Re: Reproducible filesystem corruption in lenny

2009-07-29 Thread Emil Pedersen
--On onsdag, juli 29, 2009 09.07.16 -0400 Josh Kelley wrote: On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 12:31 AM, Owen Townend wrote: Just to be clear here: When using one of these fraudulent drives filling it up will produce no errors. Reading it back will show corruption once passed the actual size of the

Re: virtual machine choices in Debian

2008-07-18 Thread Emil Pedersen
--On torsdag, juli 17, 2008 16.08.49 -0500 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: H.S. wrote: > So, what free and preferably open source choices do we have for > virtual machines in Debian? Pros and cons based on your > experiences will be appreciated. I was succ

Re: Switching keyboard language with Ctrl+Shift in the KDE

2008-07-18 Thread Emil Pedersen
--On torsdag, juli 17, 2008 19.52.32 +0300 Anton Liaukevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I want to use "Russia" & "USA" keyboard layouts and switch them with Ctrl+Shift. I had added "Russia" & "USA" to active layouts so that I can switch them with left-mouse-click in the tray. But I hadn't b

Re: disk usage of an umounted partition?

2005-08-11 Thread Emil Pedersen
I don't know if this is even possible but can I find out the disk usage of a partition with a unknown or damaged filesystem? Wouldn't it be possible to extract this quite simple using dumpe2fs? It seems you can get some usefull numbers from the output of $ dumpe2fs |head -36 E.g. "

Re: disk usage of an umounted partition?

2005-08-11 Thread Emil Pedersen
I don't know if this is even possible but can I find out the disk usage of a partition with a unknown or damaged filesystem? Wouldn't it be possible to extract this quite simple using dumpe2fs? It seems you can get some usefull numbers from the output of $ dumpe2fs |head -36 E.g. "B

Re: Download accelerator

2003-03-17 Thread Emil Pedersen
sean finney wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 08:44:07PM -0800, nate wrote: > > Trey Sizemore said: > > > Looking for a good download accelerator (similar to...Download > > > Accelerator...). What are some of the favorites out there. > > > > is download accelerator one of those tools that tricks

Re: [off topic] Learning Shell from an old UNIX book

2003-03-11 Thread Emil Pedersen
> Obviously, I am using Debian GNU/Linux not System V or BSD, and I use BASH. > But this is the only book in our library about shell programming. so I > wonder: Not exactly what you asked for, but I've found "Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide" (or actually it's precursor) very usefull. You can find i

Re: mplayer & motherboard with i810 chipset.

2003-02-27 Thread Emil Pedersen
Egor Tur wrote: > > Hi folk. > I have problems with using mplayer on motherboard on i810 chipset. > I use mplayer 0.90rc4 & kernel 2.4.20 & XFree86 4.2.1.1 > When I try to use xv or sdl codec I hev only blue image. > Mplayer work only with x11 codec but with that I cannot fulscreen. > Anybody have

Re: ntpd not keeping time

2003-01-31 Thread Emil Pedersen
Stephanie Boyd wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 02:50:00PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello all. I've got this weird problem with ntpd. Up until now I've never > > had ntpd fail me. But on this one box I've got the clock speeding up by 30 > > minutes each day. I've got ntpd installed an

Re: lightweight window manager - any sugegstions?

2003-01-09 Thread Emil Pedersen
eb wrote: > > * Shyamal Prasad ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > "Sandip" == Sandip P Deshmukh writes: > > > > Sandip> i have heard about ratpoison and [black | flux]box. any > > Sandip> feedback from actual users is welcome. i am currently > > Sandip> using windowmaker. > > > > Give

Re: Converting audio CDs to audio files

2003-01-09 Thread Emil Pedersen
Trey Sizemore wrote: > > I remember reading somewhere that Konqueror can convert audio CDs to > audio files by entering 'audiocd:/' on the url window. I have tried > this, but cannot get it to find my audio CD in my CD drive. I have SCSI > emulation set up and here is my /etc/fstab file. I have

