Re: Debian installer not finding free space

2017-06-15 Thread David Christensen
On 06/15/2017 09:13 AM, David DLC wrote: So it seems I messed something up. After using the recovery console yesterday, my computer will not start up. When booting it, I get the "repairing disk errors" message. It has been like this all night, and I can't get in. I've been attempting to repair th

Re: Debian installer not finding free space

2017-06-15 Thread David Christensen
On 06/15/2017 07:15 AM, David Wright wrote: On Wed 14 Jun 2017 at 21:43:43 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: ... by convention (de facto standard?), partitions have monotonically increasing sector numbers -- e.g. the First and Last LBA's of partition 4 must be greater than the LBA's for partitio

Re: Why does no one care that Brad Spengler of GRSecurity is blatantly violating the intention of the rightsholders to the Linux Kernel?

2017-06-15 Thread deloptes
Michael Milliman wrote: > Perhaps you could post a link where some of us can bone up on the issue? If I was the OP or I was making some statement I would like to back up I would, otherwise I assume people on that list can babyfeed themselves. regards

Re: Why does no one care that Brad Spengler of GRSecurity is blatantly violating the intention of the rightsholders to the Linux Kernel?

2017-06-15 Thread deloptes
Michael Fothergill wrote: > But you have beaten me to the punch in a subtle way which I am both > impressed and humbled by. I assume there are other similar stories, but I don't know much of them - time is precious nowdays. However systemd was inevitable and revealed a an interesting story. Some

Re: Can a US Robotics USB Softmodem be made to work on Linux?

2017-06-15 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 15 Jun 2017, Jason wrote: > I have a U.S. Robotics USR5639 USB modem. I am wondering how hard it > is to get it to work with Linux. Using Mint 18.1. ... > Bus 001 Device 006: ID 047e:2892 Agere Systems, Inc. (Lucent) Systems Soft > Modem Look for ltmodem and linmodem. If you are very l

Error when I use ftpsync

2017-06-15 Thread mohsen Abbaspour
Hello Every one I use ftpsync for remain my mirror updated but there is problem when I check error log (rsync-ftpsync.error) some of these errors are : could not make way for new symlink: dists/sid/main/installer- amd64/20150911/images/netboot/pxelinux.cfg could not make way for new

Re: Can a US Robotics USB Softmodem be made to work on Linux?

2017-06-15 Thread Fungi4All
Original Message UTC Time: June 15, 2017 8:46 PM From: elect...@emypeople.net I have a U.S. Robotics USR5639 USB modem. I am wondering how hard it is to get it to work with Linux. Using Mint 18.1. - V.92 or V.90 & V.44 ITU standard 56k - V.34 and backwards compatible protocols -

Re: Why does no one care that Brad Spengler of GRSecurity is blatantly violating the intention of the rightsholders to the Linux Kernel?

2017-06-15 Thread Michael Fothergill
On 15 June 2017 at 21:38, deloptes wrote: > Richard Owlett wrote: > > > On 06/15/2017 02:10 PM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > >> Hmm, am I feeding the spammer? [snip] > > > > Likely > > > >> > >> PS: aconcernedfossdev doesn't "command" much respect in my mind, > >> especially with no better explan

Can a US Robotics USB Softmodem be made to work on Linux?

2017-06-15 Thread Jason
I have a U.S. Robotics USR5639 USB modem. I am wondering how hard it is to get it to work with Linux. Using Mint 18.1. The modem does not show up at all in /dev when plugged in but here is what 'lsusb' says: Bus 001 Device 006: ID 047e:2892 Agere Systems, Inc. (Lucent) Systems Soft Modem Is it pr

Re: Why does no one care that Brad Spengler of GRSecurity is blatantly violating the intention of the rightsholders to the Linux Kernel?

2017-06-15 Thread Michael Milliman
On 06/15/2017 03:38 PM, deloptes wrote: > Richard Owlett wrote: > >> On 06/15/2017 02:10 PM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: >>> Hmm, am I feeding the spammer? [snip] >> >> Likely >> >>> >>> PS: aconcernedfossdev doesn't "command" much respect in my mind, >>> especially with no better explanation of

Re: Why does no one care that Brad Spengler of GRSecurity is blatantly violating the intention of the rightsholders to the Linux Kernel?

