 -0500, Steve Matzura wrote As a matter of interest, how did you partition the disk? What partitioning scheme did you use? Also, you might have, I think, written the DVD-1 ISO image to a USB stick from within Windows. How did you do it? I went through the speech syn

Re: Bug#806858 Re: s-nail: mailx: Unable to (dot) lock mailbox, aborting operation: Permission denied

2015-12-30 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 30, 2015, at 3:36 AM, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: > Hello! > > Rick Thomas wrote: > |Hi Steffan, > > (My name is Steffen) Ooops! Sorry! > Well, just as already shown in this thread, on my local box it is > > ?0[sdaoden@wales nail.git]$ ll /usr/local/libexec/s-nail-privsep > -r-sr-xr-

Re: Jigdo (was "Putting It All On a Stick")

2015-12-30 Thread Brian
On Wed 30 Dec 2015 at 15:33:25 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 30 December 2015 15:22:29 Steve Matzura wrote: > > Thinking this tool would be the answer to life, etc., I tried it. Have > > now tried it on three Windows and two borrowed Linux machines, all > > with the same 0 results, which

Re: Putting It All On a Stick

2015-12-30 Thread Steve Matzura
Frankly, neither can I, and I also can't see why the "install additional software" procedure in Step 14 would fail, but it did, and there we are. I'll try DVD 1 again now. At least I won't have to go through the disk partitioning business again. That part is all done. On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 17:29:30

Re: Bug#806858 Re: s-nail: mailx: Unable to (dot) lock mailbox, aborting operation: Permission denied

2015-12-30 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Steffen Nurpmeso wrote on 12/30/15 12:36: > Hello! > > Rick Thomas wrote: > |-rwxr-sr-x 1 root mail 10104 Dec 4 14:52 /usr/lib/s-nail/s-nail-privsep Wouldn't these be enough rights for mailx to do it's work? I.e., owner: root, group: mail, sticky bit for the group? This works on my syste

Re: Putting It All On a Stick

2015-12-30 Thread Brian
On Wed 30 Dec 2015 at 10:37:53 -0500, Steve Matzura wrote: > Can the net install run with speech? I didn't think it could. "Install with speech systhesis" is the last item in the installer menu. The only major difference between DVD-1 and the netinst ISO is the first gets packages from the DVD (

Re: Putting It All On a Stick

2015-12-30 Thread Richard Owlett
On 12/29/2015 3:18 PM, Steve Matzura wrote: Is there a way to place the contents of all the Debian installation ISO's on a single USB drive? Yes, at least with Squeeze. I haven't tried with Wheezy or Jessie yet. My motivation was that until recently I was limited to dial up. My initial soluti

Re: New Install Fails at Step 14

2015-12-30 Thread Steve Matzura
That's quite all right, it's not something that's really important unless the non-full installs don't include screenreader support durinig the actual install, which they probably don't. You don't even have to ask your friend. If you happen to have a copy of the distro handy, boot it, and tell me if

Re: wget log from Jigdo

2015-12-30 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 10:36:33AM -0500, Steve Matzura wrote: > This is what I could get from the wget portion of the Jigdo process > running on a Windows 7 SP1 machine. I used a pair of files called > debian-8.2.0-amd64-BD-1 (.jigdo and .template) downloaded yesterday, > and the mirror at debian.

Re: Putting It All On a Stick

2015-12-30 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 09:00:18AM -0500, Steve Matzura wrote: > I'm doing it to an NTFS filesystem drive. According to Wikipedia [1] it has a file size limit of 16 EiB (further limited by Windows NT to 16 TiB), so no, that doesn't seem to be the prob

Re: New Install Fails at Step 14

2015-12-30 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 30 December 2015 15:39:37 Steve Matzura wrote: > Step 14 is "Install additional software." If the net install works > with speech, then I can do it. Without speech output from the built-in > screenreader, it's of no use to me without sighted assistance, which I > do not have. Sorry.

Re: Recommendations for a GUI video editing program?

2015-12-30 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 08:40:45AM -0500, Anthony Mapes wrote: > On 12/30/2015 07:35 AM, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > > I *LOVE* OpenShot. You actually helped *me* out because I had used > > another program (that was a little over my pay grade), but could

Re: Putting It All On a Stick

2015-12-30 Thread Steve Matzura
Lisi: On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 15:30:11 +, you wrote: >> Why not use the net-install? That fits _easily_ on a stick, even a small >> stick, and away you go. Just do the basic install and then pull the rest >> off the net. You don't need everything. >> >> I never use anything else. You can get