Re: Recommendation for dual head video card

2003-01-09 Thread Emil Pedersen
David Z Maze wrote: > > Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Any suggestions? 3D support, too? > > If you already have a reasonable video card, you might find it just as > easy to get a second (PCI) video card. XFree86 supports this > configuration very well these days, and it's how

Re: hdparm and DMA and raid

2002-11-20 Thread Emil Pedersen
[...] > > As I don't know your mobo I might be wrong, but the general opinion > > seems to be "stay away from the built in raid and go for linux software > > raid". Usually the cheap so called raid chip/cards are just new bios > > instructions to do software raid anyway, something that the kerne

Re: odd behaviour with harddisk

2002-11-20 Thread Emil Pedersen
> > Yes, slow cpu's and chips can cripple performance, I have many p120's here > with 100+ gig drives in them, that are limited to about 10 meg a second. Just curios, do you attach the (100GB+) disk to the mobo ide or do you use an external (relative new ATA-xx) card? I wonder what the pci brid

hdparm and DMA and raid

2002-11-19 Thread Emil Pedersen
[slightly change/addition of topic] mdevin wrote: > > I really appreciate the effort you and others have put into helping me > with this problem. Unfortunately, I won't be able do things like > compile a 2.5 kernel or re-boot with ide0=ata66, until I return from > work in about 5 days time. I

Re: hdparm and DMA

2002-11-18 Thread Emil Pedersen
[I'm responding to several cut-n-pastes from different letters, if it's bad behavior flame me (one time is enough though) or read the original posts, then it should make sense.] mdevin wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 16:16:57 +0100, Emil Pedersen wrote: > > &

Re: hdparm and DMA

2002-11-18 Thread Emil Pedersen
[...] > # hdparm /dev/hda > /dev/hda: > multcount= 0 (off) > I/O support = 0 (default 16-bit) > unmaskirq= 0 (off) > using_dma= 0 (off) > keepsettings = 0 (off) > nowerr = 0 (off) > readonly = 0 (off) > readahead= 8 (on) > geometry = 77545/16/63, se

Re: hdparm and DMA

2002-11-18 Thread Emil Pedersen
[...] > Now the kernel I am using I compiled myself and I selected to use DMA > when available. Here is part of the kernel config: > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI=y > CONFIG_IDEPCI_SHARE_IRQ=y > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI=y > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ADMA=y > # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_OFFBOARD is not set > CONFIG_IDEDMA_PC

Re: [GENERAL] odbc with debian woody/postgres

2002-10-11 Thread Emil Pedersen
> > I can't for the life of me get postgresql to start and stop. running > /etc/init.d/postgresql stop gets me this: > > Stopping PostgreSQL database: postmaster > /etc/init.d/postgresql: command not found > > while running > /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/pg_ctl-D /var/lib/postgres/data stop > give

VMware problem ( Re: 2X CD's as emulated scsi )

2002-06-24 Thread Emil Pedersen
> except when I try to install Acrobat. The same thing happens with > Acrobat as with VMwaretools; the install initiates and then it just > drops dead?? I needed to convert a large Word .doc file to pdf so now > I'm stuck. I'll try to install acrobat when I get home, if it fails I'll let you kno

Re: 2X CD's as emulated scsi

2002-06-24 Thread Emil Pedersen
> > > /dev/cdrom points at /dev/sr0 > VMware is version 3.1.1 build-1790. > With W2k as guest OS you have to initiate the vmwaretools installation > from the menu Settings -> VMware Tools Install, from that point it is > supposed to install automatically from a simulated CD-ROM (I can see the > fil

Re: 'Semi-Hot-Swap' of IDE discs

2002-06-19 Thread Emil Pedersen
Vaclav Hula wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 01:28:52PM +0200, Emil Pedersen wrote: > > > > Is there a way to force the disk to "spin up" before trying to mount > > it? There don't seem to be a "reverse -Y option" to hdparm, does anyone > &g

Re: 'Semi-Hot-Swap' of IDE discs

2002-06-19 Thread Emil Pedersen
Hello nate / list. [...] > second if you don't fork out the cash for a ide hot swap backplane your > best bet I think would be to get a good removable disk drive holder, > and before removing the disk, power it down using hdparm. be sure nothing > is using the disk(no mounted filesystems etc). a