2017-06-15 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 10:38:07PM +0200, deloptes wrote: > I do however think GRSec are wrong as the OP states, they clearly violate > the license agreements. > IMO everyone in the linux community should know the background of that story > same as the background of systemd ... but there is

Re: Why does no one care that Brad Spengler of GRSecurity is blatantly violating the intention of the rightsholders to the Linux Kernel?

2017-06-15 Thread deloptes
Richard Owlett wrote: > On 06/15/2017 02:10 PM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: >> Hmm, am I feeding the spammer? [snip] > > Likely > >> >> PS: aconcernedfossdev doesn't "command" much respect in my mind, >> especially with no better explanation of the problem than what I read >> here. > > +1 The s

Re: Why does no one care that Brad Spengler of GRSecurity is blatantly violating the intention of the rightsholders to the Linux Kernel?

2017-06-15 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/15/2017 02:10 PM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: Hmm, am I feeding the spammer? [snip] Likely PS: aconcernedfossdev doesn't "command" much respect in my mind, especially with no better explanation of the problem than what I read here. +1

Re: Why does no one care that Brad Spengler of GRSecurity is blatantly violating the intention of the rightsholders to the Linux Kernel?

2017-06-15 Thread rhkramer
Hmm, am I feeding the spammer? Some comments to the OP interspersed below--or maybe I'll just top post... I don't know too much about the issue, and your second paragraph doesn't help much. Let me ask, does Linus care--has he or some other noteworthy in the Linux / foss world made some sort o

Re: Installing Stretch/Testing with absolute minimal bandwith useage

2017-06-15 Thread Richard Owlett
[NOTE: I'm interleaving comments referring to Brian's post of 06/13/2017 11:48 AM and I'm still absorbing David's post of 06/15/2017 10:34 AM] On 06/13/2017 04:13 PM, David Wright wrote: On Tue 13 Jun 2017 at 12:28:41 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: On 06/13/2017 11:48 AM, Brian wrote: On Tue

Re: Installing Stretch/Testing with absolute minimal bandwith useage

2017-06-15 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/15/2017 11:19 AM, songbird wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: I am running Stretch that was fully updated/upgraded less than a week ago. I have the flash drive used to do the original install of Stretch. I have not _intentionally_ purged any files from cache. I wish to install Stretch on two ad

Re: Installing Stretch/Testing with absolute minimal bandwith useage

2017-06-15 Thread songbird
Richard Owlett wrote: > I am running Stretch that was fully updated/upgraded less than a week > ago. I have the flash drive used to do the original install of Stretch. > I have not _intentionally_ purged any files from cache. > > I wish to install Stretch on two additional machines. I am near my

Re: apt-cacher-ng related program and package suggestion

2017-06-15 Thread David Wright
On Thu 15 Jun 2017 at 16:44:27 (+0200), tuxderlinuxfuch...@gmail.com wrote: > Thanks for the tips. Like I said, I'd prefer a program that does all > this in the background by calling one simple command Sure. You're free to commission one from a C/C++ programmer. We're just illustrating that the co

Re: Debian installer not finding free space

2017-06-15 Thread David DLC
So it seems I messed something up. After using the recovery console yesterday, my computer will not start up. When booting it, I get the "repairing disk errors" message. It has been like this all night, and I can't get in. I've been attempting to repair the computer, but I will let you guys know ho

Why does no one care that Brad Spengler of GRSecurity is blatantly violating the intention of the rightsholders to the Linux Kernel?

