RAID1 Boot Partition

2007-07-26 Thread Chaim Keren Tzion
Hi, I have been trying to set up a software RAID1 system with two 320GB SATA disks. I have followed the instructions at both these links below (using lenny instead of etch because of what seems to be unsupported hardware in the older kernel): http://ads.wars-nicht.de/blog/archives/54-Install-D

Identical Install

2007-06-14 Thread Chaim Keren Tzion
Hi, I have two machines that are the same hardware but were installed in different procedures. I would like to make the two systems the same, to the extent possible. Is there a way to export a list of installed packages from one machine in a format that can be easily applied to an apt-install o

Re: Making Deb Packages

2007-05-31 Thread Chaim Keren-Tzion
On Thursday 31 May 2007 14:39:36 Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 02:22:35PM +0300, Chaim Keren Tzion wrote: > > Hi, > > > > How do I get started making my own debian package files from source. > > The definitive resource of this is probably >

Making Deb Packages

2007-05-31 Thread Chaim Keren Tzion
Hi, How do I get started making my own debian package files from source. I need to use non-debian source, ie. a spanking new ffmpeg source from svn. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How do I listen to radio?

2007-05-30 Thread Chaim Keren Tzion
Hi David, I use mplayer. It can be used from the shell giving the URL of the stream; as a plugin to firefox or as a standalone gui program (gmplayer - part of the mplayer package) apt-get install mplayer mozilla-mplayer Should get you started. (I'm not sure which repository it is in.) For a g

Shared apt archives

2007-05-28 Thread Chaim Keren Tzion
Hi, I have several debian installations and use a lot of bandwidth when doing apt-get updates etc. Would it break anything if I share the /var/cache/apt/archives/ directory between the machines? I particularly want to do this on a vserver machine that I run. It just seems like a waste to downl

Which Kernel for 32bit Debian on ADM64 CPU

2007-05-24 Thread Chaim Keren Tzion
Hi, I would like to run 32 bit Debian Testing/Larry on my AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ CPU. Which kernel should I choose? I switched from the default 2.6.18-4-486 to 2.6.18-4-amd64 but I am having trouble compiling an Nvidia module. I get: ld: Relocatable linking with relocati

Re: [OT] Best of UNIX/Linux Books that you can't stop reading

2007-05-21 Thread Chaim Keren Tzion
I've used this on-line book which can also be purchased as a hard copy if you like. http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz Chaim On Monday 21 May 2007 11:38:34 Deboo ^ wrote: > Can eveyone list the best of UNIX/Linux books. In other words the > books that doesn't let you leave it. > > My choice

Re: etch to lenny upgrade

2007-05-17 Thread Chaim Keren Tzion
Try running it as root. sudo aptitude upgrade or su - aptitude upgrade Hope it helps, Chaim On Thursday 17 May 2007 16:42:19 Randy Patterson wrote: > I have changed my sources.list to read as below. I just changed the old one > by changing etch references to lenny. > > My current sources.list >