Re: OT: IBM PS/2

2002-06-14 Thread Emil Pedersen
Paladin wrote: > > Does any one know how to access the BIOS setup of an old IBM PS/2? > It seems that hitting "del" while booting doesn't work... As other have mentioned they don't have a bios, they use sectors on the disk instead and load the bios/rom at boot. I've read that some mainframes use

Re: Debian on Dell PowerEdge 2500

2002-06-06 Thread Emil Pedersen
Paul Sargent wrote: > > Hi People, > > Has anybody had any experiance running Debian on a Dell PowerEdge 2500. > We've just bought one that has RedHat preinstalled on it, but I'm lothed to > administer RedHat (for one thing it installs so much cr*p that I really do > not want on a server), and so

Re: best way to install non debian package

2002-03-14 Thread Emil Pedersen
"Panuganty, Ramesh" wrote: > > Good that this discussion came up. I lost my checkinstall file which I > downloaded earlier and can't reach this site now (always inaccessible?). > Can somebody give me a copy of this checkinstall package? I dl'ed it a few hours ago from http://www.mirrors.w

Re: Howto create a custom-kernel Debian ISO?

2002-03-01 Thread Emil Pedersen
> > Hi, thanks for the suggestion... I've tried that already, what happened was > that it presented me with the gui, and trying to set the keyboardlayout, it > told me /tmp/'something' wasn't writable. (The machine is at work, hence the > uncomplete error). What worked better was booting of a win9

Re: Howto create a custom-kernel Debian ISO?

2002-03-01 Thread Emil Pedersen
Pontus Edvardsson wrote: > > Hi, > I've been spending the last two days struggling with installing Debian on a > Dell PowerEdge 4400 server. The problem is that the raid card (Perc 3/Di) > does need to be enabled in the kernel to be detected correctly. I have > compiled a kernel that detects it, b

Re: OT: scsi vs ide: some data

2002-03-01 Thread Emil Pedersen
> > That IBM hard disk in septictank is an ATA/100 disk I believe. The > Gigabyte motherboard supports ATA/66, but I'm not sure if the Linux > kernel supports it. Use hdparm to check whatever you got dma enabled for your disks. From the low performance I guess it's not... And to comment s

Re: SiS 6263 PCI card setup

2002-03-01 Thread Emil Pedersen
[...] > | I want to know if its possible to change the IRQ that the SiS card is using. > | Currently its using IRQ 11 which conflicts with my RealTek 8029 NIC > | (which also wants to use IRQ 11). > | > | Alternatively I could change the IRQ that the RealTek card uses, > | do I specify this as a L

Re: [OT] Price / performance & Software RAID / Hardware RAID / IDE/ SCSI

2002-02-22 Thread Emil Pedersen
O Polite wrote: > > On Fri, 2002-02-22 at 02:16, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > if you can write data to /dev/hda1 in 5 seconds... > > writing to striped raid0 will be say 7-10 seconds... > Why is this? I thoght the point of raid0 was to write to all drives in > parallell. It is[1]. You trade increase

Re: HPT366 & Linux -> ide interrupt timeouts.

2002-02-22 Thread Emil Pedersen
Sander Smeenk wrote: > > Hey, > > I recall that a while ago there was a thread on this list about the > HighPoint 366 UDMA66 controller in combination with Linux causing > IDE DMA Timeouts and Lost IRQ messages. > > I'm experiencing the same now, and I can't find a solution. It's bad, > because

Re: iso to bin/cue

2002-02-21 Thread Emil Pedersen
Sebastiaan wrote: > > Hi, > > is there a program (or script) to convert an isofile (generated by > mkisofs) to a bin/cue format? > > cdrecord refuses to burn in DAO mode with my drive, and the default mode > bugs in 30% of the burns, so I want to try cdrdao. > > The only thing I could find was