2017-06-15 Thread aconcernedfossdev
Why does no one care that Brad Spengler of GRSecurity is blatantly violating the intention of the rightsholders to the Linux Kernel? He is also violating the license grant, Courts would not be fooled by his scheme to prevent redistribution. The license grant the Linux Kernel is distributed unde

Re: Installing Stretch/Testing with absolute minimal bandwith useage

2017-06-15 Thread David Wright
On Thu 15 Jun 2017 at 06:26:55 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 06/14/2017 12:56 PM, David Wright wrote: > >On Wed 14 Jun 2017 at 08:50:18 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > >>On 06/13/2017 01:10 PM, Brad Rogers wrote: > >>>On Tue, 13 Jun 2017 12:51:10 -0500 > >>>Richard Owlett wrote: > >>> > >>>

Re: apt-cacher-ng related program and package suggestion

2017-06-15 Thread tuxderlinuxfuch...@gmail.com
Thanks for the tips. Like I said, I'd prefer a program that does all this in the background by calling one simple command On 15-Jun-17 4:38 PM, David Wright wrote: > On Thu 15 Jun 2017 at 10:16:45 (-0400), Dan Ritter wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 09:57:50PM +0200, tuxderlinuxfuch...@gmail.com

Re: apt-cacher-ng related program and package suggestion

2017-06-15 Thread Bob Weber
> Simple workaround for now: > > /etc/apt/sources.list: > > deb http://site1.ip.address/debian jessie-backports main > #deb http://site2.ip.address/debian jessie-backports main > > > Now just change the comment from one to the other, run apt-get > update and go. > > Second workaround,

Re: apt-cacher-ng related program and package suggestion

2017-06-15 Thread David Wright
On Thu 15 Jun 2017 at 10:16:45 (-0400), Dan Ritter wrote: > On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 09:57:50PM +0200, tuxderlinuxfuch...@gmail.com wrote: > > The shown way is not very comfortable. > > > > 1. it is annoying having to remember IP addresses > > 2. sed command is error prone (consider typos, etc.) >

Re: apt-cacher-ng related program and package suggestion

2017-06-15 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 10:16:45AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 09:57:50PM +0200, tuxderlinuxfuch...@gmail.com wrote: The shown way is not very comfortable. 1. it is annoying having to remember IP addresses 2. sed command is error prone (consider typos, etc.) 3. copying arou

Re: apt-cacher-ng related program and package suggestion

2017-06-15 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 09:57:50PM +0200, tuxderlinuxfuch...@gmail.com wrote: > The shown way is not very comfortable. > > 1. it is annoying having to remember IP addresses > 2. sed command is error prone (consider typos, etc.) > 3. copying around backup files is time consuming having to type in a

Re: Debian installer not finding free space

2017-06-15 Thread David Wright
On Wed 14 Jun 2017 at 21:43:43 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: > On 06/14/2017 07:00 PM, David DLC wrote: > >http://imgur.com/a/o83Qd > > It looks like your 500GB drive uses the GPT partitioning scheme, and the > Windows C:\ file system corresponds to partition Number 4. You also > have partiti

Re: Installing Stretch/Testing with absolute minimal bandwith useage

2017-06-15 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 03:05:36PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Thu 15 Jun 2017 at 06:26:55 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > A mechanics question, "How to count the number of installed packages?" > > I'd like to be able to reproducibly count installed packages. > > dpkg -l | grep ^ii | wc -l That wil

Re: Automatic updating links?

2017-06-15 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 12:19:11PM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 07:15:25PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > Greg Wooledge writes: > > > > > On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 06:41:03PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > > What are you actually trying to do? > > > > I'm making a music

Re: Installing Stretch/Testing with absolute minimal bandwith useage

2017-06-15 Thread Brian
On Thu 15 Jun 2017 at 06:26:55 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 06/14/2017 12:56 PM, David Wright wrote: > >On Wed 14 Jun 2017 at 08:50:18 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > >>On 06/13/2017 01:10 PM, Brad Rogers wrote: > >>>On Tue, 13 Jun 2017 12:51:10 -0500 > >>>Richard Owlett wrote: > >>> > >>>H

Re: Installing Stretch/Testing with absolute minimal bandwith useage

2017-06-15 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/14/2017 12:56 PM, David Wright wrote: On Wed 14 Jun 2017 at 08:50:18 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: On 06/13/2017 01:10 PM, Brad Rogers wrote: On Tue, 13 Jun 2017 12:51:10 -0500 Richard Owlett wrote: Hello Richard, netinst iso. I had never experimented with just how much could be done