Re: New Install Fails at Step 14

2015-12-30 Thread Steve Matzura
Step 14 is "Install additional software." If the net install works with speech, then I can do it. Without speech output from the built-in screenreader, it's of no use to me without sighted assistance, which I do not have. On Thu, 31 Dec 2015 04:28:52 +1300, you wrote: >On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 10:

Re: Putting It All On a Stick

2015-12-30 Thread Steve Matzura
Can the net install run with speech? I didn't think it could. On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 15:26:49 +, you wrote: >On Wednesday 30 December 2015 14:00:18 Steve Matzura wrote: >> I'm doing it to an NTFS filesystem drive. >> >> On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 10:06:13 +0100, you wrote: >> >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MES

wget log from Jigdo

2015-12-30 Thread Steve Matzura
This is what I could get from the wget portion of the Jigdo process running on a Windows 7 SP1 machine. I used a pair of files called debian-8.2.0-amd64-BD-1 (.jigdo and .template) downloaded yesterday, and the mirror at debian.mirrors.pair.com, but that doesn't matter much, as I get the same thing

Re: New Install Fails at Step 14

2015-12-30 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 30 December 2015 15:28:52 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 10:22:30AM -0500, Steve Matzura wrote: > > So since my installation is virgin and is failing at Step 14, should I > > just start again and see if I get any further this time, or is there > > anything I should ch

Re: Jigdo (was "Putting It All On a Stick")

2015-12-30 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 30 December 2015 15:22:29 Steve Matzura wrote: > Thinking this tool would be the answer to life, etc., I tried it. Have > now tried it on three Windows and two borrowed Linux machines, all > with the same 0 results, which means it must be something I'm doing > wrong. Unfortunately, the

Re: Putting It All On a Stick

2015-12-30 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 30 December 2015 15:26:49 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 30 December 2015 14:00:18 Steve Matzura wrote: > > I'm doing it to an NTFS filesystem drive. > > > > On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 10:06:13 +0100, you wrote: > > > > > >On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 08:52:56PM -0500, Steve Matzura wrote: > >

Re: New Install Fails at Step 14

2015-12-30 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 10:22:30AM -0500, Steve Matzura wrote: > So since my installation is virgin and is failing at Step 14, should I > just start again and see if I get any further this time, or is there > anything I should choose or specify differently when trying again? I don't know what step

Re: Laptop + VGA + X

2015-12-30 Thread Hudson Flavio Meneses Lacerda
Hi, François. Eventually this worked: xrandr --addmode VGA-1 1280x800 xrandr --output VGA-1 --mode 1280x800 --same-as LVDS-1 I cannot the the entire screen on the CRT(VGA-1) monitor, but I will try to configure the monitor to display as much as possible (or the left side, at least). Thank

Re: Putting It All On a Stick

2015-12-30 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 30 December 2015 14:00:18 Steve Matzura wrote: > I'm doing it to an NTFS filesystem drive. > > On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 10:06:13 +0100, you wrote: > >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >Hash: SHA1 > > > >On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 08:52:56PM -0500, Steve Matzura wrote: > >> Thanks, Andy. I d

Jigdo (was "Putting It All On a Stick")

2015-12-30 Thread Steve Matzura
Thinking this tool would be the answer to life, etc., I tried it. Have now tried it on three Windows and two borrowed Linux machines, all with the same 0 results, which means it must be something I'm doing wrong. Unfortunately, the Linux machines in question don't have sufficient space to hold the

Re: New Install Fails at Step 14

2015-12-30 Thread Steve Matzura
So since my installation is virgin and is failing at Step 14, should I just start again and see if I get any further this time, or is there anything I should choose or specify differently when trying again?

Re: Question: eth0 vs enp1s0

2015-12-30 Thread Hans
My fault. I sent in HTML, but should be ascii. > Weird, nothing came through this end. You sure you pasted them? I sent the mail again, now in ASCII. Please tell me, if it is not ok the second time. Thank you Hans

Re: Question: eth0 vs enp1s0 (second try)

2015-12-30 Thread Hans
Am Mittwoch, 30. Dezember 2015, 12:58:23 schrieb Jörg-Volker Peetz: Hi Jörg-Volker > Did you take a look at dmesg on both systems? Something like > > grep -E '(enp|eth)' /var/log/dmesg This showed no useful information. The only output is from my EEEPC below, the Aspire showed no output at all.