Re: booting with no keyboard or moue

2002-02-18 Thread Emil Pedersen
> > > I heard on this list that this may cause hardware damage. I had several > accident of unplugging KB and no problem afterward. (I was not on Compaq > but generic MB) Talking from experience, you might damage your mb though it is not likely. The only one I've "managed "to fry this way was a

Re:

2002-02-07 Thread Emil Pedersen
cut utter wrote: > > Hello, > > I am having diffuculty loading a `aacraid' module into the kernel. > The module is for Dell's PERC RAID controller. The module is compiled > with 2.2.16-22 (RH7) kernel. Resulting 'o' file is copied to linux > boot diskette with kernel 2.2.14. Then when I boot a sy

Re: Parsing a file name in the shell

2002-02-06 Thread Emil Pedersen
Ron Mullins wrote: > > Can someone help me this? We run a FTP server that has constant > scriptkiddie activity, i.e. uploading of warez. I would like to automate > the removing of directories, as they are always a number, but I can't > figure out how to test whether the name is or starts with a nu

Re: ReiserFS, ext3 (was: 'praise to the debian gods')

2002-02-06 Thread Emil Pedersen
> > 1) Normally I know what I mean, and I'm trying to express myself >(though English isn't my native language as it isn't yours) ... Point taken, I should have been more generous in my interpretation. > So, as you noted this is not a kind of fs-flamewar, because I want a > fs's existence

Re: ReiserFS, ext3 (was: 'praise to the debian gods')

2002-02-06 Thread Emil Pedersen
MH wrote: > > > "Craig" == Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Craig> But quite stable at this point. I've been running ext3 on > Craig> all my fs's for several months, and have never seen a > Craig> problem that resulted from ext3 itself. > > > *My* experience > >

Re: dual card lock up

2002-02-04 Thread Emil Pedersen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I had a dual boot system workin fine. Win2k and Debian woody(kernel 2.4 17). > I decided to add a 2nd video card..win2k, I've had no problems. but > with Debian, on boot up it shows the card and locks up. My main Video card > is an Nvidia GeForce II 400MX AG

Re: Large file sizes (2+Gb)

2002-01-16 Thread Emil Pedersen
> > I cannot split the video data into multiple files - this is not text it is > > compressed DVI data. If you do not know the file format, do not suggest > > options like this. > > Sure you can. Once you've got the (DVI?) data into a large file, use a > file splitter (dd would do it on Linux,

Re: VMWare

2001-12-20 Thread Emil Pedersen
nate wrote: > > > > > Of course, when you run linux on your primary screen, two vmwares > > with win2k and solaris8 on your secondary screen, it tends to be a > > little slow on a celeron 533;-) > > im not sure if solaris 8 fixed it or not(i don't think it > did). but solaris 7 did not have APM

Re: VMWare

2001-12-18 Thread Emil Pedersen
Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > > Hi all, > > I would like to know if anyone in this list is using VMWare Workstation in > order to run flavours of Windows with Debian GNU Linux as the host machine. I am. Started with vmware 3.0-beta and yesterday switched to 3.0.0 (30-days evaluation). I've run

Re: grep regex

2001-11-23 Thread Emil Pedersen
"Schnorbus, Patrick" wrote: > > hi, > > may you help me? i need a regex for grep, to find lines containing NOT: > ^192.168 > 212.23.138 Hi. The '-v' flag "inverse" the meaning of grep, letting lines _not_ matching regexp through. grep -v -e ^192.168 -e 212.23.138 would skip lines star

Re: Upgraded X to 4.1: Lost 1280x1024 mode

2001-11-21 Thread Emil Pedersen
"Sridhar M.A." wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 03:06:18PM -0800, Bill Wohler wrote: >> Dust the modelines. X 4.1 doesn't need them any more (yay!). Make >> sure that your VertRefresh and HorizSync lines are at the maximum >> values allowed by your monitor. >> > I have put

Re: more questions about LFS

2001-11-21 Thread Emil Pedersen
Michael Stone wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 03:41:08PM +0100, Emil Pedersen wrote: > > Running "apt-get dist-upgrade"? Would that realy change/benefit much if > > there's only one application (the database engine) that needs lsf > > support? Since it&

