Re: Re: How to install Debian 6 sparc with RAID 1 at installation

2011-10-12 Thread Ad L.
This is starting to enter an area where I can't say too much with full certainty. Below I'll give a few hints that may or may not work. After that, I'll probably withdraw, as I won't have much more useful info to add right right now. In addition, using the capitaI i for normaI L, as this stupid wi

Re: Re: rkhunter database update - which method is recommended?

2011-10-12 Thread Ad L.
These days, when replying, I reply through the first link under "Reply To" below a message. I am then taken to gmail, where I compose my reply and send it. Then I simply click the Back button to get back to the original message. This time, I used the second option to reply to you directly, on-list

Re: Re: How to install Debian 6 sparc with RAID 1 at installation

2011-10-12 Thread Ad L.
I was happy to have a MEPIS Live CD around with ext4 support. I've used it to move data about and pre-partition/pre-format the partitions, except for the ones used for sRAID. I don't know if MEPIS supports the architecture you're using, but maybe Knoppix would be more suitable. Knoppix has it's De

rkhunter database update - which method is recommended?

2011-10-12 Thread Ad L.
Hello all, a little while ago, I executed the 'rkhunter' hunter script as part of a random check. It gave me a warning about changed files, but as I checked synaptic's history, I found out that those files are part of packages that were updated. My intention is to find out how to build a trigger,

Re: XFCE--can't mount USB devices

2011-10-12 Thread Ad L.
(Suggestion) check the mount options in /etc/fstab. For example, the lines for one of the user-accessible partitions on my external hard drive looks like this: # "Resources" partition on external HD (/dev/sdd2) UUID=---- /mnt/Resources.src ext4 user,noauto,relatime 0

Re: Re: grub-install fails an RAID1

2011-10-12 Thread Ad L.
Regardless of the possibility to use the space, I ALWAYS leave the first cylinder of a disk unused (aligning partitions to cylinder boundaries). I find the idea of using the first cylinder for "optimal" space usage a bit ridiculous, to be honest. With thousands of cylinders on a disk, if not more,

Re: How to install Debian 6 sparc with RAID 1 at installation

2011-10-12 Thread Ad L.
First of all, I am not very experienced and use the i686 architecture, but what I did might help: I've put a variety of partitions on the 2 disks I use for the purpose of dual booting. One holds the filesystems etc. for the other OS, intended for legacy applications that I still use... may use. I

Re: Re: hang during boot - mount: only root can do that

2011-10-12 Thread Ad L.
Permissions can be a proper pain ;P Had some problems myself a couple of times that ended up being solved by simply invoking chown or chmod to apply correct settings... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...

Re: Re: More about ATI

2011-10-12 Thread Ad L.
Why not see for yourself? Look at the log file /var/log/syslog (root access required) Search for lines similar to these: {timestamp hostname} kernel: [7.531710] [drm] Loading R200 Microcode {timestamp hostname} kernel: [7.531719] platform radeon_cp.0: firmware: requesting radeon/R200_cp.bin

Re: Re: HD Data Recovery

2011-10-08 Thread Ad L.
Silently seconded. But I guess it's human nature to simply not listen until it turns out that was a wrong choice. And plenty never learn afterwards either. Anyway, on topic: Most tools allow you to tell the Linux kernel the amount of sectors, heads and cylinders the disk has. It should simply be

Re: When was Debian installed

2011-10-08 Thread Ad L.
My simplest bet would be this one: head /var/log/dpkg.log One of the very first lines would read: [date] [time] install base-files [initialVersion] I'm not sure if the log ever gets replaced or moved, but my system says that. Tool used: head (showing the first lines of a file) Related tool: tail

Re: Debian 6 Squeeze bug report: application or kernel bug?

2011-10-07 Thread Ad L.
send out a proper, useful bug report. Anyway, thanks again. I hope that it'll reflect in a good contribution towards even better open source software. Regards, Ad (hoping I'm replying in the proper way) 2011/10/7 Camaleón > > On Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:46:22 +0100, Ad L. wr

Debian 6 Squeeze bug report: application or kernel bug?

2011-10-07 Thread Ad L.
I am not sure where to file this bug report, because it's a kerneloops caused by a bug. This is what happened: 1. USB2 hard disk disconnected and immediately reconnected, which could be caused by a known bug in certain EHCI controller chips 2. An X process probably got terminated and restarted 3.