Re: debian tablet

2015-12-30 Thread jdd
Le 30/12/2015 15:35, Andrew M.A. Cater a écrit : It's quite possible that if you find a cheap, Intel Atom based tablet that was running Windows that it will also run Debian but it would be hard to know before buying and trying. too bad :-) thanks jdd

Re: Question: eth0 vs enp1s0

2015-12-30 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 03:32:04PM +0100, Hans wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 30. Dezember 2015, 12:58:23 schrieb Jörg-Volker Peetz: > Hi Jörg-Volker > > Did you take a look at dmesg on both systems? Something like > > > > grep -E '(enp|eth)' /var/log/dmesg > This showed no useful information. The only o

Re: debian tablet

2015-12-30 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 03:09:29PM +0100, jdd wrote: > Hello, > > Do you now of any tablet on the $200 range, around 10" that runs Debian? - > or by the way any other Linux. > > I don't want virtualized linux, the tablets are slow enough from scratch, > but a tablet that run linux natively. > >

Re: Question: eth0 vs enp1s0

2015-12-30 Thread Hans
Am Mittwoch, 30. Dezember 2015, 12:58:23 schrieb Jörg-Volker Peetz: Hi Jörg-Volker > Did you take a look at dmesg on both systems? Something like > > grep -E '(enp|eth)' /var/log/dmesg This showed no useful information. The only output is from my EEEPC below, the Aspire showed no output at all.

Re: debian tablet

2015-12-30 Thread jdd
Le 30/12/2015 15:20, Nicolas George a écrit : Le decadi 10 nivôse, an CCXXIV, jdd a écrit : is it reasonable to think than is the tablet runs windows it can run linux? No. (...) Basically, for x86 tablets, we are back to the state of hardware support we had in the early 2000s, with a few dif

Re: Laptop + VGA + X

2015-12-30 Thread francois
On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 11:28:52AM -0200, Hudson Flavio Meneses Lacerda wrote: > Thank you for the input. Here is my other attempt, with the correct monitor > identifiers: > > hudson@musix:~$ xrandr --output LVDS-1 --auto --output VGA-1 --auto > hudson@musix:~$ > hudson@musix:~$ xrandr > Screen 0:

Re: debian tablet

2015-12-30 Thread Nicolas George
Le decadi 10 nivôse, an CCXXIV, jdd a écrit : > is it reasonable to think than is the tablet runs windows it can run linux? No. For tablets with an ARM processor, the terms of use that microsoft gives to constructors state that the boot process must be locked and only allow windows. Many of them

debian tablet

2015-12-30 Thread jdd
Hello, Do you now of any tablet on the $200 range, around 10" that runs Debian? - or by the way any other Linux. I don't want virtualized linux, the tablets are slow enough from scratch, but a tablet that run linux natively. I've seen some on the net, but in very limited edition. https://j

Re: Bug#806858 Re: s-nail: mailx: Unable to (dot) lock mailbox, aborting operation: Permission denied

2015-12-30 Thread Steffen Nurpmeso
Hello! Rick Thomas wrote: |Hi Steffan, (My name is Steffen) |So what, exactly, are the correct permissions for s-nail-privsep? | |Should it be: |-rwxr-sr-x 1 root mail 10104 Dec 4 14:52 /usr/lib/s-nail/s-nail-privsep |or: |-rwsr-xr-x 1 root mail 10104 Dec 4 14:52 /usr/lib/s-nai

How to execute script when job-delete

2015-12-30 Thread Bob
Hello everyone, can anyone suggest a way to execute shell script when jenkin user delete a job ? Thanks Bob

Re: Putting It All On a Stick

2015-12-30 Thread Steve Matzura
I'm doing it to an NTFS filesystem drive. On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 10:06:13 +0100, you wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > >On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 08:52:56PM -0500, Steve Matzura wrote: >> Thanks, Andy. I downloaded the Windows Jigdo downloader and found a >> mirror in my state,

Re: Putting It All On a Stick

2015-12-30 Thread Steve Matzura
Um, if I had one, I would. Thats the whole purpose of this exercise--to get me a Linux machine, so I just thought I'd do it the easy way. Jigdo ran all night and I got nothing. In fact, it's still trying. On Tue, 29 Dec 2015 20:34:05 -0800, you wrote: > >On Dec 29, 2015, at 5:52 PM, Steve Matzur

Re: Laptop + VGA + X

2015-12-30 Thread Hudson Flavio Meneses Lacerda
Hi, François. Thank you for the input. Here is my other attempt, with the correct monitor identifiers: hudson@musix:~$ xrandr --output LVDS-1 --auto --output VGA-1 --auto hudson@musix:~$ hudson@musix:~$ xrandr Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1280 x 800, maximum 2047 x 2047 LVDS-1 connecte

Re: Recommendations for a GUI video editing program?

2015-12-30 Thread Anthony Mapes
On 12/30/2015 07:35 AM, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > I *LOVE* OpenShot. You actually helped *me* out because I had used > another program (that was a little over my pay grade), but couldn't > remember the name. Avidemux, it was. *grin* I have used OpenShot in the past, and I liked it. However, it di

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