Re: more questions about LFS

2001-11-20 Thread Emil Pedersen
Michael Stone wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 02:48:52PM +0100, Emil Pedersen wrote: > > I'm still some things that confuses me when putting lsf support on a > > potato system. A accept that you have to (re)compile your program > > against the new libc in order

more questions about LFS

2001-11-20 Thread Emil Pedersen
Hello again, all helpful people :-) I'm still some things that confuses me when putting lsf support on a potato system. A accept that you have to (re)compile your program against the new libc in order to use files larger than 2GB. But.. If program want to use lsf, do they need to use other sys

Re: RealTek RTL8129/8139 Fast Ethernet driver for kernel 2.4.14

2001-11-20 Thread Emil Pedersen
Bostjan Muller wrote: > > * On 20-11-01 at 10:40 Emil Pedersen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > +Here quoted text begins+ > [...] > > I think it's important to be very precise what chip is used; I've heard > > lots of trouble with the chip '8139C&#

Re: RealTek RTL8129/8139 Fast Ethernet driver for kernel 2.4.14

2001-11-20 Thread Emil Pedersen
mobtek mobtekl wrote: > > On Mon, 19 Nov 2001 11:57:35 -0600 > Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Wierd, I'm using two of these cards on 2.4.13 without any probs whatsoever. > > I've generally found them to be really reliable cards. > > cheers peter vdm > > > > > Yes. I solved it

Re: lseek error / LFS support with potato

2001-11-19 Thread Emil Pedersen
"Eric G. Miller" wrote: > > On Mon, 19 Nov 2001 15:18:42 +0100 > Emil Pedersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hello everyone. > > > > A few days ago I "upgraded" (or tried to) a potato server installation > > to support

lseek error / LFS support with potato

2001-11-19 Thread Emil Pedersen
Hello everyone. A few days ago I "upgraded" (or tried to) a potato server installation to support files bigger than 2GB. I got the impression that all that was needed was a 2.4.x kernel and the testing/unstable version of libc6/libc6-dev. I did this, used 'dd' to create a 3.5GB large file from

Re: 2 GB limit with ext2

2001-11-16 Thread Emil Pedersen
> >[ ... ] > I missed some info... Here's the source to some of my assumptions/statements: http://www.suse.de/~aj/linux_lfs.html Oh, and testing would probably do just fine. For my "normal" work machine I use a testing "enhanced" potato. apt-0.5.4 let you keep one default release but g

Re: 2 GB limit with ext2

2001-11-16 Thread Emil Pedersen
Rick Macdonald wrote: > > On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Emil Pedersen wrote: > > > I just struggled my way to through to get LFS (large file support) in a > > potato system installed about six months ago. What I had to do was to > > compile new kernel (2.4.9 + aacraid patc

Re: 2 GB limit with ext2

2001-11-16 Thread Emil Pedersen
Rupa Schomaker wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Which release, which kernel? > > I can sucesfully make > 2g tars using a 2.4 kernel on woody using > either a ext2 or XFS filesystem. > > There are quite a few tools in woody that don't support > 2g files but > most of the critica

Re: Via82cxxx locked at 48kHz

2001-11-12 Thread Emil Pedersen
nate wrote: > > Nikolai Hlubek said: > > > I would be grateful for any suggestion, > > and please no "use alsa instead" replies. > > Nikolai > > get a better soundcard. seriously. i have 2 Asus CUV4Xs with > the onboard VIA82CXXX chip. its a piece of crap. i tried it That's a simple solution.

Re: Trouble installing Potato on Dell Poweredge 2450

2001-10-26 Thread Emil Pedersen
Peter Hutnick wrote: > > Stuart Allen said: > > At 11:43 24/10/2001 +1000, Stuart Allen wrote: > >>I am having trouble installing Potato on a Dell Poweredge 2450. The > >>problem appears to be the Perc 2/DC RAID controller. When booting off the > >>rescue floppy, the system hangs after the followi

Re: customizing Emacs

2001-10-18 Thread Emil Pedersen
Tuomas Pellonpera wrote: > > Hi! > > I am trying to customize my Emacs and its cc-mode. I prefer "bsd" style, > AKA Allman style, to the "gnu" style. With the help of > http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/emacs/cc-mode_22.html, I was able to > change the style to "bsd." > > However, I noticed that i

Re: dual NICs, same brand or not?

2001-10-14 Thread Emil Pedersen
Ron Farrer wrote: > > #include > > I'm building a firewall out of an old 486 and was wondering if it was > best to use two NICs of the same type/brand or to use different ones? Is > there any gotchas for doing one over the other? You will have to set the IO to different addresses for the cards,

Re: etherconf reconf

2001-09-24 Thread Emil Pedersen
> b) Try just editing /etc/network/interfaces - that contains the local > network and eth0 settings - just change the word dhcp to static (pppoe, > whatever) If you've set it up using dhcp you probably don't have a line with your IP, thus just changing 'dhcp' to 'static' will probably not be suff

Re: remote host identification has changed

2001-09-24 Thread Emil Pedersen
marTin wrote: > > dudes, > i received a message today from one of my users, who, logging in to > one of our servers from a remote internet cafe (which she used for the > first time) that: > > @@@ > @WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HA

Re: Related to: Re: general ups experience

2001-09-19 Thread Emil Pedersen
> Ugh, i would think the best way to find out what kind of cable it uses, is > to take the cable and a multimeter, and figure it out :) > > ofcourse, if you dont have a cable, there IS a chance that you might be Ofcourse this was the case :-) If I had the "original" cable I could have used tha

Related to: Re: general ups experience

2001-09-19 Thread Emil Pedersen
... > > > > What kind of brands/models would you recommend with serial support? > > I've got an APC running perfectly with the free apcupsd. If you want > more info, mail me privately and I'll respond when I'm at home and can > read you the model number. Jumping in on this, please forgive me.

Re: multiple monitors, i810 & ???

2001-09-11 Thread Emil Pedersen
Adam McDaniel wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 11:40:07PM +0200, Emil Pedersen wrote: > > Adam McDaniel wrote: > > > > > > My personal experience in having a dual-headed system is that you must mix > > > the types. IE, One AGP and one PCI, or one

Re: multiple monitors, i810 & ???

2001-09-10 Thread Emil Pedersen
Adam McDaniel wrote: > > My personal experience in having a dual-headed system is that you must mix > the types. IE, One AGP and one PCI, or one PCI and one MDA, etc... When you ^^^ What type is the MDA? Since I don't have any agp slot, it

multiple monitors, i810 & ???

2001-09-10 Thread Emil Pedersen
Hi all. Has anyone tried to use two monitors simultaneously using an i810 based motherboard (without agp)? I briefly checked the local computer stores, and it seems like the cheapest pci card I can find is a SiS6326 (if I recall the number correctly), has anyone managed to get this working under

Re: Rsync question

2001-08-30 Thread Emil Pedersen
Sunny Dubey wrote: > > hi > > does anyone have an example script or something in which a client will > connect to a rsync server, and update whatever changes have occured? > I tried to create my own, however that didn't do too well hehe > > thanks > > Sunny Dubey > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Killing your keyb.controller...

2001-08-23 Thread Emil Pedersen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Emil Pedersen wrote: > > > is an 600-650MB, so it's recognized. I intenden to shit in two smaller > > disks and use it as a firewall, but I think now it's going to be tough > > I know it's a typo

Re: Killing your keyb.controller... was: Re: forgot root password on head- and keyboardless machine *blush*

2001-08-22 Thread Emil Pedersen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 10:24:34PM +0200, Emil Pedersen wrote: > > > > Just to add some more noice to the list ;-) > > > > [statement] Hot-plugging keyboards works _MOST_ of the time. > > > > It is true for at least

Killing your keyb.controller... was: Re: forgot root password on head- and keyboardless machine *blush*

2001-08-21 Thread Emil Pedersen
Just to add some more noice to the list ;-) [statement] Hot-plugging keyboards works _MOST_ of the time. It is true for at least PS/2-keyboard, since the only machine I've managed to destroy this way is an Digital Celebris 590. My other machines with PS/2 have survived, so for ps2 types the s

Re: New install?

2001-08-20 Thread Emil Pedersen
"Robert L. Harris" wrote: > > I'm trying to put debian on a Dell 2450 with the built in scsi raid > controllers. I have the 3 CD's from 2.2 (potato). When I boot off the > cdrom it says it can't find any drives. > > I'm going to try and download the woody floppies and boot from those. > Is th

Re: hej bara en fragar (with enghlish translation)

2001-08-19 Thread Emil Pedersen
Markus Hansen wrote: > > hur kan man har en a° med en tysk keyboard? > eftersom du är fra°n sverige, har du kanske en idee? > tack > markus [english bellow] Hej Markus. Jag har petat ihop en egen "keymap" med xkeycaps (jag kör i stort sett bara under X) som låter mig komma åt de svenska speci

Re: Går inte starta X

2001-08-17 Thread Emil Pedersen
Fuel wrote: > > Jag har ett TNT2 Ulra AGP kort som inte hittas vid installation.. och jag > lyckas inte heller konfigurera xf86config så att X går starta :-( > > Hjälp en stackars newbie att kunna starta X och se hur debian ser ut .. > > Tacksam för hjälp Jag skulle peta in xf86setup och kö

Re: Network; UNEX Card (RealTek8139) wont work...

2001-08-09 Thread Emil Pedersen
Tor Arvid Lund wrote: > > Hi all > > Sorry to bother you all with my (apparently endless) problem... > > I have a UNEX ND010 network adapter, a cheap card thats supposed to be RealTek > 8139 compatible. Hello Tor. Are you sure the card is not broken? I have the exact same card (actually three

Re: Potato on a Dell PowerEdge 2500

2001-08-09 Thread Emil Pedersen
Christian Surchi wrote: > > I installed perfectly potato on a Dell PowerEdge 2450, but boot disks by > Kevin Traas > (www.merilus.com/~kevin/aacraid.html) seems not to work with a PE 2500. How > can I > solve? I belive it's because 24xx uses Perc3/Si while 25xx uses Perc3/Di as scsi/raid contr

Re: timer command?

2001-08-02 Thread Emil Pedersen
Jeff Maxson wrote: > > what would be a command (or script) which would execute a given command > after a certain amount of time? for example I want to run something like > > ./offin 60 poff You can use: yourprompt> sleep 3600 ; poff or yourprompt> (sleep 3600 ; poff) & 60min -e

Re: Ati All-In-Wonder 128 Pro not working with unstable

2001-06-25 Thread Emil Pedersen
Gil Elad wrote: > > runs great on my potato box with xfree 4.0.2 using the "r128" driver Have you managed to get the TV/grabber working? In that case I sure would appreciate info on how you did. // Emil

Re: dell 2500 RAID5

2001-06-25 Thread Emil Pedersen
with new kernel). The source can be fetched (for now) at http://emil.its.uu.se:8080/till-pelle.tgz . You'll probably want to make a clean/distclean though... In case you're interested of the disk image, mail me off list. Best regards, Emil Pedersen > > Thanks fo

Re: wget and images

2001-06-21 Thread Emil Pedersen
Joerg Johannes wrote: > > Hi list > > How do I make wget download images? > I used > wget -r -l1 -k > http://www.somesite.anywhere/the/directory/iwant/index.htm > This copies all html files that are linked form this index file to my > local computer. I'm only missing the images (this is important

Re: script to convert filename to lowercase

2001-05-25 Thread Emil Pedersen
Darryl Röthering wrote: > > Eric: > > Thanks! You guys are great. Unfortunately, I now realize that I am screwed > worse than I thought. How would I easily alter this script to list files in > a case insensitive order? In other words, the idiots who preceeded me > imported a few times into this

Re: script to convert filename to lowercase

2001-05-25 Thread Emil Pedersen
I miss read the author in my former mail. Sorry for not being more observant. // Emil

patched rescue disk mount readonly / dell 2550

2001-05-23 Thread Emil Pedersen
Hello. I've tried (and more or less suceded) in making a set of installation disks that will function on Dell PowerEdge 2550 (perc3/di chip). I started with the disk images for dell 2450 found on http://www.merilus.com/~kevin/aacraid.html compiled a new kernel (2.2.19 + aacraid + PERCID

Re: wait till end of write, how?

2001-05-07 Thread Emil Pedersen
> > And if you can't do that, just have the script checksum the file every 5 > > secs, and if it hasn't changed for 10 secs, you're probably set. > > > > Use the suggestion from Rick first though. > > Since the W2k client users just copy the relvant files using drag'n'drop > something like a semap

Re: NTFS and common users.

2001-04-19 Thread Emil Pedersen
Andrzej Swedrzynski wrote: > > Hello! > > There is Win2000 installed on my Debian machine. I want to access files > from Win2000 partition, so I added the following line to /etc/fstab: > > /dev/hda1 /nt autodefaults,ro 0 2 > > However after NTFS is mounted only root can

rtl8139 vs. 8139too (was Problems with 8139too...)

2001-04-18 Thread Emil Pedersen
Marc Haber wrote: > > On Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:06:23 +0200, Marc Haber > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >2.2.19 hat beide Treiber, und für 2.4.3 gibt es auf Sourceforge einen > >noch neueren. Ich habe das Problem, dass eine ältere 8139-basierende > >Karte zwar erkannt, aber nicht korrekt initialisiert

Re: LISP (Was: Re: pyton & perl)

2001-04-02 Thread Emil Pedersen
> > Ok, It seems like the cool-factor of LISP is as high as you can get, but what > are it's practical merits? If one intends to hack Emacs, then LISP is of > course essential, but does it go beyond that? (I'm thinking practical, it of > course would be quite interesting to learn from a CS standpo

Re: starting programs on kdm/startx startup

2001-03-23 Thread Emil Pedersen
Bastian Bowe wrote: > > Thanks for you help, but it doesn't work.. > Sad to hear. Then I don't know of any way but (this is real ugly) put it as a dock (maybe clip?) icon, and set it to start when windowmaker is started. I belive wmaker then should be able to kill it, since it's not running i

Re: starting programs on kdm/startx startup

2001-03-23 Thread Emil Pedersen
Since you're running wmaker, try putting the programs in ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/autostart It might work. Regards, Emil Bastian Bowe wrote: > > Hello, > > I've setup a $HOME/.xsession to run programs on kdm and startx startup. > The problem is that programs started in

Re: Debian on Windows 2k

2001-03-06 Thread Emil Pedersen
Robin Rowe wrote: > > Yes, you should have a separate partition for Debian. But, with the low cost > of drives it is more economic to install another drive rather than waste > your time dividing up the one you have. Maybe you already have a smaller > drive laying about (2GB is nice) that has nothi

Re: burning potato iso's for an older CDROM

2001-02-28 Thread Emil Pedersen
Stephan Hachinger wrote: > > Hello! > > I'd also give a real cdr media a try if you have previously burned a cdrw... > if you have old drives, it's very probable that they can't read cdrws, but I > could even read cdrs with two old 1x-speed drives I had. And with a > ten-year-old diskman, too. >

Re: shell program help wanted!

2000-09-14 Thread Emil Pedersen
> > The following bash script worked for me: > > #/bin/bash > > i=0 > for file in `ls` > do > cp $file temp$i.gif > i=`expr $i + 1` ^^^ What about: i=$((i+1)) mentioned in "man bash" for aritmetic evaluations. I've never used the "expr" in scrip

Re: booting with lilo win2k

2000-09-14 Thread Emil Pedersen
 > Bob, thanks a lot! Your guess was absolutely correct. I had a fat16 > partition at hda3 prior to installing w2k in a brand-new NTFS > partition at hda1. It did install its installer into hda3 for > whatever reason (without prompting). Pointing other to hda3 resolved Not sure, but I remebe